Homework - Daft Punk

Advantages: Innovative and original music
Disadvantages: None

This debut album from the fantastic French duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo is essential for any dance, electronic and/or Daft Punk fans. Most are aware of the hugely successful album ‘Discovery’ by Daft Punk, but ‘Homework’ is just as good in quality if a little less commercial. The music in this album has a French sound- almost disco-like! The reason that Daft Punk have been so successful is that they ...
...keeping their own ‘sound’. There’s always a distinctive Daft Punk feel in their songs, this undoubtedly is due to the fact that they’ve both written and produced all the tracks on the album. Even Pete Tong has listed ‘Homework’ in his top twenty essential dance albums of all time. He describes the album as: Cloaking pure jacking house with an array of kitch, pop culture imagery, this debut from two pretty-boy ... Read review

Advantages: one of the best funk, house, techno albums ever
Disadvantages: definitly no

...the same rock-spirit inside. Homework is definitly the album that maked the club-insider-tip Daft Punk to a well known and lateron famous music. No wonder why. Homework is full of fresh, new, inovative Funk. It brough a little revolution in the German club-scene. I remember nigths over nights in the spring of 1997, dancing to this music. And you can feel that this is not just music made by some guys using a computer and some samples and trying to ...
...If you re new in this kind of music just listen to Homework to get a view into the latest history of funky-electronic-music. If you re deeper in techno, this is a MUST-HAVE! CD is around 11.99, vinyl around 18.99 You may find it on amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000WCV/orbi9engl-21 ... Read review

Advantages: Quirky fun with a distinctive French flavour.
Disadvantages: Occasional forays into the excessive.

This debut album from French house artists Daft Punk is essential listening for fans of dance and electronic music. The style is instantly recognisable as French: funky bass wobbles and wild synthetic screeches, creating a vaguely disco sound. The distinctive Daft Punk flavour is the marriage of these sounds to a deep house beat and powerful, solid bassline. This style is consistent throughout 'Homework' and is almost always highly successful. The ...
...a sound which can both be consistently defined as belonging to that group while still allowing them enough variation within that sound to produce music that is fresh, innovative and not repetitive. Daft Punk accomplish this with considerable success. The singles, 'Da Funk,' 'Around The World' and 'Revolution 909' reflect this most strongly. In some areas, however, 'Homework' wanders too far intro hard house territory, and the resultant sound is quite ... Read review

Advantages: Beautiful, funky, invigorating
Disadvantages: May not be to everyone's taste

THIS IS A REVIEW OF DISCOVERY *NOT* HOMEWORK Discovery is one of those albums that when you first listen to it you think you could have written it yourself. Could it be that hard? Whack a beat in here put a sample on there and you’d have your No. 1 tune in no time. Well, after listening to the album (released on March 13th) for some time I can say that Daft Punk are anything but your average “cut ‘n’ paste” musicians. ...
...Punk (Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo) have created a very retro album, reminiscent of seventies disco and eighties minimilism, yet one which also feels fresh and vibrant. You do not feel that they are waving their vocoders and synths in your face, wanting you to see how well they know how to use them, as some musicians and producers try to do. You feel instead that they are enjoying their music, not letting the technology unduly get ... Read review

Advantages: The excellent live tracks
Disadvantages: Sound quality

In my opinion, Less than Jake must be the most patchy punk / ska band in the world. They do have some really amazing songs, but also a load of not so good ones too. This album (the only one I've ever seen belongs to me), is made up of songs which have been previously released on out of print and limited edition vinyls. Despite this, I've heard many of them before. The problem with Less Than Jake, is that they never seem to be able to release an album ...
...has 24 tracks, but 12 of those I've already heard on other albums of theirs (if you have 'The Pezz Collection' I wouldn't recommend buying this). It would be nice for a change to be able to buy some totally new stuff (actually, I think that maybe their new album (Borders and Boundaries) is just that, all new), so nevermind. As I said earlier, there are some pretty good tracks here (but not many), and the rest are pretty average. The sound quality ... Read review

Advantages: More of an album, less of a concept than Homework
Disadvantages: Short Circuit makes me want to cut my ears off

..., 'Don't buy this CD, it's a pile of dog poo.' This is why I haven't written many music reviews lately - I love moaning, and writing music reviews doesn't allow me to do this. But anyway, I bought 'Discovery' towards the end of last year, and didn't think much of it at first. After a few listens, it grew on me a bit, but in the end I got bored and stopped listening to it. A bit lame, I thought. A few months later, on the recommendation of a friend, I bought 'Homework', Daft Punk's first album, and thought it was great. It was at this point that I began to wonder why Daft Punk decided to follow up this classic which such a crap album. But conversely, this pleased me, because at least I had found an album that I could have a good rant about. So about an hour ago, I put on 'Discovery', just to remind me of what the album sounded like. But f... Read review

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Advantages: Daft Punk going back to their roots
Disadvantages: A lot different from Discovery album; some may not like that

...they released the now classic album "Homework". Even though they were signed to Virgin it was still recorded in Thomas' bedroom. In 1998 Thomas Bangalter released the classic "Music Sounds Better With You" under the name Stardust and in 2002 he had another huge hit with DJ Falcon on "So Much Love To Give". So Daft Punk went on to release the synth-pop album "Discovery" in 2001 which became a sure fire success with hits such as the magnificent "Digital Love" and the party anthem "One More Time". The videos for all the singles from Discovery are Manga inspired and they all linked to tell a story. In 2004 the cartoons were released as a feature length film "Interstella 5555". Finally in 2004 they recorded this album "Human After All". Daft Punk are notoriously hard to pin down. They rarely give interviews and nobody really knows what they look like... Read review

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Advantages: Great tunes, humour (though not novelty) and a wonderful 80's vibe
Disadvantages: Final track 'Too Long' is as it says on the tin. Compared to first album, maybe they've sold-out a little bit.

...Lets be honest - did anyone play the first album that much? Did anyone continually listen to it all the way through? I certainly didn't. 'Homework', Daft Punks first album was a great mish-mash of quite groundbreaking French house which included a couple of the best tunes of the last few years, 'Da Funk' and 'Around the World'. But ultimately the album disppointed by being too patchy and throwing in too many repetitive beats (repetitive as in boring, not as in trance-like). 'Discovery' changes all that by being snappy, funky and incessantly entertaining! Whereby some tracks on the first album dragged way beyond their welcome, most tracks on 'Discovery' are under the magic 4 minute mark. With a variety of styles and great sense-of-humour it makes for an addictive listen. The influences are all 80's based and a few years ago you... Read review

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