Daft Punk

Robot voices in disco music? Go to the late-70's and check out Giorgio Moroder. He was the pioneer of all-electronic disco music.

Look, if you're not sure of where to start with electronic music, I suggest a quick read of the Wikipedia page, take a few names that might interest you, and go from there.

edited 17th Jul '17 8:00:29 PM by Quag15

Still, what is the draw of that song specifically?

Or "I'm Ready" by Kano.

Honestly, Twentington, I think this is something you're just gonna have to let go. If you hate repetition that much, you're not gonna like a lot - if not most - of Electronic Music, let alone anything Daft Punk does.

To answer your question (as best I can), I just like the sound of it and it's easy to dance to (if you care about that sort of thing).

That's about as deep as it gets.

edited 17th Jul '17 8:03:07 PM by PhysicalStamina

Okay, "instrumentation". Because R2-D2 having a stroke is "instrumentation" now. What are you hearing that I'm not?

All right, if you're gonna be that guy, it's best for everyone involved to just boil it down to different tastes and leave it at that.

edited 17th Jul '17 8:10:00 PM by PhysicalStamina

Hey, Twentington, what would you think if someone stomped into the country music thread to complain about how much they hate the sound of pedal steels and acoustic guitars?

Because that's how you're coming across right now.

we have a country music thread?

"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"

If you don't like repetition but wanna give Daft Punk A Chance, listen to Random Access Memories, the album. Specifically, Touch, "Beyond", Motherboard, and "Contact".

If you want the history repetition in electronic music to be explained to you musically in a way that can make sense, try and listen to Giorgio by Modorer

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

If you don't like repetition in electronic music, I suggest IDM, especially the likes of Aphex Twin. Here's a taste. And as for "R 2 D 2 having a stroke", what did you expect? It's electronic music, and it's going to use electronic samples as a base for its compositions. They're bound to be inhuman, because electronic music came to be partially as the type of music that is hard to recreate with conventional instruments.

Nonsense is better than no sense at all.

Honestly, I suspect trolling here. I mean, it's a bit like showing up at a thai food appreciation club and complaining that you don't get thai food because it's too damned spicy and there's just so much coconut milk everywhere.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I'm gonna have to disagree with you on Contact. I love the song to death, but it is pretty repetitive.

Plus, one of the songs he was complaining about was Get Lucky, so... yeah.

Also i just realized how long it's been since I listened to anything from RAM.

edited 18th Jul '17 4:22:36 AM by PhysicalStamina

Let the music come to life.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

To be honest, I don't think Twentington's beef with "Get Lucky", specifically, is that off-base. Daft Punk made the choice to bring in a guest vocalist to sing over their track. When you blatantly try to appeal to the pop audience like that, you lose the right to invoke a "The singing isn't important—it's just dance music" defense. They wanted "Get Lucky" to play on pop radio, and they got it, so it's fair to critique it by the same standards as any other pop song.

Personally, speaking as someone who greatly enjoys what I've heard of Giorgio Moroder's electro-disco (From Here to Eternity, E = MC^2, and his Sparks collaboration No. 1 in Heaven)—DAMN is "We're up all night to get lucky! [repeat 4x]" an irritating chorus that completely destroys my goodwill for the rest of the song.

There, I've got that off my chest. I'll take my negativity out of the thread now.

The only other DP song I know off hand is the one that goes "around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world..."

I forget what it's called, though.

For contrast, right about now, the funk soul brother. Right here, right now. Understand the concept of love.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Because "Get Lucky" is the first repetitive pop song ever air on radio apparently?

Personally, I'm about instrumentation first, lyrics second. If we're gonna judge it by the standards of pop radio, which at the time mostly consisted of generic 128 BPM saw wave dancepop songs that fail to pique my interest in any and every way possible, you know what, I'll take a disco-esque song with a repetitive chorus if it means a break from "Give Me Everything Tonight" Version 23.0.

Also, comparing any of Moroder's work to "Get Lucky" is like comparing apples to a clock radio.

Also also, let's not pretend that other pop songs possess Stevie Wonder levels of songwriting.

edited 19th Jul '17 5:53:26 AM by PhysicalStamina

Well, the vast majority of radio-friendly pop does make me want to throw my radio out the window. "Get Lucky" is hardly alone in that regard. But I don't personally grade on a bell curve. An irritating song is an irritating song, even if others exist that are worse in that regard. If anything, it's more frustrating when a song starts as good as "Get Lucky", only to get brought down by an irritating chorus.

And to be fair to Daft Punk, I don't mind the singing outside the chorus.

The repetition and robot voices are really what drag down "Get Lucky" for me. I think part of it is that I have negative four billion percent amount of "Dance" in me, so I don't give a fuck about beat.

And yes, I've heard that "Funk soul brother" song too. Does that even count as music at that point?

Yes, because music isn't defined as "things I, the listener, personally like hearing".

I'm trying really hard to stay patient, considering that "this isn't music because i don't like it" is one of my Berserk Buttons.

edited 19th Jul '17 6:37:18 PM by PhysicalStamina

Ever since John Cage's work...

...the debate over "Is this even music?" has been rather definitively answered "Yes. If you have to ask, it's music."

That was awesome.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.