Daft Punk - Human After All

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me too, but I never listen to it.

Remember when nobody thought it was REAL, though? Pretty shameful!

F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 October 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

Not that they won't be good, but that is a rather predictable bunch of remixers.

F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 29 October 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

i still think it's godawful

s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 29 October 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

I remember the day it came out excitedly rushing to Amoeba to hear it. They happened to be playing it on the store's stereo. I wandered the aisles as it played and it quickly ruled itself out as a purchase. I've heard it here and there since then and...ugh...no.

gear (gear), Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

The Sebastian remix is really awesome

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

And the Justice mix, too. I'm still undecided on the Emperor Machine, though I'm glad they chose this as a single over, say, "Steam Machine."

telephone thing, Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

this album is wonderful

Christopher Costello (CGC), Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

Discovery:
http://forums.autoweek.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/17-12965-285320-5897/amx3.gif

Human After All:
http://www.tdrake.net/motw/pix/amc-pacer.jpg

disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 29 October 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

if you pretend its not daft punk it's quite enjoyable!

latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 29 October 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...
Japan-only remix compilation coming out soon. Definitely not worth paying ludicrous import prices for (unless you are hell-bent on owning Thomas and GuyMan Kubricks) but there are two new tracks that may be worth Soulseeking after the release: a Playgroup remix of "Steam Machine" and Para One of "Prime Time Of Your Life."

telephone thing, Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

...and another release coming soon, a best-of on Virgin entitled Musique 1993-2005. One CD of singles, one DVD of videos. Kind of a weak package, actually, since the best videos are already available elsewhere (on the Gondry DVD or as part of Interstella 5555), and the only rarity is a live take on "Rollin' and Scratchin'" that I'm willing to bet is taken straight from Alive 1997.

telephone thing, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I'm liking this now.

Jeff, Sunday, 26 August 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

vid for "Prime Time Of Your Life" is fucking fucked up

Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 11 January 2008 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

great album.

The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 06:14 (eighteen years ago)

Hahahah this is gonna be just like discovery where everyone hates on it them comes around in the end, I can tell.

Oh man the synths on the last track are so wonderful.

-- djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, January 24, 2005 1:56 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

like most threads from around this time i was being a total douche but i was also right

deej, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 07:23 (eighteen years ago)

yeah this album makes a lot of sense after the whole Justice / ed banger hoopla

baaderonixx, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

01. Human After All

03. Robot Rock

08. Television Rules The Nation
09. Technologic

"Great EP in there somewhere."

Bodrick III, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

the slow songs are so good!

mizzell, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

Human After All >>>> Discovery >>>>>>>>>> Homework >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Justice (LOL)

stephen, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

the slow songs are so good!

yup!!

i can only hear 'make love' in my head right now. maybe cos i never listened to this album very much.

gff, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

emooootion
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mizzell, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

'make love' sounds like cluster.

haitch, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

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Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 21:33 (twelve years ago)

seven years pass...

wish I'd known of ILM in 2005, would've made my love of this album less confusing and lonely

swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:16 (five years ago)

I've never (knowingly) heard anything from this album except for "Technologic." Seems like a good day to check it out lol

J. Sam, Monday, 22 February 2021 18:53 (five years ago)

great completely misunderstood record

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 22 February 2021 19:01 (five years ago)

WOW The Prime Time of Your Life GOES. The way it keeps speeding up I feel like I've just railed two full grams of blow. I think I love this album already

J. Sam, Monday, 22 February 2021 19:01 (five years ago)

Ok Robot Rock, I see why people rag on this record for being repetitive, but it seems like the absolute right choice for music this loud and scuzzy

J. Sam, Monday, 22 February 2021 19:05 (five years ago)

it's fun!!! BOW bunananana

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 22 February 2021 19:09 (five years ago)

'make love' sounds like cluster.

― haitch, Wednesday, March 5, 2008 4:22 PM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes! I really really love this. So elegant. Just that primitive drum machine, piano(!), a lil palm-muted guitar, and a lonely vocoded robot crooning off in the distance.

J. Sam, Monday, 22 February 2021 19:15 (five years ago)

RE-MO-SHUUUUUUN

J. Sam, Monday, 22 February 2021 19:37 (five years ago)

great completely misunderstood record

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, February 22, 2021 2:01 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes. I love it. Crazy that it took Daft Punk breaking up to get me to listen to this album. Thanks, robots. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors.

J. Sam, Monday, 22 February 2021 19:44 (five years ago)

it was really funny how this album leaked a year in advance and pretty much everyone assumed it was fake

frogbs, Monday, 22 February 2021 20:25 (five years ago)

I’m not crazy about this album but it’s much better than that not dissimilar Ed banger/justice/digitalism crap that was going on

brimstead, Monday, 22 February 2021 20:44 (five years ago)

Justice was the worst

Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Monday, 22 February 2021 20:44 (five years ago)

"it was really funny how this album leaked a year in advance and pretty much everyone assumed it was fake"

LOL, I had forgotten about this. The reaction was almost uniformly negative but they didn't change anything.

skip, Monday, 22 February 2021 22:18 (five years ago)

make love rules

nxd, Monday, 22 February 2021 22:41 (five years ago)

Probably one of the few times I got it right: http://stylusmagazine.com/reviews/daft-punk/human-after-all.html

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 13:04 (five years ago)

it was really funny how this album leaked a year in advance and pretty much everyone assumed it was fake

This can't be right. Why would they have recorded it in just a few weeks (and it sounded like it) just to sit on it for over a year?

nashwan, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 13:25 (five years ago)

Yeah, I don't recall it leaking a year in advance. It only leaked like a month or two in advance, as was common at the time.

But he is right on a lot of people thinking the leak was fake. The fact that P2P networks were full of fake versions of Discovery tracks where parts just looped over and over again didn't help either.

MarkoP, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 13:32 (five years ago)

Also this is kinda shown in this very topic, where things were leaked around the time I remember them being leaked.

MarkoP, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 13:45 (five years ago)

fake versions of Discovery tracks where parts just looped over and over again

hard to tell the difference tbf

eisimpleir (crüt), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:32 (five years ago)

Well you can tell something is wrong with your version of Harder Faster Better Stronger if it never gets to the fun breakdown sections which are the best part.

MarkoP, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:34 (five years ago)

the primetimeofyourLIFE

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:35 (five years ago)

steeeeeeeam
machiiiiiiine

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:46 (five years ago)

this is my second favorite dp album after discovery lol

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 14:47 (five years ago)

https://hasitleaked.com/articles/memorable-and-odd-album-leaks/

The hugely anticipated follow up to the French electro duo’s masterpiece Discovery leaked months ahead of its intended release. Daft Punk has been subject to fake album leaks throughout their releases, the most memorable being the numerous fake Tron soundtrack leaks. Interestingly enough, some of those leaks, although fake, were pretty impressive. The problem with the Human After All album leak was that a lot of fans thought it was fake due to the fact that it wasn’t up to the same quality as Daft Punk’s previous releases. As a reviewer from Sputnik put it:

“Most fans did not believe that it was actually Human After All, many fans warned others not to download the leak because it was a fake. They proclaimed it sounded too cheap and dirty to be the real thing, and that the sound just did not fit Daft Punk at all. Little did they know, they were listening to the real thing.”

groovypanda, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:00 (five years ago)

But he is right on a lot of people thinking the leak was fake. The fact that P2P networks were full of fake versions of Discovery tracks where parts just looped over and over again didn't help either.
IIRC this very thread has a lot of people saying it must be fake and waiting for the "real" album to drop?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:09 (five years ago)

Album is front-loaded to fuck. Love the first three tracks but there are some draggy, too long songs on here that don't really do anything much. The overall sound is very hot and compressed. It works in certain situations (title track), others it's just a bit "ecchhh was this a mistake or done on purpose"? I know they used a lot of guitar effects and stuff on these tunes, and you can tell - it's got a gritty, overdriven vibe that sort-of works, but sort-of doesn't.

Too many tracks have potential but sound unfinished. Some might like the unfussy, unpolished approach, but compared to the perfection of Discovery, there's a tossed-off feel to a lot of these.

"Steam Machine" is ploddy and boring.
"Make Love" is pretty but sounds like a stripped-down off-cut from Discovery.
"The Brainwasher" is Black Sabbath's 'Iron Man' played on an Atari DOS Tracker and again doesn't do enough in its 4 minute run.
"On/Off" completely pointless, even as a filler track.
"Television Rules The Nation" isn't bad, but we didn't need a song about TV being the opiate of the masses even back in 2005. "Technologic" sounds like it was written especially for a TV ad, and I'm pretty sure it was (but the Basement Jaxx version is AMAAAAAZING).
"Emotion" is okay but like "Too Long", it's too long and the hot, over-compressed fuzziness doesn't suit the vibe.

Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:18 (five years ago)

you're ploddy and boring

Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 15:28 (five years ago)


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