Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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.

irrefuiudable

Synths + live drumming = one of my favourite combinations.

yeah that hermes quote is otm. it goes big and not everything works but it's bold and weird and some of it is great. need a few more listens though, sadly don't have itunes access at work.

Finally hearing it for the first time...holy shit @ 'Give Life Back to Music' - perfection.

Touch is maybe not what I want from this, particularly.

actually this is rad but just a Whitest Boy Alive song lol

well, the second half of Giorgio by Moroder is horrible/embarrassing

Like I said, fuiud

liking this. loving it in some parts, but it's a little off, slightly misses the mark

it's Daft Punk's 'Tusk'

is pharrell shouting 'slut! slut! slut' in the verse of Lose Yourself to Dance?

man i find the myopia from people who think they should have just churned out homework over and over again really flaring up. this record isn't as good as homework or discovery, on first impressions, but i really question the sort of casual purism that sees people acting like homework was some hardcore touchstone of techno authenticity.

is pharrell shouting 'slut! slut! slut' in the verse of Lose Yourself to Dance?

I'm seeing some incredibly stupid opinions on Twitter, "stuck in the 90s" being the stupidest.

as a result of this thread i'm about to listen to George Benson for the first time!

I'm seeing some incredibly stupid opinions on Twitter, "stuck in the 90s" being the stupidest.

what did they expect from something called 'random access memories'

Re. ambitions of this record, I think it says something about the current scene that they have had to venture into oddball territory to make a record that is legitimately off the beaten path. Not every track does this -- mostly Touch and Giorgio, with a hint of it in Motherboard for continuity with their previous music. But it makes you wonder how influential this record can possibly be at the end of the day.

as a result of this thread i'm about to listen to George Benson for the first time!

you dont know this classic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ysfBys4cg

irrefuiudable

― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 10:37 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this is a keeper

thanks Suare. no i've a total blind spot with this guy, only thing i knew was '20/20'.

very very much enjoyed listening to this at a err, dinner party for my birthday yesterday.

so everybody else i was with hated it; sweet of them to try to like it, but no, i could tell they hated it.

well i liked it.

love hearing the tails on the end of the vocoder parts, fading out all crusty like, so warm and beautiful. some of the those parts make it feel a bit like the robert glasper experiment when they do their slow vocoder jams.

laughed out loud lots of times. hearing yacht rock, hall and oats, jacno, boogie, krautrock, kosmiche, studio funk, prince one of the songs also went into bizarro jim o'rourke eureka territory iirc

lol panda bear sounds like an x-factor boyband 1st audition

i absolutely love how offensive people are finding this. whoever mentioned alan parsons project, otm! this is one of the uncoolest records i've heard in a long time.

Jacno, really? where is that?

dunno something made me think jacno in it's childish cheesy melody live drums synth pop songwritery way

like soft rock with synths floating around in the background, less retangle more cercle-esque jacno. or if you took the vocals off je viens d'ailleurs and put a guest vocalist on top that'd totally fit on this record

that is a neat observation. I've never heard anyone reference Jacno for any reason but it does seem like he'd fit with a record like this.