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I bought the digital version over the weekend..I'm still digesting it, but I'm loving it so far. Intense as fuck and defies classification. I'll be picking it up on vinyl and it'll end up in my top 10 likely also.Quote:
Originally Posted by Socrates
The former is my favourite of the year so far too. The Pete Banks archival compilation (with some unreleased material) Be Well, Be Safe, Be Lucky... The Anthology is also up there.Quote:
Originally Posted by noni
Henry
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Originally Posted by JAMOOL
OMG, how many Daphne and Celeste fans are there here?Quote:
Originally Posted by miamiscot
Another good one.Quote:
Originally Posted by adap2it
Henry
Crayola Lectern-Happy Endings.
Me too! Daphne and Celeste Save The World may be my favorite disc of 2018, so far at least. We'll have to see how it all shakes out six months from now, but it's a top-contender.Quote:
Originally Posted by bondegezou
I had never heard of them before Ben Jacobs (Max Tundra) produced this album...Quote:
Originally Posted by bondegezou
...and, as I had hoped, it's a Max Tundra album.
Same here. :upQuote:
Originally Posted by miamiscot
So this is classic period Daphne and Celeste:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I96LR5vqqqQ
And:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dslUKjOnH3Y
Undoubtedly some of the best music to come out of the late 1990s/early 2000s.
I think their modern work has lost a certain amount of youthful zest, but this is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhfvUxvdwk
Henry
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Originally Posted by bondegezou
I agree, that is great.Quote:
Originally Posted by bondegezou
This is possibly my favorite from the new CD though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw1ucDAzYu4
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You guys are so ironic
No irony at all on my part. I genuinely love Daphne and Celeste Save The World. It was such a wonderfully bizarre surprise -- who would have expected Max Tundra to team up with them, or that they would cover a Captain Beefheart song (Kandy Korn) together? Not me, that's for sure. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve F.
I should also mention that I'm not a fan of D&C's late 90s/early 2000s stuff, but they didn't have Max Tundra collaborating with them back then either. ;)
OK!Quote:
Originally Posted by aith01
I honestly couldn't tell.
I thought my 3rd leg was being pulled or something.....
P.S.
I just listened to them do "Kandy Korn" and I had to brush my teeth afterwards, there was so much sugar coating......
Maybe you had to be there, but I think the lyric "Going beep, beep, beep down Sesame Street / Toot, toot, toot wear army boots / In your ear with a can of beer / Up your butt with a coconut" spoke to what a lot of us were feeling in 1999.Quote:
Originally Posted by aith01
Henry
Post-Thatcher, pre-Blair ennui and malaise, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by bondegezou
And a soupçon of pre-millennial angst.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve F.
Henry
PS: There may also have been alcohol involved.
Suddenly all the Yes threads make considerably more sense.
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Originally Posted by Steve F.
You know I wouldn't do that to you, Steve. ;)
But I can definitely understand how it might have been hard to tell whether I was being serious or not.
Yep! That's what I love about this CD. There's a glossy candy shell on the outside, but inside is a complex chewy pop confection. Max Tundra is a genius, IMO, when it comes to densely constructed pop songs, but it may be an acquired taste.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve F.
Have you heard his album Parallax Error Beheads You? You might have mentioned it before, but I can't remember if we've talked about it already.
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Originally Posted by battema
The opening of this actually reminded me a bit of "Video Killed the Radio Star" (which itself justifies inclusion here), but then they went ahead and estranged me by way of excessive chord modulations and stuff. Perhaps they were trying to be avant. Who knows.Quote:
Originally Posted by aith01
I know the name, but I've never heard Max Tundra.Quote:
Originally Posted by aith01
Name 2-3 songs I should hear and I shall listen.
Excessive chord modulations? Surely you jest. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor
The chord modulations and key changes that Max Tundra uses remind me a lot of Cardiacs actually. That tune in particular sounded to me like something that could have almost been on Guns, although with a very different production.
Another song from that disc -- ALTO -- also gives off a bit of a Cardiacs vibe, at least to my ears. I think "wonky pop" is perhaps the best way to describe this music. :)
Hmm... Well, I think if I were to pick three, they might be the following:Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve F.
Which Song
Number Our Days
Until We Die
Excessive when compared to "Radio Star". That was the deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by aith01
It's a nice song, the D&C one. The "Kandy Korn" rendition was so-so, though… I prefer the wall-of-axes original there.
I'm guessing D&C was strictly a UK thing? I remained quite aware of the goings on in the US pop charts throughout the 1990s and I have never heard of them.
While those "old" songs are pretty intolerable (you apparently had to be there, as Henry said) but the new song with the furry Cyclops is indeed a well-crafted piece of electronica. I will look into this some more.