[HN Gopher] Daft Punk Break Up
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Daft Punk Break Up
Author : psychanarch
Score : 787 points
Date : 2021-02-22 14:56 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| pqdbr wrote:
| If you haven't seen it already, I highly recommend Interstella
| 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003).
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qxe-QOp_-s
| spectaclepiece wrote:
| I heard this story which I'm not sure is true but could very well
| be. Apparently two guys claimed to be Daft Punk in Ibiza and
| racked up massive bills everywhere before splitting. Needless to
| say that didn't make them very popular there before everybody
| figured out what had happened.
| devin wrote:
| Doubt it. These guys played Ibiza plenty in the 90s. People
| would know.
| AcerbicZero wrote:
| I'll miss them, but they've made some terrific stuff so far, and
| I'm sure it gets hard to maintain that same level of passion
| indefinitely.
|
| Best of luck with whatever they chose to work on next.
| donatj wrote:
| I genuinely feel like listening to Discovery on my discman on the
| bus in high school helped define who I am as a person.
|
| On the one hand I find this news horribly disheartening, on the
| other hand I am thrilled to see them go out on top. They have
| never had a bad album, and I'm my opinion they only got better as
| they went.
|
| Godspeed you beautiful robots.
| steve_adams_86 wrote:
| Oh man. Discman on the bus. Those words punch me right in the
| memory.
|
| Likewise, I had a period of time listening to daft punk's
| discovery that was fairly transformative. It completely, with
| no exaggeration, overhauled my understanding and appreciation
| of music.
| fumar wrote:
| 100% carrying around my prized possessions, discman + CDs or
| minidisc, was pivotal to who I am now. And always with me was
| Daft Punk's Discovery. At that age, the songs felt long but
| in a good way. I couldn't wrap my head around the undulating
| changes and how it they made music. I also love Homework but
| Discovery has been a top album for me since I was 12. Veridis
| Quo captured my imagination and was a big influence which I
| believe led me to enjoy artists like Sigur Ros.
| donatj wrote:
| Guessing the numbers on your username to be significant,
| we're of the same vintage.
|
| Discovery, Radiohead's Kid A, and Bjork's Vespertine defined
| my late teens - an age that basically defined my musical
| tastes.
|
| It's interesting how music does such an amazing job of
| worming itself into your brain.
| steve_adams_86 wrote:
| Haha, you're speaking my language. Kid A was just as high
| impact as Discovery. What a beautiful album.
|
| I agree. Those songs are so deeply ingrained in me that if
| I heard 100ms of them I could probably tell you which song
| I heard. I can barely remember how to pour myself a glass
| of water some days, but that music is deep in my brain.
| fpgaminer wrote:
| > I genuinely feel like listening to Discovery on my discman on
| the bus in high school helped define who I am as a person.
|
| In high school my backpack had a small zipped pocket at the top
| specifically designed for a CD player. You ran your headphone
| cord through a gasket into the pocket, keeping your player safe
| and convenient. As a loner, it was splendid.
|
| And then you always wished you had a CD player with just a
| _little_ more buffer so it wouldn't skip when you were running
| to class.
| Sohcahtoa82 wrote:
| I remember in high school spending my money on what was
| probably the best portable CD player on the market, the
| Panasonic SL-SW890 [0]
|
| Pretty sure the target audience was runners. It had a strap
| on the back so you would attach it to your hand, and near the
| hinge was a hard slightly-rubbery plastic with little
| indentations for your fingers. It was incredibly comfortable
| to hold.
|
| And the skip protection was absolutely top-tier. By some kind
| of magic, the laser could read the disc at any arbitrary
| speed up to some limit. It didn't just handle bumps, but
| weird sudden rotations that would change the speed of disc
| rotation relative to the laser. I think it claimed 40 seconds
| of skip protection, but I would jostle, spin, and bump it for
| 5 solid minutes and no skipping.
|
| And the way the thing close made it very difficult to
| accidentally pop it open. Drop it, throw it, it's staying
| closed.
|
| Of course, I paid for all that ruggedness. I think at the
| time, most portable CD players were around $75, and I think I
| paid $150 for it. Of course, this was over 20 years ago so my
| memory could be wrong.
|
| Pretty sure I still have that player in a box somewhere.
|
| [0] https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-SL-SW890-Shockwave-
| Portable...
| mackrevinack wrote:
| i was really hoping with daft punk always pushing the envelope
| that they would come out with some VR type experience or
| something really off the wall like controlling the music on stage
| with one of those neural brain links. basically become one with
| the machine! but maybe it's another few decades until that kind
| of technology well be ready
| simlevesque wrote:
| One of my regrets in life is not going to Alive 2007 because I
| was young and none of my friends wanted to go with me.
| zucked wrote:
| Ditto. My "home" venue is Red Rocks. I got invited but I didn't
| feel like it and didn't want to spend the $50.
|
| Oof.
| pmarreck wrote:
| I was 35 and didn't go. I have no excuse.
| jahlove wrote:
| Link to the Epilogue video (why couldn't pitchfork link this?):
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuDX6wNfjqc
| jacobsenscott wrote:
| It is there - scroll down.
| [deleted]
| SubiculumCode wrote:
| Break up? Probably more like retirement. 20+ years man.
| cl0ne wrote:
| I ask the DJ to play an underground Italian new wave minimal
| electro duo... Of course he doesn't have it. I settle for Daft
| Punk.
| vegardx wrote:
| Instant Crush on Random Access Memories pretty much sums up how
| this makes me feel.
| christian008 wrote:
| I wonder if they tried to create something better than Random
| Access Memories for the last 7 years only to find out that it's
| the best to leave it at that high note.
| keiferski wrote:
| I always thought Daft Punk figured out the perfect solution to
| the _how to be famous_ problem. Everyone recognizes their artist
| name and their artist costume, but virtually no one knows their
| real name or would accost them on the street.
| yuppie_scum wrote:
| Bowie used to ride the nyc subway all the time, his secret was
| a trench coat and hat and he would carry a Greek newspaper.
| mabbo wrote:
| I saw Don Schlitz[0] perform "The Gambler" at The Grand Ole
| Opry[1] last year (juuust before Covid). He said something like
| "Yeah, Kenny Rogers did well with this song, but I can still go
| to the grocery store without being recognized, and I still get
| paid when they play it" (or something to that effect). Funny
| guy, and a great singer too.
|
| [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Schlitz
|
| [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ole_Opry
| pfarrell wrote:
| This essay [0] from Tim Ferriss really crystalized for me a
| lot about why fame is a drag. During my
| college years, one of my dorm mate's dads was a famous
| Hollywood producer. He once said to me, "You want everyone to
| know your name and no one to know your face."
| Taking it a step further, we could quote Bill Murray:
| I always want to say to people who want to be rich and
| famous: 'try being rich first.' See if that doesn't cover
| most of it.
|
| 0: https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/
| artursapek wrote:
| Worst of all is being famous but not rich.
| jzemeocala wrote:
| To qoute Paul Stanley from KISS when asked about what its
| like to be rich and famous:
|
| "Well, I know what it's like to be famous but I can't
| tell you anything about being rich"
| DrSiemer wrote:
| Steve-O from Jackass was world famous and pretty much
| broke at the same time after their first season.
| core-questions wrote:
| Famous for being stupid at scales most people can't even
| imagine isn't exactly a ticket for richness.
| pfarrell wrote:
| Totally. That's exactly what I think when I see people on
| reality shows get their fame.
| dylan604 wrote:
| sometimes, 15 minutes turns into a few seasons
| redisman wrote:
| It's a great take from Tim and seems to ring very true. I
| just don't think people really think about what fame means.
| It's got huge tradeoffs and its mostly not fun but rather
| scary and unnerving. Eric Weinstein also seemed to run into
| this fairly quickly and has now stopped making his podcast
| because the fame part is mostly toxic.
| crispyambulance wrote:
| > Eric Weinstein also seemed to run into this fairly
| quickly ...
|
| No, I don't think so. Any blowback he's gotten is not
| from "fame" but rather his difficult personality.
| cbozeman wrote:
| It's a good thing he absolutely insists on being
| sesquipedalian, because it limits his audience.
|
| He seems to fancy himself as Tech Faulkner; I'd rather be
| Tech Hemingway.
| andreilys wrote:
| Hasn't stopped him from being active on Clubhouse where
| he has close to 2M followers now.
| HelloFellowDevs wrote:
| Sometimes the greatest thing for many people is the ability
| to choose fortune over fame.
| weinzierl wrote:
| It's the fallacy of the C-list celebrity to realize too
| late that fame does not easily convert to fortune.
| rkangel wrote:
| I think many people go out seeking fame as goal in it's
| own right.
| ForHackernews wrote:
| I guess it depends how rich you aspire to be. If you have
| a a million social media followers, it's trivial to cash
| in on that attention to the tune of hundreds of thousands
| of dollars a year.
| fxtentacle wrote:
| except if you try to sell t-shirts?
|
| https://www.insider.com/instagrammer-arii-2-million-
| follower...
| ForHackernews wrote:
| According to this
| https://www.influencer.agency/instagram-influencer-rates/
| it's ~$10k for a campaign from an influencer with 1M+
| followers.
|
| Make ten deals like that per year, that's $100,000k.
| Tarsul wrote:
| I don't believe those numbers (the site it comes from has
| interest in telling people that influencer marketing is
| worth much, so grain of salt.). But anyway, even if they
| would be true today, they won't hold tomororow because
| everyone gets more followers but not more attention.
| Also, it's a "winner takes all" market like all media.
| Still, if you're famous today I bet it's easier than ever
| to make at least SOME money out of it due to social media
| and the ability to cut off a lot of middle man.
| jandrese wrote:
| You have to repeat that once a month to break into the
| middle class, assuming you have to pay for all your own
| healthcare, retirement, insurance, etc... What a dismal
| existence.
| IgorPartola wrote:
| Blue Man Group is slightly different but I would not recognize
| any of them on the street either.
| vinger wrote:
| Who they are changes based on who is performing in what city.
| dahart wrote:
| It didn't start that way in NY, but now they have that
| option precisely because nobody can recognize them, right?
| vinger wrote:
| It's great I can go to New York and watch many of the
| original cast but it is also great I can find them in
| London, Toronto, Vegas, probably Toyko.
|
| Who they are can change as long as they look and act the
| same. It brings down costs and allows the creator to
| scale.
|
| It's better than plays because shows in different cities
| will have different actors and everyone knows.
|
| But you do lose the ability to promote based on
| individual people. And for plays that can be a huge draw.
| Stars will bring people.
|
| Think of how much bigger blueman group coull be if each
| had a different personality. Perhaps a cartoon could have
| been made.
| w0mbat wrote:
| UK readers over 50 will remember how the Wombles pulled this
| off in the 70s. A huge series of hits performed by basically a
| bunch of furries.
| parkersweb wrote:
| The legendary Mike Batt!
| Blikkentrekker wrote:
| It is really quite common for musicians to have such stage
| names and stage personae.
|
| What I find rather interesting is that if one search for
| Mafumafu's face, what one obtains is his virtual avatar, a
| nonexistent character by which he repraesents himself in most
| instances, and one has to add keywords such as "real" to see
| his actual face, -- which is all the more interesting since
| he's actually quite beautiful and clearly puts quite a bit of
| effort into his appearance.
|
| My favorites are, of course, the black meal artists who only go
| on stage in theatrical makeup under stage aliases such as
| "Necrobutcher" and "Zhaaral", whose real names and even genders
| are often unknown behind the makeup.
| loosetypes wrote:
| And it's been continued, to an extent, by folks like Deadmau5
| and Marshmello.
|
| I wonder if any groups have stand ins ready to don the mantle
| for live performances if there were ever, for whatever reason,
| a double booking.
| Dirlewanger wrote:
| It works well if your act allows you to get away with it
| (fellow Frenchman Danger also has a headpiece). I don't think
| anyone really knows any of the members of Ghost aside from the
| main guy.
| goto11 wrote:
| Then again Jerry Seinfeld said: _There 's no downside to fame
| and people who whine about it make me sick. It's the greatest
| thing in the world._
| fpgaminer wrote:
| Fame is probably great for people who really have their shit
| together and are confident in themselves, like Jerry
| Seinfeld. For people who don't have their shit together, it
| can magnify and provoke even your most minor weaknesses. If
| you aren't confident in yourself, you can end up maladjusted,
| surrounded by the distortion field of fame. Elon Musk would
| probably have continued to be a cooky, but fairly level
| headed dude. But now he's richer than Bezos and the power has
| corrupted him. Who's to tell you what's wrong when you make
| exponentially more money than even the 1%?
|
| I like Jerry Seinfeld, but he (or at least the persona he
| plays in public) has this habit of being unable to put
| himself in other's shoes.
| duderific wrote:
| I think it depends on your personality. It probably suits
| some people much better than others. An example is Kurt
| Cobain who hated being famous and felt trapped by it.
| echohack5 wrote:
| Based on what I know about Jerry Seinfeld, he seems pretty
| good at setting hard boundaries for himself. It seems he's
| uninterested in pleasantries and burdens that come associated
| with fame, and has, maybe uniquely, been able to avoid being
| foisted into situations beyond his control.
|
| I would assert that _being famous_ is a skill that not all
| famous people develop, thus the disparity between those who
| shun fame and those who don 't think it's a problem.
| Lio wrote:
| I think that's part of the Kraftwerk play book that Daft Punk
| have previously acknowledged.
|
| Obviously Kraftwerk's robots look like them to a certain
| degree, so Daft Punk have taken the on stage anonymity further
| but the anti-pop star thing is pure Kraftwerk.
|
| There was famously only one way to contact Kraftwerk, via a
| phone at their studio with ringer mechanism removed.
|
| If you had the number, only given out by their lawyer, you rang
| a preset time of day when the handset would be lifted... if you
| were lucky.
| ThePadawan wrote:
| I mean, they are both well known artists with other projects in
| their own right. They even published songs with their real
| names.
|
| If you wanna talk "you have no idea who this is but an
| incredibly prolific artist", I want to put forth Max Martin
| [0].
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin
| fastball wrote:
| It's very easy to be prolific without being famous haha.
|
| It's hard to be famous without being _famous_ , which is what
| Daft Punk pulled off.
| jnsie wrote:
| Wow, that's pretty incredible. Thanks for the good read!
| keiferski wrote:
| Sure, but Daft Punk is almost a household name. Even people
| that don't listen to their music probably know the name and
| the helmet. Their personal names are mostly just known to
| fans.
| fivedogit wrote:
| ZZ Top figured this out a long time ago.
| coldsmoke wrote:
| I recently found this video of Billy Gibbons performing in
| the street in Helsinki without anyone noticing. I like that
| he becomes less recognizable when _not_ wearing sunglasses.
|
| https://youtu.be/YHUQNxggT_k
| spoonjim wrote:
| You might be surprised how little of a "disguise" can make you
| unrecognizable. Shakira took a history class at UCLA and just
| by not wearing makeup and using her legal name Isabel, nobody
| recognized her (or if they did, they didn't say anything). The
| "Shakira" you see on TV is such an artificial construction that
| someone seeing her without any of the artifice has no idea it's
| "her."
| 0xdeadbeefbabe wrote:
| Really undermines the title "hips don't lie"
| spoonjim wrote:
| LOL. The way she moves her butt is so distinctive that if
| she just walks like a normal person that's a disguise of
| sorts.
| vmception wrote:
| I recognize alot of people by how they walk, from behind
|
| I could see that being a disguise
| oarsinsync wrote:
| Gait recognition is a thing, in humans and in ML.
|
| Shame we're seeing places explicitly banning facial
| recognition rather than biometric recognition.
| core-questions wrote:
| Facial recognition is being banned for law enforcement
| use not because it doesn't work, or is ineffective, or is
| undesirable, but because it reveals politically
| uncomfortable truths about who commits crime that
| existing crime stats were already pointing out in a less
| visceral way.
| vmception wrote:
| and also picks the wrong people because the training set
| is polluted by the uncomfortable truths of overpolicing
| areas creating the bad crime stats
| spoonjim wrote:
| LOL. And reveals uncomfortable truths about what the law
| has defined as a "crime," where killing one person in a
| $100 drug transaction gets you life without parole, while
| fraudulently marketing OxyContin as non-addictive while
| knowing it is addictive, thus creating the opioid
| epidemic that has killed 500,000 people to date, and
| hiring McKinsey to solve your "my drug is killing people"
| problem gets you a $3 million fine.
| oarsinsync wrote:
| That's a pretty damning statement to make. Can you
| provide some citations to back that view up?
| orestarod wrote:
| Without links ready, and not being the OP, I have seen
| many articles saying that "this ML recognition/analysis
| system has racial bias because the targets it finds are
| more {insert trait} than average." It struck me how such
| an unscientific thing made it to so many articles. It's a
| symptom of a cause that a specific group has greater
| representation in something, e.g. crime. You can't call
| factual observations, racist. You should rather find the
| root cause and solve it.
| vmception wrote:
| > You can't call factual observations, racist. You should
| rather find the root cause and solve it.
|
| People already know the root cause, and it is
| overpolicing and discretionary enforcement of crimes like
| drug possession.
|
| The broken-windows policy has been disproven, despite
| disproportionately impacting "the specific groups" (black
| Americans) that now pollute the dataset that ML uses.
|
| And even in the concept or drug possession and drug
| consumption, all groups have been shown to use them in
| the same distribution. For example. These kinds of things
| start a cycle that means the second and third minor
| infractions cause greater consequences in court, which
| further reduce opportunities that lead to the dangerous
| crimes being committed.
|
| So we already know the dataset is polluted.
|
| Pointing to the top of the iceberg and saying "well they
| commit the crimes no need to spend any energy on this
| mystery why don't we all just admit they're the problem"
| is a complete deflection promulgated intentionally and
| you should really check your peer group and media sources
| if this is the extent of the comfortable worldview you
| (or anyone passing by) have, the problem and solution is
| already known.
|
| The solutions are being implemented in a patchwork and
| slowly, which is not incorporated in datasets that ML
| use, largely due to apathy and lack of awareness of
| engineers and the management of the tech companies
| involved, and lack of representation of the affected
| groups in engineering and management of tech companies.
| spoonjim wrote:
| Well the "factual" observation comes from training data,
| which unless created in an unbiased manner creates a
| biased dataset and biased inferences. Unless you believe
| that American law enforcement is an unbiased process, in
| which case I don't think I can help you.
| 0xdeadbeefbabe wrote:
| I apologize to UCLA for continuing to wonder if Harvard
| students would have discovered her.
| radicaldreamer wrote:
| A lot of it is context as well... you see this in videos of
| world class violinists busking in the NY subway and everyone
| just goes along on their way and doesn't stop for a minute to
| listen.
|
| Celebrities on campus is likely also a much more normal thing
| at UCLA, USC and in LA in general.
| EricE wrote:
| I think a bit of that is you don't expect to see someone
| famous just walking down the street. On more than on occasion
| I've passed someone and went "Was that.... naw, couldn't be"
| then found out later that yes, it really was that person.
|
| The corollary to the S.E.P. field in Hitchhikers Guide to the
| Galaxy (SEP - Somebody Else's Problem Field - loved the
| concept for the ultimate invisibility cloak)
| cgriswald wrote:
| > I think a bit of that is you don't expect to see someone
| famous just walking down the street.
|
| Even if you somewhat it, you don't really expect it.
|
| One early morning at tourist area (where I'd already seen a
| few celebrities), my friend and I are playing Daytona USA
| and this sunglass-wearing dude comes down and sits next to
| us to play. He looks vaguely familiar, but I guessed I had
| just seen him there before -- there were a lot of regulars
| at this arcade. I'm bragging, but not exaggerating, when I
| say we were world-competitive at this game. This guy was
| good, but we destroyed him.
|
| After the race, the guy got up, smiled at both of us, said
| nothing, and left. My friend and I talked a bit about the
| race -- a sort of post-race analysis we often did to see if
| there was anything new we could learn -- and during that
| process it sort of dawned on us that we had just played
| against a NASCAR driver.
| mindcrime wrote:
| _I think a bit of that is you don 't expect to see someone
| famous just walking down the street._
|
| This reminds me of a celebrity encounter I had once. I
| walked into a Gold's Gym in Raleigh, and saw a guy doing
| triceps press-downs on the machine right by the path to the
| locker room. I had to walk past to get to the locker room
| and as I approached I realized I was looking at Arn
| Anderson (professional wrestler).
|
| I was a bit shocked and as I walked by him I did a double
| take and blurted out something stupid like "Tell me you're
| not Arn Anderson!?!" Of course he dead-panned the whole
| thing and just looked at me and said "I'm not Arn
| Anderson". By this point I realized it was absolutely him,
| but I was too awe struck to think of anything intelligent
| to say, so I just kept walking.
|
| Probably about as stupid as I've ever come off in public in
| my life. :-(
|
| The conclusion of the story though, is that he wound up in
| the locker room while I was still getting ready for my
| workout and I got a chance to chat with him for a while. We
| talked about the "good ole days" of Crockett Promotions /
| WCW and the 4 Horsemen, etc., etc. He seemed like a nice
| guy. I just regret forgetting to ask for an autograph.
|
| It turns out, that gym is (well, was... it's closed now)
| close to the arena in Raleigh where the WWE shows take
| place, and it used to be common-place for professional
| wrestlers to stop in when they were in town for shows. That
| just happened to be the first time I personally met any of
| them.
| Clubber wrote:
| I saw Mr.T at a networking conference in the late 90s
| posing for pictures for attendees. He was a hero of mine
| as a kid. I was star struck and couldn't think of
| anything to say, but I did get a picture. He was in a
| variation of his A-Team outfit.
|
| I also saw Ed McMahon in an elevator a few months later
| at my shared office space. Something to the effect of,
| "Going up?" and I replied, "No down, thanks." Totally
| normal average Joe encounter.
|
| Such a strange world we live in.
| singingfish wrote:
| I was in the shop the other day and I had a small ice block
| related interaction with a little kid. Then her mum turned
| to speak to me and it was one of the Orange is the New
| Black actors. Which surprised me quite a bit - even though
| I knew she was a regular at the shop. I wonder if she'd
| clocked that I recognised her. I think I hid it well
| though.
| flycaliguy wrote:
| I'll never forget learning that Sinead O'Connor had been
| recording in my hometown. Must have walked by her a dozen
| times and although I felt a "vibe" off her, I never pieced
| it together.
| intrasight wrote:
| Peter Gabriel chilled out in Rochester NY (my home town)
| for a while. In an interview he mentioned that it was
| nice to be anonymous. Not sure what that says about my
| home town that nobody recognized him ;)
| dunnevens wrote:
| Agree. David Bowie once demonstrated it to a reporter. They
| walked together through Manhattan. No one bothered them.
| Bowie then said he was going to "turn it on". Something in
| his expression slightly changed. And then he was mobbed by
| fans.
| jw1224 wrote:
| Wasn't that story about Marilyn Monroe?
|
| https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-marilyn-monroe-effect-
| the-...
| dunnevens wrote:
| The article I'm remembering was linked as part of an obit
| right after Bowie's death. I wish I could find it, but
| I'm apparently not coming up with the right phrase for
| Google.
|
| I wouldn't be surprised if this is a common trait of
| celebrities. Wear a mask, literally or figuratively, on
| stage or camera. Take the mask off and you're just an
| ordinary person that no one else will notice.
|
| Bowie talked about that mask here, and how he used it to
| face his fears:
|
| https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/166082106996/my-
| friend-t...
| SuoDuanDao wrote:
| What a beautiful story. Bowie's invisible mask reminds me
| of the 'glamour' that fey creatures were imagined to have
| in the old stories. Puts the term 'glam rock' into new
| perspective for sure...
| joshstrange wrote:
| Is this the article you remember?
|
| https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/fashion/david-bowie-
| invis...
| dunnevens wrote:
| Thanks! I think that is the one.
| edent wrote:
| I've heard that story about Marilyn Monroe - but it has
| probably been ascribed to hundreds of celebs.
|
| https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/2610/No-One-Recognized-
| Marily...
| [deleted]
| justinator wrote:
| Honestly this just sort of sounds like Manhattan. The east
| coast vibe is certainly more of a "get out of my way"
| mentality.
| dunnevens wrote:
| You're probably right. If I'm remembering the article
| correctly, he would just put a bland hard face on. Wear
| boring & ordinary clothing. No one would pay him any
| attention.
| yboris wrote:
| Consider _The Residents_ - a 4-person musical group with
| eyeballs instead of heads who have been anonymous for about 50
| years!
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residents
| [deleted]
| Mediterraneo10 wrote:
| Several other musicians have done the same through mask
| wearing. Gene Simmons of Kiss was probably rarely recognized in
| public before, much later in life, he started appearing in
| television programs without his makeup.
|
| MF Doom, Sia, the list goes on.
| mabbo wrote:
| I remember reading a wonderful article of a guy running a
| recording studio and being excited because Kiss is coming to
| record there.
|
| Then 4 normal looking guys show up and he's like "Oh right,
| they don't dress up like that all the time".
| ragebol wrote:
| Gorrilaz don't even both with that, just animation
| toyg wrote:
| Damon Albarn was already famous by then.
| mytailorisrich wrote:
| It took me some time to discover that Gorillaz was his
| band.
|
| That's a great proof of talent, isn't it?
| toyg wrote:
| His talent for obfuscation, you mean?
|
| Gorillaz definitely benefited at bootstrap from being
| "the new project by Damon Albarn of Blur".
| mytailorisrich wrote:
| No, I mean people being drawn to the music, not the
| famous name (even if the famous name helped promote the
| band)
| freewilly1040 wrote:
| I wonder if this is a 2021 view of Gorillaz possibly
| being more famous than Blur at this point. Though, for
| sure there were plenty of contemporary Gorlillaz fans who
| didn't know anything about Blur.
| jdminhbg wrote:
| Gorillaz have always been more popular than Blur in the
| US at least, where their only hit was Song 2.
| greggturkington wrote:
| Gorillaz are a virtual band. The humans are just their
| avatars.
| agumonkey wrote:
| Sia was face on during most her first years
| dajohnson89 wrote:
| she did some amazing work with zero-7.
| agumonkey wrote:
| Honestly I can't fathom her solo career, the zero seven
| era was so brilliant. I'm happy she gets some wide
| recognition, wealth and comfort, but musically she is off
| now. Her gamut is trimmed it's all loud and no subtlety.
| navbaker wrote:
| Holy cow, I didn't know until your comment and I
| subsequently looked her up on Wikipedia that she's the
| vocals on "Destiny"!
| agumonkey wrote:
| Enjoy the others man, worth your time and ears
| blacksmith_tb wrote:
| Can't forget The Residents[1] - they were/are instantly
| recognizable (as eyeballs in tophats, that is) but had a
| rotating crew inside the masks.
|
| 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residents#Identity
| weinzierl wrote:
| Taken to the extreme I've heard the _Blue Man Group_ is
| more a franchise than theatre group which recruits the the
| personnel for their shows locally.
| [deleted]
| ehsankia wrote:
| Not everyone who wears mask ends up sticking with the
| anonymity though, I can imagine the pull of fame can be
| irresistible for some. Deadmau5 for example. Others have
| managed staying hidden just by not appearing anywhere, like
| Burial.
| pmarreck wrote:
| Had to google Burial.
|
| My hipster inspection is way out of date.
| ehsankia wrote:
| He is pretty "famous" in the underground dubstep scene
| (and by dubstep, I mean the original UK 2-step music, not
| whatever it became in the 2010's. He's always been
| enigmatic and hidden until that one post out of nowhere,
| releasing music through his friend/record company
| Hyberdub.
|
| Semi-related, but one of my favorite satire posts of all
| time: https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/jk-
| rowling-rec...
| sjm wrote:
| Next time you find yourself alone on a gloomy drizzly
| night, throw on Untrue and walk through the streets for a
| unique experience.
| dijksterhuis wrote:
| Pretty sure burial once tweeted a selfie to say he was
| taking a break from music to play diablo or something
| imwillofficial wrote:
| Best way to announce a tour break ever.
| ehsankia wrote:
| Tour break? I don't think he's ever played live. Maybe
| anonymously. Kode9 sometimes plays his new songs but
| that's it.
| imwillofficial wrote:
| I have no idea, I've only heard songs, no sets. Good to
| know!
| somishere wrote:
| i'd always imagined burial was a side gig for kieran
| hebden / fourtet .. got ridiculed by everyone i mentioned
| it to in confidence .. they were right
| ehsankia wrote:
| It was Dark Souls 2 but yeah, it was kinda hilarious,
| since it was basically the first time we ever heard
| directly from him or got an "official" selfie in almost a
| decade of him making music, and it was just to say "I'm
| not sure if I will have many new tunes for a while
| because I need to play that game a lot", even though he
| already had the reputation of not putting anything out
| for long stretches of time. It was so bizarre.
| sjm wrote:
| It is hypothesized that Burial made a little guest
| appearance at a James Blake boiler room set:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8idi7PcsbU
|
| It definitely looks like him, but who knows.
| deepstack wrote:
| Good idea to make it anonymous, that way you can swap out
| your friends when you get sick and tired of performing.
| acomjean wrote:
| bucket head: A guitarist with a bucket mask.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead
| grawprog wrote:
| Who's this guitar playing sonzabitch?"
|
| Is a question common asked
|
| On his head a bucket of chicken bones
|
| On his face a plastic mask He's the bastard son of a
| preacher-man
|
| On the town he left a stain They made him live in a chicken
| house To try and hide the shame
|
| He was born in a coop, raised in a cage
|
| Children fear him, critics rage
|
| He's half alive, he's half dead
|
| Folks just call him Buckethead!
| greggturkington wrote:
| DOOM (all caps when you spell the name) even had other people
| play sets for him because the mask worked so well (according
| to rumor and REALLY convincing video w/audio)
| Blikkentrekker wrote:
| This was parodied in _The Good Place_ when an obvious
| parody of Deadmau5 payed others to wear his mask on stage
| since the audience couldn 't tell anyway.
| lghh wrote:
| I'm having trouble finding the article now, but he said
| that later in his life he had lost quite a bit of weight so
| when he did do his performances himself, people didn't
| believe it was him and got mad.
| blackearl wrote:
| I believe it's more than just rumor -
| https://pitchfork.com/news/hannibal-buress-was-an-mf-doom-
| im...
| colinmhayes wrote:
| I've seen some "MF DOOM" sets that were clearly not him
| under the mask.
| bjarneh wrote:
| Totally agree. Never understood why people would like that
| other type of fame when you cannot walk anywhere without
| drawing a crowd. At some point the only people you can truly
| hang out with are other extremely famous people.
| sneak wrote:
| There are at least a few stage acts that are like this, at
| least two dance acts that I can think of.
|
| It also permits one to hire additional stand-ins and perform in
| multiple places at the same time.
| cognaitiv wrote:
| Best Daft Punk show I ever saw was Lollapalooza with LCD
| Soundsystem opening on the nearby stage. LCD Soundsytem closed
| with "Daft Punk is Playing.." and Daft Punk emerged in a pyramid
| and absolutely melted our faces.
| geek_at wrote:
| wait Lollapalooza is a real event? I honestly thought the
| simpsons episode made fun of the music event scene
| strictnein wrote:
| Yep. Used to have some pretty awesome lineups too.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lollapalooza_lineups_b.
| ..
| flobosg wrote:
| It's very real and even expanded to other countries over the
| last decade.
| dylan604 wrote:
| Wow. You must be really young, or from a sheltered lifestyle.
| I remember skipping school to attend the first couple of
| shows, and then continued in college. Seems to my memory that
| the 'palooza festivals re-energized the whole music festival
| concept, as there were many more annual festivals that came
| through town after. I still have the t-shirts that I can't
| wear, but refuse to throw out.
| vlunkr wrote:
| As Homerpalooza taught us, music festivals are terrible,
| and are all about big companies turning rebellion into
| money, so who cares if someone doesn't know the names of
| them.
| jerrre wrote:
| Or maybe not living geographically and/or culturally close?
| Or does that fall under sheltered lifestyle.
| dylan604 wrote:
| I don't live anywhere near Glastonbury, but I'm fully
| aware that it is a real event. I'm at least in the same
| country as Miami, but have never attended the WMC, or the
| Grammys, or iHate Radio events in Vegas. I was a wee lad
| when Farm Aid occurred, but I was aware that it was more
| than a reference in an animated TV show. I've also been
| able to read music 'zines and websites without being
| geographically near any of them.
|
| So yeah, sheltered or at the least, thoroughly
| uninterested in music as anything more than just
| something in the background. Willing to admit, I have a
| much more intense interest in music, so I do read/listen
| to things that would be considered history to something
| compared to anything performed before Taylor Swift.
| jevgeni wrote:
| The word 'sheltered' is still misapplied here.
| dylan604 wrote:
| How so? Having never experienced things outside of your
| "comfort zone" or your upbringing seems like the
| culturally accepted definition of sheltered. Whether that
| was overbearing parents never allowing you to listen to
| music other than prescribed by religious beliefs or
| parental personal preference or just one's own personal
| preference all seems like sheltered to me. Being
| culturally unaware of events that occurred outside one's
| personal experience might be stretching sheltered a bit,
| but maybe it's the more polite term. People unaware of
| what came before yet was very influential of what's
| occurring now also seems to me to work with sheltered.
| Whether that's in music/film/any form of art, or even
| political/cultural/programming/etc.
|
| Willing to stipulate a bias in that I'm a dork that
| always wants to know the how/when/where/why/who of
| anything in which I get involved.
| jevgeni wrote:
| Those Somalian kids that might not know (gasp!) about
| Lollapalooza sure are sheltered then.
|
| If only they had the courage to get out of their comfort
| zone of war and poverty, and just witness a mediocre
| first-world yuppie music festival, then they would
| realize how relevant Ariane Grande is to their human
| condition! "Can you stay up all night", Burhan? "F* me
| till the daylight. Thirty four, thirty five", Burhan.
| Come on.
|
| Or those 6 billion non-English speakers, who don't have
| the common decency to just learn English and our culture!
| From however those countries are called.
|
| It's all that sheltering! And we are being polite here,
| by stretching the word "sheltered", and not calling them
| out for so stupidly not conforming to our anglo-saxon-
| centric world view!
| yuliyp wrote:
| Different people are into different things. Some people
| are really into music and know all about many music
| festivals around the world. Others are into board games
| and know about board game conventions. Others are into
| e-sports and know about all the tournaments to go to.
| Others know everything about a sport or sports league.
|
| Not being well-versed in the others isn't necessarily
| being sheltered, but a consequence of having a limited
| set of interests.
| skinnymuch wrote:
| All this to say it's somehow necessary to know about the
| palooza to not be sheltered? Why would the bar for
| comfort zone be going to popular events of a specific
| niche?
|
| There's many influential things that won't matter to
| individuals. It's not possible to know about all
| influential things any way.
|
| The only way to even perform about bigger paloozas is to
| be a big name. Being a big name doesn't mean influential.
| Someone could be very into specific influential music
| that doesn't overlap with palooza events.
|
| I'm sure any one who's geeky into pop media like music,
| film, tv, can look at your history and call you sheltered
| under your constraints. Meaning everyone is sheltered to
| some others based off your meaning of sheltered.
| 0xFF0123 wrote:
| I feel xkcd's Ten Thousand[1] is appropriate here.
|
| [1] https://xkcd.com/1053/
| chadlavi wrote:
| I see that you also went to college somewhere between 2004 and
| 2008
| Benjammer wrote:
| I went to a Phoenix show at Madison Square Garden last-minute
| with a friend in 2011. After Phoenix played a 3 song encore,
| the stage went dark and then a DJ booth lit up in the back, way
| above the stage, and Daft Punk walked out and they did an ~8
| minute remix/mashup of Harder Better Faster and Phoenix's 1901.
| One of my favorite concert memories ever.
| alex_duf wrote:
| I'm extremely jealous of that show, both Phoenix and Daft
| Punks are my favourite bands, it must have been something.
| fc373745 wrote:
| 2007 alive was my personal favorite set from them. They mashed
| up quite a bit of their all time tracks into absolute bangers.
| emptyparadise wrote:
| I really wish there was a studio version of Alive 2007.
| cauthon wrote:
| I've thought that myself before, but having listened to it
| so many times I think the audience cheers are as much as a
| part of the album now
| jakemauer wrote:
| Totally agree. There are two or three distinct shouts
| from someone in the audience at the beginning of Around
| the World / Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger that are now
| part of my experience of listening to it. The audience is
| absolutely part of the energy of the album.
| sorum wrote:
| I've always wondered what the guy is shouting. Is it
| something in French, or just "Wow"?
| tomputer wrote:
| I agree, went to the Alive 2007 show in Amsterdam. Fantastic!
| ethbr0 wrote:
| I happened to catch them both in Madrid (Summercase) and
| Miami (Bang) in 2006.
|
| It's not often I'd travel to watch the "same" show twice.
| That was a nuts setlist and show period.
|
| Especially since my going to Madrid was via hearing about it
| from a hotel concierge and "Hey dad, I know we're here for
| your business, but can I go to this music festival, across a
| city neither of us know, that speaks a language I can maybe
| passably bang out?"
|
| Bless non-helicopter parents. :)
| imwillofficial wrote:
| Will your dad adopt me?
| ethbr0 wrote:
| Unfortunately, I think he's happily retired from child
| rearing duties, and I know he happily spends most of his
| time fly fishing in Wyoming. ;)
| selectodude wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udvYSd2TIkg
|
| It's so good.
| pmarreck wrote:
| Do you know what year and/or city this was? I would like to
| look this up
| latortuga wrote:
| Don't know year but lolla is always in grant park, Chicago.
| zeruch wrote:
| It is now, but wasn't originally. It was a touring show the
| first half dozen years until it went on hiatus. When it was
| revived in the (mid?) 2000s, it became a solo Chicago
| event.
| coldsmoke wrote:
| It's touring again. At least outside of the US. I was at
| the one in Stockholm, Sweden two years ago. It was
| supposed to come back last year, but you know...
| lupin3ken wrote:
| I saw that at Lollapalooza and it one of the best shows I have
| ever seen.
|
| I thought it was so cool afterwards to see a bunch of people
| covered head to toe in blue body paint like the aliens from
| Interstella 5555.
| jawngee wrote:
| Saw them at Even Furthur in 1996 and they melted everyone's mind.
| One of the most amazing musical wow moments I've ever witnessed.
| supergirl wrote:
| afaik they were not very active anyway; not like they were
| touring often. the break up only makes sense if one of them wants
| to do something else
| thedudeabides5 wrote:
| Anyone else think it ironic that they announced their retirement
| by blowing up out on the playa "by the trash fence"
| arethuza wrote:
| Well, I guess we still have M83 and Carpenter Brut to supply
| French synth awesomeness, but I'll really miss Daft Punk.
| nolok wrote:
| And N'to, Worakls, Danger, Justice, French79, Kavinsky, Jean-
| Michel Jarre, Air, Birdy Nam Nam, Gesaffelstein, Perturbator,
| SebastiAn, ... French electro is doing well.
| avesi wrote:
| A lot of the Ed Banger crew don't appear to be releasing
| music anymore as far as I'm aware.
| nolok wrote:
| Not quite sure why you answer that to my message since the
| only Ed Banger in my list are Justice (last release in
| 2019) and sebastiAn (2019 too). The others I listed aren't
| part of that group.
| meesterdude wrote:
| wow great collection of names to checkout!
| hules wrote:
| Don't worry the releve is here : https://youtu.be/CpdKWPrGxpk
| francis_t_catte wrote:
| if you like Carpenter Brut, I recommend Perturbator, especially
| the album The Uncanny Valley.
| sverona wrote:
| New Model is severely underrated. His best, in my opinion.
| oraphalous wrote:
| Carpenter Brut...
|
| Bless...
| alex_duf wrote:
| Add Etienne de Crecy, Phoenix, Cassius (though Zdar died not
| long ago), Justice, Mr oiso and Sebastian to that list
| DGAP wrote:
| Justice
| Dirlewanger wrote:
| Justice were seen as the heirs to follow in Daft Punk's
| footsteps after their debut. They kinda lost it after that
| though, IMO.
| lelandbatey wrote:
| I strongly suspect that they just chose a different creative
| direction, somewhat more ballad-y. But their latest live-esq
| album "Woman Worldwide" (styled "WWW") from 2018 shows that
| they still can make incredible dance/disco electronic music
| of the same caliber and energy as 2007's 'Cross', but they
| chose to pursue gentler sounds in their studio albums.
|
| It makes me suspect that their live shows are much more true
| to their 2007 energy than their studio albums might lead you
| to believe.
| smartties wrote:
| Breakbot
| tim_hutton wrote:
| French 79: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAv5pLO37mE
| munificent wrote:
| This live set is just a delight all the way through:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikRvoa9p-SQ
|
| I'm envious of both his gear and the talent to use it so
| well.
| exlurker wrote:
| Ooh. Thanks for this! RAM is my favourite, and this really
| appeals to me. May I recommend back; Betamaxx has a wonderful
| 80s nostalgic sound:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5mRTkJmFA
| strictnein wrote:
| Is Air still around? Still probably have my copy of Moon Safari
| somewhere.
| pram wrote:
| Random Access Memories sounds more like Air than Daft Punk
| imo. People should definitely give their discography a listen
| if you liked that sound.
| miralize wrote:
| Nothing released for a while. Nicolas Godin is releasing some
| solo stuff
| ntechau wrote:
| > I wouldn't discount the possibility of one-off reunion shows in
| the future
|
| I don't think Daft Punk are the type of artists to screw over
| fans by creating "Last Show Evarrrr" and "Final Reunion Tour
| (It's serious this time)" type shows.
|
| > I would not be at all surprised if you get the chance to see
| them perform together again.
|
| People seem to be ignoring the meaning within the video. The way
| he clenches his fist before the explosion. The solitary walk into
| the sunset.
|
| I would not be at all surprised if one of them was terminally
| ill.
| kart23 wrote:
| The footage is taken from a film in 2006. I don't think that
| meaning is there. Even if they were having some type of health
| issues, I doubt we would know, at most probably some type of
| announcement after a death. Agreed on your first point though.
| maeln wrote:
| It's an excerpt from their movie Electroma
| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800022/ . I really don't know if
| we should look too much in the meaning of the scene.
| charkubi wrote:
| Maybe there'll be a Stardust reunion.
| wbronitsky wrote:
| This poses an interesting question to me: Daft Punk is a kind of
| meta-band, in that it's members are not necessarily real people.
| For a more clear example, we can take The Gorillaz, a band made
| up of cartoon characters.
|
| So what does it mean for such a meta-band to "break up" when they
| only existed during concerts and on records. Does that mean the
| people behind it won't make more music? I sure hope not!
| rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote:
| Many music artists use different names for different projects -
| they're very rarely "real people".
|
| Only tangentially related, but The Archies were topping the
| charts all the way back in the 60s:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar,_Sugar
| ridaj wrote:
| Nah they had pseudonyms but they came out as real people for
| sure. They didn't create characters for themselves as they
| would have if they'd intended for others to take over the role
| wbronitsky wrote:
| Fair. Instead of a meta-band, it's more of a shtick, where
| they said they were robots, then made an album called Human
| After All where they sound like robots. A bit like the games
| the White Stripes played with Jack and Meg's relationship,
| but still not in meta-band, or even perpetual band territory
| redisman wrote:
| It's like GWAR or Slipknot. They like to dress up for
| (limited)anonymity and some extra flavor.
| samgranieri wrote:
| Funny thing, I was listening to the Tron Legacy soundtrack as I
| was scanning HN headlines and saw this headline.
| trollied wrote:
| I was lucky enough to see them live at Sankeys Soap in 1997.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_NVjNC2ZjA Was a great night ;)
| theptip wrote:
| I'd encourage anyone who might just know them for "Get Lucky" to
| go back and do a full play through of the discography, Discovery
| and Homework were really watershed albums, particularly notable
| at a time when house music was driven by singles/EPs on vinyl and
| few were putting together full, cohesive albums.
| bredren wrote:
| I thought Get Lucky's quality was more a reflection of Pharrell
| and Rogers' talent than DP. The rest of that album was a whiff.
|
| That said, GL the song and video were great and no hiding the
| string of classics. I remember hearing Around the World on the
| radio for the first time and pulling my car over. I was in high
| school.
|
| A few notes on this video:
|
| 1. I wonder if this was delayed due to the bomber in Nashville.
| Still seems almost too soon.
|
| 2. Obviously has black rock vibes, looks like one continuing on
| to the mythic show at the trash fence.
|
| 3. Suggests one member wanted to keep daft punk going, where
| the other had enough. Otherwise I would have expected a
| mutually assured destruction.
|
| The symmetric hands around the dates suggest amicable closure
| prior to conflict of ruin, which would be for the best in any
| partnership.
| RangerScience wrote:
| Word is that their manager has stated that the annual Trash
| Fence show is the only thing that'll continue, as it always
| has.
| coldpie wrote:
| > The rest of that album was a whiff
|
| Aww. It's no Discovery, but I quite like RAM. More than Human
| After All, anyway. "Contact" and "Giorgio" in particular are
| stand out tracks to me.
| bredren wrote:
| I tried to get into the Giorgio tracks. Certainly
| appreciated the nod but the album was marketed as a banger
| and felt left in a lurch apart from GL.
|
| Fwiw, I felt set up by the early marketing hype on the
| tractor-trailers in Japan, which I thought inaccurately
| portrayed what was to come.
| jordanthoms wrote:
| Hah, Get Lucky is the only song I skip on the album,
| overplayed for me.
| tomputer wrote:
| I remember that 'Da Funk' was played daily on MTV somewhere in
| 1995-1996. I was 10 years old and did not know the artist but
| loved the sound/beats and the strange video with the dog
| character walking in the city.
|
| A few years later I (re)discovered their music and went to the
| Alive 2007 show in Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall.
|
| During the show, they also played "Stardust - Music Sounds Better
| With You", which was also produced by Thomas Bangalter.
|
| The 'Stardust mix' has only been released on a limited edition
| (disc 2) of the Alive 2007 album:
|
| https://www.discogs.com/Daft-Punk-Alive-2007/release/1141123
|
| Edit: it seems it is on Spotify. Not so limited anymore. :-)
| mwlp wrote:
| When I was young, I would often visit my neighbor's house to play
| with legos or watch stop-motion lego videos on YouTube. One day I
| went over and his older sister was hosting a party where her and
| her friends all watched Interstella 5555. I don't think I've had
| a more culturally mind-melting experience since then.
|
| I didn't rediscover Discovery until Tiesto's "Louder Than Boom"
| in a Tap Tap Revenge brought me into the world of electronic
| music. While many genres fell in and out of my taste growing up,
| electronic (and eventually French House in particular) never once
| faded. I'm infinitely thankful for Daft Punk and their art which
| has long been and will long be my chosen soundtrack for life.
| rcarmo wrote:
| Good thing I saved this 20th anniversary (very well crafted) post
| from Pitchfork in 2013:
|
| https://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/daft-punk/
|
| Was an amazing thing to scroll through in 2013, and actually
| holds up well in modern browsers.
| tweetle_beetle wrote:
| I remember the electric atmosphere in the auditorium going to see
| the film the Epilogue video is taken from, Electroma [1], on
| screen. It was only playing in a single cinema in the world in
| Paris and only at midgnight. So glad I got to catch that.
|
| I am kind of glad to hear that Daft Pank is over and I say this
| as someone who their music means a lot to. The arc of their art
| is complete and there is nowhere left for them to go without it
| becoming forced, awkward or irrelevant: teenagers with attitude
| and samplers to elder statesmen recording with an orchestra.
|
| As this is HN, does anyone remember their more interesting dives
| into technology: Daft Club [2] and the multi-angle DVD of
| D.A.F.T. [3]?
|
| This quote [4] about Daft Club, and the state of music on the
| internet, from 2001 is really interesting in hindsight:
|
| > It's great to find a new channel where there is an open access,
| open door to more, but not more than had to be done before. It's
| establishing a connection between people that listen to our music
| and ourselves. There's no limits of time, and it helps people get
| and listen to this music. A track that could have been done today
| can be online tomorrow. The other thing is to really express
| ourselves through the Internet.
|
| > ...
|
| > Napster is a cool thing with us. The important thing is to make
| a difference. Napster is a positive thing because it raises
| questions, it raises issues.
|
| [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800022/
|
| [2]
| https://web.archive.org/web/20020804191122/http://www.daftcl...
|
| [3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279758/
|
| [4]
| https://web.archive.org/web/20070609232158/http://music.yaho...
| imwillofficial wrote:
| I was a Daft Club member! I remember being made fun of when I
| was like 15 listening to Human After All, and people just not
| getting it. Daft Punk was the soundtrack to my hacker youth.
| I'm forever grateful and wish them the best in their
| retirement.
| flycaliguy wrote:
| Daft Punk is what united my high school anime nerds with the
| "obscure" music nerds. What a lovely little merger we made.
| This would have been 1999 or so.
| nr2x wrote:
| To be fair, Human After All is not their best record. ;-)
| dep_b wrote:
| I liked the rawness of their first record. After that their sound
| became more pumpy and digital and I just lost interest.
| efwfwef wrote:
| There used to be a real energy to French electronic music.
| Between Daft Punk, Justice, Something a la Mode, Madeon, David
| Guetta, C2C, Joris Delacroix, Birdy Nam Nam, etc.
|
| Now I feel like the scene is mostly American. Any modern French
| electronic artist?
| johnnycerberus wrote:
| Kavinsky.
| joachim4 wrote:
| Gesaffelstein is bringing an innovative sound, Brodinski was
| interesting at some point. Look for Ed Banger Records, they
| lead a bit the French Touch.
| Nekhrimah wrote:
| If you're not aware, check out Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the
| 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. [0]
|
| This is an animated movie set to the album Discovery. No dialogue
| other than the music of the album. Done by Toei Animation, a
| notable Japanese animation studio.
|
| You may have seen the music videos for One More Time and Harder
| Better Faster Stronger. They were just part of a full narrative
| arc.
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qxe-QOp_-s
| 1_2__4 wrote:
| I'm old enough to remember when Daft Punk was arguably best known
| for having a really bizarre and fantastic semi-furry video for
| "Da Funk", directed by Spike Jonze.
| jmfldn wrote:
| DP were great but in the second half of their career what they
| were good at was continuing to cultivate their mystique and their
| image. That in itself is quite a hard thing to do in the way they
| did it. Kraftwerk and only a few others were able to be that
| famous and also faceless, cool and unique at the same time. I
| think I ended liking the "idea" of them almost more than their
| music weirdly. Musically they haven't pioneered for many many
| years. Everything after Alive, ie. half their career, was
| mediocre at best. They sustained a very high level of fame and
| influence through quite a small number of great songs and an
| amazing image, long after their prime in the late 90s / early
| 00s.
|
| Anyway, au revoir to a legendary group nevertheless.
| technics256 wrote:
| My favorite band in my youth. Revolutionary music. Time to play
| the vinyl once again.
| giantrobot wrote:
| Shit. I just learned all the lyrics to _Around The World_!
| gdubs wrote:
| Daft Punk is one of the first band websites I remember -- sitting
| in my college computer lab on a candy colored Mac. IIRC, it was a
| few "space men" on screen, and when you hovered over them it
| played sample loops.
| CobsterLock wrote:
| This whole time I thought they were working on a new album. Very
| sad to see the end of this legendary duo.
| cesaref wrote:
| Don't be - be excited for whatever projects they turn to next.
| 908087 wrote:
| I honestly kind of wish they had hung it up a long time ago.
| Outside of the Tron score and a few other things, nearly
| everything I've heard from them in the past decade or so has had
| me wishing I hadn't heard it at all.
|
| Along those same lines.. I was crushed when Orbital first called
| it quits, but somehow the music they started releasing when they
| got back together made me wish they had just stayed gone.
| mensetmanusman wrote:
| I put my baby to bed on the rocking chair patting his back to the
| Tron soundtrack, bass is great for babies!
| thomas wrote:
| Part of me is always quite envious of people who cleanly close
| one chapter of their life and move on to the next.
| cheschire wrote:
| I feel a deep respect for people who experience their 15
| minutes and then choose to leave it or move behind the scenes
| rather than searching for that next addicting dose of fame.
|
| Folks go on to become producers, directors, stage actors, video
| game voice actors, music label owners, teachers...
|
| It always seems like an interesting story that I would love to
| know more about, and yet I feel that the act of learning more
| would itself tarnish their shift, and I try to respect them by
| digging no further.
| ryandrake wrote:
| Even if it's longer than 15 minutes, you've got to call it at
| some point, otherwise it just gets kind of sad.
|
| I'm a bit of a classic rock / prog rock fan. These bands are
| getting old, and they sometimes have staff changes as a
| result of band members _dying of old age_. Went to a Yes
| concert recently and have kind of mixed feelings about it. It
| 's like Steve Howe and a backup band. I mean it's great that
| these older artists "still got it" and want to keep doing
| what they love, but from the point of view of a fan, maybe
| it's best to call it a day when your best work is firmly in
| the past.
| MuffinFlavored wrote:
| > Even if it's longer than 15 minutes, you've got to call
| it at some point, otherwise it just gets kind of sad.
|
| I wonder if that is part of why they called it off. Maybe
| they've created all of the music they could both come up
| with? Maybe the creativity tank ran empty?
| flycaliguy wrote:
| I bet a lot of artists develop a drug problem, hit rehab and
| recalibrate.
| MuffinFlavored wrote:
| The Strokes comes to mind.
|
| I think I read that the lead singer made the best music
| when on drugs but has since gotten clean. Unfortunately,
| the music he/they made sober wasn't as well received
| critically? Something like that.
| pault wrote:
| More like 25 years of fame. :)
| vlunkr wrote:
| Same, I think you have to be really mature and self-aware as an
| artist to know when it's the right time to quit.
| redisman wrote:
| Isn't job hopping the norm in the tech industry too? I can't
| imagine staying at a company for 28 years.
| ACAVJW4H wrote:
| Just as I was listening to https://youtu.be/zhl-Cs1-sG4 :(
| aphextron wrote:
| I don't believe it yet. But I can see the logic. They're kind of
| in a Half Life 3 situation with regards to Random Access
| Memories. At this point, there's almost no way imaginable they
| could top it, and anything they do come out with will probably be
| compared unfavorably.
| usrusr wrote:
| I absolutely did not expect another album, at least not anytime
| soon, for precisely the same reason (well, I didn't put it in
| the hl3 metaphor). But this official breakup announcement still
| breaks my heart, despite not even having listened to them that
| much.
|
| They could have just left their costumes standing, as the
| gleaming pop-house god reservists that they are (except while
| temporarily leaving reservist status) and silently move on to
| doing other projects, as they've always done.
|
| Really wonder what triggered the announcement. My guess is
| either heavy disagreement, perhaps about retiring the bots and
| continuing as Thomas and Guy-Manuel, or the total opposite,
| becoming aware that they were likely fading out of those roles
| forever and deciding that the bots deserve to go with a bang.
| ficklepickle wrote:
| I don't know how much meaning you can take from the farewell
| video. But, to me, it looked like one of them couldn't go on
| anymore.
| usrusr wrote:
| Good point. If, hopefully not, it was something like a
| sudden health issue, sampling that movie scene would be the
| single most awesomely daft punk way to announce it.
| turdnagel wrote:
| Also wondering what it is - my money is on them wanting to go
| their own way, which they've done in the past while keeping
| the robots going (they put out a lot of solo material in the
| late 90s / early 00s) - but I guess it's different this time
| as its been so long.
|
| I just want new sample-based music. Fancy synths and
| orchestras sound awesome, but IMHO they are _almost_
| unmatched when it comes to chopping up samples and making
| incredible, emotional, catchy music out of it.
| symlinkk wrote:
| I thought RAM was already on the downturn. They peaked with
| Discovery and Alive 2007 in my opinion.
| geenew wrote:
| The Tron soundtrack on the same order as Discovery and Alive
| 2007. Felt much more like Daft Punk than RAM, IMHO.
| me_me_me wrote:
| Alive 2007 is my absolute favourite. I often think that 2007
| remixes are better then the originals.
|
| I remember my mind was blown when i first heard #3 Television
| rules nation / Crescendolls, when it transition back to
| Television with a drop... absolute masterpiece of electro
| music
| agumonkey wrote:
| RAM felt producer nostalgia based, legend namedropping and
| such. The daft spirit was gone to me.
| sincerely wrote:
| I mean, it's basically the album version of "Teachers" off
| Homework :P
| YorickPeterse wrote:
| I always felt RAM wasn't so much a downturn, just too
| different from their past work (which was the reason I liked
| them so much).
|
| I suspect the reason is the duo simply wanting to do
| different things. After all, they've been Daft Punk for
| almost 3 decades.
| [deleted]
| arcticfox wrote:
| Everyone has their own opinion on the content, but RAM won
| the most prestigious Grammy Award. From a recognition
| perspective there's not really anywhere to go but down.
| symlinkk wrote:
| Grammys are a joke. In 2014 Macklemore's album "The Heist"
| beat out Kendrick Lamar's "Good Kid Maad City" for best hip
| hop album.
| nwienert wrote:
| Please, it hurts to think about.
| pram wrote:
| Human After All was already on the downturn.
|
| To me RAM sounds like an Air album, not a Daft Punk album. I
| don't consider that a bad thing though.
| giantrobot wrote:
| I thought I was the only person who thought this. Greetings
| thought sibling. Also not a bad thing, I like Air just fine
| but I expect an Air album from them, not Daft Punk.
| dang wrote:
| If curious, past threads:
|
| _Recreating Daft Punk 's Da Funk with Overtone and Leipzig_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11446223 - April 2016 (98
| comments)
|
| _Aerodynamic by Daft-Punk in 100 lines of code with Sonic Pi_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033953 - Feb 2016 (69
| comments)
|
| _Daft Punk Lego Minifig raytraced in your browser._ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7550736 - April 2014 (2
| comments)
|
| _Daft Punk's "Get Lucky," explained using music theory_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491174 - March 2014 (1
| comment)
|
| _How Daft Punk Created One of Their Most Famous Samples_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011035 - Jan 2014 (94
| comments)
|
| _Daft Punk Didn 't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer's
| Biggest Hit_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5996054 -
| July 2013 (82 comments)
|
| _Desire for Daft Punk 's iconic helmets creates cottage
| industry_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770913 - May
| 2013 (12 comments)
|
| _Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595277 - May 2011 (13
| comments)
|
| _Guy crafts a Daft Punk helmet in 17 months_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539509 - July 2010 (22
| comments)
| bensons1 wrote:
| I suddenly feel much older.
| seapunk wrote:
| Great duo.
|
| Interview of them in 1995:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQmVdGvoQXk
|
| if anyone is nostalgic for the days when French electronic music
| was emerging, I recommend the Mia Hansen-Love's movie "Eden"
| (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lIzEL9BoDc)
| neom wrote:
| Sounds like they re-mastered or even re-recored touch at the end,
| really beautifully remixed. I'm gonna miss DP a lot, huge huge
| fan. Thankfully Kistune is still putting out a lot of good music.
| aequitas wrote:
| I wish I could play the ending of touch slower so it lasted
| even longer. It's one of those songs that tells a whole story
| without words.
| strictnein wrote:
| I remember the first time I heard and saw the "Around the World"
| video. It must have been summer of 1997(?), when MTV still played
| music videos and they played the "weirder" ones late at night.
| Was poking online at stuff and had the TV on in the other room
| and I heard this weird (as in different) song come on, head to
| the other room to see that strange music video and I was
| immediately hooked. They only showed the artist at the beginning
| of it, so I had to stay up another 2 or 3 hours until the entire
| segment repeated itself to catch who it actually was.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKYPYj2XX80
| EricE wrote:
| "I had to stay up another 2 or 3 hours until the entire segment
| repeated itself to catch who it actually was."
|
| Ah, the days when phones were on the wall with a cord too.
|
| At least MTV did still play music back then. And the record
| industry wonders why file sharing sites took off? I loved
| limewire because I could find songs I liked, then I would grab
| everything else that person had and I discovered so much new
| content - I bought more CDs than I ever would have otherwise
| simply because I discovered stuff I didn't even know existed. I
| still haven't found anything that could match that discovery
| experience; it's kind of crazy really.
| strictnein wrote:
| It's crazy how Youtube is the MTV of our dreams. If I could
| have had access to just the music videos on Youtube in 1995,
| I would have thought it was the greatest invention in
| history.
| pqdbr wrote:
| I remember very vividly the first time I listened to Daft Punk.
| I was maybe 16 years old (circa 2003) and was one of the first
| times I was traveling without my parents. I was on a skydiving
| trip with my instructor and crew. At night, there was a big
| party at the DZ, and at a certain time the DJ dropped "One more
| time".
|
| I was talking to someone and went "wait a second, I need to do
| something". I walked up to the DJ booth and asked him "Man,
| what is this song you are playing?!"
|
| He smiled, pulled up a CD cover for Discovery and said
| "Congrats, you have been daft punked".
|
| Such a powerful track... it kickstarted my passion for house
| and EDM in general.
| maaaaattttt wrote:
| I still remember seeing the Alive set at a festival in France.
| They were headlining but I didn't really care about them anymore
| back then. I went to the concert anyway as it was the last of the
| night. The whole show blew my mind! The stage, the lights, the
| mashups that made the old songs feel like new and made the new
| songs don't feel so new. I can tell you the 30+K people attending
| the concert that evening were almost all in trance during and
| after the show. I cared again about them after that!
|
| I also remember listing to the live record (which is the Paris
| recording if I'm not mistaken) after it came out and it was very
| different of the one I saw. So definitely some live creation
| happened during that tour, or some in-between sets work maybe (if
| you don't believe in magic).
|
| Side note and personal opinion, I think "Veridis Quo" would be
| the perfect soundtrack for this announcement, and is one of my
| all time favorites of them. Here's to a bright future for both of
| them hopefully!
| coldpie wrote:
| There's a couple bootlegs of various showings of the Alive 2007
| concert, and they're all noticeably different. I imagine the
| 1997 sets were even more different, back when they were a bit
| more experimental. Cool that you got to see them, I never did
| :)
| maaaaattttt wrote:
| Indeed, just went to see if I could find the show I saw, and
| I could [0] (though the footage is terrible). Just the use of
| the Close Encounters of the Third Kind sound at the beginning
| gives me goose bumps again!
|
| [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2DSzbt6wco
| kart23 wrote:
| I always felt like 'Contact' was a goodbye in a larger sense. I
| hoped they would do the new Tron movie soundtrack, but I guess
| that honor is going to someone else now.
| xd1936 wrote:
| Epilogue:
|
| https://youtu.be/DuDX6wNfjqc
| nicolashahn wrote:
| This completely sucks. I had a bucket list item to see them live.
| Definitely my most listened-to artist ever.
|
| Best of luck to their next endeavors though, I hope they both
| continue to make music.
| JansjoFromIkea wrote:
| I think they probably knew they had a bit of an issue in terms
| of live shows in that they had a pretty divergent audience it'd
| be very hard to please. It was already a bit of a marvel how
| well they combined their three albums into one show in 2007 and
| they were still pretty firmly a dance act at this stage (which
| I'd say has blurred a lot since as Discovery and RAM become
| increasingly dominant over Homework in mainstream recognition)
|
| Outside of doing seated gigs (ie something very firmly to set
| the tone in advance) I'm not sure how you could clearly set a
| tone that wouldn't upset a large portion of the audience. I'd
| skip a seated gig for sure.
|
| Plus the demand would be off the charts. Horrifically expensive
| tickets bought maybe a year in advance. That'd be a lot of
| pressure to include hits that may not fit very well in (e.g.
| thinking of how Digital Love was left outta the 2007 show,
| which was absolutely the right move)
| maxclark wrote:
| I was in the same boat. Just never seemed to be in the right
| place. 28 years is an incredible run.
| afavour wrote:
| I wouldn't discount the possibility of one-off reunion shows in
| the future, provided they parted on good terms (and that's
| usually the case when a band has been together 20+ years)
|
| (FWIW, I was very smug that I got a ticket to one of LCD
| Soundsystem's goodbye shows. It was awesome. They reunited a
| few years later, released albums and resumed touring
| -\\_(tsu)_/- )
| TheOtherHobbes wrote:
| Phil Collins did a "First Finale Farewell Tour."
|
| Then followed it with a "Not Dead Yet Tour."
| toyg wrote:
| Tina Turner has had quite a few "last" tour. And I'm sure
| there are plenty more. People can always change their mind.
| dylan604 wrote:
| Eventually, everyone needs money again.
| rtx wrote:
| Not Bill gates, if he stops to pick-up money he loses
| money.
| jakeva wrote:
| I get the joke, but the literalist inside me wants to
| always point out when I hear this that it's not as though
| he stops being the founder of Microsoft in the few
| seconds he stops to pick up money.
|
| He doesn't lose money by picking up money. It's more than
| likely less than the daily market fluctuation of a single
| stock of MSFT, but stopping to pick up money doesn't
| interrupt or halt his income in any way.
| ficklepickle wrote:
| Well he pressured oxford into not open-sourcing the
| vaccine. To him, that is probably a quarter on the
| ground.
| [deleted]
| dandersh wrote:
| I've lost count the amount of Rolling Stones "farewell
| tour" concerts I've been too.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| I too have gone through this with Nine Inch Nails. You said
| you were done Trent!
| pyrophane wrote:
| Both artists are under 50. I would not be at all surprised if
| you get the chance to see them perform together again.
| buro9 wrote:
| And with the added advantage that as they are electric they'd
| sound as good in the future as they did in the past. You
| wouldn't even know if it wasn't them under the masks.
|
| The counter point being that I saw Velvet Underground live
| and they sucked badly :D
| Swizec wrote:
| I saw Guns'n'Roses at a festival in 2012 and ho boy did Axl
| Rose not age well. The Slash impersonator was kinda odd too
| - obviously great guitarist in his own right, all he needed
| was to own the fact he's not Slash.
| dandersh wrote:
| I'm guessing you're referring to DJ Ashba? One thing
| about GnR is they always had talented guitarists.
|
| Yea Axl's voice definitely isn't what it once was. Corey
| Glover (Living Colour) is another singer from that time
| period whose voice isn't the same.
| schwartzworld wrote:
| I went to a smashing pumpkins show and was so turned off
| that I stopped being a fan. I have met several others with
| the same experience
| JansjoFromIkea wrote:
| What was the issue? Was it the length of the show, the
| aura of Billy Corgan (and his horrific aesthetics),
| renditions that somehow made the original versions worse?
|
| Guy was obviously talented but I don't think he's the
| best judge of his strengths. There's a couple of songs
| from Adore and Machina where the music videos manage to
| make the songs drastically worse for me.
| schwartzworld wrote:
| You pretty much nailed it. This was on the Melon Collie
| tour.
| saalweachter wrote:
| Since I don't go to live shows, I tend to just have the
| disappointment of finding out that I only like _some_ of
| my favorite bands ' albums, because the arc of their own
| musical careers doesn't match my own tastes.
|
| Why can't performers just stay the same forever,
| producing a never-ending sequence of similar but distinct
| works?
| egypturnash wrote:
| Some do! Some don't.
|
| There is one English psychedelic outfit I like called
| "Ozric Tentacles". Every album is pretty much identical.
| And it turns out that I _really like that album_ , so I
| have bought it ten times over the years, plus a couple of
| live albums.
|
| This happens in part because whenever the people behind
| Ozric Tentacles want to make something different from
| their trademark sound, they'll usually put it out under
| another name. If you go to their site right now the front
| page advertises recent albums from two different side
| projects with even sillier names than "Ozric Tentacles".
|
| (The Ozrics are far from the only band to do this,
| they're just the first example that comes to mind.)
|
| There are other bands I like where every album is
| something different. King Crimson, for instance, is a
| different lineup for pretty much every album. Same
| bandleader, some people return to perform in multiple
| incarnations of the band, some are only there for one
| album and some tour dates. I love some of their albums
| and some are flat for me. I'd still grab another one if I
| heard that Fripp had declared that the current assemblage
| of musicians he was working with was an incarnation of
| King Crimson, because the albums that work for me work
| _really well_. If it 's a dud I just consider it a down
| payment on the next hit.
| Anthony-G wrote:
| Despite having seen them live a few times, I only own one
| Ozric Tentacles as I figured there's no need to buy any
| of the others. :)
|
| I always figured that the members got their musical
| satisfaction from their side projects. Thought I haven't
| listened to them in years, I actually preferred Eat
| Static which was formed by two of the Ozrics. Similarly,
| another band I listened to at the time, System 7 was
| formed by members of Gong.
|
| This was around the time I was discovering what's now
| called "electronic dance music". As a music listener, EDM
| was much more exciting and interesting than much of the
| guitar-based music in the mid-nineties.
| saalweachter wrote:
| I mean, there's the odd band I like everything of (eg,
| Jethro Tull), but other times either the "new stuff"
| isn't "right", or -- when I come to a band late in their
| career -- I work backwards only to discover I don't care
| for their early stuff.
| triceratops wrote:
| > Why can't performers just stay the same forever,
| producing a never-ending sequence of similar but distinct
| works?
|
| Because they're artists. Even the record company-
| manufactured acts consider themselves artists.
|
| On a human level, they're already performing the same
| pieces of music thousands of times - in rehearsals,
| concerts, recordings. It must get incredibly tedious
| after a while. You want them to write the _same type_ of
| music all their lives as well? You monster! :-P
| philwelch wrote:
| There are some genres where that happens, but if you
| don't like those genres, you're out of luck.
| mynameisash wrote:
| The Pumpkins were my absolute favorite band in the heyday
| of 90s alt rock/grunge. I saw them once in St. Paul
| during their Adore tour, and it was amazing. But
| something about their music just didn't seem to age well
| with me - which very well may have been my tastes
| changing versus the band. I don't know. Machina didn't
| click, and I never really got into Zeitgeist or Oceania.
| I did buy Rotten Apples and enjoyed it immensely, but it
| was their older music.
|
| Whenever I watch one of their music videos on YouTube,
| it's very bittersweet. I still love their older work -
| MCIS and Adore are absolutely wonderful. But it's the
| universal story of losing your adolescence.
|
| I didn't really get into Daft Punk until the early 2000s,
| so my context was very different. I'm still sad to see
| this breakup, but I guess I don't feel it the same as SP.
| Funny, that.
| coldsmoke wrote:
| It feels like they're also prime candidates for making a
| tour with them as actual robots (or holograms), so they
| wouldn't even need to tour themselves.
| pvarangot wrote:
| A good live performance from an artist like that is all
| about visual and rhythmic synchronization with the lights
| and the dancing audience and about live EQ and effects
| tuned to the sound system in the venue. So no, it won't be
| the same.
|
| If you get utterly fucked up with perception altering
| substances it won't really matter though.
| pardonmesir wrote:
| one just fucking exploded! did you not see that!?
| lupin3ken wrote:
| This comment made the thread for me.
| hypersoar wrote:
| I didn't go in the past because I'd heard their shows had a
| rave-like atmosphere. I have no idea if that's true, but it
| put me off. But maybe I won't have to worry about that so
| much when I'm one of a bunch of middle-aged people at a
| reunion concert by Daft Punk in their 60s.
| devin wrote:
| What's wrong with a rave-like atmosphere? Live a little.
| zeruch wrote:
| Some folks don't like to deal with a swarming mass of
| tweaked out people. They just don't.
|
| As someone who survived early 90s acid house and rave
| culture in the Bay Area, people falling over, spilling
| things on you, or being rambling goofs for hours on end
| had a limited life span. Frankly, a mosh pit was more
| comfortable, because there you at least KNEW what was
| expected and how to counter.
| ihuman wrote:
| There are plenty of videos of Alive 2007 on youtube if you
| want to see how rave-like they are.
| senor_lecce wrote:
| Probably the best live gig I've been to.
| eddieroger wrote:
| The tour kinda writes itself - call it the One More Time
| tour, and prior put out a video rebuilding to the tune of
| Technologic. I am sad, but not sold I won't get to see them
| live eventually.
| playingchanges wrote:
| Maybe my biggest concert regret is not seeing the Alive tour.
| Game changers.
| ehsankia wrote:
| It was my very first concert, and honestly I probably didn't
| even appreciate it enough at the time (though I loved it),
| due to lack of perspective and being a teenager, but wow did
| I get lucky :)
| ryanmarsh wrote:
| Came here to say this. After missing 2010 I set aside some
| money so that if a concert was announced anywhere in the world
| I could drop everything and go. Sadly it doesn't look like that
| will happen now.
| Nelkins wrote:
| I feel the same way. I think I've listened to Discovery
| hundreds of times.
|
| With any luck there will be a reunion within a decade or two.
| rvieira wrote:
| Don't mean to twist the knife, but I saw them live and it was
| one of the best concerts I've ever been to :).
|
| I've seen concerts with better music in small venues (DJ
| Spooky), I've seen crazier concerts (BHole Surfers) and more
| sensory beating ones (Chemical Brothers), but never one that
| was such a blast as theirs.
| Thaxll wrote:
| "Announcement": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuDX6wNfjqc
| mu_killnine wrote:
| I love daft punk and had countless nights in college studying,
| gaming, and coding to their albums. I will continue to love their
| music but totally understand wanting to move onto something new
| after almost 30 years :)
|
| Best of luck to them in whatever they move onto next
| lm28469 wrote:
| > gaming
|
| I used to play HL 2 while listening to Discovery, I know, kinda
| weird, and now every time I hear songs from this album I have
| HL2 flashbacks. Somehow these are some of the most vivid
| memories I have, I can still see the screen and the in game
| scenes
| alexmorenodev wrote:
| I had this same feeling with SNES games and Diablo 2 and
| stuff I listened to when I was 10 till 14 (especially with
| System of a Down). Took me years to disassociate then. Not
| that I wanted, but it happened eventually.
| baron816 wrote:
| Bands don't seem to break up as often as they used to.
| omosubi wrote:
| Bands don't seem to exist as often as they used to - everyone
| is a solo artist or a dj or a producer now
| mongol wrote:
| This is very true.
| redisman wrote:
| Band-as-a-service. Can't kill the cash cow!
| sparkling wrote:
| I found their last few albums to be rather weak, lacking
| innovation. Who knows, maybe in a few years after a break they
| can get back together with a fresh mind and produce something
| great.
| bjakubski wrote:
| They've recorded a total of four albums (five counting the
| "Tron: Legacy" soundtrack)
| bitwize wrote:
| Congratulations, you found the "everything they did after
| _Homework_ sucks " snob.
| olivierestsage wrote:
| I think it's a little more complicated than that. Human
| After All was widely panned on release (and in my opinion
| remains very hard to listen to), but then was
| "rehabilitated" by the Alive 2007 live album. And Random
| Access Memories always felt like it lacked the energy of
| their earlier work, sort of like lounge music. Just one
| opinion, but not necessarily snobbery.
| jjaredsimpson wrote:
| I feel like Alive should count even though its not new
| material. It's so good and different take on their own
| tracks.
| pault wrote:
| I upvoted you because people shouldn't be downvoting you for
| having a different opinion. People, downvotes are for low
| effort comments, not because you disagree!
| SparkyMcUnicorn wrote:
| I know that music taste is subjective, but Random Access
| Memories is a masterpiece.
| pault wrote:
| I think a lot of people were expecting more of the electro
| that they pioneered and got turned off by the heavy disco
| influence.
| turdnagel wrote:
| Electro / disco is not the right dichotomy, as their music
| has always sat at an intersection between genres. Homework,
| Discovery, and Human After All are all heavily sample-
| based, and there are like 1 or 2 samples on all of Random
| Access Memories. That is the big difference.
| SparkyMcUnicorn wrote:
| Which is (in my opinion) "innovation". An innovation not
| everyone agreed with.
|
| Instead of sampling from the 70s, they used artists that
| created music during the 70s.
| pmarreck wrote:
| It probably depends on how old you are. When I was rounding
| out my 20's and still going to clubs, Homework dropped, I
| listened to it so many times (but looking back, that album
| was kind of inaccessible to most unless they were already
| techno-heads). And then 2001 and Discovery, which I'd
| personally consider their magnum opus, and everything after
| that is just kinda meh for me except for the TRON remixes
| (which figures, since I'm an 80's kid).
| albertshin wrote:
| I feel like the artists/celebrities/directors who publicly
| announce that they're quitting usually end up coming back in a
| few years... Director Miyazaki comes to mind in more recent
| years.
|
| Those that actually "quit" just quietly drift away out of the
| public scene.
| mongol wrote:
| I don't understand why they do it so publically. Have they felt
| a lot of pressure and this is the way to put an end to that? I
| haven't followed them closely, but RAM are many years ago. Have
| their been a lot of rumours about their next project lately?
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