>>13672
I don't think it's on the same level as Party Time and Nobody Likes Me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm_WdaHBdlg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaajTBCFRNw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37eaA3aWYtM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFZjqVnWBhc

I've been getting into Daft Punk again lately. Robot Rock probably has one of their all-time best hooks, but the track kind of leaves you thinking that it could've been more, and that it's a bit too repetitive.

>>13689

It's an extremely ballsy track, if you've heard it side to side with the original they took the sample from. They did practically nothing to it, and then released it as the lead single to the album. I can't help but respect that in a way.

>>13690
I looked the original up recently after wondering if it was a sample. It's something I've never heard of so they completely got away with it. Anyway, if you watch any programmes on ITV4, possibly only in the evenings, listen to the music that plays when they tell you it's sponsored by Grosvenor Casinos. That, as it turns out, is not the original; it just sounds incredibly similar to Robot Rock by pure coincidence.

>>13690

>They did practically nothing to it


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVVfZAZdIUs

That's putting it mildly. Anybody could have done what they did by chopping the song up with Audacity and rearranging the bits back together. Audacity even has a preinstalled vocoder plugin so you can record yourself saying "Robot Rock" in a robot voice.

Daft Punk did loads of sampling of obscure original (disco) songs that flew under most people's radar, but they also occasionally came up with some pretty punchy hooklines of their own.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwILkY9gRrc

>>13692

>Anybody could have done what they did by

Indeed, but did they?

Therein lies the question between if it's a lazy and borderline fraudulent for them to even take credit as the "artists", or is it a bold statement of sheer... Well.. Punk. A middle finger to a music establishment and consumer industry, pulling a stunt that they knew probably only they, and act who commanded such respect even back then, could have got away with?

Obviously I'm being hyperbolic but I wonder what kind of connections those two made in order to have managed it and have fucking nobody notice it, let alone call them out on it. To say Daft Punk are music royalty doesn't do them justice, they're more like music illuminati.

>>13693

> To say Daft Punk are music royalty doesn't do them justice, they're more like music illuminati.


I'm not going to disagree with you in principle. As a music act, they were in a league of their own because although there always have been many electronic music acts, both within and outside French House and all its successors, nobody was doing it quite like them. The whole package of their music and their trademark retro-futurism coupled with just that hint of wry French humour set them apart from everybody else.

But that still doesn't mean all their efforts were always up to scratch. Just because you're a unique and in some ways genre defining act, doesn't mean you should get away with half arse. 'Ey, we're Daft Punk, we can chop up a song and bosh it back together and stick our name on it, non? shouldn't cut it for them. If you choose a high standard for yourself, then you need to be prepared to be held by it.

>>13694

Well that's really what I'm getting at.

They knew they were phoning that one in, and it was probably going to be a disposable bit of filler they made in one hungover afternoon, but then at some point they had the idea. "'ey Guy, 'ow about we make ze sheet one ze lead singul? Honhonhon" "Tom zat is ze craziest zing I 'ave ever 'eard, but you are le right! 'Oo ees going to say sheet to uuurs?"

So then they did, just to wave their garlicky Frog willies at us. Like that Norman soldier from Monty Python.

But nah that whole album is definitely their weakest, it wasn't really exploring the idea of hypnotic, trancy acidy repetition and layering like Homework did. It wasn't deliberately stripped back and raw. It was just half-arsed and didn't have any better ideas. In other words, I think it was the point their success got the better of them, and it's not a surprise their next proper release took so long to materialise.

>>13693

>Indeed, but did they?

No, because nobody else's dad owned a funk based record label they could poach samples from.

>I wonder what kind of connections those two made in order to have managed it

Thomas Bangalter's dad owns a funk based record label.

>>13695

They were phoning in many[/yt] of their songs.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC9uaXtC7C8

They weren't alone, in that especially in the 2000s, loads of dance and electronic music tracks nicked samples from obscure 70s disco, funk and R&B songs that were completely unknown to wider audiences unless you were a 70s disco [i]savant.

Obviously you can make shedloads of money that way, but as people notice, it'll call into question your perceived status as musical geniuses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvU4xWsN7-A

>>13700

Thought that was Olga Koch for a second.

Self-Control by Laura Branigan (or indeed that Italian band who did it originally) called; they want their opening riff back. How was this allowed back then?

>>13704

It's often a grey area; if you're off by a few notes or chords, you can get away with it. But the more you sound alike, the more likely somebody will have a case against you.

That said, I never understood why Umberto Tozzi didn't sue Jarvis Cocker for using the hook from "Gloria" on "Disco 2000".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1P8jDSsykc

Laura Branigan did an outright cover of "Gloria", but with Tozzi's consent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KL9mRus19o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V83JR2IoI8k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sriaHLZtGuo

Largely unknown song from their eponymous debut album.

As far as mid-80s album track ballads, this is definitely one of my favourites. Just some brooding synth pads over a meandering Roland CR-78, but to great effect.


I shagged a lass to it once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXqZrYtpvLM
I was shocked to find out that this punk band were Septics, the singer's voice is very British sounding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gOQgfPW4Y


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6CJmJ5p3Ow

Two of the most influential tracks of early British House.

>What you feeling right now?
Oasis, half the World Away.

I woke up from a dream of this song. I can't remember much of the content - I think I was running along a stormy beach in my boxer shorts. Heavy raindrops glinting silver in an evening half light. I wanted to run to a nearby wood, feel the weather around me and frolic with wild boars.

I came to know this song around spring time a few years ago when I was considerably fitter and going through a strange sexual relationship with a person I wasn't sure I liked. The woman is dead now - for which I'm selfishly grateful, though I do occasionally miss her.

It feels nostalgic, somewhat regretful, but also a little hopeful that with spring comes a new energy that I can use to lose some weight, get used to being outside again and improve my mental health and self image.

'No I don't feel down' ending lyrics help to remind me it's a choice of continuing this self imposed depression. Everything said before doesn't have to narrate my life going forward. Even the organ outro serves to remind me it can be joyrul.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiqxn3iOmxY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZyHI0wo8Pk
Hope.
Now it's called Hopium.
No idea what you lot will make of it.

>>13717


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9crRLsMZ51c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzcjtwdVM5g

This song played on a decent stereo sound system is just divine.

>>13717
I absolutely loved that; it was brilliant. But I confess that I did grow up listening to music like that. Here's another Love Parade banger:

This song is awful but I can't get it out of my head. Specifically the breakdown 1:18.

Careful now: There's a few shots where you can see through her mesh clothes at her tits.

>>13717
I'm amazed that driving a party bus through a dense crowd of drugged up teenagers got through the health and safety inspectors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5al_2_LcE0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIiO2uUh3RQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ybFb_wKlvQ

https://soundcloud.com/the-parliamentalist/thatcher-draft3

I know I'm several days late on this, and it's just a link, but certain things can't be helped (no SoundCloud embeds, I'm lazy and stupid).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwE1fZmIkss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzh7CUtdzkI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgGhhnQB1gw

The fact I'm gradually turning into my dad isn't anything new to me, but this is the first time I've done something similar to his exclaiming "we've been there!" every time somewhere familiar comes on the telly. They're marching through Black Country Living Museum.

I got introduced to Cheekface recently - lyrically it covers the themes of living in the future and it being awful. I can see it being used for the credits to Screenwipe or something similar.

They even have a song for when you're making instant noodles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnHm4ro_l8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdvplNzQDNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSLGJs96Hy0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJbsw_rliL8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjNY5HGcopA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SEvHcgvt8M

One of Norman Cook's underrated tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_fN50L25aE

I think these threads generally get to 400-500 posts before we make a new one. Who wants their turn at creating it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVKHeBRox0k

>>13751
Not me, because I want to ramble on for a bit and I don't want to read my own post in the OP every time someone posts a new song.

I was listening to old music I actually bought on CD earlier, and I had completely forgotten The Pierces, and I had no idea I owned their album. I thought I knew all the music I owned. I remember it now, of course; I believe I bought the album in Tesco rather than a music shop like HMV. And while this was their hit that made me buy the album, the album is actually pretty decent; many of the songs sound like this without descending too far into the "background music for American dramas set in hospitals" style. They're more of a Haim than a First Aid Kit, you could say, although I like The Pierces more than either.

Obviously a lot of people like The Prodigy, but I still feel like more of a big deal should be made about them probably being one of the best bands to ever come out of the UK. I'm not sure what that would look like, but we just made a big hoo-ha about some old bloke and his gemstone hat so maybe something like that for bands I like.