Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

And thanks!

Cute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r3BOZ6QQtU

SFJ returns to the album..

I know this is being super pedantic but re: the "no female voices" thing, the choir on "Touch" is an all-female choir, not a boy choir.

It does stand out, though, that they've never had a front-and-center female lead vocal, given the genres they're working in. . .

yeah, I agree it is notable.

i mean it does seem like whatever vocalists they used always function as stand-ins for the robots themselves

I've been dying to hear a Daft Punk track with a solid female disco vocal myself for quite some time. I wonder if it will ever happen.

Sfj surprisingly OTM

i tend to like him better when he's doing more off the cuff pieces

'Evolution of Get Lucky' is fun.

i still really like this album, but jesus am i sick of moroder's monologue

I do wish that was separated out as its own track or whatever.

i swear i'm not trying to be challopsy here but i put this away right after it streeted and haven't felt too much impetus to return except for lose yourself to dance and doing it right
if i want to hear get lucky i can just walk outside

I can't get enough of listening to "Touch"

I got this album, listened to it twice and thought "oh I like that" but then moved back to Vampire Weekend and Classixx and other things. The last two days, however, I haven't been able to stop listening to it.

I don't think I get the point of "Evolution of Get Lucky"

i was hoping it was going to be an actual song from each decade with the same chord progression

the 2020s "Get Lucky" sounded like a generic late-90s WARP records pastiche.

the 20s through 40s ones all sounded like vague old man hat guy impressions of THEE OLDE TYMES

I was kind of sick of late-90s Warp revivalism by 2020.

It was just kind of like, don't you have electro-house pastiches to be making?

It's weird how 2020 still sounds like 'the distant future' but it's only like 7 years away. Music could conceivably sound pretty simliar to now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUq4P-v4BMs

it'll sound exactly the same as now but it'll be made by middle schoolers with their google glass apps

If RAM hits like Discovery it'll sound like Get Lucky

the guitars on this thing sound uniformly amazing

Bill Werde of Billboard made a few comments on Twitter that I thought were telling of a "mainstream" reaction to Random Access Memories. Said he loved the disco, but that too much of the album sounded like "bad acid jazz," "Sade without the singing."

What a moronic criticism. Not only is he completely wrong, but Sade without the singing already has a name; Sweetback.

Most casual music fans I know hate this album.

Most casual music fans hate albums.

There *is* scratching at the end of the Moroder song, right? (I'm not sure why it's there exactly)

It's synths that sound like scratching.

A healthy and plausible solution might be two-tiered: let writers have a crack at the album when it leaks, as we saw above with Spin and Pitchfork. Then, publications willing to do so could run long and more considered reviews a few weeks later.

Something I remember Lex suggesting ages ago. I'd love to read more second-wave reviews. My reaction to Touch, for example, has evolved hugely since my initial "what the hell is this?" notes during the playback.

won't somebody think of the monthly publications?

after all that i have no second or considered opinion because while i have been vaguely intending to revisit this i have not quite been compelled to give it a second listen yet due to the MASSES OF SUPERIOR MUSIC that have come my way in the interim, much of which i have given 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th etc listens to entirely of my own volition

Post entirely in character

in character if you're ron burgundy

will you fuck off ronan? or do you intend to be there with a ~hilarious~ quip every time i post until the end of time?

outraged that ronan responded to your content-rich post with a quip

sorry, i'm needlessly trolling this thread.

It's no revelation that there are better albums out there at the moment.

The idea of revisiting records a month or two after the fact is a great idea and should really be made more of, especially when so many sites fall over themselves to scoop an opinion before an album's even been leaked. When something like RAM or Tomorrow's Harvest come out, as a zeitgeist following music crackhead I feel like I have to cram these records into my ears faster than I can process them. My opinions are formed on the train or sat at a computer after only a couple of spins and I'm not really thinking 'maybe this album could sound amazing out on a big walk in the countryside or at a house party or when I'm feeling happy/sad/tired/excited' etc.

The Poliça album from last year is a case in point. It really didn't work in January when I first heard it after EOY but as soon as the sun came out it totally clicked. I wonder if I'd be as big a fan of When Saints go Machine if I hadn't first heard 'Konkylie' on an overcast morning with a hangover. Most BoC albums don't tend to properly unravel until my third or fourth revisit over quite some time. I suppose that's why I've always liked messageboards over music websites, because revives are always welcome whereas most sites are indebted to the here and now.

It's no revelation that there are better albums out there at the moment.

how much better exactly? can you give me a number?

just casually dropping objective facts

i cant figure this thread out at all

think of it as a huge raging inferno of a bonfire with a couple of kids trying to piss it out

how much better exactly? can you give me a number?

― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Friday, 14 June 2013 11:10 (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just casually dropping objective facts

― possible badger on malware thread (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 June 2013 11:11 (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was responding to Lex's boast of having 'masses of superior music to listen to', unlike we sheeply plebs who only know about this one record.

how much better exactly? can you give me a number?

― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Friday, June 14, 2013 5:10 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolz

itw of the robots for the french speaking ilxors : http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-interactiv-daft-punk

I find it sort of hilarious that this album has sold so many copies. That it's possible for an old-school marketing campaign to convince a bunch of people to buy music that they ostensibly will not/don't like (prog-disco!) just seems funny to me.