Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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"Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo both got to talk about their time recording Random Access Memories, and it sounds like it was a long tedious process."

If you were a member of Daft Punk, wouldn't you be sending someone else to wear the robot helmet in photo shoots at this point? I definitely would.

they trade with MF Doom on alternate Wednesdays

Worst case of playbackitis I can remember was Kid A. There was no warning of what it would sound like so many of the initial UK magazine reviews were lukewarm and full of "where have the guitars gone?" bafflement and its masterpiece rep only came a little later when people (a) knew what to expect and (b) could live with it. I'm not saying this will do what Kid A did but I don't think we'll say any really insightful writing about it for a while.

I tried to go to a playback one afternoon, of a Blur album I think it was, at one of Glasgow's biggest clubs. Only when I got there there was no sign of any playback, the back door was lying open and there appeared to be nobody in the whole building. I wandered about for a bit and left, should probably have drunk the bar dry now I think about it.

I was just thinking that all these track-by-track previews remind me of the pre-Napster age. Kid A was one of the last albums I remember getting that treatment, and coincidentally the first I can remember to leak ahead of its release date. First big record, certainly.

According to this:
http://www.journaldequebec.com/2013/04/30/daft-punk-se-reinvente

The next Daft Punk's radio singles are going to be "Lose Yourself to Dance" and will be followed later by "Instant Crush".

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I'd love if this were the actual cover:

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lol at the knuckleheaded tween thinking the muppet movie is a disney soundtrack

It is now

speaking of Radiohead and advance playback, KID A was given 5 stars and a rave from Q same as this fella.

Is Chilly Gonzales named for the Valencia/Argentina player, in a Joy Orbison/Kurt Vile tribute style? That only occurred to me today.

iirc the first day he moved to Berlin someone shouted “Chilly Gonzales!” at him in the street and he took it as an omen. In my head it was shouted in the cadence of that distorted sample that recurs on the first solo album.

If you were a member of Daft Punk, wouldn't you be sending someone else to wear the robot helmet in photo shoots at this point? I definitely would.

They were definitely doing this by seven years ago, there were magazine interviews conducted with Guy-Man and Thomas while they watched the photographs for the piece being taken across the street.

I was just thinking that all these track-by-track previews remind me of the pre-Napster age. Kid A was one of the last albums I remember getting that treatment, and coincidentally the first I can remember to leak ahead of its release date. First big record, certainly.

In wider cultural memory, yeah, but I remember both Oasis's Standing on the Shoulders of Giants and the Cure's Bloodflowers both leaking some months earlier. IIRC there was even an NME report or two about how 'some Brazilian site' had the Oasis tracks and there being all sorts of debate and tsking, coming on the heels of Napster/Metallica and all.

lol Ned you burned me a copy of bloodflowers when it leaked

Ryan P4k's notes: http://ryanpitchfork.tumblr.com/post/49415140639/handwritten-notes-from-my-first-listen-to-daft

xpost -- memories!

People seem to be pretty much into the panda bear track.

So have any of you heard it? I thought we had some influential people posting in here, suddenly we're all unemployed or what?

I've heard of it.

Only got myself to blame really, but my six year old has been caught up in the excitement and has asked me to make him a DP helmet that he can wear to a street-dance display that he's doing. Not sure how I'm going to get papier-maché that shiny but uh ok boss.

xp Nope, Kid A got 3/5 from Q and Select and a very lukewarm 7/10 from NME.

I've heard RAM but couldn't say so earlier because of the embargo.

Oh, and Melody Maker gave Kid A 1.5/5. I can't think of a consensus classic from the last decade that had worse reviews.

7/10 for Kid A seems about right.

NOT CONSENSUS CLASSIC -_-

melody maker were correct (for once)

of course, every other radiohead album should have probably received worse ratings

lex

In the big picture it's a consensus classic Lex, regardless of whether you'd like to push the whole band off a bridge. Personally I'd give it 7/10 too.

it's a 6.041 if ever i've heard one

This blog demonstrates the perils of writing about an album you haven't heard and making massive, inaccurate assumptions based solely on a list of people who appear on it.

"I do think we need to understand the new DP album as curating a history of EDM." No, we don't, because it isn't.

http://its-her-factory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/more-on-daft-punk-canonizing-history-of.html

idk i dont agree with that post at all but i think theyre definitely canon-building here, just based on the way theyve talked about it. the same way theyve been doing since 'teachers' i guess

If this is indeed an attempt at canon-making, it’s really interesting how people like Larry Levan are written out of the story.

Yeah, why the fuck didn't they collaborate with Larry Levan?

lol

imo it's somewhat remarkable that daft punk have never collaborated with a female artist, esp in their field

I don't know what kind of canon-building would include Paul Williams, whose presence is solely down to DP's teenage obsession with Phantom of the Paradise.

"We need to construct an EDM canon. Quick, get the guy who wrote for Bugsy Malone and the Muppets! And the frontman of the Strokes - where would EDM be without him?"

Maybe they just prefer male voices to female ones. I don't think their "field" is relevant here because they've always done their own thing.

Maybe their next album will have them collaborating with Janelle Monae or Laurie Anderson.

they're gonna collab with emeli sande obv

She's waiting in reception.

I'm sure she was their initial choice before they had to settle for Giorgio.

NOT CONSENSUS CLASSIC -_-

melody maker were correct (for once)

of course, every other radiohead album should have probably received worse ratings

― flamenco drop (lex pretend)

Wait a minute.. You don't like Radiohead???

Emeli By Sande

I'd love to hear a cover of Get Lucky done in the celtic folk pop style of Loreena McKennitt. That's right - Loreena McKennitt! She could call it Random Access Mummer's Dance.

Emeli By Sande

A narration of the history of Radio 1 daytime music as recorded into a Nokia 8110, a Nokia 3210, and an iPhone.

would be rad if they did something with barbara walters

lol i mean barbara streisand

a barbara walters interview would be awesome tho-- i bet they'd qualify for her "people who made the year what it was" specials in december

it would be hard to tell if they were crying behind the masks

Barbara Walters with Daft Punk would be the greatest thing since Tammy Wynette sang with the KLF.

barbara by walters