Daft Punks's "Discovery" : Classic or Dud

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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 (seventeen years ago) link

"and 'digital love' is BORING."

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Stop, stop, you're making it worse.

x-post.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

from better to bitter

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

I actively like this album

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

whatever the opposite of dropping science is

dropping art?

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

falling onto the ground?

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

asking how to make beans?

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

that indie club in london bridge?

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

^^^ many examples of the opposite of dropping science

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

i have never asked how to make beans!

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

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

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

Dan how could you leave this off your list anyway?

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

I've never actually heard that whole album.

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

i don;t think even Guru Josh has.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, the Lex and I, UNITED AT LAST.

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

(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 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, the Lex and I, UNITED AT LAST.

DAFT PUNK WILL BRING US TOGETHER

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

I will, I will, I willllllll

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

uh lex ...

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

'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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe I'm just a sucker for tide sounds.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

This was the last time I enjoyed an album.

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

thats a real shame

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

It doesn't feel like a shame.

― Groke, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

but surely 'Hail To The Thief' Tom...

― blueski, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

ok thats good, it does read a little melancholy though

― 600, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, I phrased it badly. "Enjoyed" is too weak. And the emphasis is in the wrong place.

"The last time I loved an ALBUM" would be closer. I don't know exactly what it was about Discovery that made it such an event, and made me want to like everything about it - every track, every decision they made, everything. But Discovery had it, and no album has since.

That probably sounds even more melancholy. I'm going to the pub now.

― Groke, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

classic

― MRZBW, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

"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

oh no

― Ronan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i stick by that!

tom that does sound v sad. but how much of it was the timing of your decision/realisation not to enjoy/bother with/care about albums (delete as applicable)? i mean, is it the albums, or you?

― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean...i am no repper for the album format but i still think i get that feeling you're talking about on the regular! maybe five times a year, sometimes more, sometimes less? not, it must be said, this year yet, unless ciara counts.

― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

total classic.

― el juan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

(Lex, I think people are making "aw, bless" noises towards you because Stardust was, for all practical intents and purposes, Daft Punk recording under a different name; that's the main reason I brought up the song in the first place, seeing as everyone wanted to go "lol genre" at my other list of albums/acts I thought were better.)

― HI DERE, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

stardust was the pinnacle

― lfam, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

music sounds better with you sounds aight but kinda pussified imho

i like aerodynamic

― and what, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

MSBWY never quite gets going like it should. It needs a climax.

― The Reverend, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

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