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Switched on Pop

Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive 2007

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 β€’ 2.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Throughout their legendary career, Daft Punk continued to prove that the more robotic their music became, the more human they sounded. This dichotomy came to a head on their third album, aptly titled Human After All. Where their past two records wired their circuits and gave the robots a voice, on Human After All, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo gave Daft Punk sentience. On Human After All robots rock, but they also question their rigid programming. The record's ensuing tour and resulting live album, Alive 2007, furthered the narrative by ushering in a new age of live electronic performance. The impact of these two records range from the development of EDM to everlasting hits like β€œTechnologic.” On episode three of our Listening 2 Daft Punk series, we take a look at these two records, and how both Alive and Human After All imbued the robots with super intelligence. Songs Discussed Daft Punk - Human After All Daft Punk - The Prime Time of Your Life Daft Punk - Robot Rock Breakwater - Release the Beast Daft Punk - Steam Machine Daft Punk - The Brainwasher Black Sabbath - Iron Man Daft Punk - Technologic Daft Punk - Emotion John Williams – Wild Signals Daft Punk – Touch It / Technologic Daft Punk – Oh Yeah Daft Punk – Technologic Busta Rhymes – Touch It Daft Punk – Around the World / Harder Better Faster Stronger Daft Punk – Face to Face / Short Circuit Daft Punk – Da Funk / Daftendirekt Kanye West – Stronger Kanye West – On Sight Daft Punk – Human After All / Together / One More Time / Music Sounds Better With You Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's new with you?

0:01.4

Let's see.

0:03.0

Oh, you're getting a taste for something different.

0:05.8

I tried them up a little.

0:07.4

Turns out, I like olives.

0:10.4

Relaxing.

0:11.8

Far, far away from the city.

0:13.7

Oh, I needed this.

0:15.7

You needed this.

0:17.6

Oh, and getting together with some old friends

0:20.2

to find your new favorite band.

0:22.3

That show was amazing.

0:24.3

When you are the most you, that's when you're with Amax.

0:27.6

American Express, don't live life without it.

0:29.9

Welcome to Switched On Pop.

0:42.8

I'm Songwriter Charlie Harding.

0:44.4

And I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.

0:46.6

Today is the third installment in our listening to Daft Punk series, where we listen closely to

0:52.4

an artist's body of work to go past the public perception of the artist and uncover their

0:57.4

deeper musical meaning.

0:59.5

Daft Punk are, of course, hugely influential.

1:02.1

They're also highly conceptual.

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