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Music CD - Daft Punk: Discovery
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Music CD: Discovery
Artist: Daft Punk
List Price: $18.98
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Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
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Tracks:
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1. One More Time
2. Aerodynamic
3. Digital Love
4. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
5. Crescendolls
6. Night Vision
7. Superheroes
8. High Life
9. Something About Us
10. Voyager
11. Veridis Quo
12. Short Circuit
13. Face To Face
14. Too Long
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724384960605
Format: Enhanced
Label: Virgin Records Us
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Virgin Records Us
Release Date: 2001-03-13
Studio: Virgin Records Us
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Love the Daft Punk CD
Comment: The CD sounded great!!! At first I thought the first song was scratched but then I realized it was a feature of the song! It's a great album!
Customer Rating:
Summary: One of the best 'disco' house cd of all time...
Comment: Homework. Alive. All those were cool, esp. homework which I highly recommend. But NONE of them have the impact of discovery. People have criticized this for not being modern enough as far as electronica as a genre--but some people just don't know what they're buying or listening too. Being a fan of both disco and vocal house this was all love for me; all admirers of the genre: do not miss this album!
Customer Rating:
Summary: And I thought it couldn't get any better
Comment: I've owned this album on CD and MP3 formats for many years, and it is among my top favorites. I have DJ'ed many places and songs from this album always end up in my playlists and are always a hit, no matter the crowd.
Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, I decided to purchase this album in Vinyl. It changed the way I look at the album. Definitely one of the best, and even better in the purest format known to man.
If you haven't heard this album, you must, and if you can, hear it on Vinyl.
Customer Rating:
Summary: daft punk rocks
Comment: I personally love this album. I could listen to it over and over and not get tired of it. Aerodynamic is a definate favorite followed by Harder, better, stronger, faster. Actually...I just love the whole album. And if you get a chance, watch Interstella 5555. Totally worth it, it's a cartoon (animeish) to this whole album.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Well, not as good as Homework
Comment: Discovery couldn't be a better move away from Homework. Even though Homework was way better, Daft Punk goes for a 70's and 80's sound, which is fine because it shows the band is heading in a new direction. Unfortunatly, the direction was not as good. It dosen't have as many strong songs as Homework, which only had two horrible songs. Not enough good songs on this one to beat it, even though all the songs are listenable. Homework without the two seven minute songs is aobut an hour, as long as this.
Discovery was the sound track for an anime, which if that tells you anything, it may even border on J-Pop. It's more poppier, and more dancable. It's kind of repetitive, but unlike Homework, the repition isn't always that enganging. The key word is THAT, as in they didn't exactly do a great job of hooking me into songs like Superheroes or High Life. Other than that, they did a good job, and there is less samples played over and over again like Fresh, Phoenix, and Daftendirekt. The vocals really take the spotlight, the use of a Vocodoer (SP??) is greatly shown on Discovery. It's a bit poppier than Homework, but that is okay with me. Besides, songs like Nightvision have a great deal of atmosphere, more so than the songs on Homework.
There are truely no weak tracks, everything is much listenable and may not take as much to grow on you as Homework. Homework, once grown, is overall better in my opinion, but this one is more accessible. Of course, I don't exactly always follow the more accessible stuff on purpose. If you liked Homework and don't have a contempt for 80's chessiness, get this album.
8.0/10
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Editorial Reviews:
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The French twosome behind Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, get away with an awful lot. They go around impersonating aliens and robots in their interviews, they put records out only once every three years, and they make music that evokes a million other artists--while not really sounding like any of them. The keyboard noodlings of Jean-Michel Jarre are in there somewhere, along with the otherworldly imagery and giant hooks of '70s rock icons like Boston or even Electric Light Orchestra. There are dashes of 1999-era Prince and oodles of new wave and disco cheese, from Harold Faltermeyer and Gary Numan to the Bee Gees, all set off with efficient house beats. So how have they managed to position themselves as electronic music's next great crossover artists? On Discovery, the follow-up to the 1998 worldwide smash Homework, the answer is obvious: they have no shame, and they know how to make us dance. Starting off with the irresistibly hummable "One More Time," the record blows through a head-spinning array of styles and samples, creating a pop-culture stew of funky loops and dance-floor anthems. "Aerodynamic" eschews breakbeats for an Yngwie Malmsteen-ish guitar interlude that somehow ends up meshing in a crazy blend of stomping bass lines and hyped-up harmonics. "Digital Love" starts off silly and gets sillier, but the monosyllabic lyrics lull the senses just right, allowing the song's summery groove to grab hold with authority. "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" is a resounding standout amidst the retro/Vocoder deluge that transpired after Cher's Believe turned the kitchy disco device into a worldwide pop music trend, spinning a clever groove around an ever-escalating string of computerized seduction. Everywhere on the record, gigantic beats are dropped with pinpoint precision, giving songs a momentum that transforms repetitive melodies into sudden revelations. The record's only misstep, the aptly named "Short Circuit" utilizes a keyboard riff that is nails-on-a-chalkboard awful, but it can't keep this from being one of the best records of 2001. --Matthew Cooke
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