smdh get outta here
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, March 4, 2013 8:47 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm sure our tongues were nowhere near our cheeks
― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Monday, 4 March 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
cosign j0rd and rev
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
"veridis quo" is my favorite on this.I always prefer their more moody pieces ("emotion", "make love", many tracks on Tron...).
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 4 March 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
"light it up and get groovy baby" is the single most romantic phrase i can imagine! daft punk wish they could evoke a hundredth of that emotion, indeed a hundredth of that sonic pleasure
― kendrick delmar - good kid, f.U.C.k. you (The Reverend), Monday, 4 March 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
"alright i'm gonna give this puppy another spinarooney, stay tuned folxxx" is the single most romantic phrase i can imagine! daft punk wish they could evoke a hundredth of that emotion, indeed a hundredth of that sonic pleasure
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 March 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
oh je.
does anyone still express this opinion in public?
Yes.
― Melissa W, Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
Meantime
https://soundcloud.com/ck303/theprequel96
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
Why do you hate it so much Melissa?
― dog latin, Saturday, 9 March 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
I like bits of Discovery but I can totally get in the headspace of people who don't like Discovery. It's repetitive. When there is musical development, it's predictable. It sounds like a digital nightmare. There's side-chain compression everywhere. Unless you're already totally 100% on board with the Daft Punk retro-futurist stripped-down space-disco aesthetic, you won't like Daft Punk.
― C: (crüt), Saturday, 9 March 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
I enjoy that description of the album but don't know if the conclusion's fair because IMWOYP Daft Punk were a huge gateway electronica 'band' thing
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 9 March 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
― C: (crüt), Saturday, March 9, 2013 1:42 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's way less repetitive than most of its house music influences. How do you mean 'repetitive'?
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Saturday, 9 March 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
that's some bullshit. daft punk was awesome when i was a kid and 'repetitive' wasn't even in my musical vocabulary, much less any kind of familiarity with a retro-futurist stripped-down space-disco aesthetic.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 9 March 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
daft punk was repetitive to me when I was a kid
― C: (crüt), Saturday, 9 March 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
lots of music is repetitive
― C: (crüt), Saturday, 9 March 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
some people don't like music that is too repetitive for them
i hope you're taking notes
― C: (crüt), Saturday, 9 March 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
your posts are repetitive
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Saturday, 9 March 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
:-p
Discovery is way less repetitive than Daft Punk's other albums tho.
xp haaa
― radric: the guccining (The Reverend), Saturday, 9 March 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway the last sentence of that post was a little off mark, yeah. I was mostly just rattling off some things that characterize Daft Punk's sound/aesthetic that could be divisive. The repetition definitely isn't as heavy on Discovery as their other albums, although I'd still say there are a LOT of repetitive/minimal elements. That's just my perception tho & certainly not something I'd expect e.g. house music heads to agree with.
― C: (crüt), Saturday, 9 March 2013 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
I just remember getting Discovery in 2001, when I was 13 & not familiar with many different kinds of music, and to me things like "Crescendolls" and "Superheroes" were super repetitive because I wasn't used to music where unrelenting 1-2 bar loops were right at the front of the mix.
― C: (crüt), Saturday, 9 March 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
n.b. I still thought those songs were cool and exciting. especially "Superheroes" because of the ending.
― C: (crüt), Saturday, 9 March 2013 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
i think crut's post applies a lot more to Homework which was the first DP album I got. this was like 2003 but I was really into Underworld and Orbital and upon hearing DP my first reaction was "these guys really don't know how to build up a track". of course that is my 17 year old self saying this. I think the truth is that there are certain aspects of DP's house that you really have to buy into and ultimately I don't think they have the talent that Underworld has. Discovery is even more stylized (and to be honest I find it hard to think of a more influential album from the decade - the Discovery sound is everywhere right now), but the good vibes are a lot more front and center. I don't really consider it "repetitive" - at least not in comparison to their other albums! I loved Alive 2007 so much because it injected that sound into the other material.
― frogbs, Sunday, 10 March 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
a lot of people just don't like house music at all
― brimstead, Sunday, 10 March 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
and they will be first against the wall...
― radric: the guccining (The Reverend), Sunday, 10 March 2013 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
lol they're already against the wall
― balls, Sunday, 10 March 2013 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
"high life" 4Ever.
― boy_slayer, Sunday, 10 March 2013 05:25 (eleven years ago) link
ha touche xp
― radric: the guccining (The Reverend), Sunday, 10 March 2013 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
I have found myself against the wall at quite a few house clubs.
― Tim F, Sunday, 10 March 2013 08:05 (eleven years ago) link
the idea of repetition as a negative thing, or something specific to (dance) (music) any one form, is an alien idea to me. to even isolate it in that way just feels so strange.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Sunday, 10 March 2013 10:19 (eleven years ago) link
By the way, I've always found that this track (released 2000) kinda beat DP at their own game and predicts the Discovery sound quite well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTAqMhUb2Fo
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
is the chord progression in Digital Love really unresolved? in my brain it resolves on the fourth chord. what am i missing
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 05:08 (six years ago) link
go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go in through the air go inthrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 4 March 2013 13:50 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i thought that song was golf in the air
― dog latin, Monday, 4 March 2013 14:16 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
love in the air?
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Monday, 4 March 2013 14:31 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
gophers
― ledge, Monday, 4 March 2013 14:33 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
up into the air
― þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsla (clouds), Monday, 4 March 2013 14:39 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh wait no
― þjóðaratkvæðagreiðsla (clouds), Monday, 4 March 2013 14:40 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dolphins in the air. not gophers.
― lana del boy (ledge), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 12:46 (six years ago) link
we're up a Mexican monkey
― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
Get your boopy on
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
Did anyone else listen to "Something About Us" on repeat for like two hours after that episode of I May Destroy You or just me
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 22 February 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
I mean, I just do that periodically. While sitting in the dark. Weeping.
― hourspass, Monday, 22 February 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
I have most def cried while listening to "Superheroes." That 'un and "Face to Face" are my favorites…
― veronica moser, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
yeah I feel oceans of emotion from “something”. And the cut ups in “face to faces...
― brimstead, Monday, 22 February 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
Watched Interstella 5555 again and it's just overwhelming how good this record is on so many levels, and how perfectly executed the videos were as an accompaniment. Even the more simple, repetitive tracks somehow feel maximal and huge and memorable. Not a single track feels like it wears out its welcome (despite Too Long's self referential nature towards this), and it also boasts two of my favorite guitar solos/recordings of all time with Aerodynamic and Digital Love
― octobeard, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 23:55 (three years ago) link
I think I found the most essential 10-hour loop video on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E6cpNRn8eY
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 02:05 (three years ago) link
"Too Long" definitely not too long, maybe my favorite track on the album
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 02:14 (three years ago) link
Who’s playing the guitar solos on Discovery btw? Or are those sampled too?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 03:24 (three years ago) link
I don’t know if I suck at looking for credits but I haven’t seem evidence of the solos being sampled but there’s no guitar credits either.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 03:27 (three years ago) link
Mostly Guy-Man:
de Homem-Christo estimates that half of the sampled material on Discovery was actually played live originally. “I play more guitar usually,” he says, “and Thomas plays more keyboards and bass.” But they both play all three instruments. “There's no ego involved. We don't argue about who's playing what. You can get the sound of a guitar with a keyboard, or the opposite. We don't really care about who's doing what as long as it's well-done. At the same time, when you use samples, you don't have this problem. When you use a sampler, nobody plays on it, so the problem of the ego of the musician is not really there. For everything that we do, no matter how you get to the results, the important thing is the result.”Discovery includes only four outside samples — not much for a contemporary dance record. “Around this, we play all the instruments, which are mainly vintage keyboards and guitars, so it's a mixture of a few samples and us playing around it. We don't always use the original sounds of the keyboards or the guitars, because we put on so many effects or distortions so that sometimes you think it's a guitar but maybe it's not.”
Discovery includes only four outside samples — not much for a contemporary dance record. “Around this, we play all the instruments, which are mainly vintage keyboards and guitars, so it's a mixture of a few samples and us playing around it. We don't always use the original sounds of the keyboards or the guitars, because we put on so many effects or distortions so that sometimes you think it's a guitar but maybe it's not.”
The French twosome also like to alter their original source material to create something new, whether it's a synth or a guitar. “We don't use too much of the original sound of the instruments; it's really more about how we put effects on it after that,” he explains. “It's not like we're making a track and saying, ‘Oh yes, I need a Flying V on this one.’ We take a guitar we have {usually a Fender Stratocaster} and then try to make it sound different with the effects.”
also
“On ‘Digital Love,’ you get this Supertramp vibe on the bridge,” remarks de Homem-Christo. “We didn't sample Supertramp, but we had the original Wurlitzer piano they used, so we thought it would be more fun to have the original instrument and mess around with it."
― stilt in the wings (sic), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 03:48 (three years ago) link
why don't you play the gaaaaaaaaame
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 03:50 (three years ago) link
only four outside samples
Uhh
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 03:57 (three years ago) link
lol yeah I haven't heard the record in a decade and I can already think of about seven
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 04:01 (three years ago) link
There’s only 4 credited samples on Discovery: Barry Manilow, Edwin Birdsong, George Duke and The Imperials.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 04:19 (three years ago) link
From wikipedia:
A significant amount of sampling is present on the album. Rather than creating new music using only the samples, Daft Punk worked with them by writing and performing additional parts. The Discovery liner notes specify permitted use of samples for four tracks on the album: Part of George Duke's "I Love You More" is featured in "Digital Love"; Edwin Birdsong's "Cola Bottle Baby" was sampled for "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger"; The Imperials' song "Can You Imagine" is used for "Crescendolls"; Barry Manilow's "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed" is credited for "Superheroes". It is believed that "One More Time" contains a sample of Eddie Johns' song "More Spell on You", which was reported to be officially cleared despite it being uncredited in the Discovery liner notes.Several websites list many other samples present on the album, but Bangalter has stated that half of the samples he had seen listed are not true. He also stated the sampling they do is legitimately done, not something they try to hide. Bangalter elaborated that the newly recorded elements were implemented in a way that was equivalent to "creating fake samples ... where people think there are samples from disco records or funk records." Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo estimated that half of the sampled material on Discovery was played live and re-recorded by the duo, and emphasized that the resulting quality of the music was more important than the ego of who played which instruments.
Several websites list many other samples present on the album, but Bangalter has stated that half of the samples he had seen listed are not true. He also stated the sampling they do is legitimately done, not something they try to hide. Bangalter elaborated that the newly recorded elements were implemented in a way that was equivalent to "creating fake samples ... where people think there are samples from disco records or funk records." Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo estimated that half of the sampled material on Discovery was played live and re-recorded by the duo, and emphasized that the resulting quality of the music was more important than the ego of who played which instruments.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 04:22 (three years ago) link