Daft Punk - Human After All

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There is absolutely nothing about "Robot Rock" that reminds me of Ratatat, now RATT is another story!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 January 2005 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't stop playing this song! ROCK! ROBOT ROCK!!! Aargh!

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 21 January 2005 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

After one listen I was humming it to myself all the way back home on the bus. A GOOD SIGN.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 January 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Doing the lead single as something similarly inclined to "One More Time" would have been a wrong move, I think. This is more, how you say if you are 808 State, inyerface.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 January 2005 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah it's great but I definitely think its been chosen as an unexpected lead-in to the album. It sounds like a number 3 track (not a bad thing - "Digital Love" is a number 3 track!). Much more continuity with the Discovery sound than I was expecting; I don't think any of us would have batted an eyelid had it been on that album (again, not a bad thing!).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 21 January 2005 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Some sort of official preview:

http://humanafterall.free.fr/videos/dp.mp4

(no music though)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(play with Quicktime)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0007DAZW8.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone make the CafePress shirts. (Alternately, put an ILXor.com in there in that font.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm quite upset they didn't go for my front cover draft above. I thought mine was far more passionate and cut to the bone regarding the album title.

― donut christ (donut), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU THINK YOU ARE SO ROCK. I unleash the fury fucking on thee. Maybe.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"ROCK"

*squelchy synth funk*

"I'M
SO
ROCK"

*squelchy synth funk excelsior*

― donut christ (donut), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Brian, yesterday:

http://www.dailyvault.com/queen_news.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

the cover of the single is nice

― Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm going to place this 'robot rock' at my grandmothers funeral.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0007DAZW8.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.annrich.com/rich/acdc/blow_up_your_video.jpg

― donut christ (donut), Friday, 21 January 2005 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Needs one of those covers that changes depening on which angle you look at it, so that when you tilt it the two robots burst through the screen like Angus is doing.

― haitch™ (haitch), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Lenticular images, they're called. Good point. Personally I'd settle for Angus himself bursting through the Daft Punk logo.

So long as that nasty staticky hiss isn't present on the actual CD, "Robot Rock" is pretty damn promising...

― telephonething, Friday, 21 January 2005 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

love the handclaps

― adam west (adamwest), Friday, 21 January 2005 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Argh I'm not going to be able to listen to this for another EIGHT HOURS!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 January 2005 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Still sounds good right now! Best heavy metal single of the year so far.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew they wouldn't let me down.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually this is fucking awesome. Best 'dance act go rock' tune I've heard since Orbital's Satan. In fact its better than that.

The Prodigy circa 1997 were never this good. I think what stands this above all other similar tracks is that when most other dance acts bring in the guitars they try and rock out but fundamentally miss the point of rock. Daft Punk hit the nail right on the head. One big stupid insanely catchy riff and everything else takes care of itself.

If people don't go mental when this follows AC/DC tonight then I have lost all faith in our youth.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't wait to dance to this in a club. I almost took my CD-R out of my car to give to a DJ last night, but I got sidetracked.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I predict Stevem's brian exploding as 17,000 mashup ideas all pop into his head at once.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't wait to dance to this in a club. I almost took my CD-R out of my car to give to a DJ last night, but I got sidetracked.

-- Spencer Chow (spencercho...), January 21st, 2005.

It was my DJ pal's birthday yesterday, he was SUPER crushed that I didn't have any blank CDs to burn it. He'll get his tonight, no doubt.

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish i had this in my pocket last night when i went out to a friends club SO BAD IT STINGS.

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Friday, 21 January 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ouch!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

All this amazing new music is making me quite ecstatic. I'm over-posting today.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 January 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

All this amazing new music is making me quite ecstatic.

Yeah, I was thinking about this myself. 2005 seems to have hit the ground running on that front.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 January 2005 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

you are all stupid cunts

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 22 January 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

daft cunts i meant.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 22 January 2005 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that like being in the KISS Army?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 22 January 2005 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Photoshop away.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 January 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's being really over-rated on this thread considering what it actually amounts to. not awful but just not all that, putting it for me in the same class as Prodigy's 'Girls' (*Ronan explodes*) neither higher nor lower.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Saturday, 22 January 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevem in 'meh' reaction to group favourite shocker ;)

Yeah its not up to One More Time/Digital Love standard but still pretty great as far as I'm concerned. This cleared the dancefloor last night, incidentally. I fucking hate people.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 22 January 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i'm not too hot on this. it's nice enough. as tim f said, it sounds like an album track, and might make more sense in context.

SFJ sez the album sounds like a fax machine. tho i'm not sure he's the authority on this kinda thing. house music, that is.

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 22 January 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Breakwaters - "Release The Beast" if you havent already heard it....

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 22 January 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Much more continuity with the Discovery sound than I was expecting

Praise Robot Jesus for that! Still on my no-preview crusade but this humming, can't get it out of (reliable) heads, business sure is wonderful news.

― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 22 January 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

daft punk = god

― tron, Saturday, 22 January 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf! it would take me about 60 minutes and a copy of soundforge to get from that breakwater track to "robot rock". i'm not really sure how i feel about that.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 22 January 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"Robot Rock" = the motherhugging bomb. Just the timbre of that guitar sound, the way it's been processed or edited or whatever. Hmmm, Homework tracks produced like Discovery ones, anybody?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 22 January 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that "human after all" sample up there is bullshit. even on computer speakers it doesn't sound like them. I have another version that's AMAZING, like a combination of homeworky beats/bass with discovery-ish phasored synths over top (so much so that it could just be a really good imitation...) i'll put it up if I can figure out how to use usendit.com

― Elliot (Elliot), Saturday, 22 January 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, this might work:

http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=32RW9Y5W16H1N1UMI46CIV6GFE

― Elliot (Elliot), Saturday, 22 January 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It sounds like Daft Punk, but it certainly doesn't sound like an album-opening track.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 22 January 2005 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, the Breakwater track is illuminating...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 23 January 2005 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

hearing the breakwaters track reminded me of hearing george duke's "i love you more" for the first time a couple years ago.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 23 January 2005 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know if i was just too excited, but i'm just not that impressed with 'robot rock'... it sounds not bad as an album track, but kind of disappointing as a single.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 23 January 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it was cool to hear it at The End last night, even better tho was Erol Alkan opening his set with The Prime Time Of Your Life - OMG the vocoder sounded so good and it's like E.L.O. gone electro-schaffel muthafuckas

― Stevem On X (blueski), Sunday, 23 January 2005 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

cues for Daft Punk's new look...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d733/d733520vw5d.jpg

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 23 January 2005 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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