How Daft Punk Made Disco Cool Again
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00:00 Intro
00:59 Title Card
01:06 Disco Norms
03:24 Daft Punk’s Thesis
04:16 Nile Rogers
04:55 Get Lucky
06:07 Love of Disco
07:22 Conclusion - Hudba
This is kind of a convoluted way to say that daft punk needs to release another album.
And go on another tour. I mean. It's been 12 years c'mon.
But everyone already knows that haha
Nilanjan Debnath they said they would tour in 2017 some years ago. I’m still waiting 😭
they do!
@@Mudayunt Let's hope for 2027.
Disco became House. Then house sampled disco. See 90s french house. Which funnily enough Daft Punk came from.
I agree. My young adulthood in the 90s in the U.K. was surrounded by house music which was heavily influenced by disco, usually a soulful black woman’s voice belting one out to a kickass beat. Young Daft Punk were relatively big players in that scene.
Don't forget that bands like Pet Shop Boys kept disco alive during the 80s and 90s.
I agree I wished he touched on house music cause daft punk is truly a house music band
I always found it interesting that the Roland 303 and 808 machines were originally invented for helping create disco beats but became hugely popular as House music morphed into the forms found at the raves of the late 80s into the early 90s. Shall we also mention all of the sampling of disco in the rap scene throughout the 80s? They took the funkiest beats. Disco as music never really dies. The clothes and decadence died but the music lived on in other forms.
@@brianspenst1374 completely agree with this. Early house was just stripped down disco with technology which allowed kids to make music in their bedroom. Which then lead to the advent of samplers having longer recording capabilities and thus loops were fully utilised by the hip hop scene. About as vital as the Amen Break.
Daft Punk know how to write hooks, like goddamn.
So true.
Truth!
True as hell
The amount of instantly-recognizable, international ultra pop bangers Daft Punk has produced might surpass any other band. Any band hopes to have at least one song every one knows. Daft Punk has at least a dozen. And their influence surpasses their popularity and success.
"My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me - Giorgio"
Du du du du *DUU*
The song was actually ripped off from Cerrone 3
Thats my favourite part of that song and it goes dudududududududuududududu showing his struggle and success in music industry
*Vocal Percussion on a whole nother level coming from my Mind*
My name is Giorno Giovanna, but everyone calls me GioGio. I, Giorno Giovanna have a dream!
It's official ladies and gentlemen, there is no more Daft Punk.
half of it, F
@@luisescalante6530 Daft Punk as a whole is no more. Both Thomas and Guy have done work as solo artists these past couple years as producers for various artists. They're not retiring as musicians; they're retiring the Daft Punk duo.
thomas the thermonuclear bomb
God it's so sad
Daft Punk’s first three albums were just as unique. They’ve always found a way to diverge from the pop standard set by other artists, while ultimately paying their respects to them.
Homework was an experimental house record.
Discovery was a synth-induced tribute to the 80s.
Human After All was a rough and scratchy tribute to rock.
And RAM was a soul, funk and disco amalgamation of the sound they grew up with.
Discovery’s my favourite album.
There is lots of disco influence in all of their albums, French house is full of it
captain Rockatron discovery is everyone’s favorite album
@@granthartzell5523 if there was an album called captain rockatron it would be my favourite
And the best part is that, while not everybody loves them equally, there's so much respect for how daring their experimentations are that there are few complaints.
John Deacon, bassist of Queen, hung out with Chic at their studio and Voila! Another One Bites The Dust was born.
And then the success of that song practically created half of one the most underrated yet controversial Queen album; 1982's "Hot Space"
@@deacon6453 Oooooh "Cool Cat" is a gem!
Genuinely impressed by how your videos seem to be constantly improving despite the fact they already had such a high standard. Good job man.
This is hands down the best channel on CZcams that focuses on music.
try Rick Beato
spaceoflove I love Rick. I think people who are more into theory and wanna gain a deeper understanding of how music works (with less entertainment) would like him more
Tayyab Khalil Adam Neely bro
This channel is really good for the layman. Neely is good for super nerds/meme lords (love it). Haven't watched much beato though.
Adam Neely, Middle 8, Volkgiest also exist. Polyphonic is a pioneer tho
I’m not exaggerating when I say that Random Access Memories changed my life. I was in a pretty dark place in my first semester of music school, not enjoying or connecting with the jazz I was studying. When I heard get lucky for the first time, I almost cried because it was so cathartic to hear music that I truly identified with. And it made me appreciate what I was studying.
"Get Lucky" is darn near the catchiest song of all time.
Nah, that title goes also to Pharrel Williams, but the song is "Happy".
And yeah, now that you remembered, good luck getting it out of your head.
@@brunoalves-pg9eo listen to them back to back, and you'll hear how Happy and Get Lucky are nearly the same song.
My favorite song from Random Access Memories is still Instant Crush
It's been my ringtone for as long as I can remember. Love it
Even if I was in a wheelchair 'Lose yourself to Dance' would move me EVERY TIME.
@@assistanttotheregionalmana5841 Thanks fella! I owe it all to Apollo, the sage god of tits & wine.
Easily
You missed one very important thing about disco: the bass. The baseline works much like the guitar, adding both melodic and rhythmic aspects to the groove of the song as a whole. Name any great disco song and it will likely have an equally great baseline. Great video though, loved the analysis!
So true about the baseline in disco music. A good example of this is Gino Soccio hit disco song called "Dancer" released in the spring of 1979. Somewhat underrated, but still a kickass baseline and beat to dance to over 40 years later.
Daft Punk is just one of the most important and influential acts of our time. Period.
Alex K. Amen! All albums are exceptional.
I recently wrote a 7 page honors college essay about why Daft Punk is THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BAND OF ALL TIME, and the whole class including the 2 deans of Barrett, ASU clapped with excitement for how good my essay was, and each one of them said that they would look up Daft Punk songs ASAP. Daft Punk revolutionized modern music and pop culture as a whole. Period.
@@calebdonaldson8770 r/thathappened
Caleb Donaldson fax boi
Caleb Donaldson bruh upload a copy of that essay somewhere
Disco basically just warped into European Dance pop in the 1980s-1990's, particularly Italian Dance music...it never left
Exactly. All the hate was actually most in the US. No one in their right mind was burning records here ;) There it went underground and became house.
As an Italian, I shall add: parallel to newer Italian dance music in all its forms, bona fide US disco classics kept being played in night clubs and holiday resorts like untouchable holy masterpieces everyone was simply supposed to love and dance to. It literally never went anywhere.
@@the57bears Really?
@@sepulcher8263 I mean, I'm referring to fairly lame types of venues, meant for families and people of all ages, wedding DJs, etc.. But I suppose Italo disco and its later incarnations made it acceptable to genuinely think Disco was still cool in the 1990s (unless you were into grunge and/or punk and/or metal, in which case there was no saving it except through sheer irony). Thank you, Giorgio Moroder!
Does a whole video about disco
Doesn’t mention how integral bass is
All branches of the same tree
Free Fall slap like *now*
Bass is not integral to anything.
@@Hazztech wrong
@@Hazztech I hope you're joking.
i’m not crying you are
RAM is a great album, but what about Daft Punk’s Discovery?
That’s very Disco influenced too!
The reason they named the album that way was because it's DISCO-very
06jrz Yep. Discovery = very disco
@@06jrz veridis quo :)
@@Johnx3m disquoveri? ok, now I'm confused...
Funny how this was reccomended as soon as Daft Punk broke up
Now I need to go home and break out my RAM record. Man that is a good album... side note, the editing on this video is amazing. Great work!
Recommendations really rubbing salt in the wound, huh?
weird that this video showed up in my recommended today of all days. If you know you know
the algorithm is recommending a lot of daft punk videos atm... obviously :/
Oh, so that's why the fan-arranged music video for "Lose Yourself To Dance" works do well with footage from the 70s show "Soul Train".
Since they've now split up, I just want to thank them for being the best EDM duo in history
Damn this video essay hits different after they've split
Just got this on my recommended, just on time
One of the coolest things about the album that you didn’t mention is that they used all real drums on RAM, no machines. I think that made such a huge difference and gave the album that amazing organic feel. Great stuff as always, thanks!
Disco was always cool
Just it got oversaturated (and just so happened to involve a genre big with black and gay communities). And daft punk made a lot of good disco before this, even if it is just disco house
whats the black and gay angle here? Just curious
My old "Disco Sucks" tshirt disagrees.
@Dystopia Plus _too bad he didn't mention any of that_
@@CoryMck I think it's fine that he didn't talk of that explicitely, and just implied it. This wasn't a video about politic, after all, but about music.
@@DeMerdeEncule following that reasoning, it's okay to ignore the histories of discriminated people anytime someone "doesn't want to talk about it". History is relevant to this topic, handwaving it because "it's political" is what leads to ignorance.
Can you do a video *about Punks made Funk* (Bowie's "Fame", Talking Heads, James Chance, Big Boys, Gang of Four, The Pop Group, Maximum Joy, RHCP)..
excellent editing on this video dude!
This video hits different now :(
Nile Rodgers is such a gifted musician and producer. His guitar work on the song Pressure Off from Duran Duran's last album is fantastic.
Of course this is getting recommended to me now
Disco has always been cool. Change my mind.
@Dystopia Plus ironic, considering that rock embraced synthesizers en masse during the 1980s.
On another note, Hair Metal has a lot of similarities to Disco in terms of it's popularity arc (slow rise, inescapable peak and rapid decline).
@The Drunken Pyro I prefer traditional disco, I like the sound of strings and horns over an electric bass.
gotta say : good job around 2:45 . I also finally got into RAM a few days ago and it's absolutely amazing. Instant Crush is my fave, even if not the most disco track at all (I just... love Casablancas)
I love Daft Punk, my response to "What's your favorite band?"
Discovery is the best album for my taste but I enjoy all of their work :D
Dude all of your edits are so clever and not rushed you really put time into this keep it up man ✌️
This video is amazing, but I wish you talked about my favorite track in this album, Contact. So enigmatic, deep, and funky at the same time!
Get Lucky was originally a soul train song, that along with the disco vibes gives it an undeniable nostalgic charm.
Surely the best and most creative record of the past quarter century.
Brought back the real joy of music, the careless times where everything was possible and you could dream endlessly.
So much thought into every song and the progression of the album into a real story telling masterpiece.
I wonder why the French have not immortalized this great art work in one of their museums.
2:25 I'm brazilian and i never saw anybody dancing Bossa Nova, you probably confused with samba
Garota de ipanema é bossa nova, tim maia fez muito bossa nova também, era um gênero musical bem comum na época
@@nehuenmatias8483 mas não é feito pra dançar, né? O canal só pôs os únicos gêneros musicais latinos que conhece. Difícil acreditar que há mais influência de tango e bossa nova no funk do que de samba, cumbia, calipso, merengue...
No mention of their Crydamoure and Roule labels?
Some French House dudes like DJ Falcon been spinning.
I already love your channel but I honestly think this is your best video to date. Awesome stuff.
A video about the French Touch genre would be sooo cool :D I think there's a lot of interesting stuff to talk about
- from a French viewer that's been following this channel for a long while now :')
Could you do more disco videos? Like Bee Gees or something?
It would be awesome to see a video about Cerrone or Earth Wind and Fire (even though I wouldn't classify them as a Disco band)
Spanishdog17 agreed
I don’t care how much literally everyone I know makes fun of me, I love the Bee Gees 😂
Video on pantera and how they revitalized metal through the 90s would be dank
Does anyone ever mention bands like Overkill? I used to listen to them in the very early 90’s. Way more metal than most metal I hear mentioned. Kinda like Slayer.
This video is gold in every aspect but visually is great , love this channel
Oh my gosh, I absolutely love the editing of this video!
You lost me at until 2013 with RAM. Discovery is their ultimate disco revival album. RAM is more of a tribute. One More Time, Face to Face, Crescendolls etc... all have a huge disco feel to them. RAM was definitely unique but Disco was brought back since the French House scene emerged.
Agreed. He lost me as well, I meen come on!The hint is in the name! "Discovery", flip it and you get "Very Disco"!
Thank you!! For real, Disco never left but Discovery brought it to the forefront.
Discovery is the best Daft Punk album period.. I was disappointed when he didn't use it. IMO Aerodynamic is their best song ever.
Amen 🙏😊
R.I.P. Daft Punk
You will be missed
1993-2021
episodes like this continue to remind me how much i love your channel. keep up the good work!
I just found this channel and seriously these videos are fantastic.
These deep complex dives into music are just wondeful
I agree with you Daft Punk brought back some awesome memories of the Genre. I grew up as a kid back in the seventies.Great time. The Bee Gees really did a great job to personify the Genre,along with the Movie Saturday Night Fever and the soundtrack. Great time.
No mention of the bass in disco? it's literally the most important part.... fight me if u disagree
Great educative video about how a modern dance act link w 70s. At 2:37 , i add the info that *the father of Disco Beat (4 on floor + hihat) was Earl Young* , the MFSB drummer; and the 1st hit on had that beat was "The Love i Lost" by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (Philly Soul).
Been wanting you to cover daft punk ever since I found your channel!
Omg thank you so much for this video. DP is amazing.
This is one of the rarest albums I can listen beginning to end and repeat it four times without any hesitation. Being a metal head an rockhead that loves motown, this is the best album that cam out in the last 10 years.
Best editing yet! Love this video!
In eastern Switzerland, Disco Music has been kept alive by DJ Janosch, a DJ who is leading the Dancing Scene (Disco-Swing (aka. Discofox), Salsa, etc.). In Dancings like „the Pasadena“ and „Dance-Inn“ and „Werk1“ (on Mondays) or „Tanzwerk 101“ (Tuesdays, Zürich) the fans of Disco meet and dance together to mostly Disco sound.
Get Lucky was my intro to Nile Rogers, and I was blown away when I started listening to past albums he's worked on
"Spacer" by Sheila and B Devotion is one of the lesser known tracks among my favorite Nile Rogers songs.
Ive been waiting for a daft punk video... thank you for this
Instant crush is one of the best songs I have heard in my life. It takes you trough a musical journey that puts you in a very specific mood.
I like to hear gameboy in traffic (a song) before hearing instant crush just to put myself ever harder in the mood.
What a video. So much going on. Looks incredible.
Can you do a video on PRINCE, on the song "When Doves Cry" or "Kiss"😊🙏🏾🙏🏾
Yes a prince video is long overdue 😍
Yes it is!
2:56 To quote Mark Watney, "No, I will NOT turn the beat around!"
R.A.M is my favorite album ever made, period. Every song is a beautiful, lush exclamation of love, loss, curiosity, and confusion. Nothing is held back, and Daft Punk knew they were going to be under a decent amount of pressure after being gone for so long. Here's to hoping we get something new in the next 5 years. I'll be patient through every excruciating month.
These videos are so high quality and informational. Thank you so much for all your hard work!
Anybody here after they announced their breakup?
Dammit now I'm gonna have this album stuck in my head again.
Perfect video, as always.
There's worse songs/albums to get stuck in your head with :P
This one? i dont mind as it is one hell of a good album :D
I really love your editing style
I have watched a lot of your videos, but man, everytime that intro comes in I feel this is gonna be amazing! Everytime😂🔥
Awesome!! You have to do something on Jamiroquai!!
This!!! I actually expected to see the cover art for A Funk Oddysey thrown in when he mentioned the more modern iterations of disco in the charts.
Nice Video! FYI Moroder is pronounced "Mor-OH-der"! Peace n Love :)
Also he is alive. The video says he "was a composer". Polyphonic killed Moroder! :-O
Really happy to hear you went back to the og theme! I instantly play all your videos and this was no exception.
How about a video on Pavarotti or opera?
Hey, first thing what an amazing video, at first i thought that you would not talk about the hi hats which is one of the foundations to disco drumming, but you surprised me. One thing i'd like to add is a drum rhythm that's really common in disco drumming which follow the pattern mentioned in the video with the four to the floor but adding a flavor with the hi hats, opening them on the strong beats such as "1" e "2" e "3" e "4" e (the " are the strong beats)
why does this get recommended right after they split up😢
youtube really had to reccomend this to me now ):
I’m so excited to hear what they come out with next!
This brought back so many wonderful memories of jamming to this record with my friends in the car
Gotta love the frenchies always making things better again. Disco? Back. Revolution? Everywhere
Fries ➡in.
Toast➡ of course.
Involvement in manufactured conflicts and civil wars in the middle East ➡ just as strong as ever.
Disco has always been cool, rebellious and political. It took a down shift in Western culture for people to understand and finally realize this.
RAM it's not only a album about the disco years, it's a journey by the music history! Great video!
I have been listening to Daft Punk since 1998. They are amazing musicians! They also opened me up to a world of Synthwave and Darkwave that I cannot nor want to get out of...
Here from the Epilogue :(
Random Access Memories or Discovery?? Also Vaporwave, particulary Future Funk it's making a lot to ressurect and modernize a lot of Disco and Funk and even open a bigger scope of eastern music into our ears.
Most of the songs Futurefunk features in any memorable way, are already popular Funk songs. And what do you mean by "Eastern music"?
Discovery forever m8
Future Funk >>>>>>>>>
@@CoryMck He talking about vaporwave/future funk artists putting Japanese vocals in their songs. I have no idea why he calls it "Eastern music" when it's mostly Japanese vocals. Both those genres are influenced a lot by Japanese City Pop. An example of this would be the song Plastic Love.
@@cornheadahh
I have a couple of issues with this, and it's similar to the issues I have with this video.
The comment is very self-centered, as if Disco, Funk, and "eastern music" just stopped existing until Yung Pepsi 82-99 raised the tempo. These are a decade of chart topping songs, they can't be resurrected because they didn't Die. The same way that people in Japan remember these songs when they were made, The majority of black people in America remember these songs from either when they were released, or if they grew up in a house with parents who grew u listening to it. When you say that Saint Macross Bae "modernized" or "opened a bigger scope of music into our ears" all you're doing to praising white people for using music from outside of YOUR culture, and making it more accessible to you. OP can't name a single Japanese City pop artist other than Mariya Takeuchi. And Daft Punk didn't invent House or French House. Both of those genres still exist. This video makes it out to sound like Daft Punk discovered some lost media that wasn't being utilized and they did some musical wizardry to make entire genres of music "cool". Just because you (or anyone) don't know about something, doesn't mean it ceases to exist. Plenty of young Black people in America today can still recognize plenty of Disco songs. So again, let's not praise a couple of white people for doing something with Disco as if the genre needed them, Similarly, none of those Japanese artists are not getting paid for their samples (that is one of the main reasons that larger vaporwave artists chose Japanese music which itself took technological influence and musical influence from American Funk and newly popularized technologies). So illegally sampling 80's Disco music, sampling 90s music Japanese music. As punk rock as that is, it's theft. It's literally stealing other people's cultures and profiting off of it without giving them the credit or the financial compensation. But it's not the first time that's happened and it won't be the last.
I've been listening to Vaporwave since atleast 2013 I was on tumblr witnessing its birth. I've listed to Daft Punk as well as other French House & House artists for most of my life. But I wouldn't dare say that Daft Punk is "making Disco" anything. Nor is Future funk "modernizing" anything. Just say that there's music that you like and it's influenced by other music that you don't know (because it isn't part of your generation/culture), and leave it at that.
YEEEES I was hoping you're gonna make a video on Daft Punk
Other people are saying it, and I gotta say that I noticed it too. The video quality lately has been amazing. Keep up the great work!
What about Jamiroqui?🤔 🤷♂️
Matt Braun absolutely.
Who?
@@Carcosahead them czcams.com/video/vE4VlA_9OrI/video.html
@@Carcosahead they made the song on napoleon dynamite and had Virtual Insanity, you'll probably recognize the music video. Good music.
In the nineties French House and Jamiroquai back disco feel to music mainstream, through the 00's keep until last ten years many disco bands and artist emerging and influencing new styles (Nu Disco, Electro Funk Revival and some Italo and Synth Pop new staff)
Chromeo, Breakbot, Midnight Magic, Tuxedo, Escort and some Bruno Mars songs put the Disco on the road again.
Dope video as always but you can't talk about the rebirth of disco without mentioning Jamiroquai.
Yes exactly. That was a notable absence in this video for me too.
And Sophie Ellis Bextor!
Jamiroqui is pretty much all but forgotten in other countries despite still producing material. Only people that still remember him are those that follow him. He never really went anywhere or became largely known. The only songs on the radio I still hear from time still to this day is his music from 20+ years ago. He never even came remotely close to making as big an impact as Daft Punk has despite them both starting up roughly the same time.
Jamiroquai is underhyped and underappreciated (esp by modern listeners) despite being as great as Daft Punk.
@@ProximaCentauri88 Most underrated group to emerge from the 90s in my opinion
Fantastic video! Thank you!
Excellent video. Love disco and this made me love even more. Thanks
_DISCO DISCO GOOD GOOD!!! DISCO DISCO GOOD GOOD!!!_
*~ Zohan*
these videos are great! I'd love to see something on kraftwerk sometime :)
I cannot express how much I love this album. I've loved daft punk for years and when I first listened to the album my spine tingled and goosebumps appeared all over my body upon hearing the opening to "give life back to music"
Thank you for an amazing video on a modern work of at ♥️
Really impressive work! I'd love to see a video on the Postal Service or MGMT or Garbage or Portugal, the Man or Panic! at the disco. :P
Actually, it is a bit unfair to say that Daft Punk revitalized disco" when Madonna's Confessions on the Dance Floor (Hung Up and Sorry were as famous as Get Lucky if not even bigger) exist. And also, as some people noted in comments, DP had disco songs before Random Access Memories.
Cool video, but French house is a thing, and saying that Daft Punk made Disco cool again might be an interesting title, but it's tantamount to saying Christopher Columbus discovered America.
Thankyou Polyphonic for talking about an album I love.
This was extremely well done.