I AM DISCOVERY POLL

damn

in before big HOOS

ONE MORE TIME

harder better faster stronger of course

veridis quo.

"Digital Love" is my favorite song of the '00s.

yes

i voted for aerodynamic

good christ this is an amazing album

whay make this poll only 24 hours?

i need at least a few days to decide.

High Life

this is hard.

like "too long" when it starts taking off...

ack.

discovery is this era's ???[insert acclaimed album of bygone era]???

best poll thread title

oops xpost

i posted something here not too long ago, did it vanish?

VERIDIS QUO

last night a had a dream about you

i voted "something about us" but i already want to change my vote.

jeez

does this include the videos or not?!?

'face to face'

worth logging in for.

one more time

digital love.

the reasons everyone else said

i think this album has dated really well

as have you. ;-)

hooser better faster steener

More than any other act I can recall, Daft Punk epitomize the top-bottom problems of sooo much dance music. Homework's beats were fierce, slammin', unrelenting, all that good stuff. But there wasn't much information to skim off the top. On Discovery, you had to duck from all those melodies and hooks and sonic candygrams. But they forgot the fierce, slammin', unrelenting beats. And they still haven't gotten it right. Prolly never will. (One track that reconciled these top-bottom problems about as brilliantly as any human ever has: Jaydee's "Plastic Dreams.")

So I went with "One More Time," a pretty but infinitely lesser cousin of "Music Sounds Better With You."

Aw, fuck. I wrote a big, long response to Kevin, then realized I was in Mini-Geir mode and deleted it. Suffice to say, I like my melodies and hooks and sonic candygrams.

'face to face'

-- That one guy that quit, Friday, May 18, 2007 10:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

thirded

Aw, fuck. I wrote a big, long response to Kevin, then realized I was in Mini-Geir mode and deleted it. Suffice to say, I like my melodies and hooks and sonic candygrams.

Well, I'm glad you deleted it, Rev, because I never said that melodies and hooks and sonic candygrams were bad. I'm just wondering why Daft Punk couldn't put them together with fierce, slammin', unrelenting beats.

best mix ever (especially if you can hold it for a long blend) = "harder better faster stronger" (jess and crabbe regulator mix) into "la la land"

'one more time' forever

short circuit?!

I guesss I have to decide. I'll go with "Harder Better Faster Stronger" for mad talkbox-breakdownage.

I went for Crescendolls for nostalgic reasons but I suspect I should have really chosen High Life.

bonus points for whoever picks "Nightvision"

digital love, of course!

definitely one of the best albums ever.

It's a walkover.

'too long' was my second choice, surprised at 0 votes

"One more time, we're gonna celebrate, oh yeah, all right, don't stop the dancing, one more time, we're gonna celebrate, oh yeah, all right, don't stop the dancing, one more time, we're gonna celebrate, oh yeah, all right, don't stop the dancing, one more time, we're gonna celebrate, oh yeah, all right, don't stop the dancing, one more time, we're gonna celebrate, oh yeah, all right, don't stop the dancing, one more time, we're gonna celebrate, oh yeah, all right, don't stop the dancing, one more time, you know I'm just feelin' celebration, tonight, celebrate, don't wait, too late, we don't stop, you can't stop, we're gonna celebrate, one more time, one more time, one more time, a celebration, you know we're gonna do it right, tonight, just feeling, music's got me feeling the need, we're gonna celebrate, one more time, celebrate and dance so free, music's got me feeling so free, celebrate and dance so free, one more time, music's got me feeling so free, we're gonna celebrate, celebrate and dance so free, one more time."

It's practically brainwashing, isn't it? Daft Punk seem to be operating under the premise that if you hear something enough times, you'll start to believe it. But after more than 15 listens to Discovery's first single and opening track, "One More Time," vocodered vocalist Romanthony doesn't have me "feeling the need," much less not waiting, celebrating, and dancing so free. This could just be me, of course. Maybe I just haven't taken enough ecstasy and horse tranquilizers to appreciate the tinny, sampled brass ensemble, the too-sincere "chill out" midsection, or the fat drum machine beats that throb in time with my headache.

Few things are more incriminating than Daft Punk's own lyrics, which, while generally deeper than "don't stop the dancing," rarely go beyond sensitive junior high poetry and "could this be love" Whitesnake-isms. But music like this wasn't meant to be judged on its lyrics. And since Discovery relies heavily on the French neo-disco stylings established by 1997's Homework, the duo would probably suggest we shut up and dance.

In truth, Discovery rarely invokes its predecessor's slap-bass funk, and few other tracks resemble the obviously single-designed "One More Time." Instead, Daft Punk focus on fusing mid-80's Kool and the Gang R&B beats with post-millennial prog flourishes and more vocoders than you can shake at Herbie Hancock. Of the six tracks that feature vocals, four are smothered with the synthesized pitch corrector. On tracks like "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," the duo make it work by pushing the instrument to its breaking point, squeezing out subhuman glips and merging the vocals into a Vai-style synth-guitar solo. But when the band relies on the tool merely as a gimmick, as on "Digital Love" and "Something about Us," the sentimental love songs come off with all the heart-melting earnestness of Kid Rock's "Only God Knows Why."

Daft Punk typically succeed in an instrumental environment, though. Discovery's first big score comes with the rousing "Crescendolls." The obscure Imperials sample makes the song with spirited "hey's" and "everybody y'all's" yelled out from a crowd. "Superheroes," which draws its repeated refrain from a late 70's Barry Manilow track called "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed," sates with a massive, fist-pumping kickdrum, complex chord changes, and light-speed keyboard bleeps. The snapping percussion and Phantasy Star II phaser synths of "Verdis Quo" recall a somber Flashdance-era Giorgio Moroder. And the 16-bit pitch-bent tones and Klymaxx electro-bass of "Short Circuit" would have felt at home on Trans Am's Surrender to the Night.

Prog and disco have never openly begged for their own hybrid, but the genres' newborn Frankenbaby is alive, whether we like it or not. Still, this beast, however grotesque, is relatively harmless-- rather than running amok in the village and snapping the necks of civilians, it only wants to "celebrate and dance so free, one more time." Just don't let it sing.

How embarrassing for both Schreiber and Pitchfork.

I guess I'll break out my Microphones and Circulatory System albums.

Disappointed though hardly surprised by the relative lack of love for "Veridis Quo." I'm just embarrassed by how long it took me to realize it samples "Supernature," since <i>Cerrone IV</i> is one of my all-time favorite records...

verdis quo tied face to face! hardly a bad showing

this fucking album.

Really love them all, but here's my ranking:

1. "Digital Love"
2. "One More Time"
3. "Face to Face"
4. "Harder Better Faster Stronger"
5. "Aerodynamic"
6. "Voyager"
7. "Veridis Quo"
8. "High Life"
9. "Something About Us"
10. "Superheroes"
11. "Crescendolls"
12. "Nightvision"
13. "Too Long"
14. "Short Circuit"

Pitchfork's Top 20 Albums of 2001

Anyone listen to The Glow, Pt 2. lately? (not that it's a bad album, but y'know...)

1. Digital Love
2. Face To Face
3. One More Time
4. Aerodynamic
5. Harder Better Faster Stronger
6. Crescendolls
7. Too Long
8. Veridis Quo
9. High Life
10. Superheroes
11. Something About Us
12. Short Circuit
13. Voyager
14. Nightvision

missed this poll

the opening and closing tracks on this are still my least faves

kid a won the battle but maybe discovery would win the ILM end of 00s album poll war if nothing else

I would still vote for "Veridis Quo"

OH BOY ANOTHER DAFT PUNK POLL

i heard this really neat mashup of "nightvision" and the beatles' "when i'm 64" on wfmu a while ago.

I am content with these results.
Accept.. One More Time, should be lower.

too long 0

what the fuck

tru

live version of "Too Long" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Discovery version

Wow poor show for VOYAGER.

"Digital Love"

I especially like how it's become their "Creep" and they refuse to play it live, although I would probably have about fifty simultaneous joy-induced heart attacks if they ever did

Face II Face

VERIDIS QUO

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, May 18, 2007 5:19 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

how the absolute fuck did voyager get no votes in this

god i'm just angry now

In light of the Thriller/Off The Wall talk regarding "get lucky", it occured to me that "something about us" would not be out of place on a late 70s Quincy Jones production. It even sounds like Louis Johnson poppin that bass (albeit even more electrofunkified).

how the absolute fuck did voyager get no votes in this

― we're up all night to eat biscuits (Autumn Almanac), Monday, April 22, 2013 6:28 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Taveras - "Break Down For Love" => "High Life"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZboBQ6rDrU

how the absolute fuck did voyager get no votes in this

― we're up all night to eat biscuits (Autumn Almanac), Monday, April 22, 2013 6:28 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

― crüt, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:12 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

because digital love

but 41 votes were not because digital love

ha yeah I guess that was a response to a non existent question, not the question at hand

digital love is possibly my least favorite track on this tbh

digital love for me. yeah why don't they play this live? is it really a creep/teen spirit situation?