Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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!

ween is also def closer to the irony end of the spectrum than the sincerity end

maybe not, i dont listen to much ween

feel like the whole sincerity argument really needs to be shut down now, signed, a fan of this album

skot post in character would be: i'm still a way bigger fan of les rockets and why don't DP cover one of their songs and pay homage to their french cyborg forebears (and throw some space cash into cyberspace that the former rockets members can use for new space boots)

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

well early Ween was definitely not 100% sincere but I don't see how you can listen to their genre albums like The Mollusk, White Pepper, or 12 Golden Country Greats and think they're like some Weird Al type thing

These shirts are both so wrong:

http://www.teefury.com/

A second listen in, this album is the mother of all punts.

ugh those shirts

i want an instrumental version

Or at least, like, 70% more instrumental.

less Panda overall, more vocoder on the Pharrell songs

not sure yet but I think I f/w the Paul Williams vox

those shirts are disgusting

I don't even understand how you could conceive of these designs and think they are a good idea.

the left one is mostly harmless, if not very good

the right one is a war crime

Well I've already found one remix that I like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH3WWWMtxFs

What DJP said. Left one's more "Well, yeah, I could see that around campus by somebody." Right one's all "Why haven't I seen this already for sale at Disneyland, anyway."

Because Daffy Duck isn't owned by Disney?