Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

People are talking about how this is getting a lot of discussion on Facebook, I have like two friends on Facebook that would be interested in this album. I think I'm going wrong somewhere.

Haven't been paying attention to what track's what, but it feels like there's a lot of awesome bits packed into 13 not-consistently-awesome songs.

i completely agree, except that all the songs are always awesome

my facebook has been friggin' daft punk central for months now.

"beyond" & "motherboard" = a hell of a late album tag team

my facebook has been friggin' daft punk central for months now.

― scott seward

Lucky you. Sadly I don't have a lot of friends who like music as much as I do, that's why I come here.

Love it when Touch goes all Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band for a minute!

"Touch" makes me wonder who at Columbia is championing this record-- and how much longer this person expects to be gainfully employed.

what a great surprise to come home to!

I finally figured out how to stream this

thank you business insider!!!

on the third listen, "fragments of time" and "doing it right" are the only tracks i could do without. "touch" is breathtakingly hideous in the paul williams manner, but fascinating in that, ambitious and oddly moving. plus it breaks the album up nicely. "fragments of time" just sounds freeze-dried (except again for the break, which is monstrous). not egregious, but it doesn't grab me like the rest.

and panda bear is just awful. lex otm in that regard at least.

cant tell if business insider is lollin or serious

business insider is harvesting that SEO, those clicks mayne

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this album reminds me of born this way, at least in the retro dance and kitsch departments. much more interesting and listenable tho.

Thanks NTI, I thought I was the only one getting Tron vibes off the Giorgio track

kind of mad at these motherfuckers for getting me to enjoy panda bear tbh

B-section of the Panda Bear track reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLM8J5Ife4U

with DP's clout couldn't they have recruited a real panda bear to sing?

This album could probably convince them to mate, at least.

Loving the cosmic part of "Touch" right now.

most of the guest vocalists are just bland enough to make it sound like stock music

the album sounds /too/ nice... there are so few rough edges to give it character, so it sounds anonymous and forgettable

fragments of time would kill if kenny loggins were singin it mb

i like motherboard a lot

This whole thing is so slow! Especially Lose Yourself to Dance, I just want to grab it and pull it up 10bpm.

good a few times through but i think i'll forget about this as quickly as I forgot about gayngs :$

I am really feeling the melancholy on my second listen

and I think Casablanca's track might be the only thing he's done that I'll happily relisten to

this was OK a lot more atmospheric then i think it needs to be. favorite song on first listen was "Fragments of Time."

Yeah, they turned him into Michael McDonald! Didn't know Todd had that in him.

"Thru the Pain" from Odyssey sounds like Michael McDonald is actually on it (he isn't).

holy christ "Touch" is the Return of the Adenoidal John Michael Cameron. Eight minutes!! Phantom of the Paradise ain't that good.

Blasphemy.

This is quite nice, y'all are mad

basically

It seems like the same people who were wishing Herbie Hancock had hired real vocalists for his vocoder records are trotting out the same criticism here.

Yeah I liked it. It's been a clear, hot-as-hell day here in SoCal and listening to this while relaxing and watching the late daylight flood into the apartment kinda sums up this album perfectly. It is VERY LA.

one facebook pal of mine who has already given it the 4 star treatment:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/random-access-memories-20130513

touch could have really been something were it not for those awful les miserables-y vocals

damn rolling stone only gave it 4?

well it starts off as u are transported to these worlds via some whack interstellar tube thing u even hear that weird wind sound u end up in this cave with this weird echo voice and then all of a sudden there is this old dude just sitting on a chair singing and this singing is not bad…not bad at all…very stop motion animation type stuff then bam!! u on the mother f12king love boat!!

^ rolling stone realness

Weird -- this is streaming in iPad but not iPhone.

― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, May 13, 2013 8:09 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is it streaming on anything at this point? not working on ipad ;_;

n/m stupid

Cool album! Love Give Life Back to Music.

one facebook pal of mine who has already given it the 4 star treatment:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/random-access-memories-20130513

imaginary cover = daftbots holding up a sad, tattered and threadbare rainbow banner against a black background

feeling the dollar bin vibe on this

Some of this stuff skirts a line close to cheese - not saying it crosses that line at all - its a smooth, funky and interesting record but in lesser hands this might come off as pure schlock.

haven't they always done that tho?

I haven't noticed it this overtly before - maybe that's just me and my definition of cheese.

MOR + AOR = OO RAM

MO ROAR

LOVE: giorgio by moroder, contact, touch, within
like a very great deal: fragments of time, get lucky, the game of love, give life back to music, beyond
's'ok: motherboard
eh: instant crush, doin' it right, lose yrself to dance*

*pharell

much better than i anticipated, a little schizophrenic also - feels like it should either be much longer, weirder or cut down and made more coherent. or maybe two albums - one party jams (so we could get more niles - every second of him here is fantastic), the other ott arpeggio epics. party jams opening w/ give life back to music, closing w/ doobie brother todd edwards, epic album opens w/ giorgio (as a bridge from party james), closes w/ contact, maybe a longer version of touch?