Daphne and Celeste

(a record so classique you NEVER see a second-hand copy ANYWHERE!)

OMMFG! I never saw this original (?) video for "Ooh Stick You!" until right now. Oh it's the most!!!!!:

modern Tomspace pages for (1) Celeste, and (2) karen DiConcetto aka "daphne"! for reals! with LOTS of modern pictures (on C's folders) of them 2 gether

Friday, February 20, 2009 6:14 PM

From: Mike Saunders

www.myspace.com/ces24

L'Trimm's immaculate conception, Celeste

see first folder aka "my photos, " photos no. 15 and no. 17 -- the real-life D&C together in modern-time, at a "Feist concert"

www.myspace.com/idigdougfringenyc

karen aka "daphne" who might have a regular page linked somewhere in Celeste's regular page

"August 26, 2007 3:16 PM
For me, that's like a picture of Simon and Garfunkel back together. Or Lennon & McCartney... er, possibly.

I was all set to say this video is about how great a Daphne & Celeste world would be. But the world has already been D & C-ified: costumes made out of butcher paper; tattoos (?) that resemble Kim Fowley's on the cover of Snake Document Masquerade; rejects from the cast of Forbidden Zone. And where the hell exactly is the elevator?

Lennon & McCartney...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJL1APHzyCw

I remember how I used to run home from school as fast as I could, put MTV on, and pray to god that they'd stick this on so I could sneak in a quick jerk before anyone else got home. I was eleven years old. Fond memories.
davesmith7891 9 months ago 58

i love this album a lot

already posted to the Max Tundra thread but this should alert the poptimism nostalgists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJr_uyA0Np4

this will be in my year-end top ten for sure, it's so great & virtually everything i like about pop music, a form i actually really love and relish the usually untapped potential of

Hate to ruin this for you, but this might as well be Pomplamoose.

haha that's exactly what it sounds like. It's awful.

seriously not doing your ears' reputations as not being made of cloth much good here guys. pomplamoose?

Thought it sounded more like a downtempo track from the new Madge album tbh.

as much as it pains me to say it, my opinion of this is much closer to imago's than "this might as well be pomplamoose" or "it's awful"

rather surprising in a very good way actually. never thought i'd see them do music together again, much less that they'd come back with something this good.

idk who max tundra is but perhaps i should? the production is memorable and beautifully detailed

yep, this is the kind of song i not only enjoy on first listen but instantly want to revisit/reabsorb

I don't hear anything even approaching Pomplamoose in this.

I just meant that it's annoyingly precious and self-consciously "quirky".

it's just pop music

if anything, max tundra heard pc music and thought 'i can do this better', but it's not too precious imo, just quite exuberant

this is p good but even if it wasn't I wouldn't care much because it'll wind up lots of different kinds of dorks

Hate to ruin this for you, but this might as well be Pomplamoose.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, March 30, 2015 6:57 AM (3 hours ago)

haha that's exactly what it sounds like. It's awful.

― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Monday, March 30, 2015 7:39 AM (2 hours ago)

u mad, it sounds exactly like Daphne & Celeste teaming up with Max Tundra

they still look exactly the same ♥ ♥ ♥

Oh, for fucks sake...

http://www.thisfestivalfeeling.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article-hero-image/14b9e37b09b3a81268660144.jpg
http://www.theedgesusu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/85217520Getty170311.jpg

As a fan of both Max Tundra and Daphne and Celeste, I find this to be a bit "meh". I think I much prefer this Perfume song which blatantly knocks of off Max Tundra, than Max Tundra working with an actual pop group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edyARJq9sgM

oh i've long been a big fan of that perfume song, if that's a max tundra knockoff i may indeed have to look into him more

Yeah, this is the Max Tundra song that it's kind of a knock off of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZNFA2zXHus

I like this and it's growing in me. Pomplamoose comparison as damningly accurate as that time someone said Hey Ya sounded like Frank Black tho

Lol *on

I like the fact that something came out of Max's weekly "hey [Twitter handle], work with me!", I like the un-compromisingly Max lyrics (stuff about synthesis, "The Third Policeman"), the high-heels as high-hats, the uncool chords, and so on, but it does sound kind of diluted, Max Tundra's standard level of weirdo would make for better girl-pop imo

what it loses in 'weird' for the sake of accessibility it makes up for in depth of craft and enthusiasm imo, but yeah I do hope for a whole album of this stuff, with moments of increased intensity

sounds kind of like sugababes meets metronomy. it's not really hitting me hard or anything but it's okay

Sounds good to me, sticks enough in yr branes and has enough about it to encourage repeat listens. Yeay!

Some of these comparisons are frankly painful

Metronomy!

It’s a thumbs up from me.

I can't believe we are talking about Daphne and Celeste in 2015

When I saw the revive, I truly thought "Oh, dear, one of them has died"

sounds kind of like sugababes meets metronomy. it's not really hitting me hard or anything but it's okay

― yeovil knievel (NickB)

It was bugging me that I couldn't think of who this reminded me of but it's totally Metronomy. https://youtu.be/9P2w_hq8YTk

daphne & celeste were streets ahead of max tundra.

The Max Tundra influence on k-pop is truly one of the examples of quality always finding a way to impact the world. A prophet always being disbelieved in her hometown and all that.

i'm rather obsessed with this now

a form i actually really love and relish the usually untapped potential of

jfc stfu "untapped potential"

song is inconsequential but NID that imago likes it

Where better to say something mildly trollish than on the Daphne & Celeste thread ffs lol

in your head to yourself

aw, that'd be no fun

I for one like this record quite a bit and am not trollingq

same, and i think it's really selling it short to explain its appeal as pc music-esque

(ftr d&c were on the more obvious part of the spectrum of pop that was successfully critiquing or poking fun at itself, i.e. what pc music has been trying and largely failing to do from afar)

^ otm

I think that all that was said was that some Max Tundra stuff is kind of a PC Music precursor, rather than the track is PC Music-esque?

kinda clear that Tundra is trying to get these ladies on the radio again

I like what I've heard a lot but if so he's doing a really shitty job in both sound and marketing

yea it'll be interesting to see if this thing gets any hype at all. D&C are a bit *too* obscure at this point. I guess that's the whole point though.

I was at that gig too Andrew! Scruffy bloke stood to the side, you probably remember me

Happy Easter, pop fans!

Album is so good. The run from A.L.T.O. to Golden Doldrum in particular.

yeah it's great!

I pre-ordered but no deliveries on good Friday.

Are you guys all gay?

That's the only justifiable excuse I can think of for middle aged men going to Daphne & Celeste shows in 2018.

good post

Think it might be the shittest trolling I've seen on here, well done there FB.

Or JB

Or BB

Or FP

a lone bottle of piss has been flung o to the daphne and celeste thread

and yet...the music plays on

Got my record just now. It has a cover of kandy korn by Captain Beefheart! It has an alternate sleeve, and i think I prefer the original...

damn, he got me, I'm a middle-aged gay man

Enjoying this album greatly.

this is so good

if andy partridge had written 'song to a succulent' i reckon he'd have been quite proud

Max making me so proud

^^^the third part of this great comeback

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/39358/1/daphne-celeste-review-year-2000-pop-hits

Looking back, though, I think the most exciting thing playing shows around that time was there was a real run-in between Stereophonics, Travis, and Coldplay. No one could tell which one of those very similar bands was gonna come out on top. I’m still surprised Coldplay won that one, I thought it was gonna be Travis.

Album is so good. The run from A.L.T.O. to Golden Doldrum in particular.

― Jeff W, Friday, March 30, 2018 2:44 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That does the last three tracks a disservice! And I think BB is awesome. Which leaves only Sunny Day as less than perfect, but it's still lovely

cant stop listening to Song To A Succulent.

a.l.t.o. to taking notes is a great run... 16 stars and paint can especially. still not into bb; weird that the two more leaden tracks were the lead-off singles (though i like you & i alone, moreso in album sequence)

main complaint is how their voices are euthanized into anonymity. bothers me a little less if i just think of it as a max tundra record with other voices on it. same with with the lyrics which i've already gone on about.

it's pretty great though :)

little nod to apt 3a at the end of 16 stars?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RI30lDutfw&list=RDuKlU4dscE8c&index=2

try that again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RI30lDutfw

BB haters appear to be ignoring the amazing final minute of the song at the very least. The way the main synth line changes up!

Holy wow, this album is great. And I'm only at BB and reading this thread, and getting really, really excited!

16 Stars! I needed those synths

I was at that gig too Andrew! Scruffy bloke stood to the side, you probably remember me

This doesn't entirely narrow it down, but I understand there was a lot less of that than the average Max Tundra gig. And several ex-ILXors (with mark s)!

I can hear some of the criticisms of the record (though not of BB, whose only fault is that it stops at the point where it was about to really kick off), but it turns out this is the band that pushes me into the tedious "the record is only a crude effort at the songs, the real act is live" camp.

Leland Palmer in the dark!

if I didn't know this was made by Max Tundra I wonder how long it would've taken me to figure out. I'd say about 15 seconds.

linee's post about the two lead singles seems pretty otm to me. the album's way better than I would've guessed given those two tracks. nothing against them, they work quite well in the context of the album, but the wonkybonkers stuff like "ALTO" and "Alarms" is what I signed up for

thank god for this album

otm

"hyperventilating in the factory of sound"

critical indifference to this is predictable and irritating

it's really good; I feel like the critical indifference is mostly because it took so long since "You and I Alone"

surprisingly this actually gets better over time. love how it's a throwback not just in the traditional way but also in a stranger sense where it sounds like it's from an era when pop records were eccentric and strange. think "16 Stars" is my favorite track now. I love that "you could almost pretend to/see I'd always defend you" refrain

I really do love this album.

:)

it's 2018 and daphne and celeste have an album that lj cares about, what a world

it's an amazing record tbh but it's as much max tundra's big pop move as anything

yea I didn't know if it was gonna hold up after a few listens but it actually kinda gets better the more you know the songs

Yeah, I wasn't completely sold on this the first few listens, but I've really come round to. It's making a great summer soundtrack right now. I ended up ordering the vinyl as the prices have gone right down on Amazon/eBay. It was $11 including shipping which is an absolute steal.

BTW, does anyone know anything about CSS stuff for reddit? I have r/daphneandceleste - I made it ages ago, but have never done anything with it. So if you have a clue about that stuff...

this album is like if yasutaka nakata produced an xtc record so i have no idea how i didn't get into it when it came out

Listening party on Twitter tonight!

Tonight, unwind and listen to our maximalist adventure over at Tim’s @LlSTENlNG_PARTY 9PM! We’ll be joined by @MaxTundra
Let’s jump into an alternate reality where we all “Save The World” 🎉💖

— Daphne & Celeste (@Daphne_Celeste) January 28, 2021