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Nothing can quite match the in-person thrills of the current Daft Punk live experience, what with the robot costumes, onstage pyramid and body-rattling beats radiating out into the blissed-out faithful. But Alive 2007 comes pretty darn close.
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The results were massive--the myriad "best show ever" kudos deserved.
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This is the first-rate live album that Electric Light Orchestra should have made but never did.
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While occasionally the duo seems to fall back on cranking up the merciless 4/4 kick until their audience begs for mercy, Alive 2007 actually does more to reveal their musicianship than almost any other Daft Punk release to date
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BlenderThe result is a happy souvenir, best experienced among 12,000 of your closest, Ecstacy-popping friends. [Dec 2007, p.144]
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The master DJs blend all their biggest hits into one enthralling, seamless mash-up of pumping bass lines, steady drumbeats, and cooing vocoders.
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SpinFew can both formulate hooks on the ecstatic level of 'One More Time' and then tweak them into noisy oblivion. [Dec 2007, p.119]
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It ultimately feels more like the document of a fantastic experience than a fantastic experience in its own right.
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Under The RadarBy the time the frenzy of 'One More Time' hits, there is a feeling of exhuberant exhaustion from the tangible overdrive of energy Alive 2007 is packing. [Fall 2007, p.84]
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MojoAn alternative greatest hits compilation, it proves that the old sound of tomorrow can still make the grade today. [Dec 2007, p.100]
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Q MagazineEVen without the Tron-like eye candy of their stage set it's a spectacular show, [Dec 2007, p.115]
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UncutThis live set sees them mash the Kraftwek-ed likes of 'Aerodynamic' and 'Robot Rock' into the girlfriend-on-your-shoulders set that's seen them own 2007's festival season, at least for anyone more interested in decks than guitars. [Dec 2007, p.89]
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If you were there and want an audio-postcard of the night when noise and flashing lights broke your brain then add four to the given mark. Otherwise this is like pretty much every live album: pointless and skippable.
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This is a compulsively listenable album, through and through, and one of the best live albums I’ve ever heard.
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As on their first two classic full-lengths, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo display excellent crowd control, pacing the record well, spacing the hits, and building the mood like the good crowd-pleasers they are.
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The intensity simply builds and builds, until it becomes wondrously hard to sort the noise from the rhythms, and vice-versa.
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Despite a few individual disappointments, Alive 2007 is as exciting a collection of music as any released this year.
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One answer, really...bass. Or, lack of bass. Having tested the disc on several systems, I can only determine that someone at Daft Punk central, or Virgin Records decided to master this disc like a pop record, the mids jacked to high heaven while the sub-bass, the stuff that actually makes you move, is completely erased.
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Songs you thought you knew are put through the spin cycle--each track deftly fastens together at least two of their best--so even if you're the level of devotee who owns 'Homework' in every format, you'll still be impressed by this heavy load.
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Here you get an hour’s worth of top-notch disco-house jams crammed together into a non-stop megamix that emphasizes both the duo’s tune sense and their body-rocking beatcraft.
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One of the most fun live albums I've heard in a long while, this is worth checking out even if Daft Punk's most recent offerings haven't done it for you.
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Deconstructing and recontextualizing their tune stock "mais oui," these robot wannabes bathed the unwashed in the blood of the synthesizer, broadening and lowering sounds that in their original substantiations owe not just Detroit techno but Ramada Inn lounge.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 165 out of 182
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Mixed: 1 out of 182
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Negative: 16 out of 182
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ManjeroApr 8, 2008
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PhillipMar 27, 2008I'm not even a fan of house music but this album is a major exception.
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Nov 6, 2011