Daft Punk - Human After All
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Artist: Daft PunkEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Human after all
- The prime time of your life
- Robot rock
- Steam machine
- Make love
- The brainwasher
- On/Off
- Television rules the nation
- Technologic
- Emotion
Music reviews of Human After All
Music Review: Subliminal Messages on Daft Punk's Human After All?
Rating: 5 Stars
I saw plenty of pretty negative reviews about Daft Punk's latest album, Human After All. Many used to fancy Daft Punk as party animals of the 90's. Now Human After All came out and almost everyone must have sent it straight back to the $0.99 Cent bin. What I may have noticed is that the reason they hate it is that Daft Punk is so focused on their own form of a project, that reviewers are all expecting a new Homework or Discovery. The truth is that the reviewers are more focused on the music than what Human After All is trying to bring to the table. So here I am to try and see if I can explain my view of the real interior of Human After All:
"Human After All": The song pretty much explains that they are humans under robot suits. This is a Discovery influence. (See: Harder Better Faster Stronger)
"Prime Time Of Your Life": The distorted cooing must be a clue that every piece in this musical puzzle is supposed to symbolize a life cycle for a Human. The speeding up of a repeating beat is supposed to symbolize that whem you get older (50+) tume will fly often fast, and before you know it, you are pushing up daisies in the graveyard (the exploding stars).
"Robot Rock": The songs sound like they are doing another Discovery influence while cranking the guitar up a notch. As you may ave known, more and more music fans are saying that Electronica sucks, and that using instruments like...a guitar and drums is the brand new thing. Daft Punk on the sounds sounds as if they don't mindadjusting to their demands. OF course, rock these says may be catchy, but they're terribly repetitive (Creed, Nickelback, The La's "There She Goes"). The fact that the music is repetitive is more of a trigger to remind you how such a repetitive, if not mediocre, song becomes a big hit. So...they picked up guitars and served it up just the way you like it.
"Steam Machine": The only song that is worthy of being a B-Side really.
"Make Love": Discovery. Daft Punk gets romantic and tries to mirror the fact that not only do humans all fall in love all of the time. This has nothing to do with music anymore.
"The Brainwasher": Evryone has someone telling them what is real and what is unreal. Everyone knows something that plays a brainwasher, whether it is TV or your latest best friend. The song playing with a dance beat all the while mezmorizing.
"On/Off": "On/Off" is an intro to "Television Rules The Nation". The filpping of the channels trigger the fact that there is ust nothing good worth watching on your TV. Survivor, The Simple Life and Unfabulous is not but art imitating life.
"Television Rules The Nation": ""When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So one day when I was six, I did...the next day I had my first headache." ~Max Cohen in p. What is more popular than Money? Who raises your children? What is a cheat sheet for imagination? That's right. Television sets. These days, television rules the nation. Who do you know is not brainwashed into thinking that everything on TV is sheer reality, these days? (Watch Friends, Jerry Springer, and That's So Raven, and tell me nothing on that show is true this century. ) It is only a matter of time before a mirror turns back into a window.
"Technologic": This album, to me, reaches Homework heights. Once again, the music sounds much like it was custom made for an iPod commercial or digital cameras. Actually, I think that is what the song is about. Everything you want to do is by machines. iPod, Electronic music, digital cameras, and the lot. Nothing is primitive anymore.
"Emotion": This emotionally influenced song, to me, is no different from the emotionally charged song from M83 called "Run Into Flowers".
So there you have it. Human After All to hardcore fans are what Christians are to the word "it". They don't know the meaning of the album, because they are getting too much into the right-winged meaning of the album. All it is is an album that is proved bad if it isn't given more time at it.
None of this was new. When Liars came out with They Were Wrong, So We Drowned, reviewers quickly denounced it as unlistenable as toolazy to be "songs". But the album is no different from their other stuff except thsat it has gotten a bit more punk-influenced and different. When Slipknot came out with a 4th album called Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Messages), fans thought it was garbage. But their subliminal message is that every great band ends up making bad music in the mainstream Industry. When Chumbawamba came out with WYSIWYG, people were too busy worrying about their catchy single, Tubthumping, to find out that Chumbawamba is actually an anarchist band. With that, the album didn't sell as much. When Emotive was released by the least-likely band, A Perfect Circle, fans were crushed to find that Tool desecndants created such albums...and on Election Day. But it was A Perfect Circle's plan to take a risk and create the album for the good of America. So every "bad" album must have a reason to be "bad", right? Well, these sure do have a few. This one is just a carefully thought-out concept album that requires idas about different suites of the album.
Description of Human After All
Daft Punk Human After All UK CD albumYou'd never guess from Human After All that these are the same guys who came up with the opulent dance grooves of 2001's Discovery. On Human After All it sounds like Daft Punk's robotic alter egos have finally gotten the upper hand and made an album that is defiantly free of emotion and personality. Instead, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo amp up the irony and deliver a set of songs that are maddeningly repetitive, raucous and bound to test the most devoted fan's patience. But even as the French duo short-circuits it manages to captivate--the spoken-word "Technologic" and the digitized "The Prime Of Your Life" are just bananas enough to make its euphoric hit "One More Time" sound positively last century. --Aidin Vaziri
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