Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

Of course, really:

As suggested last week, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories is getting a deluxe box set. The box is detailed at their website here and in the graphic below. It ships in early December and is available for pre-order now. It costs $275.

It's a cloth-bound box with a stamp of the album logo in gold foil. Inside, you'll find the record itself as a 2xLP with gold and silver foil labels and an eight-page book of lyrics and art, plus a bonus 10" with an extended version of Giorgio Moroder's interview from "Giorgio by Moroder". The album's audio comes digitally as well, on "gold and silver plated, metal encased" USB drives, which also include the bonus track "Horizon" and Daft Punk's self-remix of "Get Lucky", plus the full-length "Lose Yourself to Dance" video, the Random Access Memories television ads, and an extended version of their Coachella promo with Pharrell and Nile Rodgers.

The box also contains a 56-page hardcover book featuring photos from the recording sessions and video sets, plus a foreward by Paul Williams. And there's also "two sets of Robot helmet design schematics" and two "full body Robot design schematic posters." Not to mention an original film strip from the "Lose Yourself to Dance" video.

I suppose de Giogio extra will be just more interview, not more music...

sounds great, that box set.

shame it has so little new music.

Messieurs, with zees bonus interview disc you're really spoiling us

i want an instrumental album of yeezus so i can make the real best daft punk album of 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5uQMwRMHcs

Poll! Best track on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

is Casablancas wearing some obscure costume or is that just how he dresses now?

also is doing the Futurama '80s guy's Safety Dance dance at 5:08?

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmcfz0ow4k1qbs7vs.gif

I think Thomas & Guy-Man are just dressing up their vocalists like an 8-year-old's idea of a cool rock star

xp hahahahaha otm

FINALLY doing the second listen i'd meant to do all year and i'm bored out of my goddamn skull, it's even duller than i remember

yeah there's alot of jokes where if you're completely unfamiliar w/ any music made before the clinton administration it's just gonna fly right by you

they don't sound like good jokes

stopped after five endless tracks because i was just singing beyoncé to myself instead

but all the best tracks are in the second half

you know when you're so bored you can feel the dullness, like, throbbing inside your skull? that was happening. this album is MUSTY

yeah it's high placement on the end of year lists has flipped me back from defending it against ppl who are outraged daft punk made an ok 70s album to rmde that this thing is not only going to be their best selling album (fair enough and very understandable) but their most critically acclaimed in the moment (outrageous).

i'm familiar with a lot of 70's and 80's music and don't really find anything funny about this album

I thought I was done with this album about a month after it was released but randomly put it on again the other day (just going through my 2013 albums) and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. This actually holds up pretty well.

i've listened to this album more than anything else this year

yeah me too - this album is crazy replayable

http://gu.com/p/3y6ne/tw

Dorian Lynskey's defence of the album is exactly how I feel about it...although I disagree about 'Game Of Love'...when I heard that I knew I was gonna love this record...

i had to take a break from it for a while but any time i heard a song from it being played anywhere i was like "damn this is a great song i'm hearing right now"

I just feel like it's a sort of depressing drag on the whole. The whole album bums me out, but then so does a lot of ducks-on-the-wall 70s disco and I still like a lot of that stuff all the same. Melancholy I suppose. Three point five stars. Gonna be sort of frustrated to see this make top 5 in eoy but what ta gonna do?

i had to take a break from it for a while but any time i heard a song from it being played anywhere i was like "damn this is a great song i'm hearing right now"

Bingo. I love hearing songs from it on the radio or in bars or whatever but for whatever reason I just never want to hear it as a full album. Then again I feel that way about everything Daft Punk's done. The craftsmanship on this album is pretty impeccible, I just wish the songwriting was better (and that it wasn't so damn sleepy)

I had the same "Game of Love" reaction. Like "Oh? They're making late 70s Herbie Hancock moves? Did they make this record especially for me at the expense of the 95% of their fans who aren't going to get it?"

Also I still don't get the complaints about "Lose Yourself to Dance" being too slow. Is "Superstition" too slow? They're the same bpm. It's at funk tempo, not disco.

i think the get lucky 12" remix was maybe the most disappointing thing that came out of RAM

"Did they make this record especially for me at the expense of the 95% of their fans who aren't going to get it?"

Totally agree with this. I've said that to myself many times while listening to this album.

haha otm

don't know if I already said this, but "Game of Love" is like the song Air wishes they could make. It has the same sense of robotic melancholy but is just waaayyyy funkier than anything they are capable of.

I keep feeling like there needs to be an Al Jarreau type of song on it to lighten the mood up a bit.

xxp Yeah, I've been amused from the beginning that they made this record that would piss off so many people but is totally in my wheelhouse. Kind of how I immediately felt about Yeezus too.

i think the get lucky 12" remix was maybe the most disappointing thing that came out of RAM

― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:13 AM Bookmark

This is otm

Damn, Daft Punk bringing in my namesake would have only made me love this more.

guys remember daft punk truthers?

Also I still don't get the complaints about "Lose Yourself to Dance" being too slow. Is "Superstition" too slow? They're the same bpm. It's at funk tempo, not disco.

― The Reverend, Thursday, December 19, 2013 11:41 AM (1 hour ago)

^^ gets it.

"Lose Yourself to Dance" didn't fully make sense to me until I heard the CD-quality version instead of the compressed iTunes stream version.

the fullness at the low end and the crispness at the high end are really essential to that groove

SWEAT

I'd have no problem with "Lose Yourself to Dance" if Stevie sang it!

For someone reason I always hear Freddie Mercury singing it...jeez did I admit that...

Lose yourself to Dance is fine but it goes on just a bit too long and when that 'c'mon c'mon c'mon' bit happens it sometimes sounds like the robot is bored and telling dp to get the fuck on with it and finish the song.

Dog latin I do think you are obsessed with robots. Do you have a fetish

I'd have little quarrel with "What Does the Fox Say" if Stevie sang it.

Also I still don't get the complaints about "Lose Yourself to Dance" being too slow. Is "Superstition" too slow? They're the same bpm. It's at funk tempo, not disco.

I get it but "Superstition" is a much much better song. "Lose Yourself" feels a lot less naturally funky...to me it's kinda forced in a way

You're kinda forced. LOL.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/12/19/daft-punk-to-play-grammy-awards/4122991/

did we ever discuss this??

http://www.discogs.com/Daft-Punk-Feat-Pharrell-Williams-Nile-Rodgers-Get-Lucky/release/4704808

The guys in the Instant Crush video who are moving about the dummies/dolls = Daft Punk without masks, I assume?

"he thought he saw someone that looked just like me"

The guys in the Instant Crush video who are moving about the dummies/dolls = Daft Punk without masks, I assume?

...is this a question? There are more than two guys in the video moving the dolls around.