Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

and the bowie got a weird level of excitement and hype also, way way more than i could've imagined. talk about someone benefiting from absence making the heart grow fonder.

Yeah I meant Daft Punk-Beyonce-Timberlake - those three albums are an order of magnitude bigger than virtually everything else in terms of hype and anticipation. I mean obviously an album like mbv was madly anticipated and the new U2 album will probably sell more than anything else we're talking about but they don't have the same sort of blockbuster event status.

(xpost ah yeah forgot about Bowie, that counts)

don't really think the track is fake but it's true that it sounds quite weird. The verses really fel like they've been quickly pasted onto a backing track (which is true but still...) and the transitions seem a bit rough. I also imagine there's an intro that's been chopped off. A bit disappointing overall in the sense that it does not add anything to the SNL version but whatever

this was my thought at first too but Daft Punk have always kinda operated like this. for all the slickness and stylization that they excel at they are really quite hamfisted w/r/t putting things together. Alive 2007 excluded

srsly, now that the bowie is actually out it's like everyone is like *looks at the floor, goes back to minding own business*

i've had some bowie freak friends coming up to me wanting to talk about it (they love it) and i'm guessing they'll catch on i am in no hurry to hear new david bowie but the bowie threads around here made it sound like it might actually be good. not sure how to qualify the mbv, obv historic anticipation, but there was nothing like traditional pre-release excitement cuz nobody thought that thing was actually coming out until the night it actually did. i'm not sure you can call ppl reacting to an album actually coming out and actually being great hype.

BFFs

this has the version that sounds v real to me http://beatsperminute.com/media/mp3-daft-punk-get-lucky-feat-pharrell-and-nile-rodgers/

what's really weird is i've told all of them, every single one of them, about the bowiesongs blog and praised it to high heaven and even sent them the damn url and i know none of them have read the fucking thing.

it sounds like a radio edit because it is a radio edit
xp

what's really weird is i've told all of them, every single one of them, about the bowiesongs blog and praised it to high heaven and even sent them the damn url and i know none of them have read the fucking thing.

Then fuck them and their ignorance.

If it has Pharrell singing about the phoenix, it's likely real. If it begins with just drums and bassline with a big "Swoosh" sound, it's fake.

And if it has both, it's someone trying to combine elements to make a longer version.

I want it to be fake now, 'cos that way we get a new thing on Friday, while on Wednesday some cat's made something good enough to get me moonwalking round my kitchen

Well I'm wondering if the full album version will end up getting released soon, or if we'll have to stick with this till the album comes out.

If it has Pharrell singing about the phoenix, it's likely real. If it begins with just drums and bassline with a big "Swoosh" sound, it's fake.

And if it has both, it's someone trying to combine elements to make a longer version.

Yeah it sounds off. I must insist that the vocals in the verses sound too loud /unmixed compared to the rest of the song.

That's what I thought at first, but the 'what is this I'm feeling' line is the same, and it's definitely real. It's the chorus harmonies that make it seem so I think.

This is Human after all all over again. Like the phoenix, indeed

If it's fake then the faker has recorded a perfect groovy punctuating piano part to go underneath the spliced vocals, in which case give the guy a contract. (or my ears are lying, in which case never mind)

Well sonic themselves are confirming it's actually fake (albeit similar to the real thing). Could be they fear for their lives.

https://www.facebook.com/sonic1029/posts/10151548979762580

the version they played on the radio was fake
the version they accidentally posted was not

Who fakes the fakers

makes u think huh

columbia got people shook

how deep does this thing go

while this gets cleared up.. I'll just leave this awesome fan made cover in here:

http://i.imgur.com/kXrmwM3.jpg

Upthread, like half an hour before the leak, I said the Belgium station Studio Brussel got the track and would premiere it on Friday.

No that it leaked and is all over the internet, they just played it anyway, saying it's out there now, so no need to wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-Mrc2l1d0

They said they were playing the version that was suddenly all over Twitter and everyone was going to find out on Friday whether or not this is the real deal - xpost

What did it sound like LBI?

s0nic is covering their asses. they had the real thing up for download, then took it down and replaced it with a fanmade edit, saying "oh this is close to the real thing"

*bites nails*

I just hope that in the end Sonic doesn't get in big trouble for this. They're pretty decent for a modern rock station.

I like that the vocoder enters & leaves politely instead of hogging the whole last half.

they'd'vebuoy away with it if diamonddave85 just listened to the stream like any normal person

I too hope the radio station doesn't get in too much trouble, but I am kind of astonished that they thought it was an acceptable thing to just upload the full song to their website as soon as they got it

bouy wtf? got

i've had some bowie freak friends coming up to me wanting to talk about it (they love it) and i'm guessing they'll catch on i am in no hurry to hear new david bowie but the bowie threads around here made it sound like it might actually be good.

It's not. Funny how for all the complaints he got in the seventies and eighties about being a grand orchestrator of hype and nothing more that this album really does shrivel and die beside the hype.

disagree but different strokes

here's another alfred thread for everyone to enjoy

Wham! "Music From The Edge of Heaven"– Classic or Dud?

Thanks! *goes to play "Battlestations"*

you are a distinct individual and I say that as a fan

I looped 1:06 to 1:14 of this silly 'get lucky' edit in djay and that's all I've been listening to for the last ten minutes

you are a distinct individual and I say that as a fan

I looped 1:06 to 1:14 of this silly 'get lucky' edit in djay and that's all I've been listening to for the last ten minutes

3:25 to 3:43 is better

You meant the part where he sings, "We're up all night to get lucky" over and over wither Chic piano in the bgd?

gotta put a stop to this bootleg shit

Listening again, I like--and could believe--the synth outro but just don't buy the part where the pre-chorus and vocoder are playing simultaneously.

that part of the song was featured in a youtube clip

like mentioned upthread, lol @ Daft Punk truthers.

i DO wonder what the extra two minutes will add on the album version

extra dancing time in the kitchen as I marinate the chicken?

Well from the various Collaborators videos we know there is an extended intro and a part with some guitar soloing