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>> "How did two obscure, older French guys..." What? I'm not sure if this is just a US perspective but Daft Punk are very well known this side of the Atlantic

>> "How did two obscure, older French guys..." What? I'm not sure if this is just a US perspective but Daft Punk are very well known this side of the Atlantic (Ireland/UK).

mey 13y ago
And on the US side of the Atlantic. They have had several hits. While a fan of their stuff, I actually hate "Get Lucky"...
- arrrg 13y ago
  Hits in obscurity. This is different.
  - mey 13y ago
    They have hit the Billboard top 100 previously. http://www.billboard.com/artist/300085/daft-punk/chart?sort=position&f=379 http://www.billboard.com/artist/300085/daft-punk/chart?sort=... And even more for their albums in their genre http://www.billboard.com/artist/300085/daft-punk/chart?f=322&sort=position http://www.billboard.com/artist/300085/daft-punk/chart?f=322...
- wwhitman 13y ago
  MIT's radio show French Toast has been playing other tracks from the album, not as edgy as their older stuff but quite good. Get Lucky is catchy but a little repetitive.
  - 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
    It's a formulaic little disco song. It's calculated soulless pop. I don't get the appeal.
  - geon 13y ago
    I had the opposite reaction. I quite like Get Lucky, but the other songs from the album felt really bland without anything that made them memorable. Not even worth pirating... No offense. I also would have liked Get Lucky to have more of Daft Punk in it. As it is, I can only tell it is a DP song the last half minute of so when the vocoder section starts.
    - wwhitman 13y ago
      It appears to be a concept album about humans reaching their full potential (the stars) and is uplifting in general if not edgy. I compare it to Flaming Lips album Yoshimi. Even in Get Lucky there is a double meaning of up all night working on something and up all night to party, both equally valid.
- kawsper 13y ago
  What do you think about the George Barnett cover? I find it much more enjoyable than the original. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NDY8FSr9M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NDY8FSr9M
  - mey 13y ago
    I like it a bit better, it's still very repetitive and the beat just isn't that great to me. I like his voice better and the song is better when you remove daft punk from the equation oddly. I think that's why my stomach turned at the song it's not what I expect/want out of daft punk. Same problem w/ Around the world.
brandall10 13y ago
It's not a US perspective, that journalist is just massively out of touch. I'm not sure of their actual commercial performance, but their cultural impact is widespread in the US. To the Pitchfork/Coachella crowd they're living legends and RAM was perhaps the most anticipated album this year.
- toomuchtodo 13y ago
  Didn't they also do the entire soundtrack for the new Tron film? Obscure? Hardly!
  - eridius 13y ago
    It wasn't a film so much as it was the world's longest music video.
    - toomuchtodo 13y ago
      I'd agree with this.
    - geon 13y ago
      They have done that before, with Inter Stella 5555. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8PrIzCX5mI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8PrIzCX5mI
      - Falling3 13y ago
        Don't forget Electroma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daft_Punk's_Electroma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daft_Punk's_Electroma
        ihuman 13y ago
        They only directed Electroma; they didn't do the music.
      - nivla 13y ago
larrykubin 13y ago
My college roommate and I were definitely jamming to Homework in 1998 or so. Around the World was a huge hit in the late 90's and people have been raving about their live shows at Coachella 2006 and the Alive 2007 tour forever. The new album and live performances have been highly anticipated for a long time.
- greenranger 13y ago
  The Alive 2007 record is probably one of the best albums of the 2000's, and one of the best live records of all time.
dsjoerg 13y ago
The text following your quote substantiates their claim, you should respond to it: "their biggest previous single, 2000’s One More Time, peaked at No. 61 on the Billboard chart in the U.S., and they had limited Internet presence and no live performances in 2013" I know and love Daft Punk as well, but by these and other commercial objective measures they are obscure. Daft Punk are famous in some circles, and unknown in others. In particular, Get Lucky has achieved chart success previously unknown to Daft Punk, which is interesting and makes one wonder how they broke through this time and not before.
- rhizome 13y ago
  how they broke through this time and not before. By changing their sound and style.
  - sliverstorm 13y ago
    He wasn't asking. It's a rhetorical question that explains why this article was written.
- brandall10 13y ago
  Operative word being 'were'. I lived through Discovery coming out in the club world back then. What's happened since has been a slow yet steady growth in their popularity/mythology. My parents know who they are now. There was a pretty nice fervor surrounding their involvement in the Tron soundtrack as it was their first new work in 5 years. It went gold and peaked at number 4 in the billboard charts - not the dance charts, not soundtrack, the billboard 200. And that was just a soundtrack.
  - ddw 13y ago
    +1. Kanye West sampling them on a single a while ago helped a lot too to introduce them to millions of people. If anything their success proves that easy access to new music helps the cream rise to the top.
- icki 13y ago
WestCoastJustin 13y ago
They are popular in Canada and the US by anyone who was around and listening to music in the 90s -;) Back in '97 they had the massive hit, "Around the World" [1], NME placed it at number 21 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years" [2]. Here's the Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_%28Daft_Punk_song%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_%28Daft_Punk_s... [2] http://www.nme.com/list/150-best-tracks-of-the-past-15-years/248648/page/13 http://www.nme.com/list/150-best-tracks-of-the-past-15-years...
alex_doom 13y ago
Yeah that journalist is just out of touch. I'm not a fan of them but calling them obscure is like calling Radiohead obscure just because they haven't released an album in a while. And the success was pretty much assured, most fans have been dying for a new album. So the hype was already off the charts.
Vivtek 13y ago
I happen to be in the US this summer and nobody I talk to has ever heard of them. Unless they're Internet people.

>> "How did two obscure, older French guys..." What? I'm not sure if this is just a US perspective but Daft Punk are very well known this side of the Atlantic (Ireland/UK).

mey 13y ago

And on the US side of the Atlantic. They have had several hits. While a fan of their stuff, I actually hate "Get Lucky"...

arrrg 13y ago
Hits in obscurity. This is different.
- mey 13y ago
  They have hit the Billboard top 100 previously. http://www.billboard.com/artist/300085/daft-punk/chart?sort=position&f=379 http://www.billboard.com/artist/300085/daft-punk/chart?sort=... And even more for their albums in their genre http://www.billboard.com/artist/300085/daft-punk/chart?f=322&sort=position http://www.billboard.com/artist/300085/daft-punk/chart?f=322...
wwhitman 13y ago
MIT's radio show French Toast has been playing other tracks from the album, not as edgy as their older stuff but quite good. Get Lucky is catchy but a little repetitive.
- 13b9f227ecf0 13y ago
  It's a formulaic little disco song. It's calculated soulless pop. I don't get the appeal.
- geon 13y ago
  I had the opposite reaction. I quite like Get Lucky, but the other songs from the album felt really bland without anything that made them memorable. Not even worth pirating... No offense. I also would have liked Get Lucky to have more of Daft Punk in it. As it is, I can only tell it is a DP song the last half minute of so when the vocoder section starts.
  - wwhitman 13y ago
    It appears to be a concept album about humans reaching their full potential (the stars) and is uplifting in general if not edgy. I compare it to Flaming Lips album Yoshimi. Even in Get Lucky there is a double meaning of up all night working on something and up all night to party, both equally valid.
kawsper 13y ago
What do you think about the George Barnett cover? I find it much more enjoyable than the original. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NDY8FSr9M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6NDY8FSr9M
- mey 13y ago
  I like it a bit better, it's still very repetitive and the beat just isn't that great to me. I like his voice better and the song is better when you remove daft punk from the equation oddly. I think that's why my stomach turned at the song it's not what I expect/want out of daft punk. Same problem w/ Around the world.

brandall10 13y ago

It's not a US perspective, that journalist is just massively out of touch. I'm not sure of their actual commercial performance, but their cultural impact is widespread in the US. To the Pitchfork/Coachella crowd they're living legends and RAM was perhaps the most anticipated album this year.

toomuchtodo 13y ago
Didn't they also do the entire soundtrack for the new Tron film? Obscure? Hardly!
- eridius 13y ago
  It wasn't a film so much as it was the world's longest music video.
  - toomuchtodo 13y ago
    I'd agree with this.
  - geon 13y ago
    They have done that before, with Inter Stella 5555. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8PrIzCX5mI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8PrIzCX5mI
    - Falling3 13y ago
      Don't forget Electroma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daft_Punk's_Electroma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daft_Punk's_Electroma
      - ihuman 13y ago
        They only directed Electroma; they didn't do the music.
    - nivla 13y ago

larrykubin 13y ago

My college roommate and I were definitely jamming to Homework in 1998 or so. Around the World was a huge hit in the late 90's and people have been raving about their live shows at Coachella 2006 and the Alive 2007 tour forever. The new album and live performances have been highly anticipated for a long time.

greenranger 13y ago
The Alive 2007 record is probably one of the best albums of the 2000's, and one of the best live records of all time.

dsjoerg 13y ago

The text following your quote substantiates their claim, you should respond to it: "their biggest previous single, 2000’s One More Time, peaked at No. 61 on the Billboard chart in the U.S., and they had limited Internet presence and no live performances in 2013" I know and love Daft Punk as well, but by these and other commercial objective measures they are obscure. Daft Punk are famous in some circles, and unknown in others. In particular, Get Lucky has achieved chart success previously unknown to Daft Punk, which is interesting and makes one wonder how they broke through this time and not before.

rhizome 13y ago
how they broke through this time and not before. By changing their sound and style.
- sliverstorm 13y ago
  He wasn't asking. It's a rhetorical question that explains why this article was written.
brandall10 13y ago
Operative word being 'were'. I lived through Discovery coming out in the club world back then. What's happened since has been a slow yet steady growth in their popularity/mythology. My parents know who they are now. There was a pretty nice fervor surrounding their involvement in the Tron soundtrack as it was their first new work in 5 years. It went gold and peaked at number 4 in the billboard charts - not the dance charts, not soundtrack, the billboard 200. And that was just a soundtrack.
- ddw 13y ago
  +1. Kanye West sampling them on a single a while ago helped a lot too to introduce them to millions of people. If anything their success proves that easy access to new music helps the cream rise to the top.
icki 13y ago

WestCoastJustin 13y ago

They are popular in Canada and the US by anyone who was around and listening to music in the 90s -;) Back in '97 they had the massive hit, "Around the World" [1], NME placed it at number 21 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years" [2]. Here's the Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_%28Daft_Punk_song%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_%28Daft_Punk_s... [2] http://www.nme.com/list/150-best-tracks-of-the-past-15-years/248648/page/13 http://www.nme.com/list/150-best-tracks-of-the-past-15-years...

alex_doom 13y ago

Yeah that journalist is just out of touch. I'm not a fan of them but calling them obscure is like calling Radiohead obscure just because they haven't released an album in a while. And the success was pretty much assured, most fans have been dying for a new album. So the hype was already off the charts.

Vivtek 13y ago

I happen to be in the US this summer and nobody I talk to has ever heard of them. Unless they're Internet people.