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

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)

forgot the video and wanted to keep it consistent

https://i.imgur.com/hI41JA4.png

5. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
From: Discovery
Single Released: 13 October 2001
862 Points, 25 Votes, 1 Number One

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Official Video)

Rock Shock remix is great (and the Joel Lava video even more so) but didn't hear it until a few years later. Just missed my ballot.

the points are really, really close for the next two songs and then number three isn't that far up number wise either.

https://i.imgur.com/rUbTLw9.png

4. Around The World
From: Homework
Single Released: 7 April 1997
927 Points, 25 Votes, 4 Number Ones

Around The World (Official Music Video Remastered)

My #1. I bought the album for Da Funk and was blown away that they had another song just as good or even better.

https://i.imgur.com/xXRkPdu.png

3. Music Sounds Better With You - Stardust
From: Music Sounds Better With You Single
Single Released: 20 July 1998
931 Points, 23 Votes, 4 Number One

Music Sounds Better With You (Official Music Video)

was number three by 4 points and the same amount of number ones but on two less ballots. still managed to top Around the World.

Nooooo ilm why!? these deserved 1 and 2!

Oh well. Digital Love is a worthy #1 too