Daft Punk - Is it me?

pulsoc · Post by **pulsoc** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:51 am

Ok here is a good troll-bait thread. I spent about an hour yesterday listening to Daft Punk and watching videos trying to find one good redeeming thing about them. I failed.

What's the deal??

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:52 am

they make people wanna dance and have a good time.

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:53 am

Exactly who or what do you find redeeming? that might help us see where you are coming from.

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:57 am

They know how to sample?

BBScience · Post by **BBScience** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:59 am

Discovery is one of the best electronic albums ever.

mdme_sadie · Post by **mdme_sadie** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:11 am

They basically appeared at a time to bring back a lot of the sounds of bands such as Kraftwerk when there was nothing else sounding like that. That made them a bit of a breath of fresh air, fusing the electronic with a more uptempo disco beat.

Whether you like their particular sound is of course as always a personal preference, I find the sound overtly fizzy and thin, however it is really something that works well on the dance floor at most clubs where they tend to have massively overdriven bass and the top end often turns to smush (and so their sound compensates for this well).

Are they original or groundbreaking? Not realy, and certainly no more so than any other act. Are they fun? Absolutely. Do you *have* to like them? Nope... personally I don't. But that's never going to detract from them and I can see reasons why others would like them and why they'd be notable.

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:30 am

This is my second trip into this thread... The first time I kinda agreed with the poster - but then I got to thining about the videos for:

- Around the World
- Da Funk

Back in the day that was some cool shit.

The video for Da Funk is absolute class! (Directed by Spike Jonze...)

KU · Post by KU » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:34 am

BBScience wrote:Discovery is one of the best electronic albums ever.

E-V-E-R

b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:45 am

KU wrote:
BBScience wrote:Discovery is one of the gayest electronic albums ever.
E-V-E-R

+1

and that's not "gay" as in "bad" ...that's "gay" as in "gay", so dont even think about lecturing me.

Nod · Post by **Nod** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:50 am

timothyallan wrote:They know how to sample?

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... es&search=

<trollbait> Essentially they're as dull as dishwater and only marginally above Timbaland in the 'song construction using others work' stakes. Sampling is a creative artform - not merely regurgitative - haven't seen anyone drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa and floggin that. A sidechained to buggery drugfree disco nightmare featuring the most unoriginal and endemic use of vocoders since Dudley, Carlos & Moog decided, after about 10 minutes in 1928 and a few albums in the '70's respectively, that it sounded like shyte and promptly moved on. Oh and they've just done a track/video collaboration with Kanye West that rips Akira. Absolutely unforgivable on both counts <trollbait>

jez3122 · Post by **jez3122** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:54 am

pulsoc wrote:Ok here is a good troll-bait thread. I spent about an hour yesterday listening to Daft Punk and watching videos trying to find one good redeeming thing about them. I failed.

What's the deal??

i'll keep this short..... Your Wrong.

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:17 am

Around the wurld, around the wu-erld...

robin · Post by **robin** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:42 am

They have their moments. If you don't hear that then you don't hear it.

The success of their sound, when it works, is they wear their influences on their sleeve.

An indication of where they're coming from can be found in their Radio 1 Essential Mix from around 97.

b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:47 am

I like Daft Punk, homework and the live tour/live album called "Alive" - thats the Daft Punk I'll endorse.
however...what the fuck were they thinking with Discovery ?...its a concept album that makes my skin crawl, its so poppers-tastic it makes me dry heave, its just bad on so many levels...

please daft punk, if you're reading this, burn the masters tapes of Discovery today. You were wrong, so very wrong.

robin · Post by **robin** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:52 am

b0unce wrote:...what the fuck were they thinking with Discovery ?....

I don't disagree.

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