Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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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Wendel After All

Apple’s lax iTunes streaming security gives out a free copy of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories

BTW, one thing I sort of love about "Giorgio By Moroder" is how it just blows the idea of "Teachers" up to outrageous proportions.

One thing I sort of love about "Giorgio by Moroder" is how they take this guy know for his behind the spotlight production/programming prowess and have him talk over the music.

yes moroder, behind the spotlight, sure

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Sweetzer Ave

what i like is they took nile rodgers, this guy known for producing duran duran, and had him play guitar on it. and disco guitar at that!

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really the only unsurprising moment on the album was when they had todd edwards sing like michael mcdonald, like THIS AGAIN?

i just ran out for a short bit and heard part of "get lucky" on my pop station

a little surprising i guess

I'm just disappointed they didn't take a cue from Giorgio and have their last track consist of them listing the album's credits through a vocoder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kw-X1dNuzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G4at_OQenQ

you have to hand it to these guys for a fucking masterful marketing job on this. when you thought they'd ZIG, they ZAGGED. i honestly can't remember any build-up even approaching the fever-pitch intensity for this. i know what lex means about a similar feel between this and the JT album - sort of variations on hey, what up, it's the return of the mack except in more expensive suits this time - but the JT build-up paled next to this.

Hats off to these guys, because the JT basically sounds like you'd expect it to sound, but not as good, while this, no matter where you stand on the results, is the last thing anyone expected from Daft Punk, even with all the hints and clues.

sort of sick of seeing music acts being praised for their marketing skillz and business acumen. it's sort of irrelevant.

don't you have some american idol to watch or something