Championnats d’Europe sans blaireau – #8

8. Daft Punk

Technologic – Daft Punk (2005, Virgin Records)

Points: 114 (2 bonus points awarded in a fierce battle against Bolshevism)

Highest Position: 1st

You’ll remember that for this contest, Jury Members were allowed to ask for ‘Grovel Points’.  They could request bonus points for a particular band or act by grovelling to my kinder side of my nature.  Daft Punk were one of the bands that benefitted from the grovel points a decision which lifted them up a place in the final table.

There was in theory little more than a cigarette paper between the acts that finished between eighth and eleventh.  Just three points separated them all.  After the votes had been counted, Daft Punk sat in joint ninth level with The Raveonettes.  Now normally what would happen is that I would choose which of these bands I liked the best and promote one of them.  Which to be fair would have seen them elevated to eighth anyway.  However, on this occasion I had stuck a star by their name on the spreadsheet which mean I had to take into account the grovel points.

Rollin’ and Scratchin’ – Daft Punk (1997, Virgin Records)

Enter MJM Cardiff, who as some of you will recall was one of the people who gave ninth placed The Raveonettes full marks.  He asked as part of his votes if he could

“award -100 points to Daft Punk” (and U2, but that’s a given and of no importance right now, considering MJM Tbilisi had already requested that U2 started on – 1000 points)

Now, Jury Members, will know, that all attempts to scupper, infiltrate, corrupt and generally Farage the process are warmly and positively encouraged.  So, yes you can ask for negative points to be awarded, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that it will happen and sometimes you may anger the Gods in charge of the scoring.  Or I may just decide to punish such Bolshevism.

One More Time – Daft Punk (2000, Virgin Records)

But the problem is I love Daft Punk and had this nonsense of a contest been just up to me, they would have come second, and so in celebration of that I gave them an extra two points just because I could.  I may introduce anti-grovel points for the next jury vote in which acts (any act, we are nothing but fair here) will docked points if a Jury member delivers some high-level sledging against them.  Creative swearing will of course be essential.

Until then, here is some more music by Daft Punk, officially Europes eighth best act and officially France’s greatest musical export.  Yup they beat even Vanessa Paradis and her taxi.

Around the World – Daft Punk (1997, Virgin Records)

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Daft Punk (2001, Virgin Records)

Contact – Daft Punk (2013, Virgin Records)

And, here is tomorrows doubly factually correct lyrical clue.

“Thursday’s the day after Wednesday”