Daft Punk - Human After All

Personally I've always wanted to make a fake album and release it, claiming it is a famous upcoming release, ever since Nick Sylvester was initially convinced that They Were Wrong So We Drowned was fake.

But, yeh, who mislabels songs on purpose?

wait, you mean it ISN'T fake?

also, i have scarlet fever and am somewhat delusional. I blame it all on that.

I was Daft Punk'd!

I'm reading the record/song title as bittersweet.

i am asusming the fred falke / alan braxe influence will reach fatal proportions on this recording. stevem's suggestion re: slap bass (on the other thread) sent chills up my spine.

Alter Ego - RFI, C/D, S/D etc.

(Does anyone have the fear from seeing 'Make Love' among the song titles?)

x-p

01. Human After All
almost orchestral intro with strings and fantastic attenuated major piano chords building up into a thunderous crescendo after a minute or two, chaotic 'noise' and fx threaten in the background briefly but the next four minutes are built around a kickdrum only every OTHER beat and only three per bar with a two-chord balearic pad in tandem, tinkling bells, different loops of crowd cheers, children laughing and Bangalter crooning 'we can start again, we're human after all' overdubbed enough so that it sounds like a choir of twenty but curiously unrobotic - HOW DID THEY DO IT? it sounds predictably sunny and almost harks back to 'Fresh' from the first album. an organ outro seals the deal and creates a bridge into...

02. The Prime Time Of Your Life
Prince's 'Dance Music Sex Romance' turbo-charged for c21, making for one great wah-wah funk dance track around the same tempo as 'Da Funk' but not as heavy - and no 303s...hopefully no-one will notice it's similiarity to lenny Kravitz's 'Super Soul Fighter' in addition at points either. halfway through a cheery vocoder starts bleating "P-R-I-M-E-T-I-M-E!" while jumbo jets swoosh overhead. possibly the pinnacle of people fun.

Peter Parker disagrees!

'Robot Rock' is the first single, to be followed by 'Technoid', which my friend claims is one of the best, most catchy, things they've ever done.

The poppier they became, the worse they were

RAM is their poppiest album. I have the absolute opposite problem with it in that it's had a lot of the rough edges smoothed off completely, and the glances at experimentalism (Giorgio By Moroder) don't really land well enough to stand up to future listens. It's a strangely forlorn little album for one that spawned Get Lucky. I can't get my head around the idea that Discovery is boring though.

RAM is abjectly terrible

they tricked EDM fans into buying a record that sounds like early '80s Deodato which is hilarious to me

they really have an all-time weird career arc

i appreciate ram as an exercise still, making explicit connections between your music and not just the records but the very context of the records that inspired it ('70s/'80s disco/boogie/r&b played by crack studio musicians and sounding like it was produced by quincy jones)? pretty dope

also makes way more sense as a final record probably

whoever said "fragments of time" -> "doin it right" was a peak for them was correct

the release of ram coincided with me getting really into post-disco and electro-r&b and for that i will cherish it as like a talisman or a prism forever

RAM is definitely one of those albums where every track individually sounds pretty great but I cannot get into it at all as an album. by the time "Game of Love" comes on I want to put on literally anything else

it is an enormous unwieldy album experience for sure

whoever said "fragments of time" -> "doin it right" was a peak for them was correct

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The poppier they became, the worse they were

I agree with this take at the same time as I think Discovery is their best (really only) album.

whoever said "fragments of time" -> "doin it right" was a peak for them was correct

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 24, 2021 10:42 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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― J. Sam

X3

well at least a couple of people came to praise DP not to bury them

Agree that RAM is a bit much to digest in one go despite being made up of some strong elements.

It veers wildly around in mood,so that even the more ebullient moments harbour a twinge of defeated melancholy. One minute we're being invited to Give Life Back To Music, but immediately having the wind taken out our sails with the sad robot music of Game Of Love. This happens throughout, and I'm never quite sure if I'm really meant to be losing myself to dance, or if this is a reverse bathos going on.

i think there are several reasons why it doesn't matter whether you think an album released in 2013 works as a consistent piece beginning to end

or an album released in 2005 even if we're just going to randomly access threads

Does the year it came out matter? One of the things I like about Discovery is how well sequenced it is, which is further cemented by how it was used on Interstella 5555

RAM has the best sequencing of all their albums!

yuman after yall

Xp maybe the second half, but I find the sequencing of the first three tracks really odd and jarring

So, I spent an evening editing this down from 45 to 30 minutes, which was surprisingly easy given its loopy, minimal nature. No song is longer than 4 minutes, and some songs like Emotion, The Brainwasher and the title track sound a bit less wanting as they express their core ideas more concisely. I took maybe one creative liberty on a transition, but other than that the edits almost feel completely natural.

Here's a link if anyone's interested:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AeBYVJiThQafBqqtp28CKmShiOsqcqfD?usp=sharing

Downloading now. Sounds interesting

Well that was enjoyable. Definitely felt like an easier listen and less like I was being pummelled into submission in certain places. That said, in others I missed the pummelling, particularly on the first two tracks which I always liked just fine. I did enjoy the artistic liberty you took with Prime Time (I think) though, that was fun

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Thanks! The creative liberty I think I was referring to was the edit to only a single "Technologic" before the first drop instead of four. The fact that didn't actually stick out as noticeable is a victory I think hah.

Re: PTOYL, it was the hardest song to edit, because it's the only one on the album I actually enjoy its full length for the most part. However, I forced myself to get it below 4 mins just to see, and was able to slice out the 2nd half of the intro successfully. Flows better now I think, but I did cut out the part with the most personality. I still think most people casually listening wouldn't even notice. It's basically an album of radio edits.

Thanks for the work - this is kind of reminiscent of the Rex the Dog compilation.

god this album is so dope

The perfect anxiety album. I've written about it as such n' all