Discovery | 
 enlarge | Artist: Daft Punk
Label: Virgin
Category: Music
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Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 2290
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 724381008829
EAN: 0724381008829
ASIN: B00005A9ZC
Release Date: March 12, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | One more time | | • | Aerodynamic | | • | Digital love | | • | Harder better faster stronger | | • | Crescendolls | | • | Nightvision | | • | Superheroes | | • | High life | | • | Something about us | | • | Voyager | | • | Veridis quo | | • | Short circuit | | • | Face to face | | • | Too long |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Starting off with the irresistibly hummable "One More Time," Daft Punk's second album, Discovery, blows through a head-spinning array of styles and samples, creating a pop culture stew of funky loops and dance floor anthems, while displaying the characteristics of a million other artists. The keyboard noodlings of Jean Michel-Jarre are in there somewhere, along with the otherworldly imagery and giant hooks of 1970s rock icons like Boston or Electric Light Orchestra. There are dashes of 1999-era Prince and oodles of new wave/disco, from Gary Numan to The Bee Gees, all set off with efficient house beats. "Aerodynamic" eschews breakbeats for a guitar interlude that somehow ends up meshing in a crazy blend of stomping basslines and hyped-up harmonics. "Digital Love" starts off silly and gets sillier, but the monosyllabic lyrics serve to lull the senses enough for the song's summery groove to grab hold with authority. "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" is the definitive salvo in the dance floor retro/vocoder battle that began in earnest with Cher's Believe, spinning a clever groove around an ever-escalating string of computerized seduction. Everywhere on the record, gigantic beats are dropped with pinpoint precision, giving songs momentum that transforms repetitive melodies into sudden revelations. The record's only mis-step, the aptly-named "Short Circuit" utilizes a keyboard riff that is nails-on-a-chalkboard awful, but it can't keep this from being one of the best records of 2001. --Matthew Cooke
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 awsomeness is to smaller word August 6, 2008
chibi angle (clacton, uk)
This album is so awsome it was the very first daft punk album i got and it remains a personal favourite, it is a sound track to their anime dvd- interstella 5555 which complements the mood and tone of each song.
After hearing this album i am now a big fan of daft punk and their music.
Genious Genious and More Genious November 10, 2007
C. Thomson (Colchester)
Fact is Fact and the fact is that this is a revolutionary ablum, every track is good and has somthing slightly different from the last.
Anyone who who gives it review dosnt know their stuff on dance.
Theese guys made their genre.
Praise to the daft
oh and see them live if you get a chance, they are mesmeric.
My first ever electro/dance album, it's so good, I wont need another! August 3, 2007
CrazyBlue (Cornwall, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Now useually I stay far away from this kind of music. But for some reason Daft Punk are different, they seem to have a rock edge to them. But Discovery is the more so about of the current 3 albums. This album contains some truely great songs like: One More Time, Digital Love, Harder Better Faster Stronger and Too Long. If you wondering about taking a risk, then take this risk, it's worth it!
Daft Punk's Finest Moment To Date July 4, 2007
J. Roberts (Maryland)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After 'Around The World' or perhaps even 'Da Funk', the songs on this album rank among some of Daft Punk's finest work. Daft Punk, who for the sake of legend, I shall refer to as robot 1 and robot 2, have, with Discovery, managed to create an album of fourteen separate works of art.
The fact that the sounds created by Daft Punk are made largely with electronic equipement, rather than with actual musical instruments, seems of little consequence. In my opinion, that actually makes these fourteen 'songs' all the more impressive, as they seamlessly move from the iconic dancefloor filler that is 'One More Time' to the stunning 'Digital Love' to the funk-tastic 'Voyager'. Daft Punk are not a lyrical band, but rather, an electronic band, who create a different landscape of sound with each album. Indeed, most of the lyrics here are either laughably simple, or downright hokey, but they're carried off with such charm and confidence that this album is never anything short of impeccable. Daft Punk have excelled at making iconic sounding beats, riffs and hooks, and have effectively given 'dance' music to a far wider audience than they could probably ever have dreamed. And they've made it artistic.
Robot number 1 and robot number 2 are nothing short of icons.
A voyage through dance April 3, 2007
D. De Silva
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Firstly ill start by saying to those who have wondered why this is so different to homework why that is.Its mainly due to the fact that Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter both wanted to create something along the lines to go with an idea they had in their heads for ages which was called interstella 5555 ( a brilliant piece of comic art by the way). this lead to the creation to this amazing piece of dance music. from the ever popular one more time to the simply amazing super heroes this album will change even the most die hard haters of dance music and if it doesn't so what. Cause at the end of the day I know and all the other 4-5 star reviewers know that this was two amazing musicians vision in a single cd.
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