Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

I totally missed on Homework when it came out. I thought the album cover looked too 80s or something. At the time, I was dividing my electronic music attention between Sasha & Digweed, Dieselboy, Keoki, Electric Skychurch, and the Deee-lite remix album.

I bought Homework when I was 12. Only crut has more cred than me if hes telling the truth.

― Moka, Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:59 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nb I didn't buy it till ~2001 when I was 13

in primary school, every boy i knew had the same ten or so cds...

daft punk, homework
prodigy, fat of the land
a blur album
what's the story morning glory
verve, urban hymms
chemical brothers, the one with block rockin beats
fatboy slim, come a long way baby
reef, place your hands one
manic street preachers, everything must go
bently rhythm ace
+ something by ocean colour scene, or embrace or something like that.

i grew up a rockist though, and *only* owned cds by prince, santana and jimi hendrix

I would have been 26 for Homework, and I remember one of my friends at the radio station going "I like 'Da Funk,' it reminds me of 'Never Let Me Down Again' by Depeche." Probably explains why KROQ jumped on it too.

I was 21 when homework was released.
a student in paris while it was burning with french touch sounds.
"around the world" was the jam.

def remember first hearing homework, spent the day at a mate's house who had an older brother and a hangout room complete with a pool table, cd player, drum kit. we put it on, ate sweets, tried to smoke for the first time and generally acted pretty weird/silly. those guys became my secret music friends.

remember thinking it sounded different to what i'd hear 'kevs' or 'trevs' playing in their souped up vdubs, and also different from what i'd heard at the roller/school disco. i didn't HATE it like i did all other 'fake music' but i didn't really get into it until i was about 15 and trying to go to the pub.

14, loved "Da Funk", bought the album but didn't really click with most of it for a few years until I got into house properly. Chemical Bros and The Prodigy and etc. were easier propositions. Most of Homework is way more thuggish ruggish than that stuff.

must have been super fun to have been a youngster in paris during the french touch years damn

I was 17/18 and thought it wasn't as interesting as Orbital.

in primary school, every boy i knew had the same ten or so cds...

daft punk, homework
prodigy, fat of the land
a blur album
what's the story morning glory
verve, urban hymms
chemical brothers, the one with block rockin beats
fatboy slim, come a long way baby
reef, place your hands one
manic street preachers, everything must go
bently rhythm ace
+ something by ocean colour scene, or embrace or something like that.

i grew up a rockist though, and *only* owned cds by prince, santana and jimi hendrix

― Crackle Box, Thursday, April 25, 2013 1:25 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this list bringing back horrible horrible memories

I was about the only one of my friends who owned Homework.

Have never owned Fat of the Land, interestingly; had all the singles off it and considered that enough.

funny to think of any primary school kids owning CDs (esp. by worthy AOR dudes) even in 1997

must have been super fun to have been a youngster in paris during the french touch years damn

Worked with a couple of young French guys who'd moved to London a couple of years after Homework and their complaint was always how the new French stuff just wasn't actually that popular there compared to in the UK. That said they were both more into Garnier (and also psy-trance) tho.

At primary school?! Come on, weren't you all into playing tig and digging up bugs and stuff?

iirc we thought 'Celebration' was the best album ever

Yeah, I didn't really listen to music much before I was about 12. Not in an 'owning albums' kind of way.

'Disintegration' rather! xp

the uniformity among my friends in primary school was a bit disconcerting, even remember thinking that back then! same 10 cds, same cd player, same trainers, same computer game system etc

same uniforms

No one I knew was buying music when I was in primary school, but it was an earlier time I guess. I remember thinking I was a bit of an anomaly for having convinced my dad to buy me a copy of Gonna Make You Sweat.

oh man, i even had a band in primary school, we covered (played along to the track) prince "gett off" for a school assembly thing, a teacher heard us practice and we had to change it to pj and duncan

The two big videos were perennials on middle-of-the-night French TV, I remember that much - along with soft porn, various Wu ripoffs with the rappers playing chess while dressed as monks, and this, which is still damn cool imo:

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

I remember being into "Da Funk" due to The Saint OST. Not a great soundtrack but it had Orbital, Daft Punk and Underworld on it which were all weirdly interesting at the time for a young me who didn't know a whole lot about electronic music. For some reason I thought it had "The Box" on it too...but looking it up now and it says it didn't.

wtf The Saint OST is fantastic

I think I'm sick of this album already and it doesn't release for another month

must have been super fun to have been a youngster in paris during the french touch years damn

well, to be frank, I have pretty hazy memories of these days... a lot of drinking, parties, clubs... and "around the world", "music sounds better", etc as background music !

21 at the time - hanging out with AleXTC and discovering all these new French sounds mainly via The Face and NME (sometimes). It seems this whole French touch thing only became a thing in France when Moon Safari came out.

remember the "super discount, le patron est devenu fou compilation" ?

Been tempted to do a poll for best dancer in the 'Le patron est...' video before

when homework came out i was two years removed from my electronic music epiphany in glasgow and i remember thinking that it wasn't "real techno". which was correct of course but beside the point. the idea that anyone could make pop techno, or pop house or whatever, was utterly alien to me. that said i still don't really "get" daft punk i don't think :/

that was one of the CD that seemed to be played at EVERY parties at the time.

ahah, I kinda like how this thread has gone from crazy excited freaks to old veterans telling about the old days.
feels like being part of an AA group or something.

random access memories indeed

which makes me wonder : do people, sayg under 30, care about this new DP ?
it really feels like a 30 something/40 nostalgia trip (which is perfectly fine by me !).
like the music we loved when we were kids done by the musicans we loved when we were students...

did the babyboomers have something like that ? a band from the late 60s releasing, in the 80s, something that reminds them of the early 50s !

Lennon's "starting over" ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq7C59BrFNo

wtf The Saint OST is fantastic

Yr probably right, I haven't listened to it since 1997.

So Daft Punk is this generation's Neil Young?
Except that they've basically spent their whole career doing what Neil did in the 80s?

American Graffiti? xps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9-026ZCKR8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Xn9dK21Pw

I'm always impressed how elementary school kids can't get enough of Discovery.

Da Funk was my favorite song when I was 7-8, parents would play it all the time and it made sense to me. Not unlike MJ.

but actually it doesn't work because they're doing things that reminds their early stuff while DP's new album doesn't seem to be about what they were doing but what inspired them as kids...

xpost

Zing

http://theundergroundismassive.tumblr.com/post/48860523346/i-have-people-at-my-work-who-are-totally-oblivious

aw this thread made me listen to this for the first time since these days... it was also among the tracks that would be played everywhere in Paris then.

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

so many days chillin (hungover) with these sounds...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJmYxV9AMns

which makes me wonder : do people, sayg under 30, care about this new DP ? ime very very much YES, i would guess even that for a majority of daft punk fans in the us this is the first daft punk release they've gotten to experience in real time and they are stoked

People under 30 are awaiting this like the second coming, i say it blows JT out of the water for now.