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Homework | 
| Artist: Daft Punk
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  143 reviews
Sales Rank: 10667
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 42609
UPC: 724384260927
EAN: 0724384260927
ASIN: B000000WCV
Publication Date: 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Daftendirekt | | • | WDPK 83.7 FM | | • | Revolution 909 | | • | Funk | | • | Phoenix | | • | Fresh | | • | Around the World | | • | Rollin' & Scratchin' | | • | Teachers | | • | High Fidelity | | • | Rock'n Roll | | • | Oh Yeah | | • | Burnin' | | • | Indo Silver Club | | • | Alive | | • | Funk Ad |
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Amazon.com
After rocking the suburbs with the infectious and persistent "Da Funk" (with its amusingly pointless Spike Jonze video), Gallic pranksters Daft Punk unleashed Homework, an album that combined everything good about house music with everything bad about French pop and changed the face of dance music in the process. The sound of production duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem is a raw and dirty collage of cheap drum machines (wired for maximum swing) welded to endless filtered loops and embellished with everything from guitars to talk-box vocals. The beats are lifted straight from the Chicago House textbook, but the simple bass lines and catchy hooks make a listenable pop song from what would normally be a stripped-down DJ tool. Uncompromising yet totally accessible. --Matthew Corwine
Album Description
French band, a highly danceable mix of disco, house and techno, who just recently supported the Chemical Brothers on their European tour dates. The band is currentlybuzzing in the U.K. music press. 16 tracks. Domestic available on Virgin as of March 25, 1997.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 138 more reviews...
 Still my favorite album July 29, 2000
Kyle Lumpkin (Cincinatti, Ohio USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
4 years ago, I was walking around the campus of Ohio State University and I went into a record shop. In the little headphones on the wall, this album was playing. I liked it and so I bought it. I play it at a few parties and everybody starts to like it--people are playing it at parties from their own copy. Now, 4 years later, I've listened to a lot of hardcore dance music and Daft Punk is still way up on top. Reviews describe it as low-tech but good. I describe it as a record that had more thought put into it than 99% of others I've heard. It's intense. I recommend it all the time. Listen close, you'll probably hear it mixed in to the music at the techno clubs where you live. "Oh Yeah" is the worst song I've ever heard though. -Kyle6036@aol.com
 Homework: The best of Daft Punk January 28, 2006
Sameer
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is in my opinion, the best Daft Punk album with its addictive hooks, beats and groove. A lot of people like Discovery better which has a lot more vocals , I say it's all up to you. I prefer as few vocals as possible in my electronica, and Homework suits me just fine.
Da Funk November 25, 2003
Erica Anderson (Minneapolis, MN)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I remember first seeing the music videos for "Da Funk" and "Around the World" on MTV (believe it or not) several years ago and just being completely blown away by the infectious dance beats. "Around the World" in particular really grabbed me by the jugular. It is by far the catchiest dance song I have heard in the past decade, next to Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head". The bass-heavy beat is incredible. Listening to "Around the World" brings back memories of me dancing (drunkenly) to this song in the nightclubs back in my college days. "Da Funk" was and still is equally cool in its own right. It is extremely catchy. I just love the synthesized beats. Just like "Around the World", "Da Funk" has that incredible deep bass hook that gets you on the dancefloor. As much as I love Daft Punk's follow up "Discovery", "Homework" has to be my favorite of the two cds. Granted that "Homework" lacks the warmth of "Discovery", "Homework" has a raw, live feel that its predecessor lacked. "Revolution 909" reminds me of something I have heard during my journeys to Chicago back in the day and my friends and I would be cruising to our favorite nightclub with the radio cranked up, and this song would be on the airwaves (more like a song with the same beat). I also love the shimmering techno track "Indo Silver Club" as well. Despite being seven years old, "Homework" still holds up to this very day which is not an easy task to do because trends comes and goes in dance music but "Homework" is an exception to that rule and it still sounds fresh and new to me.
Homework Is Done!THIS GROOVES! September 20, 2003
Andre' S Grindle (Bangor,ME.)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Finaly a team of DJ's and samplers who actaully know what
their doing.Every cut on "Homework" emphasises dancibility above
all else."Teachers" even offers a funky shout-out to every artist
known and unknwon who influenced the two and of course "Around The World" is "Around the World".The memorable "Fresh"
and "Pheonix also stand out,even ammong a little indulgent DJ
turntable noodling here and there.But no matter how they do it
it seems Daft Funk would be a better name because these tracks
GET DOWN!!
Mood Music March 10, 2000
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
Picture the scenario.....you're having a party, u need a cd that can a)serve as a backdrop for interesting convo and b)keep butts bouncin til da break'o dawn. Enter Daft Punk's Homework! These songs are built straight for the dancefloor. the beats are so basicially-infectious and the groves so tight, toes and feet cant help but to wiggle to them. Although not every track is a gem,(be wary of "Oh Yeah", "Rock N roll" and Rollin N Scratchin[unless u like german hardcore techno!]), the cd is a virtual built in rave! Stand-out traks for most bumpage are "indo silver club", "revolution 909", my personal fave- "hi-fidelity" and of course "da funk". All other cuts are treasures too, but hey, a review can only be so long. Overall, if u want your party to groove, put daft punk on and press "repeat" on your cd player. A.N.
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