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"'''Daphne Descends'''" is a song from [[The Smashing Pumpkins]]' fourth studio album, [[Adore]]. It was released as a [[:Category:Promotional singles|promotional single]] exclusively in France in 1998 through Delabel. | "'''Daphne Descends'''" is a song from [[The Smashing Pumpkins]]' fourth studio album, [[Adore]]. It was released as a [[:Category:Promotional singles|promotional single]] exclusively in France in 1998 through Delabel. | ||
When asked about the song's meaning in [[The Smashing Pumpkins 1998-07-09|an interview]], Corgan said it was about "one of those girls who's going to hell, but she doesn't want to, but down she goes". | |||
{{Cquote|Originally meant as an old-timey number, like one you'd play sitting on a front porch drinking sarsaparilla; the day hot. But in that the song felt inconsequential, the message lost in tedium and a clock-like wait. Hence the loping synthesizer bass, and the gallop of the one-two beat's back rhythm. And whoever 'Daphne' is, she gets a lot of warning here about 'the boy.' No, not by band mate's fey, lovesick 'boy' of song, but the kind of boy-child I once was.|author=[[Billy Corgan]]|source=2014 ''Adore'' reissue liner notes}} | {{Cquote|Originally meant as an old-timey number, like one you'd play sitting on a front porch drinking sarsaparilla; the day hot. But in that the song felt inconsequential, the message lost in tedium and a clock-like wait. Hence the loping synthesizer bass, and the gallop of the one-two beat's back rhythm. And whoever 'Daphne' is, she gets a lot of warning here about 'the boy.' No, not by band mate's fey, lovesick 'boy' of song, but the kind of boy-child I once was.|author=[[Billy Corgan]]|source=2014 ''Adore'' reissue liner notes}} |
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"Daphne Descends" | |
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Promotional single by The Smashing Pumpkins | |
Released | 1998 |
Studio sessions | |
Length | 4:39 |
Songwriter(s) | Billy Corgan |
"Daphne Descends" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' fourth studio album, Adore. It was released as a promotional single exclusively in France in 1998 through Delabel.
When asked about the song's meaning in an interview, Corgan said it was about "one of those girls who's going to hell, but she doesn't want to, but down she goes".
“ | Originally meant as an old-timey number, like one you'd play sitting on a front porch drinking sarsaparilla; the day hot. But in that the song felt inconsequential, the message lost in tedium and a clock-like wait. Hence the loping synthesizer bass, and the gallop of the one-two beat's back rhythm. And whoever 'Daphne' is, she gets a lot of warning here about 'the boy.' No, not by band mate's fey, lovesick 'boy' of song, but the kind of boy-child I once was. | ” |
— Billy Corgan, 2014 Adore reissue liner notes |
Videos[edit | edit source]
Lyrics[edit | edit source]
with the sugar sickness
you spy the kidnap kid
who kids you to oblivion
it's the perfect hassle
for the perfumed kiss
he makes you miss him more than home
you love him
you love him more than this
you love him
and you cannot, you can't resist
you love him
you love him for yourself
you love him
and no one, no one else
past sidewalk ashes
a last lovers arc
you come apart to intertwine
it was all so simple
as you watched him move
across the darkness in your room
you love him
you love him for yourself
you love him
and no one, no one else
and to the winding vines
the pretty boys dive
and thru the pinhole stars
into the shadow mind
will you lose him then
on some gentle dawn
this boy is here and gone
you love him
you love him for yourself
you love him
and no one, no one else
you love him
you love him more than this
you love him
and you cannot, you can't resist
you love him
Promotional release[edit | edit source]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Daphne Descends" | 4:38 |
Released | Label | Catalog ID | Format | Country | External sites | ||
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1998 | Delabel • Hut Recordings | DE 4518 | CD | France | Discogs | MusicBrainz | [1] |
Availability
Title | Notes | Type |
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Daphne Descends | Promo | |
As Featured on MTV | Video • Promotional • Live | |
Adore | Main release | Studio |
Perfect | UK CD2 | Single |
Rarities and B-Sides | Compilation | |
Ghost Children/Friends and Enemies | Tribute | |
Live at the Viper Room 1.15.98 | Billy Corgan acoustic set | Live |
Tour stats
- Total plays: 39 plays (38 full, 1 abandoned), 3 acoustic, 1 piano, 2 artists
- First performance: Billy Corgan 1998-01-15 at The Viper Room, West Hollywood, CA, US
- Last performance: Billy Corgan 2019-11-04 at Lodge Room, Los Angeles, CA, US
Additional personnel[edit | edit source]
- Matt Walker – drums
Production[edit | edit source]
- Billy Corgan – producer, mixer
- Brad Wood – producer, engineer
- Howard Willing – engineer, assistant mixer
- Flood – mixer
- Bjorn Thorsrud – editor
- Robbie Adams – engineer
- Ed Tinsley – assistant engineer
- Bon Harris – programmer