Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

very calculated irony in this 74minute album that took years to make

They play the long game.

making rad music that sounds like other music they like...the ultimate troll

Second listen through and Touch is so amazing.

I love it so much, I feel like it is almost pandering to me.

It's post-post-ironic.

Making Music to Buy Drugs to Take to Music You Like to Make Music for Other People to Like Like the Music You Like.

EVRYBODYDANCING ONTHEFLOOR
>>unintelligible warble<<
EVRYBODYDANCING ONTHEFLOOR
>>unintelligible warble<<
yeeeeeeaaaaaah everybody on the flooooooor
yeeeeeeaaaaaah everybody on the flooooooor

I love it so much, I feel like it is almost pandering to me.

yeah instantly connected to it.

doing it right kinda makes me laugh, it's like if you pitched down alvin and the chipmunks

feel like it needs a video with an elaborate macarena-style dance

lmao i love it

"Beyond" starts out for the first forty seconds sounding for all the world like that touring symphony orchesta that covers video game music doing incidental soundtrack work from Zelda Wind Waker

Doin' it right makes me move about uncontrollably thinking I actually look like a cool robot = mission accomplished

doin it right is probably top three fave tracks on the album, don't understand the hate here

(along with Giorgio and Lose Yourself imo)

and I LIKE the astigmatic idiot toddler vocals

yeah i wasn't hating really! just something really amusing about the vocodered bit of it.

So is this the most high profile, mainstream instance of an album that rehabilitates 70s jazz funk and disco?

It sounds like that may be the root cause of all the dissonant opinions popping up on the web. At least in the US, this may be the first really big example of a group fully embracing a bunch of musical tropes that have largely been banished from popular venues for several decades. Do most people born after 1980 no longer have any point of reference for this genre?

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see times like this is when i miss my mod powers
/sad clark kent

how did u get unbanned so fast

So is this the most high profile, mainstream instance of an album that rehabilitates 70s jazz funk and disco?

until "Get Lucky" Daft Punk can hardly be called high profile or mainstream in the States.

lol, that was a comedy self ban

xpost -- Well it's high profile NOW, is the point.

until "Get Lucky" Daft Punk can hardly be called high profile or mainstream in the States.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

Anyway I just think of "Touch" as one of Williams' Muppet ballads to a degree and that's Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem on that one breakdown. (All meant as high praise obv.)

until 'get lucky' daft punk could hardly be called 70s jazz funk and disco!

lol at dan using paul williams winning an oscar as proof of his canonization, someone let carl wilson know there was no need to write let's talk about love as 'my heart will go on' won the oscar so obv everyone's on board w/ celine dion.

it took ILE for me to realize that other people besides Pauline Kael adore Phantom of the Paradise.

wtf a ginormous number of people are on board with Celine Dion

always amused that one of the worst 3-6 tracks is the one that made them IMMORRRRRTTALLLLL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ARG9BXUZSc

wtf a ginormous number of people are on board with Celine Dion

that ship is called the Titanic

inigo montoya to thread w/r/t Dan's use of "canon"

'Touch' is the one track I wanna keep going back to...Paul Williams vocal is one of the most sincere I've heard in ages...forgot what a great vocalist he is...seriously can't believe anybody could hate on this album...think of it as Phoenix's lost third album produced by DP...

oh man that's in silver lake right?

― the late great, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 1:23 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

los feliz. it's a nice enough spot that you want to visit, but it's also a bit obnoxious. like this daft punk album, come to think of it. ;)

cliff's edge is in silverlake tho

until "Get Lucky" Daft Punk can hardly be called high profile or mainstream in the States.

^^^

almost uniformly ignored outside of tech nerd/music nerd circles afaict

in their defense "One More Time" has achieved the kind of anonymous bar mitzvah/wedding dance fame attained by "Celebration."

stuff doesn't have to be massively popular or completely unknown, there is a middle ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C77Kah07y7M

the album's been out for a whole day, totally time to get the "daft punk: are they popular?" debate going again

why not? I'm home from work, up all night to get some

dan you understand 'canonized' and 'popular' don't mean the same thing right? for example 'nothing's gonna stop us now' by starship was a #1 hit in the us and the uk and was even nominated for a grammy but, imo at least, is pretty far from canonized.

just you wait until DF hire Marty Balin for the next album

can't wait for vocoderized 'i had a taste of the real world when i went down on you girl'

You understand that there are multiple sources for a "canon" and that one of them is "stodgy industry types who hand out awards like Oscars and Grammys" and that pretty much everything about this album except for the end of "Contact" is directly in that demographic's wheelhouse, right?

Basically if this doesn't win Best Dance Recording or Best Dance Album, I will be shocked.

think i'm gonna listen to red octopus and the first paul williams album the rest of the afternoon, maybe throw streisand's lazy afternoon (her rupert holmes album btw) into the mix see what happens

not that anyone cares about grammies but if kish kash and alive 2007 already won I would imagine this has a good chance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Dance/Electronica_Album

holy christ am i supposed to investigate paul williams solo albums now?

will it never stop?

xxxpost

that jazzy version of get lucky is terrible but i like the idea in theory... kind of want herbie hancock to do a covers album or something

the album's been out for a whole day, totally time to get the "daft punk: are they popular?" debate going again

reminds me that I lolled at this

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

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:57 AM (11 hours ago)

which was posted around fourteen hours after the thing was first unveiled