Coming from the ever-so-popular Discovery, this song just hits different than the rest of the album, but that is not a bad thing at all. This song always seems to get slept on, and I am here to make that stop. It deserves every bit of acclaim that it received, even if it was on repeat at every single radio station across the country. To add on to that, the song won best song AND Random Access Memories won best record at the Grammy Awards that year. It has a great bass line, a perfect funky lead from the great Nile Rodgers, silky smooth lyrics from Pharrell, and it was all tied together with classic Daft Punk trickery. 2013’s “Get Lucky” is an absolute banger of a song in nearly every way, shape and form. This next song is the one that everyone knows is on the mixtape, due to how often it graced the airwaves. From the funky baseline to the inescapable hook, this track is a must-have for an album that represents all of Daft Punk. The song consists of only the three title words being sung over and over, with an incredible and ever-changing tune underneath it. It instantly became a staple in clubs around the world, and it reached the top of the dance charts almost everywhere. The song finally put Daft Punk on the map for so many people new to their music. It is so simple, yet so incredibly complex and fruitful that it is impossible to hate it. This song is what brought Daft Punk, ahem, around the world. The album may not be their best work, but the title track is a bright and shining spot that needs to be recognized. As in, there isn’t a single thing I would change about it. Say what you will, but the track just hits all the right notes at the right moments. “Human After All” harkens back to much of Daft Punk’s earlier work, with plenty of raw synthesizer sound and scratchy riffs and choruses. That being said, I truly believe this song does not get nearly enough love. The title track was the third single from the album, and for many, the entire thing was just a letdown after the nearly perfect Discovery only four years earlier. I may be getting some flak for this one, but the perfect Daft Punk mixtape does not exist without at least one song from the much-maligned mid-2000’s album, Human After All. It also helps that it has an iconic music video directed by none other than Spike Jonze.
The scratching synthesizers, the funky baseline and the “siren sound” riff really made the song and gave it an identity. At the time, “Da Funk” was very much unlike anything people had ever heard before. After a few other artists incorporated it into their shows, the duo re-released the song once they signed with Virgin Records, giving the song more traction. With only 2,000 records put out at its initial release, it was nearly entirely ignored. I am going to start off the “Perfect 10” album with the first major single Daft Punk ever had, 1995’s “Da Funk.” This single almost put Daft Punk on the map, but not originally. BUT, do know that I fully understand and agree that the live set the duo posted in the summers of 2006/07 are masterpieces in their own right. So, just to make things easy, I will not be including them in this list. However, the reality is that the tracks are remixes of their own work. Any self-respecting Daft Punk fan knows that the tracks off this album are some of their best work in any metric and definitely deserve some respect. I cannot in good conscience list any songs from the nearly impeccable live album, Alive 2007. Honorable Mention: ALL of Alive 2007 (2007) With that being said, let’s dive in and see what the perfect 10 tracks for a Daft Punk mixtape. Daft Punk has undergone such crazy changes from one album to the next that it is so hard to compare one song to another. I’ll try to spread it out across the albums as much as I can, but that may not always be the case. In this article, I am going to list the 10 Daft Punk songs that have had the biggest impact on both myself and on music as a whole.
Yet, with every release, people find it nearly impossible to not dance and groove to their tracks, myself included.
With such sparse releases, it is hard to believe that the duo has made such an impact on the music industry. The French duo of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have only released four original albums over the course of nearly 30 years, five if you count their work on 2008’s Tron: Legacy. In this week’s “A Perfect 10,” I am going to explore the 10 songs that best represent a band that has single-handedly redefined the genre of dance/house/electronic music time and time again: Daft Punk.
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