Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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.

guys, this album will surpass cumulative sales of Daft Punk's previous albums in the U.S.

that's not looking likely

yeah IN THE US kinda key to what I was saying there Hurting. I don't care about Europe and teh Britishes (sorry chaps! good show wot wot) these guys were basically nobody in the US prior to the pyramid tour and then this album. the only people I know who were into them circa Discovery and Homework were dance music partisans and tech nerds (of which there are many in my locale but still)

It's shifted 494,000 in three weeks -- it sure will.

or are those US numbers I didn't look them up lol

xp

They put up posters for this one so that kinda makes sense it'll sell more.

i hear they'll sell one copy for every 5 posters they put up

It's shifted 494,000 in three weeks -- it sure will.

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 14, 2013 5:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

right, that's more than 160,000 copies a week. They're on pace to sell 8,320,000 records this year!

lose yourself to chance!

posters, billboards, TV ads - this was an old-school promo campaign, they've been pretty up-front about it. and it worked! It got a bunch of people to buy the album when it came out. I don't see what's contentious about this exactly.

daft punk: are they popular?

Shall we anticipate the FOURTH ALBUM by the EDM act "Daft Punk"? I think I may.

looks like the most recent US numbers for their back catalog are

Homework: 674k
Discovery: 805k
HAA: 127k
Alive 2007: 198k
Tron Legacy 590k

Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.

Oh shit Easter mass flashback

Such a bold question to ask someone in the 21st century

Equivalent to asking "are you a time traveler?"

I wonder if anyone on this thread actually bought the album

I bought the album my hyrulian friend

Love the progginess and easy listening nods and the winks at acid jazz. Panda bear one is after a few listens maybe the weakest but maybe I'll come around. Perfect album for driving the freeway at midnight en route to the airport to pick your lady up from a transcontinental flight.

I bought the album, I wanted to be a part of it all.

God I really fuckin hate this album now...can't believe I was duped by all the hype and a multi million dollar marketing campaign...what was I thinking?!!

...not weally...