Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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.

I was in a trendy club today and 'get lucky' was played. The 'posh' people we're pretty into it.

That said, they were all pretty drunk.

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 5:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're living in the wrong era if you think 'experimental and slightly weird' and 'commercial hit' are opposed

this is about to be a much bigger commercial smash, at least in america, as we've gone over many times itt

My mom's favorite musical sound is Nile-style rhythm guitar, wonder if they'll play "get lucky" on the local r&b station.

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 5:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're living in the wrong era if you think 'experimental and slightly weird' and 'commercial hit' are opposed

― rap steve gadd (D-40)

Well, my comment was tongue in cheek... just paraphrasing the CQ interview. It seems that the gal who interviewed them was being unnecessarily polite about the album. It seems to me that she didn't really like it as much as she thought she would (or should) but she didn't want to talk shit about it neither.

Haha yeah totally

I was in a trendy club today and 'get lucky' was played. The 'posh' people we're pretty into it.

― Moka, Sunday, April 28, 2013 12:19 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That said, they were all pretty drunk.

― Moka, Sunday, April 28, 2013 12:19 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

wait how else are you supposed to listen to music in a trendy club

I think at this point it's pretty safe to say than rather a lot of people are really into this record whether they're drunk or not.

lmao:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Cp55MvX54

I've been enjoying watching the "tribute" versions pop up on Spotify

Whippersnappers into it. Spent last night dealing cards to my students at After-Prom. Many were irked the prom DJ didn't play "Get Lucky."

there's an Enrique now?

lol at that daughter cover

it's kinda really great

Get Lucky has moved up to number one here in the UK selling 155,000 copies which is the biggest sales for a number one single this year by quite a long way. I thought this would be a hit but had no idea just how big it was going to be, the video isn't even out yet.

I have no idea whether being no.1 means anything anymore

did it ever?

It definitely did, before we became middle-aged

for one thing, it used to mean "big hit"

genuinely dislike the daughter cover. beyond done with "plaintive indie cover of exuberant pop hit."

Such a shame, that used to be the best style of music.

tbf, i did quite like the macha cover of cher's "believe", once upon a magical time

being #1 means your song is objectively better than everyone else's that week.

http://www.billboard.com/charts/1976-10-16/hot-100

i assume there's no physical release yet, right?

in which case i think you can compare 155k to this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart_records_and_statistics#Number_one_singles_on_downloads_alone

it's the biggest selling download-only single ever, apart from RATM. or am i missing something?

oh wait, they gave up on that list 3 years ago

It's probably up there with the best selling download only number ones but I'm sure all the X Factor winners singles are above it.

Being number one doesn't mean that much but this looking like it might be the biggest single of the year is pretty unexpected and amazing. One More Time is their only really big single until this one. I wonder if they can keep up these kind of big sales for the album?

tbf, i did quite like the macha cover of cher's "believe", once upon a magical time

― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Sunday, 28 April 2013 10:07 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I bought this EP! Not sure if I still have it. I remember liking the "Believe" cover but in retrospect think of how much damage it was to go on to cause. Macha are like that Cyberdyne scientist in Terminator 2.

I remember liking the "Believe" cover but in retrospect think of how much damage it was to go on to cause.

Great EP except for the Cher cover which I did not know was influential as much as prescient.

The daughter cover is for shame, FOR SHAME.

she's my daughter

she's all our daughters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlhRQ-rj5ew

If anything Travis's cover of Britney was the high profile flashpoint.

I think there's thread on that somewhere? iirc the ur-text was pinpointed to Coltrane's My Favourite Things cover.

FACT, Mixmag, The Clash, etc all tweeting praise for that terrible Daughter cover ffs

interesting to see that the posters promoting the single (which have replaced posters promoting the album) don't mention Pharrell.

And now a reggae cover:
http://www.puna.nl/2013/04/26/video-postmen-get-lucky-daft-punk-giel3fm/