Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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?

hinklepecker do barry manilow samples and supertramp keybs and van halen keytar fit yr definition of cheese?

Not really no. Those artists individual tunes - generally yes - but a sample or reference used judiciously in another song to make something different or new need not be ultimately cheesy. To be clear I - like seeming every other person with ears- like what I have heard of this record at this early 'one listen' stage. The dairy skirting only makes the music more interesting.

have you actually heard any of the music being referred to hear or are you only able to discuss hypotheticals?

The DP album you mean? Yes. As I said above I have listened once. If you mean Van Halen, Barry Manilow and Super tramp then yes I have also heard them. Do you mean Nile Rogers, Chic?? What is your point?

I feel like the bots missed an opportunity in not getting Lindsey Buckingham on this record

Have listened to this twice now. It's just ok. I'll listen to it more, certainly.

It *sounds* amazing, immaculately produced, and the material's occasionally even moving, but conceptually it feels... overcooked?

Daft Punk have a song called 'Too Long' that's precisely ten minutes. Of course it's conceptually overcooked.

Based on one listen, at work, to a 128kbps stream, on office headphones, not turned up so that I can still respond to people, this was kinda disappointing!

Some great arpeggios though.

Pretty sure only Daft Punk would have both the will and the budget to put this record out there 2013. Most acts just wouldn't be able to make this even if they wanted to.

is there a thread about judging music before it's had a chance to sink in? not having a go at anyone here, but it's a thing that's happening with this record and i want to talk about it in broader terms. if there's no thread i'll do one.

god i wrote a thread but it was trite so i killed it

anyway, good loungy album that's doing little for me right now, but like arse am i judging it this quickly

Shocked that lex and the late great don't like this. They were coming to it with such warm hearts and open minds.

I'm not gonna judge compositional or emotional quality / impact / longevity yet, but three tracks in this SOUNDS amazing, phenomenologically. Absolutely sonically beautiful.

I think this Will Hermes line is OTM:

At times, the album is a victim of its own ambition. But it wouldn't be half as awesome a ride if it had aimed any lower.

I'd be surprised if anyone liked all of it but equally surprised if anyone (who wasn't trying to prove a point) liked none of it.

I already like it way more than Human After All.

Well yeah, obviously.

The drumming on Contact and the big drop in Giorgio are the two moments of irrefutable fuiud wonder for me.