Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

But as long as you’re prepared to accept that it’s a Hollywood production inspired more by Steely Dan and California highways than Cajmere and French basements, then Random Access Memories is a treat.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

lol "Motherboard" is my favorite song on the album, so there's at least one person having fun with it

Guardian review takes a swipe at Motherborad too, bastards

I would really enjoy an EP made up of "Motherboard", "Doin' It Right" and "Contact"

Man I am like the world's #1 hater of musicals and I still don't get why people are having such a visceral negative reaction to "Touch."

I get why someone who wants to hear another version of 'da funk' would not be happy w/ 'touch' but I am happy to live in a world where both 'da funk' and 'touch' exist

http://pitchfork.com/news/50746-daft-punk-cover-story-outtakes/

Fun fact: Though "One More Time" was released in 2001, Bangalter says the track was "mixed and finished and sitting on a shelf for three years before that."

Man I am like the world's #1 hater of musicals and I still don't get why people are having such a visceral negative reaction to "Touch."

It comes across to me like it's taking all of the signifiers from a showstopping Broadway number and then methodically fucking each of them up.

/Man I am like the world's #1 hater of musicals and I still don't get why people are having such a visceral negative reaction to "Touch."/

It comes across to me like it's taking all of the signifiers from a showstopping Broadway number and then methodically fucking each of them up.

Fact review hits some decent points -- but attributes RAM's ambition to seclusion and isolation, which I don't hear at all.

The direction Daft Punk gave Todd Edwards for his vocals while recording Discovery's "Face to Face": "Can you sing a little raspier, like Foreigner?"

Which is a reason to admire it.

I suppose, if you like terrible musicals

you may want to get up on "Miss Saigon"

i can deal with the streisand stuff, but i struggle with that ca. 2000 jazzy radioheady post rock sound, which the drums on motherboard have imo.

"Fragments of Time" is the only track I still look forward to.playing again as opposed to giving the album increasingly desultory spins.

You sound like a sad robot, Al.

Desultory robot is desultory.

Drums on "Motherboard" do sound a bit Too Pure. I still like the track, though I wish they had committed more fully to prog and gotten someone like Richard Pinhas to guest on it and "Contact".

"Doin it Right" has been tagged as being "Best New Music".

Thomas Bangalter on drummer Omar Hakim's playing on the second half of "Giorgio by Moroder": "I remember going to him and humming this really complicated drum and bass programming and he's like, 'Like this?' [makes drum noises] He's doing it exactly like I hummed but like 10 times beyond. It felt like, 'Whoa! What have we been missing being limited by our own programming skills?' He probably only did two takes for that part."

kinda shaking my head at people whose minds are blown by this, i mean it's fun but there's a whole world of drum clinics with cheesy play-along drums waiting for you.

i meant "cheesy play-along tracks"

Chilly Gonzales on the potential impact of Random Access Memories: "It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever."

yes, the cul-de-sac of not having enough money to record live drums in a good room with good mics and good compressors, thanks for the tip. ffffffff uuuuuuuuuuu.

hit a nerve?

first world problems

sure, it just seems pretentious and strawman-ish. i would be shocked if this record inspires anyone to pick up or record live instruments who wasn't already doing it.

xp

i think chilly might be clowning there a bit

Drums on "Motherboard" do sound a bit Too Pure.

― Modlizki, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:06 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha, yes, i was thinking of mouse on mars. shudder.

i still love this album for the record.

first world problems

not really, the advent of cheap/"free" music software has expanded the ability to make good-sounding records in third world countries, right?

i think chilly might be clowning there a bit

yeah i'm sure you're right. the whole "revolutionary idea of recording live instruments" marketing angle has been a little annoying though.

Yeah, that Gonzales quote is awful. I like a lot of the album - especially the broadway-stuff - but I hate all that anti-modern-music stuff surrounding it. Especially when it doesn't really offer any solutions other than giving the elite more money and attention to deliver something the rest of us can't.

it is unfair that daft punk were able to make such a good record when other people don't have those resources

they should have made music on iPhones like the common man

chilly gonzales sucks

nile rodgers won't even return my phone calls but for some reason he'll do whatever daft punk wants

i shouldn't hate on chilly, he seems like a cool dude from that collaborators video, and he reminds me exactly of a composer/arranger friend of mine. actually that quote seems like something my friend would say.

go ahead and hate, he's one of those dudes like sebastien tellier whose strongest musical asset seems to be his producer friends, failed at electroclash and took a hard left turn into big quotes "songcraft"

soon to be consigned to the dustbin of history along w/ RAM

ha, yes, i was thinking of mouse on mars. shudder.

― caek, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 20:26 (21 minutes ago) Permalink

but MoM are great

great to poop on

gonzales' only half-decent music was his plasticky electroclash nonsense (and really only half decent and i would not like to return to it to hear how much it's dated)

He did fine work on Feist's Let It Die, I think.

ugh feist gross

feist, who pretty much invented RFD: Light-hearted, whimsical indie hipster music that seemed specifically manufactured for Apple commercials ;_;

he's also worked with drake

ugh drake gross

and jamie lidell

a whole rolodex full of shit

lmao

Gonzales' presence on the album was the first sign for me tha this album was going to be a pretty laid back and 70's influenced affair given the fact that he did stuff like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uipvovf1GNE

xp lol