Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

none of them are terrible

a ringing endorsement.

i think the toto win and steely dan/fagen and quincy jones albums love over the years do work as predictors for the daft punk victory. even the performance was all 'how great are studio musicians?', that's a sizeable constituency.

let's dance's rep as in any way a good album is kinda amazing, it's not much better than his other 80s fiascos and at this point i think i enjoy encountering certain singles from them - 'loving the alien', 'never let me down' esp - than i do any of the big let's dance hits.

let me help with the cure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Gk0ZBypDI

In 2050, RAM shall be preloaded into the My Music directories of our children's computer brains.

woah they attempted an american version of totp w/ a pre-party machine, post-fame nia peeples

oh, that was nia peeples! i thought it was marie osmond.

and Bowie had a post-fame career after singing that vocal!

man calvin klein ads just changed the game in the late 80s apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ZZMbpUFMY

wow some real haim production at work on that track

Sam, John, and Herbert Haim of New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

and Bowie had a post-fame career after singing that vocal!

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 28, 2014

"career."

well, i guess there was blue jean.

can't argue with blue jean.

A very square co-worker of mine referred to them as "Dahft Punk" today and that was about the most interesting that happened in my day.

i really hope the DP guys sent some random assholes to accept the awards in costume
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, January 28, 2014

they seem more lookalikes than the guys themselves? so some sort of double bluff thing going on here?

daft punk truth now

lol

I'm definitely not convinced

It's 100% not them. They don't even look similar.

They've openly used stand-ins for public appearances and photoshoots they can't be arsed with for years. There was a major feature in the 2007 campaign where Thomas and Guy-Man were being interviewed while watching the stand-ins be photographed for the article. If they had sent other robots up to get an award and not say anything, it wouldn't have been any kind of "prank."

sunglasses guy does look a lot like Thomas, suit guy doesn't look much like G-M, could be him tho.

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1/p480x480/1545138_10202763453634656_393190020_n.jpg

http://sensiblereason.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/BfDStBtCIAAGU8i.png

ahhh, word

http://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/mulder-and-i-want-to-believe-poster.jpg

eheh, too bad, I loved the idea !

Interesting they didn't have the gall to pretend to play the drum and bass parts they paid cats to play on the record at the Grammy's like they do in the video. Too bad that Whitest Boy Alive remix that they ripped off for the track couldn't get any credit, either. Funny if the album got an engineering award when the lead vocal on the big single and only good song is noticeably poorly recorded, mixed and sung (shit is pitchy, dog). This album is overrated beyond belief. Dull and dreary vocoder monotony, ridiculously repetitive synth arpeggios, too-slow and tuneless disco (except the big hit), really lame and actually crappy sounding "rock out" parts that don't work, songs that get old within 30 seconds (the doin it right one), the Strokes dude song is unexceptional and musically doesn't work when it goes from the chorus back to the verse, the Gaucho-era Steely Dan sound alike minus everything that's good about Steely Dan song, and, oh, ffs, that Paul Williams song is such a distaster. It's basically Choppin' Broccoli with a bunch of parts that don't work or flow stuck onto it and I'm sorry, I know the dude wrote cool stuff in the 70's, but that singing! Yikes. These guys can't really write songs. They graduated from looping snippets of 70's songs (just for that video where they pretend to play that Breakwater measure over and over again they should be in musical prison for life; just watching that one and the Get Lucky video it's so funny watching them pretending to play, like children playing make believe) to polishing turds with hired hand$. And the only good song they essentially stole from that Whitest Boy Alive Golden Cage remix and paid Nile Rodgers to make it a Chic song. Gimmicky charlatans in Halloween costumes. All style, virtually no substance that isn't stolen or bought. Rant over.

But how did you really feel

I know, I know. I'm the funk police.

huge lol at 'get lucky' being a rip off of the 'golden cage' remix

there's other hilariously dumb stuff there also but that was funniest and most novel

hai erlend

welcome to ilx

what's wrong with buying substance? a good way to procure substance imo

I've been googling Nathan East credits. I only knew him from Eric Clapton and Phil Collins, his longterm live gigs, but dude stays buuuuuusy.

huge lol at 'get lucky' being a rip off of the 'golden cage' remix

― balls, Friday, 31 January 2014 01:24 (17 minutes ago) Permalink

I thought he meant Give Life Back to Music. But point stands.

I know, I know. I'm the funk police.

― bbboing, Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dK0Hbf5rEY

As for buying substance, Steely Dan, for example, paid cats to play sick parts in the studio and even had a hired arranger for at least some of their albums, but they wrote really great stuff that is musically and lyrically solid and unique at the core. These guys with the Halloween costumes are polishing turds, imo. And they still had to have people help them write the turds. I mean, with the right budget, a lot of people could probably write four chords and pay Nile Rodgers and some other cats to play it and come up with a decent facsimile of a Chic record. The other tracks Rodgers plays on on the record still suffer from being too slow and virtually tuneless. Get Lucky's good, but I don't think it's in the same league as tons of better stuff from the disco era, and the rest of the album is surprisingly dull and musically not really worthy of the hype and accolades.

timely critiques

Shit, cat. It don’t make a difference.

the "it's not as good as my favourite disco songs!" argument is so boring and pointless

I was only skimming this stuff but something about Steely Dan paying cats to be sick in the studio???

if you feed my cat a hair tie, she will get sick

they paid cats to polish their own turds? that IS sick.

LOL this album is SO RANDOM!

it is the access that is random. needs shuffle play imo.

oh yeah, i forgot about that.

That's why I never bought the vinyl.

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

Can see why it was never released

iTouch but I can't feel