Daft Punk - Human After All

Ah well, I think exactly the opposite, Dan. But we Boston folk must stick together! Otherwise we'll never get rid of the stench of Aerosmith.

04. Steam Machine - hotttttttttxxxxxxxxxxx
05. Make Love - afterglowmeltdown

06. PISTONPUMPINGASLIIDILSALJFLEIFJE!!!!!!

I AM THE BRAINWASHAAAAA!!!

I was in Barcelona all weekend and although Mark P was kind enough to mail me a link I couldn't download anything obviously.

The vision of her cat and dog being named "Ronan" and "Blount" terrifies my soul.

1. ural 13 diktators
2. kitbuilders
3. bangkok impact

i'm sure vahid and stirmonster and finney and ronan and others can add more. this is not a dis, just a shout out for all the poor alter egos of this world who don't get 680-post threads about them!

I am only listening to the new record for the first time now, btw.

Mind you, it took me several years to appreciate Lil' Louis's "French Kiss" when it first came out in 1989. Some of the tracks here might fall under that category.

..ok, sorry. carry on...

Today, however, cranking it up at work, I get the feeling these songs are all riff. The kind of stuff that should be used take to the stage in concert to hype up the crowd. They don't go anywhere after the initial adrenaline rush.

Maybe context is all and I need to experience it in a crowd.

i guess the weird thing for me is that DP are proper dance music. yet people who wouldn't go within 10 feet of proper dance music love them. i.e. if alter ego's "rocker" gets mislabelled as a daft punk song it might find a home in the tottering stacks of student CDs but not until then!

I have just come home and listened to three more tracks on the way.

'Steam Machine' is better than 'Steam' by East 17 and by Peter Gabriel and is possibly equal to or better than 'Love Machine' by Girls Aloud.

The opening strains of 'Make Love' made my eyes wet. I wasn't expecting this, and then I thought it would change and go all kitschy or something, but it didn't. Lovely.

'The Brainwasher' is high octane adrenaline rush again, yes. I like it when Daft Punk go all rock. I was not that enthralled when big beat drew on rock, because it was all a bit 'rooarrr' beery jump around for me. There's something meaner and dirtier about the way DP do it. Like the best of later Prodigy I guess, but less ridiculous.

I think it's a far better vocal than "Harder Better Faster Stronger", partly cos I sense there's a bit of smirking there. I mean I don't know how many layers of irony are there, possibly several!

I don't know if it's just "Emotion" (unintentional pun) but I've just listened to this for the second time and am really loving it, plus I get the feeling it's going to yield alot more on repeated listens.

I don't like to say "it's not as good as Homework or Discovery" because I can't even group those two albums together in my head. There's a unique charm to Daft Punk that no matter what they do seems to shine through.

This record is alot darker than the others, and yet at the same time I can't listen without a lop-sided grin appearing every few seconds, like for example when the bass drum and the sort of steam-whistle come in in "Emotion".

I guess in summary, and this is a very early stage still, this album still leaves me feeling that the way in which Daft Punk see the world or make it appear, has this real magic to it.

Me upthread :)

OTM!!!

I can totally imagine Ivan Smagghe playing it, slow and menacing!
-- Ronan (ronan.fitzgerald6NOSPA...), January 25th, 2005.

OTM!!

I love Bangkok Impact.

-- teeny (teen...) (webmail), January 25th, 2005 10:48 PM. (teeny)"

otm!!! But you forgot :3

That's not what it looked like...

Mind you, I feel the same way. Less time in the main room, more time with PsychoPab, getting my toes stepped on, more Pro Plus, not being late, feeling better.

I need the last 4 tracks - this is still fun and 'Robot Rock' is essential bounce.

A bit the way Trans-Am found that overlap between Lightning Bolt and techno.

I am going to get it for that aren't it.

(ps yeah Rocker is a bad example in the UK (but it's a fine one for the US where this stuff doesn't get played outside specialist places, the occasional tv-ad backing track, and gyms or retail outlets where one of the managers has a european boyfriend))

any disappointment i have about this album is not as strong as the delight i feel that it's HERE and NOW, tho i will probably be taking the 'more sounds, less loops' complaint to my grave

This is very apt considering what "Robot Rock" sounds like.

I misread this as 'socialist places'. "We'll keep the Rocker flying".

Never have truer words been spoken on ILM. :) That's why those "what about 99 Shaolin Techno Monks, they do this better" style comments puzzle me. I mean that may be true on a technical level, but obviously none of them have this...touch, charisma even? that Daft Punk have.

Good to see 'Make Love' getting...uhm...some love.