#All daft punk songs ranked password

#All daft punk songs ranked password

Over time, this list’s Record Of Honor has become lauded moreso for its legacy - as pop’s first password to the French-house hard drive - than for the sum of its hypnotic parts. But Tron’s director Joseph Kosinski was correct to tap Daft Punk to create this heroic score. Sure, listening to the hour-long instrumental LP without the context of the film can be a little daunting. Tidbits are stolen from the Human After All and Discovery sounds, but Legacy’s sweeping, ambient aesthetic is largely unrecognizable from the group’s other works. The fearless swells in “Arena” and “Rinzler” are lush, and deeply effective bridges between DP’s electronic realm and the orchestral fields they deftly harvested for this project (an 85-piece orchestra was employed to record the album). De Homem-Christo and Bangalter explored their inner maestros and composed a wholly imagined and thematically striking soundscape to back an otherwise lukewarm film reboot. Human is the lone Daft Punk album to feel reactionary to the band’s own success, and even if it did produce a successful inverse to Discovery, it was as impersonal as the group has ever been.Ī Disney soundtrack is surely the square peg in this ranking, but Tron: Legacy is no slouching, sappy film score. Typically, Daft is a masterful employer of repetition, but the echoing hooks to “Steam Machine” and “Television” border on monotony, and there just isn’t enough innovation to counteract the dullness. While themes of dark, tech-fearing paranoia were fresh to the group - and employed purposefully, to contrast the buoyancy of Discovery - Human’s themes largely feel recycled the tech-jargon labyrinth “Technologic,” piggybacks off the more memorable precursor “Harder Better Faster Stronger,” and while plenty catchy in its thick guitar leads, the lead single “Robot Rock” is too on-the-nose for a band famous for its mechanized appearance.

If there is a valley, or caricature album in Daft’s catalog, it’s Human, the group’s most melodically austere and numbing record.