Human After All [Enhanced] [Import]

Product Description
Recorded in just 6 weeks in their home studio in Paris, this Japanese exclusive enhanced pressing of the band's first album in four years includes the single 'Robot Rock'. Virgin. 2005.

Tracks:

Human after all
The prime time of your life
Robot rock
Steam machine
Make love
The brainwasher
On/Off
Television rules the nation
Technologic
Emotion

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You'd never guess from Human After All that these are the same guys who came up with the opulent dance grooves of 2001's Discovery. On Human After All it sounds like Daft Punk's robotic alter egos have finally gotten the upper hand and made an album that is defiantly free of emotion and personality. Instead, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo amp up the irony and deliver a set of songs that are maddeningly repetitive, raucous and bound to test the most devoted fan's patience. But even as the French duo short-circuits it manages to captivate--the spoken-word "Technologic" and the digitized "The Prime Of Your Life" are just bananas enough to make its euphoric hit "One More Time" sound positively last century. --Aidin Vaziri

Customer Reviews:

Five Stars If You've Seen the ALIVE Tour! Maybe Less if you haven't...........2007-07-22

This album was difficult for me to get into completely until I saw Daft Punk live on their "ALIVE" tour. They put on a full show, complete with a story and amazing lighting and props that are almost Vegas-like. The Daft Punk duo are dressed as robot aliens performing on stage inside a pyramid-like spaceship poking through a mesh of triangles. They start the show introducing themselves to Earth, by repeating the words "Human" and "Robot" in succession, until "Robot" takes over compelely, and they launch into "Robot Rock". They've set the theme that they are robot aliens from outer space trying to understand "humans". They progress through many of the songs on the album, plus a lot of their older material, much of it "mashed-up" together, and each of the songs has a context in this theme. The song "Technologic" is about how the robot aliens understand our consumer culture. "Steam Machine" about the robot aliens understand our "industrial culture", and of course "Television Rules the Nation" speaks for itself. They end the set with "Human After All", as a summary of the robots understanding the human, and perhaps desiring to be part of it. The encore set Picks up on repeating "human" over and over, and then adding the word "together" to it, to end on an ecumenical (in the secluar sense) note. Before the show, I had the same critiques of the album that people list here, but after you see the show, (with a very flexible mind), you will "get" the album, and love it as one of their classics. Please, people who've seen the "Alive" show, comment on this theme, and tell me if you agree, or if you have a different interpretation.

Really good...considering what it's following.......2007-04-06

Let's face it, it'd be hard to beat the fantastic work in Daft Punk Discovery. Yet, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo have done an excellent job with their new work "Human After All."

The music, while more mechanical in its melodies and rhythm, it's as if the performers are begging to learn what it is to be human. All the tracks are essentially the same, driven by technology and hardware, but all the while, there is that constant desire for life.

Unlike Discovery, the "story" in Human After All does not resolve, leaving the listener with the knowledge that humanity is forever being learned.

Not exactly what was expected from the French duo........2007-03-17

In the beginning, Daft Punk began solely as a trance-y, dance-y, electronic kind of group, particularily with the release of "Homework", which I feel is a two-and-a-half star album. Now, "Discovery" is the best thing Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel De Homem-Christo released, filled with nostalgic, disco-style tunes that fit correctly in its great production. "Human After All" has more attention to guitars, which I feel are great but the songs are repetitive and not well produced. Why didn't they cut the songs short, like two-minutes long? No, instead they made it into five-minute long tunes that definitively test the listener's patience. Not a great album but one that could have been tidied up much, much better.

Amazing work of art!!.......2007-02-21

Anyone who said this album isn't any good is just plain ignorant and they obviously just don't get it. (open up your minds people!) I LOVE this album, there is not a single track that I dislike at all! If you are already a daft punk fan there is no reason why you wouldn't love it! I don't think it is cold at all; actually it is sweet, I think, and it makes for good make out music!! I don't listen to that traditional corny BS! Me and my fiance LOVE daft punk and we love all of their music and this album is no exception!

Do the robot.......2006-10-19

Expectations are a funny thing. It was expectation that made me buy this album as soon as it was in stores, and it was the same expectation that led me to feel -- at first -- a little disappointed.

Disappointment in music is nothing new, especially if you pay too much attention to critics. If an album's too much like the one before it, they're in a rut. Too different and they've lost their way. Daft Punk managed to turn a lot of critics on their heads with "Discovery", most that gave it middle of the road reviews have since changed their tune, thankfully addmitting that Homework Part 2 would have been too simple. But still many were and still are uncomfortable, mislabelling the fleshing out of their sound as going mainstream. I'm sure I would have tired of One More Time if I actually listened to the radio, but if you tune into Top 40 you get what you deserve.

When "Human After All" landed, you could cut the anticipation with a knife. A lot of the negative reviews I've seen branch off from a literal interpretation of the title before it even saw light. People everywhere were looking forward to a more vibrant, living, breathing Daft Punk. We might be treated to that in another few years, we might not. It's not important. Daft Punk did the classy thing and decided not to make another Discovery. They made new fans with that album, and that's great, I can't think of another act that deserved a bigger fan base more than them. When I first heard their latest, I couldn't find the heart. I fell into the trap of assuming they took the easy way out, and cooked some passable beats to get an album out.

But time makes fools of us all, and it didn't take too long for me to fall in love with "Human After All". Like Rollin' & Scratchin' and Short Circuit before them, the songs here have no immediate bells and whistles, and I won't lie; if you don't have patience for good music the slow burn of these songs will mean nothing. That said, this is definately the third album that Daft Punk needed to make. We've all heard the stories by now about how little time was spent crafting them, but that's expectations getting in the way again.

Daft Punk have gone from amazing underground act, to shining stars of French house, and back again; deeper, darker, more subtle. This album grew on me, but I can't promise everyone will feel it. What I do know is that if you want to hear some very nice ideas, with a distinct Daft Punk vibe, then this is an essential album.

Key tracks:

+ Robot Rock
+ The Prime Time Of Your Life
+ The Brainwasher

Average customer rating:

Human After All
Daft Punk
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000BKSHJA
Release Date: 2005-11-22

Tracks:

Human After All
Human After All [Sebastian Remix]
Human After All [Justice Remix]
Human After All [Alter Ego Remix]
Human After All [Emperor MacHine Version]
Human After All [The Juan MacLean Remix]

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A review of Human After All

Human After All
Daft Punk
Manufacturer: Virgin
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007IO0JW
Release Date: 2005-03-22

Tracks:

Human After All
Prime Time Of Your Life
Robot Rock
Steam Machine
Make Love
Brainwasher
On/Off
Television Rules The Nation
Technologic
Emotion

Album Description

Recorded in just 6 weeks in their home studio in Paris, this Japanese exclusive enhanced pressing of the band's first album in four years includes the single 'Robot Rock'. Virgin. 2005.

Album Details

Japanese version featuring enhanced multimedia content.

Customer Reviews:

A review of Human After All.......2005-03-22

This is probably the best Daft Punk album. Homework and Discovery were good, but Discovery was a little cheesy and Homework was repetitive as hell. This album combines the two, with a bigger focus on guitars (think Aerodynamic). I'll do a track by track breakdown:

1) title track - catchy, with a cool guitar melody and electronic vocal melody. One of the best tracks. 9/10.
2) the prime time of your life - interesting! slower then most daft punk stuff, and it takes awhile to get going, but it's catchy and the noisiness is interesting. The end is like an acid rock freakout, too. 7/10.
3) robot rock - the most rock oriented song on human after all (hence the title). A catchy hard rock riff over a neat little synth melody. RO-BOT RAWK! It's mostly built off a sample, which loses brownie points with me, but it's catchy and the most accessible song on here. 8/10
4) steam machine - it's cool. the breathing noises and gritty acid synth give it an industrial-ish feel. It's a little repetitive, but most of these songs were made for club use (or at least that's how it sounds) so it's excusable. 7/10
5) make love - eh. nice little melody, but boring and extremely repetitive, worst track on here. Sounds like something you'd hear on the Weather Channel. 4/10.
6) the brainwasher - awesome! I would love to hear this in a club or something. Gritty acid synths and pounding techno beats make this one of the best tracks here. It's repetitive (like all the tracks here) but the buildup at the end makes it work. "I AM THE BRAIIIINWASHER!"
7) on off - just some random speech samples for 19 seconds. stupid.
8) television rules the nation - another guitar (or distorted acid synth) led track. One of the coolest drum beats on here, too. It's about a minute too long, but oh well. 8/10
9) technologic - the vocal here should be annoying, but in the context of the song, it's funny and catchy. Less repetitive then most of the album. The vocal-synth thing is awesome. 9/10
10) emotion - a very nice relaxing song. It works better then Make Love because the melody is uplifting and pretty instead of boring and stagnant. 9/10

Average customer rating:

Copy-protected- avoid
Great album with way better remixes than Daft Club.
Daft Club all over again...

Human After All
Daft Punk
Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Similar Items:

Technologic
One More Time

ASIN: B000E6G6EE
Release Date: 2006-04-10

Tracks:

Human After All
Prime Time of Your Life
Robot Rock
Steam Machine
Make Love
Brainwasher
On/Off
Television Rules the Nation
Technologic
Emotion

Album Details

Japan-only Remix Album, Will Include Remix(Es) Previously Unavailable on CD. Featured Remixers Are Soulwax, Emperor Machine, Peaches, Playgroup, Basement Jaxx, Digitalism, Sebastian, Alter Ego, and More. Regular Edition.

Customer Reviews:

Copy-protected- avoid.......2006-11-25

This rating doesn't reflect the quality of the music- the remixes range from middling to excellent- but the disc itself, which is heavily copy-protected and unplayable by most PCs and many car stereos.

Great album with way better remixes than Daft Club........2006-11-25

This is a very good choice for Daft Punk fans.It's a hard to get album and it's a limited edition one.It has much better remixes than Daft Club which by the way, are made by some good artists such as Justice or Para One.
The only problem with this album is that it's almost impossible to download it to iTunes,which is something dissapointing for people who want the songs in their iPod.

Daft Club all over again..........2006-04-17

As we learned when Daft Club came out, listening to other artists remix Daft Punk songs reminds you how wonderful Daft Punk are. None of these artists are at all bad, I'm a fan of most of their regualr work. However the only good remix on this album is the final track, Robot Rock as remixed by none other than Daft Punk themselves! If Daft Punk put out a remix album where they did all the remixes it'd be phenomenal. Until then, dont waste your money. This album gets 2 stars for the remix of Robot Rock; I'd have given the album 1 star if the track was not on it.

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Remind of us ourselves...

Human After All
Lis Harvey
Manufacturer: The Orchard
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000056IA2
Release Date: 2001-01-02

Tracks:

Light As A Feather
Rant
No Turn On Red
Lake Song
Gone Jonesboro
Say Goodnight
Who's To Say
Real Time
Rules
Behind

Customer Reviews:

Remind of us ourselves..........2002-06-15

Fantastic lyrics...instead of cliches poorly pasted together, "Human after all" is filled with observations and memories that should take anyone back to the years when things were simpler...especially "Why we say goodnight". Put this album on in the car, drive down a quiet, open road or in rush hour traffic, somehow, the moods of music on this album fit both.

Average customer rating:

Second & Eighteen

Manufacturer: Zero Down Entertainment
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA3I2A
Release Date: 2005-01-18

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Human After All
Daft Punk
Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000E6G6E4
Release Date: 2006-04-18

Tracks:

Human After All
Prime Time of Your Life
Robot Rock
Steam Machine
Make Love
Brainwasher
On/Off
Television Rules the Nation
Technologic
Emotion

Album Description

Japanese pressing. Remix album of singles from Daft Punk's latest album Human After All. Features two bonus figurines designed by Medicom Toy Co. Kurbrick collection. Also includes unreleased or released-only-on-vinyl remixes. Also includes special Japan-only artwork. Toshiba. 2006.

Album Details

Japan-only Remix Album, Will Include Remix(Es) Previously Unavailable on CD. Featured Remixers Are Soulwax, Emperor Machine, Peaches, Playgroup, Basement Jaxx, and More. 3000-set-only Edition, Comes with Two Kubrick Toys by Medicom. Due to Limited Availability Order Fulfillment Cannot Be Guaranteed.

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Human After All/Discovery

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000A2ADD2
Release Date: 2005-09-27

Tracks:

Human After All
The Prime Time Of Your Life
Robot Rock
Steam Machine
Make Love
The Brainwasher
On/Off
Television Rules The Nation
Technologic
Emotion

Tracks:

One More Time
Aerodynamic
Digital Love
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Crescendolls
Night Vision
Super Heroes
High Life
Something About Us
Voyager
Veridis Quo
Short Circuit
Face to Face
Too Long

Album Description

2001's Discovery and 2005's Human After All are together in this 2 CD set from French dance duo Daft Punk. CD's come packaged in a clamshell box. Virgin. 2005.

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