Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

If you want to see how people react to really bad theatricality in this sort of thing, check the Aeroplane thread.

Vito was saying how much he was looking forward to the DP album as Homework was basically what inspired him to make dance music in the first place.

The only thing he's tweeted since is this:

@VitoAeroplane: Listening to @HolyGhostNYC new single after listening to Daft Punk's album gives me faith in live drums again.

"sobbing" is not always sad; people cry from euphoria as well

My main point is that this album comes from the same musical vocabulary as that Stardust song and, if you are denying that, you are deaf.

people sob from pain too

Matt OTM

My main point is that this album comes from the same musical vocabulary as that Stardust song and, if you are denying that, you are deaf.

right we've insulted the blind and the deaf on this thread now and the elderly. anyone got any more?

Yeah, the Panda Bear track is actually really good, re: finding a groove and sticking with it.

Contact is an interesting reminder of where they were 10 years ago...

disagree totally with both those claims

imagine if they'd released contact then and so much love to give was the last track on this.

i was doing enough e back then that i might have enjoyed contact too and smltg would have killed as the closer on this record.

My main point is that this album comes from the same musical vocabulary as that Stardust song and, if you are denying that, you are deaf.

― far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:27 AM (2 minutes ago)

yeah, that's otm. it draws from a much wider range of sources, but they're all at least consistent with the inspiration for MSBWY. don't see why that idea would be controversial.

it's not controversial it's just dumb. you would have to be dumb to believe that.

sorry i'm not actually calling you dumb.

i was doing enough e back then that i might have enjoyed contact too and smltg would have killed as the closer on this record.

Yeah, an interesting reminder of where I was also at 10 years ago!

yeah but you can't deny it's a very intentional flipping of the script!!

of their script yeah i guess but it's been so long since they were last around - and HAA was itself a demonstration of script-flipping to an extent - that it doesn't really have a whoa surprise feel for me

off topic, but i listened to human after all yesterday, for the first time in ages. sounded pretty good, overall, though i'm never gonna like "steam machine", and a couple other tracks wear out their welcome halfway through. obviously undercooked, short on both inspiration and ambition, but not a complete waste of time.

point taken that casablancas and that piece of shit from animal collective are from a v different canon but there are so many albums released these days - dance and otherwise - with "surprising" and "eclectic" collaborations that it doesn't even seem that random

Not sure how anyone couldn't rate this Panda Bear track compared with some of the other stuff on here, but whatevs.

i think my actual favourite moment on this album was girding myself psychologically for casablancas and then when his song arrived he was vocodered to unrecognisability and i didn't have to put up with his voice! (though daft punk vocoders have always left me cold)

That's the one track I really thought was shit on first go.

i think my actual favourite moment on this album was girding myself psychologically for casablancas and then when his song arrived he was vocodered to unrecognisability and i didn't have to put up with his voice!

Was thinking the same damn thing.

I didn't realize it was him until one song later.

i played the casablancas track to my housemate last night without telling her who it was and she said "it sounds like the strokes"

Ha. If anyone needed a vocoder...

Backtracking here but I had no idea sherbet were known as "the sherbs"

DJ Falcon's latest facebook post: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151424357771914

contact is kinda like a weaker version of the chem bro's saturate.

also I can't sleep and I think it's because I have pharrell incessantly exclaiming "lose yourself to dance!" in my head

Casablancas has always sounded best when subject to heavy vocal distortion

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/16144/1/giorgio-moroder-masterclass-mix

DJ Falcon's latest facebook post: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151424357771914

Wonder what Todd Edwards thought of that.

Also never thought of the vocoder tracks as 'the robots singing' before. Not really into that development.

Interesting to me how Daft Punk, Phoenix, M83 and even Air all have a similar retro-futuristic child of the '80s thing going on. I guess France finally figured out how to break the international market.

also I can't sleep and I think it's because I have pharrell incessantly exclaiming "lose yourself to dance!" in my head

― monotony, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:44 AM (7 minutes ago)

otm, was just abt to say that after almost 24 hours with it, "lose yourself to dance" is definitely the song i hear in my head the most when i'm away from it

That one line in "The Game of Love" always sounds like "breaking my balls" and I'm all "Robots don't have those" and then I remember the Transformers movies and weep into my cocaine encrusted mirror.

BTW this should be what you do while listening to the album, obv.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/05/search-atari-breakout-with-google-image-search-and-waste-your-day-away/

shhhh 7ecret robot7

My main point is that this album comes from the same musical vocabulary as that Stardust song and, if you are denying that, you are deaf.

― far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:27 AM (2 minutes ago)

I must be deaf then, for I cannot disagree more with this statement. This album has a completely different 'music vocabulary' alltogether. Different sound, different influences, different feel, different approach, different effect. TMSBWY is the perfection of the French House sound 'round the turn of the century, along with Bangalter & DJ Falcon's 'Together' and 'So Much Love to Give'. Simple, ecstatic French House dancefloor anthems that are innocently pure (and oozing the post-rave romanticism the French embraced).

This album has absolutely zero in common with that. RAM and TMSBWY are different planets all-together.

The mind still boggles. But both planets are totally awesome.

yeah but both make you cry

so theyre the same

I really like this. Not necessarily more than Discovery (I'd prob need more synths for this) but I feel like it's on a par and it's clearly more musically accomplished which seems to have been the main point. Get Lucky far from being the highlight on here thankfully.

They risked it sounding too studied (and if anything the Rodgers effect comes close to a letdown because it can feel like there's no real hunger behind what he's doing just pure gratitude and enjoyment) but they got the balance right emotionally. Game Of Love is gorgeous. The strings entrance on Giorgio is a serious moment. Motherboard is a jam. Touch is superb and I really feel it could be twice as long as it is which I rarely feel about a DP track. It sets its stall out as OTT, pretentious and corny but in as distilled and thrilling a way as can be.

It's very clear what they went out to do to a point where you can't really 'fail' in any meaningful way other than failing to win over people who weren't already big fans maybe. Obviously to turn off some (younger?) fans who wanted some sort of unification or redux of previous work isn't a fail on their part.

Getting hitched with gr8080, brb <3

you deserve each other, frankly

really expected bobby kimball or lou gramm to pop up in "the game of love"

I'm on my third relisten and i'm still really, really loving this.

I'm reluctant to even share my opinion of it, because I've been so tired of people ranting about it all day on twitter. Everyone needs to shut up, some thoughts can go unexpressed.

*vocoder* some thoughts can go unexpressed *vocoder*

new meme for 2013: get instrumental of "giorgio by moroder" and record yourself talking about boring stuff over it. "morodering." hot. new. meme.

This album has a completely different 'music vocabulary' alltogether. Different sound, different influences, different feel, different approach, different effect. TMSBWY is the perfection of the French House sound 'round the turn of the century, along with Bangalter & DJ Falcon's 'Together' and 'So Much Love to Give'. Simple, ecstatic French House dancefloor anthems that are innocently pure (and oozing the post-rave romanticism the French embraced).

eh, i hear a similar degree of nostalgic affection for classic disco in both, but mileage clearly varies, so w/e

briefly mentioned in a throwaway post by tlg upthread, but fans of "giorgio", "motherboard" and "contact" who aren't familiar w/ alex moulton's "exodus" should really go listen to it imo

alex moulton: lindstrom meets klaus schulze meets alan braxe meets hakan lidbo meets vangelis

First full listen and it's ... patchy. Even yanked it off for a minute or two during Touch. Although I did see my 'Doobie Brothers on Segways' prediction come true with Fragments of Time.

This record is less about Daft Punk's own place in the canon and more about them attempting to push sounds from their own *personal* canon directly (back) into the mainstream.

Absolutely, and I think it wears too heavily.