Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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.

xp wait i thought you said only one of those sounded like moulton

heh i often jack off when listening to a record for the first time too xp

....????????

i said one of them reminded me of moulton, not only one

also "throwaway post"? come on.

;-)

If you guys really want a full on "Get Lucky" fest, then just get/listen to/steal/whatever Jamiroquai's "A Funk Odyssey" and pretend every cameo sounds like a white Stevie Wonder. Voila!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhS5TXl3sMA

i got nothing but love for jamiroquai

pharrell sounds like a white stevie wonder??

no dissing Jamiroquai round here

xp blurb for the cover there

yeah Jamiroquai is alright

i just kind of got lost in a daydream about a full length film adaptation of the whole album

where the robots would make only a few brief appearances

That Jamiroquai album is a publicity casualty because well..

A Funk Odyssey
Studio album by Jamiroquai
Released 3 September 2001 (UK)
11 September 2001 (US)

OK, I prayed on it a little bit, and the lord has instructed me that this album kind of sucks. It's really just a well-produced pastiche: Alan Parsons, Goblin, Shakatak, Chic, etc. The vocalists are all red herrings, but it'd be hilarious if it sent the proverbial "kids today" back to Paul Williams. Was listening again with a buddy at his record store, and it really sounded like a bunch of interludes in search of songs.

Hey, btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myk3Stt6Acg

Hip!

all for a jazz funk revival