This Mortal Coil

Now, this is an important thing to know, is that there's one piece of music missing from this soundtrack that they were not able to secure for this.

Now, I believe that Lynch was able to do it later, But in the film, we have this mortal coil with Song of the Siren, and that's a huge moment.

This is the, I want you, I want you, you can't have me, making love in the desert.

If you know, you know.

It really does, turn at this point because we've been in this fantasy land kind of like we experience a little bit in mahalan drive and some of other lynch's uh some of the other some of the other films by david lynch where you have this moment of reprieve because we're living in a fantasy world we're living in somebody's imagination we're living in a place that just isn't real and then there's this moment where we're struck, we're zapped out of it.

And this happens right here.

But before we get there, we have Elizabeth Fraser, This Mortal Coil, which is a legendary song.

And it appears in the movie, but not on the soundtrack, which is a damn shame.

so yeah last month we on our now playing episode we talked about dj shadows introducing record uncle's debut album is what he did next So, yeah, Uncle is a project put together by Mo Wax Records label boss, James Lavelle.

And it's a similar sort of thing as to what I've watched Russell from 4AD did with This Mortal Coil.

So it's basically Lavelle comes up with ideas and curates the musicians that he wants to work on it.

And

It sounded like it was just madness.

It was kind of madness 'cause, you know, we were all like colorful going out to the, to the discos and to the techno and parties, but we were all kind of, kind of goth industrial, so we'd all come home crashing and playing like This Mortal Coil, and like Siouxsie, and all like this somber, quiet music, and that was sort of our...

We all connected that way, I think.

Your 20th birthday party.

I, I'll remember it halfway through and I'll scream the, the name of the band out.

Uh, This Mortal Coil.

This Mortal Coil.

Oh.

Yes.

Yeah

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This Mortal Coil, uh, Dead Can Dance.

Songwriter Martin Gore thought it was an odd track for the label to release as a single from the album, but it did peak at number 21 on the singles chart.

This Mortal Coil were a music collective formed by 4AD label boss Ivo Watts-Russell and music producer John Fryer, who collaborated with other members of bands on the 4AD label.

This was their first and highest charting single, a cover of Tim Buckley's Song to the Siren, which features the Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser on vocals, and it was the highest charting released by the collective, peaking at number 66 on the UK charts.

On floating ships' oceans I did all my best to swim out Till your singing eyes with your fingers Drew me up into your eyes And you said Said to me, said to me, let me hold you Here I am, here I am Waiting to hold you Then I dreamed, you dreamed about me Were you here when I was four or seven? Now my foolish boat is leaning Broken love lost For you say, touch me not Touch me not, come back tomorrow Oh my heart, oh my heart Shines from the sorrow I'm as puzzled as a newborn child I'm as riddled as the tide Should I stand with the breakers? Or should I lie with death my pride? Hear me sing Swear to me Swear to me Let me unfold you Here I am Tell it,