Daft Punk - Human After All

You'd never guess from Human After All that these are the same guys who came up with the opulent dance grooves of 2001's Discovery. On Human After All it sounds like Daft Punk's robotic alter egos have finally gotten the upper hand and made an album that is defiantly free of emotion and personality. Instead, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo amp up the irony and deliver a set of songs that are maddeningly repetitive, raucous and bound to test the most devoted fan's patience. But even as the French duo short-circuits it manages to captivate--the spoken-word "Technologic" and the digitized "The Prime Of Your Life" are just bananas enough to make its euphoric hit "One More Time" sound positively last century. --Aidin Vaziri Amazon.com

It's Alright

It's has nothing on Discovery, but it's a pretty cool little album in its own right. My personal favorites are "Human After All," "The Prime Time of Your Life," "Make Love," "Technologic," and "Emotion." May 12, 2008

. . . sometimes I'm Human . . .

. . . whether one dances . . . or not, does not detract from the beauty of Daft Punk doing what they do best: Electronic Music. I am glad that they were able to express this vibe (Human After All), perhaps alluding to us all living repetitive existence, which adds dimension to their complete works. I am very interested in what they will do next with their computers: possibly we will hop, skip, dance, and sing Zen to our Id without moving a muscle. April 12, 2008

Emotion

Alot of people said that this album was repetetive, well if your into House music you would be use to beats repeating over and over again anyways even though this is not a house album it's still awesome featuring some nice guitar playing by Daft Punk.

The song "Human After All" is defintly my favorite song off the album, even time I listen I imagine me riding in a motorcycle in the night. The guitars and robot vocals just takes you into a futuristic world, where robots and humans unite.

"The Primetime of Your Life" is a song I can't really relate, but it's still a pretty good song.This song can take you to a dark and scary place, where everyone is depending on you.

"Robot Rock" is that song that you just have rock out to, the bass is crazy. Even though Daft Punk only took a sample and replaced the lyrics I still love it, this song that got me into Electro.

"Steam Machine" is a song that I only listen to when I'm mad, I don't listen to this song often though.

"Make Love" is probably one of the best songs in the world, it's so sad. When I listen to this one I imagine me getting older and how I'm just wasting my life just living off of movies because you know that you may never find that true love.

"The Brainwasher" is when I feel that the Governments are brainwashing us with lies.

when I listen to "Television Rules The Nation" I look at my life and how I'm just living off of movies and TV. The guitars in this track is addicting.

I'm pretty sure everyone knows "Technologic" Busta Rhymes sampled it, it was used in the IPOD comercial, and people danced to it many times on television. This is the only song on the album that sounds kind of like Daft Punk's old stuff.

Finally we have "Emotion" the song I listen to when I'm depressed. The song is very sad and the robots voice just makes everything even sadder.

Well what can I say, but that Human After All was not a let down it. April 3, 2008

I tried

I really did try to love this album, but it never happened. Now there is some really good songs on here and i really do love the simplicity of the instruments they used, and i really enjoy the the simple construction of the songs, but when its just the same thing over and over for 5 mins you kinda get temporary ADD. Human after all to me is the only perfect song, its infectious, its simple, but the song is good enough and changes up enough to make its a great simple sounding song. Prime time of your life i love to, it builds and builds but after 2:40 it builds to nothing! which to me is a rip off, but i still love it. Robot rock is really good to, but after awhile of hearing the same riffs and beats and nothing changes i say to myself "hey why does this song feel like 30 mins long"? Television rules the nation is another song thats really good but goes no where. Emotion, same thing as television, good but doesnt go anywhere after awhile, though I still like it. Technologic i didnt really like the "buy it use it integrate it" part, i would of liked it better with out. Steam machine starts off all right, but then gets hella annoying. Make love isnt half bad. The Brainwasher makes me want to kill something in a video game.

Overall i do like this album better than i did 2 yrs ago, sadly i sold it. Like i said I actually do love the simplicity of instruments and simplicity in the songs. I dont need 500 different sounds in one song or 20 different change ups, but when its just the same thing over and over again, something that sounded good for first 2 mins doesnt sounds so good after 5, and most of the songs arent good enough to be the same over and over again. Another thing i like is the darkness to everything, everything seems so metallic and far far away from being human which is nice cause you really gotta build your own connection to the songs. Sadly theres only 9 songs, i think ppl buying this album deserve alittle more.

In the end im in the middle with this album. March 28, 2008

Way underrated

I bought Alive yesterday.

The only studio album I have right now of theirs is this one and the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because it's not old enough yet, even though I know I'll never get sick of it.

Last Saturday, heading into work for a minute or two, I was listening to this album (again) and didn't find myself skipping to the next track at all. To be fair, we didn't have a TV for the first 5 years of my life (television does rule the nation).

Their first album was overplayed for me (it seemed like everyone was listening to it when it came out), but it still sounds good. Familiar but still really good (I guess that makes it a classic).

"Discovery" kind of disappointed me - even though I didn't want to admit it at the time. A little too synthy and clubby (evoked people in polyester shirts doing lines of cocaine in cheesy nightclubs with greasy hair and maybe I just don't like it because I don't like those kinds of people), but I still liked it a lot (maybe it was how they incorporated rainbows into the album art).

When this one came out, I barely found out about it beforehand but had somewhat low expectations for it after "Discovery" (sorry, but that's just how I feel), but decided in the end that I didn't know what to expect. It's just the good, solid one that comes after 3 albums and I love it. If I could just remember that, I wouldn't feel compelled to buy the other 2 again.

I'll just have to remember their live mix of "Technologic" - "F*** it, f*** it, f*** it, (repeated infinitely)." January 28, 2008

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