deee-lite: classic or dud?

It's genius, obviously.

that said, isn't it weird that despite that early success with the sort of general pop audience deee-lite just went ahead and got weirder (if not necessarily better) and more insular over their next several albums, even going so far as to release that remix disc long after their would-be moment had passed? maybe not that's as unusual as it's seeming right now — i suppose the beatles got stranger, after all — but it seems like a pretty impressive move from a band that probably had at least a couple more potential hits in them. or at least more funny hats.

"Groove Is In The Heart" isn't even the best song on that album! I mean, "Good Beat", "Power Of Love", "ESP", "World Clique", "Deee-Lite Theme", "Who Was That?", "Deep Ending", "Build The Bridge"... WHAT A FUCKING GLORIOUS ALBUM!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, March 17, 2003 10:48 AM (7 years ago)

^^

dude they were like all 'tired' and shit at like 1:30

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, March 16, 2003 11:46 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

:(

Does anybody have the remix album? I had that joint back in the 90s and really liked it. Does anything hold up?

I haven't heard anything but World Clique yet, but that one's fantastic. Reminds me a lot of the fun/carefree vibe on 3 Feet High & Rising, actually. Not sure where to dig next but hey. I have time, right?

2nd album is dope if you dig deep house

First "adult" concert I attended. Fall '90 in South Beach. My first drag queen sighting too.

Towa Tei's 'Future Listening' is fantastic, esp if dig Dee-Lite for the sampladelic production

World Clique totally captures the '90s will make the 60s look like the 50s' optimism of 1990

Like Vanessa and Theo Huxtable's hair styles.

My first drag queen sighting too.

How many since?

I like the remix album and Dewdrops In The Garden a lot. I think of them as Deee-Lite's "rave" albums.

daffodil yellow comes into prominence in a fluorescent fashion.

I can't believe I haven't listened to World Clique before now, it really is rather good.

I just listened to it for the first time like a week ago and yeah it's great.

I used to go around singing:

you don't need a dick
to make my heart click

I only know Groove which was and still is on point

The whole album is flawless aside from "Shine On"

"Smile On," you mean? That one's obnoxious, yeah

Yes, that's what I meant.

Listening to this for the first time today. 'Smile On' is the standout (aside from Groove, which I've known since I was a lil' tyke). Crazy.

lol, I think the standout is the entire run from "World Clique" through the end of the album

World Clique classic all the way home, and I don't even mind "Smile On." In love with this one, from the first remix 12, which I got recently:

How Do You Say…Love (A Delicious Pal Joey Dub)

Does Pal Joey have a thread? Need to check. BRB

Well he sorta does. And I posted on it awhile back lol.

title track on World Clique is so great. gonna have to dig this one up again.

anyone heard the Towa Tei single "GBI (German Bold Italic)" with Kylie? right from the start it sounds like an attempt to make "Groove pt. 2" and it's mostly successful (IMO), even featuring (and uncredited) Haruomi Hosono on backing vocals, which is a really strange thing to do. I guess this thread just reminded me of how cool that song was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPwyvZa0AZk

Pal Joey is so underrated

this just came up on shuffle, sooo good. I think Britney stole that outfit btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncAbMVh3NfU

It would never have occurred to me to see them live at the time because I was transitioning from pseudo-goth to full on grunger, but damn that would've been fun!

From the global village!
In the age of communication!

New York City!

real
fresh

straight life-affirming album. always within arm's reach for me.

Extremely disappointed to learn that Lady Miss Kier is flirting with conspiracy/Q-Anon/deep state/"free thinking" shit recently, based on her twitter.

umm wtf are you doing miss kier

kidney’s in the heaaaart / kidney’s in the heaaaaaart

groove is in the HAARP

world clique indeed

This is among my favorite videos on the internet. It has made me weep, there's so much palpable joy happening in it, and it was before NYC turned into a Chase bank/Starbucks amalgam. Just incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-gp9lPVj3E

Deee-Lite was my gateway to electronic music. I remember sitting around getting stoned with a friend when he put on the Sampladelic Relics and Dancefloor Oddities comp, which spoke to me a lot more than what little techno I had heard up to that point. Novelty stuff like Sesame's Treet or the Mortal Kombat theme was all that had filtered down to me, for the most part.

So I had listened to that record for a while when I overheard some ravers at school saying that Lady Miss Kier was going to be DJing at Buzz or some other DC club night. And I, who known as a hippy and definitely not a raver, was like, "maybe I'll go to that." One guy started clowning on me pretty hard for that, dancing around (not unlike the crew in table is the table's clip above) and saying "Can you imagine Peace, Man all up in Buzz like 'Groove is in the Heart!'?"

I did not go out to Buzz that Thursday.

this thread reminds me, Towa Tei has been doing some great stuff lately but it's hard to find in the States

fuck that one guy

lol at first I was like "what did Towa Tei do to you??????" and then I scrolled up

it's a daisy age