Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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

The Game Of Love is a total Mirage-era Christine McVie jammer. Wish they got her to guest instead of the vocoded vox.

Parts of Giorgio in the middle/2nd half remind of... Tortoise! lol, there's some weird 12" that it sounds like... Gamera maybe? That fusion bass with the dual drum jam sesh, yikes.

so are steely dan just a stand in for super slick late70s sound now?

Also, were Giorgio and Motherboard hold overs from the Tron OST, I can't be assed to load this whole damn thread.

game of love needs LOU GRAMM

backing vox on Doin' It Right sounds like a Roland VP-330 Vocoder+ Mk1.

/startrekman

The drums on this a fucking incredible. I mean, who taught them how to mic drums like this? Damn.

Giorgio.

i don't hear Steely Dan or Doobies on Game Of Love, I hear Plush!

Plush, y'know, Liam Hayes. He also got a bunch of old crafty session guys to crank out some coked out 70s-styled jams across a few overproduced expensive studio shipwrecks of albums in the 90s/00s.

oh man, plush. haven't heard that name in a while. he was the darling of chicago music critics for a spell, but I always found his music unlistenably bad.

Just went and bought the vinyl from a shop (like in the olden days) It looks so beautiful. Shame the download code doesn't seem to work, the website keeps saying site not found.

Parts of Giorgio in the middle/2nd half remind of... Tortoise! lol, there's some weird 12" that it sounds like... Gamera maybe? That fusion bass with the dual drum jam sesh, yikes.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli)

Actually was thinking that Motherboard reminded me of Tortoise... or something from WARP only more... acoustic.

Phillip Glass too

I cant really put my finger on which Warp artist it reminds of, though. Boards of Canada?

I think you're right Moka, I may have the tracks mixed up.