Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

thanks hurting for doing good work itt

yw yw

i tried to give this another listen two days ago and made it only about two minutes in

It's worth listening to for the guitar work and production, and a few of the songs hold my attention. I think Get Lucky is one of the lamest would-be summer hit songs ever. I can barely remember the hook.

see a doctor, u may have memory problems

'now why was he up all night again?...to ride his stucky?...to rubber ducky?...to watch Nucky (good show)? I give up on this would-be summer hit!'

hahaha

lol i'm up all night to watch nucky

I read "(good show)" in a posh brit accent

I pretty much love this album now. Every single time I listen to "fragments of time", I have a moment about halfway through the song where I have to tell myself "that guy, yknow the one singing, THAT'S TODD EDWARDS". I don't think this will ever change

I've listened to this at least once a day for the past two weeks, and I've barely wanted to listen to anything else. This hasn't happened in years.

i tried to give this another listen two days ago and made it only about two minutes in

I pretty much love this album now. Every single time I listen to "fragments of time", I have a moment about halfway through the song where I have to tell myself "that guy, yknow the one singing, THAT'S TODD EDWARDS". I don't think this will ever change

― too busy s1ockin' on my 乒乓 (wins), Sunday, June 2, 2013 2:55 PM Bookmark

yes! I love that already having perfected "what you would expect a collab between daft punk and todd edwards to sound like", this time they went for "not what you would expect at all" and it's still totally dope

It's kinda cute that the lyrics of Fragments of Time are actually about the making of the song

the summer song is "#Beautiful," guys.

It's kinda cute that the lyrics of Fragments of Time are actually about the making of the song

Familiar faces I've never seen
Living the gold and the silver dream
Making me feel like I'm seventeen

the rolling stone profile is worth reading

Well

http://gothamist.com/2013/06/05/daft_punk_shooting_video_in_midtown.php#photo-1

hey that's like 10 blocks from my office. #sweetbrags

Wow, totally forgot about that GAP commercial

daft punk are playing in my office, in my office

http://gawker.com/heres-what-daft-punk-look-like-without-their-helmets-511561986

Like THAT wasn't planned.

doesn't surprise me that s- is one half of daft punk tbh

http://i.imgur.com/LK34LFl.jpg

Human After All-era Daft Punk, the famous duo of Paul Williams & Jon Williams

http://i.imgur.com/fbolL97.pnghttp://www.presentationvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/osama_binladen_.jpg

lol

haaaa

information wants to be free

this album owns. every week a new favorite. "fragments of time" is fantastic

i tried to give this another listen two days ago and made it only about two minutes in

made it further than me

Fuck. I made it 3.7 minutes. I lost the competition.

6. "Lose Yourself to Dance" (featuring Pharrell Williams)
Bangalter de Homem-Christo Rodgers Pharrell Williams
5:53

I am still loving this album but I mainly just want to play Lose Yourself to Dance on repeat.... Guitar!

Wait, did this finally leak!?!

So after a rather heated discussion on FB about the various merits/problems with this record, I decided to break out RAM again this morning and BY GOD it's a sadsack of an album. Initially I was ready to defend the aesthetic as 'music for people in their thirties, who used to go out raving, to drink tea and smoke weed to', but I'm second guessing that now.

I don't really have a problem with the content or the musical approach or the production - love all that - and taken individually the songs are great. But if there's anything about this that I've decided I don't like is that the RAM experience is such a downer. You have that marvellous introduction that's all like "WOO! YEAH PARTY TIMES" but then it totally sinks on 'Game of Love' - why was that the second track? It's pretty and everything but it's such a bummer. And then it doesn't really get grooving again until 'Lose Yourself to Dance' which is a great track but outstays its welcome by about two minutes. The first half of this album totally drags by - not the 'sitting around drinking tea and smokin good times' I first had it pegged as, more 'walking around with headphones hoping the rain won't mess up my circuit board' depressothon. If I had mates round I'd prob have to skip half the tunes.. It's a really disjointed record that could really do with better track sequencing - I like the songs individually but maybe they could have had side one as happy/side two sad?

And then it doesn't really get grooving again until 'Lose Yourself to Dance'

listen to giorgio by moroder again.

it doesn't do a great deal for me, that one, i'm afraid. it's okay i guess but the whole concept of starting with voice only and building up over 10 minutes doesn't do anything for the flow of this record. All the songs are fine within themselves but it's just not holding together for me as a collection. I might look into making a fantasy track sequence - maybe something like this?:

Contact
Give Life Back To Music
Doin' It Right
Touch
Fragments Of Time
Within
Motherboard

Giorgio By Moroder
Get Lucky
The Game of Love
Instant Crush
Beyond
Lose Yourself To Dance

Or something...

nah

i found the second half the radiohead/anco half tbh (fragments of time notwithstanding, and not to say i don't like the second half), so i pretty much totally 100% disagree with the idea that the first half is a relative downer.

10 minute remix of Get Lucky coming out..... on 7"
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a488032/daft-punk-confirm-10-minute-remix-of-get-lucky.html

yessssssss

there are so many parts of "Get Lucky" that sounds like they're meant to be looped, especially the 4 bars before the vocoder comes in.

radiohead?

xp yeah like all the parts where Pharell is not singing

I also agree wrt problems with the flow of the record, really don't dig the long spoken intro to Giorgio by Moroder, and Touch is well-crafted enough but what is it doing there?

re: radiohead, i guess i'm still moaning about the ending of motherboard, but also, and doubtless i'm imagining this, the people who seem to prefer "the second half" seem like in rainbows fans. of course the premise of this discussion involves overstating the difference between the two halves too.

for me motherboard sticks out way, way more than touch. touch is of a piece with the rest of the album. my problem with motherboard is not that it should be sequenced differently, it's that it belongs on a fridge album ca. 2002.

to be clear though: this album rules.