Daft Punk - Human After All

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I think Make Love may be my favorite track. It's like the Bjork "All is Full of Love" video... only it's a song! And the right one this time! And not by Bjork!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I suppose that thin sliver btwn proper tracky dance track and catchy pop tune is where that seam of dafty punky gold is, and props to them for inventing it cos I'm not sure it was there before. The Jaxx don't even attempt that balancing act anymore (tho they once did with that Samba stuff, it seems like).

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))

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the HBFS vocal beats 'Technicolour', if only for the way they separate it all and then re-assemble it one thread

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

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

retail outlets where one of the managers has a european boyfriend
:')

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized by my description there's no daylight btwn them and Norman Cook! Well I will give this a listen anyhow, sure enough.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized by my description there's no daylight btwn them and Norman Cook!

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

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

(but it's a fine one for the US where this stuff doesn't get played outside specialist places

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

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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.

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.

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I quite enjoyed listening to this on the train this morning, but I still consider Daft Punk to be the most overrated-by-ILM artists there is.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe nobody is with me on the perfection of the title track. I can't get over it and listen to it almost hourly.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

is this up on the web somewhere?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, besides slsk.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Spencer, I'm with you on the perfection! Every time I finish the album, I have to jump two times out of joy; the first jump because of the overall goodness, the second because it's Human After All-time!

― JakeWithBrain!, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3O4IK5GXESTQK2XT3QHYQXRSFE

Cop it while it's hot

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh Spencer i've been praising the title track plenty!

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan's Ivan Smagghe comment on Steam Machine has almost undone the damage caused by all those NIN comparisons.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought the Jaxx crossed the line between themselves and DP when they remixed 'Automatic' For The Pointer Sisters.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

that was just a little bootleg thing tho right? i need to get a copy back actually. i get the impression DP are quite snobby about bootlegs, maybe even seeing it as 'beneath them'

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh fuck - 'Make Love' has just come on my iPod as I sit having my lunch at my office desk and there are tears down my cheeks again. This is ridiculous! What is it that this track is doing to me?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yes! I've only ever heard like two daft punk songs ever anyway (maybe I'm one of the dudes tracer ws talking about) (hi tracer!) so this is like candy covered gamecubes to me!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

daft punk!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I have now giving up trying to work out if I heard, or remember hearing 'Robot Rock' and 'The Prime Time Of Your Life' at Bugged Out on Saturday, but both tracks make me think of that night, and weird happiness, in some sense-memory way, be it false sense-memory syndrome or not.

I absolutely love this album up to 'The Brainwasher' and then it peters out for me, at the moment, anyway.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

is this what the other albums sound like?!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

a little, in parts, at times.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Human After All - for dance fans who like looking at pictures of guitars but haven't figured out why.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

that's Dance with a capital D you silly

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i think that this album is great. it's actually easier to listen to the whole way through than Discovery. however i do like that the album allegedly made by robots was the one with all the restlessness and eccentric songwriting and huge range of sonic ideas, and the one made by humans is the one built entirely out of loops and the exact same sounds. i will believe that this is daft punk's ironic intention. a good robot would never spend as little as 6 weeks on something as important as a new daft punk album.

as for danceability, on the whole this album defintely seems much better designed for clubs than Discovery.

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Beh. This album is a Dance album like Hey Ya is a Hiphop song. And it's a pop album like I am Marie of Rumania. Now if it was half the length, with all of the songs abandonded exactly at the halfway mark, then we'd be talking..

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i admit that i am very hopeful for some huge remixes

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew, I agree that the tracks may be a little overlong considering what they are/do - nothing unbearably long tho. a big part of Discovery's success for me was keeping everything short and sweet with the exception of 'Too Long' which takes 'le peess'. It is mostly very good dance music tho (as well as good Dance Music).

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Title track is great but what does it MEAN?

Are the robots playing cool, still thinking they're humans trying to fit in and saying it like "well, we are human, after all"

or have the robots discovered that they have actually been humans all along AND is this a good or bad thing?

― jsk baby (jsk baby), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I blame 9/11

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll take your word for what goes down on the dance floor, I just can;t imagine any of these moving a crowd unmixed, and isn't that what dance music is all about in the end (cut to Ronan mailing me a stick of dynamite)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I just listened to this (thanks for the download, Stevem). "Technologic" and "Make Love" are decent. "Robot Rock" kind of misses the dynamic pipes of Kurtis Blow but will make the backdrop of a great mash-up. "Emotion" would be great as the extended intro to a disco version of "Tracks Of My Tears."

Anybody who doesn't hear ten albums they enjoy more than this this year is a sucker.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I just can;t imagine any of these moving a crowd unmixed

i can assure you 'Primetime...' went down well enough at The End as an opening track in Alkan's set. The unmixed criticism would apply to a huge amount of tracks but I'm not convinced it's a solid criticism - unless you're saying clubs other than house/techno/electro/etc. nights should leave it alone? hmm.

Miccio i guarantee i will enjoy Human After All more than your ten favourite albums of this year ;)

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

If I had a capella mix of Ozzy's vocal I'd try to make a mash-up of "Make Love" and "Crazy Train." For some reason I think it would work (might be wrong about the key).

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Miccio i guarantee i will enjoy Human After All more than your ten favourite albums of this year ;)

Compare to Nellie McKay: No contest :-)

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

an a capella mix

i got your emoticon right here, bitchez

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I will say this album has given me the strength to say that I Am A Basement Jaxx Fan. I may think entire albums are overrated, but individual tracks off all three albums turn everything on this wafer to cinder.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

daft punk has been my favorite band ever since I saw the video to da funk at 13-14 years of age. never have I anticipated an album more than this one so it saddens me when I have to say it's a complete let down for me. what I've always liked about dp is that their albums have both these cold, "dark" and unpleasant songs AND the opposite of that. but this album only consists of the latter. take me to the fucking disco cause that's where I want to be. and where's the pop? where's the naiveness? the romanticism? the beauty? this album is all cold and lifeless. I'm crying as I'm writing this. I feel so lost.

now I put all my faith in the coming avalanches album.

― Lovelace, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

'Make Love' and 'Emotion' seem quite the opposite of cold, dark and unpleasant.

Where's the pop? the title track, Robot Rock

where's the naiveness? Television Rules The Nation, the use of the same sounds throughout, the monotony?

Where's the romanticism? Make Love, Emotion

The beauty? All around

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM. please don't cry.

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm crying as I'm writing this. I feel so lost.

Please don't cry over an album.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I'll give you Emotion as being the opposite of cold dark and unpleasant but it's not a good song.

Robot Rock is a really boring rock song.

I guess I want cutesy naiveness (as in Digital Love for example) which Television Rules the Nation is not.

Meh. This album just doesnt make me feel anything. I guess that's the worst criticism you can give and I'm sorry to say it.

― Lovelace, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I have now giving up trying to work out if I heard, or remember hearing 'Robot Rock' and 'The Prime Time Of Your Life' at Bugged Out on Saturday

Remember, when Alkan came on, I grabbed you and Steve and screamed "DAFT PUNK, MOTHERFUCKERS" and you both smiled and started grooving robotically.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The video for 'Robot Rock' MUST feature Thomas as Larry Blackmon and Guy-Thomas as Roger from Xapp!.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Or Guy-Man. Or Guy from Neighbours.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, I meant to say that make love is a boring song. emotion is quite alright actually.

― Lovelace, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

FIVE
FIVE OH ONE

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

my friend and I are doing a shoegazery cover of "emotion" friday night. we're totally keeping the simple-yet-completely-tear-jerking beat.

Lovelace, how many times have you listened to the album? because i felt a lot like you do on the first 2 listens or so, but goddamn if HAA hasn't completely grown on me.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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