Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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.

nostalgia-fetishistic

can we use this word again next time fucking garbage are being critically reappraised?

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, 19 April 2013 10:47 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

spose. i wouldnt dispute that 'get lucky' does its job (which presumably is to make you fleetingly forget you're twelve years closer to an anonymous death idk) but all the same, it's hard to shake the intuition there is something rotten if not even essentially malign at the core of this lark

q: do u like disco
a: yes

then here is some good disco music by daft punk its called get lucky, nile rogers and pharrell are on this song, u remember them for chic and dropping hot things, respectively

is how i breaks it down

Yeah I mean blanket dismissive statements about the entirety of a globally popular genre always elicit the eyeroll but all sorts of blowhards do it when they're promoting what turn out to be pretty great records.

they've probably been living in a cave made of diamonds for the last 20 years

can we use this word again next time fucking garbage are being critically reappraised?

― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Friday, 19 April 2013 11:04 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

i appreciate the effort it took 4 u to dredge something, anything, up there but reappraisal is not reiteration

One of the breeziest most enjoyable pop tracks likely to come out all year, one that gets me going like all hell together with this summer weather and the cherry blossom peak season, and you guys sour up the thread nitpicking quotes from people who also talk about I don't know space and aliens and robots operating in the 5th dimension to change your life in relation to this project I mean come oooon it's a party up in here.

I played the official release out tonight btw. Nobody seemed to recognize or notice or be particularly enthralled. (This was at a fairly shitty portland indieish dive bar though so I mean what do you want)

Lex, kudos for your excellent piece on Jai Paul at tQ.

But thanks for talking bollocks on here about Daft Punk, I feared sanity had poisoned you for too long, wb <3

i appreciate the effort it took 4 u to dredge something, anything, up there but reappraisal is not reiteration

don't worry, it was easy.

there's a ton of jobbing nu-disco around right now that's better than this, even minor stuff!

I would happily check out a ton of jobbing nu-disco too - even minor stuff! - if you'd obligingly drop some names instead of just obscure genres. : D

well there's nu indie disco like the lindstrom and chrisabelle record or pop like kylie and madonna, classic dj stuff on environ morgan geist etc or there's re-edit stuff like pilooski, dimitri from paris, leo zero, todd terje and about 10 million 'underground' names like patrizio & andrea, love unlimited vibes, then there's the whole claremont 56 thing with people like in flagranti, mudd, linkwood then you've got disco edits from detroit which has been happening forever, same with underground french filter disco, london has always had a huge disco scene from the tonka days with dj harvey or like idjut boys or whatever

nu-disco a totally meaningless term tbh and this doesn't really feel like it's part of any of those scenes but it certainly feels like it's at least aware of them, nods to soft rock, analogue recording, chic, balearic, it's a bit crusty/stoned but all in the context of a pop single / art project

yeah why listen to this when you could listen to that stuff^^

disco, guys

there's a lot of it out there

u think daft punk invented it but yr wrong