Over the past year, Daft Punk have been dominating people’ s expectations of their live shows, especially after such a poorly received studio release in ‘04.
I would know - My expectations were smashed when I went to see them live two weeks ago.
To this day, my eyes still remain red from being glazed over from the trippy light-show, and my ears still perpetually pound that Robot Rock chord 24/7.
The French duo’s manager Pedro Winter stated, “When we put out Human After All, I got a lot of bad feedback, like, ‘ It’s so repetitive. There’s nothing new. Daft Punk used to be good.’ Then they came back with the light show, and everyone shut their mouths… People even apologized”.

I’m not going to apologize. It doesn’t change the fact that Daft Punk’s effort on Human After All munches horse schlong.

Horses tend to have large schlongs.

Each song actually has a good beat, melody or electro-riff. You sit on the computer banging your head in enjoyment…for about a minute.

Oh okay, it’s still going. Maybe it’s building up to a climax or breakdown or something?
Two minutes later, you realise the song must be playing up and repeating itself.
Oh wait, …my bad, it’s just a shitty song that doesn’t progress.

The album was infamously known for being recorded in such a short time (6-8 weeks), particularly relative to previous albums Homework and Discovery. It shows.

I dont get it; it seems like they simply sampled something for 3 seconds, then thought looping it for 5 minutes will create a masterpiece. What were they thinking?!

A common side-effect of listening to Human After All

As well as repetitive, some of the samples used are outright agonizing. The voice sample of ‘Steam Machine’ just feels out of place, along with the horrible scraping/spit swishing in mouth noise in ‘Prime Time of Your Life’.
The stupid weinery voice in ‘Technologic’ makes me wanna sever my earholes. I could go on forever, just like every song on the album does.
In Daft Punk’s live album, ‘Alive 2007′, the songs are much improved, adding variety, heavy kicks and funk to Human After All. ‘Touch It / Technologic’ has the voice slowed down to normal, but unfortunately my earholes haven’t healed yet from the studio version.
Other improvements include ‘Steam Machine’, which now fits perfectly into the beat of ‘Around the World’, and ‘The Prime Time of Your Life’ has gotten rid of that stupid, stupid sample.

Juxtaposing someone who just bought ‘Human After All’ with someone who just saw Daft Punk live.

Robots aren’t very funny. Daft Punk’s ironic title of ‘Human After All’ is just a cruel joke, since all it churns out is the most robotic, repetative and coma inducing material known to man.

The only satisfaction you’ll ever get out of Human After All is ultimately, deleting it.