Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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

Well technically Get Lucky was Record of the Year, not Song of the Year.

if get lucky was released as the third or fourth single people wouldn't even notice it.

i like it but really now

That's a bold (and wrong) claim

it feels more like a nice album track rather than SONG OF THE YEAR, though i guess its ubiquitousness made it song of the year in the end.

i disagree

This is quite a weird pick for AOTY, and the parallel I'm drawing is with Toto IV, in terms of an album which had one/two hits, sold well and thus giving them the award "feels right". I think in 15 years it'll be seen in the same light as giving Toto IV the AOTY Grammy.

i disagree

http://25.media.tumblr.com/9b16fed949cac2611273301f65227442/tumblr_mkpe42ERDn1rf90k7o1_400.gif

History will view this year's AotY race as a showdown between an old-style marketing success (Punk) vs. a juggernaut of new-school self promotion (Mack), and in the end the old guard circled the wagons around the former, embodied by the unlikeliest of avatars.

Toto comparison wildly off base unless it's meant to suggest the lack of competition was but a vacuum that sucked Daft Punk to the top of the pack.