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Re:Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer'... by brandall10 on Friday July 05, 2013 @03:47PM (#5996450)
Operative word being 'were'. I lived through Discovery coming out in the club world back then. What's happened since has been a slow yet steady growth in their popularity/mythology. My parents know who they are now.

There was a pretty nice fervor surrounding their involvement in the Tron soundtrack as it was their first new work in 5 years. It went gold and peaked at number 4 in the billboard charts - not the dance charts, not soundtrack, the billboard 200. And that was just a soundtrack.

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Re:Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer'... by ddw on Friday July 05, 2013 @04:16PM (#5996568)
+1. Kanye West sampling them on a single a while ago helped a lot too to introduce them to millions of people. If anything their success proves that easy access to new music helps the cream rise to the top.
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