Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

Meanwhile, Pharrell will be in NYC TONIGHT (4/19) at House of Vans for a free (but "sold out") show at the venue. Talking to VIBE about the show, Pharrell said:

"The concert is going to be electric. I'm going to give the crowd something they're never going to forget. There is this song that we just dropped, so you may see something extra special."

thanks for that Moka

...his penis?!

that was an xpost

the gonzales track sounds cool

"Julian has a punk rock side, that creates a strong emotional impact in his melodies."

huh

i'd say this jibes with my idea of his performance on, say, "reptilia"

mad xps but in reference to "When did daft punk become hot with the indie kids": i have specific memories of buying a CD of homework in college after some strong recommendations from college djs and this was in Murfreesboro TN so i don't think it's exactly a new phenomenon that a good percentage of their core audience is pop music listeners or that they haven't been influential/impactful enough that they can't be credited as being MAJOR ARTISTS both artistically and financially?
anyways, i haven't listened to homework in a minute and it holds up lovely

forks otm

"One More Time" and "Da Funk" and "Face to Face" and "Around the World" were all fairly well-known amongst my high school peers.

american indies have loved daft punk since da funk

jams murphy played daft punk to the rock kids @ cbgbs iirc

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

While I agree that hype based on name alone is always suspect (rockis... never mind), until a few years ago, I had no idea how many records he'd been involved with that I'd always considered perfect since childhood.

yeah they were always well loved by the indie set, plus you can't write off the influence of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8JrQ9w5jY

lol xps

man, homework is a really great fucking album; why haven't i returned to this for so long

I doubt that song did much for Daft Punk's popularity because they are way more popular than LCD Soundsystem. The reason Jams Murphy wrote that song is because DP were getting so many hipster kisses already.

Used to unfairly loathe Homework cuz stoner arts ditor at college newspaper played it and Jamiroquai nonstop.

yeah they were deeply embedded in the indie psyche before that song was made. thats why it was made imo

daft punk became mainstream w/ young people their big tour. 2007. they were hipster huge before that.

To answer lex's post: I associate chik-a-chik guitar licks with Nile Rodgers anyway.

i got into homework via a girlfriend who worked at the college radio station with me my freshman year. she broke up with me after a month. when discovery came out i was a music director so i got to hear it before anyone else and i told her it was bad. still not sure if it was psychological payback or if it just took me a while to get into discovery.

so cruel

heh, i have a handful of albums that just fuck with me because they're relationship related in my head forever and i'm never ever gonna try them again. in some cases that's likely a good thing; I don't think i am gonna get anything out of going back to Tori Amos' under the pink or Peter Gabriel's Passion soundtrack anytime

i remember seeing the video for "one more time" when it came out and the dumb guy i was dating then and all his ridiculous indie friend poo-pooing it, we broke up soon after

Smart move.

I think the first thing I heard/saw by them was "Around the World" on AMP.

I didn't fully get Discovery when I bought it because I was young and didn't have a broad enough musical context to make sense of it. In fact I started an embarrassingly offtm and confusing ILM thread about it.

Lady (Hear Me Tonight) and One More Time I associate with fall 2000.

I didn't fully get /Discovery/ when I bought it because I was young and didn't have a broad enough musical context to make sense of it. In fact I started an embarrassingly offtm and confusing ILM thread about it.

well all is forgiven after This is the thread where I sing along to "Da Funk"

I doubt that song did much for Daft Punk's popularity because they are way more popular than LCD Soundsystem. The reason Jams Murphy wrote that song is because DP were getting so many hipster kisses already.

― crüt, Friday, April 19, 2013 2:21 PM (2 minutes ago)

I dunno, from 2001-2004 daft punk went quiet, feel like for an audience of a certain age that LCD single was a branding experience plus it ended up nommed for a grammy so not exactly an obscurity

And Losing My Edge also had the line about playing Daft Punk to all the rock kids.

He played them at CBGBs.

Another thing, "Around the World" and "One More Time" got mainstream radio play here. I don't think I ever heard "Technologic" on the radio but I do remember it all over the place IRL when it came out.

technologic was in an apple commercial

OMG that reminds me of the most epic radio trainwreck I've ever heard: "One More Time" into "I Believe I Can Fly". I almost had to stand and applaud for how little that transition worked.

I think it was at least a year or two after the album was released tho

daft punk was huge when homework came out obv, feel like it was kind of the cool album to listen to during the "electronica" "craze", as opposed to the more hyped up prodigy/chem bros.

I remember in my disaffected college youth I hated on Daft Punk because they were "too popular" and opted for Metro Area instead. Despite the fact that Daft Punk would've been right up my alley back then. In my memory they were all over the place in 2001, but being a music nerd that probably doesn't mean all that much re: mainstream popularity.

Noisy/problem songs on homework that would likely be enjoyable out of context but always bug me when they break up the album: rollin and scratchin, rock n roll, burnin
just me?

also, game on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOlM5CDSoi8

The only radio station that I ever heard Daft Punk get played on was the one that ended up leaking the track.

But their videos got quite a bit of airplay, moreso the Homework ones than Discovery.

2001-2004 daft punk went quiet but thats when everyone got into them, ime

the Gondry/Jonze connection was definitely a big contributor to their popularity with indie types

2001-2004 daft punk went quiet but thats when everyone got into them, ime

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Friday, April 19, 2013 3:34 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like Weezer 1997-2000

incidentally the first time I heard daft punk was at a tower records listening station in nashville, in tennessee, in 97

windows 95 was the primary vehicle for the ascendency of weezer, discuss

The release included a number of "Fun Stuff" items on the CD, including music videos of Edie Brickell's "Good Times"[13] and Weezer's "Buddy Holly", most notably resulting in a sudden skyrocket in the popularity of the video and song "Buddy Holly" that won Weezer a place in MTV Music Video Awards history.

The thing that always struck me about Homework was the artwork inside with all of the tchotchkes from their various influences -- The Beach boys sticker, etc. Notwithstanding "Teachers," very little of that showed up in their music until Discovery.

^^ this post

http://globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/picard_ashamed.jpg

Ok, here's the full translation to the french article:

Give Life Back to Music

"One of our ambitions for this album was to create something that was both light and elegant. In this song, John Robinson Jr. plays drums. He was also the session drummer for Michael Jackson's "Off The Wall". What's great about having a performer like him is the infinity of possible shades: something we couldn't have achieved with electronic programming. Albums produced by Quincy Jones have always fascinated us by their ultimate precision that has never been achieved by any technology whatsoever. It's the fundamental difference between "Thriller" and "Bad." In the later, the quality of the production is very high, but the performance feels lackluster. "

The Game of Love

"We sing with vocoders. These days human voices are processed to sound robotic, we find exciting to make a robotic voice sound as humane as possible. The idea of ​​artificial intelligence imitating men ... An emotion of something that is not human but tries to be. "

Giorgio by Moroder

"We met (Moroder) several years ago and he has always been for us a kind of mythical figure, a little mysterious. We were interested in his personal journey through music. The idea behind this song is to reenact some sort of documentary based on a series of interviews we conducted with him. Giorgio Moroder's voice was recorded with multiple microphones several different times ... in the end we recorded about three hours of interviews in which he recounts his life as a musician. This piece is a metaphor for musical freedom: we have always tried to break down the barriers between genres, between good and bad taste, the connected and unconnected. Giorgio is a bit of a model of its own kind. He was born in a small provincial town, began studying music in hotel lounges, started as an opening act for Johnny Hallyday doing progressive rock. To hear him say at his 72 years, "ah, I made electronic music forty years ago," it's fascinating. "

Within

"Gonzales plays the piano on this song. He's a friend and a great pianist, one of the best musicians of his generation. "Within" is one of the first songs we recorded. It is very minimal: a sparse rhythm section, bass and piano. Create more with less, this was the idea behind the song's title. "

Instant Crush

"This song features Julian Casablancas from The Strokes. We are both great fans and we were told that he wanted to meet us. We had a demo lying around when he came to visit us, we showed it to him and he loved it. He has a gift. At our core, we love rock and the concept of a rock band, but for us it was always difficult to emerge as a new voice in that genre. Modern bands like, say, The Strokes or MGMT - with their own dimensions and sensitivities - did succeed. Julian has a punk rock side, that creates a strong emotional impact in his melodies. It was important for us to make this album feel surrounded by our contemporaries.

Lose Yourself to Dance

"This song defines best what we desired to do with this album: very detailed but simple at the same time, nothing but bass, drums, guitars - and robots! This is the opposite of something overproduced. Our fantasy was to redo dance music using real drums. Doing this record has brought us enormous satisfaction, we are proud of using real drums on the album and not a rhythmbox. There are two drummers on the album: John Robinson Jr., who holds the record for most recorded drummer in the world, and Omar Hakim, who started playing with Stevie Wonder since he was 16 years old."

Touch

This song marks the second part of the album. It is at this point we're we met with sound engineer, Paul Williams. Paul Williams visited us in the studio and from this meeting something very cinematic and very narrative(?) was born. "Touch" clearly defines the psychedelic aspect of "Random Access Memories." This piece is made up of 250 different tracks, this is a complicated, crazy piece.

Get Lucky

"Pharrell Williams sings this song: it felt natural to invite him to our album. He is a born performer, very elegant. He rarely gets the chance to show he can be a great singer, so we wanted him to act as a voice from the pantheon of legendary performers. There is no imaginary line that separates the great artists of the past and present. We wanted to give the impression of being in a capsule in the studio, isolated from the world. We don't want to give the impression that we're stuck in 1978, our idea is to take this kind of music to the present and into the future, see what happens and see if pur enthusiasm for it is contagious. "

Beyond

Another piece created with Paul Williams who wrote the lyrics. It is a cosmic, super song with poetic lyrics. We talked a lot with Paul Williams of the direction we wanted to go to with this album, and it was worth it, since he knew how to write down the words to our ideas.

Motherboard

A futuristic song, something that could come from the year 4000.

Fragments of Time

"Our reunion with Todd Edwards [house composer] after "Discovery".

Doin’ it Right

"The angelic voice behind this song is Panda Bear [Animal Collective]. We love his solo work, as well as the approach of his band. This piece - the only electronic song on the album - is the last one that we recorded. The end result is very relaxed. Probably the most futuristic and contemporary piece of the album."

Contact

A piece made ​​with DJ Falcon based around NASA's Apollo 17, the final Apollo mission. The voice is that of Captain Eugene Cernan, the last man to have gone to the moon. It is a voice that comes, literally, from space.

There might be a few translation errors from my part, but you get the gist of it.

excited for this album but I'm so sure that panda bear track is gonna suck so hard

Very intrigued by Touch.

he is the least objectionable animal collective person and I thought the Zomby track with him was ok
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