A community of Daft Punk fans have collectively voted on the duo’s music, deciding on the best and worst albums, most overrated and underrated works, best and worst songs, worst remixes and more. Some of the results are probably obvious, but others are a tad surprising.
Users on the r/DaftPunk subreddit participated in the voting game over the past two weeks, following a grid template that would get a daily update based on fans’ most upvoted answers. Naturally, there was some passionate debate about each category — especially on the Worst Album, Worst Song, and Most Overrated Album categories — but the fans seem to be in full agreement on at least some of the results.
Taking the crown of Best Album is 2001’s Discovery, which was a pretty unanimous decision; the closest contender was 2013’s Random Access Memories. The former has gone down as one of the top albums of all time, most recently placing 23rd in Apple Music’s Top 100 Albums, but the latter picked up four Grammy Awards in 2014. Perhaps that’s one reason Reddit voters placed it in the Most Overrated Album square. Contrastly, the Most Underrated Album spot was won by Human After All, which received mixed reviews upon its 2005 release, but also picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album.
Meanwhile, the Worst Album by Daft Punk according to Reddit is Tron: Legacy Reconfigured. This remix album was released in 2011 to accompany the duo’s official soundtrack for Disney’s Tron: Legacy. Although technically a Daft Punk album, Daft Punk’s manager Busy P (also the boss at French label Ed Banger Records) said of its release: “I am 100 per cent sure the Daft [Punk] boys were not involved in this side (sad) project.”
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Meanwhile, the title of Worst Song was given to the 2004 track Take Me Out (Daft Punk Remix) by Franz Ferdinand, and the Best Song was awarded to Digital Love, a track from Discovery. Other picks from Discovery include Face To Face as Most Genius Song — likely thanks to the meticulous sampling work by Daft Punk and Todd Edwards — and One More Time, the dance anthem which fans claimed as the Best Chorus Song. The Best Lyrics Song was given to the slow, romantic cut, Something About Us. Todd Edwards, who also appeared on the Random Access Memories track, Fragments Of Time, was voted as Daft Punk’s Best Collaborator.
Two tracks from Random Access Memories picked up some opposing awards in Most Underrated Song and Most Overrated Song. Motherboard was voted as the Most Underrated, while Get Lucky was voted as Most Overrated. The latter is probably unsurprising, given the billions of collective streams it’s accrued across digital streaming platforms.
In other Daft Punk news, fans have criticised the new AI upscale of the duo’s feature-length film, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, which is soundtracked by Discovery.
One commenter wrote of the re-release: “Even watching this trailer on a small phone, you can immediately tell AI was used…The crowd scenes in particular are a dead giveaway. It looks so bad, there’s no way I’d spend money to see this in a theatre where the imperfections are going to be giant.”
Another added: “I don’t see why this was needed. It seems like a lazy cash grab.”
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