Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

i'm doing the Steely Dan poll and it will touchdown first quarter of 2014.

If it helps on the backlash narrative, I just wanna state clearly that I have hated this album from square one. It's daft punks load/reload moment IMO.

Before you get all tweaked, I didn't call it their "lulu"

It doesn't help.

In fact, you submitted that information as a problem for the backlash narrative.

Good point!

I was hoping to get credit as a backlash pioneer

Are they going to bother with a second single from this? It must be about time to put out Lose Yourself to Dance.

there's a Nile interview where he hints that it'll drop around the middle of this month

Also no backlash here. I've been listening to this album every day since it came out. Not the entire album, but a little bit each day. I can still get completely lost inside the Get Lucky vocoder part.

Doin’ It Right” sounds shockingly clean, fresh, new and self-sufficient. Unconcerned about the past, the song seems slanted entirely towards the future

Also agree with this. Wish the album was more like Doin' It Right, Contact and Motherboard.

ditto; those are the three songs I bought off the album

I saw Steely Dan last year or so perform "The Royal Scam" from start to finish, with Larry Carlton sitting it. It was awesome, even if the stranger next to me kept asking me to high-five her.

the most important question: will i ever hear "black cow" w/o thinking of lord tariq and peter gunz?

This album is ridiculously expensive on vinyl. $35-40 is way too much to charge for a new album. I'd love to buy it but there's no way i'm paying that price.

I agree! But I paid the price. ;_;

it's free on spotify

*Plays RAM on spotify and "all right now" comes out of speakers*

"Contact" is the only one that doesn't really do anything for me. The rest is great.

attn markers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nv7Qicg2Og

(first 30 seconds)

lol i know about that! :D

thanks to ilx, actually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUKCQfLY7nQ

seriously though i used to see the lord tariq and peter gunz video on mtv. i guess i must've been like 9 or 10 or 11 or something

seriously though i used to see the lord tariq and peter gunz video on mtv.

get outta town

yeah markers trying to pull one over on us

Over the weekend, I heard someone pull out Get Lucky for karaoke for the first time. Sounded amazing...granted the singer was a karaoke expert and could really belt it.

YOU THINK I'M MAKING THAT UP BALLS

http://vimeo.com/62413601

Then I came across my man RJ parlayin' in a 6
With Tatyana Ali playin'
I heard Steely Dan "Black Cow" and went wild

I don't have cable. Are they on right now?

oh wait it's not 11:30 yet.

They're a no show.

Colbert's handling of their no-show = brilliant.

Bad news: Daft Punk were the scheduled guests for tonight's episode of "The Colbert Report". They were headlining this year's StePhest Colbchella, and were presumably going to perform "Get Lucky", but the appearance has been canceled. Apparently, this is because they're scheduled to make a surprise appearance at the VMAs, and performing on "Colbert" would breach their contractual obligation with MTV.

this sucks.

lol

MTV and Comedy Central are both Viacom properties iirc so you'd think they'd not care if there was some cross-promotion

yeah, CC is part of the MTV Networks Entertainment Group. I get it, but I don't get it.

Well, Van Toffler's peeps were feeling funky about it, y'know.

Well it's going to take a lot more than this to make me watch the VMAs.

this now seems like a set up to me. it seemed very strange that their first late night thing would be The Colbert Report.

Nah, this is too mean-spirited to be a set up.

HEY THAT BAND YOU LOVE, YOU GET TO SEE THEM ON TV! SIKE! NO YOU DON'T!

i was pretty amped to find out what the heck they were gonna actually do for a performance :(

i was bummed to hear it was going to be a performance, i was pretty amped to find out what the heck they were gonna actually do for an interview

yeah I feel like there's no way Daft Punk could pull off a live performance of any of these songs.

deathgrips should've stepped in

They got Robin Thicke performing Blurred Lines instead, so at least he got another 'song of the summer' being performed.

The fuck are they doing in the VMA's anyway? Daft Punk never released a full video for 'get lucky'.

So much for a 'surprise' appearance too.

We're up all night to get lied to.