Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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.

I think he means these dudes:

http://i.imgur.com/zF6sifR.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xsxqaAU.jpg

Yes, them! Thx, crüt!

Daft Punk set to team up with Stevie Wonder at Grammy Awards 2014

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/daft-punk-set-to-team-up-with-stevie-wonder-at-grammy-awards-2014-9040969.html

http://i.imgur.com/xHrMfSC.jpg

Seriously ... if you'd have told me in 1998 that Daft Punk and Stevie Wonder would be splitting a bill at the Grammys in the future and I would regard the news with a shrug, I would have slit my throat right then and there.

Robin Thicke, in bid to top Daft Punk, teams up with Marvin Gaye robot at People's Choice Awards

lol I used "top" as a verb in a sentence about teaming up with a Gaye robot

full Giorgio Moroder interview:

https://soundcloud.com/giorgiomoroder/ram-deluxe-interview

'the game of love' is so sick. sad aliens singing steely dan's 'third world man' or poco's 'the last goodbye'.

i know this album is not really all that cool anymore but after taking a break from it, its still quite lovely. its just really nice, in the sense of music thats empathic, kind, and seems to aspire to a kind of moral goodness, in a way i dont hear from very much modern pop.

I had an epiphany that the reason I wasn't into it was because I was expecting a Saturday night record but got a Sunday morning record.

Also today I imagined what this album would have turned out like had Back in the Highlife been the 80s session pop touchstone rather than George Benson.

its just really nice, in the sense of music thats empathic, kind, and seems to aspire to a kind of moral goodness, in a way i dont hear from very much modern pop.

otm. it feels like they're searching for meaning. really basking in the confusion & joy of life & love & knowledge & beauty.

Album of the Year nod exponentially increases the likelihood of my dream of a multi-year Daft Punk residency at the Luxor in Vegas in 20 years.

lol the Luxor? Why not something newer?

would be cool to have some kind of mega nightclub residency

I do feel like people are gonna be astounded by this in 15 years, maybe even by many of the same people who dislike it now (such as myself)

lol the Luxor? Why not something newer?

― SHAUN (DJP), Monday, January 27, 2014 9:16 AM (12 minutes ago)

pyramid bro.

Looking back through this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Album_of_the_Year

This is the first AOY release I've purchased with my own $ since 1987, the still topical Graceland.

"the still topical Graceland" is a good dn imo

it rubs the Graceland on its skin or else it gets the hose again

Is Get Lucky the first time the Grammys, Pazz & Jop and ILM have all agreed on the song of the year?

historic confluence of rong