Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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.

ten years from now it's gonna all be a group of ilxor kids going "oh yeah well i got ratatat's first mix cd when i was like NINE"

kinda surprised we don't have any Aja types popping in nowadays who are younger than ILX

I'm waiting for the ones who are the RESULT of ILX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Yn72QM-lg

poster named 'pipecock' gave 'get lucky' the thumbs up on a RA review, did he get banned? or is he still around under a diff dn? used to enjoy his recommedations on the dance threads

they better be doing some 'collaborator' videos with john robinson and omar hakim

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maitr9VPOI1qlr6jvo1_500.jpg

It's sad that I can remember reading this review. I am so old.

I still HAVE that issue. Remember that review too. Hell I'm pretty sure I remembered at the time just as a random description I thought worked great.

that stereolab track is so great

Who wrote that review?

what does that darlin' 45 go for now?

IIRC it was Ian Gittins but I could be wrong. I'll have to dig that up.

answering my own Q

apparently $106 on discogs

"daft punky" doesn't really work, good call robots

I regret not buying that because of Huggy Bear hatred.