Taking Sides: Daft Punk's 'One More Time'

But anyway shouldn't there be another 'side' to take here?

"Play something good!"

They mumble stuff, look through their enormous CD books. Alice pleads w/the other DJ to get back on, but he's already getting drunk. And then "One More Time" drops. It was on CD but I swear you could hear the needle jump the groove. Heads swivel in mild disgust. Alice starts berating the guys -

"Your music sucks! Turn it OFF!"

They do not. Alice, in her rage, stepped over a line I've never seen crossed. She reached over and turned off their mixer.

Andrew

"One More Time!"

I actually feel the same was as DV - the break is too damned long. What do you do in a club when it's playing and you're dancing? Stand around and wait for the break to finally be done with? Bollocks to that, you can't dance properly to the break. I've only heard it in clubs while I'm in a "sitting and drinking" mode, so I don't really know, but I reckon it's true.

Actually from an artistic p.o.v. it's an interesting qn too - the breakdown in one more time is essential to the song because it represents the fall-from-grace of having the music (metaphor for whatever you like, obviously) taken away, and in a perfect marriage of form and content it dramatises this, so it's entirely apt that people should feel naked, stranded, embarrassed etc. on the dancefloor.

What I'm hearing is that this particular one is special because it "fails" in a specific way - it calls attention to how its dynamics are constructed. Which hey I gotta encourage. But isn't the pleasure of a big breakdown pretty transparent already? Who isn't extremely conscious of the moment-to-moment shifts in dynamics over a 2-hour club set? What are DF telling us about the big breakdown, the hook, that we don't already know? And if that's not the point, then we're just left with the song, naked, sans comment, and in that context I thinkwe can all agree that it's an AI version of K.C. and the Sunshine Band?

"The music sounds better with you"

Tracer H - yep, heard it, danced to it, saw the rest of the club get up when they put it on again. On more than one occassion.

'Cause that idea seemed a real motivator during the peak years of disco, and its loss has implications surely for the return of disco sounds. Is retro-disco (like DP) fresher cause it's 'just' about the music?

Yr place or mine?

But One More Time is not the type of song either of those two like, so I reckon it's just not relevant. I don't think those types honestly like songs like that, they're more in it for the more pop stuff tht gets played...

And I heard Twilo was busted too, but I know it's still open. *shrug*

I like the 'Mysterious Mr. Vicar' bit from Andrew above.

next time you hear it and the singer is getting all forced-exhalation and adding a prolongated "-ahhh" to the end of every line, imagine mark e. smith at disco-karaoke.

They do not. Alice, in her rage, stepped over a line I've never seen crossed. She reached over and turned off their mixer.

I hate it when people do this kind of shit...just because you don't appreciate it doesn't mean other people don't as well.
When I dj parties at school, nothing annoys me more than the one kid who tells me he "hates techno" or "hates hip hop" or whatever and feels the need to tell me to "play something indie" or "play something with guitars" or "Play some Cure or the Smiths." Ugh.

back to "one more time": dud. why? cos by the time it came out, it wasn't ahead of the game. and it was poorly produced - not enough bass, to get the groove, the DJ have to turn up the mids, became too loud/harsh (this was at the end of my house music DJing days though, so maybe just a product of general disillusionment). I have the same response to Basement Jaxx. Can't believe everyone here seems to get all gooey-pants over em.

What makes Homework any less an "homage" to old acid house shit, than Discovery is to, like, the whole history of keyboards and electronic music? I mean, I'm asking because I don't know. To me there is much more imagination, excitement and humanism present in Discovery. And I love both records. I wish "nightvision" was like 10 minutes long. Oh, but then "superheroes" comes right after and it is just wonderful.

Is Daft Punk's "Discovery" supposed to be ironic?

completely rips apart most recent daft punk talk. I actually re-read that about a month ago as I was going through a period of heavily listening to Discovery. I thought about linking to it on that 'Basement Jaxx >OutKast' thread when Miccio was talking his usual nonsense but then i figured why bother.

if you're on slsk you should get his mix cd "romanthony - in the mix" off me. his records aren't boring - they're FUCKING FANTASTIC. i can't think of anybody else who's as good at mixing tough, menacing stripped-down ghetto style house with trippy deep house. and i love his voice (though i guess that might be a personal thing). have you heard his "unplugged" mix of "one more time"?? that's a good record from the last ten years!

here's a short list:

dj predator - party buckwild
romanthony - floorpiece
romanthony - down 4 u
romanthony - bring u up
romanthony - underground/mainstream
da housing projects - bring that beat back

ok and that's kind of cheating because 5 of those are on the romanthony mix cd.

and that's exactly how i feel about romanthony, because he plays guitar and sings "cheesy" lyrics in his faux-prince vocal style over low budget hard-house tracks (and apocrypha says he does it over dj sets but i'm not sure how that'd work) ... he's one of those rare artists who seems to work in a tackiness-free zone of his own creation.

Glasgow Underground released a comp just recently.

One More Time is really wicked, I can't really praise it enough, I think Too Long might be slightly better, but that's the raver coming out in me a bit, Too Long in a club is pretty insane. The fact I've only ever heard it once, at Etienne De Crecy, says alot too.

This idea that Discovery was "to make money" or "the easiest route" is so stupid, how on earth can anyone here quantify how difficult/easy it was to make a record? Total nonsense.

I kind of get Robin's dislike for Around the World but I heard it recently and loved it, I think it makes more sense in the last while than it did when it was released.

didn't say that. i said *Discovery* is throwing in the towel. lots of pop is great. "One More Time" is just a 2-bit loop repeated ad infinitum. WHERE IS THE FUNK?

>that slight strain in his voice like a battery that's running down

um, that's the vocoder. (only 1/2 joking)

I can get as pissed off with repetitious grooves as the next mofo, but 3 years on, I still like this record. It's one of the best things I've heard Roman on - bargain.

Clearly you haven't seen the Eiffel 65 video.

Siegbran, who'd want to? I forgot that shit existed until my cousin did an impromptu performance in her room last week. And best believe I tried to run.

broheem, relax. you really don't know a single thing about me.

vahid, gonna check out some of that romanthony stuff to refresh my memory. was discussing this with a good friend who recommended 'bring u up' (while throroughly dissing 'omt' thus making it a must-listen).

Modjo: utter, total, unforgivable, worthless shite.

dude that's great, but if you don't like "bring u up" don't stop there because that's romanthony at his most jazzy-spazzy (while still very funky in a way very veeery diff. from, say, Masters at Work) ... he has a whole other heads-down no-nonsense side to him too.

if i had to pick a track, i'd pick "floorpiece" or "down 4 u"

I gotta say that I do find Modjo kind of irritating and will only really enjoy 'Lady' when drunk, with ladies or both.

"ten years ago maybe people would've been amazed if you told them Shaggy was going to end up having FOUR number one singles and the biggest selling record of 2002 - for crying out loud."

Would you be surprised if I told you Shaggy performed a stadium date here after Noo Year's Day? Or that reputedly all the local acts who supported were better than him?

One of the best singles of the last ten years, instant classic/constant 'grower' etc etc. I LIKE the 'overly' long break in the middle - delayed gratification pushed to its limits, and when the beat does comes in ..."celebrate and dance so free". The lyrics are wonderful too, so simple, so perfect - how else could it be said?
― Andrew L, Sunday, May 6, 2001 5:00 PM

Still true.

RIP Romanthony.