Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

I'm pretty sure the rest of that blog is crap as well.

ugh

deadgirlfriends post is on-point

yeah well i decided this record deserved a dedicated cartridge
http://i.imgur.com/XCvkrXfl.jpg
now it sounds perfect

deadgirlfriend's post reads as if his friends and parents ask him why he didn't make RAM at casual parties. Or that people will now expect him to make a RAM-like album next because RAM exists. So Daft Punk is fucking with his fans' expectations and it's Daft Punk's fault.

It is a mischaracterization of Daft Punk's intentions and fans' expectations.

So I guess his post is on point as a bulletin to his apparently clueless friends

As a critique of RAM, it fails though

seems to me most of the argument against the article is on similar grounds

mischaracterization i mean

i actually loled at how shitty this argument is made:

bloggers dig up all the samples daft punk used on discovery, daft punk goes “fuck you we’re going to hire the dude who played on off the wall”. lcd soundsystem imagines a hypothetical situation where college radio kids use their budget to book daft punk for a concert instead of whatever k records bands they normally would have in the 90’s and makes a song called “daft punk is playing at my house” - daft punk, clad in silk robes and sipping ciroc martinis, react with horror and spend untold amounts of money on a giant pyramid that threatens to overpower even the nation’s largest music festivals, as if to say “no, daft punk is not playing at anyone’s fucking house”

I like the idea that they did it all to spite James Murphy. "Play at someone's house? Non!"

"clad in silk robes and sipping ciroc martinis" This is a next-level truffle fries gambit.

he certainly sets up a lot of straw men and, after noting that their pronouncements are mediated by the media, goes all in on daft punk themselves

lol i like that bit grady

i never thought of the pyramid like that but its a funny way to imagine it

yeah daft punk robots being really snooty like that cristal guy was about rappers liking his champagne

o yeah its hilarious but thats also why its a terrible argument

also, re: strawmen:

http://deadgirlfriends.tumblr.com/post/50704593365/vs

what

Margherita vs. pineapple

mashup

I can see why he prefers Kanye - just a regular dude making beats in his garage and rapping 'bout everyday stuff

the guy would be a good ilm poster someone should get him over here

also he kicks it w/ grimes, vampire weekend, buscemi and debbie harry

http://deadgirlfriends.tumblr.com/post/51139936105/i-forgot-i-guess-i-can-probably-post-this-picture

him and grimes are going out iirc

and dora the explorer

xpost

just a man of the people

i'm a lil weirded out that grimes' boyfriend's twitter is called "dead girlfriends"

twitter tumblr

get it right the first time

damn

my condolences

Writhing at the base of DP's pyramid all 'please sirs. May I have a sample' and then all like 'yo it's me and my boys, vampire weekend'

"it bothers me that sometimes “lo-fi” is perceived as an aesthetic choice rather than an economic reality." sir, the only "economic reality" I see is that your tumblr sucks!

hes an interesting guy, the tumblr is pretty great. i liked this thing he wrote about kanye http://deadgirlfriends.tumblr.com/post/41177837609/this-is-a-picture-of-justin-vernon-from-bon-iver

also elite gymnastics rules imo

the long post that's sort of being discussed is a continuation of this thing too http://deadgirlfriends.tumblr.com/post/50440502642/no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-fucking-no-this-is-so

feels kind of like he got trolled by bangalter and then this thread got trolled by him

i asked dude i work with who's way in to making music and recording software and "racking up hours in the studio" if he's listened to RAM yet and he just said "yeah..." in a tone of voice that conveyed he knew how much i loved it and he wanted to let me down easy.

i was like "oh, you're not a fan?" and he replied with: "its OK... it's just so... plain."

dude listens to run of the mill drum & bass, "chillout" EDM and indie/punk most of the time afaik

¯\_(°_o)_/¯

The stupider the criticisms of RAM, the more militant my love for it.

i like the album a lot too

i like the album ok but i refuse to accept that it sounds better than any other album just because they told ppl it does + was expensive

xposts to me he seems like good guy who sounds like a dickweed when he talks about daft punk. the ideas he's putting forth about how art & artists should function don't seem very well thought out. his comment about tone REALLY pisses me off.

Will I listen to this as much as I've listened to Homework or Discovery? No way. Is this still a pretty great album? Mmm-yeah, pretty much.

yeah he just needs to be a more careful writer. I blame tumblr

feels kind of like he got trolled by bangalter and then this thread got trolled by him

― max, Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:19 PM (1 minute ago)

i think i can agree with this

I guess trolls are more earnest than they used to be

which comment about tone

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?

he's totally right about the type of insanity those discussions require imo

the lack of interest most interviewers and writers seem to have in discussing hardware specifications would seem to indicate that people do not, but i could be wrong, i don’t know.