Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

This is like an ILM poll rollout except the suspense is not enjoyable... jeez release the thing!!

You guys got me, the hype worked. Now let me go buy the album!

this is way more enjoyable than waiting for an ilm poll.

We could complete an ILM ballot poll on this album before the album arrives to fill time.

POLL THREAD: what will be the best song on random access memories?

POLL OPTIONS:

• "get lucky"
• some other song

is there ANY way this lives up to the hype? i'm not gonna lie, "get lucky" sounds incredible

+1 -- this almost feels like Derek Taylor's campaign for Smile back in 1967, which promised to change the face of pop music. We all know how that turned out -- and as much as I'm a fan, I'm not convinced these guys have Brian Wilson's chops (tho they do pick great collaborators/samples).

What's it going to take for this to live up to the hype?

1. Some connection to their greatest moments (as indicated by the "Get Lucky" clips) but not so much that it's Discovery 2.0),

2. Somewhat related, development. Even if people didn't like Human After All or Tron Legacy, you at least had to acknowledge that they weren't just trading on past glories. As good as it sounds, this is what is potentially worrying about "Get Lucky."

3. Great songs. A differentiator for DP has been tunes -- "Digital Love," "Human After All," "One More Time," "Face to Face," etc. It makes them transcend into a pop act and appeal to a really wide variety of audiences.

What else?

cool robot imagery/motifs

Clear electric pianos.

Pyramids

the clear instruments and speakers are the coolest.

80s lo fi hommage music videos.

acknowledgment of the chillwave age.

Mexican monkeys

viral youtubes

kells had the clear piano first y'all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLnNUK9vVS0

hmmm i never thought about it that way, but i guess it would be good if this album had good music on it

GET FUNKY!

Serioulsy, there is no way this album can dissappoint, with Moroder, Edwards and Rodgers on board. Not after the all too human error that was 'Human After All'. This will fucking rule and I cannot wait.

pharrell

Video for "get lucky" was shown at Coachella - featuring Pharrell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ejWq9RR7Ec

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maybe this works:
https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10151349104567172

nope

Wow, Pharrell sounds really good on this! This album is going to be too big to fail. Moroder!!!

Yeah he really does. All these teasers and hype is just totally working on me, I can't remember the last time I was this excited about an album.

Same

Freaking out

Same

Crying

damn

cool so maybe now people can quit with "this album will rule except for pharrell because he sux"

they should just continue unveiling the album 30 seconds at a time once a month forever

chills

pretty sharp promotional move there. i mean, it seems kinda like an obvious thing to do in retrospect, but at the same time, i can't remember anyone running a big-ass ad in the middle of the biggest-ass festival and all those camera phones and twitterererers and whatnot. i dunno...i like it.

classy

cool so maybe now people can quit with "this album will rule except for pharrell because he sux"

― billstevejim

Yeah this is exactly what I thought too.

Wonder when we can actually hear and buy the whole song? I kind of need it right now.

rumoured for monday

you fucking crackheads

That is fucking awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jrp3Elwfg&feature=player_embedded

Better and longer video

this is great - massive summer hit right there.

all i'm saying is this tune better have a 10-minute extended mix

at least 10 minutes

you fucking crackheads

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 13 April 2013 10:57 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

haha true but also, im happy to be a crackhead

i'm taking a pascal's wager approach to this album... best-case scenario i'm happy and excited for the next month and then i have a wonderful new album... worst-case scenario i'm happy and excited and then i'm kinda bummed out. if i'm wary about it, i'll probably be the same level of bummed out anyway. so i will take th emonth of excitement either way.

giggling

Stand up like a Mexican monkey

kinda hope this gets radio play

Love the fact that they've been teasing us just with snippets of the same song.. It's noticeable how in those videos with collaborators they haven't revealed much else yet.

yeah, they're being pretty sly about it. Even having Nile listen to the track on headphones

we're-up-all-night-ta-get-a-luuucky