Matsumoto/Daft Punk Videos Online

mvw noted that Toonami is serving up the four videos directed by Star Blazers creator Leiji Matsumoto for the first four tracks on Daft Punk album Discovery. The album is an absolute masterpiece and one of my favorite CDs. The videos are impressive too, telling a continuing story through each of the four songs with that distinctive style. Anyway, I was just pleased to see them online since I only got to see them once when Toonami aired them. and figured others would enjoy this.

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'I like their old stuff better than their new stuf

[bonoboy]

Damn limited titles.

I'm totally gonna get painted a troll for this, but while I really like the direction they've taken with their new videos et al, I haven't heard anything inspirational from Daft Punk since one of them went off and did 'music sounds better with you'. Strange that a vital, interesting band that produced 'revolution 909' and the excellent 'around the world' then ended up producing a parody of a cheesy hands-in-the-air house track, only to then recreate themselves based on a parody of that one track!

Anyway, goodbye Karma. But I'd urge any fans of the new album that don't know the first to go and get it right now! It will change your mind about how good they really are.

Re:'I like their old stuff better than their new s

[Dr. Awktagon]

I haven't heard anything inspirational from Daft Punk since one of them went off and did 'music sounds better with you'. Strange that a vital, interesting band that produced 'revolution 909' and the excellent 'around the world' then ended up producing a parody of a cheesy hands-in-the-air house track, only to then recreate themselves based on a parody of that one track!

Amen, amen to that. The first album was really good in a fun and simple way. They totally went crap after that.

And the video with the dog-man was classic. I remember getting a kick out of the fact the bus driver kicked him off the bus because of his boom box, but didn't give a fuck that he was a dog!

Okay this whole article is pointless but I guess slashdot is a little slow 2nite. I thought CTaco was into The Who and stuff.

Hmm, time to put on Homework.

contradiction

[Jeff Probst]

The album is an absolute masterpiece and one of my favorite CDs

i seem to recall Taco saying that he would not purchase another CD due to all the bad things the music industry was doing.

Time to come clean Taco: did you purchase this CD from Amazon?

Re:'I like their old stuff better than their new s

[outerspace]

Daft Punk is incredible. Their first album introduced their intelligent minimal underground sound. But Daft Punk has NOT changed much of their root sound. Those who think they suck now, please listen again to Homework: you hear Discovery everywhere.

Their second album sounds less like Homework because:
- they use vocals in Discovery
- they shorten their dance breaks and beats
- they use a vocoder
- One More Time got radio play as a pop hit
- most people think that Homework is only Around The World and Da Funk
- many people think that Discovery is One More Time

Please try out Homework again and invert your habits -- listen the whole album, including Rollin' and Scratchin', Burnin' and Pheonix, instead of Da Funk and Around The World.

Listen to some live sets (with DaftClub) from their 1997 tour, and you'll hear the same styles used in Discovery.

Re:'I like their old stuff better than their new s

[Elwood P Dowd]

Daft Punk was *always* about being the thing that they parody. Read this review. He seems to get it. Also, "One More Time" is more subversive than anything else they've done. It's *fantastic*. Sure, it sounds silly at first. So listen again, watch the four videos, and read this review.

Fighting MP3 trading the right way

[Robotech_Master]

I'm a little surprised that none of the people who's mentioned the "Daft Card" things brought it up in this light, but it seems that Daft Punk is doing what a lot of people suggested in the past would be a good idea--not fighting MP3 trading by trying to stop it, but instead giving people an incentive to buy the CD by adding value to it. I might just have to go out and get the CD just to support that idea, if for no other reason.