Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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.

that being said I like this album

"convince a bunch of people to buy music that they ostensibly will not/don't like"

That's the entire music industry motto.

in 2013 who the hell buys an album without knowing what it sounds like?

I'm assuming that lots of people who bought RAM did so because they thought the whole thing would sound like "Get Lucky."

Haven't people been buying albums on the basis of an unrepresentative single since forever?

I bought RAM because I thought the whole thing would sound like "tubthumping" ;_;

we're up again to get knocked down

sometimes love comes around

Haven't people been buying albums on the basis of an unrepresentative single since forever?

sure, but it's been awhile since the unrepresentative first single was accompanied by an aggressive street poster campaign lol. the success of promoting a big-budget album this way is like the old-school music industry dudes giving each other "YES! We've still got what it takes!" high-fives.

I'm really disappointed I missed this marketing campaign you guys are talking about. Sounds like it was fantastic.

you should come by neighborhood sometimes - three different kinds of posters (one for Get Lucky, one with the album cover, etc) absolutely plastered all over the place.

Over 90,000 copies in its second week! High-fives all around, just like the good old days!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/random-access-memories-sales-drop-daft-punk-album_n_3420552.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment

did anyone manage to get one of the flexi discs?

gonna go ahead and guess that those figures are still waaaaaaay bigger than anything they did before in the US. debuting at No. 1 is still a success on some level.

Wiki says that Homework, released in January 2007, sold 605,000 copies by September 2007. This record could surpass that, although I don't think it's going to blow that number out of the water.

Discovery has sold 792,000 copies to date but I don't know about first week or month or year sales.

Difference being that those kinds of numbers were nowhere near what it took to debut you at number 1 back then.