Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

awww

jaymc did you hear it on B96? I heard it on there twice this weekend.

Yeah, I've now heard it on B96, KISS 103.5, and (lol) the Mix.

a particular kind of EDM rules.

Some of it probably also has to do with the fact that Daft Punk had no previous footprint on Top 40 radio in the U.S.? I mean, Rihanna and Adele and Bruno Mars can get plenty of airplay with slow piano ballads, so it's not like it's thumping club beats all the time.

a particular kind of EDM rules.

This isn't really that true anymore! I've been listening to commercial radio the past couple weeks for the first time in months and I've been surprised how little EDM-pop I hear and most of what I do is old. The only song in the current top 20 that even kind of qualifies is "I Love It".

That said, I've been hearing "Blurred Lines" on the radio way more than "Get Lucky".

Get Lucky is not gonna be the runaway hit of the summer guys.

More like Get REAL

"Get Lucky" and "Blurred Lines" are #6 and #8 respectively on the most recent radio songs chart, I expect the latter will shoot way up in this week's. "Treasure" is #11.

Get Lucky is not gonna be the runaway hit of the summer guys.

― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, June 17, 2013 5:29 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

More like Get REAL

― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, June 17, 2013 5:30 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

more like "get OVER IT, hurting"

was surprised @ how much I enjoy "Treasure"

I dunno, it feels really ersatz to me in a way "Get Lucky" should but doesn't. That's kind of a problem Bruno Mars always has and always will have.

that 'hit of the summer' meme is really sticking, eh? It wasn't even about Get Lucky iirc

I include "#Beautiful" in that list of Get Lucky's contemporaries.

"#beautiful" is a million times the song "get lucky" will ever be but (SADLY AND UNFORTUNATELY) is not proving to be anything like a hit of the summer, which "get lucky" already is

I savor so hard whenever Beautiful, Get Lucky and Treasure just happen to get played in succession on the radio.

I'm fond of all the disco in the charts right now: "Treasure," "Blurred Lines," "Get Lucky," etc.

yeah I mean obviously "Treasure" is hella corny & pastiche-y & it's Bruno Mars but I still kinda dig it. it's flawed but it's not limp.

(x-post to Rev)

yeah, I agree. I don't mind it, but I don't think it's as good as the other songs in question.

This isn't really that true anymore! I've been listening to commercial radio the past couple weeks for the first time in months and I've been surprised how little EDM-pop I hear and most of what I do is old. The only song in the current top 20 that even kind of qualifies is "I Love It".

oh you're probably right! Glancing at the Billboard top twenty, I've heard maybe eight or nine locally. But Miami is saturated in Guettadom.

There isn't going to be a Song of the Summer this year, guys. And I there is, it's going to suck, guys.

don't tell Pitbull that EDM-pop is dead.

this thread is pretty weird, i dig it. song is on all the time when i go to the gym. it's a hit in montana!

Every time I read "song of the summer" I hear Giorgio saying "that could be a sound of the future".

I'd not heard "Get Lucky" on the radio until this week, and this week I heard it four times. I've not yet heard that new Bruno Mars, somehow, nor the Mariah Carey.

daft punk: are they on the radio?

they should make an app for that, it could use crowdsourced info

this summer all around the world, they already had discotheques.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/fa43eb8899c0e6020ce76a0537d6698c/tumblr_momgs3KXNG1rhi0rbo1_500.png

haa

nice one

Bruno Mars gets round the clock airplay here, deejays don't get enough slaps.

alfred how can you hate on "treasure" and "lock outta heaven"

I'm ready for "Instant Crush" to get played on the radio, but I dunno if that's gonna happen. We'll see how "Lose Yourself to Dance" does.

I've only discovered "Horizon" a few days ago. It's great !
reminds me of some Jan Hammer stuff for miami vice !
(the robots could have their own TV show where they would be buddy robot cops. with cameos from giorgio, pharrell, etc).

def Steely Dan vibe on Moments of Time (who's singing on this?)

Todd Edwards.

I'm enjoying the idea that new converts to Daft Punk on the strength of Random Access Memories are going to be all like "hey, what album did they do before this!? gotta give that a listen!"

haaa

^missed pun oppo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CPqeiBLPqHA

the first time I heard "fragments" I thought : doobie's "what a fool believes" !

what a foolish belief!

https://soundcloud.com/daftside-2/sets/random-access-memories-1

lose yourself to dance remix is amazing

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/06/19/193538349/the-dream-on-why-we-all-need-r-b

the-dream makes a very daft-punk esque statement towards the end

What is it about the '90s? You've said what they mean for you personally, but why do all of us keep going back? Why did it even stop?

I'll tell you why. MP3 interrupted what R&B was starting to be. It's like taking an engine out of something and saying, "Now drive your car really fast." It's not going to happen. It's the same thing that I deal with now. It takes a lot to put a 5-piece band on, even though we need it. We need those harmonies; I need those four background singers — not because I can't sing but because I need to relay the message of what the song is emotionally, or the feeling, period. [From] a money standpoint, it didn't really affect hip-hop — they could still keep going. You don't need a band to do hip-hop; you only need a DJ.

That money — when it goes away, you can't put on that show, which is where we are now. We can't put on that show unless we make it somehow to a big awards thing and then, of course, that means your favorite R&B artist at some point better do an up-tempo record, or an electric record, so they can get there to perform. Other than that, someone like me is probably never going to perform on that stage unless there's a certain person that's sitting there that hears a record and says, "I'm putting this on regardless. I don't care where it is on the radio, I'm just going to put it on." But then, that's a far cry, that's like lightning in a bottle.

MP3 interrupted what R&B was turning into, so that's why we're going back. We kind of tried to fix it and technology is helping us out a lot, but it's pretty hard to duplicate the fullness of what R&B had become at that time, and mood, with so little, whereas in hip-hop and rap and EDM and all those guys, they can do it with basically nothing.

via deej

eagerly awaiting the dead girlfriends thinkpiece on this

I'm enjoying the idea that new converts to Daft Punk on the strength of Random Access Memories are going to be all like "hey, what album did they do before this!? gotta give that a listen!"

I'm enjoying the idea that people used to programming and sequencers are going to be all, hey, what else has live drums and bass and stuff played by seasoned session players? I gotta give that a listen!

Doobie Brothers! George Benson! Michael Jackson! Chic! My god, the world is full of music!!!!

Is that Nicolas Jaar 'remix' of Lose Yourself to Dance a comment on how the original should be edited? hah.

why is a song called "lose yourself to dance" so slow and snoozy?