Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

This is an awesome review. The end.

http://i.imgur.com/eA9hyVs.jpg

whos the dude in the middle

julian casablancas

wow #bloat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf-yB1i6KEo

He is a member of smooth jazz quartet Fourplay

which also features bob james and harvey mason

always been meaning to investigate fourplay bc i love bob james and harvey mason is basically responsible for my favorite drum performance of all time, headhunters

why are there so many track-by-track reviews for this record?

DP probably reached out to Nick Offerman because they wanted to get Duke Silver to do some sax work on RAM.

i think a guest spot on parks&rec is the least he owes them

why are there so many track-by-track reviews for this record?

― sigourney wiener (diamonddave85), donderdag 16 mei 2013 22:18 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Because it all started with that awful phenomenon of exclusive one time listening sessions for some journalists, way before the release date (or leak for that matter). they all wanted to crank out copy as fast as they could.

these listening sessions are the death of music journalism. no value to the listener, no value in it for the writer, just adding to the hype.

and because all these journalists already wrote their track-by-track reviews after only having heard it once, in an office building somewhere with 20 colleagues, they can't write another proper review of it.

(i know of one Dutch journalist, former ilxor, that asked the rec co to listen to get another listen, alone, on headphones, and they granted it)

All the reviews I've seen so far read like the reactions of people who have been locked in a room with no music for years, and this is the first thing they've heard since the door shut. OHMYGODI"MSHITTINGMYSELFTHIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOGOOD IVE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE IT EVERY BEFORE AND EVEN IF I HAD THIS WOULD BE BETTER THAN THAT BECAUSE IT IS SOOOOOOOOOGOOOOD!

Tune in next week when another album is released.

its fun to get excited about music

tbf i didn't start listening to music until february of this year

i agree with gr808. loving the hype, and glad that the album lives up to it. way better -- more complex; distinctive -- than human after all.

I'll say this: it's better than the Justin Timberlake, which arrived with virtually no hype. He should have hired Nile Rodgers, esteemed producer of INXS, Duran Duran and B-52s.

(Just being snide, Nile rules)

otoh i was just thinking today how awesome it would have been had they recorded this same album in secret and then pulled a mbv and just released it with 6 hours notice

this is actually the first piece of music i've ever heard. kicking myself!

"Music: It ain't half bad!"

OMG, you mean people used to make music with instruments! The guys who played on this record played with Michael Jackson! MICHAEL JACKSON!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIWS53Q4zVE

Listen, you’d have to be daft as a brush to say you didn’t like Daft Punk.

which arrived with virtually no hype - lol this is a joke right?

I erased all memory of music before I listened to this and it's not as good as Homework.

daft punk hype machine is canis majoris next to jt's mere betelgeuse.

http://i.imgur.com/af653eU.png

xpost nile is the best part of the get lucky video. he seems so chill.

This album continues to make me yearn for Steely Dan's Aja and Gaucho ~ which is a very good thing. I can't point at individual songs, it's a ~feeling~.

youre probably being subliminally influenced by the 50 active steely dan threads on the board rn

Lol, not really.

Thinking about DP asking Becker or Fagen for this album though. It is... too much. Of awesomeness. Which is probably why they didn't ask them.

so... why are there vinyl crackles in 'contact'

so you know its really real and no laptops were involved

artisanally sincere surface noise

it's from vintage 1979 coke that somehow got dropped on the acetate and couldn't be dislodged

DP probably reached out to Nick Offerman because they wanted to get Duke Silver to do some sax work on RAM.

― Moodles

Random Access Memories...of Now.

Lol, not really.
Thinking about DP asking Becker or Fagen for this album though. It is... too much. Of awesomeness. Which is probably why they didn't ask them.

― Le Bateau Ivre

Is that probably why they didn't ask Michael McDonald either?

I can think of no other reason.

actually that could have been spectacular.

I find this article a bit ironic given that the author was also responsible for the title of the Steely Dan topic:
http://www.timeoutchicago.com/music-nightlife/16235351/18-bytes-a-daft-punk-primer

But maybe he hadn't actually heard the album at that point and assumed that the album was more on the funky disco side of things.

So is the pr campagne broken off now? We've not seen a video with Julian Casablancas yet. Did they decide to leave it after the album leaked?

Say, is this like OUT next week?

ok so i don't know about the full album

but increasingly feeling that "touch" is brilliant

Yeah "Touch" is my favourite track on this. Possibly the only case where it feels they're doing something new.

Whoever it was upthread that suggested the spectre of Steely Dan all over this album, I'm convinced that's the right answer. Can't not hear this as their Gaucho now. Which means I now love it and will probably hardly ever listen to it.

sort of glad i have no steely dan lens through which to view this

It would be a bit like looking at something through the wrong end. The Daft Punk would seem smaller and farther away ...

I'm that weird guy that's listened to Gaucho more than Aja. This doesn't have enough backing singers to be Gaucho though.

Something about the drumming is very similar though, sounds like money.

i listen to gaucho way more than aja