Listening 2 Daft Punk: Human After All / Alive 2007

EPISODE 317

Throughout their legendary career, Daft Punk continued to prove that the more robotic their music became, the more human they sounded. This dichotomy came to a head on their third album, aptly titled Human After All. Where their past two records wired their circuits and gave the robots a voice, on Human After All, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo gave Daft Punk sentience. On Human After All robots rock, but they also question their rigid programming. The record's ensuing tour and resulting live album, Alive 2007, furthered the narrative by ushering in a new age of live electronic performance. The impact of these two records range from the development of EDM to everlasting hits like “Technologic.” On episode three of our Listening 2 Daft Punk series, we take a look at these two records, and how both Alive and Human After All imbued the robots with super intelligence.

Songs Discussed

Daft Punk - Human After All

Daft Punk - The Prime Time of Your Life

Daft Punk - Robot Rock

Breakwater - Release the Beast

Daft Punk - Steam Machine

Daft Punk - The Brainwasher

Black Sabbath - Iron Man

Daft Punk - Technologic

Daft Punk - Emotion

John Williams – Wild Signals

Daft Punk – Touch It / Technologic

Daft Punk – Oh Yeah

Daft Punk – Technologic

Busta Rhymes – Touch It

Daft Punk – Around the World / Harder Better Faster Stronger

Daft Punk – Face to Face / Short Circuit

Daft Punk – Da Funk / Daftendirekt

Kanye West – Stronger

Kanye West – On Sight

Daft Punk – Human After All / Together / One More Time / Music Sounds Better With You