Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

I like the story of them using different mic's from different eras to record Giorgio Moroder's voice, and claiming that while most listeners wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the mics, at least THEY knew!

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1565020/official-daft-punks-random-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-200-with-339000

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/31/entertainment-us-taylorswift-chart-idUSBRE89U03E20121031

owned

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owned

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on layaway

SM57's are pretty magical.

Pretty solid numbers in 2013

Imagine what it sold in France

just under 200k in France

http://www.chartsinfrance.net/Daft-Punk/news-86064.html

Further, "Random Access Memories" is the first dance/electronic album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in more than a year. The last dance/electronic No. 1 was Madonna's "MDNA" -- it debuted atop the April 14, 2012 chart.

"Notably, in one week, "Random Access Memories" has sold more than twice what the total sales are for "Human After All." The latter has sold just 125,000 to date. Comparably, Daft Punk's best selling album is "Discovery," with 796,000."

Assume they're just US sales?

Yeah they're just US sales. I saw they revealed the UK sales for all their previous albums this week.

Discovery 566,927
Homework 345,09
Tron Legacy 128,595
Musique 122,487
Human After All 80,838
Live 2007 53,613
Alive 1997 15,517

The new album sold 165,091 here in the UK last week, over twice what Human After All has sold in it's lifetime.

I haven't seen this mentioned earlier in the thread but has anybody else noticed the vinyl version of RAM playing a little faster (and pitched a tiny bit higher) than the digital versions?

I just tried flipping back and forth between vinyl and CD - no discernible pitch difference to these ears.

Those rhythm section credits in full:

Side 1:
1. Bass East / Drums Robinson
2. Bass East / Drums Robinson
3. Bass East & Genus / Drums Robinson & Hakim

Side 2:
1. Bass East / Drums Robinson
2. Bass East / Drums Robinson
3. Bass East / Drums Robinson

Side 3:
1. Bass Genus / Drums Hakim & Quinn
2. Bass East / Drums Hakim
3. Bass Genus / Drums Hakim

Side 4:
1. Bass Genus / Percussion Hakim & Quinn
2. Bass East & Genus / Drums Hakim
3. all electronic
4. Bass Genus / Drums Hakim

cool how all the band members have the same first name as the instrument they play

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

Yeah I always have this nagging problem with albums where the second track is really underwhelming. I actually wonder whether people would be more receptive to the album as a whole if you were to swap 'Game of Love' and 'Get Lucky' around.

I get really angry about bad sequencing. It's like, come on, you've got all the right songs, just get them in the right order. I call this The Tusk Problem.

I actually wonder whether people would be more receptive to the album as a whole if you were to swap 'Game of Love' and 'Get Lucky' around.

but loads of people like this album

lol otm it's not *that* bad

"game of love" is good.

I just think there should be a law against really slow second tracks (see also: Kid A)

Yeah I dunno, it's fine in itself but it feels like a damp squib in between Give Life and Giorgio, it fucks up the album's flow and might work better elsewhere. I mean imagine Discovery with Something About Us in between One More Time and Digital Love.

you'd think they'd have noticed that their track order was incorrect and fixed it after all the trouble they went to otherwise

I mean imagine Discovery with Something About Us in between One More Time and Digital Love.

that sounds grouse, honestly

I get really angry about bad sequencing. It's like, come on, you've got all the right songs, just get them in the right order. I call this The Tusk Problem.

― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, May 29, 2013 4:50 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait what tusk is beautifully sequences!

you'd think they'd have noticed that their track order was incorrect and fixed it after all the trouble they went to otherwise

they probably forgot what with all the other stuff they had to do. can someone send them this thread?

Yeah bands never do things intentionally while still fucking up.

Think it's a bit rich to call it fucking up. but then I think it's fine where it is

Make a playlist

human after all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

they'll probably do a recall and repressing when they realise

'game of love' definitely sets a downer mood for the whole album on yr first listen through

Which is awesome.

It doesn't even work conceptually though. Give Life to Music and Giorgio are both making the same point whereas Game of Love belongs with the sad-robot stuff that comes later. That said, from Touch to the end is immaculately sequenced. Move GoL to between Lose Yourself and Touch and we're golden.

Man I really love this album.

I've changed my mind about "game of love". I find it lovely now, it just took longer to grow on me !
that said, I still think it would be better toward the end of the album.

well sorry guys but it's track two and that's the end of it. you can change your playlists but you'll always know you cheated.

maybe it's not the real version of the album that was released ?

Lol Garda you would be the first to shoot down this milquetoast "respect the artists' aesthetic decision" bullshit on the Knife thread.

it's called random access memories not precisely sequenced memories

this is how it starts and then soon we'll be supposed to think digital love in between instant crush and lose yourself to dance, and hey i have an old track by another artist that is great there too and before you know it it's not an album at all, but a playlist.

There'll be blood on the streets.

Isn't the little twiddling bit at the start of within about changing the key, because the first three tracks are in the same key? Which would mean that if they wanted to keep the key-change gimmick, all they can do is rearrange the first three tracks. In that light, GoL is in the best place - it can't be 1 or 3. I guess the question then is why did they want to hold on to that key-change gimmick? Is it really that important? It's like they wanted the flow to be one way, but its actually the other way.

http://i.qkme.me/3okk7r.jpg

The security guard should have patiently explained to Marlow that his choices are no more immune to criticism than anyone else's. That would have worked out well.

Loving the passive aggressive discursive shifts in the thread, needs more vocoder B+

Daft Punk's Passive Aggressive Discursive Shifts

I get really angry about bad sequencing. It's like, come on, you've got all the right songs, just get them in the right order. I call this The Tusk Problem.

― Deafening silence (DL),

the Tusk Triumph, you mean

http://makeameme.org/media/created/All-the-right.png

doin' it right

"Give Life To Music" is the Overture; "The Game of Love" is the Prelude. Or something like that. Anyhow, they both introduce themes that are built on further down the line.

"The Game of Love" is pretty funky. I think if there's anything disrupting the flow there, it's the fadeout on "Give Life Back To Music."

I usually open YouTube and listen to this instead of GOL to fix the sequencing problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geVZYCcAdBc