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― example (crüt), Friday, 22 May 2015 15:27 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/sixtine-ricothewizard/the-fight-le-knight-club
― example (crüt), Friday, 29 May 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/11270228_10153247201205673_6488985271395576364_o.jpg
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 10:06 (eight years ago) link
The live set that changed the direction and velocity of all electronic dance music
The only thing I have a problem with is "all". The statement really applies to the US, where Alive coincided with Kanye's Stronger.
Was that the greatest ever tour to follow a total flop album? It basically erased Human After All from the collective memory banks.
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 10:51 (eight years ago) link
I don't mean that Alive was only a big deal because of Stronger, not at all, but the combination made it the point at which the US really got dance music. I have to read Matos's book to see what else was going on at that point that made EDM take off but this was the big bang.
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 10:53 (eight years ago) link
http://mareplaytv.fr/video/daft-punk-unchained-documentaire-du-24-juin-2015/
enjoyed seeing M. Matos show up in this documentary
― example (crüt), Thursday, 25 June 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
a friend just sent me this one, presumably for the similarity in the chords & wordless vocal hook to 'Get Lucky':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etVRqEZxvJM
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 4 March 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtB5jC9_kc4
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 9 September 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
(production by Guy-Manuel)
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 9 September 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
sounds like it, too
― niels, Sunday, 10 September 2017 08:31 (six years ago) link
that's like, the Game of Love synth?
does anyone have a file of this?
https://soundcloud.com/davidmorales/get-lucky-david-morales
― gr8080, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
I still love that endlessly ascending synth noise on 'Contact' ... fantastic drumming, too!
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
gr8080 i'll help ya out
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 6 October 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnjEzx7Glr8
― calstars, Sunday, 15 October 2017 04:14 (six years ago) link
So bummed there was no Alive 2017. :(
― skip, Saturday, 3 February 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link
― niels, Sunday, September 10, 2017 4:31 AM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
p sure it's a Wurlitzer!
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Saturday, 3 February 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link
I'm not really bummed that there hasn't been a live show. I can't see how it would live up to either Alive 2006/7 or the studio recordings on Random Access Memories. Pharrell and Chic both play "Get Lucky" live; Julian Casablancas plays "Instant Crush"; and that's about as close we're gonna get.
I'm more bummed that "Overnight" didn't get much attention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTdBc2Ba8ts
^ You can kind of sing "Face To Face" over that, so they're definitely still making music that can mesh with their earlier recordings, but honestly I think another Alive 2007-style mashup gig would be super corny. otoh I think an Alive 1997-style gig where they're just doing "Da Funk" for 30 minutes would be fantastic!! I've seen way too many fanboys talk about what Daft Punk "should" do next, but fuck it: I wish they would just do some DJ gigs again.
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Saturday, 3 February 2018 03:47 (six years ago) link
I think they might be laying low till the Chic album comes out? I seem to remember they were supposed to be contributing to that, and in interviews about the album recently Nile Rodgers has kept talking about how there will be a "big surprise."
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Saturday, 3 February 2018 03:49 (six years ago) link
Sorry. I'm a dork.
You're right that another mashup gig would be corny, and so would have an attempt at playing the new album live with a rotating cast of "surprise" guests.
Alive 1997 it is then ;)
― skip, Saturday, 3 February 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
btw this is a fun video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpG3XrPhgtM
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Saturday, 3 February 2018 04:04 (six years ago) link
my favorite bit of Nile Rodgers in "Get Lucky" is in the second half of the song when the prechorus and chorus come back in over the robot voices and DP sample a different guitar rhythm just for the second chord in the four-chord sequence and it's massively funky
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Saturday, 3 February 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link
^ I think I can hear it, but pretty fuckin' subtle. Unlike the nadir of the album, when halfway through Contact the drummer decides to give up on the awesome beat and just hit everything within reach on every beat, and nothing in between. Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory, I find it unlistenable.
― lana del boy (ledge), Thursday, 15 February 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
haha true
tbh I found a lot of this album sounded pretty compressed to my ears
― niels, Friday, 16 February 2018 07:08 (six years ago) link
agreed that "Contact" is underwhelming
― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Friday, 16 February 2018 07:19 (six years ago) link
that drum part is reminiscent of the drums on "The Final Countdown" though so I guess it's thematically appropriate
― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Friday, 16 February 2018 07:20 (six years ago) link
I couldn't disagree more, re: 'Contact' ... my favourite track on the album.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Friday, 16 February 2018 07:26 (six years ago) link
Like, by miles.
I like my melodrama with a little more Paul Williams
― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Friday, 16 February 2018 07:45 (six years ago) link
yeah, that one's the centerpiece
― niels, Friday, 16 February 2018 07:47 (six years ago) link
Between the 1997 and 2007 tour they released 11 singles. Beteween 2007 and the 2017 potential tour they only released 1 album and 5 singles.
For an act with such a legendary status they are actually very passive in their output. 4 albums in 20+years!?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 February 2018 07:50 (six years ago) link
That said they are really good at what they do.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 February 2018 07:51 (six years ago) link
they did the TRON soundtrack in that second period too
― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Friday, 16 February 2018 07:59 (six years ago) link
They've only ever done a handful of remixes too, nearly all of which are A++
― groovypanda, Friday, 16 February 2018 09:17 (six years ago) link
Mothership Reconnection! Chord Memory!
― i know kore-eda (or something), Friday, 16 February 2018 10:55 (six years ago) link
yea I'm pretty disappointed that we didn't get an Alive 2017
did they even play live in support of this record? surely they must have.
― frogbs, Friday, 16 February 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link
They only did that Grammy thing iirc.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 February 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
And yes I forgot that TRON soundtrack. Them breaking the 2017 pattern is very dissapointing. They had enough new music and production credits to make it work.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 February 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
Seems like most of the other threads have been revived...who dares revisit?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
we are talking about this album in the human after all thread.... lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:54 (three years ago) link
"give life back to music" whips!!!
I'd love "Lose Yourself to Dance" if Pharrell were drawn and quartered and his death throes were recorded over his original vocal.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, August 29, 2013 5:30 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
the most un-ecsstatic, un-lose yourself to dance vocal, like, ever
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, August 29, 2013
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
"Lose Yourself to Dance" definitely supports my theory that Daft Punk make shitty music on purpose
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
guitar!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
Yeah I'm not a fan of Pharrell's anemic vocals here either. "Fragments of Time" on the other hand--that song is pure joy. If I have anything to thank this album for, it's hipping me to the genius of Todd Edwards. Obviously his influence was all over Discovery, but I didn't realize it at the time
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
it's weirdly lifeless for an album that starts with a track called "give life back to music" and it also really exposes their limitations as songwriters
the one track i come back to is "fragments of time" which is still really cool with todd edwards' cut-up production applied to 70s soft rock
i have never understood love for "doin' it right", it's cool until 1:25 when panda bear completely kills it with that awkward melody and then it never really goes anywhere. there's potential there for sure but it's really wasted, like a lot of tracks on this album which have a cool idea but then fail to develop it at all and drag on for too long
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:15 (three years ago) link
lol that's pretty much the only vocal melody on the album that I like ("Get Lucky" works when Chic does it but doesn't work here, mostly because Pharrell is bad)
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
i think "within" is beautiful
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
although tbrr there's potential there for sure but it's really wasted, like a lot of tracks on this album which have a cool idea but then fail to develop it at all and drag on for too long is the perfect encapsulation of the Daft Punk ethos, even on the songs I like by them
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link