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Homework by: Daft Punk List Price: $16.98 CD-Charts Price: $10.97 You Save: $6.01 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724384260927 Label: Virgin Records Us Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us Number Of Discs: 1 Publication Date: 1996 Publisher: Virgin Records Us Release Date: March 25, 1997 Studio: Virgin Records Us Sales Rank: 5042 MPN: 42609 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: French band, a highly danceable mix of disco, house and techno, who just recently supported the Chemical Brothers on their European tour dates. The band is currentlybuzzing in the U.K. music press. 16 tracks. Domestic available on Virgin as of March 25, 1997. Amazon.com: After rocking the suburbs with the infectious and persistent "Da Funk" (with its amusingly pointless Spike Jonze video), Gallic pranksters Daft Punk unleashed Homework, an album that combined everything good about house music with everything bad about French pop and changed the face of dance music in the process. The sound of production duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem is a raw and dirty collage of cheap drum machines (wired for maximum swing) welded to endless filtered loops and embellished with everything from guitars to talk-box vocals. The beats are lifted straight from the Chicago House textbook, but the simple bass lines and catchy hooks make a listenable pop song from what would normally be a stripped-down DJ tool. Uncompromising yet totally accessible. --Matthew Corwine Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Strongly NOT recommended for "Easy Listening" or "Adult Contemporary" fans.The very first time I've listened to this album, I thought my player got broken or the CD was scratched, but then I listened again afterwards and noticed that it was actually the real sound of Daft Punk. No strings attached. After a few more times of listening and deep-diving it, I suddenly found myself hooked to the loops and beats of what could be considered the best Daft Punk album ever. A risky project which turned into quite a good electronic/house classic, as good for workout as it is for partying. Weird samples, extreme loops, mad beats and several other bizarre sounds made this album an essential if you're in it for electronic. "Around the World" is a true all-time gem, for sure. Strongly ... Read More: Rating:  - It has become a classic. Its thats greatI saw one review here which said something about how bad Homework is because of the elemetry beats and the repetivness. This person obvisouly has no idea about how dance music was in the earlier acid days. Violent and repitivive is what they where going for in this album. If you like more pop/easy listning type of music, their second album Discovery is probably more for you. I like all their albums but I must say homework is my favourite. Its all about the TR-909, TR-808 beats, old samplers and dirty basslines produced by vintage synths like the korg ms-20 and so on! - Rating:  - Where it all beganWho knows what the state of techno/electro/house fuse music would be in if it weren't for Daft Punks release of Homework. It certainly wouldn't be where it is now. If you wish to hear where much of it began this is your album. As far as other Daft Punk albums go I would rank this 3rd in listenability however it still has a song or two guaranteed to bring back memories. Rating: - IntoxicatingHow do Daft Punk do it? In all honesty, this should not work for me. It's filled with beats that every single jock loves to imitate (badly), it's loop the loops (Around The World says the title at least 100 times), it's long. The beats kind of remind me of ramped up Darude beats, the cha cha slide (although that song is fun, you have to admit), and the vengaboys, yeesh. Daft Punk, pre-notionally, are destined to crash and burn. But they don't crash and burn. They _______ soar over it. Not many beats on here pulse through my body this easily. They hit hard like a heart beat. I can feel them running through me like blood. And they all aren't just uhn tiss uhn tiss uhn tiss like most of the morons at my school do. They apply a ... Read More: Rating: - Oh, the memories...Sometimes, a band will have two albums that will fall into two, different categories: One category is the release of an album that's a pop smash, attracts numerous consumers, inspires shirt designs, and launches them into superstardom. The second category is the release of an album that's considered an underground masterpiece, hailed by fans and critics alike, the type of album that's usually released before the "pop smash" album. Basically, "Homework" qualifies as the latter of the two. "Discovery" will be remembered as putting Daft Punk on the radar with its songs, and while it's still a great album, "Homework" is that proto-smash success that nonetheless became an influential and essential piece of electronica, house, etc. But just what ... Read More: |
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