Daft Punk

They're closer than you think, musically.

But yeah it's basically the French pride, like newspapers in the country hail them as THE french band that actually made it internationally and therefore-it-must-be-the-best-thing-ever, and I'm kind of sick of it (can you tell ?).

Isn't Celine Dion Canadian, though?

And the Québecquois are so proud of her. It was once suggested to reset the calendar to Before and After Céline.

But, yeah, Big in Japan when you're big in the Hegemon means Big At Home, usually. Unless it's in a field where the Hegemon is very, very deprived; Cirque Du Soleil isn't nearly as popular in France as it is in the US because France is chock full of awesometastic circenses.

edited 31st Jan '14 8:34:15 AM by TheHandle

The... Hegemon? I'm confused.

Hegemonic Empire. France is this to its old colonies and protectorates, the UK is this to some of the Commonwealth, Japan is this to some in the Philippines, the US is this to pretty much everyone but especially most of America (including Canada), France used to be this to pretty much everyone until they started sharing that role with the UK, Germany is beginning to become this in the EU, China used to be this for most of East Asia, many Caliphates worked hegemonically in practice... Within the US, it's basically Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Boston as far as I'm given to understand.

The Hegemon is where the rich send their kids to go to college. The Hegemon is where the cool books and the cool music and all the cool stuff is made. The Hegemon is the model. The Hegemon's denizens are better than you, and they know it. Especially those that immigrated there from your backwater country.

edited 31st Jan '14 3:40:18 PM by TheHandle

See, I'm not sure it's quite as comparable because Canada is basically a colder U.S. with better healthcare as far as Americans are concerned, so their artists don't seem quite as foreign (e.g. the Guess Who, Rush, the guy about to be deported).

There used to be a time where everything cool came from the US and Canadian things gave Cultural Cringe. Why do you think Bandit Keith wears a US flag on his head even though he's Canadian? I don't remember seeing a proud Canadian in fiction since The McCoy harpoon dude from the Nautilus.

edited 31st Jan '14 4:09:28 PM by TheHandle

I'm pretty sure that's just a joke made by a British You Tube parodist.

edited 31st Jan '14 8:11:24 PM by Odd1

No, that is a joke made by me based on a joke made by a Youtube parodist for the sake of furthering a point; that Canadian Cultural Cringe and an inferiority complex in regards to the US used to exist.

French Army band played Daft Punk songs during Bastille Day.

Trump needs to lighten up.

A pair of homemade, er, Daft Ponies got donated to the Goodwill I work at! Even if you do live in Massachusetts, we sold them not long after I managed to snap a pic on my break, but these things were well-made enough that I'm sure whoever made them is selling more on Etsy or whatever.

So are there any songs of theirs that aren't just the same two measures repeated for what feels like six years?

Even "Get Lucky" is way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way too repetitive for my tastes.

If you want to enjoy Daft Punk, focusing on the lyrics and how often they're repeated is the wrong way to do so (the point of modern dance music in general is to focus - both in terms of listening and in terms of dancing - on the beat, bass and certain instrumentation, electronic and/or non-electronic).

That being said, check "Something About Us".

edited 17th Jul '17 5:40:24 PM by Quag15

Even when that is also the same two notes beaten over your head a trillion times? If "Get Lucky" even has a melody, I have yet to find it.

Honestly, if even "Get Lucky" is too non-melodic for you, Daft Punk just isn't your thing, period.

Don't you not like electronic music anyway? Why are you even bothering?

edited 17th Jul '17 6:29:07 PM by PhysicalStamina

Because I want to see if there's any that isn't just the same two notes repeated for six years.

You're gonna have a hell of a hard time, then. Electronic Music is repetitive by its very nature. Repetition is as intrinsic to the genre as triplets, string sections, and high fantasy themes apparently are to Symphonic Metal. And just like I'm not losing any sleep over finding a Symphonic Metal song I actually care about, I'd suggest giving up in finding anything you'd like from any electronic genre of music.

I mean, I could recommend you some stuff that's less repetitive than others, but I'm confident you wouldn't like those either.

edited 17th Jul '17 7:44:42 PM by PhysicalStamina

I'd give you examples of Electronic Music which are not repetitive, but these examples are either too avant-garde (e.g. Stockhausen) or too ambient (e.g. Brian Eno) for you.

Not necessarily. If you listen to the stuff that was made in the 50's and 60's (e.g. BBC Radiophonic Workshop, repetitiveness was not really a thing in those days, outside of maybe some *musique concrète* circles).

edited 17th Jul '17 7:49:29 PM by Quag15

Then what is the draw? If there's no melody and it's just two notes repeated for six years, what's to be gained from it?

No melody? Can I debunk your claim with just two names?

Kraftwerk (think of them as the 'Beatles' or 'Hank Williams' of modern/popular electronic music) and Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Kraftwerk were the group that influenced Daft Punk in regards to their 'robot' look (though the Germans didn't wore helmets, but instead red shirts and black ties), btw.

Electronic music is a very, very vast area, with multitudes of different sounds. It's not all repetitive, and, besides, repetition, if done well, is great.

edited 17th Jul '17 7:55:36 PM by Quag15

If you hate repetition, ooooooh boy, you wouldn't like Neu! or Can.

edited 17th Jul '17 7:53:27 PM by golgothasArisen

So what am I supposed to get out of even "Get Lucky" anyway? I hear some halfway decent disco stabs, but they're canceled out by a.) the robot voices fitting the disco vibe about as congruently as death-metal screams in a Raffi song, and b.) all the repetition.

What is the draw of that song specifically?

edited 17th Jul '17 7:58:57 PM by Twentington

If "Poeme Electronique" is anything to go by, neither was any actual music, unless you're counting sounds played in a rhythmic fashion.

Otherwise, if you wanna talk about no melody, then...