Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

if you are on ilx you are probably middle aged

― iatee, Friday, April 26, 2013 1:39 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

speak 4 yrself

Middle aged = your parents' age. This has always been true and still is.

I am reasonably certain that mid-70s is not "middle-aged"

middle aged means 50-65 now fyi

― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Friday, April 26, 2013 10:12 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cougar joke

like 50 middle-aged people from Ohio posting about Get Lucky

The US Census lists middle age as including both the age categories 35 to 44 and 45 to 54

argh

We stay up all night to fall asleep

mouthy, brimstead, chew: nope no luck there, not Hauschka or the others.

It was more like: take Hauschka being house-y, record it somewhat live sounding like Tussle, and cross it with like... Steve Reich piano piece style repetition? Doubts increase that this exists as a thing.

I got home from an evening out before eight o'clock tonight, who am I kidding

seems GQ magazine has an exclusive of some kind interview wise. here's an interesting paragraph

"In the end, they wound up making the “Daft Punk sucks!” record themselves... It’s extremely impressive musically, weirdly pedantic in places - unless you think there’s merit in listening to Giorgio Moroder haltingly talk about his early days as a German club warrior over a click track - and probably a little overgenerous to guys like Panda Bear, who basically gets to sneak a solo track onto one of the most anticipated albums of the past decade. I would say the disco-connoisseur-y songs outnumber the potential pop smashes by a ratio of about 4 to 1, but there are definitely a couple of potential pop smashes. I have no idea who they imagine Random Access Memories being for, besides themselves, but there is something seductive about that, the band’s ability to do something so totally, breathtakingly self-indulgent - it makes you want to try to see it their way.
“It’s maybe not ‘Kill the father,” Bangalter says. “But it’s like: Things have got to move on.”

Do you have a link to the whole thing?

http://imgur.com/a/BqOsl ?

I got home from an evening out before eight o'clock tonight, who am I kidding

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 lu- o shit I have to get up in eight hours I better go.

Thanks Crüt!!

I just noticed that "Get Lucky" debuted at #19 on Billboard this week.

So that setttles it, then. This will not be a pop album or a commercial hit the way Discovery was. It's experimental and slightly weird.

Also, melancholic.

everybody go home

unless you think there’s merit in listening to Giorgio Moroder haltingly talk about his early days as a German club warrior over a click track

^ YES I DO

we're up all night to get... pedantic?

wonder what the other 2 'pop smashes' are then.

Later I'll give the two of them a ride home in my car, and from the backseat, de Homem-Christo will break character to beatbox the hard-hitting percussion break in Montell Jordan's "This IS How We Do It" when it comes on the radio, a sublime and unexpected moment, like watching a goat yell like a man.

lmao

haha

we're up all night to get... pedantic?

surely the most precise of ilx board descriptions.

^^ http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/anigif_enhanced-buzz-3541-1366915742-6.gif

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...

― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, April 25, 2013 5:11 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in europe (incl. UK) i get that feeling yeah: RAM interest is mainly restricted to people who got discovery if not homework at the time.

it seems very different in the US though.

i remember phoning a friend on the landline to tell him to turn on radio 1 because they were playing da funk and being shouted at by his mum for calling so late

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/27/daft-punk-nile-rodgers-disco?CMP=twt_fd

Last month, when the band were filming the video for Get Lucky in Los Angeles, Rodgers says he realised that the dancers didn't really know what they were listening to.

"Somebody called out, 'Wow, what kind of music is that?'" Rodgers recalls. "I didn't hesitate, I said, 'disco!' And they all screamed back, 'Yeah!'. It was like they'd found something mythical that they'd heard about but didn't know. There was an organic connection between the kids and the music. At the end they were literally weeping. I've seen those moments. I've been that guy – and it was for real."

lots of ppl i know (<30) are interested in DP, what is this nonsense

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KzIvHCxsHfQ/S8pldHDDVxI/AAAAAAAAAAU/hIjG0zEX49w/s1600/dancing_533.jpg

We just dont want this thread to die so we're discussing all the possible psychosocial implicatons of this new album. Following up: race, gender and religion. Which ones dig? Which ones dont?

I'm sure most religions oppose the technosexual implications of a pair of robots up all night to get some. Theyre still habing a hard time approving human/human marriage.

*having

The dancers were literally weeping, people! Where is this video?

Which dancers?

video prob gets released sometime this week?

still crossing fingers for a paul williams vice video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPuS8GgOM_I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCjQD95dvM

old ppl (like really old ppl) love disco ime

So that setttles it, then. This will not be a pop album or a commercial hit the way Discovery was. It's experimental and slightly weird.

― Moka, Friday, April 26, 2013 10:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmmm, shades of 10,000Hz there...

moroder's jock getting heavy riding:

http://www.nme.com/news/daft-punk/69979

old ppl (like really old ppl) love disco ime

― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Saturday, April 27, 2013 2:30 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i figure that since really old people (but not THAT old) would've been in their 30s-40s when disco was getting popular, it makes sense that future old ppl are getting excited about daft punk. also disco is the easiest music to dance to, an old could twitch their eye in time and that would be a valid disco move

also disco is the best style of music ever developed

otm

"Nile Rogers jam makes people happy" is the least surprising thing about any of this

i figure that since really old people (but not THAT old) would've been in their 30s-40s when disco was getting popular, it makes sense that future old ppl are getting excited about daft punk. also disco is the easiest music to dance to, an old could twitch their eye in time and that would be a valid disco move

― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Saturday, April 27, 2013 4:16 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yahhh like my grandparents on my mom's side basically didn't like any music after 1955, except for disco, which they loved

it's got a beat, u can dance to it

my parents still hate disco

your parents aren't in the demographic I'm talkin bout tho

tru. also I'm pretty sure that in their heads all disco sounds like KC and the Sunshine Band.