Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

I hear it in some tracks, too. hence the 'yellow moon.' eno's been involved with many things. 'sounds like eno' is probably a safe thing to say about music statistically.

it sounds eno-esque because it is an ambient instrumental track that "builds" slowly toward a climax. that's enough to be eno-esque.

or as i say Enosyian

enwegian

brianishtic

Oy. Didn't mean to offend anyone. Sorry, crüt. Will bow out of thread...

sounding like eno is probably easier than sounding like John Bonham. aren't there a bunch of quotes from crusty studio engineers complaining that teenagers walk into their holy studio and ask for a Bonham drumsound. and the crusty studio engineer inserts a dramatic pause before saying something like "you'd better go dig up john bonham then." but brian eno plays synthesizers a lot, you see, and synthesizers can be setup to sound the same, independent of the operator.

Can someone point me to what all these writers are referring to when they call RAM "a disappointment to many fans" before they proceed to say glowing things about it? I've now read this three or four times and have yet to see someone actually disappointed.

Are there "Boo To RAM" chat rooms lex moderates that I'm unaware of?

Try their Lastfm page, plenty of people on there are disappointed.

Or here's a negative review I found via the Hype Machine:
http://www.nerdyframes.org/?p=43474

Ok, Horizon is absolutely gorgeous. Someone get a post-rock/Hydrahead band to cover it ASAP.

Try their Lastfm page, plenty of people on there are disappointed.

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:24 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but let's be honest if a critic thought that was a good angle to take ("fans disappointed by new daft punk album") they would do so even if the evidence was a single tweet.

I just accidentally called my local record store while trying to look up their hours during a meeting and bought the last copy of this to avoid saying "I accidentally called you"

if you don't hear Eno that's fine, but don't say that I'm "grasping at straws" like I'm a fucking dumbass

― ḉrut (crüt), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:55 (1 hour ago) Permalink

not laughing at you crut, but I like this as the new board description.

wait you bought a record over the phone in the middle of a meeting? like maybe there was a powerpoint happening, and you're like "uh, excuse me, do you have any copies of the new daft punk left?"

Thought yelp would just give me the number, not call it immediately. Realized it was calling. Excused myself from meeting. Pretended someone had called me. Bought record bc I didn't know what else to say to the nice lady at the record store

"Horizon" snippet is totally gorgeous.

Oy. Didn't mean to offend anyone. Sorry, crüt. Will bow out of thread...

― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no don't go! I've been kind of on edge lately. sorry for lashing out.

NO FUCK THAT GUY CRUT I GOT YR BACK PUNKS JUMP UP TO GET BEAT DOWN

too mellowed out by this Eno-esque Daft Punk track

if it was an air track you wouldn't be mellowed out

and your aunt would have a penis

That was a song by Tool, yeah?

stream of the giorgio dj set/story time mentioned upthread

http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/giorgio-moroder-live-at-deep-space

Another review: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/05/daft-punk-random-access-memories.html

that reads like a re-write of pfork's old lukewarm review of discovery, similar critiques, even the decimal point score is about the same

the spoken word Moroder track reminded me of that Belle and Sebastian b-side where the guy talks about meeting Elvis.

I find it offputting when reviews start with namechecking other recent reviews of the same record tbh, hard to get past that.

Statements like these:

Daft Punk fans are famously quick to get mad at Justice or Skrillex for burdening their fans with rock dreams, positioned as a direct affront to dance culture’s anonymity.

(they are?) are also merely backed up by other reviews. I mean, you can write about the new record without referring to Skrillex. Kinda NAGL.

The only thing pissing me off about this record now is the vocoders (I know that sounds ridiculous).

That Paste review is so awful. It's a review that supposes that everyone reading will have heard RAM a few times and how many times do you want to mention Skrillex

And I have just spotted traces of a Saint-Saëns influence in Motherboard. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2013/05/daft_punk_s_random_access_memories_reviewed.html

This album is probably the best album. Feel like I should've gotten that bonus track for $40, though.

I hear a lot of Neil Young in this album in that it costs $40

There's nothing unique about it but I like this bonus track. Could fit in one of those underwater levels in donkey kong country.

I dont find it particularly Eno-esque though. It kind of continues the soft-prog motiffs found in the album. I think its more related to idk, gilmour, alan parsons, tangerine dream, mike oldfield... Those new agey proggy sounds from the late 70s

http://youtu.be/Y6VQ1fqza-g

Btw, ifk if it was mentioned before but heres the only sample they used.

Hello. I've avoided this album and this thread so far, but curiosity got the better of me and I decided to have a quick listen to RAM this morning. My first impressions are:

PLUS POINTS:
Nicely executed take on smooth funk, sort of an update on the Roger Troutman/Zapp sound. It works well for what it is. I like the way it's the anti-Human After All. One was techno as played by a rock band, the other's funk as played by an electro band - or something, I dunno, I haven't quite worked that bit out. It's a total move away from the last album anyway.

MINUS POINTS:
Maybe a bit 'safe' sounding? Could take a few more risks. Could also do with a few more dance tunes. And the vocoders get a bit old after a while. Singing 'Doin' It Right' over and over is beyond parody for DP at this point in their career.

Anyway, I'm enjoying it so far but need to hear the rest of the album properly.

This record has apparently been crafted specifically with me in mind* <3 <3.

I could have saved you 4789 anguished posts if I'd known this sooner.

(*except for the bit with that AnCo dude on vocals, dunno what they were thinking of there. I said Huggy Bear, chaps, not Panda Bear!)

The idea of people heckling GM during his first DJ set bums me out

In other news, so nice to be able to play this in my car now!

Pharrell on "Lose" giving me Fame flashbacks

The idea of people heckling GM during his first DJ set bums me out

i havent listened to the recording yet, but if a dj stops playing music for that long in the middle of a set it is straight trolling, regardless of who you are.

in a room full of people listening to a dj at night there's going to be a few people who don't know who moroder is or that he has a spoken word thing on a new daft punk album

This album reminds me of Tortoise in spots, ie sober/mannered Tortoise

Also: I don't club much (ever) but I take your point

I'm hearing a bit of YMO in the proggy disco bits (and lamenting the fact they ain't on Spotify).
Maybe a smidge of Avalon Roxy in the rhythm section of "Game Of Love" (Ferry as Ur-SadCokeBot?).

Fun record.

the first couple of dramatic chords after the monologue in "Contact" sound like they're gonna break into "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight."

must have been something daryl braithwaite said

Playing the spoken word part of GM's mix now. Doesn't sound much like heckling to me!

it wasn't a lot of heckling really but it was easy to pick out individual shouters.
and gr8z is right: it was some indulgent trolly behavior. the thing is that up until then it was basically the best DJ set ever so it was totally forgivable.
"Lost Angeles" was when I lost my shit and everything after that was a blur.

i'm listening to it now but still haven't gotten to the spoken word part (just got to "from here to eternity")

the way you described it (including the botched "my name is..." part) just seemed like a classic "great intention, poor execution". almost like a bizzaro-world nightclub scene from an early season of The Office where no one (moroder or the hecklers) is being an outright asshole but you just feel awkward and depressed about the whole situation