― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 16 March 2003 11:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think I prefer the second album to the first though.
Groove is in the Heart is on my X-Box for racing sports cars to. Wow.
― mei (mei), Sunday, 16 March 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 16 March 2003 12:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 16 March 2003 19:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 16 March 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 16 March 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 16 March 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 16 March 2003 20:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― EC, Sunday, 16 March 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
i'm interested in committed dance fans' reactions, too, both to WORLD CLIQUE and to the band's later, maybe-more-explicitly-dance-keyed work. did you guys like deee-lite, or think they were jerks?
― mikael wood, Sunday, 16 March 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fivvy (Fivvy), Sunday, 16 March 2003 22:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jess Hill (jesshill), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
Tracer--glad you were able to get out of there and see us at Siberia for at least a little bit.
― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― man, Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
Deee-lite remind me of much happier times, the last really upbeat, positive time I can remember. Momus wrote something nice about it, but I can't remember the thread.
I think the Deee-Lite theme is great, too. "New York City! New York City!" And "ESP". Oh, I just love the whole thing.
― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 17 March 2003 01:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 17 March 2003 02:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― original bgm, Monday, 17 March 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
It's genius, obviously.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 17 March 2003 06:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 March 2003 06:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― mikael wood, Monday, 17 March 2003 06:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 17 March 2003 07:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 March 2003 07:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mikael wood, Monday, 17 March 2003 07:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― piscesboy, Monday, 17 March 2003 11:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Clarke B., Monday, 17 March 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― piscesboy, Monday, 17 March 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mikael wood, Monday, 17 March 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g (graysonlane), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
"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)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, March 17, 2003 10:48 AM (7 years ago)
^^
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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
:(
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Does anybody have the remix album? I had that joint back in the 90s and really liked it. Does anything hold up?
― haircrüt 100 (kkvgz), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
2nd album is dope if you dig deep house
― Monkeys? Um, no. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
First "adult" concert I attended. Fall '90 in South Beach. My first drag queen sighting too.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Aqua Buddha (herb albert), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Like Vanessa and Theo Huxtable's hair styles.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
My first drag queen sighting too.
How many since?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the remix album and Dewdrops In The Garden a lot. I think of them as Deee-Lite's "rave" albums.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
daffodil yellow comes into prominence in a fluorescent fashion.
― valerie loves me some hummus (how's life), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
I can't believe I haven't listened to World Clique before now, it really is rather good.
― haudrum, Friday, 1 April 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
I just listened to it for the first time like a week ago and yeah it's great.
― Hey (Extended Mix), Friday, 1 April 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
I used to go around singing:
you don't need a dickto make my heart click
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 April 2016 21:16 (eight years ago) link
I only know Groove which was and still is on point
― “I hate my wife. She doesn’t even have a dick” (sunny successor), Saturday, 2 April 2016 23:55 (eight years ago) link
The whole album is flawless aside from "Shine On"
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Sunday, 3 April 2016 02:40 (eight years ago) link
"Smile On," you mean? That one's obnoxious, yeah
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 April 2016 06:15 (eight years ago) link
Yes, that's what I meant.
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Sunday, 3 April 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link
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.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 4 April 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
lol, I think the standout is the entire run from "World Clique" through the end of the album
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 4 April 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
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
― andrew m., Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
Well he sorta does. And I posted on it awhile back lol.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
Pal Joey is so underrated
― Hey (Extended Mix), Saturday, 9 April 2016 09:36 (eight years ago) link
this just came up on shuffle, sooo good. I think Britney stole that outfit btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncAbMVh3NfU
― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 02:52 (five years ago) link
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!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 03:58 (five years ago) link
From the global village!In the age of communication!
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
New York City!
― You can’t see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
realfresh
― andrew m., Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
straight life-affirming album. always within arm's reach for me.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
Extremely disappointed to learn that Lady Miss Kier is flirting with conspiracy/Q-Anon/deep state/"free thinking" shit recently, based on her twitter.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 11 July 2019 03:20 (four years ago) link
umm wtf are you doing miss kier
― frogbs, Thursday, 11 July 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
kidney’s in the heaaaart / kidney’s in the heaaaaaart
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 11 July 2019 05:43 (four years ago) link
groove is in the HAARP
― ufo, Monday, 15 July 2019 10:21 (four years ago) link
world clique indeed
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 July 2019 10:29 (four years ago) link
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
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 15 July 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
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.
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 15 July 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
this thread reminds me, Towa Tei has been doing some great stuff lately but it's hard to find in the States
― frogbs, Monday, 15 July 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
fuck that one guy
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 15 July 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
lol at first I was like "what did Towa Tei do to you??????" and then I scrolled up
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 15 July 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
it's a daisy age
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 15 July 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link