{"id":114083,"date":"2020-03-23T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/?p=114083"},"modified":"2024-01-25T00:38:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T05:38:37","slug":"a-perfect-10-by-daft-punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2020\/03\/23\/a-perfect-10-by-daft-punk\/","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect 10 by Daft Punk"},"content":{"rendered":"
In this week\u2019s \u201cA Perfect 10,\u201d I am going to explore the 10 songs that best represent a band that has single-handedly redefined the genre of dance\/house\/electronic music time and time again: Daft Punk. The French duo of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have only released four original albums over the course of nearly 30 years, five if you count their work on 2008\u2019s Tron: Legacy<\/em>. With such sparse releases, it is hard to believe that the duo has made such an impact on the music industry. Yet, with every release, people find it nearly impossible to not dance and groove to their tracks, myself included.<\/p>\n In this article, I am going to list the 10 Daft Punk songs that have had the biggest impact on both myself and on music as a whole. I\u2019ll try to spread it out across the albums as much as I can, but that may not always be the case. Daft Punk has undergone such crazy changes from one album to the next that it is so hard to compare one song to another. With that being said, let’s dive in and see what the perfect 10 tracks for a Daft Punk mixtape.<\/p>\n I cannot in good conscience list any songs from the nearly impeccable live album, Alive 2007<\/em>. Any self-respecting Daft Punk fan knows that the tracks off this album are some of their best work in any metric and definitely deserve some respect. However, the reality is that the tracks are remixes of their own work. So, just to make things easy, I will not be including them in this list. BUT, do know that I fully understand and agree that the live set the duo posted in the summers of 2006\/07 are masterpieces in their own right.<\/p>\n I am going to start off the \u201cPerfect 10\u201d album with the first major single Daft Punk ever had, 1995\u2019s \u201cDa Funk.\u201d This single almost put Daft Punk on the map, but not originally. With only 2,000 records put out at its initial release, it was nearly entirely ignored. After a few other artists incorporated it into their shows, the duo re-released the song once they signed with Virgin Records, giving the song more traction. At the time, “Da Funk” was very much unlike anything people had ever heard before. The scratching synthesizers, the funky baseline and the \u201csiren sound\u201d riff really made the song and gave it an identity. It also helps that it has an iconic music video directed by none other than Spike Jonze.<\/p>\nHonorable Mention: ALL of Alive 2007<\/em> (2007)<\/h2>\n
Track 1: “Da Funk” (1995)<\/h2>\n