Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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

sounds sorta like an elaborate hoax, maybe aries spears and the lonely island cut it

Think P4K are claiming it's genuine though. Not that that means it is of course.

the posted this on fbook 8 mins ago

http://i.imgur.com/ZX1sjg8.jpg

site appears to have crashed

It's official?

should have added more VIC-20s to the serving cluster

i really love the design of that btw, wish they'd done more of that style w/ the whole marketing campaign a year ago

was gonna say the exact opposite, retro Memorex advertising is not my fave look at all.

http://i.imgur.com/HzM4Rxu.jpg

barf

They're way past their sell-by date. No one is going to be setting any trends by wearing OFFICIAL Daft Punk merch.

Yeah, I still love this album but that's a year too late.

$40 o_O

http://www.daftpunk.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/820x1160/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/m/e/mens_getlucky.jpg

I lol'd.

his hands!!!!

I haven't listened to this album at all this year, I don't think!

fantastic to see P4K report these ads as news - DP, you done it again!

LOL otm. Amazing that this band is marketing itself! Hoorah!

rmde

everything a band does that winds up in pitchfork is an advertisement!

the songs are there too. some of them at least.

also funny/sad that all the creativity went into the ads rather than the merch, which is pretty pedestrian (i mean a DP buckle belt?)

every band has those these days!

i'd never buy any of this shit even if it was half as much and its weird they're doing it a whole year later but these ads still rule.

certainly more unified with the music than other bands' ads. it seems like something from the 70s! but... it's 2014?!?

http://24.media.tumblr.com/69f10e2bc71fc7f6222fa206980f7870/tumblr_n01ckdaZVY1s23ao9o1_r1_250.gif

They're playing on the fact that we're all nostalgic for 2013 - so long ago it might as well have been the 70s.

The helmet shirt is exactly the kind of shirt dorky 14-year-old me would buy thinking "With this t-shirt purchase, I will at long last possess coolness!"

I love this album and I think the shirt looks dope but I wouldn't be caught dead wearing it.

yep

would wear that shirt, mostly to church

i kind of admire the faithfulness of the ads to that visual style from 70s/80s, but i hate that fucking ad style, even as a kid seeing those kinds of ads in old magazines i just always found it claustrophobic and stuffy

haha, I love those old ads. I have volumes of books with ads from the 60s-80s, and really don't ever get tired of looking at them. (possibly helps having family in the biz)