Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

Contact is awesome n all but It's a bit disappointing that they forgo the incredible funky drumming in favour of CRASH CRASH CRASH CRASH for the second half.

CRASH CRASH CRASH is awesome though. No lie, I was reminded of the track Tarfumes did for the ILX Beatles comp.

My favorite drumming moment on this record is the breakbeat that sneaks into the second half of "Fragments of Time"

So the scratching on Giorgio by Moroder, that's samples sequenced to the drumbeat, right? Can't believe it could be that tight done live.

it could be their synth?

ha, yesterday i got to the point of "dude, you need to ease back on the CRASH CRASH CRASH."

saw the vinyl yesterday ..
despite not normally caring re old school scratchy vinyl i was very tempted (in a big studio/session musician mood at the moment - see philly disco !) ..
however, the note on the sleeve re 'includes download codes' put me off.
if they had included a cd a la several other vinyl editions, then i would have done the deed.
also, i love the vinyl label a la advert.
old school columbia red/yellow logo.
looks ace ..

the now-we're-finally-taking-off sound wouldn't be complete without the CRASH CRASH CRASH

lol poor nile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdPNl4NnH00

"No lie, I was reminded of the track Tarfumes did for the ILX Beatles comp."

no lie, tarfumes is one of the most amazing drummers you will ever see if you see him play live.

is he really an escaped goat?

Woah xp - I've always dreamed of sounding like Nile, and for the first minute of that I think I do.

The groove he locks into at 2:20 though, bloody hell

He was just warming up since he forgot the song give him a break.

allegedly he plays guitar on any album he works on

There's not a track on this album I dislike.

Give Life Back, Giorgio by Moroder, Instant Crush through Get Lucky and Fragments of Time are favourites though.

Within is kind of bleh.

within sets the mood

Yeah i seen it as a transition, it works in the album but it doesnt stand well on its own.

It's the one track I can never really remember how it goes.

I love Within.

Instant Crush and Beyond are the one's that are kind of "bleh" for me, but that may very well change.

It's a good sign that there seems to be no unanimous agreement about what's filler and what isn't. Some dismiss "Giorgio"; others "Lose Yourself to Dance"; others "Doin' it Right".

should we poll it yet

give it a few months

re: "scratching" on Giorgio - i'm pretty sure that's noise from an analog synth through a gate triggered by the drumtrack (with the gate being opened wider around the 8:00 mark) </nerd> very clever, don't remember hearing that on many records

...and probably won't either because you can't do it on your bloody laptop can you

hadn't thought of it but there's got to be loads of similar subtle studio shit on this record actually - haven't seen much talk about that aspect

Within has been stuck in my head for three days.

Proving consensus is dead.

i want to hear more about this vinyl volume issue. i hate that!

Or what Eggs said.

Is it possible this record is as important as it was hyped to be?

my vinyl has no issues on my setup xp

ok cool, i'm probably getting this vile earworm of a classic for father's day

Let's raise the bar, and our CARS to the sky
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Who's paying for the sponsorship?? Can't be cheap!
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I wish whoever mixed this had made Pharrell's vocal tracks on "Lose Yourself to Dance" 1-2 dB quieter in the mix. It sounds weird to me esp. when I listen to it at low volume because the groove is so immense and perfectly balanced but the vocals are just barely too loud to really mesh with it. To me anyway.

motherboard kinda reminding me of tree of limbs a lil bit?

http://www.list.co.uk/article/51295-liam-gallagher-blasts-daft-punk/ lol

who is liam gallagher

Ouch, I wouldn't want to be Daft Punk right now.

He'd never say "sans helmet"

It took him six years to write Little James, that must be amazing

Who's paying for the sponsorship?? Can't be cheap!

columbia records sponsor lotus.

the only track I find weak/not interesting so far is "game of love".
the rest goes from fun/good to great/glorious.
some tracks are a bit too long though.
my favourite track for now might be "giorgio" (although I have had "within" stuck in my head since this morning).

'game of love' is awfully like the old man jazz yello is pumping out these days

Game of Love and Within are blah and Lose Yourself to Dance drags but I like/love everything else. The sequencing of the second disc is much more effective than the first - I can't fathom the logic behind making Game of Love track 2 instead of Giorgio. It's such a buzzkill.

yeah, "game of love" shouldn't even be on the album. and certainly not at the second position !

I think one of the coolest things about this record is how good a template they've made for other people use as a platform; it'll probably be getting remixed forever and other people will be using this for samples in turn, basically like they made a database of brand new samples - I mean it makes sense looking at it from the perspective of making something akin to the records that originally inspired them

Also I can't stop listening to it, I think it is their best album even if I'm not always entirely sure why. And I'm looking forward to more from RAM, like this is just a starting point which is a nice feeling. People who complain you can't dance to it like Discovery or that certain songs aren't fast enough or whatever may as well be saying you can't dance to disco.

Game of Love and Within are two of the songs on the album I like but don't fully love yet. I kind of feel like they didn't need to put both of them on the album, they both slow the pace down too much on the first half and they both do exactly the same job.

I'm so surprised to see people saying they don't rate Lose Yourself to Dance (Pitchfork included) I've settled on that being my favourite song for now, it's closely followed by Giorgio.

I'm just so in love with this album right now, it just keeps sounding better and better.

Game of Love was my favorite track on first listen. That vocoder hum section at the end is beautiful.

Love the general sound of Game Of Love plus Bangalter's accent coming thru more ("then eet wuz yoooo"). If the music was exactly the same but the singer was being more elaborately in emoting like e.g. Miguel I guess its game would get more love?

I don't really see this being sampled much really or at least not in effective ways (I'm sure people will try) - like to think this was v intentional from DP. Remixes and re-edits (whether by DP or others) is a different matter.

INSTANT CRRUSSSSH

Yeah I guess I just mean it was like they made their own samples more than anything, their own entire record like that which they might have used before and I find something really satisfying in that idea xp