Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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

he is the people's dj.

somewhere in a parallel universe (i.e. another board on the web), someone saw that list and just asked, "who is björk?"

(btw my 20something students do not know who björk is)

the melies thing is the one i got tired of fast

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.

they did Human After All start to finish in two weeks iirc so

and it was better than this soggy lump

re: dance albums

right, but those records sound like mainstream pop music ca. 2013, as opposed to using sounds that are often employed with some degree of irony or pastiche (jazz fusion drums, disco guitar, broadway vibes? i dunno, i haven't listened to this record).

disagree!

Speaking of which, it's hilarious how no one in any of these interviews for RM asks Daft Punk about HAA.

guys I've been receiving a lot of e-mail so... there is a cove around which buccaneers frequently go to, it's a internet 'place' (i.e. place that you can visit on the internet), they take a lot of FLAK sometimes but it should be pretty easy to find things you are looking for on there

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.

― scott seward

Air's run from 97-04 was really great, they didn't really put a foot wrong. It was only the album after that were they seemed to completely run out of ideas. They haven't really recovered since, but that soundtrack was a step in the right direction.

lol dayo is helpful

and yeah, i quite liked le voyage dans le lune, a 2012 favorite, if lower tier

i made a thread for it and it got a whopping 17 posts

☄ AIR ➽ LES VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE ☾2012 sᴏᴜɴᴅᴛʀᴀᴄᴋ ᴛᴏ ᴀ 1902 ғɪʟᴍ☽

what a pretty thread title

thanks i'm quite proud of it

i didn't hear it until late last year, by which point i was on break. else i would at least have nodded from the wall.

Didn't realize until today that's there some really subtle strings at the end of Get Lucky.

Maybe it's a weird comparison, but I get a real Ween vibe off alot of the songs, so studied is the aesthetic assimilation being undertaken on this record.

you know WEEN is a pretty good comparison!

Enjoyed that Air album a lot, just missed out on my EOY ballot. Not sure I've heard anything between Virgin Suicides and that though.

Maybe it's a weird comparison, but I get a real Ween vibe off alot of the songs, so studied is the aesthetic assimilation being undertaken on this record.

put the ventolin down, you've had enough

Fragments of Time? are you kidding me, I think that was on White Pepper.

ｅｖｅｒｙｂｏｄｙ'ｓ ｄａｎｃｉｎｇ ｏｎ ｔｈｅ ｆｌｏｏｒ
ｇｅｔｔｉｎｇ ｒｅａｄｙ ｆｏｒ ｓｏｍｅ ｍｏｒｅ

Well this was:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7o0e3F2Fg

Best Sellers in Music

1. Modern Vampires of the City
~ Vampire Weekend
Audio CD

2.Random Access Memories
~ Daft Punk
Audio CD

3. Random Access Memories
~ Daft Punk
Vinyl

is that amazon?

yes. whoa.

awesome

I still like this album but I'm listening to Pharaoh Overlord right now. Daft Punk should do a collaboration with Pharaoh Overlord. Why haven't they collaborated with Pharaoh Overlord?

figured that was gonna be a scott post

Well we don't know what kind of crazy left turn they'll make on their next album.

what does it take to be a "best seller" now? i think that just means your neighbor ed ventured out of the house to pick up an album for the first time in six years.

figured that was gonna be a scott post

LOL me too

what does it take to be a "best seller" now? i think that just means your neighbor ed ventured out of the house to pick up an album for the first time in six years.

Hundreds solds. Tens of hundreds sold. Every man, woman and child knows someone who knows someone who has a cousin who goes to school with someone who bought this used. On MP3.

Still, he referred to technology like Pro Tools and Auto-Tune as having “created a musical landscape that is very uniform” and enthused about the flexibility of the flesh-and-blood musicians they recruited, like the drummer John Robinson, who played on Michael Jackson’s “Off the Wall.”

Oh snap, so they did get JR Robinson!

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i remember reading that grizzly bear article where they were topping the "indie" charts with like 1,500 copies sold or whatever

basically that dude in a coffee shop in 1995 selling his all-indigo-girls-covers self-released CD probably sold as many copies of ::name your favorite record here::

*as many copies AS

YSI?

some of this reminds me of bobby conn's the golden age, with the horn arrangements and some of the vocals. but the daft punk feels flaccid in comparison.

i want an instrumental version

Yes!

"give life back to music" is a real earworm - love it.

+1 for similarity to mid-late Ween. If only the singers were as good...

I totally understand why they needed to make this album, and it is a remarkable achievement in many ways, but I don't think I'm gonna listen to it a lot.

I really hope though that after they went through all this ridiculous effort and got it out of their system they are going to make a simple dirty machine music album in the very near future!

fuck ween

many college campuses would be very excited by the idea of a ween/daft punk tour.

I like the feeling that they spent a ton of cash on the kind of album they'd love to have made when they were 13 and watching Phantom of the Paradise obsessively. There's such an idiosyncratic sense of fandom at play here and a complete lack of concern about whether people will find the sounds they love jarring or cheesy. Discovery did that to some extent - and rehabilitated a bunch of stuff in the process - but this is the full-on fantasy football league version.

ha. i was just wondering if the Ween comparison was going to give contenderizer an aneurysm

I'd say Ween are a lot more talented overall from a musical and songwriting perspective but they probably wouldn't have the patience to see something like this through. Definitely coming from the same place though!