One of the least memorable songs from TRON: Legacy-though truth told, only a handful of the album's songs make a really lasting impression outside of the context of the score-"Outlands" is a whole lot of frenetically racing strings and horns for three minutes, possibly brilliant soundtracking a cinematic chase scene, but just kind of exhausting on its own.Ī pounding, creeping track that goes on for a little too long-it's one of the few TRON songs over four minutes, and feels it-though its Morricone-like sense of building anticipation is pretty undeniable.Ī mostly unnecessary fake radio advertisement for Homework included as the album's second track, though it rates a little higher than their other non-song songs because of the excellent reduxe clip of early single "Musique" that starts off the track, and how much fun it is to imitate the booming voice of the French radio announcer at the end of the track.Īnother minorly innocuous track from Tron: Legacy, stately and unmemorable.
Another obvious one to get out of the way here. Similar to "On/Off," "Funk Ad" hardly registers as a real song-it's just their breakthrough single "Da Funk" played backwards for less than a minute, included as the closing track on debut album Homework, possibly for bookending purposes, though it ends up being a totally dissatisfying end to a thoroughly classic '90s album. But Daft Punk inexplicably decided to make it its own track on Human After All, rather than just combining it with "Television Rules the Nation"-possibly to make the album an even ten cuts-so it merits inclusion on our list, an easy choice for the very bottom. Check out our rankings, and let us know which of the Robots' classics, new or old, are your favorites.Īlmost unfair to even include this "song," which is really just 19 seconds of channel-flipping on French TV.
In the case of songs that had multiple versions released-and given that Daft Punk have released three remix albums, there's a lot of those-we went with the version of the song we most preferred. Let's take a look at those 87 songs, now including all the Random Access Memories cuts and including the handful of commercially released remixes they've done for other artists-as well as the 22 tracks on the duo's oft-overlooked soundtrack to Tron: Legacy. That said, that number was even lower before a few weeks ago, when the duo released "Get Lucky," their first single in three years (and not counting live or soundtrack work, their first since 2006), and has gone up by another baker's dozen with the release of their much-anticipated Random Access Memories LP earlier this week. Though members Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter have been making music as Daft Punk for nearly two decades now, their discography encompasses just 86 songs-four fewer than even Taylor Swift, who was just four years when the duo released their debut single "The New Wave" back in 1994.
However, one byproduct of this philosophy is a relatively shallow back catalogue.
Sounds paradoxical, but by taking nearly a half-decade between each of their albums, and basically keeping totally out of the limelight in between release cycles, they manage to stay outside the trends, existing on a plane of their own, and turning it into an event whenever they actually decide to re-emerge from the shadows and release new music. Staying relevant for the long haul in the always-changing world of dance music is a near-impossible task, but French dance-pop robot-human-immortals Daft Punk may have found one way to do it-by disappearing a lot.
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