Wow sorry everybody. I almost feel responsible. Just this past weekend I really discovered them for myself “for the first time.” Like I’d heard of them before obviously but their music didn’t quite click with me until recently. I really feel like I missed out on some good times. I will continue down this road though. So glad for their music! I can tell it’ll be with me for a long time running.
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#362I remember the electric atmosphere in the auditorium going to see the film the Epilogue video is taken from, Electroma [1], on screen. It was only playing in a single cinema in the world in Paris and only at midgnight. So glad I got to catch that. I am kind of glad to hear that Daft Pank is over and I say this as someone who their music means a lot to. The arc of their art is complete and there is nowhere left for th…
I was a Daft Club member! I remember being made fun of when I was like 15 listening to Human After All, and people just not getting it. Daft Punk was the soundtrack to my hacker youth. I’m forever grateful and wish them the best in their retirement.
This makes me feel very old - I saw them on the 1997 Homework tour when I wasn't much older than that.
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#363There used to be a real energy to French electronic music. Between Daft Punk, Justice, Something a la Mode, Madeon, David Guetta, C2C, Joris Delacroix, Birdy Nam Nam, etc. Now I feel like the scene is mostly American. Any modern French electronic artist?
> Any modern French electronic artist? You mention Madeon which I think is more like "electro pop" or "nu disco" (I don't like that term but hey) so maybe you'll like the following if you don't know them... Agar Agar: https://youtu.be/wrCE6DjE6g8 or Kid Francescoli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdixQDPA2h0 or, more on the chill side, L'Imperatrice... "Erreur 404": https://youtu.be/eyk-Sliy8RU and say "Parfum There…
L'impératrice are fantastic! Melody's Echo Chamber are worth a listen too
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#364They usually wear helmets. Hire stand-ins and don't tell anybody. (Did I say that out loud?)
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#365There used to be a real energy to French electronic music. Between Daft Punk, Justice, Something a la Mode, Madeon, David Guetta, C2C, Joris Delacroix, Birdy Nam Nam, etc. Now I feel like the scene is mostly American. Any modern French electronic artist?
norwegian, but Lemaitre
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wait Lollapalooza is a real event? I honestly thought the simpsons episode made fun of the music event scene
Wow. You must be really young, or from a sheltered lifestyle. I remember skipping school to attend the first couple of shows, and then continued in college. Seems to my memory that the 'palooza festivals re-energized the whole music festival concept, as there were many more annual festivals that came through town after. I still have the t-shirts that I can't wear, but refuse to throw out.
If you can name a single Australian music festival that I've been to without googling, I'll pay $100 to a charity of your choice.
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#367For anyone who hasn't seen "Interstellar 5555," it's basically an hour long anime music video all backed by Daft Punks best early hits.
Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qxe-QOp_-s
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Agree. David Bowie once demonstrated it to a reporter. They walked together through Manhattan. No one bothered them. Bowie then said he was going to “turn it on”. Something in his expression slightly changed. And then he was mobbed by fans.
I've heard that story about Marilyn Monroe - but it has probably been ascribed to hundreds of celebs. https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/2610/No-One-Recognized-Marily...
Yeah but to be fair.... who wouldn't be stunned by her beauty? ;)
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I bet a lot of artists develop a drug problem, hit rehab and recalibrate.
The Strokes comes to mind. I think I read that the lead singer made the best music when on drugs but has since gotten clean. Unfortunately, the music he/they made sober wasn't as well received critically? Something like that.
It wasn't the lead singer (Julian Casablancas) who had a drug problem, it was the guitarist, Albert Hammond Jr. He wasn't any better when he was on heroin, though; the band started out without it.
The Strokes mainly just hated each other after they got famous. Angles, their fourth album, was famously recorded without Julian ever being in the same room as the rest of the band.
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I went to a smashing pumpkins show and was so turned off that I stopped being a fan. I have met several others with the same experience
The Pumpkins were my absolute favorite band in the heyday of 90s alt rock/grunge. I saw them once in St. Paul during their Adore tour, and it was amazing. But something about their music just didn't seem to age well with me - which very well may have been my tastes changing versus the band. I don't know. Machina didn't click, and I never really got into Zeitgeist or Oceania. I did buy Rotten Apples and enjoyed it imm…
Yep, very similar experience here. I find listening to music from that time period just makes me melancholy (err...no pun intended), so I mostly avoid it now. I'm not sure if this is because it brings me back to that time, or if it's the general mood of the music itself...probably both. I guess it makes sense that the music of a given time would reflect the general mood of the people coming of age at that time.
I don't know where else to go with that thought...ah whatever. ;)
EDIT: fix typo, because of course