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Oh I guess it was him then. Anyway that's abt all I remember of HAA's role in the RAM narrative

Feel kinda bad for Guy-Man now tbh

human after all is okay. it's better than RAM for sure. i actually dig the concept behind both albums (HAA especially), the execution is just miles off the mark.

(though they have a song apiece that really nails their album concepts: "give life" and "make love")

lose yourself to dance is hella good, nile's guitar shreds, and the beat fucking slaps hard, will accept pharrel's reedy voice as price of admission

I don't know about genres and narratives, but I sure do like the notes on this album. I particularly like the pitch and timbre of those notes, and how they arranged them and the beat with respect to time. The relative amplitudes of the notes? Yeah, I enjoy them too.

if i hadn't made it clear, i don't like any of those things about it, either =/

well I'm afraid that you must at least like the notes on the album. those notes show up on bunch of other albums imo.

christ.

every time someone complained, there would be a greek chorus of naysayers to the tune of, "you just hate that it's not like discovery, daft punk made a prog album, we need to judge it by prog standards" etc etc. (by which standards, like any other, i personally think it's an embarrassing mess.)

like, uh, okay, what?

is there another board where this reaction is documented

Maybe it ws Greek

loved this album, though i generally despise pharrell (i imagine daft punk know little about modern R&B, which is why they went for such a shitty vocalist) so found it hard to really like the songs he is on, though i still like lose yourself in spite of him having to sing it. i cant actually pick a favourite, when i was listening to this a lot, it changed all the time. though the instrumentals did seem the most dissapointing.

if you want real/old/proper daft punk, you should just go and find kanye's yeezus album.

@insufficiently lastfm daft punk page for /sure/ and youtube like heck. see also: twitter. i also was checking into the daft club forums a bit at the time, and iirc that was the general dichotomy of the reactions there as well.

i wouldn't be surprised if there was some of it here, too, but given i only really started checking these boards a few months ago that's a total guess on my part.

this album's execution is largely excellent in a very obvious way - the concept is easily the bigger 'problem' (in that it's ultimately not all that interesting to enough people besides DP to homage so directly so much)

it's pretty easy to forget about the concept ime

yeah it's not that big a problem I enjoyed listening to this regularly for a good 9 months at least :)

I listened to the whole thing a few weeks ago on the drive back from Big Ears and it sounded amazing! everything sounds so good on this record. I get why people who are used to super-punchy dance music don't like it but I'm just delighted with it. I like parts of Discovery a lot (esp. Voyager/High Life/Veridis Quo) but some parts fall flat for me because they're so underdeveloped; I appreciate that Daft Punk made a record where all of the songs are finished. if I want to hear a French touch disco loop record I'll go listen to those old Le Knight Club releases. a new Le Knight Club record is what the people really want, right?

"Game of Love" is underrated - listen to the gorgeous rhodes, the little guitar wikkas that disappear in the second half, the harmonized humming part that sounds like sine waves & the little vocoded "breath" sounds inserted in between

I listened to the whole thing a few weeks ago on the drive back from Big Ears and it sounded amazing! everything sounds so good on this record.

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otm -- this album didn't fully click for me until driving to the beach

I like parts of Discovery a lot (esp. Voyager/High Life/Veridis Quo) but some parts fall flat for me because they're so underdeveloped; I appreciate that Daft Punk made a record where all of the songs are finished

I can't understand this... Discovery to me feels like a perfectly formed record from start to finish. RAM sounds like a rush job of muddled half-concepts.

I wish there'd been a bit more prog on RAM. Touch is as close as it gets but it sticks out on the album as something that could have been better presented elsewhere. A DP musical with a revolving cast of guest players would have been a great idea.

"Game of Love" is underrated - listen to the gorgeous rhodes, the little guitar wikkas that disappear in the second half, the harmonized humming part that sounds like sine waves & the little vocoded "breath" sounds inserted in between

― example (crüt)

This is a great description of why this song is so good.

record is comparable to recent dangelo record for sheer sonic pleasures.

album has some ropey drumming on it - i dont care if the drummer played on thriller. hes obv been playing some dodgy stuff since 1982.

I played most of it again today. It's still too soon to return. Refractory periods have their place.

i dont care if the drummer played on thriller. hes obv been playing some dodgy stuff since 1982.

he played on Off The Wall not Thriller and that's JR Robinson you philistine

i'll concede that Omar Hakim has played on some dodgy records though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkVW-y1pbME

I don't mind the drumming on this album at all, it's part of the reason I like 'Giorgio By Moroder' and 'Contact' so much!

Hakim played on Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms, if I remember correctly?

"Touch" intro sounds like the intro here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Z_mR3em1U