The Moon and the Melodies was an album resulting from the collaboration of the Scottish group Cocteau Twins and the American composer Harold Budd.
 It was released by 4AD in November 1986.
 The name "Cocteau Twins" did not appear on the release, which instead credited the band's three members (Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde) and Budd individually.
 The album's heavily treated guitar sounds and euphoric vocalising could be heard in the group's other work from the same period, such as the EP "Echoes in a Shallow Bay" and the album "Victorialand".
 Budd's stylistic piano tonalities and phrasing on this project were echoed in his solo album "Lovely Thunder", released in the same year.
 A version of the track "Memory Gongs" was released on "Lovely Thunder" as "Flowered Knife Shadows" and was dedicated to Raymonde.
Cocteau Twins were a Scottish rock band active from 1979 to 1997.
 The original members were singer Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie, and bassist Will Heggie, who was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Simon Raymonde in 1983.
 The group has earned much critical praise for its distinctive ethereal sound and the distinctive soprano vocals of Fraser, which often abandoned recognizable language altogether.
 They were associated with the UK label 4AD for much of their career.
A crack intro, also known as a cracktro, loader, or just intro, is a small introduction sequence added to cracked software, designed to inform the user of which "cracking crew" or individual cracker was responsible for removing the software's copy protection and distributing the crack.
 Many people who did the actual cracking did this competitively.
 They even credited themselves alongside the software publisher's name in their custom cracktro screens.
 Warez groups began to add their own intros instead of modifying the existing loading screen.
 Names of the group's members would scroll as little animations.
 Intros became more complicated and sometimes as large as the game itself.
 It had to look good to impress viewers as well as peers, and sometimes the result was more impressive than the game itself.
 They first appeared on Apple II computer in the late 1970s, early 1980s.
 The early text screens are in many ways similar to graffiti, although they invaded the private sphere and not the public space.
 In 1985 the Dutch teams "The 1001 Crew", programmers from the city of Alkmaar, and "The Judges" started adding intro demos, challenging others to match theirs.
 Dozens of demo crews formed within a year to try and do just that.
Apollo Heights is an American shoegazer band that was formed in New York City in 2002.
 Consisting mainly of twin brothers, Daniel and Danny Chavis, they play experimental rock music.
 They cite AR Kane and My Bloody Valentine as a major inspiration.
 Their debut album "White Music For Black People" was produced by Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins and features guest appearances from Mos Def, Lady Kier, David Sitek of TV on the Radio, Mike Ladd and Guthrie himself on guitar.
 The Chavis brothers were members of the alternative soul group The Veldt who released three albums on Polygram, Mammoth and Capitol Records.
 Although the Veldt is left out of references on the Chapel Hill music scene, they were a key band during the heyday of North Carolina music along with other bands of the time like metal Flake Mother, Superchunk and Dillon Fence.
Moonbabies is a Swedish duo formed in 1997 by vocalists, multi-instrumentalists, producers, and songwriters Ola Frick (Vocals, guitar and various instruments) and Carina Johansson (Vocals and keyboards).
 Their earliest efforts recalled early Indie/Shoegazer influences by bands like My Bloody Valentine and Cocteau Twins, but with their 2004 album "The Orange Billboard", developed into more sophisticated pop music with a touch of The Beach Boys and The Beatles, as well as experimentation with electronics.
 The Single/Mini-album War on Sound was released in 2005 and became an immediate indie-anthem and followed success on radio and TV-shows like Grey's Anatomy.
 In 2007 "Moonbabies at the Ballroom" was released, a somewhat more constructed and song-oriented album including Take me to the Ballroom, Shout it Out, Walking on my Feet and Cocobelle which all were frequently aired on college radio world-wide and included in several TV shows and commercials.
 Their comeback album Wizards on the Beach was released in April 2015.
Bella Lune is a darkwave/dreampop band that was formed in 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
 The band incorporates elements of darkwave, post-punk, synthpop, shoegaze, and ethereal music to create a dreamlike trance throughout their sound.
 Bella Lune cites many 80s post-punk and new wave bands as influences, including The Cure, Joy Division, New Order, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus, and Love and Rockets.
The Lillies were an indie rock band formed as a collaboration between members of the bands Cocteau Twins (Simon Raymonde), Lush (Miki Berenyi, Chris Acland) and Moose (Kevin McKillop, Russell Yates).
It'll End in Tears is the first album released by 4AD collective This Mortal Coil, an umbrella title for a loose grouping of guest musicians and vocalists brought together by label boss Ivo Watts-Russell.
 The album was released on 1 October 1984, and reached #38 on the UK Albums Chart.
 It features many of the artists on the 4AD roster at the time, including Cocteau Twins, Colourbox, and Dead Can Dance; as well as key post-punk figure Howard Devoto, who sang "Holocaust", one of two covers of songs from the "Third/Sister Lovers" album by Big Star.
 The other Alex Chilton-penned track, album opener "Kangaroo", was released as a single to promote the album.
 Two key songs were performed by Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, including Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren", which reached #66 on the UK Charts when released as This Mortal Coil's debut single a year before the album.
 The song remained on the UK Indie Chart for almost two years.
 Fraser also performed on "Another Day" by Roy Harper.
 4AD would go on to release two further albums under the name of This Mortal Coil: "Filigree & Shadow" (1986) and "Blood" (1991).
Pendragon are an English neo-progressive rock band established in 1978 in Stroud, Gloucestershire as Zeus Pendragon by guitarist and vocalist Nick Barrett.
 The "Zeus" was dropped before the band started recording as the members decided it was too long to look good on a T-shirt.
 There were a few personnel changes in the early days, but since 1986 the lineup has remained relatively stable (with only the drummer changing twice since then) and the band is still active as of 2017, with a tour in October (Canada, NL, DE) and November (UK).
Beautiful Noise is a 2014 American music documentary film, written and directed by Eric Green.
 The film documents three rock bands—Cocteau Twins, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and My Bloody Valentine—and their influence on shoegazing and other alternative rock genres.
 "Beautiful Noise" features extracts from over 50 interviews with bands and artists, as well as archival footage and music videos.

Question: Both bands formed within a year of each other in the late 1970s, but did Cocteau Twins last as long as Pendragon?
Answer: no