Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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.

Partially, although I was thinking more of the "safe, nice choice" with a hit to boost the feel-good factor of picking it. "Africa" = "Get Lucky" in this instance.

FWIW, I like both the albums, although I think DP's is better as a complete work.

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.

I was gonna make this exact comment when the album placed in the eoy countdown (except the "not into it" bit), thanks a lot for stealing my one and only insight jerk

ha, that's such an OTM insight that I'm crediting both of you with it. probably why I find it depressing, although I dig it a lot.

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.

This is why I like RAM a lot more than I expected to.

The .gif from Interstella has me thinking: won't it be amazing if this is a really big record and they win a main award at the Grammy's and they just blink "Thank You!" and ":)" ?!!!

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, March 6, 2013 5:22 PM (10 months ago)

bummer they didn't use this idea

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

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, January 27, 2014 1:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wouldn't go that far, but if it were released in the disco era it wouldn't break the top 10.

xp Who cares, we have dafthug.gif now.

http://www.gifsforum.com/images/gif/other/grand/Daft_Hug_9b59a5cc306af7410925780166f22f22.gif

You could also see the AOTY Grammy as a de facto lifetime achievement award for both Daft Punk and the supporting cast.

p much

i really hope the DP guys sent some random assholes to accept the awards in costume

The one on the left is actually Chris Brown.

if they'd taken off the helmets and it had been Chris Brown and R. Kelly

kind of want to make a daft hug gif that flashes "WHITE PRIVILEGE" when they hug

DAF thug

the best part of get lucky is when the drum machines and vocoders come in and pharrell gets faded out the picture. if this was the 80s, we would at least get a good dub mix of that.

whatever happened to Renegade Soundwave, I'd like to let them loose on that

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.

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Monday, January 27, 2014

how can you say that?!?

John Cougar -- American Fool
Donald Fagen -- The Nightfly
Billy Joel -- The Nylon Curtain
Paul McCartney -- Tug Of War
Toto -- Toto IV

a royal flush in spades

(not nominated in 1983)

• new order -- power, corruption and lies
• r.e.m. -- murmur
• u2 -- war
• violent femmes -- violent femmes
• the police -- synchronicity
• talking heads -- speaking in tounges
• david bowie -- let's dance
• billy idol -- rebel yell
• omd -- dazzle ships
• xtc -- murmur

good job, grammies.

i will take the nightfly over violent femmes anyday

murmur murmur murmur

I will take The Nightfly over Murmur

lol did you really expect the Grammys to nominate an Ameri-indie album in '83?

have to admit i'm kinda blown away dazzle ships wasn't nominated

i'll take tug of war over murmur uk, american fool over let's dance (have you actually heard let's dance?), toto iv over speaking in tongues, the nylon curtain over synchronicity

also: none of those albums were eligible for the 1983 grammys since yknow they came out in 1983. way to go grammys not nominating albums that hadn't actually been recorded and released yet.

however some of them were nominated for album of the year the following year, where they lost to thriller...which brings us back to daft punk (and toto).

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my real point was that grammy-voters are the coolest hipsters ever.

http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/video-prehistoire-les-daft-punk-sans-casque-28-01-2014-1785349_3.php