Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Sam's Top 20 of 2013: #3



3 “Get Lucky,” Daft Punk

OK now if you read this blog or know me personally it should come as an absolute no brainer that this song was going to make this list let alone the top 3 but if you’re curious as to just how a band that I’m so incredibly high up on could only manage to land at number 3 I’ll explain that to you shortly but before then I’m going to take the time to yet again type out just how awesomely amazing this funky little jam is.

OK after almost 10 years DAFT PUNK ARE BACK BABY!!!!!! And the resulting album’s worth of material is the most spectacular thing to of been done in quite some time, because these have managed to make that transition they started with their albums, what Homework was the future and now modern day direction of music to come each album following was a slow decline into what shaped it all with Discovery being just that for me and this wonderful collection of larger then life joyful pop songs that where the shape of how electronic music was starting to find a voice and Human after all being the beginning of it all, the starting of a genre it leaves you to wonder just where these guys’ could possibly go.

Well they decided to go back in this kind of funk fueled rocket to the moon where they channeled their inner La Chic and P-Funk and George Funk in making the most disco-influenced organic collection of songs that are all about getting the groove of the music just losing yourself to dance and the rhythm of the beat and this song’s the exact personification of Random Access Memories, it’s this funk fueled throwback that’s the perfect Disco song. It’s a danceable jam just begging to be danced to, and with Pharell Williams it’s a change of pace because rather than hearing the familiar hypnotically robotic vocals you’d expect to hear from a Daft Punk record instead where getting actual singing something that hasn’t been heard since Face to Face and it’s amazing.

So to look back and realize that this was that massive hit this band so honestly deserved and that you just could not escape it was just AMAZING it was the most vindicating feeling to know that everyone was finally giving the most influential group of musicians their praise was fucking wonderful, but of course aside from an overload of hearing this jam there was one glaring problem I have with it and Random Access Memories as an album that I can’t help but point out that is the exact reason why what’s probably the most explained song on this list is only at number 3 and it’s that this just doesn’t feel like a Daft Punk song.

Now I guess that statement has you scratching your head a bit so let me kind of shed some light on that, you see this is in fact a Guy Manuel and Christopher Bangalter composition there’s no denying that it’s just that this song and album is more hey let’s collaborate with a bunch of really talented folks that more often than not end up making the songs feel like their tunes just with Daft Punk composing them and it’s something that’s always bothered me rather lightly to be honest but when I heard Pentatonixs do their little melody and it got to the get lucky parts it just stood out like a sore thumb just how little it really meshes with everything they did before it and it really does pain me to not really feel like this isn’t really a Daft Punk song but sadly that’s just kind of how it feels to me and while this honestly is just an amazing piece of work that deserved every bit of success it had it’s just not a Daft Punk song.


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