Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

gives me "if i was your girlfriend" vibes or something, very prince

While I'm not entirely sure I that I completely agree with the Gaucho comparisons, I will say that they suit this album more than when people were comparing Destroyer's Kaputt to it.

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Steely Dan newbies should not start with "Aja" or "Gaucho." Go with "The Royal Scam." Or "Countdown to Ecstasy." People who are comparing this to Steely Dan are nuts.

i started with aja

off of aja, go with 'peg' or 'deacon blues' - they both have pop cores

Steely Dan lyrics are absolutely awesome and acid and essential, but DP's lyrics not so much.

aja is a perfect place to start cuz its kinda perfect.

i think we're just talking about steely dan because one song on this kind of sort of has a gaucho/aja vibe, that's all

also ilx likes steely dan a lot

sad loser dude dan fandom ideally kicks in around ages 25 to 30. if you are younger wait awhile and listen to pissed jeans or fucked up or eat skull or something. theoretically, you still have something to live for.

i love how talk of the dan spreads to all ilm threads, it's like a law of ilm or something

i feel like it used to be this way about the fall or the neptunes

"I know you don't get a chance to take a break this often" always reminds me of Arnie Love and the Lovettes - Breakout (not on Youtube, it's on this Numero comp and is great).

I'm a 42 year old who seems to be vaguely unique in being generally 'yeah I guess' regarding Steely Dan in that I have everything, can hum most of the tunes and haven't actively listened them in about two decades. This is because I am a special snowflake. Can we talk more about Random Access Memories please?

you are one herniated disc away from a major gaucho bender, ned.

But I don't give a fuck about anybody else!

I still can't bring myself to listen to morph the cat even though I have a copy in the store. morph the cat!

aside from some musical touches here and there (mostly there) i completely don't get the steely dan comparisons

Can we talk more about Random Access Memories please?

Take it to the Steely Dan thread.

I did and they laughed and snagged on me and gave me wedgies.

sad loser dude dan fandom ideally kicks in around ages 25 to 30

I have been a fan of Steely Dan since I was 4 (which is when my dad bought Aja)

Agreed. My mom made damn sure I was raised a sad loser dude. Steely Dan, Michael McDonald/Doobies, Boz Scaggs, Hall & Oates, and the whole range of smooth pop were in heavy rotation on her car radio.

what we really should do is inundate DP with emails urging them to buy Sunken Condos.

yeah come to think of it random access memories really lacks harmonica solos

Next album to feature John Popper.

let me clarify: if you weren't a sad loser baby or toddler, sad loser dude dan fandom ideally kicks in around ages 25 to 30.

Katy Lied is my most listened too Steely Dan album but maybe I'm doing it wrong?

do it again

even though i didn't really like it at first, Touch seems to get better and better with every listen

Even though I don't like it very much, the more I listen to it, the more I hear it.

I am trying to figure out if I like the three songs I enjoyed on this enough to purchase them individually

figured it out yet?

let me clarify: if you weren't a sad loser baby or toddler, sad loser dude dan fandom ideally kicks in around ages 25 to 30.

― scott seward

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"Aw mom, not Billy Ocean again!"

xpost be sure and let us know. i'll give you a mobile number in case i'm not looking at ilx when you decide.

any steely dan album is better than this joint but come on, who can't see that?

xp: I'll make sure everyone gets an hourly update on my internal debate

http://www.factmag.com/2013/05/17/daft-punk-predicted-to-have-fastest-selling-album-in-uk-history/

so i finally listened to the stream... errr yikes?!

the last half of get lucky is pretty good, basically after pharrell stops singing

lmao @ Avicii swooping in on not only Nile but Giorgio as well:

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/clubs/interview-giorgio-moroder

Time Out New York: Do you foresee a new career in deejaying?
Giorgio Moroder: We’ll see! Right now, I am working with [EDM star] Avicii here in Los Angeles, and we were talking the other day about the record business, and how far it has gone down.

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

haha this shows how opposite POVs can be. practically the only thought this album provoked in me was "why do the drums sound so terrible?" i know literally nothing about mic'ing drums. but i think it stuck out to me because everything else is polished to such a sheen (you can always count on the french to plump for super high-qual in every department, if budget permits) yet the drums - to my ears - sounded kinda unloved. very "live" but maybe a bit too live for their sound. dunno though - my vocab for this stuff starts to run out quick.

realized what else fragments of time reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkVti5vHnP8

^^ it's awesome. Have you heard Benny Sings' album ART?

yes, its good, but the rest isnt as good as that

That's true, but dang gr8080, have you heard Coco Tour? His new project w/ Dutch singer/rapper Faberyayo. I might be wrong, but I think you will love this! They have two awesome singles out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YjJxwzP8pQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAL4Ae5vDk0

<3

i started in on the dan when i was 17 or 18, pretzel logic, then countdown, then royal scam. every new album was so fresh, too, since they were all so different.

I was the first guy playing Steely Dan to the EDM kids.

practically the only thought this album provoked in me was "why do the drums sound so terrible?"

i agree, the drum sound is boring. can't believe people like the drums on Contact. too much open hi-hat, it sounds like one of those jam-tronica bands.

it's funny, i'm coming from the perspective of revering chopsy drummers as a kid and taking years to see beauty of four-on-the-floor drum machine beats, and they're just coming from the completely opposite place.

Then I played 'Home At Last,' which I copped all the shit for 'Rosanna' from. Once again, no one knew the drummer. I said, 'Guys, it's Bernard Purdie. Who in this room has heard of Steve Gadd?' All the hands went up. 'Aja?' All hands up. 'I'm sure you all know Steve won Performance Of The Year for that in Modern Drummer. Well. you're all fucked up! I just played you 'Home At Last' with Bernard Purdie, and that's on the same record. What do you do, listen to 'Aja' and then take the needle off? As musicians you should know everything I just played for you. Some of the best drum shit ever is on that record. Each track has subtleties."

Porcaro, "That's at a point when drum machine technology was just rearing its ugly head. There was a lot of talk about the future of quantizing and sequencing in real time. To a perfectionist, that was all really cool stuff. The title track was done to a Urei click. In fact it was all Urei except 'Hey Nineteen,' which is WENDEL.

BS: Tell us about Wendel, the drum machine you designed.
RN: We found that there were certain feels that we couldn't get out of real drummers -- they weren't steady enough. So we had to design something that would do it perfectly, but with some human feeling, the right amount of layback. Instead of just one high-hat sound that repeats machine-like over and over, we had sixteen different ones, so it had the inflections. Wendel can play exactly what the drummer plays -- if he plays a little early or a little hard, Wendel plays it a little early or a little hard. Play it once, Wendel memorizes the song, then you play it again and it repeats what it hears.

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