Staying relevant for the long haul in the always-changing world of dance music is a near-impossible task, but French dance-pop robot-human-immortals Daft Punk may have found one way to do it–by disappearing a lot. Sounds paradoxical, but by taking nearly a half-decade between each of their albums, and basically keeping totally out of the limelight in between release cycles, they manage to stay outside the trends, existing on a plane of their own, and turning it into an event whenever they actually decide to re-emerge from the shadows and release new music. However, one byproduct of this philosophy is a relatively shallow back catalogue. Though members Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter have been making music as Daft Punk for nearly two decades now, their discography encompasses just 86 songs–four fewer than even Taylor Swift, who was just four years when the duo released their debut single “The New Wave” back in 1994. That said, that number was even lower before a few weeks ago, when the duo released “Get Lucky,” their first single in three years (and not counting live or soundtrack work, their first since 2006), and has gone up by another baker’s dozen with the release of their much-anticipated Random Access Memories LP earlier this week. Let’s take a look at those 87 songs, now including all the Random Access Memories cuts and including the handful of commercially released remixes they’ve done for other artists–as well as the 22 tracks on the duo’s oft-overlooked soundtrack to Tron: Legacy. In the case of songs that had multiple versions released–and given that Daft Punk have released three remix albums, there’s a lot of those–we went with the version of the song we most preferred. Check out our rankings, and let us know which of the Robots’ classics, new or old, are your favorites. 86. “ON/OFF”
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:36:32 +0000
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