Homework

Meh

I actually love repetitive beats and basslines but this is just dull.

bueno album cool feels like irreversible i gta radio. molts momemtscanso dells yapping Zzzz. mucho puchi cachi puchi cachi

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ok, but i dont get the hype 63/100

4.5 great stuff

Rolling Stone says it's the greatest EDM album of all time. It may be. But in my world that fact is only worth 2 stars. Actually, no EDM merits any grade. It should all be marked incomplete as it all sounds like someone came up with a great intro but then never wrote an actual song to go with it.

Fantastic album, around the world is of course one of the best electronic tracks ever. Burnin' stood out to me. And Da Funk was great too.

One in the category of worthwhile artists included with the wrong album. Still, I can dig early Daft Punk. It's a bit softer than the type of Electronic I prefer to listen to, but it has its own charm. Around The World is a classic and Da Funk was a great song I hadn't heard in a long while. That said, this is quite a long album and I don't think it does the best at staying interesting. I really dug the first 40 minutes or so, but I was ready to listen to something else by the time Rock & Roll came around. A few songs less and I'd have given it a star more perhaps.

He's no George I'll tell ya that much...

Fun stuff

It sounds like half an album, it's not bad as backing music for a hip hop or edm album but it just feels incomplete

Homework by Daft Punk. They’re an interesting one, that’s to be sure. I enjoy some songs, but others are less appreciated as far as songs go, or perhaps just overrated. “Discovery,” their album oft-acknowledged as their magnum opus, never has really roused a sense of great enjoyment in me. It’s real cool though, and so is this. I enjoy a lot of songs on this album. “Around the World” is an obvious, immediate, and undeniable classic, and the highlight of the album, along with some lesser but still great moments. Contrary to what I would assume many feel, I greatly enjoy the album’s moments of abrasive dissonance toward the end of the album, themes that would be explored further in their controversial third album “Human After All.” The biggest problem is the length. Some songs don’t deserve how long they go on. Some are just annoying, and 3 minutes instead of 1. It’s undeniable influential and awesome though. I like this one. 7.5/10 DOES IT BELONG ON THE LIST: YES REASON: INFLUENCE AND QUALITY

I remember my son waxing poetic about Daft Punk - I didn’t get it then and I don’t get it now. I made it through about 14 tracks and it’s noting but repetitive noise and not really music in any sense of the word.

It's a really good record. Very ahead of its time. It's danceable, yet harmonious and classy.

hell yes daft punk !! humble beginnings, with promises of what's to come

some gems but some are just annoying

This is one of the best house albums ever and the one that got me into daft punk! I love those crazy French dudes they make such good music and are definitely missed lol!

Yeah, Daft Punk, but no, not there yet.

What a freakin' amazin' first album. Such a fun and unique sound. Had me really dancing to some simple beats. The drops and swells kept me guessing where the song would go. Even the small interlude tracks were fantastic. Faves were: Da Funk, Around the World, Rollin' & Scratchin', Rock'n Roll, and Funk Ad was a fun outro that kinda summarized the album's sound.

What the... This is so bad it actually hurts - I couldn't even get through one and a half songs.

One could imagine this working much better on a Molly-fueled dance floor. But as an album listen the overlong and mind numbing repetition overwhelms the winning moments (like ‘Da Funk’)

6/10

Many great songs, many bad ones as well.

Favorite track(s): Revolution 909, Da Funk, Around the World, Rollin' & Scratchin' It's a fine album, but there's pretty much no reason for it to take the spot from Discovery. Everything on here is done better in Alive 2007. Heard before Previous rating: 6/10

Fuckin nerds doing homework

Not music I want to listen to outside of a club. That being the case, I enjoy “Da Funk.” “Teachers” and “High Fidelity” charmed me. But, I need to be at a party or club to deal with most of this album. So 2 stars for listening at home, 4 for a party or club, average 3.

As the top review described, you do go around the world. After that song, it kinda falls apart for me. I don't understand why they selected this over RAM or Discovery, which are superior to this album 2.5/5

This is as impressive a debut album as Jimi Hendrix', The Doors, The Strokes or anyone else you can think of. Thomas and Guy-Man were so young and inexperienced that these songs are still experimental in nature, but well excecuted in their endless ammount of tributes and influences that made the amalgam of this early Daft Punk sound, which is nothing less than incredible. The album listening experience is as fun as it gets, intros, outros, great skit style songs in Teachers and Oh Yeah, great house deep cuts like Phoenix and Fresh, harder stuff with Burnin' and Alive and of course the inescapable singles that shaped my radio listening experience back when Alt-Rock radio was great and included Around the World and Da Funk. This shouldn't have been the album to include in this list if it was just one, but it's still an all time hit.

I've always wanted to like this album more than I do. I think if they managed to trim off a minute or two for each song it would be greatly improved.

I mean I love a pair of French techno robots, but Discovery is my all-time go to. Don't get me wrong, there are some serious bangers on here, but there are also a few lulls and it feel a shade long.

This sounds like pretty decent party music. I’ve never intentionally tried listening to a full album of house music before. There were some exciting moments near the beginning, but toward the end it was beginning to feel like… Homework (ha!)

I never really got the hype around Daft Punk. It's good house music, all right, perfect for a crowded Saturday night dance floor - but that's about it, nothing to get too excited about. I'll admit that it felt like anew kind of sound in 1997, bringing big beat and scratching into house music. But there were plenty of other interesting EDM and IDM acts around back then, and Daft Punk weren't the most daring innovators. I suspect a big part of their fame comes down to very effective marketing (the helmets sure helped, as did their work on the Tron OST). And I really can't stand "Around the World," a very average track that's been overplayed to death. Almost 30 years after its release, this album hasn't aged particularly well. A lot has changed on the scene, and Daft Punk doesn't sound the least bit futuristic today. I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077 all week, and the game's electro OST honestly feels infinitely more exciting... I may be a bit too harsh, though. It's really not a bad record. I totally dig "Da Funk" or "Rock'n Roll", where they move away from standard house music to venture into something heavier. The album is very listenable overall, it just doesn't live up to its reputation, and it's certainly not the duo's best work. Daft Punk absolutely deserved to be on the list, though. 5/10

Just because they're the GOATS. It does work, but its not all great. Now I must rate high becuase of the influence this 30yrs of album (and others) had on the industry.

Quelle fraîcheur, quelle sonorité, quels rythmes, que d’influence !! Exceptionnel, mémorable, cet album a marqué son temps et a été un vrai tournant dans l’électro mondial. C’est devenu un classique

It may be French, groundbreaking, and a classic, but I struggle to get excited about the album as a whole, especially compared to some of their other work, which is far funkier and more visceral. Here, it’s repetitive house music. Iconic, sure, but still house. And house just isn’t really my thing.

Singles are brilliant but I've never heard the rest of the album and now I know why, it's very much a debut. Wait, have we not had Discovery on this list? Crazy, it's so much more accomplished than homework and made DP massive, would think it's a far better choice for the list. There's definitely flashes here that show how they'll evolve but it's just a bit too house musicy for me, good few tracks where the song doesn't grow past a beat and one idea on top of it. Being a bit harsh here as its still a solid album, just very much below the next two Daft Punk albums. 3.5.

I don't think I have anything poignant or particularly insightful to say - some great club bangers, some excellent subdued house music, and some more intense stuff. Da Funk, and Funk Ad definitely the best tracks, but I'm still not covering new ground. Quite enjoyed how some tracks simply devolve to nothing in particular, before looping back to the main beat. Should Random Access Memories be on here? Probably - but this album brought the world's eye to French House Music. Around the World is l'a maison. I think I'll have to workshop that. I was going for amazing.

10 albums from completing the list and this is the first daft punk album we've had. I'd have thought random access memories would have been on the list. I will have heard this before, but not for a long time... It's daft punk. Fully what I was expecting. I remember being captivated by the video for around the world at the time. Probably hadn't seen or heard anything like it before. 3.5

I’m not a massive house/electronic fan, but I liked this. It’s just way too long. All of these songs blend together after a certain point. I’m sure that’s really cool in a dance club or whatever, but just listening to it alone while I’m working doesn’t really give the same experience

The good tracks are great but otherwise yet another example of electronic music failing to fill up an album with interesting ideas.

I hit play on this CD in an Aiwa shelf stereo in 1997 and “Around the World” might almost be done any time now… 3⭐️

Some great tracks but this doesn't really feel like the full Daft Punk experience to me. A lot of the album is abrasive repetitive industrial house, that I just don't vibe with. Fave Tracks: Da Funk, Around the World, Teachers, High Fidelity 2.8/5

I feel that I’m too old to give this a decent appraisal. One overlong repetitive beat followed by another overlong repetitive beat. Starting to sound like my father…

Not their best, but still very funky. Standouts are Revolution 909, Da Funk, Fresh and Around The World.

1/5. Insanely boring. Not my cup of tea at all.

It’s not Discovery.

★⅓

I’ve heard this before and I own it. I’ve always liked Daft Punk, and in my opinion they were the best of those “electronica” groups in the mid-late 90s that got a lot of play when radio and MTV were busy pushing that as the Next Big Thing. Good melodies and hooks, and they vary the beats and instruments and samples enough that it doesn’t get too repetitive like a lot of other electronic artists. Of course repetitive is fine and sometimes better for club music but listening to this on my headphones while typing on a laptop stone cold sober is a different experience. There are a few songs that are unmemorable and bordering on filler but overall a great album.

I've got a copy of the Discovery album, which is fantastic and I listen to it fairly regularly. I don't think this album is nearly as good as that release. It's their debut album, so that's completely understandable. I still enjoyed it in the main, there were a couple of tracks that just went on way too long e.g. Rock'n Roll. Maybe I needed to drop a pill or something to fully appreciate those tracks :-) It's somewhere between 3 and 4 stars, I'm going to round down this time.

Love Daft Punk. This album feels a little primitive to what they eventually did with Discovery and Random Access Memories. Just repeats. I guess it’s a product of its 90s Euro House-ness.

Sounds like two French guys from the late 90's electronic music scene... I wonder what became of them? Hopefully they made more albums.

I'm not the biggest fan of Daft Punk's early work. Don't get me wrong, I think this is an interesting album with a lot of really great moments, but the music is just a little too repetitive and the album goes on for well over an hour. Everything that Daft Punk would go on to be is contained in this album, but it's all just hidden under a bit too much noise. For example, my computer started crashing while I was listening to "Rock'n Roll," and for about a minute I was unsure if the repeating sounds were due to the meltdown of my web browser or were just part of the music (it was the latter). I could see myself rating this album a bit higher in the right context. On this list, 3 is as high as it goes. Favorite track: "Da Funk"

I want to like this more than I do, because Discovery is incredible. Subsequently, I went in expecting a creative dance extravaganza, but it was pretty meandering and adrenaline-lite. Discovery was a bigger leap than I remembered.

An hour and 16 minutes of repetition.

Avant d'écouter l'album, je craignait que ça soit un peu trop répétitif, j'avais suffisamment entendu ce reproche fait à Daft Punk par le passé. Et c'était vrai. Le truc, c'est que le duo sait créer des mélodies électroniques très cool, qui rentrent en tête et qui ont même assez bien vieilli, pour dire qu'elles ont presque 30 ans. Mais le truc, c'est aussi beaucoup de les mettre en boucle et de mettre un peu d'autres éléments tout autour. Alors la démarche est pas forcément mauvaise, mais j'ai vraiment du mal avec ce côté répétitif, surtout dans la mesure où l'album dure quand même près d'une heure et quart ! Enfin, j'ai pas détesté non plus et l'album est passé étonnamment vite. Troisième album français depuis le début de la liste, d'ailleurs ! J'ai trouvé Justice quand même meilleur.

2.12

I think it is a cool album. Lots of fun sounds. But i found it very grating.

Love

Fun, German techno vibe

The number of reviews that include phrases like “this changed my world when it came out” or “classic” tells you it deserves its inclusion in 1001. Could “Rollin’ and Scratchin”, “Rock n’ roll”, “Oh yeah”, and others have been shorter or less annoying? Definitely. Compared to some of the unlistenable dreck that’s made the influential bar though this is a gem, whether you find it too repetitive or not. It’s not going to make my desert island list, but absolutely, you should listen to this before you die.

It's hard to say exactly how I feel about individual songs on Homework, because this is really an album made to be listened to all in one go. Not that there aren't some great tracks on here (Around the World is pretty well known around the world, but also Da Funk, Rollin' & Scratchin', High Fidelity, and Alive are all fantastic), but this really is just a 70 minute music fest. A great time. Daft Punk knows how to throw a great party I bet.

Apparently, their original intent was to dribble these tracks out one at a time as they were creating them. Then they decided they had enough tracks for an album, and assembled and released it this way. That is unfortunate. While I understand there is a place for this music, and I might actually enjoy dancing to a tune or two, to listen to 73 minutes of this back to back is a tough ask. The best? Maybe “Da Funk”, where I am hearing an echo of Sly’s “Dance to the Music”. The worst? Definitely “Rock ‘n Roll”, seven minutes of a minimally varying riff of repetitive electronic squawks. If not exactly nails on a chalkboard, it was close enough. But that is really splitting hairs. It all sounds pretty much the same.

Sometimes, be a deaf person is a blessing.

Fun album, of its time. While Iconic, its not one I would listen to regularly. Some really strong almost ubiquitous tracks and the rest of the album not sure about. Incredible how the band have made such a legacy for themselves over just 4 albums by having these everywhere songs

So tight jams of high end dance beats, but very unvaried and could have been a shorter punchier collection.

Daft Punk reshaped pop in so many ways that it’s almost hard to listen to this just on its own terms. It sounds like the internet coming into being. It sounds like great funk and dance instincts meeting the electronic. Some songs irritate with their repetitive digital beeps and zaps, but there is still an underlying brilliance. You can’t look away.

Whenever I listen to the words "house party", this is the exact soundtrack that comes to mind. Daft Punk would reach even higher milestones later in their discography, but this is indeed a great album.

This album has never clicked with me the way the rest of their albums did. It's more house, more brash, more repetitive, and the sounds don't tickle my brain in that Daft Punk way outside of a few tracks. But it's a monumentally important album filled with amazing ideas and more disco electronic funk than you can shake a stick at.

This album is up to no good. among the best dance music I’ve heard. Made me like I do after dirty sex

long and boring but kind of a vibe, and i do like their later stuff

I like Daft Punk, but this album is hard to love for me. It's just so very repetitive and doesn't do much to switch it up and be interesting. Standouts Around the World 3/5

A lot of energy that should please those into electronic dance music.

Fabuloso álbum

Like Daft Punk but this is definitely not their best

#448 Daft Punk Homework 1997 Daft Punk definitely slide into that MTV age for me, particularly the singles from this album, which I liked all of them at the time and each came with intriguing videos, particularly the Michel Gondry directed video for the repetitive Around the World, which I guess is like marmite for many. Da Funk and Revolution 909 are the best tracks here though which both feature in the first half of the album which is great, however, I find the second half of the album particularly difficult to engage, and it goes on far too long for my liking. Heard before? ✅ Would I revisit? ❌ (just the hits) Listen before you die? ✅ Fave track(s): Da Funk Rating: 6/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Interesting but they’re later stuff is better

Quick and dirty, repetitive, minimal and repetitive. Repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive. Did I already say repetitive? Each song announces its idea quicky and then restates it ad nauseam with some filters applied. Piece of piss, what's next?

Smooth song transitions but by the end I started feeling like I was about to lose my mind and I generally like electronica

I like their later stuff a lot but this seemed pretty repetitive. I'm guessing it was very influential but I didn't love it.

Sounds like a skipping record most of the time. Just horrible!

good ingredients just better in later remixes

Good album, abit rough around the edges but good album for their first

There's "Around the World" and everything else around "Around the World"

Daft punk can get it on

Every fucking thing sounds the same and it sounds like fucking shit.

I've never been a big Daft Punk fan. There's some good tunes here and there, but this is just another "electronic beat loop" album to me.

Pretty repetitive, but not bad for background work.

Not my thang, but good for zoning out on the treadmill.

(2/7) a little too repetitive and industrial

Mangler revidering

You can see glimpses of the future genius, but it’s no Discovery. More hard dance based than their later commercial success, but there’s still that underlying sonic experimentation and playfulness with samples that brought them to legendary status.

Good

1997 Techno, disco, electropop Primer album de Daft Punk. Las canciones son muy repetitivas y no me parece que tengan nada interesante.

I really liked their final album. This one you probably need to be high on X and in a club to enjoy

Most of this album gives me anxiety, and is super repetitive. Songs loop over and over and are not particularly pleasant to listen to. Surprised this site didn't recommend Discovery insttead

I like Random Access Memories much better.

Music for questioning who you really are on a Tuesday night at 2am in a Vegas nightclub.

I was sort of looking forward to revisiting this, but I clearly remembered it way more fondly than the reality of it. Feels like a total slog after all these years, and even the tracks that had been ear worms do nothing for me now. Their later efforts were quite a bit more compelling and less boring and repetitive, or at least I think they were? Now I'm not so sure anymore...huh.

Better than Coldplay