Daft Punks's "Discovery" : Classic or Dud

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it's not really an album genre

― lfam, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

just about any album by carl craig

― lfam, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

how did this thread turn into 'least fun dance albums s/d'

― fies, Monday, 9 April 2007 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

i mean i see how 'the quest' is good and important and canonical and all, but if some daft punk fanboy asks you for albums better than 'discovery' you say 'lifestyles of the laptop cafe' ffs

― fies, Monday, 9 April 2007 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

sorry i thought they wanted to dance, not fall asleep

― lfam, Monday, 9 April 2007 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

fies wants 'stupid' dance music not this la-di-da 'cerebral' strain

― blueski, Monday, 9 April 2007 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty much every Chemical Brothers album
The first two Prodigy albums
The T99 album
Every Speed Limit 140+ BPM comp except for #6
Source Direct - Controlled Substances
Photek - Modus Operandi
Bizarre Inc - Energize
Eon - Void Dweller
The Altern8 album
Omni Trio - The Deepest Cut
Sven Vaeth - Accident In Paradise
Baby D - Deliverance
The Rave On 2 disc compilation
The Thin Ice 2 disc compilation
Every 808 State album
Every Orbital album
Every pre-Boss Drum Shamen album

― HI DERE, Monday, 9 April 2007 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

mr fingers is fun!

― deej, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you bastard, now you've made me regret not bringing any of those into work today!

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Mega-dud.

Can't wait for a collabo with T-Pain.

― Belisarius, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

dan, that list is truly vomit inducing.

― chaki, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

i started getting the dry heaves at photek.

― chaki, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, he forgot Happy2BHardcore volumes one through six.

― Belisarius, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

more fun than daft punk you say? how about the daring, intense and brilliant sounds of dubstep?

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty much every Chemical Brothers album

...

― groovemaaan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

i think that with ammnesia, mr fingers wrote the sound that daft punk and alan braxe specialize in.

― lfam, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

well, i don't hear that but i think amnesia is fun anyway

― deej, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

My overarching point is that discovery is hideously overrated and there are a myriad of albums that fall under the nebulous umbrella of "dance music" that are better, ESPECIALLY all of the Chemical Brothers albums (including the one I hate).

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

discovery is great

― RJG, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you're a blowhard and that Photek album is a piece of horseshit next to anything Daft Punk put on wax.

― chaki, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's not. (Also roffle at the King of Baseless Pronouncements calling someone a blowhard.)

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

it's great

― RJG, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

its v v great

― chaki, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's not nearly as good as Homework!

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

About half of the LO FI FNK record is pretty good Discovery imitations.

But live, it's much better.

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe of all the albums Dan posted Chaki has picked the Photek one out for criticism! What DnB DO you like tho Chaki?

― blueski, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

i'd only listen to half the tracks on both Homework and Discovery now. did anyone here buy the Daft Punk 'greatest hits'? maybe i should buy it cheap just for 'Musique' and those remixes.

― blueski, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

hey is the song with robert owens on that photek album? that song is great

― deej, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

no that's on 'Solaris'

― blueski, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

i picked on photek cuz the dude gives me douche chills.
http://www.kaostheorydnb.com/Dowlz/Artists/Other/Photek_small.JPG

vs

http://www.fnacmusic.com/Images/artiste/daft_punk.jpg

― chaki, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

That red jacket is nothing short of 200% awesome.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Photek is HyPhY now.

― Belisarius, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

also making mediocre video game scores.

― chaki, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Daft Punk totally wins the style wars! I don't think that was ever in question!

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

digital love
aerodynamic
harder better faster stronger
something about us
too long
one more time

fucking classic

― gman, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

i don't actually love any daft punk song apart from 'da funk'...i like a fair few but i never got the love.

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

I like Daft Punk's Discovery better than most or almost all of the albums Dan lists, but mainly cos it is 100 percent what it is, pop music, rather than weak ass techno! plus here's guy from the Verve...etc etc.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

i've just realised that my feelings towards daft punk = my feelings towards simian mobile disco, really!

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

all of Dan's choices are pretty old! it's become more difficult for me to retain enthusiasm for many of the ones i loved at the time to the extent where i'd agree they were somehow 'better' than Discovery which is really not that great an album in the end, just a great great idea or bunch of ideas.

― blueski, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ronan is right, the rest of you are wrong.

― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

best dance albums of THIS decade:

pop choice = Rooty, Since I Left You (it's got enough danceable bits!)

unpop choice = well everyone seems to agree that unpop and scene dance doesn't lend itself to the album format full stop, despite great 90s works like several Detroit albums or the brown album or 'Pansoul' if you like those kinds of things, different as they all are in turn. their existence means i don't buy the 'not an album genre' argument, but i'll have to think more about great 00s albums from more 'underground' artists all the same...

― blueski, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Every pre-Boss Drum Shamen album

I listened to En-tact for the first time in years last week, and fuck me that is a great album. I suspect that if Will Sinott hadn't died in '91 they'd have become the big crossover act to emerge from acid house instead of being remembered as a dodgy novelty act.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

rooty is like the worst b jaxx album!*

best dance albums of 00s, um, ok cowboy, thrills and orchestra of bubbles, kittenz and thee glitz...

*apart from last year's offering which i have forgotten about already HURRAH

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

also can I just complain about that silly youtube video with all the daft punk samples in it....and the fact that I've seen it posted on blogs about a zillion times, only for Daft Punk indies to be like "OMG THEY COPIED THESE SONGS, HOW DO I SHOT POSTMODERNISM"

― Ronan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think OK Cowboy is an amazing album. It is very good but his power had diminished by the time it came out.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

OTM x 2

― blueski, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

those people do not deserve Daft Punk

OK Cowboy probably sounded really great to a lot of people not already familiar with half the tracks tho (there must've been SOME!)

― blueski, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, see, that would have been me

― river wolf, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I don't hear it as "pop", I hear it as soul/r&b/disco loops. Unless you're saying that the pop umbrella includes soul/r&b/disco... but then why wouldn't it include techno/house?

Ah... ILM. The only place in the world where I would spend 30 seconds contemplating such insignificance.

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

The point of calling Discovery "pop" is that the key numbers use a "song" form, rather than a "track" form, regardless of what genre touchstones those songs have.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

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