Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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?

those shirts are terrible, but i've decided RAM's cover is too. they should have kept the logo on a black background motif but made it sparkly this time like in the promo stuff

Because Daffy Duck isn't owned by Disney?

Donald?

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

funny that after spending months trying to find the real tracks among the fakes/remix, the quest is now to find remix !

So basically DP should have been content with releasing the single of the summer and held off on releasing a record. Come to think of it, I think I would have been more satisfied had this album been released as a series of 12"s, stuffed with remixes and interludes.

haha i hear the ween in this too now that people have mentioned it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVewRA0GyWw&feature=youtu.be

Get Lucky is ultimately going to be a force for evil isn't it.

"ultimately"

Why is that girl from The Ring in that video?

lol @ this

https://soundcloud.com/itsrickyftw/every-dj-set-this-summer-13

fuck that last youtube is awful

how can people make music like that without throwing themselves out a window?

this on the other hand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PAT1UmlJ-0

Granted I wasn't around at the time, but RAM makes me think of what the reaction must have been when Gene Clark released No Other. I hated No Other at first but now it's got to be one of my all-time favorites. The whole switch in style, over-the-top slickness, all of the collaborators, etc. feels like it has a lot in common with that album. That Gene Clark album prepared me for RAM and I'm really enjoying it.

whens the full length video dropping?

jesus, no other...good DAY, sir. I gotta go back to my moombahton thread...

I don't think there is one coming. They stated in a recent interview that they're more interested in making short little clips that you can watch over and over again, than full length videos.

anticipating vine huh

jesus, no other...good DAY, sir. I gotta go back to my moombahton thread...

Ha! Whoops...

Granted I wasn't around at the time, but RAM makes me think of what the reaction must have been when Gene Clark released /No Other/. I hated /No Other/ at first but now it's got to be one of my all-time favorites. The whole switch in style, over-the-top slickness, all of the collaborators, etc. feels like it has a lot in common with that album. That Gene Clark album prepared me for RAM and I'm really enjoying it.

I totally agree with this -- which is what I'd be saying if Gene Clark ever had any fans to disappoint.

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.

wait that youtube cover is by an actual band?

sincere and actual

they're kind of a big deal actually
http://www.csssuxxx.com/