Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

This album, nostalgic? What would give anyone that idea?

I wonder if the dudes asked Art Garfunkel to sing and he just said no, thanks, I got, uh, shit to do.

from what i heard, they wanted him to wear a helmet and he refused, citing the weight of the helmets and his history of back problems.

I bet they asked a ton of people first, which is why they ended up with dude from Strokes and Panda Bear and Paul Williams.

pretty sure the panda bear didn't need to be begged.

I always assumed that they got the guy from Strokes because they were both using the same studio around that time.

i think his vocals work really well for that song. better than garfunkel's would have.

i think there is an emotional core to the album that is rooted in its loving, sort of curatorial orienation towards the sounds it works with. it is nostalgic, even elegaic, like 69 Love Songs which is another album that has been accused of being heartless.

― Treeship, Tuesday, June 25, 2013 8:51 AM (12 minutes ago)

yeah, i wouldn't call it unemotional, but rather a bit thin or one-dimensional in that regard. 69 love songs strikes me as relatively rich in emotion and personality, even (perhaps especially) when it's most obviously framed by genre and formal songcraft. merritt somewhat reminds me of guy maddin in that regard.

i sense a similar affection to the source material, which is moving to me because it makes me think that behind the daft punk masks are these two guys who like to play certain seminal disco and soft rock records over and over and over, relishing the details. 69 LS is one of my favorite albums for similar reasons: i picture merritt as a kind of lonely, disagreeable dude with a tough outer shell, who is really, really attached to artworks that other people might see as formulaic and trivial, and very defensive about this attachment, and this image is moving and relatable to me.

The heart is in the groove.

and the stillness is the move, as we know.

holy shit this thread has 6000 posts wtf is wrong with you people

You try to condense a conversation that moves from "Are daft punk popular?" to "are fans of Homework too old to be relevant?" to "this album is the greatest thing ever" to "this album is god awful" to "this album has some good parts and some bad parts" in only 5000

someone should attempt to read the whole thing and then liveblog their reading experience.

for me to poop on

just read the OP. man i love ned.

Well, one tries.

i think its an incredibly empathic record in a way that many big pop records dont tend to be anymore. its got a certain 'kindness' or lovingness about it which is what makes it more retro (in a pretty great way for me). but yeah, i think the compassion might be undone for a lot of people though in that it might seem a bit too soft or naive or just silly with the vocoders everywhere. but that neil tennant interviewer is totally right about this being an album that backs away from the edm race, but you knew that anyway from the first piece rolling stone did on the album...

I'm at the Red Sox game and the organist is jamming out to Get Lucky with the Casio beat in the bgd.

The 10 minute Get Lucky remix is on Spotify now.

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

doesn't start well imo but the outro is nice

a get lucky remix with more robots is all i ever wanted, yesss

theyve done a disco-style extended remix. ha.

(after listening) they should have gotten todd edwards to do it.

real missed opportunity this. there's a killer extended remix in that track but this isn't it. it's really meandering and most of the choices are boring/bad ones until the outro.

this is dope

of course "all ends with beginnings" is the last line

This album gives me fantasies of panicked brosteppers running pell-mell through the streets like Charlton Heston, screaming "EDM IS DISCO!"

Also I don't know where ILM is on "Blurred Lines" these days, but that + "Get Lucky" at 1-2 on Billboard strikes me as a pretty classic summer single lineup.

And then we'll just ignore the three songs underneath them.

Pretty much the rest of the top 10 tbh. When Mack is third-best ...

theyve done a disco-style extended remix.

tom moulton vs daft punk.

now that i would like to hear.

same here. even dimitri from paris would do.

lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky lucky
to get lucky

otm

also I feel like Daft Punk must be following this thread

needs chimes right there imo

― sandra dayo connor (The Reverend), Wednesday, April 17, 2013 2:31 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark

nile rodgers' guitar playing is as close to a pure statement of human ingenuity and compassion to me but this album is a huge disappointment

though i like the odd sequencing of the album, i made an alternate version (maybe after hearing the album too much, or maybe as i am also starting to think maybe it IS weird to have game of love right after give life back to music)

01. Give Life Back to Music feat. Nile Rodgers
03. Giorgio by Moroder
05. Instant Crush feat Julian Casablancas
06. Lose Yourself to Dance feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
02. The Game of Love
04. Within
07. Touch feat. Paul Williams
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
11. Fragments of Time feat. Todd Edwards
12. Doin' It Right feat. Panda Bear
09. Beyond
10. Motherboard
13. Contact

Snap! I've just reached the refresh-by-resequencing stage. This "front-load it with bangers" version worked today:

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here's how I usually listen to the album:

01. Give Life Back to Music feat. Nile Rodgers
02. The Game of Love
03. Giorgio by Moroder
04. Within
05. Instant Crush feat Julian Casablancas
06. Lose Yourself to Dance feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
07. Touch feat. Paul Williams
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
08. Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
09. Beyond
10. Motherboard
11. Fragments of Time feat. Todd Edwards
12. Doin' It Right feat. Panda Bear
13. Contact

lol. i want someone to do a robot bonus beats mix of get lucky. ive noticed that although instant crush sounds like its nothing special, its still so well crafted that if this was 1984, it would prob make a great 4th or 5th single.

actually, its instant crush's non-obviousness/deceptive album-filler status that makes it so replayable.

what is with the freakout rock drums on everything. what a terrible idea.

"rock"

"Instant Crush" was a major re-sequencing beneficiary.

The tired little 'woah-oh' before the chorus is one of my top ten hooks on this, seriously

I have never really payed attention to the billboard charts but having 'Blurred Lines' and 'Get Lucky' is the most synchronized I've ever felt with the mainstream.

Maybe it just means I'm getting old.

I still feel very, very strongly about 1995