Daft Punk Live-Seriously this time.....

Why even formally announce a break up?

especially as seeing this bumped and their trending on Twitter just gave me at least three seconds of "NEW ALBUM?" / "THEY"RE DEAD?!" panic

I mean, I'm guessing they formally announced it so people would quit asking them? I don't know why this is so weird to some folks, I'm guessing they were taking their usual slow pace and didn't know what their future was to be, but have since figured it was a good time to call it. I'd rather have an official announcement than just leave it in limbo.

Plus, now they can reunite.

at least they're not pulling a Blue Man Group thing (renting actors/having several versions of the band on tour simultaneously)

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― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, May 23, 2003 1:47 PM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

one of the all-time great ilx posts

at least they're not pulling a Blue Man Group thing (renting actors/having several versions of the band on tour simultaneously)

tbf there are at least a dozen Daft Punk tribute bands that apparently just show up on stage in costume and play the Alive 2007 CD while pretending to DJ

Re: #DaftPunk. pic.twitter.com/VQ4XWpP4yx

— James ‘Eagle Fang’ Mielke (@LimitedRunJames) February 22, 2021

eh

you had some good stuff, thanks for your input

Who is that guy and why is he writing fanfic about himself

“One time I had a 100% greenlight to make a video game about Daft Punk, and they were really into it and wanted to do it with me, and the only reason it didn’t happen is because even though they really wanted to do it with me, they wouldn’t work with me and refused to let me use their music. Then I beat up a cowboy and had an ice cream.”

“Also I think they are DJs.”

over/under in years vs LCD soundsystem before they reform?

Goodbye then Daft Punk, the rudest most humourless DJs we ever had at @thesociallondon

— Robin Turner (@robinturner) February 22, 2021

Is that what you call a humbleslag?

those frogs...

Da Funk is one of my earliest musical memories.

over/under in years vs LCD soundsystem before they reform?

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, February 22, 2021 1:15 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

That was my first thought!

Maybe it's just my timeline, but it's been weird to see this spin that RAM was a terrible album or something. It wasn't their greatest and I'd be fine never hearing any of the singles ever again, but I thought it had a lot of great moments.

Maybe it's just my timeline, but it's been weird to see this spin that RAM was a terrible album or something. It wasn't their greatest and I'd be fine never hearing any of the singles ever again, but I thought it had a lot of great moments.

I didn't give it a good listen back in the day - the two biggest singles were all I really listened to again - but someone posted the Grammy AOY acceptance and it's kind of WTF moment for anyone unfamiliar with the album. Like, cool, there's Nile Rodgers, but is that Paul Williams of the Muppet Movie fame? Was this his album?

I think it's a fine record, miles ahead of Humans After All, but not quite on par with Homework and Discovery, which was always an impossible task.

stilt in the wings (sic) at 11:56 22 Feb 21

Who is that guy and why is he writing fanfic about himself

ex EGM writer who moved into development long ago, works at Q Entertainment for Tetsuya Mizuguchi. worked on Lumines a pretty brilliant puzzle/music game hybrid. assuming the DP project was going to be an offshoot of that

Daft Punk was both a revelation in their own right and a gateway to so much music that shaped me.

Here's a mix from 2013 that relaunched Musicophilia after a hiatus, in tribute to their 'Random Access Memories,' of music that might well have shaped them:https://t.co/3xeLBPjztS pic.twitter.com/1DhWvRwIK8

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) February 22, 2021

I LOVE the stretch on Random Access Memories with the Todd Edwards and Panda Bear songs back to back. Other than that, it's good-not-great

xpost

I looked again and he said it Lumines, Ubisoft was the international publisher of Lumines so it makes sense he would have pitched them

Maybe it's just my timeline, but it's been weird to see this spin that RAM was a terrible album or something.

I've been pretty vocal since the album's release about how much I hate it

if they were cynically going to break up just to reform for big bucks, why wouldn't they have done it five years ago? i mean it could still happen but it doesn't seem calculated (like the lcd soundsystem "break up" did)

Comeback album to be called Daft's Not Dead.

Dafty Duck

I have really strong (not good) opinions and thoughts about RAM, I could write a whole self-righteous wire-on-zappa essay

ram still owns

the fact that they've only made 4 albums & haven't really toured since 2007 kinda implies they aren't coming back

Probably my biggest musical regret is not seeing them live in 2007.

Discovery
Homework

Alive 2007
Essential Mix

RAM

Human After All

yeah would've loved to see one of those 2007 shows. Alive 2007 is pretty much the only thing of theirs that I still listen to

I know the Essential Mix isn't an album and I know they have other live mixes in circulation but I have played the Essential Mix too many times to count and consider it worthy of ranking

LCD said “we’re going to keep working together and will play live again, but this is the end of a big album / tour cycle so here’s a hometown show in a 3,000 cap room walking distance from our homes, before we go off to do less prominent stuff for a while” wow so cynical, what a ripoff

(then scalpers and bots bought all the tickets, so they added a show for real fans, then scakpers and bots bought them all

(then they added and sold out three more shows and had to end up playing Madison Square Garden as the sixth (19,000 cap) just to sell legit tickets to meet demand. that old cynical trick of professional musicians selling tickets to watch them perform.)

the fact that they've only made 4 albums & haven't really toured since 2007 kinda implies they aren't coming back

Not necessarily. Touring aside, it was eight years between HAA and RAM, so it wouldn't have been that unfathomable that we could have seen another new record.

Human After All is by far the worst album but so many of its tracks were effective in Alive 2007 when mashed up with other things. "Steam Machine" is borderline unlistenable on its own but when overlaid on "Too Long" and segued into "Around the World"... so good

justice 4 human after all, "steam machine" rules

Man, the whole (de)evolution of LCD critical appraisal is so weird to me and another topic for another day. Things went really rapidly from "hey, maybe LCD was slightly overrated" to "LCD was always terrible and everything they do is awful".

maybe this is a dumb question but how much of their live show was "live"? i.e. what are they actually doing up there on the stage beside dance around?

Absolutely, skip otm. HAA is still my least favorite of their records, but seeing that 2007 show really warmed me to large chunks of it.

LCD said “we’re going to keep working together and will play live again, but this is the end of a big album / tour cycle so here’s a hometown show in a 3,000 cap room walking distance from our homes, before we go off to do less prominent stuff for a while” wow so cynical, what a ripoff

(then scalpers and bots bought all the tickets, so they added a show for real fans, then scakpers and bots bought them all

(then they added and sold out three more shows and had to end up playing Madison Square Garden as the sixth (19,000 cap) just to sell legit tickets to meet demand. that old cynical trick of professional musicians selling tickets to watch them perform.)

― stilt in the wings (sic), Monday, February 22, 2021 1:42 PM (twenty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

cool except you left out the relevant bit when they reunited five years after "breaking up" which is what multiple people have been claiming daft punk is setting up to do

skip, the various 2006/2007 shows are definitely different. elements get repeated, stretched, added and removed, even though the basic structure remains the same

Not necessarily. Touring aside, it was eight years between HAA and RAM, so it wouldn't have been that unfathomable that we could have seen another new record.

for sure, I was half-expecting them to announce something soon-ish, but I can't think of too many bands that went inactive for years and THEN said "yeah, we're splitting" which then reformed 5 years later

LCD said “we’re going to keep working together and will play live again

LCD Soundsystem is a different situation entirely, their music was sort of based on this notion of "lets enjoy this moment in time because nothing lasts" which I think colored how people perceived their reformation

there are a million articles from the time of the break up and the time of the reunion that frame what happened as a "break up" or the band quitting, including quotes from murphy using those words