Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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

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

fuckin "kylie and madonna" etf. XD

the rest of that is good info though. I love lindstrom, although not the christabelle record, and todd terje. the rest of those names are completely mysterious to me, so I'll gladly check them out. it doesn't make me like this song any less though (and I'm not an enormous daft punk fan to start with.

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

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, April 19, 2013 10:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ironically i did think a lot of it could be applied to daft punk but i've been paying too little attention just to lob that in there too

♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪

♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪
♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ we're up all night to get lucky ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪

― 乒乓, Friday, April 19, 2013 7:36 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we're going to need robot ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪s for robot voices, get on it someone

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So I think this is better than Robot Rock, but not as good as Release the Beast.

Thought I'd clicked on the Boston bombing thread, was very confused

it's hard to shake the intuition there is something rotten if not even essentially malign at the core of this lark

Please to explain

the part they've been pushing at the coachella fest and elsewhere is great but the pharrell verses before and after that are horribly flat, vocally and musically, pharrell's "uh"s and "aha"s sound lazy as hell. like he just doesn't know what else to do other than make that lame sound. shame because that leaked section was so promising.

I don't care if people think this song sucks -- I love it but it does sound kinda weird/flat if you listen to it right after e.g. a Le Knight Club record -- but trying to say what they're doing is "rotten" is almost offensive to me. I feel a good heart behind the music despite the high-budget hijinks.

why would you be offended by that?

cynical aspects to the style and presentation yeah but hey what's up generous and ascendant groove

when i took french the teacher asked us to name some french musicians or bands and the only one anyone said was "the robot guys, daft punk" so i mean, i guess thats p famous

ok that was literally 1000 xposts

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

dig a fair amount of this stuff. doesn't make me love "get lucky" any the less. sounded amazing & put a smile on my face right off the bat. still does.

and griping about ridiculous hyperbole in their generally ridiculous promotional campaign is, well, you know...

pharrell's vocal sounds kind flat like that because that's what a vocal sounds like that hasn't been hacked to death. i really his delivery in this. mix and mastering engineers have done an A+ job on this, just had a listen through a big soundsystem and it just gets better and better the more you turn it up.

yeah - i was just gonna say, it sounds minimally processed (mainly on the chorus) and given what we saw from moroder yesterday, it's Very Much Intentional

tbh I think the Moroder post was based on the 128kbps mp3 which might just not get that loud to begin with -- that's how the low bitrate My Bloody Valentine mp3s were. Tho it definitely lacks that vacuum-cleaner compression sound, which is a good thing IMO.

when i took french the teacher asked us to name some french musicians or bands and the only one anyone said was "the robot guys, daft punk" so i mean, i guess thats p famous

ok that was literally 1000 xposts

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), vrijdag 19 april 2013 17:11 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Did the teacher know who they are, is what I'd like to know

Also Pharrell is a producer turned vocalist and hes always had the singing abilities of a mosquito. Guy does have charisma and emotion to compensate.

Guy does have charisma and emotion to compensate.

*did

But he was terrible at trying to interview Nardwuar.

better than owt on Human After All.