Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

this song wins

Oh, so you're about a third of the way through them then. xp

the 97 steps edit sounds kind of cool

http://soundcloud.com/smokey-mouse/daft-punk-get-lucky-ft-pharell

"provides nothing in innovative qualities."

people sound like such fucking nerds when they say stuff like this. since when is music required to be "innovative" and since when should that be evident w/in 2 hours of a piece of music being released?

reminds me of

"It's practically brainwashing, isn't it? Daft Punk seem to be operating under the premise that if you hear something enough times, you'll start to believe it. But after more than 15 listens to Discovery's first single and opening track, "One More Time," vocodered vocalist Romanthony doesn't have me "feeling the need," much less not waiting, celebrating, and dancing so free. This could just be me, of course. Maybe I just haven't taken enough ecstasy and horse tranquilizers to appreciate the tinny, sampled brass ensemble, the too-sincere "chill out" midsection, or the fat drum machine beats that throb in time with my headache."

i used to hate 'one more time'

I don't know what's real anymore! ;_;

now on spotify too fwiw

http://open.spotify.com/album/2ePFIvZKMe8zefATp9ofFA

For the french speaking ilxors, a track by track interview with da robots:
http://obsession.nouvelobs.com/musique/20130418.OBS6224/random-access-memories-par-daft-punk.html

so when Daft Punk sits down with Niles Rogers to talk.. or share a meal, do they keep the helmets on? Is this one of those things where they never break character like Alf?

Nile

Rodgers

Ahah. One-two punch.
You've been daft punk'd !

Interesting interview... Oddly enough they mention their track with panda bear as the only "electronic" song n this album.

I have to sleep, if I have time ill do a translation tomorrow for you guys.

i have paid 0 attention to this promo campaign til now but u guys this song is pleasant but kinda boring

uh oh

Haha you would be totally vibing out to it if it didn't have the words 'Daft Punk' attached to it.

is there a reason this has 900 new answers pre-release btw? i have literally paid NO attention to it

It HBFS vocoders over a classic Chic groove. That's good enough for any summer.

it's not objectionable or anything it's just kinda dull. people are going nuts over this because...

Yeah that's the thing, if it were just put out by some other nu-disco producer then it wouldn't have the thousand-post thread and the hysteria. But it's a lot better than that, and not every jobbing nu-disco producer can get Nile Rodgers on a track.

It's about:

300 posts of people handwringing about Julian Casablancas/Pharrell/Panda Bear
200 posts of people posting "we're up all night to get lucky" over and over again
400 posts of people torturously debating whether or not the track is fake

+ 1 zillion posts of pharrell_otm.gif

I'm putting this in a playlist with "Rock Your Body"

+ loads and loads of 'daft punk is/is not equal to the following bands'

Yeah that's the thing, if it were just put out by some other nu-disco producer then it wouldn't have the thousand-post thread and the hysteria. But it's a lot better than that

there's a ton of jobbing nu-disco around right now that's better than this, even minor stuff! and would you know it was nile rodgers if you hadn't been told?

300 posts of people handwringing about Julian Casablancas/Pharrell/Panda Bear

i didn't know about the first or third person. lollllllllllllllllllllllll my briefly flickering interest has been 100% extinguished. ENJOY YR MEDIOCRE MUSIC EVERYONE

Happy to finally hear the whole (radio edited) track anyway.
Just to get it out of my system and stop obsessing over a 1min loop !

the day i obsess over a 1min loop, by even my most beloved artists, is the day i take a long hard look at my life and my choices

don't expect that day to ever come

Ahah so I guess you're on the wrong thread !

the day i obsess over a 1min loop, by even my most beloved artists, is the day i take a long hard look at my life and my choices

you've spent more time complaining about the reaction to a 1min loop

even the slowest typers i know could have written that in <1min

ffs lex you're like john major at parties

some songs are 1 minute long or less - god just imagine obsessing over them...

having heard The Sherbs track intro now I'm p excited to hear the DJ Falcon collab

"and would you know it was nile rodgers if you hadn't been told?"

lol lex.

"Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone and it's not moving one inch," Thomas says. "That's not what artists are supposed to do."

great thing to say before embarking on a predictably grotesque comeback campaign of nostalgia-fetishistic mass psychosis, really puts those mindless brostep raver hordes in their place

Looking over NR's production credits, I'm not sure I recognized him with the B52s, but pretty much everything from his golden era (certainly through '84) is indelibly his record.

^ unmistakably, even (I've been listening to Boston police scanners into the wee hours. Slack where due).

"Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone and it's not moving one inch," Thomas says. "That's not what artists are supposed to do."

great thing to say before embarking on a predictably grotesque comeback campaign of nostalgia-fetishistic mass psychosis, really puts those mindless brostep raver hordes in their place

^ otm

my briefly flickering interest has been 100% extinguished. ENJOY YR MEDIOCRE MUSIC EVERYONE

― flamenco drop (lex pretend)

This probably means we won't see you in this thread again right? Just like when you made your mind up about hating Grimes you didn't bother posting in her thread anymore.

Anyway, this single is perfect. So happy right now but will be even happier when we have another two minutes of it on the album.

Straight in at number two on UK itunes.

#5 in aus

predictably grotesque comeback campaign of nostalgia-fetishistic mass psychosis

someone should quote this and say "otm". oh it's happened already.

"Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone and it's not moving one inch," Thomas says. "That's not what artists are supposed to do."

great thing to say before embarking on a predictably grotesque comeback campaign of nostalgia-fetishistic mass psychosis, really puts those mindless brostep raver hordes in their place

^ otm

― Crackle Box, Friday, April 19, 2013 9:34 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

It's actually true and an OTM point to make but on the other hand if the rest of the album is this enjoyable then who gives a shit.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/98661857aea0b0652c0821b54d53a93c/tumblr_ml8suqejN71qa9bmvo2_r2_500.gif

OTM.

It['s] HBFS vocoders over a classic Chic groove. That's good enough for any summer.

this

It's actually true and an OTM point to make but on the other hand if the rest of the album is this enjoyable then who gives a shit.

― Matt DC, Friday, April 19, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah. I think there have definitely been some comments surrounding the release of this record that have been yawn-inducing. To paraphrase: "oh music doesn't have soul anymore" or something from one of those videos upthread. Much eyerolling in the how's life house. But

if the rest of the album is this enjoyable then who gives a shit.

Yes, it's the music that matters.