Homework

i think i just don't really care for Daft Punk; incredibly mediocre

5/5 Da funk back to the punk, c'mon!

own

really solid listen, but works best to listen too while focused on another task

In my opinion it is a good electronic album, not my favorite but not a bad one by any means. Some time it feels a little repetitive and boring Fav songs - Around the World 3/5

Way too long. Way too repetitive. I was surprised I didn’t like this more. They didn’t really complete this homework assignment very well.

I hated this. Usually I can at least put this on the background and work. It’s just kind of there. But I could not focus with this at all. For some reason very jarring for me and not enjoyable.

Repetitive? Yes. Too long? Yes. Enough bangers to get me to round up? Yes. 2.75/5

This is #day748 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… like it or not, you probably can't deny the fact that this band/album made a splash back in the day. Funny, I don't remember first hearing Daft Punk. The name always rang a bell, but I don't quite remember listening to them during my childhood in the early '00s. Some Modjo and David Guetta, yes, since they were on the radio. And yet, "Around the World" and a bunch of other tracks sound familiar. Maybe they were on the radio as well? Anyway, do we need to appreciate the craft behind putting all this together: disco, house, funk, and whatnot, and making it work? Probably. I'm wondering if I should revisit Justice's Cross, which I got way back on #day14 and wasn't really impressed by then. This is a 4 out of 5. Looking forward to #day749.

Definitely more repetitive than I remember it being, and more club friendly because of that. But can still hear them working out their craft to get to where they ended up.

I know there is so much hype around them; I just don't get it. It's not my scene for sure. I think it's also context-dependent; it might not really be music to just sit down and listen to. Definitely important for the genre, and with lots of positive reviews to show for it, it's boring and repetitive for me.

Not the Daft Punk album I would have chosen to be in the book. Another L by the author. Too common. They should have went with Discovery. I’d have even been happy with Random Access Memories as well. This album isn’t bad, but it’s not what a majority of people would have selected, nor the album I believe should have been selected personally. Daft Punk deserves to be on here in some capacity for sure. They’re an influential duo who absolutely dominated the popular music scene for a very long time. The book writer loves using debut albums for bands that have infinitely better albums, and this is a prime example of why that just doesn’t work a majority of the time. Yes, it’s important in that it was Daft Punk’s first album, but compared to their later stuff, a lot of this album does just come off as Homework, rather than something you need to actually listen to before you die. But no, they wanted to give you some deeper cuts, so we got this instead of something much better and more deserving of actually making the list. I’ll admit that I’ve always found Daft Punk to be a little overrated to begin with as a whole, but I’m still kind of a fan regardless, I guess. Maybe not, I did listen to them growing up a lot, but I wouldn’t call it very impactful on my life. Daft Punk makes Electronica for people who don’t normally listen to the genre. They’re the Call of Duty of bands in that sense. There are thousands of artists that are objectively better in every single meaningful way, Daft Punk is just the band who happened to become insanely popular instead, so people latched on to them. And that’s not a bad thing. It is what it is. They just aren’t as important to me as most other Electronica bands I listened to growing up, and especially now. Ironically enough, if you want a couple 5 star French Electronica albums specifically, play me some Justice. Now that’s a band who know how to make some real bangers. This music is just so dated, and while that’s not always a bad thing, it kinda is here. This is just kind of repetitive and boring, especially for an album that’s over an hour long. The boring albums always just insist on being over an hour long, because of course they do. Even for club music it’s repetitive and doesn’t do much to change up the complexity of the beats on virtually every song on the album. I don’t honestly love this album, but I also don’t outright hate, or even dislike it. It’s just kinda meh. Not bad. Just meh. Keep in mind, this is just my review of THIS Daft Punk album. They have albums that are infinitely better than this one. It’s just not a good selection outright, I’ll say it. Bad choice. Not my favorite album. Not a particularly good album. I spent the day listening to it hoping it was going to get better, and it just never did. I don’t even love “Around the World”. You want to talk about repetitive?? That song is maddening. My favorite song on this one is “Da Funk”, as it was one of the few I recognized, and was able to tolerate. I was really hoping to find a reason to give this one a 3, but man, I would never return to this. It’s just bad and boring unfortunately. Sorry guys, this one absolutely did not do it for me and for that reason, it’s getting a 2.

Over an HOUR of beats. Another reviewer noted that this is less “songs” and more just a collection of beats that a DJ would use to make transitions, and now that’s all I can hear. I was going to give it one star but MAYBE I can justify two stars as it might come in handy for that use my old ass is ever invited to spin some discs.

This album is yet another example of why this project just fundamentally doesn’t work. Enjoyment of music is just too environment/activity/mindset-specific to be able to rate an album on a one-to-five star scale when you’re almost always going to be listening to it outside of the context in which it’s designed to be enjoyed. If I was dancing in a club at 2am, I might think this was super cool. But it’s 7am and I’m feeding and cleaning up after pets and making sure the trash cans are to the road in time for garbage pick up. And that’s not Daft Punk’s fault. They made this music to be enjoyed in a specific context, and there is nothing wrong with that. It has no bearing on the quality of the music that I’m not listening to it in the context in which it’s meant to be heard. Maybe if they had just repeated “around the world” a few more times…

ehh nuda nedopocuvala som je to proste tanecna hudba

I've never been a fan of Daft Punk, but this was actually boring. Who would've thought?

Slaps real nice

Daft Punk is a classic.

Some great moments on the album, really enjoyed it. Always liked a lot of Daft Punks stuff. Surprised not to see Discovery or RAM on here though.

Do you think these robot men have been around the world as many times as they have said around the world in the song, Around the World? 3 Drugs could make this a 5 star gold album but Drugs Are Bad. M'kay.

Oh it's daft all right

Around the World is great but the rest kinda bored me. Much prefer Discovery. I’ll very rarely get hyped over electronic / dance music

low 4.5.

If this album clocked in at a reasonable runtime, I might give this a 2. It's just so annoyingly repetitive, completely aimless, and too fucking long.

I wanted to like this more, but some of these "songs" having a 30 second intro of just noise on the beat is too much.

2/5

Never listened. Expectations: High - Verdict: Very Good - I was sure I had listened to this before but I only recognise a couple of tracks. Daftendirekt is a very fun opener that builds throughout the short play time. Revolution 909 kicks the album off properly with a great, nocturnal house rhythm that feels like it could go on indefinitely. Da Funk has a heavier groove that pounds away and Around The World is very catchy. Rollin' And Scratchin' has the harshest sounds so far which contrasts with an album that so far has been very smooth. Teachers is the first track that I don't really enjoy. I like the thought but it just gets a little irritating. High Fidelity gets things back on track before Rock'n Roll introduces the hardest sounds yet. Burnin' into Indo Silver Club is a late album highlight.

Such quality. Possibly too long but worth 5 on the first third of the album alone. RYM: N Saved a song: Y

I am generally not a fan of electronic music. It’s just too repetitive and unsubstantial to hold my interest for very long, but if it’s got a good beat, hook and enough interesting sounds, I don’t mind having it going on in the background. Daft Punk is an outlier. I find them more interesting than most of the lot. I also like Air and LCD Soundsystem and that’s about it. This is a fun album. 4.3

They're very good at what they do, but I prefer heavier beats in my dance music, and I find looped vocal samples grating. I think I'd enjoy this more in a nightclub than just listening to it like this.

#443/1001. I remember quite shortly after this album came out my friend was already selling this. I asked why, and his answer was that "Well, it's quite boring to be honest". And besides the few floor-filler banging tracks, it is, right? Tip of the hat for bringing 303, 808 and 909 and acid (back) to the masses, but besides Da Funk and Around the World I really don't need to play or listen to any other song or of the album.

Idk man

A: 1/5 Alltså behövd gå ut de innan ja ens kan börja skriva... Pga instant crush och Julia så trodde ja dom gjorde bra musik... Love to be proven wrong. Alltså helt horribelt. Vill aldrig höra igen. Jag 10 år skulle ha kunnat gö de bättre. Like fr fr FR orkar int. De va semi gammalt så kanske därför det är där men idk de borde inte. Förstörde min dag och var onödigt långt.... (F-tier) D: Visste inte att dom var kapabla av att göra dålig musik... Syns att det är deras tidigare produktion. Jag är glad att de har utvecklats sedan dess. Visste att det betydde problem genast när Around the World var den bästa låten på ett album........ Tycker synd om de apparater de använde för att producera den, kändes som att hälften av ljuden kom från att strypa synthen. Innovativt? 1/5

I know I should say that this album is amazing, and it was awesome and I loved it. I remember when this came out it was echoed Around the World, Around the World, Around the World. In the world of the late 1990s where Blue Chip companies were pouring money into pockets and ecstasy was the dance hall elixir of life, this album hit. Now, despite quality production and pop appeal, it felt really redundant after a while and I lost interest about 1/2 way through. For an EDM fan, this could be huge but for a mid-life dad on a Saturday afternoon, this became background. If I had a key song it was Indo Silver Club because it had the most movement. Will I return for another trip Around the World, Around the World, Around the World? Only time will tell…

Random thoughts: * It’s obvious why this was included in 1001. This was the breakthrough and was a revelation. * I distinctly remember Da Funk and Around the World videos on MTV * Around the World was a sight to be seen and also scientifically the most repetitive pop song ever. I still love it! It is trance inducing. * That repetition seems to be on display on many of the songs on this album. * One of my favorites is High Fidelity. The way they take Bill Joel samples and turn it into something so unique is quite impressive. * Some of the tracks are a little too scratchy and noisy for my taste- Rollin and Scratchin & Rock and Roll. * Teachers is pretty cool. You could get a pretty good education by listening to all the artists name dropped. * In the end, while this was a revelation and is definitely essential listening. I wish they would have included Discovery. This feels like Daft Punk’s homework which led them make their masterpiece, Discovery.

Repetitive, but somehow more bearable than most electronica albums.

I don't have a long attention span for this type of music at all and this record is an hour and 13 minutes before even considering listening to the bonus disc, which I didn't do. This record is WAY too long and only a couple tracks really interest me. There are more than a couple tracks that are just irritating... the weird squealing/screeching or some other ear-splitting effect that they mix over an otherwise normal EDM beat/bass groove make them intolerable. If they cut out the tracks that are pretty much designed to break your speakers or eardrums, this might come in at a tolerable length and keep my interest for the whole thing. As-is, it's an ok record that fans of this genre love but is just middle-of-the-road to me.

The funk DNA is real and that turns out to be the deciding factor. Daft Punk's debut arrives as a French house record built on Chicago house, disco, and groove music history filtered through a vocoder and a very specific Parisian sensibility — and underneath the electronic construction the bass lines are doing genuine work, the grooves are genuinely cool, and the whole thing has enough connection to the tradition it's drawing from to earn real respect from a listener whose standards in that department are not low. "Around the World" and "Da Funk" are the landmarks — repetitive in the way that good groove music is always repetitive, which is to say purposefully and hypnotically rather than lazily. The programmed drums that have kept most electronic records at three in this project create less distance here because the funk foundation underneath them is doing enough work to compensate. Not totally my thing is the honest qualifier, and it stays honest throughout — this isn't a record that connects the way soul and jazz do, and the change-of-pace framing is accurate rather than a limitation. But a record you'd throw on the player specifically for the groove and the energy it brings to a room has earned its four, and Homework earns it on exactly those terms. A four for the grooves, the fun, and a record player test that didn't require much deliberation.

Crap

Some high points like Around the World and Da Funk but overall just too repetitive for me. I found it a slog to get through.

9am and sober is not the way this album was intended to be consumed

They’re not daft and they’re definitely not punks, so what are they? Beneath the robot masks and costumes they certainly have an ear for a killer dance beat, working on these tracks separately in home studios before assembling them into an album. Some of the beats sound a little generic, but they get the job done and the end result was hugely influential on the European dance scene. The only problem that I have with this is that it doesn’t really work as an album, in the way that their final release Random Access Memories does. Each of these tracks stands alone as something that you’d dance to at a sweaty rave, high on life (or on certain other substances, to taste). Like all the best dance music, they open with classic bass drum / snare patterns, building and layering sounds on top, and throwing in the occasional cheeky sample and glitchy beat drop for lolz. Robot-tastic!

They pick some really great parts from other songs, it's inventive, but the credit lies with the creator. 3 - deserves to be on this list

ADA 0190296611926 (Worldwide 2022 reissue) vinyl rip: I liked this album when I first heard it back in high school. This vinyl rip is like a whole new experience. Very dynamic mastering. Favorite tracks: "Revolution 909" and "Alive"

The length of the songs on some of these electronica albums is starting to get to me. Repetitive sounds trigger my adhd and I start to get annoyed, especially if I don’t enjoy the sound or beat. I feel like these songs just about get to the point of annoyance for me when I’m not enjoying the repetition before they switch it up. When I’m ok with the sound or beat, it isn’t such a problem. Not sure if I’m explaining this clearly so I guess this is just hit or miss for me.

Can't deny Daft Punk a place on this list. But, while this album contains their monster break-out hit, it is very, very clear that they were still in the lab with an unfinished product. Later albums were vastly superior. This one is a little rough around the edges and, I'm truly sorry, painfully repetitive.

Listening to this album felt like homework. At first I was a little bit excited, like: nice, daft punk, lets do this. The start was ok but it got a little bit repetitive, but it felt like it was building up to around the world. Then around the world came and I was like: niceee. And then it too got repetitive. And the rest of the album was downhill from there. Didnt want to finish my homework but I did cause I had to. So yeah. Two stars cause it wasnt like completely unhearable, its daft punk after all

Meh, entiendo que al ser el primer disco de Daft Punk es iconico y eso, pero voy a esperar a que me toque alguno de los buenos. Muy aburrido este y las canciones que estaban bien eran demasiado largas. Me olvido de la importancia para la música y le doy rating basandome solo en el disco en sí.

A handful of really good songs here, but this not Daft Punk in their final form

yaaaay

Really disappointed. The album is called Homework and it felt like homework to get through it. I knew a couple of tracks: Around the World (great) and Da Funk (pretty good). The rest was just repetitive techno with very little to keep me engaged, possibly useful in a club/dance situation but hard to just listen to.

I always want to like Daft Punk more than I do. But this album is a showcase of songs that largely start at 4 or 5 stars, but then slip to 3 stars by the end because of their refusal to go anywhere. There’s o journey to them. Set up a cool song template. Repeat that template for 3-6 minutes. End. Repeat.

Agreed with everyone else that outside of the ear worm hits, the unrelieved repetition of most of the rest of the tracks is just begging the listener to be on E.

Honestly don't got too much to say about this. As much as I like some of Daft Punk's later stuff (And even Around the World), I'm just not an EDM person. It doesn't really do much for me. Perfectly fine, but not wowing me.

I really enjoyed the first half of this album. The second half seemed to lose focus and became rather repetitive. It might just be me, or maybe I just got fatigue from listening to this style of music. Either way, I like it.

How did they survive this, to put out ANYthing else?

No me ha gustado, no es mi rollo. Algunas dan miedo. Otras sí están bien pero me da la sensación que deberían durar menos. De hecho, me quedaría con secciones concretas de las canciones

Iconic dance album, which yeah hits all the marks I think, but didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would, or remembered

Teachers

Favourite Songs: Daftendirekt Da Funk Around The World

So much potential, but it feel sophomore. Lacks the killer samples and vocals from later DP.

Repetitive electronic sounds. No interest to me.

Have to be in the mood as 1hr plus can tire of. Definitely repetitive, but that’s kind of the point. Influential for the time.

Seminal, but imperfect. I get why this is on here but the fact Discovery was never added in any later edition is, frankly, baffling. When Homework hits, it’s some of Daft Punk’s greatest output. When it misses, it’s some of their worst. High Fidelity is basically a completely flawed execution on what they’d later get so right with High Life. Rollin’ and Scratchin’ has to now live in a post Alive 2007 world where it’s been repurposed into something far more compelling. I love this album, but I simply struggle to reconcile it being Daft Punk’s only output on this list. Particularly when so many middling rock and folk groups get multiple questionable additions.

Me gustó pero no me mató. Si es en una fiesta por ahí sí, pero para ponerle onda al día un poco aburre por momentos.

A case of being incredibly repetitive that works quite well. It is hard for me to not feel a bit hypocrite after trashing on albums for being super repetitive. However, I think Daft Punk really understood how to make repetitions work, and it comes down to two things (in my opinion): First of all, this record sounds super cool. It has a high quality sound, nice sampling, incredibly textured and flavorful electronics, infectious rhythms, awesome grooves and catchy melodies. For almost the whole album I had at least one part of my body moving to the rhythm, so there was basically no boredom at all, even in its weakest moments. Second, its dynamism. One thing they do in every song is adding and subtracting the same elements and changing the volume and clarity of these. For example, they bring a certain melody, then they stop it playing it just to bring it back after a short time. This is great, because it helps the tracks not feel monotonous or tedious. With that being said, a little less repetition would be appreciated, considering this is an hour and a quarter long. In the end, a fun and very infectious electronic dance album.

Decent. Made me listen to Random Access Memories. Thanks Tali.

10/10 - a true 5 star album, pretty much every song is a banger, it does need a good sound system but Daft Punk don't do fillers

Life changing for me as a teenager in 1997. I still think its highlights are some of the best dance tracks ever made, namely Revolution 909, Da Funk and Around The World. I also accept that it tails off in the second half and could've been tidied up and shortened a little. Lose 2-3 tracks and you're looking at arguably the best dance album ever made. I don't think I can hack a full star off it for that, partly as I'm 100% certain that its global average is comfortably lower than it deserves due to the European Dance Music tax. I also have to defend its inclusion over the follow-up, Discovery. This album broke French House into the mainstream and walked (around the world) so Discovery could run (harder, better, faster, stronger) - but by the time of the latter's release, it wasn't as groundbreaking, other artists were in on the act and while it smashed the commercial success of this squelchy, raw debut, for me it feels more homogenic and pop-oriented. I also didn't love the addition of cheesy lyrics and vocoder-fed guitar solos to make more single-friendly material on Discovery. For me, Homework is well worthy of its place.

The music isn't bad, but there is way too much repetition. Dull.

It would be 3.5 if I could

Not unlistenable, but way too long and repetitive. 2/5

Surprisingly inoffensive for what may be my least favorite genre of music

I think I’ll stick to the hits with these guys

Yeah

An electronica record with personality, Daft Punk's debut is a mostly smart and confident album that is front-loaded with muscular and inventive tracks ("Da Funk", of course, but also "Revolution 909" and "Rollin' And Scratchin'"). The momentum flags in the latter half of the album when the band falls back on repetition at the expense of innovation (the whole stretch from "Teachers" through "Indo Silver Club" essentially loses the thread) but fortunately the stomping "Alive" shows up to rescue it from total ruin.

Songs go on for a little too long and is very repetitive. Some songs are cool like around the world, indo silver club and revolution 909. I'd probably enjoy this much more at a club.

I små doser e det her helt ok, i større doser, som i form av et helt album, blir det egentlig mer enerveranes enn gøy å høre på i lengden, så æ e ikke overvettes begeistra.

As if to prove a point I made yesterday when my selection was The Who’s My Generation I get this album today. Yesterday I was quite rightly applauding how great the music was back in the mid 60’s with its newness and freshness and the promise of even greater things to come. A true golden generation. Today I get this trash. The only good thing I can say is that at least it isn’t AI generated but it could well be. Computer Muzak at its worse. Thank goodness the likes of Oasis were about when this was released keeping the hope and the tradition of The Who alive. 1/5 19/7/26

Um dia eu vou gostar de Daft Punk, definitivamente esse dia não é hoje.

N curti a vibe, mas uma ou duas da pra ficar humming enquanto ouve

Bem esquisito, algumas músicas são super desconfortáveis (não sei se era o objetivo, se sim, muito bom, alcançou o objetivo, se não, só incômodo mesmo), mas algumas são bem dançáveis

Honestly, through Rollin' & Scratchin' I was all in on this and seriously considering awarding five stahs. But Teachers threw me a bit out of it and my enchantment never fully returneth. I grew tired of its shtick, some might say. Theres a five stah album somewhere in here though.

I thought this was a 3 so I’m just adjusting for Brandon’s vote. #StopTheSteal

In theory, I am a big Daft Punk fan, but this record never did it for me </3

Keeping it 3. I like Daft Punk, and I overall like the album, but the second half was getting a lil' too grating for me.

Not a 5 because there are some grating or unimportant tracks (“Burnin’,” “Wdpk 837 FM,” “Indo Silver Club”) but this is the only electronic band I will seek out and listen to. This isn’t my favorite album, but obviously “Around the World” pulls this up by a lot. This is a great record to vibe out to

Not their best but still a classic. I don't think I had enough Molly in my system to really go the distance for some of the songs.

Solid album, iconic band. Let's be honest, a bit repetitive.

It only just occurred to me today that Around the World might be a nod to Around the World in Eighty Days which was written by a French writer; Jules Verne. On the other hand it might just be a catchy sample. I knew the hits but not really the whole album and while I accept the criticism that it's a bit repetitive and too long, I personally find the house-y Daft Punk more to my taste than the slick disco revival they eventually crafted. Also I find the Spike Jonze video for Da Funk with the dog on crutches very moving.

Pre-robot Era.

Incredibly disappointing. Generally when I hear something by daft punk I think it is quite catchy, but this is just an hour of monotony.

Það er klúbburinn. Get eiginlega ekki gefið þrjár miðað við aðrar sem ég hef gefið þrjár.

there is this around the world. but im not enjoying this music

good edm

It sounds like upscale hotel lobby music. Super boring and repetitive. I just don't get the appeal

aroundtheworldaroundtheworldaroundtheworldaroundthewroldaroundtheworldaroudnthewofrlfdaroundtheeiworldaroundtheworldaroundtheworldaroundtheworldsaroundtheworld

sorry music is subjective nerds, around the world is objectively annoying. I probably danced to some of this at a full moon party somewhere so, whatever.

Though the singles are absolutely highlights of their era, the whole album runs a little thin over its runtime

some fun tunes, would be bearable if it wasn’t so repetitive

This belongs on this list, but it is not for me. Never could get into music like this. 2/5

I had such high expectations because it's Daft Punk! But it turns out Daft Punk started with really repetitive and boring music! So I didn't really enjoy this!

Leaves me cold. Can't imagine why it's on the list. But I didn't actively hate it, so that's something.

i had to skip at least a minute of each song and it was still unbearably long…….. and way too repetitive

I listened in the gym so it wasn’t too bad, probably wouldn’t actively listen to it again anywhere else though.

Listened on the beach in a small southern town. Didn’t make it any more enjoyable. I’m sure this is important and interesting to some people, though. One time during the Gay Pride parade my daughter and I got a photo with some folks dressed as Daft Punk. It’s one of my favorite pictures.

Album #115: Homework - Daft Punk Genre (W): French house, techno, disco, Chicago house, electropop Singles: Da Funk, Indo Silver Club, Around the World, Burnin’, Revolution 909 I have listened to this album several times before. Thoughts?: I love this album! I’ve loved it for a long time! I love how loud it is, how groovy and catchy it is. It seems like almost every track sticks with you long afterwards, aside from a few that aren’t that memorable. I love the production of this album most of all. It sounds like they just had fun with this album! Favorite songs: Daftendirekt, WDPK 83.7FM, Revolution 909, Da Funk, Phoenix, Around the World, Rollin' & Scratchin', Teachers, Burnin’, Indo Silver Club, Alive

I made it about halfway through before turning it off

Discovery is one of my favourite albums oat so this was bit disappointing but still a pretty good disco album

i'm not listening to this in the right setting but it's fun! Fav tracks: Around the World

First impression: SOOOO groovy!!! yes this album is repetitive but for an acid house album I think it's perfect. It was an incredibly interesting listen, and let me tell you revolution 909 did a far better job than revolution 9 ever could. I loved how diverse the tracks were. I mean you've got rollin' and scratchin's aggression and around the world which arguably radiates the best vibes ever. LOVE this album. Favourite Track: Da Funk One sentence: thank you French ppl for bestowing upon us such great artists. Will I revisit? Yes

Veri piola para l aepoca pero un toke repetitivo iwal una calidad tan consistente de percusion en un mismo album de musica electronica no es algo tan comun como eset album lo deja ver, lo Scucharia n el auto

This album consists of super repetitive beats that belong in a dance club. They're not bad, they're even pretty catchy sometimes. I got used to it the longer I listened. However, the album is quite long and it overstays its welcome as a standard (not dancing along to) listen.

Just great music vibes.

Daft Punk's debut is impressive, but it's also maybe twice as long as it really needs to be.

Un parteaguas en el house francés que sería el inicio de este grupo. Nunca he sido muy fan del género y este álbum me lo confirma. Para mí le sobran minutos a prácticamente todas las canciones, y más si el ritmo o la mezcla o como se llame se repite una y otra vez por más de 3-5 minutos. Ese punchis punchis antrero no es mi completo agrado. No sé si el hecho de que tuviera letra las canciones, algo más elaborado que Around the World, me gustaría más o me parecería mejor.

I am a bit conflicted on this album. On the one hand it introduced us to one of the forerunners of electrohouse/dance music, taking their place alongside Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers, and features some very catchy hits such as Around The World and Da Funk. On the other hand though, most of the songs can be very repetitive and do not provide much substance, and listening to the entire album which itself is very long can somewhat be tedious. It is way better to hear and experience these tracks at a nightclub or in a live setting, where daft punk absolutely excelled at putting on some of the best live performances ever. It is a pity that they are no longer touring. This would be followed up with Discovery which I consider to be their best album.

This record is not groundbreaking, nor is it one of those most talented in the world type of records. It is just fun, innovative, and it came at the right time. For the 90's, this was a nice break from the college pop rock, or the pop acts of the time that the radios were playing. In a world of 3rd Eye Blind, LeeAnn Rymes, Toni Braxton's, you needed this music.

A lot of this is repetitive - seems like more music as part of the environment instead of a statement on its own. Initially liked it but the monotony of it really got to me. Follow on: Herbie Hancock, to hear electronic music done well.

Iconic! Can’t believe it’s turning thirty. Did have a headache by the end though lol

nice homework, bit long but still nice with the right mood

So this is the birth of 'French house' and the beginnings of some dance music superstars. However to my ears, despite liking some of the sounds I hear (and there are a couple of catchy hit singles) this is not an album to listen to in its entirety without being in a club or chatting to other people. The tracks go on far too long (I even find this on their excellent fourth album at times) and are rather one dimensional with a limit to the ideas presented in each track. I am aware that there is a steady improvement kin terms of melody in the ensuing work but I regret to say that I found this album rather boring, despite some interesting samples in places.

Repetitive lead to boring, and then annoying.

Just like calm background disco music I would put on if I was hosting a party. Around the world is good but that’s about it.

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I lament the fact that electronic music is a thing. I understand some “artists” are incapable of playing actual instruments, but can be “talented” at using computers to simulate music. But I just don’t see how repeating the same sound for eight to ten minutes is acceptable music. It’s background noise at best. Erik Satie started this trend in the 1800s with “Gymnopaedies”, which wasn’t bad, but led down the slippery slope to minimalism and whatever this album is. Sorry, France, but your music sucks. Except for Edith Piaf and opera. 1.5 stars.

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It’s at least kind of fun, but trying to enjoy this sitting in my living room feels like a total waste of time.

Daft Punk fans around the world should tell you this album is not an accurate reflection of their career. Daft Punk were instrumental in making electronica music mainstream. They went beyond vibes; they added pop influences, and would often have meaningful lyrics. For better, or worse, this album is a typical techno album, unlike Daft Punk's other albums. Favorite Track: "Around The World".

Who is listening to this? Like ok in a club setting or something but is anyone actually just sitting down, putting this album on and listening to it all the way through? Because I did and it's awful. Just repetitive sounds. Very few tracks even had proper melody; It's like listening to a washing machine or similar appliance for what feels like hours. Absolutely painful experience.

While I appreciate its cultural importance, Cannot say it is something i would listen to purposefully. Never listened to it then and I likely will not again. Some of it was good. some of it was very repetitive. the 2 big hits were familiar and while it got me tapping my foot sometimes it just seemed to go on and on. I lost interest around track 10. Rollin and Scratchin was my standout track, or maybe alive. 3 stars

This certainly wasn't homework to listen to. But seriously folks, Daft Punk's debut is pretty remarkable: a long yet varied electronica album with a lot of instrumentals. Top tracks: "Da Funk," "Oh Yeah," "Around the World," "Alive"

Great beats but it could use an editor; they really used every inch of the compact disc on this one

Two or three certified bangers on here, that's for sure. But that'd only clock up <20 of the interminable 74 minute runtime. As an album, it's overlong, under-baked, tediously repetitive and full of filler.

It ws awful.

Not as good as "Screamadelica" by Primal Scream the album on this list that preceded this one. Not terribly done or lazy, but way too long and more or less one note, at least in my opinion.

1. "Da Funk" 2. "Around the World" 3. "Fresh"

C'est un peu long mais très sympa

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This is kind of a mixed bag. First off, Daft Punk is excellent and they're masters of making a catchy tune. Around the World is just excellent start to finish. Many of the other songs are pretty good too, but the issue we run into is that, other than Around the World, each song becomes QUITE monotonous after being on for a few mins. I thought for sure this was a 4 star lock but they seriously could've cut a quarter of this albums length EASY and locked in a 4 star album.

Enjoyed it way more than I expected. Very much in line with Krautrock, that repetition somehow works for this album. Usually, it would be a turn off, but this album hit me just right, I guess.

It’s Daft Punk and Daft Punk are amazing. Later Daft Punk are godlike. So much good on here but there are some Icarus-like EDM tracks that are rather brutal (at one point my partner called from another room and begged me to skip to the next song). So, while we may have all wanted to be Daft Punk, in the beginning even they made some mistakes. But then Around the World, Around the World….

Where it all began! I prefer Discovery, but there are many solid tracks here. The second half does drag a bit.

Clearly a work of genius, even if the I only really connect with the established bangers. These French dudes knew how to structure a house beat better than anyone before or since.

Yeesh I'm tired of this. 2 stars but barely

Maybe this album was revolutionary in the electronic music genre back when it was released but compared to what they were doing 10+ years later, this is a bit of a snoozer. I was at a low 3 stars on this for about 2/3 of the album, but then it just kept dragging on and on so I'm dropping it to 2 stars.

I’m a 90’s raver and this album is an absolute classic.

Last few tracks go for too long

Picturing the Techno Viking dancing to each song.

(74/100)

разъеб я предвзят 10 из 10 ладно, не все идеально. Я просто люблю хаус и для меня репетативность это ок и не сильно надоедает, так как мозг распознает эти восьмерки и ждет перехода. Плотненько звучит, очень плотненько Слушать только с басами Благодаря этому альбому я узнал про dj tonka да и ваще эти андроиды крутые не надоедает буду переслушивать классика 4.5

On this list I've heard every piece of music Neil Young has written and collaborated on. I've seen the Beatles move from a poppy boy band to a psychedelic group of old guys who then went their own ways to do weird solo stuff (much of which I've now listened to). I've also been force-fed numerous shitty pop rock albums by individual bands all across the UK and USA (fuck the 3 kings of leon albums on this list). You're telling me that the *one* daft punk album I need to hear before I die is *Homework*!? Sure that's where they start, but as with all those other artists there is no celebration of their growth until they are properly represented on the user list. Homework is not that interesting, and while there are some good songs and ideas, many other tracks just sound uninspired. Give me discovery, RAM or even Alive and we might be talking 4s/5s, but this isn't it. 2.4/5 -> 2/5

The title is fitting because it felt like homework getting through this album. There are some good grooves--"Da Funk" and Around the World" especially--but ALL of the songs are super repetitive and go on way too long. It would be fine for the dance floor but, for casual listening, it doesn't make for a great experience.

I have more time for Daft Punk than a lot of electronic artists. There are undeniable bangers here (Da Funk, Around the World), but at 75 minutes, alot of songs just go on too long and cant hold my interest. They definitely improved on the best parts of their stuff with Discovery and Random Access Memories, this is just an alright debut

I’d rank this my #3 favorite Daft Punk album. Still excellent, though, revolutionary. I can see why this is on the list and the others aren’t.

Some interesting arrangements with fun beats. But it is ultimately too long with some more boring club filler. Highlights were: Daftendirekt, Da Funk, Fresh.

First time listening to a Daft Punk, surprisingly, so I was excited to start with the debut over Discovery, first. I enjoyed the EDM pioneer album, even if I got a little bored by the end. Its the least commercial/mainstream out of their few albums and does its job.

I could definitely hear the foundation for the much better later work that would come out of this. But just taken on its own, I very much, to my own surprise, did not care for this album.

3/5

Daft Punk’s *Homework* is a fascinatingly raw, hit-and-miss journey through the foundation of modern house music that ultimately triumphs on the strength of its standout grooves. While the album occasionally gets bogged down by repetitive filler like "Phoenix" and "Burnin," or mid-tier experiments that rely too heavily on basic sampling, its highs are absolute masterclasses in electronic production. The record truly shines when it embraces its rhythm-heavy identity—whether through the undeniably groovy baseline of "Indo Silver Club," the gritty psych-EDM energy of "Rock'n Roll," or the massive, dynamic atmosphere of "Alive." Anchored by the timeless, slapping bassline of "Around the World" and the quintessential funk of "Da Funk," *Homework* serves as a gritty, club-ready blueprint that proves why the duo became legends, even if you have to skip a few tracks to find the real magic.

This rocked! I'm so glad I got this one!

This record immediately reminded me of this rave girl that tried to seduce me this summer. Clint is scared bro. This also is Finals core as fuck. I don’t listen to dance/house music much, but this was a neat listen. I guess I’ve become so accustomed to this kind of music being super duper polished and refined, so hearing this genre in such a raw way was really interesting. I haven’t ever really thought of the genre this way before honestly. It’s hard for me to rank or pit against anything due to my lack of knowledge here, but I can totally imagine hearing this at a club as I slowly lose control of myself. So that’s gotta count for something, right?

I’ve heard this many times created French house and I love it. Short reviews for Europe Zacku. Daft punk is one of 2 things I would ever get a tattoo about

Good walking and working album. The repetition and droning can make for some good brain space. I will definitely consider this and other Daft Punk albums for future "ignore this music" music. I don't know if I particularly really enjoyed the album as much as just enjoyed the way it was presented. But it was good nonetheless.

damn, i hadn't listened to this one since i was a teen either. altho in this case..... i think its cos i listened to it so much i got sick of it lmao if u told me that there was only one daft punk album on this list (which is already weird imo) and made me guess at which one it is, i'd probably have guessed discovery? so as is often the case im confused by the curators' decision here, cos i think i'd have said homework is probably the weakest of their first 3 studio albums. not that the music is bad at all, there's a lot of great songs on here, but for the most part they're structured for mixing, with all the drawn out building up and winding down that entails. which would work great if they released them as singles like they'd apparently intended to begin with, but as an album... maybe not so much. it weakens the structure and fucks with the flow in a way that almost gives it the feel of a compilation despite being their debut album. do you understand? anyway, my favourite this time is a coin flip between the choppy and bass heavy "oh yeah", and "burnin'", which basically turns into a 2-step garage track after the drop so it's obvious that i'd like it. "phoenix" pulls in at a close second (third?) place for similar "this is ukg to me" reasons, and "rollin' & scratchin'" and "alive" are all time club house bangers too. honestly idk if there's a single bad track on here. i think with this album, it really is just a structural problem for me. i guess this is why alive 2007 is my favourite daft punk album? it's music that calls out to be mixed.... mash that shit up !!

I respect the pick because hearing this debut for the first time at the club back in the day was probably insane, and you start to understand a lot about Daft Punk's later acts after a full listen. However, I'll forever be salty about this list's biases and multi-album choices over generational artists like these whose only fault is they entered the industry later than the mid-90s, apparently. Otherwise it's a tasteful "if I had to pick one" choice.

Discovery and RAM is not on the list, but this is???? Crazy. I like daft punk, and I also think its important to say at the time of this release in 1997 house music was in a bit of a lull, but this is far from my favorite album of theirs. It's still good, the sound is unmistakebly them, but when listening to it as an album it kinda falls apart. The catchy repetition individually become mindnumbing and the latter half of the album falls flat for me. Songs like Burnin' just go on way too long. Idk I'm not exactly listening to this in its most intended setting and I think it'd be better in the background or in concert, but trying to actually sit down and just focus on this album feels a little like getting a lobotomy. It still has just enough bangers and highlights to get a 3 from me though.

Pretty fonky! Nice to hear something a bit diff.

So... sometimes a debut album is just a revelation. And as much as I enjoy their later work, nothing can touch the pure genius of this album.

I've always thought this album was cool. And it now comes with the added bonus of fond memories from yesteryear.

Heard of daft punk but never this album. Pretty high hopes, have only heard good things. With that being said there was not a need for another electronic album. Difference with this one at least one song in is the songs are actually good and not just straight bullshit. So many layers to daftenddirekt. Sick production. Love the fade into wdpk then into revolution 909. This one is just ok. Not a lot going on with it. Classic “dance” song where it’s the same thing on loop for way too long. Sa funk is a banger. That beat is just so catchy. This isn’t a song you dance to, this is a song you nod your head along to and think about how cool it is. Don’t like phoenix as much. Much more of a more generic dance song. Fresh is pretty cool, less dancy and more electronic/great production. Followed by around the world which is an absolute classic. One of the best electronic songs out there. Rollin and scratchin is pretty sick too. Really unique sounds on this one that work really well together. Teachers is really cool. This sounds like a modern rap beat mixed with an 80s rap beat. Really cool sample. Don’t like high defiling. This is generic European house music which I don’t like. Rock and roll is better but still in the middle range for how good I like it compared to the rest of the album. Main sound is just a little annoying , but it works well so hard to fault it. Oh yeah is fine. I’d hate it if it was any longer but it works as a 2 minute bridge song. Followed by burnin which is much better. Really nice build up and subsequent beat drop. And love the soft opening to indo silver club as well. This one is a banger. Classic dance song but really good beat. I like alive a lot too. This one is so much more than a dance beat. Put any pop star of any generation over this beat with a catchy hook and it’s an amazing song. This is a lock tf in song. Great way to close off with the funk ad outro. This album is so much better than just about every dance/electronic album I’ve got so far on this list aside from you’ve come a long way baby by fat boy slim. And I think it’s better than that one too but just by a bit. This is a musical work of art, just done with electronic intsruments compared to the other which are mostly one moderately cool beat repeated for 7 mins. I get why daft punk was the only electronic group I’d heard of prior to this journey. 3.7/5 stars. Because I know this isn’t their best.

I enjoyed this although I felt it was too long and could have been refined much more. I felt like there were quite a few filler tracks that could have been removed. However this has opened my eyes a bit to daft punk outside their number 1 hits. They are much more electronic than I had realised with some quite heavy stuff on here but not really dubtastic. 3.5

I've never really understood the daft punk hype previously, but enjoyed this record. Lots of great tunes here that definitely live up to the billing. However, there were points where I thought there was just like filler beat tracks, and this could've been cut down to a single disc that was really tight.

C'est pas si pire mais c'est quand même un peu attardé. En fait c'est peut-être ça le bon côté. 2.5 étoiles

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so good. I think they could have made it shorter, but honeslty the fillers are still super good

Büro, Heidenheim, Deutschland. Saulangweilig.

Was originally looking at a 4.5 rating, but that song “Burnin’” almost made me rage quit the album. It got so painfully annoying, I did finally hit skip, and thankfully the album was back to being great.

this album is alright, it's a bit repetitive like many have said. i don't think this is daft punk's greatest work but i do enjoy a few songs from here that i listen to on a standalone occasion - never the full album. AROUND THE WORLD AROUND THE WORLD

Y'know, the grooves are maybe a little repetetive. But honestly, they're deep enough that it doesn't grate. I can only imagine being in the club while this was spinning. I guess just sitting here listening to it, it sounds like y2k - Frutiger era vgm, which I definitely don't mind either. I dig it.

Love daft punk

This is a pretty damn good album! Unfortunately, the knowledge of how far they would rise with their next album Discovery does actually tank this one a little bit for me. This one is presented much more as a collection of sounds that can be thrown into a DJ mix, which does absolutely fit with Daft Punk's ethos and live shows, but as an album experience means it unfortunately tends to drag a little on the more repetitive and purely beat-driven sections. That said, it does have some all-time heaters like Da Funk and Around the World, so I can't complain TOO much. Still a 7/10!

Enjoyed this a lot. Cool to see Daft Punk’s beginnings, though if only one album is allowed on here for some reason, it should’ve probably been Discovery.

THE SOUND OF TOMORROW THE MUSIC OF TODAY BRINGS YOU EXCLUSIVELY DAFT PUNK'S HOMEWORK 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ In today's listen, I realize that I've overplayed Around The World and Da Funk for myself, the songs I used to come back to the most at the beginning of my Daft Punk discovery (haha). Instead, the 'crunchy' parts caught my attention more than usual. Impossible to hear Rock'n Roll's rising deep-fried synths without wanting to tear your shirt off and MOVE Special love for Teachers as well, because how cool is it to have the greats dedicate a tribute to artists they themselves looked up to at the start of their career? You've got names ranging from DJ Funk (makes sense), to George Clinton (hell yeah), to Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys?! Even though Discovery's snub is absolutely maddening, and I will forever curse Robert Dimery for it, nobody should sleep on this record as it is a classic on its own right!! It's a marvel how much thought went into crafting these rhythms that SEEM mind-numbingly repetitive, but offer a surprising amount of depth upon closer listens. Dissect's piece on the album is worth checking out! Standouts: Daftendirekt • Revolution 909 • Da Funk • Fresh • Rollin' & Scratchin' • Rock'n Roll • Oh Yeah • Burnin'

A good start from Daft Punk but you can really tell they haven't come into their own here yet. This sounds a lot like Justice (not a bad thing) and there is probably about 8 minutes too much of scratching and wailing on it for me. Discovery is an album of the decade and it's interesting to see what came before it

This is what the thoughtless dipshits listen to in the parking lot between the hours of 10PM to 10AM that makes you fantasize about smashing their windshield with a baseball bat. I hate Daft Punk, I've always hated Daft Punk, I will always hate Daft Punk.

I love Daft Punk, but they have better albums

Daft Punk never gets old to me.

Love it! This was a nice entrance into trance.

3.5

Honestly, I find it boring

Essential

The songs I like from this album are good, but there are a lot on here I don't like. Everything is just extremely repetitive and not enjoyable.

Some bangers, but I didn't love most of it

I still don't understand why Homework was chosen for the list over Discovery. Not that I'm a Homework hater or anything, but I feel like it would've been the obvious choice. I do feel like this album can be a tad repetitive and it's a little longer than it needs to be, but I still love a lot of songs on this thing.

The loops were good. The production was good. I've enjoyed Daft Punk in other occasions, but I found Homework too repetitive and boring. Did it really need to be 74 minutes long? To be fair, this is probably just me not understanding the purpose of this music, which I think is a lot of the time the root of people's dislike for certain styles. This is not objectively bad, and I'm not a professional music critic, so based on my own experience —how much I enjoyed it and how interesting it was to me—, I'm rating this a 2/5.

So, Daft Punk are obviously one of the most iconic and influential acts in the history of electronic music, right? I shouldn't have to convince you that a list like this needs a Daft Punk album? Okay, good. With that said, why the hell did they choose this album? I get that this album introduced the Daft Punk sound, but for crying out loud, this album is so early in the duo's career that they didn't even have the robot helmets when it released! That's the most iconic thing about Daft Punk! On a more important note, Homework is certainly not Daft Punk at their creative peak. I haven't listened to every Daft Punk album, so I don't know entirely where this sits in their discography quality wise, but I have heard this album's followup, Discovery, so I can confidently say that that album is a genuine masterpiece. It's so good. That album would get an easy 5/5 if it was on this list, but it's not on the list, so I can't do that yet. Instead, we have to talk about their 1997 debut album, Homework, which isn't nearly as good. It's still good, don't get me wrong, but not a 5. What I'm trying to say is that Homework has its flaws. I'll start with the praise though, as I do have praise to give this album. The production on here is quite great. From the get-go, Daft Punk had a knack for music production and it shows on this album's best songs. Said songs are quite wonderful. "Da Funk" and "Around the World" are this album's most iconic songs and they're iconic for good reason. The former has a really sick riff and the latter has a great sense of progression throughout its runtime. That's a compliment that I can give to Daft Punk for much of their material. The songs are rather repetitive, yes, but they build up over time to introduce and subtract and re-introduce ideas and it keeps songs like "Around the World" from getting stale. I have a ton of respect for that. As far as other songs, "Revolution 909" is pretty cool and I think "Fresh" is super underrated. The best songs on here are great. But, this album has duds on it too. Here's where the critiques come in. I think this album's biggest issue is its pacing. The first half or so is pretty great, enough to get a 4/5 even, but the album loses its steam as it goes on. Latter songs like "Rock'n Roll" and "Oh Yeah" just don't do it for me like those earlier songs do. The album also goes on for a while. This is another one of those EDM albums where the runtime goes for over 70 minutes for no clear reason and I just can't keep myself entirely engaged for the whole runtime of the album. Additionally, while the repetition works for some songs, those latter tracks that I mentioned earlier don't really do enough of the things that I'd like them to do for me to really love the songs. Overall, Homework is a respectable debut and a good foundation for the great albums and great career that would follow it, but it also leaves a bit to be desired, especially going back to it now when albums like Discover exist. Still, I do like this album and I fully get why Daft Punk have the legacy that they do. High 3/5.

not my fave but I started to get into the back half 2.5

Beats, beats, synth, and more beats

weird

A lot of this was fine, but never very interesting. And then they'd mix in weird and annoying sounds.

My bias shows on this

the few tracks I could bear to listen to were utter crap

I hear French and 1997 and think of Princess Diana and that tunnel. This is about as enjoyable as that. There must have been some wicked pills around this time to tolerate and even enjoy this. These songs must have taken all of five seconds to make. It's bollocks.

Easy to listen to in the background. Some songs were slightly annoying, but I kinda still liked them? Around the World is the best example of this. Production is great, I love all the tiny and weird elements in the songs. This is just not my cup of tea, though; it is repetitive and not very engaging. It is good for playing in the background though I guess. Favorite Track: Revolution 909

1001 Albums Generator 290 (5/13/2026) It's definitely repetitive but almost any of these would go so hard at the clurb. The second half of the album loses a lot of steam in my opinion. 3/5. Favs: Da Funk Fresh Around The World Least Fav: Rock'n Roll

Idk why I expected dad rock but I was surprised! Does get repetitive but mostly enjoyed it

Drugs have to be involved to enjoy something this repetitive.

I'm sorry I just can't do it

It is astonishing that this is their first studio album, so incredibly well crafted, polished and it sounds incredible all these years later. It set the foundation for their later work, but this is the experimentation and see what sticks. Around The World became a major hit and everything else compliments the sound perfectly.

This Homework assignment start out great, it was easy, bouncy, and fun. Still warmin’ up when ya hit Da Funk, flyin’ high with Phoenix, just chillaxin’ at the beach with Fresh, the cruzin’ Around the World ( Popcorn .) All is good, very enjoyable. Should have ended the album here. You hit a major brick wall at Rollin’ & Scratchin’. By the time they wrapped it up with Funk Ad, I couldn’t wait for it to be over. Major point deduction for the second half. (2.1*s) First half still holds up 30 years later, second half was never good.

1997 was an incredible year for electronica with the release of Homework, Dig Your Own Hole, and Vegas (yet to hit list). Daft Punk went crazy with "Around the World" and "Da Funk." Certainly a great tracks with sensational music vids that still crush today. I do appreciate some of the throw back funk style the Daft boys throw in which is highlighted on these in particular and few others but I find the album lacking overall. Front 10 are good and then a real rough spot where the album devolves into a mess. "Rock n' Roll" felt like getting electro-therapy...rough headphone listen. Some relief where it comes back "Alive" for the finish thankfully. The duo is too clubby for my taste and I really don't like the pop direction they took on future albums and collabs. No doubt these Frenchy DJs have spurned on many to mix and spin at parties, clubs, bars, etc. They deserve a list spot for driving house music forward and even for their hidden identity which adds to the mystery. I think they may be robots or have/will be replaced by some. 2.61 stars cause da funky dog ate my homework.

Homework is a really difficult album for me to review. On the one hand I'm a huge Daft Punk fan, and a couple of songs from Homework really hit it out of the park. On the other hand, I feel this features some of Daft Punk's worst work. I guess that isn't a huge statement as they only have a handful of albums plus some tangential entries in Tron and Alive, but Homework really features the full spectrum of aspects of techno/house music both good and bad. At times the they hit the nail on the head and the beats take you on a perfect ride. At other times it is bloated, repetitive, confusing and lackluster. The singles from Homework still hold up, but the remainder of the album and nearly the entire back half actually bring the album down. Homework is one of the best examples of an album that features an artists potential. You can see the parts and pieces of what they would grow into and how they later learned to mix and produce an album as a complete work as oppose to random mix of parts. You would hope that any band/artist would grow and improve from their debut album and I personally believe that Daft Punk accomplished that. I have a lot of fondness for all aspects of these robots' career and Homework is merely a single chapter of it. You can't tell the story of Daft Punk without Homework, so I'm glad we have it, but I personally put it at the bottom of their discography which is admittedly still a pretty high bar to clear. I'm very interested in seeing what other people think of this album and really really hope we get at least an additional entry from Daft Punk down the line. If we don't, I know I'll still be personally featuring them within the rest of the group in the future. 3.12 stars

Somehow, Daft Punk has always lingered somewhere in the background. I know of their existence, heard bits and pieces occasionally, and I think I mainly had to get used to them. Way ahead of their time, then. Great music to listen to now.

Simultaneously great and a little disappointing. First off, it's toooo long. but there were a ton of toe tappers on this album! it had me wiggling my knee and tapping on the table for the entire album. That said, it does get a little repetitive, and I think there are several songs/moments that didn't age well, they just kind of sound like noise. but on the other hand, this is terrific music to put on your headphones to stay motivated to get some work done! Overall, I think this is a good album, but do I see myself ever playing it on purpose? I do not. 3.5 stars.

Da Funk // Around the World // 4.5/5

It starts out great, but loses me after a while. Gets very repetitive with the later songs. Rating: 5.5/10 Favorite Song: da funk

What an amazing album. Been a fan of theirs for decades, and this still holds up.

While I wasn't super familiar with any of these songs, I felt like I was vaguely familiar with all of them. That could be because if you've been at any bar/restaurant/club that plays electronic/house dance music, you've probably heard these songs. Or it could be that they all just sound very similar - similar beat, virtually no lyrics. While I definitely appreciate Daft Punk and their contribution to their music, and I think they are extremely talented at it, I find dance music to be extremely repetitive. This album is long and repetitive, which actually worked out for me because after being on vacation for a week, I had a lot of computer work to catch up on and just had this playing in the background. But I wouldn't seek out listening to this again. Great background music in the right situation and great for a dance club, but not my kind of music to just listen to.

Repetitivo y cansa rapido.

I was excited to listen to this but this might be somewhat controversial, not as good as I remembered (especially compared to Discovery). This is from someone that's always rating electronica albums high on here, but what a lot of people fault those for I find moreso here, but there's a prestige that means Daft Punk get more of a pass. It's somewhat derivative, baby's first electronic album, not bad by any means but not hitting enough for the repetitiveness and not complex enough for the more laxed tone.

French house…

Not their best album, but solid and raw Daft Punk. They can do no wrong!

Have I listened to this album before? No How familiar am I with this album? Unfamiliar How do I feel about this artist? Are these the guys with the helmets? I like the Tron soundtrack in the context of Tron. First impressions before listening: I don’t know how I’m gonna feel about 70+ minutes of French house. I’m not even really sure I know what makes French house different than regular house, but house is not my jam. Favorite track(s): Da Funk Overall Thoughts: Not a terrible way to spend the workday, most of it was fine but I found a few of the songs to be very annoying. I’m can’t believe Around the World was the big hit off of this album because was the most grating track to me and got old very fast. I imagine this album is great to party/rave to but that’s not what I was doing while listening.

I respected the work but please, no more

I had this album yet I don’t remember much about it. Let’s take that trip down memory lane shall we? Yep, still worthy of my ears. The music blends together which I’ve always been a fan of. As a DJ, you could press play and just let it run. Enough said? Choice cut: Around the World

There’s some pretty good stuff on here and also some filler where it sounds like they’re just playing around with the DAW.. which they were. Good start to their career though.

Raw French house and techno built on looping filter-house grooves, punchy drum machines, distorted bass, and sparse, processed vocal snippets drives with relentless repetition. Listening feels like being locked into a flashing club loop where the same beat cycles until it blurs into pure sensation. The result is hypnotic and endlessly monotonous.

French touch heaven

Absolútne nie

Parece las playlist para concentrarse cuando tenes ahdh pero bueno me sirvió para estudiar

The production and consummation of music videos was probably at its peak around 1997. Certainly the budgets for making them was at a high and the filmmakers behind successful music videos - Spike Jonze say - would achieve name recognition. There are great music videos that synthesis the musical strengths of the song with the visual strengths of the filmmakers imagination. There are serviceable videos that pull along supercuts of performance footages by the sheer propulsion of the music - something like Cherub Rock comes to mind for some reason. And, then, there are all the absolute cheats, the baits and switches, which replace the song altogether with the experience of watching the video. In 1997, I loved Spike Jonze's video for Da Funk - the Big City Night, where an anthropomorphised dog with a broken leg hobbles around his new NY neighbourhood with a busted ghetto blaster and bumps into an neighbour from his childhood; the neighbour invites the lonely dog downtown for food, but, when the dog, Charles, reads the sign on the bus prohibiting ghetto blasters, he freezes, the bus departs, and he is alone again. Charming. A little surreal. Just moving enough. And an absolute swizz. I loved the video and probably thought I loved the song too. But there is no song. Listening to Da Funk on its own, this becomes abundantly clear that the video has pulled a number on us. The handful of hooks in the song are plucked out and handled as in a movie trailer, rearing up into the foreground only at the right dramatic moment. Whereas, on the recording, they stack together in a tedious, repetitious loop. Any sense of drama or narrative associated with the song was in the video. The filmmaker imposed a narrative on the song, rather than visualising the narrative movement of the song. The song itself goes nowhere. I was always a little troubled by Charles the dog's ghetto blaster. If it's broken - if he cannot turn it off or at least turn it down, as he insists to the bookstall owner - why leave the house with it? Why is he so rude all the time? Why must he have his every action soundtracked, as though he were in a film? I guess it compensates for some feeling of loneliness, some inadequacy. He is desperate for friendship and maybe more from Beatrice, who he encounters in the bodega. He is enthralled to the fantasy of the novel Big City Nights. Yet, when the chance comes to take the next step with Beatrice, he bottles it. He can't leave the comfort of the ghetto blaster. Because, in so doing, he'd be taking the step out of fantasy into the harsher, less predictable world of adult autonomy. He would no longer be the main character accompanied by the hero's leitmotif. The song claims no stakes in being an artistic expression by Daft Punk. It simply wants to underscore your dancing. Like video game music, it must be allowed to loop indefinitely so the character can run around the sandbox world. Jonze's video tries to imply that these couple of loops can be deeper, more foundational to an existence than they can ever be - for Da Funk, or any of Homework, to really get into your bones, who have to be doing something else entirely. It has to gain its significance through association. You can't just be sitting in a room, as I was today. You have to, at least, watch the videos. And I was surprised how many music videos there were for tracks on the album. Around the World is most honest, with its circular choreography going round and round like the lyrics. Although, even here, Michel Gondry recognises that the choreography must build, renew, and surprise to keep our attention, in a way that the song never bothers with. Charles and Beatrice return in the music video for Fresh, directed by the band themselves several years after the original success of Da Funk. Charles is now an actor in LA. He and Beatrice are together. They like it there. It is a terrible. A terrible video, with no real story, no real depth. The characters barely feel connected to the original characters in Da Funk. There is no dramatic tension. It is a fantasy more banal and cheap than the one Jonze presented - and perhaps warned us about - in Da Funk. The song is used with none of storytelling competence of Jonze, it never underpins an emotion nor injects a sting of dramatic significance. It just plays along amiably in the background, hoping that you will never notice that it is doing nothing, saying nothing. Nobody is even dancing to it. Spike Jonze and his video may have been cheats, but art is a sort of cheat - it should be a shortcut to feelings and ideas that you may never have reached on your own. That Daft Punk requires the listener to give so much for their repetitive loops to offer up anything, suggests they were not the artists in the relationship at all. 1 Generally when EDM is served up it is served up like a cheap fry. A greasy plateful of cheap, dry sausages and bacon piled up with lukewarm beans and carbon-flecked fried eggs atop. Each mouthful barely discernible from the last. Sad, stodgy, and indigestible. Daft Punk at least arrange the components to make a happy face on the plate. They do ‘funny’ vocal samples, twist their low pass filter good and slow, and even throw in an extra bar here and there before a transition, to keep you guessing. At least that’s how I felt when I was half a dozen tracks into Homework. By the time I made it through the second half of the album any goodwill had evaporated. There is a stench of puerility in the air through the second half. High Fidelity’s self-indulgence is immediately followed by the 7 and a half minute punishment of Rock ‘n Roll. Whatever that represents to someone off their face on the dancefloor in the wee hours, it is an absolute waste of any sober listener’s time, and it may be worse than that. If Daft Punk made a happy face, they also spat in the food. 1/5

3.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/daft-punk/homework/ Some solid house tracks, some great pop tracks, but overall too long and repetitive. Yea sure that’s the point of house music, but still.

I really enjoy electronic music, but this is just too much. Repetition is my main complaint. Repetition is my main complaint. None of the songs stand out too much, and they don't go anywhere interesting either, which is annoying given how long both the songs and the album itself is.

Sometimes it's good, but a lot of it was boring or bad. Give them another album though and they might be good.

Da Funk is not enough to save this.

This album changed my world when it came out

Crazy for the 90s, annoying at times

Around the world... Repeat 159 times Brilliant

French house music. Oyf. I'm kind of perplexed at why Daft Punk are so revered? What's so special here? I guess it's nice to walk around and zone out to. And maybe if I was high and in a nightclub this would fuck. But also that would be my hell. - Da Funk - Around the World - Indo Silver Club - Alive

It was quite enjoyable, but i appreciate well written lyrics so this album was somewhat boring. Im not one to listen to music ONLY for its beats

🎧Homework but no Discovery?? What are you doing Dimery?? Da Funk slaps.

Це класний альбом)))

So, so good

Couple of great tracks, but why isn't Discovery here instead?!

Maso

Dance-able and hypnotic - with a global mega-hit thrown in as the cherry on top. Not my fav Daft Punk album though and first half is way stronger.

Bien.

Solid but did not enjoy as much as their other work

the best

Me gusta esta banda, pero no es mi disco fav. pero tiene la escencia de ellos

I lost track of time listening to this and that's a good thing when it comes to dance music. Just getting lost in the block rockin' beats.

Homework is such a fun album but it does drag a bit towards the end

I don't my the repetitiveness, but for some reason the music is grating on me a bit. Maybe I need to relisten when I'm in a different mood.

I was really looking forward to this when I saw it, and I was really disappointed in this halfway through it. And completely worn out by it when done. Just so monotonous.

The Good: Mr Dimery was nice enough to only include 1 of their albums to the list! The Bad: That it wasn’t zero… The Ugly: Finding out that “the community” has added 3 more fucking DaftPunk albums… fuck them. Anyone can stand 1 2-minute songs of this kind… but to have to sit and listen to this repetitive nonsense for well over an hour is enough to make one want to start punching holes into the wall… DNF, like many other people 1*

Icons! Yeah some of it later in the record is a bit grating but I don’t care. 4 stars!

A bit boring, it just repeats.

Don’t really care for this repetitive noise. I’m excited for discovery !

This was too repetitive. Way too much.

# In-Depth Review: Daft Punk's *Homework* (1997) Released on January 20, 1997, *Homework* is the debut studio album by French electronic duo Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo). What began as a collection of singles rather than a conceptual album would go on to become one of the most influential dance records ever created—*Rolling Stone* later named it the greatest EDM album of all time . This review examines the album's lyrics, music, production, themes, and lasting influence, alongside its strengths and weaknesses. --- ## Music & Sound *Homework* is fundamentally a house music album, but one that draws from an eclectic palette of influences including acid house, techno, funk, hip-hop, and disco. The album's sonic architecture is built on repetitive, hypnotic grooves that prioritize the dancefloor experience above all else. **Key Tracks:** - **"Da Funk"** – The album's breakthrough single features a growling, distorted riff that blurs the line between guitar and synthesizer. Built on a sample of Vaughan Mason & Crew's "Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll" , it exemplifies the "French house" sound: filtered, funky, and irresistibly danceable. - **"Around the World"** – Perhaps the album's most accessible moment, built on a TB-303 bassline pattern that Bangalter reportedly created by programming random patterns and selecting the best one . The vocodered repetition of the title phrase becomes a mantra-like hook. - **"Revolution 909"** – Opens with ambient club noise, police sirens, and megaphone commands—a direct reference to the French government's anti-rave crackdowns . - **"Teachers"** – A roll call of the duo's influences over a Parris Mitchell-interpolated groove, name-checking pioneers like DJ Pierre, Lil Louis, Romanthony, and Todd Edwards . - **"Alive"** – The final evolution of their first single "The New Wave," representing the harder, more industrial edge of their sound. The album's sequencing is deliberately structured for vinyl—four sides designed to be consumed in chunks rather than a single 74-minute sitting . Side A builds from the live-recorded intro "Daftendirekt" to the euphoric "Phoenix"; Side B stretches out with the loopy "Around the World" and the abrasive "Rollin' & Scratchin'." --- ## Production The production on *Homework* is remarkably minimalist considering its impact. Bangalter and Homem-Christo worked with a focused, almost austere setup: Roland synthesizers (Juno-106, MC-202, MKS-80, TB-303), classic drum machines (TR-707, TR-808, TR-909—the latter lending its name to "Revolution 909"), and samplers including the E-Mu SP-1200 and Akai S-01 . Their "secret weapon" was reportedly an Alesis 3630 compressor, used to create the album's distinctive "pumping" sound . This extreme use of compression—combined with filtered basslines and astringent hi-hats—creates a tension between bass and treble that became a signature of French house . The production philosophy was "less-is-more": simple elements allowed to evolve gradually over extended runtimes. Notably, the duo reportedly spent only eight hours per week over five months creating the album . As Bangalter explained: "We have no need to make music every day... The main thing is that it sounds good." --- ## Lyrics & Vocals *Homework* is predominantly instrumental, with vocals serving as textural or rhythmic elements rather than narrative devices. When lyrics appear, they're often minimal and repetitive: - **"Around the World"** – The title phrase repeated approximately 144 times, processed through a vocoder to sound simultaneously human and machine. - **"Teachers"** – A spoken-word list of influences: "DJ Deeon, DJ Milton, DJ Slugo, DJs on the low..." - **"Oh Yeah"** – Features vocal contributions from DJ Deelat and DJ Crabbe . The absence of traditional songwriting allows the music to function as pure dancefloor utility—there are no ballads, no guest vocalists, no concessions to radio formats . This instrumental focus was radical for a major-label debut in 1997, when dance acts typically included vocal tracks to cross over to rock audiences. --- ## Themes ### 1. **Cultural Archaeology & Homage** The album is deeply rooted in dance music history. "Teachers" explicitly acknowledges the Chicago house and Detroit techno pioneers who influenced the duo . As Bangalter explained: *"The least you can do is pay respect to those who are not known and who have influenced people"* . This wasn't appropriation but recognition—ensuring underground legends received credit. ### 2. **Youth Culture vs. Authority** "Revolution 909" directly addresses the French government's anti-rave legislation following Jacques Chirac's 1995 election. The track's opening—police breaking up a party—reflects the duo's belief that authorities targeted dance music not for drug concerns but because they *"don't understand this music which is really violent and repetitive... they consider it dumb and stupid"* . ### 3. **The Bedroom Studio Ethos** The album title itself is a cheeky nod to its creation in the duo's Paris flat, but also suggests their "homework" studying dance music's masters . This DIY approach democratized electronic music production—showing that hits could emerge from modest setups. ### 4. **Robot Aesthetics** Though the iconic helmets wouldn't fully appear until later, *Homework* establishes the mechanical, post-human aesthetic that would define Daft Punk. The vocodered vocals, repetitive structures, and machine-like precision all point toward their eventual transformation into android alter-egos. --- ## Influence & Legacy *Homework* fundamentally altered electronic music's trajectory: - **French House Explosion** – The album brought worldwide attention to French house music, inspiring a generation of producers . The "filter house" sound—characterized by heavy filtering of disco samples—dominated European charts by the turn of the millennium . - **The Ed Banger Movement** – Artists like Justice, Mr. Oizo, and SebastiAn can trace their aggressive, rock-influenced electro directly to *Homework*'s raw energy . - **Electroclash** – The early 2000s electroclash movement owed a debt to Daft Punk's blueprint. - **Cultural Penetration** – LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy wrote "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" as a direct tribute . The duo's visual language became so iconic it's been parodied everywhere from *Parks and Recreation* to *The Eric Andre Show* . - **Critical Reassessment** – While some early reviews were skeptical (*The Village Voice*'s Robert Christgau dismissed most of the album despite praising "Da Funk" ), retrospective assessments have been overwhelmingly positive. *Pitchfork* named it the 65th-greatest album of the 1990s in 2003, and their 2018 reissue review awarded it 9.2/10 . --- ## Pros | Aspect | Strength | |--------|----------| | **Pioneering Sound** | Defined French house and influenced countless producers; the filtered disco aesthetic became a template for 2000s dance music | | **Dancefloor Efficacy** | Every track functions as effective club music—there's no filler in terms of utility | | **Production Economy** | Demonstrates how minimal elements, expertly arranged, can create maximum impact | | **Historical Consciousness** | "Teachers" and the album's sample choices acknowledge dance music's Black pioneers, avoiding the erasure common in electronic music | | **Singles Quality** | "Da Funk," "Around the World," and "Revolution 909" remain classics; the Michel Gondry-directed videos for the first two are iconic | | **Cohesion** | Despite being assembled from singles, the album flows surprisingly well as a listening experience | --- ## Cons | Aspect | Weakness | |--------|----------| | **Length & Repetition** | At 74 minutes, the album can feel exhausting; many tracks overstay their welcome, with "Around the World," "Rollin' & Scratchin'," "Rock'n Roll," and "Burnin'" accounting for nearly 30 minutes combined | | **Accessibility Issues** | The abrasive, minimal nature of tracks like "Rock'n Roll" and "Rollin' & Scratchin'" can be alienating for casual listeners | | **Lack of Dynamics** | Compared to later Daft Punk albums, *Homework* offers limited emotional or textural range—it's primarily designed for clubs, not headphones | | **Vocal Scarcity** | The minimal vocals that some listeners find hypnotic, others find monotonous; tracks like "Oh Yeah" and "Teachers" have been criticized as annoying | | **Aging** – Some listeners find the album hasn't aged gracefully, with certain tracks feeling "headache-inducing" compared to their later, more polished work | --- ## Conclusion *Homework* is a landmark album that succeeds on its own uncompromising terms. It is not a perfect listening experience—the length and repetition are genuine issues for home listening—but it is a perfect dance album in the sense that every track works in a club context. As one critic noted, it's *"the hardest dance album to ever go gold in the United States"* . The album's greatest achievement may be its attitude: Daft Punk refused to compromise their underground sensibilities for mainstream success, yet achieved both. They brought French house to global attention while acknowledging its Black American origins, created enduring pop moments without traditional pop structures, and established a robotic mythology that would sustain their career for decades. *Homework* remains singular within Daft Punk's catalog—the raw, unpolished foundation upon which they built their empire. As *Pitchfork* noted in their 2018 retrospective: *"Homework remains singular within Daft Punk's catalog... the record also set the stage for the duo's career to this very day"* . For listeners willing to surrender to its repetitive, hypnotic logic, it remains essential listening—a dissertation on dance music delivered with irreverent charm .

This set Daft Punk’s stall out for what was to come. Not their best album, but the ingredients are all here, as well some great videos to accompany the singles. I actually enjoyed listening to Homework in full for the first time in a while less than i expected to. Alright rather than great

This is just woeful. Repetitive, and sounds like the start of a panic attack. It’s a no from me.

Before I started listening to this, I would have told you I liked Around The World by Daft Punk. Fucking hell. 1/5

Random Access Memories is their crowning achievement but this has to come first for that to exist. Great production, great songs, fits the repetitiveness of the era. Much more get lost and vibe than people on this site realize it is I think.

Daftendirekt is such a banger

This is a dnf by choice. Probably not bad for this genre but wow this is not my genre. No thanks. No favs.

When its good, its great but a lot of filler

Electronic dance music. Normally with this kind of thing, a whole album of it ends up being samey. You can’t accuse Daft Punk of that. Yes it’s a bit long, and it doesn’t suit every occasion, but today I enjoyed it out on a sunny walk.

Mmm

Had no idea Daft Punk went back so far!

Ok

Wait a damn minute!.Did I just shake my shoulders? Hell yeah ts littttttt

Not quite on the level of their later work but still good, I like it much more than most electronica. Around the world

I don't take issue with the length of repetitiveness, I love electronic music. Unfortunately I do like my electronic music to be a bit more uptempo (or at least interesting and filling my ears with noise like Around the World). Pretty mediocre album imho.

This is a really difficult ranking for me because I love daft punk but this album is just not that good.. but I have to ask myself, out of context, if I had never listened to daft punk before and had no standards, what would I give it? Ultimately I reflected on my ratings so far and concluded...

Sorry :( like logical progression, I just found this boring. Unlike that other album, I also found it annoying. I kept trying to listen to it throughout the day and just didn’t ever enjoy myself.

How to make a Daft Punk song: 1. Find a cool sample 2. Make a neat beat 3. Loop 500 times 4. Congrats you made a Daft Punk song When it works it works. It doesn't always work.

an admirable but mistaken first album by Daft Punk. Love them but this is a miss for them. Odd RAM or some other album was not on there.

around the world is fantastic obviously. da funk is great, a lot of good side A stuff. alive is a strong ending. side B is just decent yet unremarkable with the only two Outright Bad daft punk tracks i can think of (rock’n roll and oh yeah) back-to-back. its a fuckin crime this is the only daft punk on this list because it just doesnt reflect their insane talent

i wanted to give this a 4 because it has a few bangers on it... but it just isnt cohesive enough

This one was…..interesting. I can see why the reviews are very divided. I did find it repetitive but it did have some great stuff (pheonix, around the world)

First time listening to this genre and didn’t mind it. Can see the appeal, but not really the right stuff to listen to during daily life for me. Liked the instrumental tracks more than the ones with the sampled vocals. Overall, decent, just not really my cup of tea.

Despite containing two certifiable bangers in Da Funk and Around the World, this feels very experimental, like they're trying to find their style so throwing in all the beats and bleeps they can find and hoping some of it pays off. Personally, I don't think it does and I can't recommend it - try Discovery and Random Access Memories for a funner (it's a word now) experience.

not in the mood atm 2

Fun

Sommige nummers vind ik echt top. Sommige nummers te veel het zelfde.

Da Funk is so well constructed that you wonder why most of the other ones just never seem to go anywhere

Very well produced. But it sounds like it was made for the dance floor. There’s not enough development in the individual tracks so the second half drags until Alive. I liked the waves on Fresh

A great collection of dance tunes - clearly influential and with some absolute classics - but I didn't come away as amazed as I thought I would. Perhaps the effect has been dulled over the years? Perhaps their later work will appeal more? Put on Da Funk and anyone will dance, but I guess I was hoping for more. A 4 seems fair.

"Discovery" and "Random Access Memories" are better. They were tighter, more focused and had better production with better musicians. This is too long (or at least it *felt* too long...) and unfocused. You could be forgiven for leaving this on in the background of a big party. It's catchy and could attract some attention, but it would and should never command all the attention. It's so repetitive, as well. Why wasn't (at least) "Discovery" on this list in lieu of this first album? Why not the better (best?) they have to offer. (3/5) Still trying to decipher the choice matrix for this project?? I like Daft Punk enough to get through this, but I defer to their better music in almost all other cases.

This album actually made me question whether I like Daft Punk, and why I thought that I did. It's just so repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive. Repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive. Redundant, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive. Redundant, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive. It's the same, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive. It's the same, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive. It's the same, repetitive, redundantly repetitive. It's the same, repetitive, redundantly repetitive... Luckily, the tracks do sound different from one another, but I kinda wanted most of them to be over by about the halfway point. Just like the Energizer Bunny, they kept going, and going, and going, and going, and going, and going, and going, and going. And there were SOOO many of them. Like 16 tracks of them. Like 73 minutes of them. It's a long album. I don't hate it by any means, and in the right place and setting it could definitely work. But it's shortcomings (or longcomings?) put a ceiling of 3/5 on it for me. So, I'll give it a 3/5. That's right, a 3/5. A three. Out of five.

Variety: 4 Adequacy: 5 Listenability: 5 Uniqueness: 4 Emotionality: 2 = 4.0 "The song's a year long and had been playing for months/ When he walked into the place" I knew this was waiting for me when I woke up, and I woke up with "One More Time" stuck in my head. Wrong album, but whatever. These guys were a big part of the latter 90s for me. Remember playing the hell out of this one, but like with a lot of stuff I've heard before it has been a while. The big hits still get plenty of radio play, so Daft Punk is never far out of mind. Really looking forward to this one. THE TRACKS "Daftendirekt" - I didn't recognize this title. Then the repeating ( notice I didn't say repetitive!) vocal starts and I'm back in 1997. Perfectly paced layers build this up so that vocal bit doesn't get tiring, and then you blink and it's over. Set dressing more than a real song, but this does the job of setting up that this will be an album experience I think, rather than a collection of tried and true stuff they worked out in the clubs and then burned for a first release. "WDPK 83.7 FM" - The faux radio station gimmick is... it's fine. I'm not the biggest fan, but this was only 28 seconds, and leads right into the bit at the beginning of the next song. I'm willing to forgive a lot of this since I know we're in good hands ( I feel similarly about Songs for the Dead by Queens of the Stone Age as well). Some groups rely on this as a crutch rather than flavor. "Revolution 909" - Never one that was in constant rotation, this is still more than solid bit of toe-tapping goodness. The electronic hi-hat carries us through and we get some good dynamics. And once again, we're out before things get stale. "Da Funk" - There it is. The music video of the dog guy walking around with his boombox is burned into my brain, so I can never remember if the street noises are as prevalent on the album itself. Listening to the album cut and I don't think they are. Anyway... shit - what an effectively bold opening right into your melodic hook. I could listen to this on a loop all day long and not get tire, but the guys know when you've had a too much of a good thing and a little less than halfway through the zipper electronic line comes in and stays around. Layers! It's all about the layers! Aerobics music for robots, and I couldn't be more into it. All time 5 star track. And I'm pretty sure that won't be the only one off of this. "Phoenix" - On every track so far I've been like "oh yeah..." despite mostly not remembering the names. I could see this one in particular being a tricky proposition. Similar stuff by other groups I've found grating, but I think mostly because of the intense 90s of it all. So much of Chemical Bros and the like is couched in style and feels like them trying to be cool, where this is so unmannered , dorky, and referential to earlier eras it doesn't feel so tied down. The boots and cats beat here is supplemented by more than a few hooky bits and feels varied enough for what it is. I love the parts where everything muffles like you went into the bathroom momentarily and then came right back into the welcoming crowd. ( though not really - I hate clubs. I just imagine that's the intended effect) "Fresh" - And now we're on a beach somewhere listening to the tropical vibes carry over the sand dunes form the killer party a ways off. Not their best stuff here, but works well enough. Feels slight despite being over 4:00. "Around the World" - More proof that repetition does not have to be repetitive. This song is constantly changing and morphing. Just when you start to wonder how many times you nodded your head a new element comes in and ups the ante. Another unforgettable music video that perfectly illustrates their top tier layering. This belongs on every "greatest dance hits" compilation that comes out. The funky bass line that plays under compliments the robotic vocals and my favorite bit is about halfway in when the beat drops out momentarily and then comes back, only to build up and up and up 'til the home stretch. A true perfectly mindless groove. S-tier ear candy. "Rollin' & Scratchin'" - This is where i can see some people bowing out and the patience wearing thin. Not me though. Against all odds this does not bug me in the least. Where someone else might hear a bag full of dozens of cell phones all going off at the same time while an electric tea kettle boils over, I hear only the sick beats. This what I might put on to clean to, or compile Excel sheets or whatever mindless task you can think of. "Teachers" - Love a good roller skate jam, and this might be closest we get here. Daft Punk unembarrassingly calling out their influences here. Also as inessential as we get on here, songwise. "High Fidelity" - The skipping record immediately jumps into a clean beat that they continue to empty the contents of the kitchen sink onto for the remainder. A little too chaotic for me and less cohesive than everything else we've seen. Up until around 2:06 when it finally settles into a groove. "Rock'n Roll" - Like "Rollin' and Scratchin" before it, I can see this one grating on the casual listener. This is really as purposefully difficult as they get though, and is this noise any more abrasive than a siren or a horn you might hear in a more generic track of this type? Well, maybe, sure. But it works for me. I still might keep this track in mind though if I ever want to clear out a party. "Oh Yeah" - Their finniest track? And also their sexiest track? Over before you can even figure out what's going on though. Real disaffected Waitresses-like vibes here. "Burnin'" - Is that a "Baba O'Reilly" sample? Or an interpolation? Funky stuff, and possible the most joyfully danceable thing on here, which is saying something. "Indo Silver Club" - The music fades in as we walk through the doors of the club and we're right into it, and no reamp up necessary as we're treated to the weirdly bumblebee-ish electronic buzz over the groove. We don't stick around too long though ( maybe to grab a quick drink) as the world of the streets outside open up and we walk 50 feet to the next where there's a similar vibe, but only just so. We don't stick around here for long either though, and the night ends abruptly. "Alive" - Most abrasive beats so far on the album. This one builds though, and from the almost industrial clatter of the beat we eventually get to some forward momentum when the synth line slowly rises up to meet it. That hard beat softens and fades before coming back in what feels like a more energized variation, and we ride it out to the end. "Funk Ad" - We end things on a very brief remix of "Da Funk" that's from Bizarro land that doesn't add much to teh proceedings but which does signal the wind down. Still counts as more of a real track than the radio station thing. HIGHLIGHTS - "Revolution 909" - "Da Funk" - "Phoenix" - "Around the World" - "Rollin' & Scratchin'" - "Rock'n Roll" - "Burnin'" - "Indo Silver Club" MIDLIGHTS - "Daftendirekt" - "Fresh" - "Teachers" - "High Fidelity" - "Oh Yeah" - "Alive" - "Funk Ad" LOWLIGHTS - Not here FINAL THOUGHTS At times here I was reminded of everything from disco, to Kool and the Gang to early Madonna, which I think goes to show these guys were not just jumping on the bandwagon but were drawing from what, at the time, would have been a very uncool era. This is at times funky, bright, energetic and joyful where I see a lot more self-seriousness in their electronic contemporaries that doesn't hold up nearly as well. My biggest complaint here is that there are some tracks that feel a little fatty ( "Fresh"), but to remove them would mess with the pacing too much I think. But even their mid material is very listenable and polished. They were all their influence right on the sleeve and there's a refreshing lack of shame in anything here that makes me happy to revisit this era or music when the grunge hangover has mostly worn off and fun, airy shit was viable again. For good or bad, I think Daft Punk was one of the driving forces behind the evolution of pop music into the stew of countless influences from all eras that it is now. Nowadays I could not pinpoint where a song from the last 20 years came from, where before this it is absurdly easy to do. I also wish it had ended on a stronger note, though it does feel ocmplete and wrapped up in a nice bow at the end. PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - Trim that fat if you want a true 5-star experience. The highlights alone are 45 minutes - Alternately, just let the vibe overtake you and sit in the experience. - I'll be keeping all this, but I reserve the right to skip around as I see fit :) FURTHER LISTENING - Discovery by Daft punk - You've Come a Long Way, Baby - by Fatboy Slim - Madonna by Madonna - Something Special by Kool & the Gang - Computer Games by George Clinton

"Test your might, test your might, test your might, test your might. MORTAL KOMBAT!" Techno. That was the term I knew all of this European house music by in the 1990s. Techno was the big bucket every beat centric rhythm focused electroniclly made thumping sound got put into. Oddly enough like many Midwestern/Southern/Flyover white kids of America I was introduced to this music from yes, the 1995 soundtrack to the movie Mortal Kombat. IYKYK. I'm having memories of the Mortal Kombat soundtrack because in that same year, 1995, Daft Punk released "Da Funk" which would later be included on Homework. "Da Funk" is awesome. It is the low growl of a club, before my country ass ever had a notion of what a club was, building collective anticipation and then just holding the audience at that moment for 5 minutes. It was exotic in a way nothing in my immediate vicinity was. Daft Punk was about the best example of House music for me. Who knew how to structure instrumental house better than these two French guys could? That said Homework is not their best album. There are a few good tracks beyond "Da Funk". "Around the World" is a journey in three words and a beat. "Revolution 909" is a dream of an evening. This album descends into annoying repetition in too many spots and runs about 15 minutes too long on its play time. "Rollin' and Scratchin'" & "Rock n'Roll" are both seven and a half minute disasters. Remove both of those and the album tightens up very well, in my opinion. I'm just a little annoyed that their second album is not on the list, because Discovery is a far better album in my opinion. I even have the DVD of the Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem movie. Watch that if you ever get a chance, that's my recommendation.

I think every time I go to listen to Daft Punk I just default to Discovery so I’m not sure I’ve ever listened to this all the way through Loved it. 5 stars.

This is like the worst form of white people dance music ever. Just the same stupid beat through the entire album. Oh God, Burnin' is terrible.

Some funkiness in there. Some fun songs to bop to. Some that were a bit grating.

Hmmm 20 kartą klausytis, lyg ir nieko.

A revolutionary dance album that brought underground house to the masses with gritty textures and infectious grooves, though some repetitive tracks feel slightly longer than strictly necessary.

I’m probably gunna lose a lot of electronic music street cred, but I’ll say it anyways, Daft Punk might be the most overrated and overhyped of my generation. They are so insanely mediocre. This album is such a massive disappointment. I have a lot of friend specifically from highschool that was really into them (probably still are but I don’t talk to all of them very often) so I didn’t go into this album with unreasonable expectations. I don’t think they were going to be the greatest electronic band I had ever heard. But what’s sad is they are not even in the conversation to me. First off, most the memorable and iconic things about daft punk are visual. Their costumes are cool, their live shows are elaborate and fun, their music videos are entertaining and sometimes mildly goofy. But when you take all those things away, all your left with is repetitive songs that are usually heavily if not entirely sample based (which I can respect, a healthy amount of sampling I think is fair game, but they push it. Like to the point where it feel plagiaristic. Seriously if you don’t agree listen to robot rock and then listen to Pull my strings and tell me what you think). But the most egregious error that electronic music is notorious for is just being too fucking long and overstaying your welcome. And this album has like the greatest example of that phenomenon EVER. And what’s funny is your probably thinking I’m going to say around the world, and that’s because you are right and we both know that the song is like 3 mins too long. Sometimes this can be lost on people cause if you watch the music video it will help significantly to hold you attention at bay. But when you listen to that fucking song by itself, it’s like torture. I’m just begging the song to finally end near the end. Seriously, if it wasn’t for the fact that this album contains “da funk” it would get a very deserved 1/5, but it will have to settle for the flimsiest 2/5 instead.