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kaigem t1_j5pm58u wrote

Reply to Most meaningful albums, tracks, and artists since 2001 to you? by jeremyjava

The Fratellis - Costello Music (2006) and Here We Stand (2008) are two of my favorite albums from the ‘00s. Classic tracks with great singalong hooks, rock is far from dead.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - their first album came out in 2012. Their 23rd album released last October. Most are concept albums, and almost always a new genre, but a sizable portion of their songs can be described as psyche rock. Best band making music today. Start with “I’m In Your Mind Fuzz”, then follow this guide: https://get-into-gizz.com

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Autobot_ATrac t1_j5pgpz9 wrote

Reply to Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Announces Solo Album — and Reveals His Face for the First Time by robbiet480

Daft Punk is the weirdest juxtaposition in music history for me.

The creativity that was the robot era from a performance and hype standpoint is music history. I have framed art of their masks from Lemon magazine where they're posing as David Bowie's heroes album. The replica masks go for thousands of dollars, and the pyramid live show is history as well.

But then, even as a pretty hard fan, they've been disappointing in a lot of ways. I think they're ego maniacs beyond what they deserve for the robot concept stuff above. I think when you look at their work, you're talking about 2 classics from their early era, and a pretty solid final album in Randon Access memories. Then you pepper in a couple remix albums, and a fuckin Disney soundtrack in which they really only had a pubic hair of a fingerprint on, and really, I think they end up being a bizarrely overhyped group.

I think they're done because they were done creatively. Collective music society was riding their dicks because they were amazing at marketing and hype, and had a history going back 15 years now, of putting on amazing live shows playing their hits from their first three albums.

Dare I say this ... I think they're more akin to KISS than they are to their ancient electronic music brethren like the Chemical Brothers, Underworld, and countless house DJs that even Daft Punk thanked on their first album on the song Teachers.

All that said, if they toured again and did anything close to the Pyramid thing, I'd buy tickets. But there are better, more consistent, harder working electronic and house artists out there that deserve the praise we keep blindly throwing at Daft Punk.

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