Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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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

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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

I don't feel like Game of Love really disrupts the flow of the album. It's pretty propulsive for a somewhat lower tempo track, the groove is really nice. It's probably the one track that I find myself comparing the most to Air, except in Air's hands it wouldn't have been nearly as funky.

It doesn't disrupt the flow. It introduces the flow.

It is the flow.

hang on it either doesn't work or is the best can we make up our minds

they fucked up with game of love as track two. we all know it.

i myself tried to deny this this morning but after much soul searching i now accept, they fucked up and they fucked every one of us.

anyone who likes game of love is a damn liar.

i think i'm in love with Sufjan Grafton

the manatee song non-figuratively killed me

Just had an earthquake. daft punk knows what we've done

My office, they biased, too involved with the flow

Is it too soon to ask GM to re record his monologue to include his Incredible Hulk origin story

I had a dream the other night that Thomas Bangalter approached me and asked if I wanted to play drums for Daft Punk. I explained to him that I had a job and a baby, but he was like "No, it's totally cool, you can just play with us whenever your schedule permits, and you don't have to go on long tours or anything. We just really want you to play with us." So I said ok, and then I woke up. ;_;

It doesn't disrupt the flow. It introduces the flow.

― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Wednesday, May 29, 2013 7:05 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM. For me, it was the song where I was like "ok I totally get this album and I know I'm going to love it"

Daft Punk dreams are the best, more please. I haven't had one yet, but every morning I wake up with a different song in my head. Today give life back to music, yesterday lytd, the day before was the panda bear one.

I think the panda bear track is my favorite. Rhythm guitar features a little too heavily on the rest of the record for me, although I don't dislike it, just makes it feel too mellowed-out and samey.

like I came into it expecting one thing (sprightly disco a la "Get Lucky") but "Game of Love" made me realize I was getting something else (sadsack fusion jams) but fuckit I love sadsack fusion jams and wasn't expecting the album to be like that at all so it made for a great surprise

oh no, rhythm guitar! especially in hands of maybe the best rhythm guitarist ever

fuckit I love sadsack fusion jams

can't be repeated enough

lol yeah I know dude, but still it's just too much of it on too many tracks for me (xp)

"Too much rhythm guitar, Mozart."

I love Fragments of Time. that one hits the vibe they were going for the best imo. both of the Pharrell tracks are good but they feel like anomalies on the album really. Instant Crush is pretty great too, and yeah I like Doin It Right.

the rest I can take or leave.

take it then

Get Lucky rises to #4 this week on the Hot 100.

i love every song on this album and i love this album

I love the way this thread has turned into middle-aged men analysing how kids react to the song: "the experience is working, the nubile subects react positively to this DISCO creation..."

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, April 29, 2013 9:05 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

= first 2 paragraphs of this: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/arts/music/daft-punks-get-lucky-may-rule-the-summer.html

Correction: May 29, 2013

An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly, in one instance, to Daft Punk as Daft Puck.

i really like the touch -> get lucky transition, "you've almost convinced me i'm real, i need something more... i neeed something moore...." and then boom disco licks

xp there is still "Daft Pink" in the article now

"Lose yourself to dance" is so fucking dope

The marketing for the song was old-school as well. Columbia Records avoided waging a modern Internet campaign

uh

http://deadgirlfriends.tumblr.com/post/51711791274/this-is-a-quote-from-a-philip-sherburne-piece-on

I will be shocked if Get Lucky is this summer's song -- it sounds like a cover of itself by a really tight wedding band.

Summer songs are the MOST played tracks at wedding receptions.

god that deadgirlfriends post is full of the dumbest most enraging shit.

it’s similar to the way i feel when synth dudes or guitar dudes start going on about amps or tone or about how even different synthesizers that are the same model from the same year still have tiny barely perceptible differences. does anyone care about that kind of stuff?

like this. fuck this bullshit. "ohhhhh my god it's so BORING when artists care about their art" well maybe their art isn't about you!!!

he's the guy from elite gymnastics right? im a lil sympathetic but I think that piece misses the mark - why subject daft punk to that scrutiny and in the same breath extol major label pop artists. i know he's into k-pop. why do you hold daft punks money against them and not kanyes or taylors?

b/c of the PR campaign about daft punk

yeah this album has been specifically framed as digital robot sample-loop ppl attempt REAL music in REAL studios with REAL musicians blah blah blah

i deal with gear fetishization a lot in photography and i understand the narc of small d component but otoh if an artist achieves amazing results hell yeah im interested in knowing how he got em.

RAM is probably the best sounding album from a production / audiophile standpoint released in forever and i think that justifies the nerdy inquiry into which session musicians they tapped and what kind of synths they used.

why isn't this dude out here screaming at the knife for inventing instruments to be used on shaking the habitual, that was part of their pr campaign too

yeah and Jurassic Park was specifically framed as a breakthrough in CGI technology, but you don't hear people complaining that too much went into making the glass of water shake. "Why should I watch a Spielberg movie when I can't make one on my iPhone???"