Ten years ago, Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories gave life back to music. The world-beating smash “Get Lucky” broke streaming records, forged a retro sound that still dominates the charts, and paved the way for artists like The Weeknd, Dua Lipa and Lizzo to craft their own throwback hits. How did Daft Punk do it? Switched On Pop’s four part-mini series Listening 2: Daft Punk unlocks the sounds, voices, and stories across all four of the group’s studio albums. On their first album, Homework, Daft Punk stretched the boundaries of electronic music and began wiring the circuits that would become their robot alter-egos, asking a fundamental question: where does the human end and the machine begin?

Songs Discussed

Daft Punk - Give Life Back to Music
Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)
The Beach Boys - Darlin'
Daft Punk - Around the World
Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Strong
Daft Punk - Robot Rock
Daft Punk - Game of Love
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Daft Punk - Teachers
Black Box - Ride on Time
Daft Punk - Daftendirekt
Daft Punk - Fresh
Daft Punk - High Fidelity
Daft Punk - Oh Yeah
Daft Punk - Phoenix
Daft Punk - Rollin' & Scratchin'
Daft Punk - Rock'n Roll
Daft Punk - Burnin'
Kraftwerk - The Robots
Vangelis - Main Titles
Brad Fiedel - Main Title - The Terminator
Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow - The Turing Test
Daft Punk - TRON Legacy (End Titles)
Daft Punk - Indo Silver Club

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The Joy of Why

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