2 weeks Ago By Sam Willings
A community of fans have collectively voted on the duo’s music, deciding on the best and worst albums, most overrated and underrated works, best and worst songs, worst remixes and more. Some of the results are probably obvious, but others are a tad surprising. Users on the subreddit participated in the voting game over the past two weeks, following a grid template that would get a daily update based on fans’ most upvoted answers.
Naturally, there was some passionate debate about each category — especially on the Worst Album, Worst Song, and Most Overrated Album categories — but the fans seem to be in full agreement on at least some of the results. Taking the crown of Best Album is 2001’s which was a pretty unanimous decision; the closest contender was 2013’s The former has gone down as one of the top albums of all time, most recently placing 23rd in , but the latter picked up four Grammy Awards in 2014. Perhaps that’s one reason Reddit voters placed it in the Most Overrated Album square.
Contrastly, the Most Underrated Album spot was won by which received mixed reviews upon its 2005 release, but also picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album. Meanwhile, the Worst Album by Daft Punk according to Reddit is . This remix album was released in 2011 to accompany the duo’s official soundtrack for Disney’s Although technically a Daft Punk album, Daft Punk’s manager (also the boss at French label Ed Banger Records) said of its release: “I am 100 per cent sure the Daft [Punk] boys were not involved in this side (sad) project.
” Meanwhile, the title of Worst Song was given to the 2004 track by Franz Ferdinand, and the Best Song was awarded to a track from Other picks from include as Most Genius Song — likely thanks to the by Daft Punk and — and the dance anthem which fans claimed as the Best Chorus Song. The Best Lyrics Song was given to the slow, romantic cut, Todd Edwards, who also appeared on the track, , was voted as Daft Punk’s Best Collaborator. Two tracks from Random picked up some opposing awards in Most Underrated Song and Most Overrated Song.
was voted as the Most Underrated, while was voted as Most Overrated. The latter is probably unsurprising, given the billions of collective streams it’s accrued across digital streaming platforms. In other Daft Punk news, of the duo’s feature-length film, which is soundtracked by One commenter wrote of the re-release: “Even watching this trailer on a small phone, you can immediately tell AI was used.
..The crowd scenes in particular are a dead giveaway.
It looks so bad, there’s no way I’d spend money to see this in a theatre where the imperfections are going to be giant.” Another added: “I don’t see why this was needed. It seems like a lazy cash grab.
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