I’m shaking my head at people not liking “one more time”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 February 2021 02:19 (three years ago) link
one of the very best things about Discovery is that it has a enormous influence upon Kylie's Fever…
― veronica moser, Friday, 26 February 2021 02:53 (three years ago) link
I've never enjoyed One More Time. I know the enervated sound is the point, but I don't have to like it.
― lukas, Friday, 26 February 2021 02:58 (three years ago) link
I'm sure I have my Interstella 5555 DVD somewhere (will need to remember how to hook up my DVD player to the TV, will be worth it for Face To Face at least)
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 26 February 2021 11:35 (three years ago) link
I'm similar to other posters in lumping "One More Time" in with a lot of other fodder they used to play at the student club nights I used to go to around the time. I was familiar with their earlier stuff but not yet a fan and "One More Time" just reminds me of £1 Smirnoff Ices and bad times dancing. It wasn't until I started working in a bar after uni that someone played me the whole of Discovery and I fell in love with it and went back to reassess everything else they'd done. I still don't like OMT though
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 26 February 2021 11:50 (three years ago) link
Dakadakada-da-da / Zoo-whoa / Dakadakada-da-da / Mister Ferdinand
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 26 February 2021 11:51 (three years ago) link
“one more time” doesn’t sound like the other fodder though, for starters it spends two and a half minutes (or, half of the song) doing that acapella build-up which I don’t remember any other song from the era doing.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 February 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
how many dance or pop songs from any era do you remember that do 2 full minutes without beat.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 February 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
It's a good question (should be noted that the drums and main sample drop out but the organ never drops out and the tambourine comes in and out).
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 26 February 2021 16:29 (three years ago) link
It also ties it to the space disco concept. Having a breakdown of 2 minutes with nothing but vocals and a synth both drenched in reverb gives a feeling of floating in outer space.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 February 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
they’re horns
― brimstead, Friday, 26 February 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
the breakdown is definitely the best part of "one more time," won't hear any arguments to the contrary i'm sorry
― little johnny juul (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 February 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
In the breakdown!?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 February 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link
It sounds like some synth organ with heavy reverb to me not like horns but what do I know. Whatever it is, my point stands: that elongated breakdown makes it stand out from the rest. I can understand maybe not liking the song, but saying it’s fodder is unfair.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 February 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
oh the breakdown. sorry.
― brimstead, Friday, 26 February 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
no it is unfair, it's just that i came to it being played alongside a lot of stuff i just couldn't connect to at the time
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 26 February 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
In the Clubhouse discussion that got posted on one of these threads, Todd Edwards talks about the recording process of “Face to Face,” and he talks about stringing together samples from a bunch of different records but doesn’t mention anything being re-recorded. They may have layered on top of samples in some instances to thicken the parts in the mix but I don’t think it was possible for Daft Punk to fully recreate these samples so faithfully. They don’t have ‘70s session chops and they were working out of a home studio.
― eisimpleir (crüt), Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:58 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I’ll admit I forgot about “face to face” of course Todd Edwards style is to distort samples beyond recognition and clip them to short instances of unrecognizable-ness
But I’m still questioning the idea that the songs that ie seem to interpolate “get down Saturday night” for example actually sample get down Saturday night
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 26 February 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
oh I didn't realize you were talking about that one! I don't think Voyager is a sample tbf, I've heard the comparison before but it sounds very different to me
― eisimpleir (crüt), Friday, 26 February 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
After getting texted random opinions about Discovery, I have decided to rewatch Interstella 5555, and I'm already feeling that same anxiety I felt during Aerodynamic!
― hourspass, Friday, 26 February 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
On the topic of sampling / acknowledgement on the album - an LA Times subscriber-exclusive story about Eddie Johns, whose "More Spell On You" was sampled for One More Time (but uncredited), living in homeless situations for years... while DP have been paying royalties, to a local company that swallowed some catalogue in 1995.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 7 May 2021 02:48 (two years ago) link
Still so so f***ing good. All of it. Hard to believe I now have co-workers as old as this record!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 4 August 2023 16:28 (seven months ago) link
Rundgren/Buggles/ZTT comparison way upthread in the halcyon days is very otm.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 4 August 2023 16:29 (seven months ago) link
Yeah. Absolutely loved Homework at the time as was massively into techno back then but this is definitely my favourite of theirs now.
― groovypanda, Friday, 4 August 2023 16:31 (seven months ago) link
Cherished memory: taking the train across Chicago on a class break to Gramophone Records to pick up the (one-sided) 12" of this the day it came out. Returning for classes, training home and then playing it later that night at a pretty good-sized warehouse party where I would imagine 95% of the dancers had no idea what it was.
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Saturday, 5 August 2023 03:08 (seven months ago) link
Lovely memory, I have since lost it but the Daft Club credit card had a spot in my wallet for many years
― Florin Cuchares, Saturday, 5 August 2023 06:49 (seven months ago) link
Great memory! Reminds me of a night Basement Jaxx dj'ed in NYC to a packed room. A phenomenal set of house and dancey post punk classics which slowly morphed into an unannounced preview for "Rooty". The crowd went bananas (no pun) with each new tune.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 5 August 2023 11:50 (seven months ago) link
That sounds amazing, Psychocandles
― vexingvexillologist, Monday, 7 August 2023 10:30 (seven months ago) link
A real polarizing one. As an older millenial I love this album, including OMT. Older than me, Gen X? Anywhere from just-not-their-thing to really despising it. Younger than me, Gen Z: one of the most, if not THE seminal dance music album lol.
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Monday, 7 August 2023 22:46 (seven months ago) link
maybe it is an age thing as i just dgaf about it. would not make my top 1000 best dance records.
i do think a couple of tracks are ok.
― stirmonster, Monday, 7 August 2023 23:24 (seven months ago) link
Definitely all time for me. What's not to love?
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Monday, 7 August 2023 23:56 (seven months ago) link
And I'll say this now: I can give or take pretty much all their other albums, probably make a nice comp of the best of those records, but there is nothing on Discovery I don't really really enjoy. It's their masterpiece, undoubtedly
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Monday, 7 August 2023 23:57 (seven months ago) link
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro)
It’s kind of a “skip a gen” thing that happens a lot. Plenty of Gen X thought of several rock acts of the 70’s as boomer music, but milennials loved their dose of 70’s rock. I guess for Gen Z discovering “classic” albums from the early 00’s is similar to Milennials discovering Innervisions or Dark Side of the Moon or something like that.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:20 (seven months ago) link
by far their best album
― Nourry, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:21 (seven months ago) link
It helps keeping it in mind as an aging act to probably take a decade off and have children or whatever after your prime and come back a hero to the next generation.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:23 (seven months ago) link
Are Gen Z really into Discovery? Great if so, cause I find most younger Gen Ys seem to think RAM is their best, which is totally baffling to me
― Roz, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:27 (seven months ago) link
Daft Punk did the right move retiring in 2013 as they would’ve risked losing their momentum.
They left pretty much untouched and seen as the coolest music ever even when the last album was frankly subpar. You’d see it at the top of eoy lists everywhere that year - as well as “get lucky” on the tracks polls - but by the end of the decade the shine got lost and very few people cared about it
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:30 (seven months ago) link
― Roz
From the few times it has entered conversation with them my perception was that they all love Discovery and think it’s their best but very underrated. They think the popular one is RAM - which maybe chart wise they have a point - and that more people should get into Discovery. I was a bit baffled when they told me Discovery was like a lost gem.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 00:33 (seven months ago) link
Maybe it's because Get Lucky is kind of a "Hey let's do a big Discovery-style pop banger" song whereas most of the rest of the album is rainy sad jazz robot music, so people who enjoyed that one growing up also enjoy Discovery. Just a guess
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 01:19 (seven months ago) link
Also it's 20+ years old now so ripe for retro-nostalgia
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 01:20 (seven months ago) link
i can understand thinking discovery is underrated if your experience of daft punk in pop culture is just them being the one-hit wonders who made "get lucky" (which it would be for a lot of younger people) - finding out that they made some great and quite stylistically different music much earlier must seem quite odd
― ufo, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 01:34 (seven months ago) link
my take as someone on the edge of gen y/z depending on definitions is that it has some fantastic, all-time classic singles and a few great moments beyond that but i don't really care about the middle section too much
― ufo, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 01:42 (seven months ago) link
a group of twenty somethings lit up when i played 'digital love' the other night. that doesn't usually happen.
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 01:44 (seven months ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka)
I'm not sure this is totally true. Pitchfork definitely lowered their score when they did that albums revaluation thing a couple of years ago, but I think a lot of people are still into that album. At the record shop I work at in Saint Paul we sell a ton of Daft Punk and Random Access Memories is their biggest seller. People were even willing to shell out for the deluxe version earlier this year as well. It's still rated very highly on Rate Your Music (bolded and has 3.7 rating which is higher than Homework). It did appear in a few end of decade lists too including our very own. A lot of people did cool on it, but it's hardly a Be Here Now situation or anything.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 02:03 (seven months ago) link
Yeah you’re right “not cared about it” is too harsh… I meant that the hype of it definitely died down.
Here on ILM per example Get Lucky was voted #1 song of the year and RAM #2 album of 2013.
By the time we rolled the eod poll “get lucky didn’t even made it into the top 100 and RAM placed #56 several places below other albums from 2013.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 02:21 (seven months ago) link
46 years old and Discovery was a huge album for me. I already owned Homework which I liked but didn’t love. Discovery >>> live albums > homework >>> HAA = RAM
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 02:29 (seven months ago) link
Yeah agree with that ranking tbh
Discovery is very clearly their best album imho. They could’ve probably trimmed a couple of tracks - personally I’d probably get rid of the 1-2 pack of “superheroes”, “high life” which are ok songs but make the album lose steam after those great 4 opening tracks. Crescendolls into nightvision works for me - I know the latter sounds like filler but it helps bring down the energy to settle into “something about us” and the album would benefit of being 12 tracks instead of 14.
Also most definitely edit “too long” into “not too long” and save the “too long” version as a b-side or whatever. I know some people like it but it’s a terrible closer as it stands.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 03:08 (seven months ago) link
I really like how superheroes morphs though… it kind of redeems the whole thing for me. Still, it would have worked better as a b-side to Aerodynamic or something.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 03:14 (seven months ago) link
it’s weird to think of somebody finding Discover _after_ RAM and i would love to hear what they thought of Homework then (which i’ll always rate higher than anything else but i do enjoy Discovery for what it is and hey, it’s got Todd Edwards)
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 04:05 (seven months ago) link
also a record store guy over here! I would say that RAM sells very well, but Discovery and Homework seem to sell a little better, simply because they've been a little less available the last ten years... it seems like more of a score for customers. Some people were willing to shell out for the deluxe edition, but not many. A $60-$120 box set for any album from 2010 to present is not as appetizing as you'd think.
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 06:03 (seven months ago) link
Yeah you’re right “not cared about it” is too harsh… I meant that the hype of it definitely died down.Here on ILM per example Get Lucky was voted #1 song of the year and RAM #2 album of 2013.By the time we rolled the eod poll “get lucky didn’t even made it into the top 100 and RAM placed #56 several places below other albums from 2013.― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, August 8, 2023 3:21 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, August 8, 2023 3:21 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah that's an incredible phenomenon. I remember DJing a work's summer party the year it came out and I had to break my "no song more than once" three times in the night becaus people loved it so much. Later I went on holiday with a bunch of friends and that song was on repeat. And I didn't care - I loved it!
Daft Punk were back with an actual cool song, one everyone could dance and sing along to. It was OMT all over again. Of course it was SOTY.
These days? Oh jesus, I never need to hear it again. Never ever ever. Shaky video footage of mashed up townies in Ayebeefa. Endless plays on the local radio station I work for jammed in next to 'Rude' and 'Galway Girl'... Never!
But I think another big factor is the context of hearing it on RAM. Call it the "Fat Of The Land" factor: Big band comes back with a world-dominating mega-hit that everyone goes ballistic for. But when the album comes out, it's underwhelmingly all of the same pallette, with said single being the key highlight. It's not that the album is bad, not at all, but it feels more like different, varyingly paler, iterations of the big hit single, which ends up having an adverse effect on one's perception of the single.
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 09:47 (seven months ago) link