POLLin’ & Scratchin' - ILM Artist Poll #113 - DAFT PUNK (Results Thread)

I have had some friends show up and we are going to go out, so ILM will have a rare Saturday finish of a poll. I will sleep in a bit so poll will resume approximately one hour later then these last few days.

Wait ... did "Music Sounds Better" not place?!

Oh wait, there's six slots left. Whew!

here is this with a bit of a bonus

6	One More Time (featuring Romanthony)	831	24	2
7	Aerodynamic	679	21	1
8	Face To Face  (featuring Todd Edwards)	671	19	
9	Revolution 909	554	16	1
10	Voyager	496	16	
11	Get Lucky (featuring Pharrell Williams)	461	13	
12	Alive	450	15	
13	Something About Us	407	13	
14	Veridis Quo	406	14	1
15	Fresh	381	12	1
16	Musique	351	11	1
17	Instant Crush (featuring Julian Casablancas)	342	12	
18	High Life	315	12	
19	Human After All	311	10	
20	Burnin'	310	11	
21	Fragments of Time (featuring Todd Edwards)	300	11	
22	Rollin' & Scratchin'	299	14	
23	Crescendolls	297	11	
24	So Much Love To Give - Together	297	9	
25	Superheroes	294	11	
26	I Feel It Coming - The Weeknd	274	9	
27	Phoenix	271	10	
28	Holiday On Ice - Le Knight Club	222	9	
29	Lose Yourself To Dance (featuring Pharrell Williams)	215	8	
30	Too Long (featuring Romanthony)	213	8	
31	Teachers	201	8	
32	Together - Together	198	6	
33	Give Life Back To Music	194	7	
34	Short Circuit	188	6	
35	Make Love	177	7	
36	Giorgio by Moroder	177	6	
37	Starboy - The Weeknd	175	7	
38	Technologic	172	7	
39	Doin' It Right (featuring Panda Bear)	168	6	
40	Mothership Reconnection (Daft Punk Remix) - Scott Grooves	165	5	
41	Daftendirekt	160	6	
42	Motherboard	159	6	
43	Touch (featuring Paul Williams)	158	6	
44	Robot Rock	157	7	
45	Spinal Scratch - Thomas Bangalter 	156	6	
46	Nightcall - Kavinsky featuring Lovefoxxx	154	5	
47	Contact	150	5	
48	High Fidelity	144	5	
49	Chord Memory (Daft Punk Remix) - Ian Pooley	129	4
50	Life is Sweet (Daft Punk Remix) - The Chemical Brothers	118	4
51	Rock'n Roll	115	4
52	Mirage - Le Knight Club	105	4
53	Call On Me - Together (Eric Prydz)	104	3
54	Within	100	4
55	Too Long / Steam Machine (Alive 2007)	100	3
56	Derezzed	99	4
57	Touch It / Technologic (Alive 2007)	97	3
58	Coral Twist - Le Knight Club	96	3
59	Gym Tonic (Thomas Bangalter Mix)- Bob Sinclar	96	3
60	Signatune (Thomas Bangalter Edit) - DJ Mehdi	94	3
61	Colossus - Thomas Bangalter	90	3
62	Ventura - Thomas Bangalter	89	3
63	Human After All / Together / One More Time / Music Sounds Better with You [Alive 2007]	86	3
64	Superheroes/Human After All/Rock'n Roll  (Alive 2007)	85	3
65	Santa Claus - Le Knight Club	83	3
66	Forget About the World (Daft Punk Remix) - Gabrielle  	82	3
67	Nymphae Song - Le Knight Club	82	3
68	Indo Silver Club	76	3
69	Around the World / Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Alive 2007)	71	2
70	Playground - Crydajam	70	3
71	The Game of Love	69	3
72	Beyond	68	3
73	Robot Rock / Oh Yeah (Alive 2007)	67	3
74	The Prime Time of Your Life	64	3
75	Gator - Le Knight Club	60	2

shit, the Bonus was supposed to be 61 - 75 and NOT number 6.

haha, I was thinking that that might be #1!

With that spoiler for #6 here's what I'm thinking is left (no particular order):

Da Funk
Music Sounds Better With You
Digital Love
Harder Better Faster Stronger
Around the World

I'm guessing my #1 is not going to be the collective's #1

btw Nymphae Song is WAAYYYYYYYYY too low

"One More Time" is absolutely fantastic, top-notch, great. But it does not deserve to be higher than "Music Sounds Better With You" so I'm fine with it's 6th place ranking.

yes agree

it looks like most of the individual #1s are clustered in the top 5

I was trying to guess which one missed the Top 5 and "One More Time" was my pick. I only had it at 18 on my ballot, but I probably should've put it higher. It's the only one of the big ones I've kind of tired of. But it's still an incredible album opener.

RSD prep at work meant I couldn't play along today. Excellent results. No complaints at all really. Big surprise at Instant Crush making it but it was on my list. It wouldn't sound out of place on Comedown Machine aka the second best Strokes album. Get Lucky at 11 seems about right. It's strange to think it won our poll for that year. I doubt it'll do as well when we finally do our 2010s poll. Same for the album.

Did every song from Discovery make the top 60 then? Hoping Digital Love is number one, but any of those songs would be worthy.

I guess the backlash is warranted for a song that was as hyped as "Get Lucky", but goddamn if that song song didn't go straight to my amygdala the first time I heard the teaser clip.

"get lucky" isn't bad but it's been overplayed and overrated to death, it's nowhere near deserving of all the 'song of the year' accolades it got

the extended mix on the album weirdly makes it worse too, just doesn't flow anywhere near as well

I can still enjoy Get Lucky now but yeah, it did lose some of the magic after being everywhere for so long. I do still think about how exciting those teaser clips were. It was a perfect single campaign.

One of the ONLY single campaigns I can really remember tbh.

"get lucky" isn't bad but it's been overplayed and overrated to death, it's nowhere near deserving of all the 'song of the year' accolades it got

i prefer the first three basement jaxx albums to any daft punk album, but daft punk hit higher highs with their best singles

certainly a shame they ended up somehow missing out on canonisation despite being critically adored at the time

As much as I then preferred BJ (and might still), their super-sized tracks sound a lot more dated now than DP's.

It's true that they definitely didn't age as well. (but maybe if they'd spent $30k on LED helmets we'd be doing a BJ poll)

I just listened to Kish Kash a few days ago. It's still brilliant.

Red Alert still sounds great!

i want to attribute the canonization to the fact that Homework had such self confidence and swagger for a debut album
but in reality it was likely Discovery which was the beginning of them abandoning some of the directions Homework pursued

but did they ever have anything as subtle as Revolution 909? i wish they did

Did every song from Discovery make the top 60 then?

Pour one out for "Nightvision"

“Nymphae Song” was my only Le Knight Club track on my ballot, think it’s the best one of the bunch, although “Boogie Shell” is pretty great too. “Holiday On Ice” is good but really too similar to “Around The World”, might as well be called a remix of that.

I didn’t vote for any of the mashups. Enjoyable but so many DJs have made excellent mashups in livesets and bootlegs - the Stuntmasterz mashup of “Holiday” and “Music Sounds Better With You” would probably beat all of the Alive ones for me.

Just realised, “Paris By Night” and “Shock Rock” not even making top 75, wow.

So One More Time is #6? That feels right to me, as it didn’t make my ballot. I can certainly appreciate that it’s a classic and worthy of belonging in the upper echelons of the DP canon. But from the first time I heard it, the song has always felt like the most one dimensional and transparent play for the dance floor (compared even to Homework) in their catalogue.

I'd call even some of their best songs one-dimensional but strong enough in that dimension to stand repeated listens

Fair.

Ok, somehow I didn’t know Music Sounds Better With You at all. It’s kind of wild this is going to place top 5 in this poll, and I’m enjoying this but … really, one of the best songs of the 90s?

I do maybe like it better than One More Time. And, holy shit is the Gondry video great. So …

"music sounds better with you" is surely heavily responsible for "love at first sight" which is like the best song ever so at the very least it deserves a ton of credit for that

Fair.

Ok, somehow I didn’t know Music Sounds Better With You at all. It’s kind of wild this is going to place top 5 in this poll, and I’m enjoying this but … really, one of the best songs of the 90s?

I do maybe like it better than One More Time. And, holy shit is the Gondry video great. So …

― Naive Teen Idol

I guess it doesn’t sound as impactful as an adult in 2022, hearing it as a teenager in 1998 was mindblowing though.

At this point it sounds like it’s been done a million times, in 1998 it sounded like it came from another dimension.

Also yeah video is a classic.

I didn’t vote in the poll and loving results so far, but hope Stardust wins it. It’s either that one or “around the world” for me. Those are the ones that best define their sound imho and were really something else at their time of release.

Now that my top 3 have all placed I hope either Stardust or Digital Love win

Tried to post a few times on the Flagging app over the last couple of days but it wouldn't let me so sorry to miss so much of the rundown.

Gutted to see Colossus and Ventura just miss out - probably my two favourite solo Bangalter tracks

And I thought Crydajam's 'If You Give Me The Love I Want' would do deservedly better given it was boosted on the initial thread.

from what i saw de homem-christo didn't actually contribute to it - he only worked on "playground" out of the crydajam tracks - so i didn't end up considering it for my ballot

Yeah, as soon as I heard it “Music Sounds Better With You” was instantly top song of the decade, and hasn’t lost any of its power since.

I voted for both Colossus and Ventura (and also Outrun) xps

Good to see Face To Face so high up. And Something About Us.

I'm going through that top 75 giving all of the tracks that didn't make my ballot another listen - wow that DJ Mehdi remix is a total banger. Still baffled by the non-placement of the Bangalter Rock Shock remix, it was a big hit during the prime Daft Punk era, do people really dislike it that much?

I don't remember it from the time but having watched that video, which is tbf a sub optimal way to experience the track, I can say that yes I do dislike it that much

I will add to the MSBWY praise, even though it hasn't placed yet. It was so so huge when it came out, at least where I'm from. It was kind of like Homework but slightly poppier and it just hit the perfect spot. I feel like One More Time tried to build on that and went slightly overboard.

ILM Daft Punk: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7oQ8eZrvlYaxcy6Bw49tpy?si=dsKWUC30TgCsTlQcHHD4Rg

Spotify is updated and thanks to those who have been staying on top of that. It's going to be a great playlist.

https://i.imgur.com/4R8UaWR.png

6. One More Time (featuring Romanthony)
From: Discovery
Single Released: 13 November 2000
831 Points, 24 Votes, 2 Number Ones

Great track but only the second best one featuring Romanthony on the album.

Ryan Schreiber was *not* a fan:

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2134-discovery/amp/

Top 5

One More Time (Official Video)