Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

i kind of get it though, DP made an album where they were very open about wearing their influences on their sleeve, it's almost a perfect imitation, and it doesn't sound like what they've done before. but that doesn't mean that HAA or Discovery were done from an ironic standpoint.

my updated view of this album: favourite album of the year up to and including track 9. fragments of time and contact are solid. panda bear is awful to listen to but a fun earworm after the fact. motherboard is rubbish.

xps yeah I don't think this is any different to Discovery in terms of what you're talking about...DP aren't being more since/less ironic or whatever here than on that

I think the sincerity of what they say is so pronounced because their statements are so obviously wrong and stupid. Like, they have Moroder talking about 'the sound of the future' when there isn't a single new idea on the record. They sing about losing yourself in dance in a song which no one would ever lose themselves dancing to.

i have already lost myself dancing to that song so you are wrong

Definitely agree with you Dayo, well put. I did not mean to imply the previous records were done from an ironic standpoint. But the music did implicate it at times.

With this one, they turned everything upside down, went the whole nine yards in being open: showing their influences, pressing on the fact that this would be a "different" Daft Punk than before. I admire that. I think most poignant is the Rodgers quote up here somewhere showing how shocked they were that the album had leaked: it didn't seem they were concerned about breaking "the spell" of the pr as much as being gutted that they lost control at the very conceiving end of this album, of bringing it to the world, and being concerned about the reactions. And Rodgers had to console them and tell them: "Look maaahhn, it's about the music, they either like it or not, no big deal."

i have already lost myself dancing to that song so you are wrong

pictures plz

anyway i don't know how any of the moves that DP pulled on this record are supposed to be weird or surprising after kanye already sampled the dan like three years ago. peace http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x259/alexandramarko/fun/smiley_peace.gif

forget kanye what about de la soul

now all I can see is Nile Rodgers consoling French retro robots.

and who better?

there ain't enough Rodgers riffage to mitigate the awfulness of Pharrell's falsetto.

"champion" was almost 6 years ago!!

man how time flies

finally listening to the whole thing today.

why does everyone (around the internet at least) hate Touch so much? you wouldn't play it at a dance party or anything (ok i guess i just answered my own question) but it's not bad at all!

i want my 16 minute version of Touch

and keep wanting to mix 'loose yourself to dance' into cassius' 'au reve'

anyway if you want to look for examples of the new sincerity look no farther than new ilx poster treeship.

*runs hand through hair* damn

lol

Treeship is ILX's Random Access Memories

do they ever say why it takes them so long to make records? dance music peoples are usually like sci-fi writers, they can't crank it out fast enough.

pharrells crap at this

agreed. you wanna go out for a drink, man

get a room

COME ONE COME ON COME ON COME ONE COME ON COME ON COME ONE COME ON COME ON COME ONE COME ON COME ON COME ONE COME ON COME ON COME ONE COME ON COME ON

sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat

10/10 in the NME. It joins Is This It, Let England Shake and that Eve album as one of the few albums to get a perfect score, very surprised.

sweat sweat sweat

do they ever say why it takes them so long to make records? dance music peoples are usually like sci-fi writers, they can't crank it out fast enough.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:09 (7 minutes ago) Permalink

this isn't true at all! dance music people release, like, a single every two years

Lemme guess - the NME review was all about them "saving" dance music?

'Touch' really is the works. Blasting sonic rainbows through my speakers. Fuiud.

Lemme guess - the NME review was all about them "saving" dance music?

― scintilla (seandalai)

Somebody actually did a scan of the review.

http://i.imgur.com/0c0D1wv.jpg

Hi all. I'm trying to avoid any dp hype till proper release, so that's why I haven't been ITT. Everyone having fun in here I trust?

"life-affirming salute to the power of imagination"
"instant nightclub anthem"
"startling centrepiece"
"pure musical adrenalin"

did a work experience student write this?

I guess it depends on how big you are. lots of prolific dance people out there. but daft punk more in the rock/pop mold of making people wait for stuff. they are more classic rock dance anyway. like the crossover college rock dance stuff of the 90's. I always wanted to like THAT stuff more than I did. being a rock fan. I enjoyed the videos anyway. same with those first daft punk videos. the event appeal is definitely real. crossover cool factor is a hard thing to manufacture.

"instant crush, an instant nightclub anthem"?!

is that how bad the nme usually is?

I like the hits, basically. I feel the same way about the clash. I like the riffs of the hits. daft punk, chem bros, fatboy, good riffs all around. even if I would never listen to whole albums. sometimes a cool riff is all you need. I respect that.

<i>this isn't true at all! dance music people release, like, a single every two years</i>

Some may, but most active dance producers will probably put out 4 or 5 EPs at least in a year.

xpost I sometimes check out NME reviews online and yes this is a typical one for them. Actually most of the reviews are a lot shorter these days, this one is pretty long for them. They obviously had a lot to say!

Air had an album out last year! who knew?

see Air's great mistake was putting out an album every two years. nobody cares anymore. they should be putting out their third studio album this year. silly Air.

meanwhile, this is a really cool cover of an Air album I only just learned about five seconds ago:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/Love_2.jpg

It wasnt very good xp

artists with the most number one dance/electronic albums in the united states:

1. Louie DeVito (7)
2. Björk (4) (tie)
2. Daft Punk (4) (tie)
3. Lady Gaga (4) (tie)
3. The Chemical Brothers (3) (tie)
3. Depeche Mode (3) (tie)
3. DJ Skribble (3) (tie)
3. Nine Inch Nails (3) (tie)
3. Scissor Sisters (3) (tie)
3. Tiësto (3) (tie)

really? and it wasn't their soundtrack to that melies film, a trip to the moon?

Louie DeVito lives here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manalapan_Township,_New_Jersey

who is louie devito?

the moon one was Air's last studio album. according to Wikipedia. I guess the album is different from their score for the film?

he does dance mixes that are very popular here.

http://www.djlouiedevito.com/

you can buy them at walmart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B9hPBcD6S0