Customer Reviews

Musique 1: 1993-2005

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To me, Daft Punk represents the best in electronic/house music. For novices this is a great way to get into a band that I feel is often overlooked. Perhaps because electronic music nowadays isn't really being listened to that much. Back in the mid to late 90's electronic music acts such as Daft Punk, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and Basement Jaxx were flying high because the music was in style, today it's sort of an acquired taste. Given most of these bands material of late isn't up to par, including Daft Punk themselves. Before 'Human After All' came out I honestly didn't think these guys were capable of making a less than stellar album. I was proven wrong.

For all the backlash 'Human After All' gets it's not by any means terrible, but just simply not as good as Homework and Discovery. However, the sound of a dwindling fanbase must've been deafening to the record label. So the time was right to release this 'best of' compilation in order to reel in new fans since the "old" ones probably have gone off to greener pastures ( i.e. LCD Soundsystem). We get introduced to a lost classic from the earliest stage of the band, Musique, a b-side to the first single 'Da Funk' and a pleasant surprise to those who haven't heard it. The next batch of songs are very familiar to fans and somewhat to fairweather fans, now my only gripe is something I noticed others have had a similar complaint about, and that is "why isn't Digital Love and Aerodynamic included?". Now those two tracks were singles and to me the fact that those are not there takes away one star from this rating. Since you want to give novices a chance to get the "best of" of a band, you must put in the "best tracks", makes sense right? I would've taken out Human After All and Something About Us, basically because the quality of the previous tracks outweigh these. A nice addition is the inclusion of three remixes from the Daft Club release, good choices too. Overall, you have pretty much the meat and potatoes of an excellent group that deserves better recognition and this proves why.

This is a basic mix of Daft Punk. Over the years... if you've heard it, but never owned one, this is a great starter CD into a new world. I recommend watching "Interstella 5555" this will explain everything. Its on youtube. then buy them all as you fall in LOVE.. other then that- there's a lot of the same songs here as on all the other cds combined.

With only three main studio albums, the French house duo Daft Punk releases a compilation album to remind us of their greatest strength--massive singles. And indeed, the hits are here. "Da Funk," "Around the World," "Technologic," and the irresistible "One More Time" are all included, and they pack just as much punch as they did several years ago. Other classics in the Daft Punk community like "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," and "Robot Rock" may never have gotten quite the level of widespread attention of the former but are equally as good (as Kanye West and Chris Brown came to realize).

Heavy emphasis is placed on debut album Homework with six song selections, whereas the other two albums--and the remix section at the end of the album--receive only three spots each. But Homework was probably their most beloved and memorable album, even if Discovery had the pop hits (two of which, "Aerodynamic" and "Digital Love," are oddly missing) and Human After All had its moments. The remixes at the end, particularly "Mothership Reconnection," are fairly good, though they may be forgettable to the casual listener.

Word for the wise: Daft Punk has worked their magic through 5+ minute, repetitive but driving house music. So for the dance music lover, this is a must-have greatest hits package. Just know what you're getting into. If you simply like a couple of the popular songs on here and don't really do dance music much, giving the album an entire listen may be boring if not impossible. But for the rest of us, this should keep our batteries charged long after the humans are in bed. (2006, Virgin)

Daft Punk are a great electronic group who have taken their influences and combined them into some truly trend-setting albums. Though, if you subtract the live albums, the bootlegs, Daft Club *shudder*, and the anime movie.. all you've got is three studio albums. Just three. And the first two are full masterpieces, while Human After All is more or less tolerable depending on the listener. Definitely more of a Kraftwerk and Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" influence than the other two LPs.

Anyway, you're looking at 30+ tracks they've produced that are more than worth owning.. yet they feel the need for a compilation album? Hopefully it wasn't their idea, probably some greedy music execs who realized they couldn't ride out the fumes of Discovery for much longer. Still, I wouldn't even suggest this cd for Daft Punk newbies as they'd have more fun overall with Discovery. I mean, heck, Face to Face isn't even on here and that's probably their greatest song ever! They could have easily switched Face to Face out with Something About Us since the latter isn't the greatest track.

You owe it to Daft Punk, and yourself, to just buy their three proper albums, decide which songs you like or not, and make your own compilation. It's easy enough to buy the 'rare' tracks later on off of itunes if you really feel the need to further butcher the idea that compact discs and Vinyl are outdated. (I'll never give up my CD's NEVER!)

5 stars for (most of the music), 2 stars for the rest of the music and the crappy attempt at cashing in which I'm sure worked.

Releasing a greatest hits compilation after only three studio albums seems like an overly eager move to make, and a somewhat unnecessary one especially when two of those albums are solid master pieces by themselves. Musique does one thing right by cherry picking the best three off of Human After All which renders a purchase of that album nearly pointless except for the sake of simply having. But how can you fit the awesomeness that graced so many of the tracks on both Homework and Discovery? Its impossible, and thats where Musique inevitably falls short. I'm sure that few fans who already own all three of Daft Punk's first full length releases wouldn't go for Musique if it weren't for the inclusion of three remixes that the duo has made, plus the non-album title track, "Musique". All four of these are excellent and recall the style of Homework in sound and production (its the only reason I bought this release and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one!).

I had never downloaded music using Amazon.com before, but I noticed it was cheaper than a lot of the "other places" you can download music from. All the songs came through fine and in CD quality.
GREAT album by an admirable artist! I would also recommend Daft Punk's "Alive 2007" album. It is even better than this one!

I like this album sooooo much. if you like electronica, have a lot of energy, like to dance and work out and play sports than you will lu-huv this album! just gets you in that mind set and makes you feel like anything is possible.

I don't normally like techno, but Daft Punk is so good. This album has a great variety. Fun for road trips and dancing.

Perfect Transaction. I was a little disappointed because I thought the CD had "Digital Love" on it. However, this was not the case. I guess there must be two versions of this CD that Amazon didn't advertise. Anyways, it is not the seller's fault, they did everything correctly and I look forward from buying from this seller again.

To the uninitaited, Daft Punk's around for more than a decade or so though it's really in 1997 when they exploded with Homework that the dance/electronic world sat up and took notice. With their unique brand of French electronic flavor, the duo were able to dazzle their audience.

Mixing hard rock beats with pulsating electronic basslines and vocordered/robotic vocals, Daft Punk brings to us a whole new experience on the dancefloor which includes Alive, Da Funk, All Around The World and Musique. In 2001, following the success of Homework, the duo finetuned their sound and brought some retro-funk on Discovery to their electronic stable. First single, One More Time, with its catchy chorus and retro-disco sounds immediately caught attentionand sold wonderfully. Tying up with Japanese anime Interstellar 5555, singles such as Digital Love and Aerodynamic benefitted with stunning visuals accompanied, further consolidating their position in the dance/electronic arean.

Last year's Human After All was much of a disappointment, having being completed in 6 weeks and sounding a lot like a miscast record of leftovers except that Make Love and Emotion still remain two of the best songs they have written which are seriously overlooked.

Musique Vol. 1 serves as a pitstop of Daft Punk's repertoire of music, giving casual fans an opportunity to try the band out. However, as essential with any money-making scheme, Virgin opted to leave the excellent Digital Love and Aerodynamic from Discovery off this collection. Still, you'll get the full version of Musique which as previously a B-side and long unavailable.