Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

not sure we need to look to the US to gauge the success of european dance acts, although it is kind of curious. i see fatboy slim failed to make waves over there.

simpler times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M-fulZStKY#!

Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger and Around the World are pretty well known too. But yeah for me it wasn't until Alive 2007 that I actually heard people outside of the usual electroheads talking about them.

those songs may be "known" but they aren't massive household name songs unless you live your life in a specific bubble (and HFBS is better known as "Stronger")

I am not arguing that Daft Punk isn't more famous now than they were when Homework came out but the idea that they are a full-on pop phenomenon when they've had zero top 40 US hits and 3 UK top 10 hits, the most recent one being over a decade ago, is ridiculous.

not sure we need to look to the US to gauge the success of european dance acts, although it is kind of curious. i see fatboy slim failed to make waves over there.

It is when looking at the hype wave currently being ridden by US posters; again, I'm not saying that Daft Punk are nobodies, particularly not in Europe, but they are not dominating pop here, they have never dominated pop here, and assuming the chart performance listed on Wikipedia is accurate they haven't dominated pop anywhere since 2001.

yeah daft punk fandom in the US seems to be a slowburner.gif; weirdly enough their arc in the US reminds me of radiohead, although radiohead did a lil' better on the charts

"I am not arguing that Daft Punk isn't more famous now than they were"

i will never understand this language

i never really thought they were any bigger than Basement Jaxx or the Chems until just a few years ago

daft punk doesn't have to have chart hits to be pretty well known at this point. they've been in big commercials, had a huge tour, were in a kanye video. they're about as famous as the flaming lips, and the flaming lips are famous enough to be in super bowl commercials.

My argument isn't that no one knows anything about Daft Punk, it's that describing them as game-changing pop giants in the mold of Madonna/Janet/Michael/Mariah/Whitney/Justin/Adele/Katy/Gaga/etc is ludicrous. They have nowhere near that level of cultural penetration.

so what's the question we're trying to answer here?

*farts*

^ flagged that post for missed comedic opportunity

Daft punk are smaller than Michael Jackson and bigger than Bentley rhythm ace

wtf, i can't imagine any other music even existing on the same plane as daft punk. they are like the legend of the phoenix.

the point about daft punk's relative commercial success/exposure will be bunk in a few weeks, going by the amount of hype surrounding this record

Moroder says a thing

maybe part of what shifted for daft punk, at least as far as critical rep goes, is that people started talking about and publishing their "best of the 00s" lists a few years back. an album ("discovery") that otherwise might have seemed like one of many fondly remembered trifles from the turn of the century e-music boom was widely celebrated as one of the most beloved and important releases of the decade.

i dunno, maybe that attaches too much importance to critics and lists.

You can believe what you want but their appeal to fans of anime and videogames gives them some leverage, especially in areas that are harder to prove with numbers. Average 4chan kids don't listen to Top 40 radio and don't buy albums.

When I google "Madonna" I get 121 million results... When I google "Janet Jackson" I get 71.5 million results... "Stevie Wonder" has 54.4 million results. When I google "Daft Punk" I get 171 million.

also like flaming lips in that shenanigans seems equally important as music in establishing their fame

Also I'm assuming this number will only increase if this album is a hit.

billstevejim you could infer equally easily that captain Picard is more famous than abraham lincoln

hahaha very true.

jesus is more famous than the beatles by the way

Well, Jesus fans meet every week to geek out. Beatles meetings are more random.

https://twitter.com/Laurentbouneau/status/324829360047665156/photo/1

https://twitter.com/FreddoPau/status/324820370492362752/photo/1

i think pharrell sounds absolutely fantastic on the verses of this, really smooth. his falsetto is a little reedy tho.

I think there was also a bunch of geeky kids that got introduced to Daft Punk because they made an anime film.

yeah, that was mentioned upthread, but otm. plus their fur affinity index is relatively high.

Well they did make some music videos with about a talking dog man.

Moroder's compression post explains everything -- that's exactly why everyone wasn't sure if this was the real mix, and is saying the transitions between vocals & bridges sound strange -- we just haven't heard a single with this much headroom in two decades, where the drums don't squash themselves flat the second anyone stops singing for half a second

I played this on a fairly good PA last night nice and loud and it sounded nice -- I hope the CD master is exactly this quiet

I can't speak for UK reception because I don't live there but US fans itt are grossly overstating Daft Punk's influence/ubiquity; outside of "One More Time" I would wager money on them being known more by musicians than by the public, and that their biggest US successes have come off of being sampled by other artists.

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When I was teaching dance classes in the mid-late 2000s, my middle school-aged students would get helllllla excited whenever I used Daft Punk, and not in the "ooh, this sounds cool, what is it?" way I'd get for e.g. Hercules & Love Affair but in an "OMG he's playing Daft Punk!" way.

moroder's compression post?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=451093828302231&set=a.132011813543769.32971.108533245891626&type=1

no wonder it sounds better as it gets louder

the leak from yesterday vs moroder's post:

http://i.imgur.com/8qi2elU.png

looks about the same to me

because it's real :)

lol, "about the same"

i.e. identical

listening/watching to the new single on dutch radio, dutch dj is bouncing around the studio and lip-syncing, all music should be released this way

also like flaming lips in that shenanigans seems equally important as music in establishing their fame

dog you gotta step your game up if literally calling shenanigans is the strongest haterade you've got going

I would like to comment as to why daft punk are so wonderful and loved, they have two qualities that I think people really get into a) attention to detail and b) expensive taste. the comparison to big beat chemical bro type dudes is kinda instructive cause those guys are sloppier on the first count and populist on the second, you could prob devine a lot abt what people value in music art and life by which they prefer

fwiw i jam to them but theyre not my fav, I find them maybe a little too studied, which i think is a quality that a lot of their fans are really vibing to, this experience of everything being in the perfect place and glowing

I can see maybe docking the Chems for this at times but no way in hell do DP pay more attention to detail than say Underworld. Expensive taste I can see.

I'm not really docking anyone, its not a value judgement

and tbf i have only the vaguest knowledge of all this big beat

a quality that a lot of their fans are really vibing to, this experience of everything being in the perfect place and glowing

nice

Apparently "Get Lucky" will be released in 30 minutes (in America)?

Am I reading this right? Or is it just a premiere?

Supposedly it's already on iTunes now.

it is

Except only in the US I think.

Or at least it's not up in Canada.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/get-lucky-radio-edit-feat./id636967993