Daft Punks's "Discovery" : Classic or Dud

Record Of The Year noms all Brits (bar Krauss) WTF

One of those albums that literally makes me shrink back, tense up, and want to smash my speakers and cover my ears.
― Melissa W, Sunday, May 27, 2001 1:00 AM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh je.

does anyone still express this opinion in public?

"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, April 12, 2007 8:31 AM Bookmark

:D :D :D :D :D

Are you agreeing with the sentiment or smiling at the category error that underlies it?

the latter

151 feva gang "kush groove" is better than all daft punk songs tho, let's not front

truu

still have trouble with everything after "Crescendolls" outside of "Too Long" which is fucking class

yeah alright jordan, lol

lots of this record still stands up well. something like "face 2 face" is secretly one of the best songs ever made.

"face to face" even, not sure why i assumed it was a 2.

still one of my favourite records IMO

don't know why I wrote IMO just there, of course my favourite records are my opinion ;-)

go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go inthrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

i thought that song was golf in the air

love in the air?

gophers

up into the air

oh wait no

alright i'm gonna give this puppy another spinarooney, stay tuned folxxx

Here's Barry Manilow to clarify.

"face to face" is still the best thing on this - Crescentdolls, Short Circuit, etc are the secret keepers once you get past the frontloaded singles

151 feva gang "kush groove" is better than all daft punk songs tho, let's not front

― J0rdan S., Sunday, March 3, 2013 10:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

truu

― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Sunday, March 3, 2013 10:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

smdh get outta here

Dukkadukka-Duh-Duh-Duh
Zoo oh!
Dukkadukka-Duh-Duh-Duh
Mr Pendergrass

high life is killer. this album is very special.

smdh get outta here

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, March 4, 2013 8:47 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm sure our tongues were nowhere near our cheeks

cosign j0rd and rev

"veridis quo" is my favorite on this.
I always prefer their more moody pieces ("emotion", "make love", many tracks on Tron...).

"light it up and get groovy baby" 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

"alright i'm gonna give this puppy another spinarooney, stay tuned folxxx" 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

oh je.

does anyone still express this opinion in public?

Yes.

Meantime

https://soundcloud.com/ck303/theprequel96

Why do you hate it so much Melissa?

I like bits of Discovery but I can totally get in the headspace of people who don't like Discovery. It's repetitive. When there is musical development, it's predictable. It sounds like a digital nightmare. There's side-chain compression everywhere. Unless you're already totally 100% on board with the Daft Punk retro-futurist stripped-down space-disco aesthetic, you won't like Daft Punk.

I enjoy that description of the album but don't know if the conclusion's fair because IMWOYP Daft Punk were a huge gateway electronica 'band' thing

I like bits of Discovery but I can totally get in the headspace of people who don't like Discovery. It's repetitive. When there is musical development, it's predictable. It sounds like a digital nightmare. There's side-chain compression everywhere. Unless you're already totally 100% on board with the Daft Punk retro-futurist stripped-down space-disco aesthetic, you won't like Daft Punk.

― C: (crüt), Saturday, March 9, 2013 1:42 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's way less repetitive than most of its house music influences. How do you mean 'repetitive'?

that's some bullshit. daft punk was awesome when i was a kid and 'repetitive' wasn't even in my musical vocabulary, much less any kind of familiarity with a retro-futurist stripped-down space-disco aesthetic.

daft punk was repetitive to me when I was a kid

lots of music is repetitive

some people don't like music that is too repetitive for them

i hope you're taking notes

your posts are repetitive

:-p

Discovery is way less repetitive than Daft Punk's other albums tho.

xp haaa

Anyway the last sentence of that post was a little off mark, yeah. I was mostly just rattling off some things that characterize Daft Punk's sound/aesthetic that could be divisive. The repetition definitely isn't as heavy on Discovery as their other albums, although I'd still say there are a LOT of repetitive/minimal elements. That's just my perception tho & certainly not something I'd expect e.g. house music heads to agree with.

I just remember getting Discovery in 2001, when I was 13 & not familiar with many different kinds of music, and to me things like "Crescendolls" and "Superheroes" were super repetitive because I wasn't used to music where unrelenting 1-2 bar loops were right at the front of the mix.

n.b. I still thought those songs were cool and exciting. especially "Superheroes" because of the ending.

i think crut's post applies a lot more to Homework which was the first DP album I got. this was like 2003 but I was really into Underworld and Orbital and upon hearing DP my first reaction was "these guys really don't know how to build up a track". of course that is my 17 year old self saying this. I think the truth is that there are certain aspects of DP's house that you really have to buy into and ultimately I don't think they have the talent that Underworld has. Discovery is even more stylized (and to be honest I find it hard to think of a more influential album from the decade - the Discovery sound is everywhere right now), but the good vibes are a lot more front and center. I don't really consider it "repetitive" - at least not in comparison to their other albums! I loved Alive 2007 so much because it injected that sound into the other material.

a lot of people just don't like house music at all

and they will be first against the wall...