Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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:

http://g.virbcdn.com/_f/images/5c/PageImage-486051-1842237-OmarALR.jpg

behold my enormous cymbals!

Al Roker on drums, ladies and gentlemen!

Touch is just so amazing, I know this is prob the third time I've said that but is also only the third time I've listened.

I was listening to this album on the train last night and the rain was coming down, and the girl opposite me who was looking out of the window unconnectedly just started weeping at the exact point the choir on Touch came in. I assumed she'd prefer to be left alone but it was kind of a weird thing to have happening opposite with this emotionally overwrought 70s soft rock ballad soundtracking it.

Either it was unconnected or Daft Punk were just controlling the universe to suit the music.

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Either it was unconnected or Daft Punk were just controlling the universe to suit the music.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:33 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wouldn't put it past those fuckers.

this is my feeling when listening to this:

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2oibwiSB01qz9rjn.gif

guys you can totally dance to the new Fall album

The drum solo on Giorgio putting me in mind of the end of "Aja"

^texted my drum-nerd brother this as i was first listening

(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.)

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:35 PM (Yesterday)

strokes knock

finally read the pitchfork interview, this line is interesting:

At one point during our interview, Bangalter let it slip that he and de Homem-Christo recently had a meeting with De Palma to "discuss some things," though he declined to divulge any specifics.

!!!!!

O SHIT

would eat lima beans to see that shit

eat enough lima beans and you will

i guess they just talked giorgio?

aaaaand here's my verdict for Crack magazine:
http://crackmagazine.net/music/daft-punk/

anyone who hates touch is just a bad human being

morally

Looks like I wasn't the only person who was reminded of "Wonder 2" with "Contact".

i do like giorgio, but it's not my favourite (via the middle third sounding like a good bit of the tron soundtrack)

How can you discuss Touch without mentioning the super fun Dr. Buzzardry of it?

iatee otm.

i only know one dr buzzard song and tbh they probably aren't what the readers of that magazine are into.

How can you discuss Touch without mentioning the super fun Dr. Buzzardry of it?

One of the pieces I read (PFM?) mentioned that they had recorded orchestral arrangements for all (or most) of the tracks but ended up only using them for a handful of them. Given the complexity of so many of these cuts, I imagine some really interesting outtakes could be floating around.

Dr. Buzzardry

likes

I read they worked on Get Lucky for 18 months. That's insane.

CD leaked, full lossless FLAC is available.

every time I listen to 'Lose Yourself to Dance' I find it more melancholy, I'm trying to come on come on come on, I'm really trying :'(.

the come on come on come ons don't even sound like they're too bothered

i'm not sure i hear the melancholy in lose yourself to dance.. definitely hear exhaustion though

couldn't disagree more-- the whole song feels so desparate and urgent

Touch is filled 2/3 with rubbish. The intro is useless and Paul Williams voice is too histrionic for my taste. The rest is beautiful.

so Pitchfork is gonna give this the ol 6.9 aren't they

after three days of listening i'm more or less ready to put this down.
meanwhile, after two months of john talabot...

really? talabot got about 2/3 plays from me and that was it, even though i thought it was good.

for me, it's been on heavy rotation more or less since I heard it. Which may say something about the kind of electronic music i want.

talabot still giving me life over a year on

I have absolutely no idea what Pitchfork will give this.

i do actually mean to give DP another try but lots else to listen to, not really been moved to do so - heard the new eve album for the first time yesterday and have barely been able to take that off repeat

Touch is filled 2/3 with rubbish. The intro is useless and Paul Williams voice is too histrionic for my taste. The rest is beautiful.

Touch is one of those songs that 10, 15 years ago would have been a great source of controversy in music nerd circles -- the pinnacle of ambition to some, an overindulgent embarrassment to others. Before Kid A, part of the fun of listening to records with songs like these was to pour through the different opinions and try to decide which camp you belonged in.

A recent quote in the Pitchfork piece made me think that in some ways, they're consciously trying to will us back to that time:

"Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great," says Bangalter, talking about the proliferation of home recording and the laptop studio. "But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it's like there's no more magic-- if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother?"