Daft Punk - Human After All

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Discovery is pop through and through.

It was for the first four songs. Not the entire album though, by ANY means.

This is middlebrow Prodigy style bad dance/hiphop.

I'm not going to comment on this... where to start.

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, ok then, Discovery is disco through and through.

Comment away, but Daft Punk doing a "serious" record is waking up from the dream as far as I'm concerned.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan, have to say I think your damnation is premature!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not claiming the new Daft Punk is going to be their best album by any means.. it could be their worst by a country mile.. or it could blow the previous two away. We are, so far, basing this on a bootleg of one song here so far... let's be fair and not overreact just yet.

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope you're right Spencer! But it's been a long wait and this song is very disappointing. To me it feels like the kind of single that all the people who thought Discovery was ironic or too pop will absolutely love.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't even really hear what the bassline is doing in that clip.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Although, if "Robot Rock" is a sign of what the rest of the album is going to be like, they might actually have a chance to break big-time in the U.S. moreso than ever before.. haha. (*the sound of the rest of the world puking*)

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Comment away, but Daft Punk doing a "serious" record is waking up from the dream as far as I'm concerned.

I guess you didn't think much of Homework then? I like the first album, but it does sound more like it fits the more "serious" traditional electronic/house/techno album niche moreso than Discovery.

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

O ye of little faith!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

based on that sample, i am inclined to agree with ronan here. my one saving grace is the hope that there's all sorts of stuff happening above and below the guitar sample in the mix that a shitty digital camera couldn't hope to pick up.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

that's a given!! considering we're hearing it OFF A CAMERA that song sounds amazing. also i'm not forgetting that the first track released from "homework" was not "da funk" or "around the world" but "alive".

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

At this point, I'm more excited as to how the Daft Punk logo will look on the new album cover front...

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

No I like Homework alot.

I was thinking about this just now, as Mark said, if there was a decent drum beat and other stuff maybe this could be good, dance music production is a subtle thing, god knows, but I am not feeling that sample anyway.

magnify the bass drum to the point where it really sounds like getting smacked in the face and maybe the record would begin to sound kind of "wacky", in a good way.

yes of course we have to wait but for now let's ARGUE ABOUT THE SAMPLE WE HAVE.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

if human after all = discoverys textures (nasal guitars, vocoders) + homeworks structure (ultra repetitive, BASS (which robot rock mihgt have in spades, as noted above)) then its just fine by me.

― :| (....), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway you can't expect a "windowlicker" every time.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

who wants a "windowlicker"!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"harder, better, faster, stronger"?

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

look i was inclined to agree with you that this song is disappointing, but on the other hand i just watched that clip like five times in a row.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the thing i dislike most about it is how clunky it feels, especially those fat guitar chord fragments between refrains. daft punk normally make such nimble tunes - this seems almost below them.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, I just got an advanced look at the album art for Human After All!

http://www.mackron.com/random/daftpunk_humanafterall.jpg

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched it about ten times in a row. I might watch it again soon. I want to believe!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan, you're killing yourself. :) Cast away your all too human curiosity and join us at the Church of The Pure Daft Punk Experience. No sneak-a-peaks allowed. We wait till March 21st for the Total Experience with an empty mind and we wear cool robot helmets too.

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

haha!

I am listening to the Black Strobe E-mix now, very calming.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost
I hope that they wear human masks this time!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

OVER the robot masks!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

ooooooooooooooh.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

01. Human After All
02. The Prime Time Of Your Life
03. Robot Rock
04. Steam Machine
05. Make Love
06. The Brainwasher
07. On / Off
08. Television Rules The Nation
09. Technologic
10. Emotion

This tracklisting does kinda look like Blue Oyster Cult song titles.. kinda?

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooooooh, how amazing would it be if they covered "Don't Fear the Reaper"????!!!! MORE 808 COWBELL!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah this clip is fucking awful.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i watched the clip several times as well, as i said upthread, it's infectious despite the monotony and apparent lack of imagination in it. one thing that struck me instantly was the funky riff, i'm not sure what it is but it sounds so FRESH. they may have spent six weeks recording it but something about that sound makes me think it could've taken eight years to ferment and tweak...i figure the album is half about song and half about sound, again occupying a platform between the two previous proper albums.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

problem is, murs' "intro" uses the exact same sample.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

how is that a problem??

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

that'll teach you to stay off the murs.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

?????

Just because Renegade Soundwave sampled that Mandrill lick on "Blue Eyed Boy" from Soundclash years before Public Enemy based "By The Time I Get To Arizona" on it on Apocalypse 91.., doesn't make me like the PE song any less!

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

all i meant was that it's hard to pretend they spent eons tweaking the sound when the same sample was used elsewhere. that's all.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

advance word from a friend: "on/off is ace. best best. makes me cry. more emotional than one more time."

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's hard for me to pretend that length in recording has anything to do with the quality of a song, in general. Maybe "Robot Rock" was done in 7 minutes. Does it make a difference either way?

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

no!

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan: "Ess is some of it actually far out or weird?"

(spoiler alert, obv)

"The Prime Time Of Your Life" has these shaffel-y drums that sort of sneak up on you, until the tempo starts increasing to the point where some crazy dutch gabber would feel like DJ Screw in comparison.
"Steam Machine" is not much more than a distorted voice whispering "steam machine" like it was a chorus out of that Primal Scream-Xterminator-cd. And it sounds like a steam machine.
"Make Love" is an instrumental, sort of a cousin to "La Ritournelle" by Seb Tellier, you'd imagine Bryan Ferry singing over it.
"Brainwasher" has a robot voice saying "i am the brain washer" over a very mechanical riff. The voice gets very stretched out and fucked with like in some forgotten jungle 12" from 93. "On/Off" is just a skit, some noisy channel surfing which I guess fits in to the TV theme for the supposed album cover (which I haven't seen but heard about).
If the first album was Dr Dre and the second was ELO then this one is Huey Lewis (in a crazy loop stuck inside of P Batemans head).

― Essdot, Monday, 17 January 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

If the first album was Dr Dre and the second was ELO then this one is Huey Lewis

Spoiled indeed.

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"La Ritournelle" is one of my favorite tracks from last year. The video is very odd (Tellier is in general, but in a great way).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

saying huey lewis keeps away the riff raff.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i am loving this:

advance word from a friend: "on/off is ace. best best. makes me cry. more emotional than one more time."

-- mark p (mark.p****...), January 17th, 2005 4:50 PM. (Mark P)

vs this:

"On/Off" is just a skit, some noisy channel surfing which I guess fits in to the TV theme for the supposed album cover (which I haven't seen but heard about).

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ba dum bum ba ba i'm loving it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

haha yeah i was wondering about that too. my source is a good friend, and he specifically said it was track seven, "on/off", that got him all wobbly in the knees, so i dunno...

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd chalk it up to bad knees.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

holy shit. you guys we not kidding about THE GUITARS.

Thanks for sharing. I'm not sure what I think yet, but this has certainly got my attention.

When will the whole thing leak?

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I found this on the bluebird...it appears to be the opening 2:45 of some song (its not the same on on the camcorder video, is it?)

Daft Punk - Human After All (Sample)

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

well, whatever that sample was.. it threatened to build and threatened and threatened and threatened and then just... fizzled out.

worst
tease
ever

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It would be really funny if all these elements in the hype campaign.. "robot rock", this sample, the Ess character here, and all were just making all this shit up, and then we got the real deal.

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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