Daft Punks's "Discovery" : Classic or Dud

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sorry i thought they wanted to dance, not fall asleep

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

mr fingers is fun!

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Mega-dud.

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

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

dan, that list is truly vomit inducing.

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

i started getting the dry heaves at photek.

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

Yeah, he forgot Happy2BHardcore volumes one through six.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Pretty much every Chemical Brothers album

...

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

discovery is great

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

it's great

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

its v v great

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

It's not nearly as good as Homework!

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

no that's on 'Solaris'

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

That red jacket is nothing short of 200% awesome.

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

Photek is HyPhY now.

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

also making mediocre video game scores.

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

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

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

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

fucking classic

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Ronan is right, the rest of you are wrong.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM x 2

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, see, that would have been me

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't differentiate between "songs" or "tracks", but I think you're trying to say it's pop because it has vocals arranged in verses/choruses? :-?

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, basically. (Although most of the song structures are a bit more liberal than that.) Also, the general focus on melody and that most of the numbers are designed to stand on their own, as opposed to as a cog in a DJ mix.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

The only track on Discovery I think I'd really like to hear again is "Veridis Quo"

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah "Veridis Quo" is my fave track as well. But I love the whole record...

― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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