Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

As for age, I am a lich.

also anyone acting like there's significantly more nostalgia or significantly less ambition on the new one compared to discovery doesn't know their shit. not saying the new one holds up to discovery (it doesn't)(though how fucking corny an indie fuxxor do you have to be to actually think 'this isn't a Masterpiece, this doesn't advance the narrative, FAIL'?) but this is sure as fuck not treading water or phoning it in.

So what did you think of the Sherbets bit?

I'm not old enough to remember Sherbert as anything but a 30 second intervention in some History of Australian Pop Music documentary but just old enough to remember Daryl Braithwaite, Adult Contemporary Superstar, so I'm still majorly amused that he's getting a writing credit...

...not that he fully appreciates its significance...

...and, er, the sampling was good, I guess.

amazing how the guitar on "Fragments of Time" is mixed to sound exactly like Steely Dan circa 2000 and Two Against Nature. Now there's an unexpected touchstone!

I was streaming the thing on iTunes and following the wikipedia page to keep up with the track titles and I almost choked up my cereal reading that Daryl Braithwaite had a credit on contact...had a wild and crazy hope that "The Horses" might have been sampled

If they sampled "One Summer", then mathematically, it would have been the best song ever.

This whole thing reminds me of when Photek released that sappy house album

The Holy Ghost new single is better then RAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuAoGdWBaaY&feature=youtu.be

i'm glad there are things better than this record, that means i don't have to bother listening to it. if somebody cd just let me know what the best record is it wd save me a lot of wasted time, thanks.

like almost every reference point on this album is pretty established & canonical.

The people complaining about Alan Parsons Project, rock musicals and Level 42 beg to differ. I don't think the canon is what you think it is.

lol at that holy ghost track. tarping, dude that's like a new wave synth pop homage, it has nothing to do with this record. also, it's shit.

nah, the HG track is great! needs nile rodgers tho.

The quietus tweeted than RAM wasn't as good as the Neon Neon album. Irrelevant comparisons to more obscure records that sound nothing like it is obviously the new thing.

i think people are just desperate to make sure that Daft Punk fans don't miss out on all the other exciting records that are out there in the world of records

cos y'know i only know about things with massive advertising budgets and would otherwise miss out on the exciting world of indie backpacker shit hop

a friend pointed out that RAM is exactly 74 minutes long

going for attempt #3 with this album, plan on making it further in than 5 songs this time

so far my biggest complaints are that there isn't enough Steely Dan in the mix and whenever Niles starts to take over a song, it makes me wish I was listening to Chic instead

Irrelevant comparisons to more obscure records that sound nothing like it is obviously the new thing.

sadly this isn't new, people do this with every record. you'd swear it was a power tool or a tablet.

pulling for you over here, DJP. i know you can make it.

this record reminds me of the stuff exactly in the jaxon, gr8080 and max wheelhouse of 3-4 years ago

totally, my first thought was "they made this record for me and max and jaxon... and not for everyone who watched a solid hour of promo videos"

at the same time tho its not rote yacht beardo, they are def doing something very different and doing it right

so you see what i did there

Meantime

http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/daft-punk/

Thought Rote Yacht Beardo was brilliant in Twin Peaks.

cherry pie and max wheelhouse coffee

http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/daft-punk/

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:42 AM

so "to make music breathe again" is the beardo Williams disco equivalent of

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zsTS7MTmL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

gr8080, d-40 otm, my thoughts exactly

what was jaxon's blog called again? has he kept it alive ala lovefingers?

The heat is hot, you see

(9:42:03 AM) gr8080: this record reminds me of the stuff exactly in the jaxon, gr8080 and max wheelhouse of 3-4 years ago

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:39 AM (2 minutes ago)
(9:42:16 AM) jaxon: ha
(9:42:20 AM) jaxon: whatis?
(9:42:36 AM) gr8080: 1 guess
(9:42:44 AM) jaxon: new?
(9:43:03 AM) jaxon: i'm blanking
(9:44:06 AM) gr8080: were you not on the internet yesterday or something
(9:44:17 AM) jaxon: oh, ha.
(9:44:18 AM) jaxon: dp
(9:44:27 AM) jaxon: i was mostly starting a new job yesterday
(9:44:42 AM) gr8080: i'll allow that excuse

so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again

Then maybe they shouldn't dress like robots anymore?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_zsqTqgBTk

pretending this is Cyberman mixtape is making this a lot more fun to listen to

i really, really like this record

Meantime

http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/daft-punk/

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:42 AM (8 minutes ago)

desparately searching for a "print view" link on that fn page

opened the p4k page and thought it said 'MACKLEMORE FOR LIFE'

congratulations dayo, you have cracked the code

goodbye ILX

what was jaxon's blog called again? has he kept it alive ala lovefingers?

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:46 AM (8 minutes ago)

yes and no

they should have waited til it was really hot out to release this album. like late july. seems like a good album for when it's really humid and gross.

man "Giorgio By Moroder" alternates between great and totally aimless in the most frustrating way

They should have waited for the hype to die down before they released this album.

they should have released this album and then not released this album

man "Giorgio By Moroder" alternates between great and totally aimless in the most frustrating way

― far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:00 AM (18 seconds ago)

kind of like your posting style

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/photos/dj.png

this album is really good, except the panda bear thing, which would be dull without panda bear, but it awful because of him.

legible version of that pitchfork thing

http://www.readability.com/articles/j9svzlcs

They should un-release this album like that Mos Def album, and then re-release the album.

just found that, sweet relief xpost

that's like a fifth of it

maybe readability.com is more proactive than we thought

yeah : (