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

plus it's metal

Nightcall so low? It's one of Bangalter's best post-Discovery productions :(

(Guy-Manuel not Bangalter)

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43. Touch (featuring Paul Williams)
From: Random Access Memories
Released: 17 May 2013
158 Points, 6 Votes

Fan edited music video for "Touch - ft. Paul Williams" using clips from Daft Punk's 2006 film "Electroma".

*Note - placement and points are correct, image points and votes are off.

ah shit let me correct

Paul Williams worked with the duo at Henson Recording Studios, the former studio of A&M Records where he had worked previously, including his compositions for Jim Henson's films featuring the Muppets, such as "Rainbow Connection". He also stated that the song he penned was to be sung from the point of view of an unidentified first person, setting the emotion, but the lyrics came from the music itself. Paul Williams said that he felt vulnerable while writing the record, and said he writes best when he is allowed to be honest and vulnerable, a situation that Daft Punk nurtured. He also stated that his sobriety added a sense of wonder to the song he wrote, as every day for him being sober has been wonderful compared to his prior life of excess.

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42. Motherboard
From: Random Access Memories
Released: 17 May 2013
159 Points, 6 Votes

Fan edited music video for "Motherboard"

The track I like the most on RAM tbh

This song sounds so good on 420 day

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41. Daftendirekt
From: Homework
Released: 20 January 1997
160 Points, 6 Votes

Fan edited music video for "Daftendirekt."

that is it for the day as i'm sick of talking to myself, thanks to those who did say something during the rollout and hope to be better tomorrow.

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	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

so the reason i went to Top 60 is because i truly believe this poll needed to highlight these songs...

Yeah have discovered a couple great ones today, thanks.

This might be what gets me to watch Interstella, also.

so the reason i went to Top 60 is because i truly believe this poll needed to highlight these songs...
― Bee OK, Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Of the entries so far I only voted for High Fidelity and Motherboard, but these are all pretty great. Hadn't heard several of them before.

Motherboard is one of the more restrained tracks on RAM

Went for a different Le Knight Club track than the two that have shown up. Their music is understated and repetitive in a way I don’t entirely get

Interesting results today. I had no idea how well the RAM tracks would do, but I thought Touch would be higher.

I should have probably voted for Derezzed. I remember hearing it for the first time and being blown away. I also remember the disappointment at hearing the rest of the Tron soundtrack a few weeks later.

Probably would have voted for Robot Rock if it had been two minutes shorter. It suffers the same problem I have with most of that album.

I've not heard many of their remixes although recently I did hear their remix of Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out at work Which they obviously spent only a few minutes on.

Really excellent images so far!

so the reason i went to Top 60 is because i truly believe this poll needed to highlight these songs...

definitely a great idea to open up the poll to any/all Bangalter/de H-C tracks. hurrah and thanks to Bee and nashwan!

voted for "Call On Me" very high (the Together version is so so good, totally superior to Eric Prydz's later rip of it), "Mirage", "Nightcall" and "Too Long / Steam Machine". despite the name of "Too Long / Steam Machine" it's based more around the synth line from Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy" than any Daft Punk track, it's distinctly its own thing

none of their remixes really stood out to me at all when putting together my ballot

I did draw the line at voting on live LP mash-ups.

I thought I would too, but I just couldn't help voting for the encore, which is so thrilling, especially if you saw the live show.

I should have probably voted for Derezzed. I remember hearing it for the first time and being blown away. I also remember the disappointment at hearing the rest of the Tron soundtrack a few weeks later.

I voted for it... I remember listening to it over and over again when it was released in advance of the soundtrack and film.

Spinal Scratch is great, so I'm happy to see that others voted for it. Of all the things I relistened to while preparing to vote, that's the one that I just couldn't stop playing. I hadn't listened to it in probably 15 years or more. Still have the 12" from way back when.

a fair few of the Alive 2007 tracks were distinct enough and so clearly superior to the studio versions that I happily voted for them

Spinal Scratch is great, so I'm happy to see that others voted for it. Of all the things I relistened to while preparing to vote, that's the one that I just couldn't stop playing. I hadn't listened to it in probably 15 years or more. Still have the 12" from way back when.

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük),

Just catching up on a few of the tracks I didn't know before and this is fantastic.

Today had such an amazing collection of songs, it was just great to listen throughout the day

I learned a lot

Random Access Memories songs that have placed (so far):

Motherboard
Touch
Contact
Within

not the songs you think of in regards to Random Access Memories.

Figure the more well-known stuff is to come. Some of the artist polls end up working out that way, where the lower reaches are filled with album tracks

Spinal Scratch was #8 on my ballot and thought it would be higher as it's probably the best solo Bangalter track

Chord Memory was my #3, my favourite DP remix and so many good memories around that track.

Also appears to be a spoiler in Bee's post above lol

did not know about the Eric Prydz connection

kinda cool, kinda hilarious

track is a jam

saddened at the sudden realisation that if Bee OK had gone with a top 40 then Life Is Sweet and Chord Memory wouldn't have shown up on a poll of Daft Punk's best tracks

"Touch" might have been my one RAM vote. Paul Williams was a great "get" for what they were trying to accomplish.

Great poll so far. I’m on vacation with my family otherwise I’d be posting more.

Daftendirekt was one of my only Homework votes. I’ve never fully locked in with that album (tho the videos help make the case for it TBH, so thanks for posting them in this poll).

That said, I will never forget the moment when I first heard Daftendirekt and the beat dropped in a completely different place w/r/t the opening sample than I was expecting. I’ve never been able to recreate that feeling re-listening to it but I remember it so vividly I couldn’t help but vote for it.

Motherboard is wonderful, and Omar Hakim’s performance is unbelievable. I always hear its sublimely melancholy arpeggio coda propelled by Hakim as Daft Punk’s requiem for genre formerly known as post rock. And I will always be here for it.

I really wasn't sure what to expect with the votes for RAM. When it came to voting I had this realisation that there aren't really any songs I dislike on there. I had Lose Yourself To Dance high and I know some people rate that as one of the low points of the album. No idea if it'll place.

Yeah, I hate "Lose Yourself to Dance."

Enjoying this, the albums results were very much as expected but some nice surprises in the tracks. I've had 4 place so far, and agonised over Derezzed for ages but cut it at the last minute.

Robot Rock is the only HAA track I would have considered voting for, but I agree with kitchen person that it outstays its welcome. The 'Maximum Overdrive' version on the single is surely a piss-take as it's longer still and never drops, just builds and resets.

xp I don't like "Lose Yourself to Dance" either but I bet someone has made an enjoyable remix of it (not that I feel like seeking it out). There's a germ of a great song in it

what a great poll, hadn't heard 'spinal scratch' before it's completely nuts, highest level stuff afaict

Yeah, I hate "Lose Yourself to Dance."

it needs to be remixed by The Avalanches
(whose Music Makes Me High effortlessly achieves what RAM tries to)

Needs a version where the robot voice is replaced with the housekeeper from Father Ted.

Instant Crush is objectively a good song though.

It's objectively a good song that does nothing for me.

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

Spotify is a collaborated playlist, so if you can find the songs, it would be a great help if people on this board can keep it updated.

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