Daft Punk is playing at my house
February 25, 2005 10:51 PM   Subscribe

Daft Punk is playing at my house
posted by BoringPostcards (34 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: I don't know what's terribly interesting about this.



 
This is a QuickTime file, BTW.. unplug your speakers if pop music will get you fired.
posted by BoringPostcards at 10:55 PM on February 25, 2005


How rare.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 10:56 PM on February 25, 2005


C'mon James!
This is your chance to finally bring dance music to the masses - at least shave and get out of the sweat pants you have been wearing for the last six months! You're blowing it!
posted by Quartermass at 11:01 PM on February 25, 2005


to finally bring dance music to the masses

um... bindun.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 11:03 PM on February 25, 2005


While I like this video, I have to wonder about the point of this FPP. I mean...yes, it's a music video. And?
posted by amandaudoff at 11:12 PM on February 25, 2005


Man, don't argue with me in the middle of the night!

*furiously wishes for an "edit" button

You ever write something so dumb, hit post, and immediately regret posting it! that is this.
posted by Quartermass at 11:15 PM on February 25, 2005


I can't believe I paused Mingus to watch that for 17 seconds
posted by clockzero at 11:17 PM on February 25, 2005


While I like this video, I have to wonder about the point of this FPP. I mean...yes, it's a music video. And?

Here are your five and's
1. It's a sweet music video.
2. It's really arty. Metafilter loves art!
3. There are dancing robots.
4. Those robots are the Daft Punk robots - in a cameo!
5. LCD Soundsystem are totally, like going to save dance music, and bring it to the masses.
posted by Quartermass at 11:21 PM on February 25, 2005


i am suddenly reminded of how amused i am that doc martin, (who's really big in LA, at least) not only played in my house, he paid me to do so.
posted by flaterik at 11:27 PM on February 25, 2005


Q-mass: Smartass. (I kid, I kid.)

I thought Daft Punk did the saving of dance music...five years ago.
posted by amandaudoff at 11:38 PM on February 25, 2005


Smartass.
Trust, my ass is not smart tonight.
posted by Quartermass at 11:57 PM on February 25, 2005


Very cool video. I liked it. Quartermass, take a breath, bro.
posted by squirrel at 12:13 AM on February 26, 2005


Close your eyes and imagine this is the sound of Van Morrison fucking a toaster.
posted by eatitlive at 12:50 AM on February 26, 2005


I like the song, but I really didn't think the video was that all that great. The shoutout to the 'around the world' skeleton-people was nice, but it still seemed kind of boring overall.
posted by ilovebicuspids at 1:19 AM on February 26, 2005


I'm sorry, but this video incensed me. Mocking both Gondry and D-Punk while appropriating their entire aesthetic in an indie I'm-so-cool-that-i-hate-everything-anyone-ever-did-that's-reasonably-enjoyable-but-i'm-going-to-co-opt-their-style-so-that-i-can-other-them-and-mock-them-and-also-because-i-don't-have-an-original-idea-in-my-head tactic makes me nauseated. This came after being at a party with a ton of kids dressed like Jackie-O listening to the Rapture and being really snotty to everyone that didn't dress, act and think like them. Ugh. I'm going to bed.
posted by nonreflectiveobject at 1:36 AM on February 26, 2005


Hah, man this guy is losing his edge. I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the Rock kids.

I played it at CBGB's. Everybody thought I was crazy.
posted by basicchannel at 1:36 AM on February 26, 2005


i heard he's throwing out his computer so he can make something real.

i have the white label of every seminal detroit techno hit
posted by raaka at 3:12 AM on February 26, 2005


nonreflective, I don't know where you're getting all that out of this song/video. Maybe LCD is part of some movement that I'm ignorant of, and you hate this because it reminds you of that movement. As far as I can tell, they're not mocking DP, or anyone. raaka, mail me if you want to talk wax and mp3.
posted by squirrel at 3:31 AM on February 26, 2005


Feh at least when I posted FatboySlim /. reference on FP here there was some kind of a relation to music and blog...here I can only see a relation to Vumeters.

Which are nice and colorful and useless, gimme decimal number with color baby !
posted by elpapacito at 3:50 AM on February 26, 2005


Chemical Brothers brought dance music to the masses well before Daft Punk did.
posted by nthdegx at 4:42 AM on February 26, 2005


I'm confused. Don't the masses dance?
posted by winston at 5:09 AM on February 26, 2005


Decimals aren't as good for live shows if you have enough stuff going on that you need to use your peripheral vision. With a VU, you can keep it in the corner of your eye. Then again, maybe you have some mad ninja peripheral vision, elpapacito; in that case, you're right, color digits.

On Preview: not like they used to, winston. We'll not see another scene like the early 90s raves in a while. (And those of you who say good riddance must have been at the wrong happenings. They were awesome.)
posted by squirrel at 5:13 AM on February 26, 2005


I can't escape this video! It's on every night on some videoshow called Boogie here since it reached the top list. And now, it's even on Metafilter. ;)
It's an ok video, better than anything else on the top list, song included.
posted by dabitch at 5:24 AM on February 26, 2005


Electroclash is playing in my ass, my ass.
posted by Mo Nickels at 5:34 AM on February 26, 2005


"Hi, Peaches? Yeah, it's James. From lcd soundsystem. That's right, the ones who did that song once. Yeah, I'm doing okay... how are you? Cool, cool. Listen, I was just wondering if you had any half-finished backing tracks you weren't using that I could borrow? Yeah, I've got some vaguely hip lyrics I'd like to yelp tunelessly over the top. Oh, you do? Aww - you're a sweetheart."

click, brrrrr.
posted by flashboy at 7:09 AM on February 26, 2005


Video is extremely derivative of Michel Gondry stuff
[People being the level meters reminiscent of White Stripes - The Hardest Button to Button, all the characters from Daft Punk - Around the World]

Song just sounds like a male version of Peaches. So sassy, so hip, so little substance.
posted by cloeburner at 7:35 AM on February 26, 2005


*Quietly thanks Matt for the "flag this post" option*

I'm reminded of James Earl Jones in Soul Man: "I am not a humorous man, but if you insist on taking up my class time making jokes, please see to it that they are funny."

This post is bad, and the video isn't even that great.
posted by mkultra at 8:09 AM on February 26, 2005


cowbell solo!

Dance music is a retarded infant that puts everything in it's mouth. It needs constant saving.
I call saving it after Murphy does.
posted by hellbient at 8:10 AM on February 26, 2005


Michel Gondry does this much better. I rented this collection from NetFlix recently and it's flat out fantastic. Be sure to watch every bit of that DVD. He is my new god.
posted by intermod at 8:15 AM on February 26, 2005


This is surprisingly similar to when Green Day played at my house in the early 90's... before they made it big.
posted by Balisong at 8:34 AM on February 26, 2005


nthdegx:

M/A/R/R/S brought dance music to the masses before Chemical Brothers...

Mo Nickels: HaHaHa.

Umm, yeah. I hate to be dissin', cuz I hate it when people do it to me, but WTF? The song sucks, and the video is completely derivative. I can't believe that this is actually big.
posted by symbioid at 8:35 AM on February 26, 2005


LCD Lamesystem.
posted by VulcanMike at 8:59 AM on February 26, 2005


What about the BeeGees?

AFAICT talking about "bringing dance music to the masses" is like talking about "bringing McDonalds to the masses" (I'm talking about ubiquity, not quality of the product :-)

Is it possible for a member of the masses to go through a day without hearing dance music?

What type of music are they are more likely to hear than dance music?

squirrel wrote:
not like they used to, winston. We'll not see another scene like the early 90s raves in a while.

Well a dance is not an event like a rave was, but people dance just as often and dance music is, if anything, more popular.

I think that the main difference between now and the early 90s is that the people you hang out with now are 10 years older than the people you hung out with then.
posted by winston at 9:05 AM on February 26, 2005


In fact, I've just realised that this song (the vocal refrain especially) is very, very similar to Soulwax's "NY Excuse" from last year - on which Nancy from lcd soundsytem guested. And Soulwax themselves have done a remix of this track. The difference is that "NY Excuse" is fun, catchy and witty, but this isn't. Hey ho.
posted by flashboy at 9:11 AM on February 26, 2005


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