Homework

To paraphrase LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk is not Playing At My House - too much repetition

Got off to a good start but needed to stop after 45 mins. Became repetitive. Better than Serge though

Was feeling proud of myself for enduring the monotonous repetition of that awful stars on 45 drumbeat from the 80s. But after the opening 90 seconds of kick drum sample on Rollin' & Scratchin' I couldn't take any more. Life is too short.

I like some Daft Punk songs but didn’t really enjoy this, it felt like a lot of the other electronic albums on this list. Also I never really liked Around the World.

I was listening to Daft Punk when I checked the album and I was like yeah im gonna check not listen bc I need to lock in. But then the album was daft punk. Very serendipitous.

It is criminal that this is on here over discovery. Still a fun album

Very danceable. Enjoyed the layering of different sounds after tracks got a little repetitive

They're so good at what they do. It's specific, but they're great at it.

I've never really been able to get into Daft Punk. I don't mind it when it's on, but nothing on this record really does much for me, so it's not something I'm very likely to come back to. 2.8/5

This one was a slog, as someone that doesn't like Daft Punk's best albums all that much. It's so repeaty, especially in the last few songs. Do not want. 2/5

Groupe connu de nom. Les morceaux sont terriblement répétitifs et inintéressants. Je n'aime pas ce genre de rythme, ni les sonorités, ni la voix trafiquée. Un vrai calvaire. Je ne suis pas allé au bout. =>1/5

Overall: 8/10 I love hearing the evolution of the greatest electronica group to exist. A lot of their later sound can be found here, especially in the masterpiece that is Around the World. For the most part though, it's a lot of repetitive beats. I usually hate that, but Daft Punk are so good at it that it really doesn't bother me here. I do think that Discovery or Random Access Memories are better, but this one is great too. Fav Song: Around the World

I can’t understand why anyone would seek this out.

The robots will always get a 5. Only robots I like making music.

This is the calm after the *sturm und drang* of Big Beat: fun, inviting, accessible, subtly innovative, and sometimes transcendent (I'm thinking of the guitar sputtering to life on "Fresh" like a futuristic rocket engine turning over after having sat for a while). Your tolerance for blippy shit may vary, of course, but I think it's a great bridge between the Planet Dust of the mid-Nineties and where dance music was ultimately headed in the new millennium.

2 out of 5. I remembered a couple songs came from this album but it didn't do much for me overall.

“Around the World” and “Da Funk” were absolute staples back in high school and college, but the album as a whole falls into the usual electronic trap: repetition that sometimes locks you into a groove and other times just wears you down. It’s a fun listen with some undeniable highs, but I get why people are split on it.

Como casi siempre me sucede con los álbumes de música electrónica, tengo sensaciones encontradas. El problema es que en general es un estilo de música para un contexto y actividad específica: Bailar. Entonces la experiencia de escucha privada de ese contexto pierde un poco de su sentido original, y lo que se sufre es la incesante repetición de la EDM. En este álbum debo decir que a pesar de haber temas de más de 7 minutos, Daft Punk encontró suficientes variaciones como para que no sea tan tedioso. Pero aún así, lo es. Además el álbum en general es largo, porque lo que no solo es lidiar con algunos temas repetitivos sino con más de 1 hora de ello. Al mismo tiempo no puedo negar que aprecio muchos de estos temas y el trabajo de Daft Punk me parece excelente. Pero para experiencia de álbum prefiero Random Access Memories o incluso Discovery. No pienso que sea un mal álbum, simplemente creo que un álbum para escuchar require ser pensado de otra manera para que funcione mejor.

Das Album zeigt eine rohe, energiegeladene Performance mit nahtlosen Übergängen zwischen Tracks wie „Da Funk“, „Rollin’ & Scratchin’“ und „Alive“. Kritiker lobten die dynamische Mischung und die Club-Atmosphäre, auch wenn manche die fehlende Abwechslung bemängelten. „Real arround the World“

Wow. Terrible. I had to stop several tracks because they were torture. Overall not for me at all.

Obviously great. They should have at least two more albums here instead of Neil Young's 74 albums.

Boring repetitive and lacks musicality.

Sooorry… electronica stresses me out

Can remember why they got big before they went massive

I do not care for this, my apologies. I am not qualified to judge this music, this could be good, this could be garbage, but as it does not enjoy me, I can only see it as boring.

Love this album. Daft Punk has always been innovative and fresh. Each one of their releases brings new vibes

Another artist where you wonder what the hell the listmakers were thinking. This album is standard mediocre 90s techno with a few standout tracks like Da Funk, and not a good representation of this duo. Discovery (a solid 5) would've been a much better addition, or even Alive 2007 would've been great, hell we had that Metallica live orchestra album on this list at one point. Definitely a missed opportunity to showcase a great French electronica duo.

PRETTY FUN

This would be great in a club. Less so when I'm just sitting at my computer. It kinda gives you a headache after a bit.

I haven't heard that name for a loooong time

Dance music and house music would not be the same without this

Love it! ★★★★

I can see why it was groundbreaking at the time. Great tunes, unique beats.

Gezellig hoor, elektronische muziek. Maar toch. Het is niet dat ik het slecht vind, het is dat ik het na één keer beluisteren nooit meer op ga zetten. Ik vind het gewoon te saai, die eeuwigdurende plastic beatjes en samples. Het vertelt geen verhaal, sleept me niet mee, het wordt muzak. Alsof je naar een wasmachine luistert. Sorry Eric.

Laten we eerlijk zijn. De muziek van dit album draait vele rondjes rond de wereld. De hit vonden mensen al eentonig als het op de radio voorbij kwam. Nu blijft deze meer dan 7 minuten draaien. En toch weet Daft Punk het voor mij leuk te houden. Soms kan je met kleine variaties ook veel bereiken. Het is vooral vrij pakkend. Het album staat terecht in de lijst. Het zette met naast de hit ook nummers als Da Funk en Burnin' succesvol een eigen digitaal geluid in de wereld (en het is een debut natuurlijk). Tegelijk verbaast de keuze. Er staan ook een paar vrij rauwe eentonige nummers op, zoals het beukende en schurende Rollin' & Scratchin'. Aan de bassdrum waarmee dit nummer start, merk je wel, dat ze in deze categorie weer niet de voortrekker waren. Ik denk dat ik zelf de keuze had gemaakt voor het album Human after all. Al zou ik in het geval van Daft Punk een best-off aanraden. In elke periode hebben ze wel nummers gemaakt die bijzonder fijn luisteren. Maar elk album heeft wel een paar afknappers erop.

Deze review hadden jullie nog van mij tegoed. Ik wilde namelijk even het complete oeuvre van Daft Punk afgaan. Homework, het debuut uiteraard, is het enige album van deze Fransen dat geselecteerd is door de snobs, maar het was niet het album waar ik gelijk aan moest denken bij Daft Punk. Nu ik Homework heb teruggeluisterd, stonden er wel al wat toffe nummers op, vnl de minder bekende singles als Da Funk en Burnin. Maar de rest van het album herbergt ook wat opvulnummers en best wel veel wat hardere techno (of in ieder geval hardere elektronische muziek). Ik zou het waarderen met een 3,5 denk ik. Ik heb Daft Punk pas echt leren kennen bij het 2e album Discovery. En dat is wat mij betreft gelijk het beste album dat ze gemaakt hebben. Er staat vrijwel geen misser op en het geheel is letterlijk een verhaal dat wordt verteld. Wil je dat verhaal ook zien? Dat kan, want Interstella 5555 is de film die erbij hoort en die heb ik destijds op Lowlands nog gezien. Dit geheel is het meest de 5 sterren waard, die ik hier uiteindelijk ga uitdelen. Hierna kwam Human After All, wat voor mij het minst bekend is qua album (ook het minst qua verkoopcijfers aldus de wiki), maar er staan wel een aantal kneiters van nummers op. En die nummers komen het beste tot hun recht op Alive 2007, waarbij Daft Punk de eerste 3 albums live ten gehore brengt. En Daft Punk live in die tijd stond absoluut garant voor spektakel. Ze traden niet zo vaak op, helaas heb ik ze nooit live kunnen aanschouwen. Alive 2007 had ook zeker niet misstaan in de snoblijst, want hier wordt live muziek weer naar een volgend level gebracht, ipv alleen maar simpel je nummertjes draaien of oeverloze solos afspelen. Human After All is een 3+, Alive 2007 is wederom een hele dikke 5 sterren. Het oeuvre eindigt met een soort ode aan hun eigen helden, Random Access Memories. Het heeft niet zoveel van het dansbare geluid dat Daft Punk op de eerdere albums laat horen. Het is meer een wat tragere electro afgewisseld met italodisco. Ik heb dit album wel in de mp3-vergaarbak gehad, dus ik ken alle nummers wel en kan het wel waarderen (met 4 sterren), maar ik kan me voorstellen dat de Daft Punk liefhebber van het begin hier wat bij afhaakt. Lang verhaal kort: ik ga 5 sterren uitdelen, maar dat is meer voor de mijns inziens betere keuzes Discovery en Alive 2007.

Listenable.

Daft Punk's Discovery (2001) was the first electronic album I ever bought. That was my entry point to the genre and, in many ways, the measuring stick I use to judge all other electronic music. This record isn't quite as tight as Discovery, and the back half really seems to drag on forever... but it does have "Da Funk" and "Around The World" on it, so it's not a total write-off.

For two years in the late 90s, I had the privilege of being one of the last people to work in the coolest used record store in the small North Carolina city where I grew up. It's hard to describe the pleasure of being twenty years old and having a job where people constantly ask for (and even respect!) your opinion on music. Even though we sold this album, I was aware of it, and I was listening to a lot of electronic music at the time, I have never listened to Homework. As I opened the OAD app this morning, I wondered how I missed it. Then I remembered how I thought the single "Around the World" was obnoxious and repetitive, which turned me off to this album. Knowing what I know now about Daft Punk, especially the fantastic Random Access Memories, I thought that maybe I had missed an opportunity. Unfortunately, no, I was right to skip this one the first time around, and I almost didn't finish it today. Mostly, I found it obnoxious and repetitive. There were plenty of times when the rhythms and production had me bobbing my head, but even those moments were driven into the ground, with little variety to carry me through the tracks, much less the entire record. I thought I might catch hints of embryonic development of the group that Daft Punk would become, but honestly, I didn't even get that. This album disappointed me, and I probably won't return to it. I'm not sure if Discovery is on the list too, but I promise to keep an open mind if and when it pops up. Three stars.

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I’ve spent a lot of time complaining about electronic albums on this list, but I was kind of interested to hold this one up to the rest. I wouldn’t put it on for no reason, but I liked it quite a bit more than the average… easy to see why. Continental euros, not Brits. A world of difference.

Let the fun in the clown car 🤡 Fresh 🌊 Around the world

With chemical enhancement probably a high 4 or 5. Commuting to and from London it struck me as a bit long and disjointed. Still a strong electronic dance album. 90’s classic. Gotta love a bit of Daft Punk. Going to award 4 anyway.

This was easy and enjoyable to listen to especially after too much 70s rock recently

Album.I owned but rarely played from start to finish, replaying it I can see why, I found it a bit of a slog. However, the denouement from Burning onwards rewarded the staying powsr. That said, for my Daft Punk fixes, I am still likely to just head to One More Time -my soundtrack to Cape Town '01 - or the near perfect Get Luciy.

Can’t say I’ve ever listened to a daft punk album before this. Not in a rush to again. Overly long, surprisingly heavy with filler tracks and sounding quite dated. A far harder pass than I was anticipating.

House classic and super important electronic album. The blueprint for everything after 2000 in my eyes. Rollin' & Scratchin' + Da Funk are amazing tracks.

This was alright. I think Around the World is one of the best songs of its genre and it makes me happy every time I listen to it. But the rest of this album (including many lengthy remixes of Around the World) was just kind of a slog. I listened to the whole thing, but I didn't love it. Three stars.

Cool and funky, couple of classics. Prob give it a 3.5

Great album for the right occasion. Not a great album for a Wednesday morning at the office.

I really love Daft Punk, and I have a hard time deciding my favourite album of theirs. This just might be it though.

It's good. Very much the textbook for electronic music which followed.

This album feels like homework. Get it? Homework? 'Cause that's the album title? Hah... haha... Ah. Pretty decent.

All the tracks build up and off of the standout hits you've heard on the radio, heck you can hear parts of da funk in the opener. And that's about where the cleverness of this album ends. Rock n roll is an abrasive repetitive slog that lasted 5 minutes too long. And now that I am about 3/4 through, the entire thing is just too long.

The first third of this album is so lukewarm that I was almost disappointed. Luckily, it soon became apparent why daft punk is greatest electronic band. Very special and fresh pieces, both harder and softer. I am totally biased, but I don't care.

a bit too much repetition but overall a good album with some great songs

S'alreet

Daft Punk. house music that appeals to rockists maybe, but if you see how edm listeners talk about them and this album, you'll see just how foundational and beloved they truly are. this is the raviest they ever got and it has some timeless and delectable grooves. huge fan of this. deserves to be one of the 1001? absolutely!!! and please!!! add Discovery!!! the greatest album ever made!!!

This just isn’t for me no matter how much I try. I can recognise the appeal in certain tracks (Da Funk and Around the World are obvious club bangers), but I find it very long and very repetitive. I’m sure this is a genre landmark, but if you don’t know or particularly like this genre, it doesn’t do that much.

It’s crazy how much worse this is than their next album. Borderline unlistenable at times.

this was not their best work

Yeah it’s repetitive but it’s electronic music! I had listened to some of this album a long time ago before I had really listened to much electronic music. And I thought it was ok, but the repetitiveness turned me off. Giving this album a full listen yesterday, I like it a lot. A lot a lot. It’s a little rough around the edges but I appreciate that. I like debut albums like this where you can tell the artist is still figuring out their sound but they have lots of good ideas. Homework has plenty of them. Discovery may be a more concisely crafted album, but Homework is a fabulous debut and definitely one I’ll keep in rotation.

Just not for me. Couple of decent tracks but mostly too much and a bit anxiety inducing

I understand why this album is on this list, but as far as listening experience is concerned, this one was hard to get through. Best Track: Around the World

A favorite from my childhood.

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Spoczko, fajne bardzo. Takie 4

Honestly thought I’d like it much more than I did. Just found it a bit boring, repetitive, and headachey

I always think I enjoy Daft Punk more than I do because I usually only hear one song at a time. Listening to 70+ minute long album is a different beast altogether.

I kinda get it, but it's just not for me.

An excellent album, though I'm not sure how this got chosen over Discovery.

Loooove this album.

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So much more than Around the World... For me, at least.

This really feels like more of a collection of musical ideas rather than a full fledged album. I get it, this is house music and that's the point and maybe I would enjoy it more if I was out dancing but that still doesn't mean that I have to enjoy it on a Tuesday morning sipping coffee.

Même si le travail des Daft Punk est incroyable, je ne suis pas une grande adepte de musique électronique…

See kids, in my day there was no such thing as A.I. so the closest thing we could get to bad music made by robots was these two French gimps called Daft Punk

Ahh it was fine, just not my kind of tunes. But appreciated it nonetheless. Simpsons: Yes

I get that these guys are good but they're not for me.

- just a fun collection of catchy beats and hooks. it feels intended to be listened to intentionally instead of as background music in a club, but it also has a good amount of repetitiveness that's good for listening to while doing other things, such as... homework - a youtube channel I recently discovered (Captain Pikant) has several videos explaining how the drum machine patterns in Daft Punk songs were created (especially on the TR-909, namesake of "Revolution 909"), which has given me a new appreciation for dance and house music - all in all, very fun music to clean your house to

They’ve done better

Not their best

Big hits like Da Funk and Around The World. 5/5

It’s impossible to listen to this in full while seating in a sofa. The sound is great and I can see why it’s fantastic for a dance floor, but it’s sooooo repetitive! Long live Daft Punk, though.

I found the back half of this album very repetitive. I wish it were Discovery.

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8/10

If you’re not dancing, it gets boring and repetitive fast. Still, Da Funk repetitive as it is it's really good. .

I really like Daft Punk but as other dance records it doesn’t really work out of the context of a party or club. Also, not my favorite work by them.

That beat is infectious. I wish they had made more albums.

It's too repetitive for me, but I don't hate it at all.

IT's Daft Punk. Funky techno for the win.

Hmmmm I dont want to be controversial on this one, id generally say I like Daft, although I rarely listen, but thr start of this record is quite repetitive, a little dull. Im not gonna get any cool points for this, im tempted to say 2, but its so iconic that I'll probably stretch to a 3

definitiv musig wo ame rave am beste isch, weniger elei uf de chopfhörer. es het es paar lieder wonich sehr geil gfunde ha, und es paar anderi wo eher ok gsi sind.

71/100 it's good but i just can't imagine myself ever actually listening to it again

Like individual tracks but an album is too much

Always gets me bopping

A couple of classic tracks (the singles) and a bunch of other stuff which is okay. Still a great album. But not as good as Discovery imo.

Love Daft Punk though I do feel there is a bit of emperors new clothes about them. This, their first album before the subsequent later album release hype still stands up well today.

Stone cold classic

OMG, what a joy to revisit this album once again! This was a groundbreaking album at the time, funky abstract dance music, but Daft punk was also one of the first live dance-acts, like Underworld, showing the world that dance and live acts could easily go together. Needless to say I have seen both acts numerous times during my raving years from the '90s to about 2010. If only for the memory of those good times, I'll rate it 5/5!

Mind numbingly repetitive and quickly irritating.

The early stuff which isnt as good as their later work

I dunno what to do with albums like this. The beats and sound effects are creative, but it’s “meta-music” — no one is actually playing those drums. The music is designed to facilitate group experiences, in a rave setting. As a result, it’s simple and repetitive. Not really something to sit around listening to. I’ll give it a 2 — even though I can’t get through an entire album of it as a pure listening exercise.

Good house album. A few of the songs were quite memorable, however outside of the dance aspect I don’t feel much of a need to listen to this again. But nonetheless is performs very well in the areas that it needs to, and uses some very pretty cool production techniques.

Pure quality

Hmmm thought I already had this on the list, somehow but maybe listened to it after seeing their documentary 🤔 73 minutes?! That’s brave. Let’s see… It just felt kinda basic. Just repetitive loops with layering. Quite like the inbetween tracks and introduction of environment and atmos. But just not so impressed with the songwriting at all. Pretty uninspiring and unskilled. I also want to acknowledge it’s importance as an album, of its time and important for EDM but 1997 doesn’t limit its possibility to THIS, right? Wrote the above when I thought I was on the last few tracks and realised there were actually still 6 left and now I’m just getting annoyed at the cheek of it and the maddening empty repetition.

Pro side - it's Daft Punk, it has two of their best songs on here, it's iconic and influenced so much. Downside - honestly even in a flow state it's too repetitive for me to give it a superlative rating

My first Daft Punk listening experience was...fine. Great music for my early morning commute but it definitely feels like a debut. Good ideas and some hit singles, but knowing the history of this band you know bigger and better things are on the horizon.

A parte i singoli di successo il nulla

Daft punk

Not as polished or consistent as Discovery, but still feels really fresh all these years later. Like flipping stations on the radio and just tuning in to a range of different sounds that all coalesce into the collage of dance music ideas. Wonderful stuff.

bibbity bobbity. makes ya move.

3.5

It’s fine. Just boring. Not really my thing. I didn’t finish the album.

I liked the next album better, but this is good-mood ambient techno

If I wanted to be hyper critical here, I might say some of the tracks can at times feel repetitive or feel like they are a bit too long. That said this album is basically perfect, and while it may not hold the same place in my heart as Discovery, it's still an easy 5-star for me. This album fundamentally changed modern EDM. For most people this album IS house music: you put this on some speakers, crank the volume, and you can't help but bop. Favorite tracks (all of them?!) Da Funk, Phoenix, Around the World, Burnin, Indo Silver, I mean this is just too fun.

I think I still slightly prefer Discovery to Homework, but this definitely is still a banging album with a lot of tracks that make you want to move. Standouts: Da Funk, Around The World, and Rollin’ & Scratchin’

One Daft Punk song? Good. Maybe a little repetitive. An album? ...no thanks.

Favorite tracks: Teachers This was mind-numbingly repetitive. I kept wishing there were lyrics only to see the error of my ways when Around the World came on. I will never understand the appeal of house music.

Da Funk

Banger album made of banger tracks, constantly some new catchy thing coming up so you never get bored. Da Funk may be my favorite Daft Punk song of all time.

Samples looping, beats banging, hooks iterating, tension building and releasing and building and releasing, synths glitching screeching deforming sound into new textures and patterns, beats banging, repeating, looping, building releasing, howling. Oddly both all consuming and totally ignorable (but passively anxiety building) depending on how loud you play it. Favorites: The dirtier noisier stuff like Rollin and Scratchin

We're lucky to have Daft Punk

crisp, joyful

fun. I'd only ever heard the 2 big hit on this album.

Electronic Pioniere. Einfach gross!

The thing that I liked most about this album was that after 73 interminable minutes, it ended and I'll never have to listen to it again.

I love Daft Punk so much! Definitely one of the library classics every child should have.

Daft cunt. Some of the sounds have so much stonk you can taste it but the tracks are devoid of any emotion. More of a technical achievement than an artistic one.

Recently been exploring this era that I missed and appreciating it more. Alive is a great soundtrack to rob a bank to. The rest are excellent for violently passing a slow car on the 405.

Album 18/1001 Daft, yes. Punk? No. Favourite song: Da Funk 🕺 Honourable mention; Rock'n Roll 🎸 Rollin' & Scratchin" 👇💽 Alive 🙌

Ok. R did not like it. Thought it would be better.

I’m sure at its release time it was mind blowing. I just couldn’t get into it today.

Love this album!! Reminds me of childhood, haha. Not necessarily Daft Punk's _best_ album (that'd be Alive 2007, or Discovery if we're talking strictly studio albums) but still great.

I see the appeal but I think electronic music has the same problem: if you're not dancing to it, then it really loses it's luster after six or seven tracks.

Langweilig

interesting video clips that complemented the music.

Liked it more than I thought I would

I'm sure fans of the genre could educate me about why this is an important and worthwhile album. But as an outsider, I can't hear anything but background music during a club scene in a bad movie. It may be good (or it may not be… I don't really know how I'd tell the difference), but I don't particularly enjoy listening to it. Not gonna lie, I found myself wanting it to be over about half way through. 2/5 Highlights: Da Funk Rock'n Roll

I really have to be in the mood for electronica. Fortunately I was and this was pretty good. My ratings are 5⭐️ = all time classic. Will love forever. 4⭐️= loved the album and will most likely dive deeper into the artist’s catalog. 3⭐️ = liked the album 2⭐️= wasn’t my thing but I understand why it’s here and am glad I listened. 1⭐️= not good, not good at all

Classic. Still can’t stand that song Around The World though…

Ok. Some of it was too much like noise for me, but mostly it was ok.

Really solid. Had it on for hours.

Who the hell listens to music like this. Dance I can get (not my thing) but listens to?

Anything but mind-blowing. Relic of the past at this point.

Enjoyable, but a little too redundant at times. I've heard other Daft Punk albums and have enjoyed them more. I wonder if Daft Punk will ever really be for me. Highlights: "Da Funk"; "Around the World"

It feels like in some cases the author of this list was adding only a debut album of an influential artist just because it’s a debut. Sucks that discovery, alive 2007 and random access memories are not on the original list. Love daft punk, but this one is a little too simplistic for me

Me gustan más los álbumes posteriores de Daft Punk. Me parece un poco música de tienda de ropa con algunos destellos puntuales.

This was an excellent listen. I really enjoyed this for working music and can understand why Jordan was such a fan of this back in college while playing DOTA.

Enjoyed this but a little too much filler. I think if they cut a few tracks it could have been 4. “Alive” is a good live album by DP.

I was blasting this while cooking dinner for my family today in the middle of the workday, dancing around a little bit and chopping onions that made my eyes tear up really badly. My Vietnamese mother-in-law came downstairs, eyed me with concern and told me 'this weird music is too loud frank' before turning and going back upstairs. Not sure if she noticed I was crying or not and how that might have changed the conversation. In the story in my head, she now thinks I'm a possibly closeted gay party boy quietly danceweeping in mourning for my lost party boy youth. Anyway, I usually hate techno but this was at least good enough for me to humiliate myself in front of my mother in law so I'll say its at least slightly better than average.

Really impressive front half of this. Im a big fan of Revolution 909 and Da Funk. The second half lacks diversity and catchiness… a lot of slow builds over themes that arent really that amusing. I think dance music is supposed to excite and I was left bored over most of the last 35 mins. Alive was the only track there that I thought was worth listening to entirely. Like most albums over the hour long mark, they could trash 25% of this and come out with a complete product that doesn't leave your attention wanting more or finding something else. I need to define this, so I can stop writing this out. For now, ill name it Fluffy Album Syndrome (FAS). Long Album Syndrome doesn’t really summarize my main idea. A great album could be two hours if it takes that long to complete its main concept. Our Homework here is done in 45 mins or less 😉

Absolute classic. IMHO their best album.

Homework As a fantastically constructed set of songs this is great, and has some great memories and nostalgia attached. But I’m not sure it totally works as a whole album, especially over the course of nearly 74 minutes. It definitely feels like a series of tracks, and I don’t think it's quite at the same level as Discovery, Random Access Memories or perhaps even the Tron soundtrack. There’s no doubt though that they are absolute masters at assembling tracks through layers upon layers of kicks, snares and keyboards, building up the anticipation and excitement through the kick drums - it’s amazing how often they manage to make repetitive, relatively simple phrases and hooks sound thrilling and addictive, most obviously on Da Funk and Around the World. But there are other excellent tracks too, the Kraftwerk influenced Daftebdirekt, the sunshiney Phoenix, Fresh, Rock’n’Roll, the superb disco bass of Burnin’, Alive. It’s actually slightly tricky to rate, taken individually each track is very good, and in its field it's excellent and of course hugely influential, but as an album as an entire listening experience I don’t find it as fulfilling as each track on it’s own, and it does feel very long by the time we get to Oh Yeah or Burnin’. Because of that I think it lands as a mid-high 4. 🪖🪖🪖🪖 Playlist submission: Da Funk

A love letter to rave culture, and the album is peppered with the noises of urban life and post-club pavement crowds - very evocative for a seasoned clubber such as myself. I prefer their more sophisticated electro-pop that would come later vs the repetitive-by-design, house beats. The likes of 'Revolution 909' and 'Rollin' and Scratchin'' are a little too clinical and mechanical - the album doesn't really spring in to life until 'Da Funk' which is an all out mesmeric masterpiece. That's followed by 'Phoenix', an irresistible bassline, and all the infectious vibes of the barely recognisable Elton John sample. The basslines are often a driving force such as on 'Around the World', a nod to funk and disco influences (the subsequent collaboration with Niles Rodgers seems inevitable); and the quasi disco of 'Burnin''. A few banging classics cement a three, but I don't think it attains excellence as an album.

Some bangers from my youth, but some of the songs were really hard to listen to- like Rollin' and Scratchin' and Rock'n Roll. Some of the sounds in are really grating! I powered through, but dang!! Not a bad album to listen to while doing my homework - over all, good energy.

Takes me back to the time I was in Paris and went to the dance clubs. Highlight of the week when we were riding around the Arc de Triomphe on a scooter getting ready for the club beats.

starts out rough but once you get into it a solid album with no bad songs just good and better ones

I mean, its daft punk

Best dance album of all time. For some reason I haven't listened to the album in full for years, so I was a little surprised to see the 70 minute run time. But here's the thing that the reviews saying the tracks are too long don't realize: you can't do what Daft Punk does on these tracks in 3 or 4 minutes. Even the most straightforward and repetitive tracks evolve through their duration, with different elements rising to the surface before being replaced by others, while the groove just grows and grows. They really mastered their craft on their debut. Maybe it could benefit from being 2 tracks shorter, but I struggle to pick which 2 I'd drop.

Наконец-то дафт панк ура!! Великие + гениальные - альбом конечно не самый их лучший, но с учётом того, какое величие из него вырастет, это лайк

The start of the duo that changed electronic music. Not the powerhouse that discovery is but still an incredible electronic album

I have an involuntary negative response every time I hear “Alive” by Daft Punk. It’s the song that would always show up first in my music library every time I started my car, so I heard it start up maybe thousands of times. It’s not Daft Punk’s fault, but it is what it is. I like Daft Punk! Homework isn’t my essential pick for them, however. Good album tho.

Probably the best EDM album that we’ve had so far. The constant “four on the floor” pulse with syncopated riffs on top makes for perfect danceability. The use of interesting sounds utilizing distortion and filters also keeps things interesting. Problem is, it’s just too damn long. If they kept only the best tracks, this could have easily been a 4-star album.

Not for me

mehh

almost perfect

Pre-listening thoughts: ok folks... and so it begins. I am finally working through the insane backlog I have built up for myself before I leave for the UK. I have some from like July that I've actually already listened to, about 15 or so but I never sat down and rated because I got lazy. But we've had some decent ones generated recently, so I'm excited to jump back in. Hopefully I can catch all the way up before Sunday. Post/during listening thoughts: I'm really not the biggest fan of electronic music. But even so, I KNOW this isn't Daft Punk's best work. It's decent, like the production is stellar as always, but a lot of their later stuff just has better melodies and composition. I did enjoy this (and got a flashback to Just Dance with Da Funk) but I can't say electronic music will ever be for me. A lot of these songs were just slightly too long for my taste and I like lyrics/singers, which a lot of these songs lack. 6/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: maybe not me in particular but I would advise to anyone if they've never heard electronic music, give these guys a try. Fav tracks: Da Funk, Fresh, Around the World Least fav tracks: Rollin and Scratchin, Rock n Roll

I don’t like giving 1s, but this bad.

Completely mid. Was nice on parkrun but already forgotten it.

mid 4 p sure the coffee machine at work gave me a caf double expresso in my orange juice when i asked for decaf. loving this album as i work today.

I struggle mightily with electronica because on one hand I understand its significance to electronic music. But on the other hand, it often ages so, so poorly. This album does have "Around the World" which ended up being a great global hit but unfortunately, lots of other tracks fail to meet the mark. I will say though - this a little better than alot of the other electronica that was on this list. 5/10

debut album by Daft Punk that already shows signs off the high energy disco house sampling but also has some darker more progressive house and electro elements.

It's not their best, but it's them, and that's enough. Rediscovered some really good ones, Pheonix especially. The middle part of this album is just great. It's impressive how you can make catchy house tracks with so little.

No electronic music should be in this list. This is no exception and I really like daft punk but not for this

Quite enjoyable all things considered

I wanted to give it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, and it's got a few great tracks with much nostalgia. But as an overall album, I think it's more of a ⭐⭐⭐⭐.

So many bangers in here

And EDM was forever changed.

Im not really into daft punk and this album is no different. Its unbearably long and loses steam after the first few songs. Around the World is great but apart from theres not much substance here. 5/10 Favourite: Around the World Least Favourite: Oh Yeah

66/1001 Daft Punk - Homework Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❎ Like homework, this is a chore to get through - long, boring and tedious.

It’s very long and I don’t think it really earns that length. Party albums typically are long and don’t make great listening experiences when listened to from front to back and are full of very long songs to dance to for a long amount of time. There are a few great moments, but the album’s length knocks it down from a 3 to a 2 for me. I have heard great things about later Daft Punk albums, so maybe I’ll check those out. 2/5

Music you hear while at a urinal in the men's room of a chic Montreal hotel.

I've mostly listened to Discovery era Daft Punk, but digging the euro club vibes.

I didn’t hate it as much as I usually hate club music but it was still awful. Every beat goes on juuuuust long enough to be irritating before changing a bit and then that beat goes on too long and so on. Cuz everything in half and it might be decent.

This is a great album that played a big part in my teenage life. I am trying to not let the nostalgia cloud my vision here - I enjoy this one a lot but it’s probably not a full-on 5 for me. It’s very close though.

I like the genre and the artist, but this album isn't their peak.

Another album I've heard a bazillion times from living in the car for years.

Too long and too repetitive, but overall pretty good. I liked some of the non vocal tracks I heard for the first time more than some of the classic hits.

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Funk

Have always liked this album and have listened to it many times. Have liked pretty much everything Daft Punk has put out.

Très bons sons, je commence à découvrir l'univers de la House donc cet album tombe à pic. Après c'est un classique donc forcément c'est cool. J'ai bien aimé High Fidelity et Teachers pour l'utilisation des samples. Burnin, Around the World et Fresh pour vraiment viber. Voilà donc globalement une très bonne expérience d'écoute, un album qui m'a mis dans le workflow donc parfait.

I have to be in a very particular mood to just listen to a Daft Punk album. Wasn’t there today.

This would be great music in a club venue. It’s not that fun to just listen to though.

i have to compare it to discovery which is a little unfair but this just sounds so basic

cool heard it before though

Historically I’ve had a lot of trouble with long electronic instrumental-focused beat-forward albums. I didn't have a lot of trouble with this. It’s danceable and banging and even a little gritty. It’s still quite long and I don’t think I’d sit down and listen to it in full again, but I’d definitely put this on at a party, or while gaming, or if I for some reason ever get into drag racing. Even if it’s still not quite my cup of tea, I can see why they’re so acclaimed and am looking forward to the next Daft Punk record. Around the world, around the world. Around the world, around the world. Around the world, around the world. Around the world, around the world.

This felt like menu music for a video game from the nineties about building houses and then knocking them down and

The debut album by French duo, Daft Punk... delivers funkiness... if you think i'm down on elecrtonic music, i'm not, i'm down on bad electronic music... lol... this is very good... it starts out with just a stark groove... "Daftendirekt" sets the mood.... "Revolution 909" takes you on a joyful ride... "Da Funk" is just that, a funky groove done by guys who are singer/songwriters as well as DJ's... and musicians... that's why i think this works so well... like if real musicians did the DJ/electronica thing... "Around The World" is a track that would sort of become the signature sound of the duo... after that, the sounds get more experimental and have less tuneage... so, in conclusion, i would say this is a solid effort... with just enough old influences not to bother me, and just enough of the industrial/DJ/House/electronica to annoy me a bit... lol... i think the younger generation would give this one five stars... i give it a strong THREE stars... the entertaining balances out the annoying... and i see the promise... and what they were trying to accomplish... i think...

Definitely feels like what the context suggests, a bunch of songs the pair made to be released as singles here and there but instead put them together as an album. Not to say that makes it bad or anything, i quite enjoyed this despite its repetitiveness and length of the album being probably too long. I thought mostly the singles were the best anyway, a lot of the others felt like filler as they didn’t really have much going for them other than a repeated beat which continues for like the whole song but I guess you can say that for all of them to an extent. Favourites: Revolution 909, Da funk, Fresh and Alive. Overall, 6/10.

Classic album, all bangers, house with feeling, have it on vinyl, the music video's are part of my youth. They transcendent house with this record and it being their first makes it all the more impressive.

Really cool samples and a great album overall (but Daft Punk has better iykyk)

daftendirekt- 5 wdpk 83.7 fm- 5 revolution 909- 5 da funk- 5 phoenix- 5 fresh- 5 around the world- 4. im over it rolling and scratching- 4 teachers- 5 high fidelity- 5 im tired it was fine

This is a well crafted and entertaining ride. It makes you feel like you're taking part in the dying hallucinations of a very disturbed robot, which you damn well can't say about any of the shitty blues clones this list loves so much. There's a limit to how much I can enjoy this as an album - by Rock n Roll I was ready to pull the plug though Indo Silver Club and Alive won me back over - but I give it some slack considering this kind of music was certainly not made to be listened to at home, alone, in pjamas.

Nowhere near my favourite Daft Punk record, but the Robots have always had such a talent for electronic music. That’s evident all over Homework. It’s fun to tune out a bit and lose yourself in the beats and blips. Once again, Da Funk is going to be stuck in my head for days. ✨

Shit sandwich Sorry, wrong album/artist Around the world around the world Some shite (Rock and Roll) and more quality balancing out to a respectable album

high fidelity peak

incredible but not a 5 yet, missing the excitement and diversity of Discovery in my opinion.

Too long for how little material they have. This selection was made because it was their first, not their best. The Fresh video completely changes the track.

Very repetitive, but has some good tracks. High 2/5.

I'm not entirely sure why HOMEWORK is on this list. I mean, right? They put it on here over DISCOVERY. I'd always assumed that was regularly considered Daft Punk's great work. Or at least it was until RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES, which has also never been included in any newer editions, despite how absolutely phenomenal it is. So what gives? Now, of course, I have my affections for HOMEWORK. "Da Funk" and "Around The World" are undeniable. And I suppose if this list is basing its inclusions off of "what's important" rather than "what's the greatest," I guess this would be the big French House album you'd include (I've yet to hear a full Justice album, so take my guess with a grain if you want). But still, if I'm being completely honest here, I don't think HOMEWORK is the best album to introduce people to Daft Punk with. It all comes down to the overall sound of this thing. When I picture what this album would look like, I imagine dirty streets and dirty clubs. It's raw, it's grungy... It's not filthy, but dang if it don't have some grime on it. This is all a fine aesthetic, sure; I can see the appeal of it over the polish shine they'd put on their later albums. For me, though, I like the shine, and how bright and colorful it sounds. DISCOVERY sounds like the way the group's logo is depicted on the cover: shiny chrome with a world of rainbow underneath. RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES, meanwhile, is an inviting disco, bathed in the warm tones of 70's film grain — all that kind of flowery, artistic talk, y'know. You get my point, anyway: I like Daft Punk better when they're working with their disco influences then when they're doing pure, uncut French house. Like, I'unno, with these songs I find it a lot harder to know if you're closer to their beginning or their end. Although, to that point, I actually wanna take the time to swoop in and defend this album against a point I've been seeing. To a lot of people, this album is **repetitive**. If you were to ask 'em how this thing plays, they'd probably just say "AROUND THE WORLD" twenty times. And I can't exactly fault them for that sort of thing: dance music **is** based on repetition. Really, all music is, but the stuff you're supposed to dance to more so. After all, they hafta provide a consistent beat that you can boogie on down to. But that's the thing that bothers these people: maybe these songs are a little **too** consistent. Maybe there's no real progression and the songs are just happy to spin the drain forever until they decide they're done. **That's** being repetitive, and that's the issue. I wanna narrow in on "Around The World" as an example. I think to people like these, they can only really hear the voice saying "AROUND THE WORLD" 144 times. That, to them to me, is the entire song. But to focus in so singularly on the one lyric the song repeats is to ignore everything else that's going on. You see, there **is** actually progression going on here — it's just a little subtler than a brain so used to rock or pop would be used to. It's all about theme and variation: you establish what this song sounds like with all the base elements (based, drums, key, vocals), and then you add and remove elements to see how they sound. Drop the bass, change the drums, add a new synth... It keeps things interesting because the song is always evolving and morphing. That goes for every song on the album: "Da Funk", "Burnin'", "Alive"... Songs that **aren't** singles... I totally understand how someone could listen to these songs and not hear the progression, but at the same time, it doesn't even feel like you hafta listen that hard...? And either way, so many of these songs have such incredible grooves... Even if it's not generally the sound I wanna hear from Daft Punk, I can't deny that it's still quality as hell. And you gotta look at it like this: without HOMEWORK, we wouldn't have DISCOVERY and RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES. If it hadn't hit off as it did, introducing French house to a wider, global audience... Well, jeez, would I wanna live in a world without "Touch"? I don't think so. I gotta respect it for that at least. And lucky for the rest of it, it still holds up. I'd listen to either of those other albums first, or ALIVE 2007, but HOMEWORK is still Daft Punk doin' what they do best. It's hard to sneeze at that, and it's not something I'll get tired of, no matter how many times they say "AROUND THE WORLD."

While it might not have the more pop-flavored stylings of something like Discovery or, later on, RAM, this is still a damn fine record in its own regard, especially if you get into the track remixes included on the 25th anniversary reissue. If I had the ability to, I'd give this 6 stars.

I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll easily bump up to a 5. That’s the first time I’ve ever heard “Homework”; I’m far more aware of the other Daft Punk albums, but I just never went back to this one. It’s certainly different – Daft Punk would later expand its range into a little more of a soft pop blend with the electronica / EDM / house standards that are so clearly set up on this album, and I definitely prefer everything from “Discovery” onward, but even the “worst” Daft Punk album that my ears have heard is still a fucking banger. “Around the World” is obviously the all-timer here, but most of the 74 minute runtime of this album is a treat. Really, the only reason I’m at a 4.5 and not a flat 5 is because a few tracks just felt a little long (“Rollin’ & Scratchin’” & “High Fidelity”), & “Rock’n Roll” in particular just kind of bounced off of me after about 5 minutes. Little too noisy, and the abrupt ending doesn’t help. Past those minor bumps though, what emerges is a very strong album that’s more instrumental / club-centric than its successors. Mileage will vary on how much one would like the straight instrumental approach, but as someone who already listens to a little too much video game music, it didn’t bother me as much here. The thing that struck me the most about the production work / composition is how much this album tends to rely on its lower, bassier tones, using anything extra high as a point of contrast to make the progressions feel more fulfilling. When it works, it works, but there are points on this album where it doesn’t, and it’s pretty noticeable when it doesn’t. Those moments are generally fleeting, but it does show the slight messiness of this album compared to how tightly they would refine it down the line. Of course, I’m nitpicking apart the little things I didn’t like about this because the rest of it is just worth all the praise a Daft Punk album should get. It’s still a great, great debut album, and I wouldn’t blame anyone for preferring this sort of style more to their later work. If the biggest complaint I have is “a few tracks were a little long & the progression isn’t always perfect”, then you’ve still made a great electronica album, since I’ve definitely said the same stuff about other electronica albums that were far worse than this. It’s an extremely easy bump up to a 5, and a very recommended album. I wish “Discovery” or “Random Access Memories” were here on the list, but alas.

Essential House

Excellent. Good background beats.

Party pop music. Dragged a bit after half an hour of the same beat.

An OCD pleasing album. Everything is just perfect, all in the right place. Precision and pop.

a little bit of this a little bit of that ass on a serious note, it's a really well produced album and very good, I just wouldn't be caught dead listening to something without lyrics

Great album

All these goddamn techno albums are so long. 75 minutes of this is too much. Daftendirekt makes me wish this album was just Around the World for 75 minutes. At least it's made up of 16 relatively normal songs instead of 12 really long songs. Da Funk rings a bell. So many songs. As far as electronic music goes, it's fine, maybe even better than most. These guys are like Dua Lipa's producer. Mark Ronson's favorite group. Around the World...this song was literally everywhere in 1998. In a world before YouTube and where MTV still played music videos, it was there too. Seven minutes is too long for three words to be repeated incessantly. They could use this as torture. How on earth did this get so popular? I'm not normally a fan of just scratches and distortion...but this morning there is something about Rollin' & Scratchin' that is getting to me. Not the title with the truncated g's. LCD Soundsystem heard Teachers and Losing My Edge was conceptualized. Rock'n Roll is one of the worst songs I've ever heard. This album is the house playlist for one of those early 2000s local pizza places that only has really attractive employees...everyone looks like a model and their pizzas all mimic something better only on top of a pizza. I have been listening to techno for too long. This album needed three fewer songs.

5/10

Some very strong songs and lots of creativity, but it also has a few clunkers. Perhaps needed slightly more active listening than I was prepared to give it since its not fully my genre.

Honestly need a relisten

Big nostalgia points for this one, since it landed squarely in my high school years. Back then I wasn't into dancing, but I was still transfixed by Daft Punk's Around the World music video. It was so weird and so delightful, and I remember it now almost 30 years later!

Heard it before. Da Funk and Around the World are massive bangers but I don't know how it feel about the rest. Meh? 2/5

I've been a Daft fan since my college days. I appreciate their creativity and knowing how unpredictable their music can be. It was sad when they ceased creating. Good album.

You can just tell these guys were brimming with ideas, and some of them are transcendent on the level we would see on their subsequent albums. But there's a lot of stuff here that mostly feels transitory - like a people mover in the airport, guiding us from height to height. I think on balance I would probably give this a 3.5, but I've been too generous lately, and if every Daft Punk album is on here, there's gotta be some stratification, because the other three are *not* all 5s, but they *are* all better than Homework.

Its fine. Its just not really my bag.

House music isn't necessarily a genre that lends itself well to albums. And why would it? The real heads will point out all the singles, remixes, and DJ sets that make up the canon; dance music is an ecosystem that thrives across formats. But Daft Punk came out with an album more or less right out the gate and gave the genre one of its most defining statements. Full disclosure: Daft Punk is my all time favorite band, so I will likely get hagiographic. But Homework remains a testament to what house music can do. Discovery's disco samples and high pass filters constitute the sound Daft Punk are probably best known for, but Homework plays more like a punk record in spirit, if not in song length or style: every track homebrewed, every sound explored. You can hear something like the genesis of the true 'French house' sound in the pulsing bassline and repetitive vocoder in "Around the World", but also the rip roaring acid of "Rock 'n Roll", the Chicago-style groove of "Burnin'", the uplifting gospel-influenced dance music of "Phoenix". All of this would be pointless though if it still wasn't so much goddamn fun to listen to though! The chopped samples, squalling 303s, and vocal effects still tickle my ears, and I still haven't even mentioned the warped porno soundtrack synth and almighty thumping bass of stone-cold classic "Da Funk", whose towering might commands so much attention it only made sense that Daft Punk basically played it with some minor tweaks and mashups in Alive 2007. While I mentioned Daft Punk developed more singular sounds for their albums later - the aforementioned French touch of Discovery, the minimalist vocoder post-punk of Human After All, the overly expensive studio-wizard virtuosity of Random Access Memories - the delight here comes from the constant kid-in-the-candy-store moments you get. Daft Punk themselves certainly weren't shy about where these influences came from - halfway through the album you get "Teachers", which cites a whole litany of American DJs (many of whom still perform regularly FYI!!) but with this album established themselves as titans so forcefully when Laidback Luke did an updated (and, sorry, weirdly badly produced) edit of "Teachers" a decade later he basically did so to build up to honoring Daft Punk at the end. Unfortunately, Discovery, my all time favorite album, is not going to be on this list. But I'll still always give the seed that sprouted the plant a five.

absolutely pivotal and love most of the songs on here. listening at my desk at work with a cup of coffee makes it feel really repetitive, but drinking a beer dancing in my kitchen and these are ATB. missing some of the high level production and sound design from later years, but maybe just a product of the time?

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Truly awful

Hell yeah, this is perfect.

Listened in the truck via YouTube music. Good one but not their best by far. Still a fun listen.

The difference between this and discovery is staggering. This is so bland, boning, one note, nonsense. Da funk is a great song

3,5

I'm gonna join the masses on this one and say that this album is too repetitive to be listened to anywhere other than a club. That being said, there was the occasional really good song like Rollin' & Scratchin' or Rock'n Roll, but past that it's a moderately okay house album. I would've much rather had Random Access Memories over this. P.S. I totally agree with the guy that called this tippy tappy plinky plonky noises that go round and round for 74 minutes

Way too repetitive… Da Funk is the closest to something that I like on here. Why did the record have to be more than one hour long??

put this on and went for a walk.good walking album. nice pace good tunes

Some very good tracks, but some too chaotic for me://

Fresh and original but sometimes ends up like a fashionstore

I fear it's just a little to repetitive for me. Sorry to my brother.

Went on far too long. Not for me

When the mood takes me, I can really enjoy Daft Punk, especially their later stuff. Unfortunately, the mood left me pretty much where I was for this listening and I found it fairly plodding. I suppose it paved the way for what was to come but this one doesn’t really do it for me.

Off the cuff remark: If Daft Punk were playing at my house I'd tell them to jog on and write a tune. LCD sound system would be much more welcome. Maybe I need more sweat, or drugs or not to be so old, or maybe all 3. This is just tedious. Standout track: Da Funk and Fresh. I listened to these all the way through Revisit?: I listened to most of the tracks on the first half, thought I would just skip through it all then thought I'll try again tomorrow, who knows it might make a difference...and it didn't really Revisit?: I hope not

Boring.

It’s not for everyone, but it’s definitely for me. I will admit that the back half is not nearly as strong as the first half though.

Discovery is better but this is still a pretty great album.

I think of myself as someone who likes daft punk, but maybe I'm just someone who likes discovery and a few songs off RAM, because this was not a fun listen for me

I fared better on this one. I get why DP are significant and appreciate them but am not really a fan

I'm not an electronic music type of gal. That said, this is the exception that proves the rule. Perhaps it's the mix of other genres emerging, or that they feel like cohesive songs. I'm not sure, but I'm in.

This a a "3" descending. Not a great listen on 2025 but all the parts are there for the next 25 years of pop culture. From dance culture to the rise of Coachella to the sonics of rap and pop music. Give me some credit. But not extra credit.

Beats arent too bad, but it is very long and repetititve Standout song: Burnin'

Groundbreaking album with Around the World and Da Funk being true classics in the genre. Album has a couple slow spot and lulls which keep it from 5 stars for me, their later albums are better.

Hard to pick a best track when they're all so similar. I guess I'll go with Rollin' & Scratchin'.

Good for the club but not for casual listening. Obviously some bangers on there but still

Some good, some just sounds like 90s dial up Internet

Yeah whatever it's fine. The version on YouTube, at least, is mostly music videos that are mostly annoying skits set to music.

A timeless classical and a great entry for eletronic music, which is surely not my thing. Can't deny Da Funk and Around the World though, those are simply memetic DNA since launch

They wrote the rulebook for funky dance music, as far as I'm concerned

Monotonic beats and loop repetition song after song. Had to skip most of the songs after few minutes. Maybe this might work on the dancefloor of some smoky club while toxicated enough. Otherwise it's just boring.

Many enjoyable tracks but was on wrong mood with this album. After few drinks and speakers pumping loud I would value this more. Even notably more.

Not something I enjoy listening to at home. Club music for very specific situations.

Listenable in the gym but wouldn't listen to it in any other context. Probably a 2.5.

If that’s the homework I don’t think they were listening in school If I did exercise I would probably listen to it but it is so repetitive but just feels like a few fellas pressing keys on some editing software. I think even I could make this sort of music just as good A 2 because there’s a couple of good bits

There are a couple of iconic melodies buried in here somewhere. But honestly? It’s mostly just a drum machine looping for what feels like six hours. At times it’s less “groundbreaking electronic album” and more “two teenage boys pissing about with a Casio keyboard they got for Christmas.” It’s so relentlessly repetitive and vacuous that at one point I started to wonder if the album was just stuck. Probably tolerable as background noise while mashed and playing Pro Evo, provided you don’t focus too hard and you just let it slip quietly into the wallpaper of your brain. I’d enjoy a solid minute or two. Rounded up to two stars for the influence and a couple of good moments, but I’m not doing any more "homework" on this.

No soul at all and repetitive as hell. If I was born in the 90's or 00's perhaps it would hit me different. But I have zero use for computerized loops.

Pretty darn repetitive meant never found amazing hits.

A few notable bops mingled in here.

Favorites: Revolution 909, Da Funk, Around the World I'm not sure what happened on this listen. I used to love this album, but I found myself quite irritated revisiting it. Homework is fairly primitive in Daft Punk standards, and it's far from their most innovative or even interesting.

08/07/2025 I've never given any time to Daft Punk before, it did start getting a bit boring towards the end.

Pretty good 4/5

A lot of the big electronic albums of this era kind of sit in the same realm, where the tracks vary between absolute bangers and repetitive experimental noise. It's the reason why most of the time, when I was bigger into EDM, I preferred listening to DJ mixes rather than producer albums back in the day. This is true of even the best of the mainstream producer albums, whether Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim or Crystal Method. Homework is an exception to this rule, for the most part, though there are still a couple tracks that are just annoying noise, like Rolling and Scratching, Oh Yeah, and Rock n Roll. The high points lift this to greatness though. There are the singles, Around the World and Da Funk, then a bunch of great deep cuts like Revolution 909, Phoenix, Fresh and Indo Silver Club. In fact, Fresh kind of provides the blueprint for the Stardust Track "Music Sounds Better with you" that came out a little after this. Teachers, High Fidelity excellent as well. The whole album is one I often come back to--it's a defining album for the French deep house sound of this era, although others like Dmitri From Paris were more foundational. 5/5

Lots to like. You could make the case it’s a bit too long but it all works so well

Validating to see from the global reviews I’m not alone in my opinion here. Bonus Star for “Da Funk” and “Rollin’ & Scratchin’”

I'm a cool guy hacker in the 90s. Started fine. turned into torture. Not gonna move to France anytime soon.

This slaps

I will always maintain that it takes talent to make music of any style. But the more of this genre I listen to, the less I like it.

Did not work for me; too repetitive; not very clever.

Seems like good dance music, but to just sit and listen is irritating at times. Lots of repetitive vocal samples. 2.5*, rounding down.

Probably good, need to listen again properly really. Some very enjoyable songs mixed with some not so enjoyable ones. (Great review Lara lol - go listen again!)

10/10. No skips

trop répétitif et pas assez mélodieux

scratchy fun electro-pop

Homework isn’t a great album. It isn’t even Daft Punk’s best album. But it did stuff no one else was doing at the time. Also, it’s not a bad approximation of the energy of their DJ sets. Basement Jaxx and Soul II Soul are the only other collectives (of that era) that I can say that about. Come to think of it, why isn’t Club Classics Vol. 1 here?

Huh? Je l’avais pas déjà eu, lui? Dans tout les cas, je vais essayer de ne pas me répéter. On se retrouve un peu dans le même cas que le premier album de Gorillaz, où l’auteur pouvait voir le potentiel démontré mais a préféré sortir son livre avant les chefs d’œuvres futurs. C’est bon, j’aime beaucoup, mais je me mentirais à moi même si je lui donnais la même note que Discovery et Random Access Memory. Retournez faire vos devoirs!

Okay so obviously around the world banger! Da funk yes but the rest of it… BUT I LOVE INTERSTELLA 555 so dont judge

I don't want to love Daft Punk but I do. They deliver the goods sitting right there in previously delivered goods.

It's a fun amalgamation of Chicago House and Detroit Techno with a generous helping of electronic noise. Daft Punk helped deliver electronic dance music to the masses, which makes me wonder whether or how many other highly deserving albums of this ilk are on this list.

I love this record and keep it in regular rotation, but I think Daft Punk only had one five star album in them and it came right after this.

Okay as background music or in TV ads but kinda torturous as something I have to hear in one sitting.

More ambient/repetitive than their later works but a really fun debut.

Incredibly hyped debut, which fails to live up to its reputation. It trundles along brilliantly for the first half an hour, containing Daft Punk favourites 'daftendirekt', 'Revolution 909', 'Da Funk', Phoenix' (which I used to DJ in techno sets back in the day) and 'Around the World'. The problem is the album then goes on for another 45 minutes with hardly anything standing out, some tracks that might work in a DJ set but will just irritate in album format. It's one of the most front-heavy albums on the list I've seen so far.

It's really hard to state how much this album blew my 14 year old mind when it came out. I was really just starting to listen to my own kind of music, and this funky, free flowing masterpiece showed me something I had never imagined could exist before that point. I still regularly listen to tons of track from this album. Overall, I like some of Daft Punk's later stuff better, but that's a relative statement because all of it is amazing.

4.2 2x good stuff for a debut

Can easily get lost in the sauce on this album in the best way. Around the World, though, is the champion of this album.

Kinda boring after the first few songs (which admittedly were some good club hits). Or, to be more exact, it got repetitive

I think I would give this a 5 if I was 10 years older. Some of it doesn’t really hit home for me, but it’s the birth of arguably the greatest electronic group ever. There’s also just some absolute heaters on here. Da Funk really gets me going.