Touch has to be right before Get Lucky imo because the last quiet piano chord on Touch flows into the Bmin7 at the start of Get Lucky
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
who let the nerdlinger in
― stilt in the wings (sic), Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
i love "contact," but tbh it's been a long long time since i've listened to this front-to-back, and i hardly revisit anything beyond "giorgio by moroder"
― little johnny juul (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
Touch is clearly the centrepiece and also makes a lot of sense as track 1 of the third vinyl disc (and when sequencing I expect they had vinyl most in mind).
― nashwan, Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
third vinyl disc lol I mean second
― nashwan, Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
oh right, i remember loving the deliberate cheesiness of "the game of love" and "within."
― little johnny juul (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
Both the instrumentals and Giorgio follow the same structure and seem to have only one destination in mind,a big noisy, screech blowout.
― candyman, Thursday, 25 February 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link
I'll throw this in here:
Daft Punk was both a revelation in their own right and a gateway to so much music that shaped me.Here's a mix from 2013 that relaunched Musicophilia after a hiatus, in tribute to their 'Random Access Memories,' of music that might well have shaped them:https://t.co/3xeLBPjztS pic.twitter.com/1DhWvRwIK8— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) February 22, 2021
Probably like this mix better than 'Random Access Memories,' but I still like the album.
― Soundslike, Thursday, 25 February 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
i love how somebody hears mogwai on "contact" when what I hear is a launching rocketship piloted by Omar Hakim going bugshit all over the kit…
― veronica moser, Thursday, 25 February 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
For damn sure.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 February 2021 00:11 (three years ago) link
Contact would have been an amazing live encore.
― candyman, Friday, 26 February 2021 00:51 (three years ago) link
Need to find the stuff about the drum gate. This album was an issue of tape op.
― sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 February 2021 03:03 (three years ago) link
Kind of sad they never did an Alive 2017 tour because it would have probably redeemed some of the weaker moments in this album. Also if this is really the end it would’ve been a nice wrap.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 26 February 2021 06:45 (three years ago) link
Did they play this album out live much? It would definitely have been a great thing for a live context
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 26 February 2021 08:26 (three years ago) link
their only performance supporting it was at the grammys
― ufo, Friday, 26 February 2021 08:56 (three years ago) link
i got to see moroder behind it, so i'll be grateful for that
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 February 2021 15:39 (three years ago) link
Pharell's vocal on Lose Yourself to Dance is pretty bad. But beyond the sounds of his voice, the grammar grates horribly for me:
"I know you don't get a chance to take a break this often"
I don't feel there are any circumstances that would lead to one human uttering that sentence verbatim to another human.
"That often" or "too often" would make so much more sense...
Furthermore: the guitar does pretty much the same thing throughout the track, so it sounds silly when he calls out "Guitar!" and it just carries on doing what it was doing.
I anticipated this album like crazy, enjoyed elements of it when it came out, but now it is firmly my least favourite Daft Punk album.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 27 February 2021 07:49 (three years ago) link
I also hate the album cover. This logo from the promotional videos would have been 1000x better:
https://i.imgur.com/4KZONGd.jpg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 27 February 2021 08:26 (three years ago) link
I always heard it as "or something" rather than "this often", not that that makes the lyric any better.
DP aren't exactly known for their perfect grammatical flourishes ("We're up all night for good fun", "The kind of feeling I've waited so long").
It's acceptable and kind of amusing when sung by a gallic robot, but not so much when Pharrell does it
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Saturday, 27 February 2021 09:48 (three years ago) link
Agree on Pharrell’s vocal on that one being pretty lackluster, sucks because the instrumental is great.
I once heard an edit that cutted out his vocals and just left the vocoder “robot voice” and it improved the song greatly imho.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 27 February 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
Also agree on the album cover. Always irked me that they decided to break the tradition of having the logo only as the album cover.
I like the boxset edition with only the title better. Hell, I even like the fan edits that parody Thriller better:
https://imgur.com/gallery/FkNA0yF
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 27 February 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
how has the term "new jersey" never once been used itt
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Saturday, 27 February 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
This first came out just after I was made redundant, and it genuinely "helped me through a difficult time" - I remember thinking of it as referencing the past to offer up a prayer for the future. I'd never been much invested in DP as an album act before, so didn't have any weight of expectation, and was soothed/invigorated/intoxicated by what I experienced as a unique sound-world.
I ended up playing it too often, and got to the point where I no longer got anything from it. So when I read some of the recent criticisms upthread, I wondered whether I'd been over-investing in what had turned out to be a weak piece of work.
Seeing that the vinyl is now worth a decent amount on Discogs, I listed it for sale a couple of days ago, then gave it a farewell play... only to find that it had almost completely renewed itself, and that what had worked as a life-beyond-redundancy soundtrack now worked as a life-beyond-lockdown soundtrack. Now as then, there's something deeply reassuring at its core. None of the songs felt too long or too repetitive (although I've certainly sometimes felt that with some of their all-electronic work), and I luxuriated in its textures. "Touch" into "Get Lucky" still felt like the fulcrum of the whole set, and the positioning of those two tracks on Side Three still felt just right.
Halfway through Side Four, the record sold. If it hadn't, I might have withdrawn the sales listing.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 27 February 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
Daft Punk reveals tenth anniversary edition of Random Access Memories with unreleased materialhttps://t.co/wLoXkPxDAn— Resident Advisor (@residentadvisor) February 22, 2023
...includes nine unreleased tracks totaling 35 minutes. Among the bonus material are alternate versions of "Get Lucky," "Lose Yourself To Dance" and "Give Life Back To Music," unfinished demos and other behind-the-scenes recordings. There's also the 2021 version of "Touch" used in the duo's farewell video.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
01. Give Life Back To Music02. The Game Of Love03. Giorgio By Moroder04. Within05. Instant Crush06. Lose Yourself To Dance07. Touch08. Get Lucky09. Beyond10. Motherboard11. Fragments of Time12. Doin' it right13. Contact14. Horizon (Japan CD)15. GLBTM (Studio Outtakes)16. Infinity Repeating (2013 Demo)17. GL (Early Take)18. Prime (2012 Unfinished)19. LYTD (Vocoder Tests)20. The Writing of Fragments Of Time21. Touch (2021 Epilogue)
Columbia Records will release Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary Edition) on May 12th, 2023.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
10 years? Jfc I'm old
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 23:13 (one year ago) link
Wait til you find out how old Homework is this year
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link
Homework does feel like a long time ago tho, RAM feels like about 3 years back
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
A song called Vocoder Tests by Daft Punk excites me.
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Thursday, 23 February 2023 02:33 (one year ago) link
GLBTM (studio outtakes) out today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiZfLvLU5Jc
― StanM, Friday, 21 April 2023 12:32 (one year ago) link
oh, and this was out a Month ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYKekR6661o
― StanM, Friday, 21 April 2023 12:34 (one year ago) link
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles)
It’s not a song. It’s literal vocoder tests for “lose yourself to dance”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 21 April 2023 13:52 (one year ago) link
why the hell aren't those strings on the actual "Give Life Back To Music"
― c u (crüt), Friday, 21 April 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
They are released a "drumless" version of this album. Seems pointless to me, but maybe the drums were a late addition to the album? might as well just put up all the mixing tracks and see what people can do.
― formerly abanana (dat), Thursday, 28 September 2023 21:54 (seven months ago) link
Drumless and no-vocals would be interesting
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Friday, 29 September 2023 11:21 (seven months ago) link
someone's got a contractual obligation to fulfill with Columbia!!!
― Murgatroid, Friday, 29 September 2023 11:42 (seven months ago) link
Discovery (sample less edition) coming up
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 September 2023 12:13 (seven months ago) link
This idea is wack tbh.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 September 2023 12:14 (seven months ago) link
Random Access Memories (4’33” mix)
― the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 29 September 2023 14:16 (seven months ago) link
Within version is out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLa3JlGANuU
― groovypanda, Friday, 29 September 2023 14:25 (seven months ago) link
^ tbf, that's a pretty great version
― groovypanda, Friday, 29 September 2023 14:28 (seven months ago) link
I'm weirdly and unexpectedly really digging this version. Sounds like the best produced muzak ever, highlighting stuff i'd never noticed on the original. A bit of an odd flex but nails what it's meant to achieve - making people listen to the album with fresh ears
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 November 2023 16:21 (five months ago) link
As I said upthread, if they took the vocals out too, that would be even better
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Friday, 17 November 2023 16:23 (five months ago) link
"We took all the music out." "Ah...excellence."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 November 2023 16:24 (five months ago) link
Also most of the music
― the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 17 November 2023 16:24 (five months ago) link
I also like this version more than I expected to, but I also wasn't feeling especially cynical about it to begin with
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 17 November 2023 16:50 (five months ago) link
Unsurprisingly the uptempo stuff doesn't work that well - Lose Yourself to Dance is agonizingly long and dull - but the maudlin stuff at the beginning sounds really nice, in a 1986 aging yuppie kinda way
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 November 2023 17:00 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLiG1H9QH_4
session drummer/percussionist on RAM says he was involved with sessions for a new album in 2018 and has heard they're working on that material again recently
― ufo, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 17:05 (three months ago) link