Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

So not gonna happen

Is that Thomas Mars second from the left?

Looks like him!

pretty sure that's Busy P

I think you're right. Shame.

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@Umaihr "The meaning of life? Read books. Fall in love. Read all books. Listen to Daft Punk."

Oh so hey, BTW, we all know where Daft Punk got their name from but I finally confirmed who actually wrote it:

http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/post/50466658963/and-why-you-ask-am-i-showing-you-this-photo-of-a

Touch has somehow become one of my favorite tracks on this.

xxxpost: It's Busy P.

kind of disorienting seeing pharrell performing on live tv with robin thicke and t.i. tonight

Another random observation:

I love how some writers are describing RAM as "Daft Punk's first album without synthesizers."

And they say hard journalism is dead...

daft punk's first album without non-transparent synthesizers

Another random observation:

I love how some writers are describing RAM as "Daft Punk's first album without synthesizers."

And they say hard journalism is dead...

― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:53 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

?!?!

reminds me of when dave marsh reviewed the first steely dan album and said of "do it again," (I paraphrase) "while the hired-gun singer isn't that great, it's remarkable how much he seems to imitate donald fagen's phrasing here."

i sometimes wonder if some music critics even have ears.

daft punk's first brass band album

Daft Punk: Live at the Village Vanguard

I've actually seen it described as their first album with "no electronics except for a modular synthesizer and some vintage vocoders,"

daft punk's first album without non-transparent synthesizers

On other news, "Fragments of Time" isn't totally rocking my world yet. The microsampling is softer and smoother than before. The guitar parts are nice. But Todd's vocal feels a little safe to me -- very straight and lacking a melody that really pulls it across the finish line. Willing to give it a few more listens.

The irony is "Doin' It Right" is this album's "Face to Face," not "Fragments" -- penultimate track, the Daft Punk-ization of a guest's well-worn style. Whatever you think of PB's part, the vocoder bit has a sweetness to it I find irresistible.

"Motherboard" is all kinds of awesome.

did casablancas co-author the song he sings?

b/c it's hard to know if the melody line and the guitar are "homage to the strokes" or "another song written by the guy who co-writes the strokes' songs"

also, it's odd that they hired JC for his vocal stylings (what I figured was the "grain" of his voice) and then obscured them via vocoder -- although a bit of his vocal personality comes through.

i know i said some open-mind things yesterday but i am not enjoying this album

Traitor

So... I loved Fragments of Time and I'm not well versed on Steely Dan but I've seen some of you throwing comparisons itt. Please recommend me some songs by them.

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All of them. Listen to all of them.

xp to amateurist, idk if casablancas co-wrote that song, but it does sound very strokesy and definitely seems, to me, to be almost as distinctively casablancas as doin' it right is distinctively panda bear.

No! There's too much. Pick three songs for starters. Please?

listen to time out of mind first and come then back here with your thoughts

here u go mokster

PO3: steely dan songs

Diplo about RAM:
"This daft punk album would probably be really good to take drugs and listen to on a rainy bridge across the gulf of mexico but I dnt know ... Reminds me of when I was 19 really high and listened to kid a over and over again but I don't know if yung kids will get It ... I think the song with julian casablancas would be better with marky mark walbergs character from boogie nights doing the vocals ... The song with todd edwards makes me feel like I'm alone at waffle house and the jukebox is broken and only micheal mcdonald plays out of it ... Motherboard sounds like a coked up austrian guy working on chariots of fire soundtrack then got fired but I fuck with it."

it's odd that they hired JC for his vocal stylings (what I figured was the "grain" of his voice) and then obscured them via vocoder -- although a bit of his vocal personality comes through.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:21 PM (33 minutes ago)

now that would be quite a trick

vinyl rip out there now

"now that would be quite a trick"

explique-moi

(was that a strokes knock? coz i dunno about their last few albums but those first two are still fucking great, and his vocals are full of personality.)

'fragments of time' really struck me as more doobies than steely dan but 'time out of mind' might be the track -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB2I_VEozc4

'instant crush' is my favourite track atm

I'm liking this album, but I feel like it's lacking in saxophone solos.

Touch brings some brass.

I like how Giorgio has a click solo, a moog solo, a bass solo, a piano solo, a vinyl scratch solo and a guitar solo...

And the end of Lose Yourself To Dance reminds me of California Love and Instant Crush reminds me of the nineties. I don't know why.

I still haven't had a chance to listen to this dang album, but I'm about to throw on Gaucho as I drift off to sleep, so everything's cool.

I just figured out the song "Beyond" sounds like is M. McD "I keep forgettin'" so I was singing "Regulators" over it

daft punk's first brass band album

― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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insane

The drumming on this album is just so fuckin nice

yeah do we know anything about the drummer(s) yet?

SWEAT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_McCarroll

lmao

Think someone upthread (Jordan?) said there were two guys on drums, one of whom is Omar Hakim who has played with people like Sting and Bowie and whatnot.

The other one is definitely Tony McCarroll.

Classic drum-dork photo of Hakim:

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behold my enormous cymbals!

Al Roker on drums, ladies and gentlemen!