Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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???"

yah youre allowed to admire and enjoy art that was made with real money without compromising any of your 'principles', miss me with that bullshit please

i mean idk why he wasnt yelling at the knife. also i dont think the argument is "dont watch speilberg" or "dont listen to daft punk" its like... be aware of the material conditions that allow musicians to be gearheads

it is but he makes it in a shitty and dissembling way, tells us multiple times its not abt class or money or he's not attacking the creative choice to bring in session musicians but the piece circles back when it talks about the 'tools' they use and links it explicitly with money and then goes into the economic realities of choosing tools and blah blah blah he's not really being honest w himself at all

In the old days lots of non-1%er acts got access to all those "tools" through something called a record label advance.

Does every blogger need to inject a 'like' into every odd sentence to let the reader know his wheels are turning?

otm

i think that if i were writing that piece for him it's not the tools that make me uncomfortable but the linking of musicianship & virtuosity w money by hiring these session musicians at tens of thousand of dollars an hour, that's the fuck you move that is not available to indie dudes like him

also afaict p4k et al still cover a majority of bands who record relatively cheaply, i don't think animal collective are rushing to hire jr robinson

like is whatever the problem is kind of

i think that if i were writing that piece for him it's not the tools that make me uncomfortable but the linking of musicianship & virtuosity w money by hiring these session musicians at tens of thousand of dollars an hour

I don't follow what's even slightly wrong with this.

there's nothing wrong with it imo but i am trying to sharpen his argument by putting myself in his shoes

like is just a tic; kind of is cowardice

what about sort of

fwiw, one of the arguments I have always made in defense of the old label system is that they give wider access to those kinds of expensive musicians/studios/gear

ive been trying to shed the faux naïf bloggy voice myself but its hard

like really kind of sort of difficult or w/e

i think there's a really solid couple of paragraphs in that piece. i'm still figuring out to what extent i agree with it, but it's definitely one of the more interesting things i've read about RAM.

(part of the reason i'm still figuring it out is, whether it's an affectation or laziness, his writing style, combined with no caps, no line spacing presentation, is like a big "fuck you" to the reader when extended over more than a paragraph.)

me too xp

"Get Lucky" enters the Billboard top five. Airplay is just starting to explode.