Daphne & Celeste - U.G.L.Y

YOU COULD MAKE AN ONION CRY!

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I know Ooh! Stick You was bigger, but I honestly love this non-pc, totally unacceptable in 2021 minor hit today.

It’s all in the absurdist delivery.

THERE AIN’T NO PILL
’CAUSE YOU AIN’T ILL
YOU UGLY!




Also, their straight-baiting performance at Reading fest is genuinely iconic.

”DIE!? YES, I WILL!” :disco: :disco: :disco:

 
The Reading festival thing, it’s either the worst idea ever or a masterpiece of trolling, or possibly a way to cut down littering by collecting everyone’s rubbish on the stage.
 
Yeah I hate to say iconic but it’s indelibly scorched on my brain for all time, and it’s sort of amazing.

definitely a sign of the times, pop music enjoying such a gold rush that literally everything was being released. Sort of the last gasp for bubblegum pop before things attempted to get a bit trendier.

2 things that just surprised me: I’d forgotten they did School’s Out (which did even better than. U.G.L.Y. :o)

and that they had a comeback album in 2018! Sync listen anyone?
 
Top 5 lyrics

5. I thought it was a sack but it's your favourite dress

4. Spaghetti arms, limp butt, freak show

3. You hurt the tree's feelings

2. You're so fat and ugly with a belly full of flab

1. You can't disguise your googly eyes

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it's only recently that I have come to appreciate this as one of the greatest records ever made

PIG FACE
 
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D&C are great, and 'We Didn't Say That!' one of the best pop albums of the bubblegum era. They were so weird and subversive - not just the Reading performance, but, for example, doing an agony aunt column in the NME with Arab Strap - or signing disused smoke bombs for fans.

Album tracks i'd recommend: 'I Love Your Sushi', 'Peek-a-boo', 'Star Club' and the legit straight up ballad 'Hey Boy'. But frankly it's great top to bottom.

The comeback record was okay, but felt a bit forced and lacked fun. It was produced by Max Tundra who is usually fantastic for weirdo pop production, but this one disappointed me and I haven't revisited.
 
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Roll Call and I Love Your Sushi (!) were the other two gems on the album apart from the singles.

ROLL CALL
SHH-BOOM
SH SH SHH-BOOM :disco:
 
I do wonder if 'I Love Your Sushi' would be deemed problematic now.....
 
If you's a light, then you'd be blinking
If you were feet, then you'd be stinking
If you were mocking, you'd cause a fuss
If you were ruling, then YOU'D BE US!
 
They were the most intelligent 13 year old of all times before Rebecca Black.
 

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