Daft Punks's "Discovery" : Classic or Dud

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Daft Punk always had a little bit of rock press love, and the videos... it's not hard to grasp how it went beyond just having a few Top 40 hits!

― fandango, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

ANY1 LIKE FATBOY SLIM? BIG BEAT LOL

― Belisarius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

nd I think Carnival by Archigram is better than all of the above and anything on either Daft Punk album.

-- Ronan (Ronan), Monday, September 20, 2004 3:59 PM (2 years ago)

this dude otm

― and what, Thursday, 12 April 2007 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think what really makes Discoveryfor me is that it's got this subtle emotional conflict thing running through the whole album. All the euphoric melancholia and such. It's very emotionally satisfying.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

When Wes Anderson finally figures out this century something off this album will be the theme song.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

If anything my my review at the time underrated this album, which I have held for the past five years or so to be close to perfect.

― Tim F, Thursday, 12 April 2007 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

I think that people should not diss on songs that they dont like. I think that people should be able to like what ever type of music they want . I personally like the daft punks for their music.

― deej, Thursday, 12 April 2007 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hating "Revolution 909" is like hating gold-plated blowjobs that come with free candy.

-- Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, September 21, 2004 8:08 AM (2 years ago)
I think a gold-plated blowjob would probably have a nasty grating whumping noise that would put me off.

-- Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, September 21, 2004 8:15 AM (2 years ago)

haha u guys rule

― deej, Thursday, 12 April 2007 05:58 (nineteen years ago)

Tim's review is so great - gets much closer to expressing what's special about Discovery than anything else I've read, I think.

Anyway we all this album because it appeals to our inner rockist, without offending our pop/dance sensibilities, right? :)

― jabba hands, Thursday, 12 April 2007 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

Appealing to my inner rockist? (I most certainly have an inner rockist, but this isn't something that appeals to it.)

― The Reverend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

i'm joking really. i just mean that Discovery has a lot of the qualities that rock fans value in 'great albums' - thematic unity, narrative structure, this sense that the artist is making a statement - that is maybe part of the reason for its crossover popularity?

― jabba hands, Thursday, 12 April 2007 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

Tim's review =

http://www.awesome-sauce.net/images/awesome-sauce/misc/logo.png

― The Reverend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

we don't all love this album!

though to be fair i've never listened to it because the horrid messy treble and annoying robot voices on daft punk singles have been so off-putting.

― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

and 'digital love' is BORING.

― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

Great great review indeed. Discovery is classic for 'Face to Face' alone (ie. prob my favorite track ever).

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 12 April 2007 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

"and 'digital love' is BORING."

Lex this makes my faint appreciation of "Dakota" pale into signficance.

― Tim F, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

You go on about old ILM being better but we fought wars for this album!

― Tim F, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

i know! and when i discovered this i actually asked someone for an mp3 of this so-called best-song-ever 'digital love', because i knew i'd heard it at the time, but couldn't remember it. and then they did, and i was so underwhelmed, then i deleted it. it was...kind of like that cheesy 'starlight' song from around the same time, but with half the joy/bounce/life/melody, and a more annoying vocal.

i don't actively dislike it though, like i actively hate 'around the world'.

― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

how on earth can you hate daft punk yet like... all the other stuff you like? IT MAEK NO SENSE!

― fandango, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Stop, stop, you're making it worse.

x-post.

― Tim F, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

in fact 'robot rock' is probably my second favourite daft punk single, and i don't even care for it very much :/

― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

You go on about old ILM being better but we fought wars for this album!

and lost to Radiohead googlers!

― blueski, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

from better to bitter

― blueski, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

the lex, whatever the opposite of dropping science is, you are doing it here.

I think Discovery's great triumph is in that it was chart enough for people to dismiss it as disposable pop rubbish. How many dance acts, ever, can say they've done this while still receiving critical acclaim?

― Ronan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

I actively like this album

― RJG, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

whatever the opposite of dropping science is

dropping art?

― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

falling onto the ground?

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

lying under a table unable to get out while forlornly trying to grasp at chips and succeeding in getting no chips at all?

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

asking how to make beans?

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

that indie club in london bridge?

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

^^^ many examples of the opposite of dropping science

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

i have never asked how to make beans!

― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

(I like "Music Sounds Better With You" better than anything off of Discovery)

― HI DERE, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Dan how could you leave this off your list anyway?

― blueski, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

I've never actually heard that whole album.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

i don;t think even Guru Josh has.

― blueski, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Discovery really grew on me at first, but now it's starting to regress. I'm not sure what it is...I just get sick of it from time to time. It's super cheesy, but that doesn't always get in the way of the album. It almost sounds like Motown kind of stuff updated with robots and synths. Have to listen again I think.

― catblender, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, the Lex and I, UNITED AT LAST.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

(I like "Music Sounds Better With You" better than anything off of Discovery)

-- HI DERE, Thursday, 12 April 2007 11:41 (2 hours ago)

this is totally true, but MSBWY > most songs ever

― deej, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, the Lex and I, UNITED AT LAST.

DAFT PUNK WILL BRING US TOGETHER

― HI DERE, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I will, I will, I willllllll

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

This is really crazy. I loved MSBWY at the time but I find it hasn't date so well. 'Face to Face' completely blows it out of the water.

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

"music sounds better with you" is the single most romantic phrase i can imagine! daft punk wish they could evoke a hundredth of that emotion, indeed a hundredth of that sonic pleasure

― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

uh lex ...

― deej, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

daft punk wish they could evoke a hundredth of that emotion, indeed a hundredth of that sonic pleasure

actually they dont, because theyre hugely succesful and have been able to make the music they want to and follow their dreams

although it is true that they have never been to fratton park

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

'face to face'!

wow i used to be obsessed with that track. played it repeatedly, sort of needed to hear it in double or even triple doses.

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

DP have always conveyed euphoria, nostalgia and melancholy rather well. 'Fresh' is a good example from the first album. There's nothing quite like it on 'Discovery' where eveything feels more 'staged' (but to often terrific effect of course). That purer vibe on 'Fresh' is something Braxe & Falke retained while DP took it somewhere else. I don't think DP really got it back on the last album either ('Make Love' is pretty dull).

― blueski, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I'm just a sucker for tide sounds.

― blueski, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006H67M.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

you might like this actually maybe who knows

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

This was the last time I enjoyed an album.

― Groke, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

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