Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

it's so good!

and why is that song called 'Giorgio by Moroder' if Moroder didn't actually wrote or produced any of it?

― Moka, Friday, June 21, 2013 3:58 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

i have no idea how to even process this question

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

― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, June 21, 2013 2:47 PM (44 minutes ago)

i have no idea how to even process this question

Think of it as a name for a cologne

^^ exactly what I always am thinking

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/163003_10150370492725651_2765479_n.jpg

Album production sounds great but except for ' doing it right' and ' life back to music' the songs seem a bit soulless somehow.

robots don't have souls

agreed it's really missing the soulfulness of harder better faster stronger

http://www.fdiskc.com/usrsyn/namm/2004/images/drummachineshavenosoul.jpg

agreed it's really missing the soulfulness of harder better faster stronger

― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, June 21, 2013 11:34 PM (17 minutes ago)

You win that example, but, generally, don't think discussions of soullessness are irrelevant/that easily dismissed. That was part of their "genius" before, no? Squeezing water from the stone?

In other words, agree that RAM is a bit dead-eyed, somehow.

i'm trying to nail Lose Yourself To Dance on guitar and boy is my pinkie tired

According to the liner notes, he actually has a writing credit on the song so...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli),

No writing cred for Starlight in 'Stella by Starlight' wtf

lol

It's made the dad-rock canon--manna for the haters : )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcL4zJxBMH8&feature=player_embedded#at=83

Despite my inane 'soulless' impression, it's in the top 5 of the year without question

I've heard "Doin It Right" and 'Instant Crush' from two cars and an open window of a house today, walking around town.

Which do you think is the next single? Or is it "Lose Yourself to Dance"?

It's funny, when I listen to it as an album, while I find almost all of it incredibly catchy, nothing stands out (in a bad way) as "obvious single," yet clearly it's got a few--maybe enough that it doesn't end up in used bins en masse despite being a rather weird album?

Each track is good. None of them sound like singles. They don't work together as an album. This is the weirdest best album of the year by far.

I realised today that this is my favourite album of 2013 (so far). Really wouldn't have expected that at the beginning of the year.

I would not at all have been surprised that a new Daft Punk album would be great--but I had no idea they would do something that matched so closely exactly where my tastes have evolved over the last decade. I *would* have been surprised that I'd also really love albums by the Flaming Lips and (to lesser extents) MBV, OMD, Thom Yorke, and Wire in the year 2013.

As to this question:

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

― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, June 21, 2013 2:47 PM (44 minutes ago)

This is the answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBXv37PFcAQ

hmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBXv37PFcAQ

I still here this as a cohesive awesome album. Can't agree with those who hear something else.

It's good. Touch and Get Lucky are the spiritual heart of the album i think... pure pop bliss.

it is not killing me and it won't make my top ten (though i could see lose yourself to dance making a singles list) but this is THE album of 2013 unless proven otherwise

It's made the dad-rock canon

The touch-points for this album are pretty much dad-rock across the board, tbf. Session dudes, '80s disco, smooth jazz. And Daft Punk dudes are pushing 40. Dad-dance?

put that way, no wonder Lex hates it

xp
'lose your dad to dance'

More like "lose your dance to Dad".

Electronic Dad Music

Dad Punk

After hearing what they did on the three songs they produced on Kanye's album, I'm even madder at RAM

?

The first three songs on Yeezus are all furious dub-tinged menace, possibly the furthest away you can get from what they're doing on RAM without adding in metal guitars, and way more in line with the type of music I was hoping RAM would be.

You were just hoping, or somehow thought they'd given an indication it would be? As soon as I heard "Nile Rodgers" and "Giorgio Moroder" I took a guess at what it was going to be (which excited me) and what I imagined (and hoped for) was pretty close to what was. But isn't it a good thing they have the versatility to do both?

no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nirw3C7MG9I

So here's an acoustic cover for instant crush. Hearing it like this makes easier to imagine it as a strokes song. Would be wicked to have julian or the strokes making a cover as a bside to the upcoming single for comparison.

I may have already mentioned this earlier in the thread but honestly Instant Crush would fit perfectly on the new Strokes album. To me it sounds much more like a Strokes song than a Daft Punk one, it's just it sounds like they do now on an album not many people have heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zMUbRgRNC8

I can't speak to the sound, but structurally Instant Crush is obviously a Strokes song. Nobody else writes like that, cramming far too much lyric into every line while moving about very little melodically.

the original sounds much more like a strokes song that that busker cover

Kind of enjoying the Daftside remixes, some good moments on it. The Da Funk/Musique remix of Instant Crush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6leKFatGcdM

"Instant crush" is good but somehow it might be the track I listen to the least on the album (with "contact").
maybe because it really feels much more like a strokes track (and I like the strokes) than a daft punk track and it doesn't really fit on the album.

it's amazing how "lose yourself to dance" manages to take all the energy out of even a soul train video

"lose yourself to dance" is quite bizarre because the funky riff and groove are great yet, it's true that the song is not really made to dance to.
but the thing I love about it is the robots choir that goes up and down and goes crazy.
very baroque.

or maybe some dirty robot dancing.

The Daftside take on "Lose Yourself to Dance" is jawdroppingly great.

https://soundcloud.com/daftside-2/11-daftside-lose-yourself-to

after sitting with this album for awhile I don't think it's really all that good. the parts that aren't insanely repetitious are wandering and sort of ill-conceived

it *sounds* really great, but everything else about it is undercooked.

Armond is getting down getting funky to this somewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6PEboTpcfI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6PEboTpcfI