Homework

Classic!

metkaa vingutusta ja vängytystä... debyytti albumi, hyvä sellainen, ehkä top 3 daft punk albumeista (heillä on yhteensä neljä studio allbumia) joo on tosi hauskaa kun on muhvellettu ääni ja se hiljalleen tulee selvemmäksi kuin siirtyisi toisesta huoneesta...jossa basso ja rumpali kuuluu....musiikki huoneeseen... jossa selvempi äänenlaatu....tosi hieno efekti taas kerran... hyvää työtä... rollin n scratching paras viisu...

Lekkere muziek, waarschijnlijk best vooruitstrevend. Helaas dat elektronische muziek al snel wat ouder klinkt. Soms ook beetje lomp hard. 4*

I’m excited to listen to this! I really like the Daft Punk I’ve heard, but it’s been a very long while since I listen to an album all the way through. For some reason, I thought one of my favourites (Robot Rock) was on this album. I was wrong. Songs I already knew: Da Funk, Around The World Favourites: Da Funk, Around The World, Phoenix This hit the spot many times for me. Several times I found myself with goosebumps, wondering when and how certain chords would resolve or how long I’d be teased. The beats are great throughout, and I love the rubber synth. The best songs on this album were 10 out of 10 for me. However, I did find there to be a fair amount of filler dotted about. This is the kind of album where you find your favourites, and then tend to skip the others because they don’t add much to the experience. Overall, I would still consider this to be a great album despite the lesser songs included. An easy recommend for people who enjoy EDM.

I was wondering where the DP was. Glad to get this one first. I expect more. Some of this is a bit repetitive but the enjoyable earwigs on here more than make up for it.

Not so much an album as a dj mix in the form of an album. Two stellar singles and some great rhythms, but they'd nail that 90s elusive beast 'the great dance album' next time round.

Nice background music

Superb house album, though too monotonous at times for 5 stars. Personal favourite: Rollin' ans Scratchin'.

dong ci da ci....

"hot mix of P-funk, disco, acid frequencies, and hip-hop-style sampling... club bricolage; immediately brand new and yet utterly retro" according to the book, and who am I to disagree?. Still sounds great 25 years on, but as I recalled maybe a bit too long, and would be improved by dumping a few weaker tracks.

Ce band a été tellement copié et cité. J’aime mieux discovery, mais cet album est excellent quand même.

Un peu long comme album, mais un essentiel du groupe. Je ne pourrais pas dire si c'est eux qui ont créé ce style, mais c'est certainement eux qui l'ont rendu le plus populaire.

Of course some classic bangers on there, but I really enjoyed some of the lesser known tracks that I haven't heard in a while

Rollin and Scratchin Rock n Roll Burnin Alive

Although not as good as Discovery or Random Access Memories, Homework is still a very solid album and has some absolute bangers, like "Around the World", "Da Funk" and "Phoenix". However, since it is a debut album, it definitely suffers from early installment weirdness, and it is obvious that the Daft Punk duo hasn't found a style yet. Still, this album is quite good, and a must in every party. I miss Daft Punk... :(

Fantastic house record. You can tell its a bit earlier for them, but its just great!

Hope y’all did your homework! 4/5 Great debut album. It’s disco moderné . Hopefully y’all revolved around the word enough to put the punk back to the funk. Standouts: Revolution 909 Da funk (great music video too) Fresh Around the world Rolling and scratching Teachers High fidelity Burnin Alive

around the world, around the world

A very lengthy 16 track - 74 minute album. Great album overall but by far not their best. There are a few main standouts, but there's just something lacking throughout. Perhaps it may be knowing their latter works or that they went into their record deal thinking they were just making a bunch of singles, there's a definite lack of cohesion throughout the Homework. Best: Da Funk; Around The World Worst: Teachers

As it turns out, this is great music to listen to while playing Risk of Rain 2. Those French robots sure know how to make some catchy beats! They also sure know how to make the worst song ever created ("Rock'n Roll")! I say that with love, because the three duds on this album (that song, "Teachers" and "Oh Yeah") are so bad that they're funny as fuck, and I enjoy that. "Da Funk" is super funky, "Around The World" is my sleep paralysis demon and "Burnin'" was playing while I won the aforementioned game of Risk of Rain 2, and I couldn't have done it without that. (Insert a whole paragraph of "Around the World" here)

Daft Punk is one of my favourite artists, I dont think homework is their best but it put them on the map

I love Revolution 909. Rock'n Roll is annoying, and the album is a bit too long.

Bon album! A réécouter et voir la suite de la discographie

haha, classic

Great

Great, weird, unique

-This is VERY good focus/get shit done music -The transition into the drumbeat on WDFK was DOOOOPE -I definitely feel "in the zone" -Da Funk - oh! I've heard this! The production on this album is very very good. Clean, but has juice. -This does NOT feel like something from 1997. More like 2007 onward. So supremely ahead of its time. Impeccable dance music. -RnR is a bit grating -Admittedly some of the later tracks are less notable/feel more dated -Overall this was great. I'm not sure if I would rate it a 3 or a 4.

Solid 4. Da Funk and Around the World are fantastic.

4.3 + Not so much an EDM record as an exploration of sonic textures. Daft Punk have always been supreme composers, knowing how to create suspense, introduce themes and build to climax. The best moments on the record take singular sonic elements and manipulate them like putty, warping them and twisting them and compressing them into fascinating shapes and sizes (e.g “Rollin’ and Scratchin’”).

Amazing

This was my first intro to DP as a whole album and I loved it. The creative use of chopped and warped samples is unparalleled, and I really enjoy digging through the sources and discovering music that way. At times, there are tracks that sound a bit like experimental noise techno, but overall it's a great album to play and come back to every so often.

Muy buen disco!

Still good today.

I do like me some Daft Punk but this album feels a bit mediocre these days. Certainly a few interesting bits here and there and I certainly am into Da Funk and Around the World but everything else just feels a bit samish.

Banging

One of my favorite things about Daft Punk is their desire to break their songs down to reveal their structure to give us an insight to their process. They are also keen to share their influences within their work as shown by ‘Teachers.’ This lends their music a sense of approachability and enthusiasm. Homework is Daft Punk’s first major label record and was one of the first wide reaching French house records. The music is driving, playful, and minimalist in parts.

hard this one as some of it is really just repeats, but some repeats are oh so good. the good is a solid 4, but some of the tracks bring it down a bit. Seems like some isolated DJ tracks which bout be better in the sum of their parts which is when they shine.

Electric

Started off the bat as a strong 5 contender with excelent build up to "Da Funk", which is straight-up amazing. However, later experiments proved to be fatal - both for the rating and listeners ears. Had it not been for tracks like "Rock'n Roll", it would have been almost perfect. Overall a great album for vibin' d-_-b Highlight: "Da Funk"

particolare, mi piace, senza voce se non 'Around the World' Anche 'Teachers' con nominati tutti gli ispiratori del duo (credo)

Had to skip “Around the World” because I value not having that one stuck in my head for the rest of the week, but yeah, Daft Punk Good. Sitting down with an album from them was a weird experience because that’s really not the context where I’m usually hearing them, but as always with EDM/adjacent it’s pretty much ideal focusing music for me.

Their second album blows this out of the water but if you look at it on it's own, it's still a very good album.

Pretty good, some hits and some misses. Don't know much about the genre but sure will listen again.

Great album! Great electronic jam.

There aren't many classic dance albums that deserve to be on this list but this one definitely does. Da Funk especially is one of my favourite tracks. Too long to listen to in one go though

Played this album a lot in the 90's, tempted to give it 5 stars - but to these middle aged ears some of the tracks are just to repetitive.

Iconisch album, met enkele zeer herkenbare hits. Wel wat veel van hetzelfde op den duur, waardoor het al snel (goeie) achtergrondmuziek wordt

I'm not the biggest Electronica fan. Still, it's easy to see how this album was ahead of its time when it came out. You can really recognize a lot of musical themes that are present in this genre today. So that was cool, even if I didn't like the music quite as much as other labums

My bias here is I love Daft Punk and Da Funk opened my eyes to dance music. This album is brilliant. Not at their imperial peak, some tracks are filler. But it also has Da Funk, Around the World, Phoenix, Oh Yeah, Rollin and Scratchin, and Alive. A daft, punky mess indeed.

Well crafted, unique sounds. Don't generally like dance music but this is so much more than that - inventive sampling, great production. Around the World worth the price of admission (great video too).

hell yeah I love Daft Punk, tho I think Discovery was better, this album is still a solid 8/10 favorite songs are Da Funk and (everyone’s favorite,) Around the World

Eintóm snilld að eilífu!

Classic!

Música electrónica. Le voy a poner un 4 porque tiene la de Around the world.

1997. Around the World, Burnin', Rock'n Roll

An amazing house album. Wonderful on its own but more than anything teases the amazing works that were to come.

around the world, around the world

Listening to the whole album it's amazing in hindsight that they've had such mainstream success Obvious call-outs to Da Funk and Around the World which arguably owed as much of their success to their compelling videos as they do to the tracks themselves

It's a banger to be fair

I know this album really well. Let's give it a spin... More disjointed than I remembered - some of it is aggressive and repetitive in a way that I'm not sure translates to today's listener. That said, it's for sure a groundbreaking album that's set off in a direction that others have followed.

A little intense at times but undoubtedly energetic and danceable.

Aussi bon que prodigy même meilleur avec quelques classiques du genre. 4.25

The duo indulged in the most artificial/intellectual tricks of various styles of production (hip hop, ambient, funk, industrial, house). Their genre of melodic and exuberant instrumental music was hardly innovative compared with the disco music of their parents. (7/10) FT: Around the World

The tunes aren't all as good as some of the songs off of RAM or Daft Punk; but Jesus, this is the pure, distilled EDM energy of a buzzsaw. Some of the songs do slightly overstay their welcome and run out of ideas, but for the best part this slaps start to finish.

classic

Me gustan los Daft Punk, me gustan sus discos y sus éxitos, por ejemplo "Da funk" o "Around the world". Aunque entiendo que depende mucho del momento adecuado para escucharlo.

nice

Daft Punk! Heel bekende naam uit mijn tienerjaren. Ik kan me voorstellen dat we met vrienden helemaal wild zouden gaan op dit album. Heden ten dagen klinkt de muziek ietwat simpel, maar ondanks dat heel erg relaxt. Eigenlijk toch wel geniaal hoe ze zo'n gevoel in een paar piepjes en plopjes kunnen leggen. Voor mij een bovengemiddeld album met uiteraard de bekende nummers die natuurlijk klassiekers blijven. Als je langer naar het album luistert, raak je in een bepaald sfeertje van de '90s en wordt het album langzaamaan geweldig! ****

True Rating: 74/100

A fantastic, seminal album fully deserving of its place on this album. They keep it simple, the make it effective. At a time when Big Beat ruled the dance scene this album really helped put straight up dance music back on the mainstream map again. Only the fact that a couple of dud tracks make this album feel too long prevent it from scoring a 5

Trip down memory lane! Baanbrekend destijds, en nog altijd erg fris en spannend.

Much more up my street ! Didn’t like every track but still worth 4*

Around the World, Around the World!

Best so far, most consistent and classic Daft Punk

This was fun to revisit. Around the World is the big hit but I've heard it so many times that it was the one song I skipped. It's a long record but great to jam on in the background while you work. Homework is an appropriate title in that way.

Good, but a bit long, maybe a little boring.

Glad this site gave me an excuse to listen to Daft Punk again. This is a great album, yet not my favorite, therefore 4 stars. Tracks I enjoyed most are Rollin' & Scratchin', Phoenix, High Fidelity and Da Funk.

classic

Great study/work album. Browsing too. Ambient, sampling, lots of dance songs too. Just a refreshing techno album.

Pretty good. Like background dance music

Interesting to look at older Daft Punk, I hadn't gone this far back in their catalog.

Daft Punk was amazing and this album is a great listen straight through

ну как бы вроде и снова чилл, а вроде какая-то печать интеллекта на лице есть. Не большой фанат танцмузла (по мне несложно сказать, что по клубам не хожу), но в несколько тем залип, прежде всего в связку Around The World и Rollin' & Scratchin'. Ну и Da Funk например забавная. В целом послушать можна вполне, за работкой там вообще как по маслу идёт, но не отпускает ощущение, что эту вот всю хуйню писать — вообще усилий не требуется, я за час в музик мейкере че-то похожее набрасывал. Ну да ладно, как для первооткрывателей или типа того наверное годнота, по крайней мере унылью не показалось. стронг 6 ту э дисент 7

Every time I'm in a Daft Punk mood I listen to Human After all, so it's been a while since I heard Homework! Great album, I really like Around The World, although I don't fault those who find it too repetitive. Daft Punk's songs are tailor made to blend between each other in a set.

7/10. had potential to be higher but so many of the tracks felt like filler.

It drags a little at the end

Nice

Still amazing but it was before they understood melody.

Great album but not 10/10

Not daft punks best but even still

At this point Daft Punk feels like an electronic music institution. It makes sense for them to be on the list, but I was surprised to know so little of the tracks on this album. It was enjoyable bangers throughout, but not peak-Daft imo, Around the World and Rollin' and Scratchin' toward the middle of the album are solid tracks and def show why it's here on the list.

I think they have much better albums, but I had never listened to this one, was definitely good. I'd say 3.5-4, but 4 seems fair.

Really good listen especially when working. I'm surprised.

This was really well done. I'm not a huge fan of electronic music, but Daft Punk really brings their own unique degree of artistry to these songs.

Cool, but very repetitive

Glow sticks around the world praise this album as the underground’s ascension to prominence and renown. Stocks surge for Bitcoin and free love reigns as anti-drug laws are continuing to be lifted across the regimes. Only time will tell when the players will wake from their matrix injected reality of black leather, fat ass guns, and kung fu.

Je pense que tres bon.

Enjoyed most songs, not Rollin' & Scratchin' though.

I am not super into electronic music, but I really enjoyed this album and have songs I have added to my playlists. Daft Punk are legends and I am glad I got to hear some of their early discography.

Caught myself dancing on several occasions would recommend. But some songs did get repetitive and dragged on far to long then I would have liked.

not as good as discovery or human after all or random access but it's still got some solid hits in it. a good first effort

3.75/5. I liked this, it has sounds of normal boring techno music, but they add something else to the songs that make it less repetitive and more enjoyable to listen to, although there are still some repetitive songs on the album. I am excited to listen to more of their stuff.

il ont âgés comme du bon vin j'imagine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like Daft Punk but this is definitely not their best

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

Interesting but they’re later stuff is better

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

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

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

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

Pretty repetitive, but not bad for background work.

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

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

Good

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

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

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

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…

Slaps real nice

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.

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.

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.

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.

Repetitive, but somehow more bearable than most electronica albums.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Pre-robot Era.

good edm

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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".

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

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

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.

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.

(74/100)

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

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

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 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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

I love Daft Punk, but they have better albums

Daft Punk never gets old to me.

3.5

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.

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.

Beats, beats, synth, and more beats

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Crazy for the 90s, annoying at times

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

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

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.

Solid but did not enjoy as much as their other work

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.

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

When its good, its great but a lot of filler

Mmm

Ok

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...

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.

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.

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

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

I hate being the guy that says their hit album is better but in this case I will...Discovery still wins for me. However, I can't say this album is bad since I still enoyed what I heard. It's their debut and you hear them getting their footing. Yes some parts are a bit too distorted, some repetitive, but overall its not awful. I'm hoping to encounter their Alive album (and Discovery ofc!) while going through this list 🤞🤞

3 sterne

Album No. 0197 on my list. I've had a brief but intense Daft Punk fan phase about six years ago, and my affection with the two french robots has faded a little ever since, even though I have to say I still find the two of them really cool. Too bad that they disbanded in 2021. Anyway, at the time, I was mostly a fan of their later albums ("Discovery", "Alive 2007", "Random Access Memories") and always found "Homework" a solid, but not a spectacular album. And this has actually not changed since. This is certainly an iconic house album, it was definitely highly influential and deserves its spot on the 1001 album list. However, I'm not much into "pure" house music in the sense that I rarely visit clubs and actually dance through the night, but rather enjoy this kind of music when it leans a little more towards the pop genre. I know this means I'm probably pretty dull, but that's just how it is. In that sense, "Discovery" to me is the superior album (and "One More Time" an all-time favorite - pretty dull, I know). I can appreciate "Homework" on an intellectual level and fully agree that it's a good album, it's just not my cup of tea. Too much pure dance music, too much repetition and all that. Anyways, I will add "Da Funk", "Around The World", and "Alive" to my playlist. 3/5 stars.

An enjoyable listen if like me you enjoy tasteful looped beats. It’s a little sparse, not many layers going on. I listened at work, and I’m not sure I could enjoy the whole thing without doing something else at the same time. I guess what I’m saying is that it functions great as dance music, slightly less so as an album.

Will probably never listen to it again but wasn't bad.

Good.

This is a fairly great house album. Yeah, I don't like the repetitive nature of this album, but everything else is top-notch. Not their perfected craft, but a great starting point.

Rätt hög variation i njutbarhet, men viktig såklart!

Really good dance album

Daft Punk are great, but the greatest Daft Punk is not on this album.

I probably shouldn't have been but I was a bit surprised that the album is just the work of two DJs, rather than more traditionally crafted songs of their later albums. They have some interesting beats of course, but some really don't need to be that long (4 around the 7 minutes mark (not that I have anything against long songs as long as it justifies it)). I suppose if DJs are playing them to dance to though it makes more sense. Anyway, interesting enough, not quite my kind of music though.

Review - surprised this album's on the list. Second album definitely a classic but the debut is (while definitely a good album) much less good. They hadn't figured out how to pick perfect samples to build a song around yet, and relied less on samples with vocals for hooks, and used less vocoder vocals themselves. Which makes this more of a "pure" techno/house album than their later crossover pop work. It's still a very good album, and you can see through songs like Around The World the beginning of their later style and success. And I'm sure when it was released it blew most of the popular Euro house music out of the water. But I wish I'd been listening to Discovery instead. Rating - 7/10 Need to hear? YES

Different, but kinda the same as the dance music that had been floating around LA and New York for a decade prior. Good solid beats brought to the masses! 3

It was amazing for reading or a rave!

Ok, this is a low score for Daft Punk - but this album was too 90s for me. It sounds a lot like Fat Boy Slim, and Fat Boy Slim does Fat Boy Slim better. Some of the Scratchin' was outright unpleasant... However, Around the World is a A+ banger, that I loved in the 90s and I love now. Also, despite my complaints I was still vibin quite a bit throughout the listen. Mostly I am looking forward to getting to Daft Punks later albums.

Good working music with the steady beat.

The songs were kind of simple. But good. Around the world around the world around the word around the world.

Basic in terms of what we've come to expect from the artist, but a foundational debut that includes the steady beats and loops, house and techno vibes that set the stage for future releases.

This is their debut, of course it's not going to hit as hard as Discovery or RAM but it still has it's highlights. Overall, it's too repetitive for me. Latter half is great though, tracks like "Oh Yeah" and "Indo Silver Club" hit hard. Love the distorted stuff more than anything. Favourite tracks: Da Funk, Fresh, Rollin' & Scratchin', Teachers, Oh Yeah, Burnin', Indo Silver Club 3.5/5

A little too long (Rock n Roll, Rollin & Scratching should have been cut) for its own good, but good jams and a new direction for electronic music are clearly laid out.

It’s a good album, but I think it’s very long and it gets repetitive. 6/10

I guess it's brilliant at what it's trying to do, but also not my thing

This album has never totally clicked with me, which I think is largely because of how it compares stylistically to 'Discovery', one of my favorite albums of all time. I think I'd like this a bit more if I could 'Men In Black' the rest of DP's discography from my brain.

3.8 Not their best work

I wanted to like this more than I did. It wasn’t bad, but got really really repetitive in theme and samples.

All the potential of a 5* classic album, but it's just so bloated.

Kinda disappointed by this one. I’ve heard the big hits from Daft Punk but the only album I’ve listened to in full was Discovery, which was brilliant. I figured if this one is on the list over Discovery then it must be great. It does have its moments. Around The World is obviously a classic and I really enjoyed Alive but it was very repetitive at times and dragged on way too long for me. Top Track - Alive

It was electronic music…

Started off good but did get annoying towards the end. Scrapes a 3 by being Daft Punk.

Orite but bit repetitive. Nowhere near as good as discovery. Da funk is a standout

Theres repetition and theres too much repetition. This is the latter tbh. Theyve got better albums. Da funk & Around The World great. But think they got better at Radio friendly shizz later on.

Enjoyable for a while but does get a bit annoying if you aren’t in the mood.

You can tell the talent is there, but a lot of these songs go on too long for what they are and need better structure.

6/10 Single song great whole album TOO MUCH

Electronique, pas forcement l’album le plus convaincant des daft punk mais sans doute un des plus révolutionnaires. Rythmique assez redondante, loops de voix et de sonorités avec une vraie recherche musicale électronique. Un peu trop électronique a mon gout. 1er album, da funk permet e de lancer le groupe.

Man I don't really know The songs are kinda hit or miss for me. Some are pretty dope, others are "meh" I think 3 for now, might bump it up later

Le pongo eso por ser Daft Punk y porque había 3 canciones buenas

Pales in comparison to Doscovery, but you can hear the beginning of amazing work. I love a handful of the songs here, but as a whole album, it suffers. But I must say, this album is perfect to work to. I listened to the album twice while working and flew through the morning.

c’est pas mon préféré AT ALL, ça reste sympa mais ça vaut pas les chef d’œuvre d’après qu’ils ont fait quoi

It's a fun DP album but more dancy being their earlier stuff. I probably won't own a record of this but would listen to it again.

Kinda cool for a first album and definitely **INFLUENTIAL** and enjoyable to space out to and enjoy the beats, but all of that aside it's honestly not that sick 5.0/10

This definitely got played at your prom in the 90s.

Wish i could give half scores. This was good but not good enough to bump it to a 4. Stuff to throw on in the background.

And the movie is even better

Some flashes of brilliance but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to sit through the whole thing again

Remember when you'd put in a CD and it would skip? It would play the same thing over and over rhythmically. That's what a lot of this album felt like. The first minute of every song is like a CD skipping then it becomes a song. Good for specific moods or working but not so entertaining on its own. Other Daft Punk is better IMO.

You have been on absolute fire this weekend RGP ❤️❤️❤️ Tom.

I do like this and at the time played it a lot, it’s a 3 from me

Turns out a whole album of Daftpunk is too much. Especially when two tracks made me feel like I was have a tooth drilled.

Just fun electronic. Already familiar with, I think there is another album I like more by this band, but around the world is undeniable

There are times when the endless repetition, beeping and booping come together to bring something pretty euphoric. There are times when it feels like the perfect background sound to whatever you're doing. There are times when it simply must stop. Must stop. Must stop. Must stop. Inevitably with 74 minutes of this, it's a mixed bag.

From the get go, I want to say how damn right blasphemous it is that this album (imo, their worst album and my least favourite) would make the list and Discovery wouldn't, the album that has a feature length music movie to accompany it it's so damn good. Sometimes I wonder if the author of this book had a screw loose. It's difficult to full pull these tracks apart when many of them don't have lyrics and those that do often repeat themselves. Homework, from when I first listened to it as a teenager, truly felt like a lesson in how finding a sound that "scratches that itch" in someone's brain and repeating it with only slight variation can -sometimes- make for something truly satisfying and just incredibly annoying at other times. "Revolution 909" and "Da Funk" for me have always scratched this itch, as do "Fresh", "Oh Yeah" and "Burnin'". Unfortunately "Phoenix", "Rollin' & Scratchin'", "High Fidelity", "Rock'n Roll" do not. "Indo Silver Club" and "Alive" both sit in a weird middle ground, with intros of both being slightly insufferable before boiling into something scratchy again. "Teachers" stands apart as something as catchy and funky as it is respectful to all of the artists that inspired Daft Punk; almost like a bibliography in song form. And like a Bib, it's a great trail of artists and music to follow yourself. "Around the world" although it's got that repetitive phrase to drive some mad, it has a more traditional lean with a bass guitar, drums, tambourine and synthesized keyboards that can be picked out. To put it simply, it has a lot more going on than most other tracks and does it well. Overall, whilst they are one of my favourite artists of all time due to literally every studio album after this one, I cannot comfortably give it anything more than this score.

In the 1980s, disco music was considered (undeservedly) about as trashy as most songs of Billboard's top ten are today. The members of Daft Punk didn't think so, and based their first album largely on samples from the genre, as well as breakbeat, techno, indie rock—everything that was popular in the 1990s. The problem is, it doesn't sound like a coherent album. Initially, the duo just wanted to release a few songs, but they found they had enough material for a double LP, so they decided to strike while the iron was hot. That's probably why for every catchy song they slapped on two long, repetitive ones. It's not such a big deal, though — after all, for the band, it was a trial run, literally "homework." They would release their best album four years later, but the authors of this book, for some unknown reason, decided to ignore it. You shouldn't do that.

I think this album overstays its welcome just a bit, but it put me in a good mood, and I really needed that.

Daft Punk – Homework Homework is a "vibe-heavy" masterclass in bedroom production that hits "the brain just fine" as a background companion, even if it lacks the "vocal triumph" of my 5-star favorites. As someone who usually looks for "consciousness" and "technical chemistry," I found that this LP succeeds more as an atmospheric mood-setter than a deep "body of work." Tracks like "Around the World" and "Revolution 909" show "immaculate" technical simplicity, but others, including "Da Funk," tend to lose their momentum halfway through, making them prone to losing my interest. While it’s "pretty average" in terms of replay value for the full project, the handful of standout tracks make it a solid discovery. A "high-utility" 3/5 that serves its purpose without demanding a permanent spot in the rotation.

Fue un revolcón en un año especialmente bueno para la música. Daft Punk aunaron electro-dance-comercialidad y tuvieron un éxito arrolador, desde el primero (este debut) hasta el último (RAM) disco. Tomando influencias de la eléctrónica, el funk (algo que ya había avanzado Jamiroquai por ejemplo) y ese toque francés, con un talento especial para hacer sampleados y una estética arroladora (más el misterio de su identidad). No es el mejor, Discovery o RAM lo son, pero da igual, son geniales. Play y a disfrutar. El éxito fue sin duda Da Funk, pero Fresh o por ejemplo Around the world adelantan ya lo que será One more time en poco tiempo. Rollin´& Scratchin´ se hace algo más repetitiva y Teachers ya no tiene el empuje de entonces. Burning u Oh Yeah me gustán más. Fun ad es una reversión de Da Funk. El disco es bueno, pero eso fue solo el inicio. Lo mejor estba por llegar.

I am not sure who listens to Daft Punk. They are referenced in other songs and in the media more generally but I don't think I have ever met anyone who just sits down and listens to them.

Around the World is one of my favorite songs of all time and takes me right back to 1998 at the Buzz in DC. The rest of the album is good background listening, but nothing extraordinary.

Kinda weird but I liked it.

An album to be danced to, not listened to.

Favourites: 1. Around the World 2. Da Funk 3. Alive It's good music to play at a club, but apart from that there are only a few songs worth listening to outside of a club setting. Still has solid beats however.

*I didn't realize DaftPunk was this straight up house music at their start *Obligatory 3 for house music- it's not painful to listen to, but I don't get enough variety to get to a 4 or 5 with how much each track repeats beats and words.

I really struggled with this. When Daft Punk are good they are great but all the repetition on each track of this album basically gave me a headache. Even something like Around the World, which I had thought I was fond of, drove me to distraction. At least I wouldn't have any problem following the lyrics if I wanted to sing along. But actually I found I just wanted to escape the relentlessness of it all. Decided to go 3 rather than 2 based on recognising the status of the band for their career overall might be warranted and the idea that I might have been having a bad day.

there are bangers but its just so long

Alive 2007 is a much better album! This one is fine, just a lot of skips and really not their best work. Discovery is an all-time dance album and Alive 2007's genius is in infusing and elevating those tracks with the great bits from this album that work, and discarding the 40-60% of Homework that doesn't.

Homework indeed! Like liner notes for Alive 2007, which is at the top of my wish-I-were-there concert list.

At the end of the day, I like Daft Punk but listening to an entire record of theirs is punishing.

Give me RAM and I’ll give you 5 *s… while the pop and dance instincts are great for me it just misses the storytelling and the highs and lows

Okay, a little bland by today's standards

Full of intriguing sound, though little minimal and stagnant of an album for my tastes, but it stands as an appreciated foundation for music-to-be Cool-sounding yet mind-numbing and it kind of forces itself into the background

My friend made fun of me for listening to daft punk on a casual Tuesday night. I had fun.

It definitely had some innovative beats and really interesting sounds, and I can't even say that I hated it as background noise. It's just not my thing.

I see why people like it but repetitive beats can only do so much when you're sober. Especially when this thing goes on for over an hour.

Synthy, energetic, and fun. Got me amped up for work in the morning. Made me feel like I was cooking. Good energy all around. No lyrics but who needs those for a good time.

This album woukd hit while being drunk or even tipsy. Not my favourite album from Daft Punk.

it's (of course) not as good as discovery but since it is their debut, it's alright. but its still a 3.5 for me cause discovery impressed me too much and this album didn't impress me much apart from around the world and da funk, although i know debut albums are always weaker than later works. 3.5/5

Some catchy songs but not on the same level as Random Access Memories

I started out strong on this, loving the beats and the energy, and very quickly got tired of it. I'm sure there's more nuance to someone who is a big fan of this genre, but by the end I was exhausted and barely able to tell songs apart. Went from a 4 to a 3 about halfway through for me. Frankly the 3 feels generous.