Daft Punks's "Discovery" : Classic or Dud

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Oh and yeah it's me not the albums - technology caught up to how I was consuming music anyway and the format could be happily discarded. So "Discovery"'s specialness is kind of accidental but that doesn't make me love it less.

― Groke, Friday, 13 April 2007 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in the same boat with albums. I never listen to any hardly.

Last week there was a bbq in my house and someone was like "oh let me have a look at your ipod, I'll put something on", and I had to just say "er...ok" then it was "radio 11/04/2006, radio 11/5/2007, what is this?".

― Ronan, Friday, 13 April 2007 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

yeah technology is probably key, already at home i hardly listen to albums - or more usually i cherrypick 4-5 songs at a time - but as long as i have a convenient 45-min commute and no ipod i think i will retain some sort of attachment to the album format!

― lex pretend, Friday, 13 April 2007 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

"while people are saying George Michael is ok, I should add I thought that Luomo lite track "Amazing" he did was nice radio music. I saw a guy singing it in a chipper before to a girl and suddenly realised how horrible and sleazy and insincere the vocal is in it, "I think you're amaaaziiing". Still used to leave it on when it came on the radio though."

This is true! Ha ha Luomo lite that's great.

― Tim F, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'm weirdly faithful to the album (or especially album-mix) format, probably for the same reason Lex is. I listen to music mostly while commuting, and with no ipod it's too bothersome to change things regularly.

― Tim F, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

oh its not that im an album person either, most of the music i like has traditionally never appeared on albums, maybe it was just the way you wrote it seemed v melancholy, though i guess maybe for you tom, you were more of an album person in the past and things changed?

im either a) not sure how well carnival has dated, b) wonder if i liked it that much in the first place, c) wonder if its one of those things that is right for a time and then loses its appeal (for me) later

i think its probably c, with a touch of b. that kind of period of dance music was a period where i did feel out of step a bit, a touch of that feeling of subconsciously trying to like things. im not sure when the tided turned back to loving it...obviously it was plip-plop in some form, but i wonder what

i think it might have been

Argy - Love Dose!

― 600, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

^^^ love dose seems kinda forgotten now, but that was a massive tune!

― 600, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

I was feeling melancholy yesterday for work reasons: a quick pint sorted them out.

I was an album person until about 1993. Then I would still buy albums but would put the stuff I liked on mixtapes, and listen to those: I have about 60 or so C90s which are basically a "musical diary" I suppose. That coincided with me listening to a lot more non-album music too. And then the MP3 playlist model came along and meant I didn't need to keep making the C90s (though I wish I'd kept up with it as the old tapes are fascinating to me now).

― Groke, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

(I've adored a bunch of albums since Discovery came out but they've all been by Basement Jaxx, Tool and The Cure.)

― HI DERE, Friday, 13 April 2007 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Carnival" definitely hasn't aged well.

― Ronan, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

but 'Discovery' has? that would be curious.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still an album person though arguably my reviewing work means a lot to the allegiance of the form. That said I also like contemplative continuous moods in general -- so I'm fond of mixes, VERY fond of them. iPod shuffle format is my intentional counterpart to all this because of the randomness, but I don't use that for casual listening per se, at least not yet.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

which club tracks from 2002 have aged well after 5 years? 'Transition' maybe (sounded somehow 'retro' at the time)...but what European stuff?

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

'emerge'!

― lex pretend, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

george michael on that avalanches song is pretty awesome

/obviously

― deej, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

'emerge'!

-- lex pretend, Friday, April 13, 2007 10:56 AM (3 minutes ago)

lol

― and what, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I remember when I thought Fischerspooner were a joke Momus had invented. (Still probably the case.)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

the stuff that has REALLY aged badly is things like Audio Bullys 'Real Life' and 'We Don't Care' - more than electroclash stuff.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

i was into electroclash soooo much more than daft punk :D

ahh miss kittin, felix &c...

'rippin kittin' still AMAZING. anna-marie and i still dj it out.

steve those things sounded dated and crap at the time.

― lex pretend, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

you know, as a retro thing

― lex pretend, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

re kittin

― lex pretend, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

yea im not sure we can count emerge as dance music. or as any good

i like rippin kittin from that time, but i guess that was electroclash/indies time in the sun.

― 600, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I loved a bunch of ABs and FC Kahuna stuff in 01/02. The former's shit ratio went from 50/50 to 100/0 after that (but too bad Dinsdale didn't produce the Streets second and third albums) while FC Kahuna just seemed to disappear altogether.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

But by 'aged badly' I can only go by 'stuff I loved at the time but don't now' rather than 'tracks that were fashionable then but don't really get made now' which I assume is the case with 'Carnival' (people still like it but no desire for more stuff like that)?

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

dunno i was thinking it sounds kind of thin production wise. i kinda thought that about a lot of that stuff at the time, i think thats why i was kinda not really so much into dance music around that time

― 600, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

no thinner than Braxe & Falke stuff.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I might as well drop this on here - is anyone interested in my side project of mashing up transformers the movie with discovery? if so, how many of you are going to be at EMP?

― BleepBot, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

mental note: steal his idea

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Comic book guy: Question: is your name Ridley Scott or James Cameron?
Homer: No, it's Homer.
Comic book guy: Then I would thank you to stop peering at my
screenplay, Homer. And if I see a movie where
computers threaten our personal liberties, I will know
you have stolen my idea.
Homer: But I'm just waiting for my kid.
[thinking] Mental note -- steal his idea.

― and what, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

sorry i just realized you were referencing that lol

― and what, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

idea is done - should be going up on youtube in the very near future... digital love + robots fishing = amazing!

― BleepBot, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Digital Love = general shots of Arcee
Night Vision = Optimus death scene?

Harder Better Faster Stronger for the Galvatron, Scourge and Cyclonus creation scene would be awesome

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

if so, how many of you are going to be at EMP?

Wait, who are you?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

HE IS HALLE BERRY

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

trust me, iz pretty beautiful! "Nightvision" plays under the Optimus death scene, so on and so forth...I'll let you guys know when I post it online

> Wait, who are you?

Is this the RIAA speaking? ;-)

I'm actually not going to be at EMP, but would like to in the future. I can just drop a couple DVDs off with my Stylus buddies...

― BleepBot, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Grammys, ahead of the curve as usual, just now nominated "Harder Better Faster Stronger."

http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/51st_Show/list.aspx

― Eric H., Thursday, 4 December 2008 02:50 (seventeen years ago)

hahahaha, i love the grammys, i have never encountered anything more disconnected from basically the entire world

― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 4 December 2008 02:51 (seventeen years ago)

Record Of The Year
(Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s), if other than the artist.)

Chasing Pavements
Adele
Eg White, producer; Tom Elmhirst & Steve Price, engineers/mixers
Track from: 19
[XL Recordings/Columbia]

Viva La Vida
Coldplay
Markus Dravs, Brian Eno & Rik Simpson, producers; Michael Brauer & Rik Simpson, engineers/mixers
Track from: Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
[Capitol Records]

Bleeding Love
Leona Lewis
Simon Cowell, Clive Davis & Ryan "Alias" Tedder, producers; Craig Durrance, Phil Tan & Ryan "Alias" Tedder, engineers/mixers
[J Records/SYCO Music]

Paper Planes
M.I.A
Diplo, producer; Switch, engineer/mixer
Track from: Kala
[Interscope]

Please Read The Letter
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
T Bone Burnett, producer; Mike Piersante, engineer/mixer
Track from: Raising Sand
[Rounder]

― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 4 December 2008 02:52 (seventeen years ago)

lolololol its like jackie harvey but real life

― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Thursday, 4 December 2008 02:52 (seventeen years ago)

Grammys, ahead of the curve as usual, just now nominated "Harder Better Faster Stronger."

From the 2007 live album, obviously.

― ilxor, Thursday, 4 December 2008 07:29 (seventeen years ago)

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

― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2008 12:17 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

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?

― caek, Monday, 4 March 2013 01:31 (thirteen 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, April 12, 2007 8:31 AM Bookmark

:D :D :D :D :D

― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Monday, 4 March 2013 03:11 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Tim F, Monday, 4 March 2013 03:51 (thirteen years ago)

the latter

― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Monday, 4 March 2013 04:02 (thirteen years ago)

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

― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 March 2013 04:05 (thirteen years ago)

truu

― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Monday, 4 March 2013 04:06 (thirteen years ago)

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

― frogbs, Monday, 4 March 2013 05:05 (thirteen years ago)

yeah alright jordan, lol

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 4 March 2013 07:57 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Monday, 4 March 2013 11:24 (thirteen years ago)

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