Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

Like THAT wasn't planned.

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

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

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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.

i expect if i run to check out fridge circa 2002 right now i will be disappointed.

Happiness (Text Records, 2001)
The Sun (Text Records (UK), Temporary Residence Limited (US), 2007)

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it's the missing album

xp yeah like all the parts where Pharell is not singing

motherboard just reminds me of alex moulton's exodus, in the best possible way

omg I totally forgot about that

Haha, Motherboard sounds like Capital K, totally early 2000s folktronica.

Caek - I wasn't saying I prefer either half, just that the whole thing feels very manic depressive and disjointed.

Sometimes a bit of up and down works on an album but this is full of starts and stops. I can't quite work out if it's supposed to be for sociable home-listening, contemplative headphone moping or house party fun times. I don't feel like I'd want to hear it in any of these contexts without wanting to keep skipping tracks. It's not like Discovery which also had its fair share of Veridis Quos, but felt like a continuous musical narrative which was really well enforced with Interstellar 5555. I find something like 'Touch' to be frustrating as it sounds like it ought to be part of such a narrative but instead it's just sort of been wedged in between the two Pharell song, and that seems careless for a band like Daft Punk.

I'd actually prefer it if most of the robot-left-out-in-the-rain songs were clumped together somewhere around the 2/3rds mark as a kind of chill out section. 'Game of Love' coming straight after 'Give Life Back To Music' just doesn't work at all for me.

Can't speak for house parties but this album is perfect for headphone listening ime.

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.

I think you are imagining this

johnny greenwood singing "fragments of time"

Anyone who thinks that Motherboard doesn't fit in on this album doesn't have enough Sebastien Tellier in their life. Particularly La Ritournelle. But I've said this before.

am i mistaken or do "get lucky" "touch" and "lose yourself" all share the same chord progression

Doin' it Right isn't far off either.

I don't see what's offensive about Motherboard, it just sounds like an interlude to me. Matt DC's right, it's got a real Tellier vibe about it.

Anyway, it's a bit of a shame this fine record is getting so much attention when the supremely excellent When Saints Go Machine came out on the same day and has had pretty much DJP, Kitchen Person and maybe a maximum 3-4 other people going mad for it.

I'll get in there first and quote: "i'm glad there are things better than this record, that means i don't have to bother listening to it. if somebody cd just let me know what the best record is it wd save me a lot of wasted time, thanks." so you don't have to

xpost to brimstead: they do. "Within" and "Instant Crush" also share a chord progression.

"Doin' It Right" is almost the same as "Get Lucky," but the fourth chord is different.

life is too short to listen to bands called When Saints Go Machine

Your loss

argh I hate that band name so much

xp i guess? my post was based on listening to two When Saints Go Machine songs on youtube. not my thing.

which songs out of interest? Best heard as an album - Konkylie is a good place to start. I hate their name too.

"kelly" is my jam

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