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Contact gave me flashbacks to the Motherfucking Apocalypse that was the Prime Time/Rollin' & Scratchin'/Brainwasher portion of Alive 2007, 40 feet from the stage at Vegoose.
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After three weeks of somewhat listening, it seems I'm drawn to the Niles Rodgers/Pharrell tracks more than anything else, namely "Lose Yourself to Dance" and "Get Lucky." There isn't a bad track on the album, though I still somewhat cringe at the Paul Williams tracks because of his delivery. It's nothing less and nothing more than I would expect from Daft Punk. I'm glad they're "growing." I would rank their studio albums Discovery>Homework=Random Access Memories>>>Human After All. I think RAM has better songs than Homework, and even Discovery, but just doesn't flow like the others. My ten favorite Daft Punk songs would include two to three from Homework and RAM, and then about four from Discovery (and not the singles, I'm talking Fresh and There's Something About You stuff). Either way, I find it a very fun album that makes me want to dance and love intensely; AKA Daft Punk serves it's purpose as making an album that brings bodies together.
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May 29, 2013 02:38
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I really, really like the ending of Motherboard. Definitely wasn't expecting that sound on this album.
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May 29, 2013 03:23
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Does anyone else get a nagging feeling listening to Lose Yourself To Dance that something is just "off"? It really bugs me for some reason. At first I thought it felt like it was just a few BPM too slow and constantly trying to speed up but failing. Then I thought maybe its because the first part (before the "come on, come on"s) has almost nothing on the upbeats. I can't figure it out, but something about that song creates some kind of low-level dissonance in my head. 
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May 29, 2013 04:16
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Does anyone else get a nagging feeling listening to Lose Yourself To Dance that something is just "off"? It really bugs me for some reason. Yeah usually during the parts where Pharrell is singing about sweat I find myself really wishing that he weren't. Also the song could use one more layer I feel like but that probably isn't what you mean. Also the "Come on come on come on" pans back and forth between channels like some gimmicky stereo poo poo that the Beatles would do back when the format first came out. It's still my favorite song from RAM. Dat funk riff.
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May 29, 2013 04:19
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Lose Yourself to Dance is a cool song but does seem a little off. I am curious to see how that song works on a crowd, possibly in remix form. Really, I am just hella jealous of the people that got to jam out together at Wee Waa. Is that town basically in the middle of Bumfuck Nowhere, Australia? Its crazy how fresh Get Lucky stays to me. I should totally hate this song by now and I just don't. Editedit: thinking of it again, i'm not sure there should be a visual for this album, because how could they possibly make a visual epic enough to accompany "Beyond" an skeleton fucked around with this message at 05:13 on May 29, 2013 |
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May 29, 2013 05:07
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Sweden seems to really like RAM: 3 album tracks have charted there (Give Life Back to Music, Instant Crush, and Lose Yourself to Dance).
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May 29, 2013 05:57
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More than I can say than their brothers in the West then. Can only find "Get Lucky" on the charts here in Norway. :/
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May 29, 2013 08:54
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I don't think this was posted in the thread yet. I still prefer the soul train ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xSFKnldPQ8
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May 29, 2013 12:16
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It's official: Random Access Memories debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200
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May 29, 2013 14:40
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It finally dawned on me that Julian Casablancas is on Instant Crush, I always knew he collaborated on this but didn't pay attention to the tracks. Then I REALLY gave it a listen on the way to work today and its totally a track that could be off his solo album. You can even hear his original, unsampled voice if you listen carefully.
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May 29, 2013 15:22
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RAM also has 5 of the top 10 songs on Spotify right now, including number 1.
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May 29, 2013 15:23
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I've really come around on "Touch" but I could still do without the first ~3 minutes. I think a lot of the songs have grown on me, even Fragments of Time (which I never would have guessed after the first few listens).
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May 29, 2013 15:48
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With touch I always skip the first 2 minutes or so, it's loving poo poo.
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May 29, 2013 16:20
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slogsdon posted:I really, really like the ending of Motherboard. Definitely wasn't expecting that sound on this album. Motherboard is basically Get Lucky (TRON Remix).
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May 29, 2013 18:46
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So this album has convinced me to get a proper sound system and an LP player. But I won't have the $$$ until after summer, and i'm worrying about if the LP will run out of print before then? Should I get it right now just to be certain not to miss out? Also, which Giorgio song is the one with the 'click' that he talks about. Bisse fucked around with this message at 22:42 on May 29, 2013 |
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May 29, 2013 19:37
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Yay!  I guess people are digging it, then, despite all the haters in this thread. Or they're buying it, at least...
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May 29, 2013 20:36
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Yay!
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May 29, 2013 21:04
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Even better news: "Get Lucky" has spiked up into the Top 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 this week, jumping from 10 to 4. http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1565048/macklemore-ryan-lewis-still-atop-hot-100-zach-sobiech-debuts
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May 29, 2013 21:39
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CRINDY posted:Even better news: "Get Lucky" has spiked up into the Top 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 this week, jumping from 10 to 4. Wow, that's pretty incredible.
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May 29, 2013 22:00
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The critics have been very positive with reviews all around. Ive been listening to the album a lot, read pretty much every review I could find, and still would peg it at around 7-7.5 on my personal scale (which i realize nobody gives a poo poo about; i am just surprised it is scoring such high marks all around).
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May 29, 2013 22:11
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I'm a casual fan, but I give it a solid 9, but a lot of the songs are hit and miss with me, but the ones that hit are like "holy poo poo this is the best song I've heard in 5 years" hit (Instant Crush).
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May 29, 2013 22:13
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Instant Crush certainly is better than anything we've heard from The Strokes in 5 years.
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May 29, 2013 22:21
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CRINDY posted:Even better news: "Get Lucky" has spiked up into the Top 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 this week, jumping from 10 to 4. CD-Rs with Get Lucky were given to CHRs on Random Access Memories' launch day, so it's not unexpected for Daft Punk to reach that high.
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May 30, 2013 00:42
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nasboat posted:I've really come around on "Touch" but I could still do without the first ~3 minutes. I think a lot of the songs have grown on me, even Fragments of Time (which I never would have guessed after the first few listens). Vintersorg posted:With touch I always skip the first 2 minutes or so, it's loving poo poo. The first part of Touch makes a lot more sense if you know its a reference to Phantom of the Paradise, which Paul Williams did the score for (and played a part in.)
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May 30, 2013 02:05
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Bisse posted:So this album has convinced me to get a proper sound system and an LP player. But I won't have the $$$ until after summer, and i'm worrying about if the LP will run out of print before then? Should I get it right now just to be certain not to miss out? I really doubt it. Discovery is still in print on vinyl, after all.
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May 30, 2013 02:34
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I think it is safe to say that none of the Daft Punk albums will be OOP anytime soon, especially not Homework, Discovery, nor RAM
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May 30, 2013 02:37
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mr. stefan posted:The first part of Touch makes a lot more sense if you know its a reference to Phantom of the Paradise, which Paul Williams did the score for (and played a part in.) The part he played is the phantom, right? The scene where he has the mask on and is playing a bunch of synthesizers with a vocoder is the inspiration for the daft punk image, as far as I can tell.
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May 30, 2013 03:28
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mr. stefan posted:The first part of Touch makes a lot more sense if you know its a reference to Phantom of the Paradise, which Paul Williams did the score for (and played a part in.) Making sense and being a piece of music that doesn't make you want to rip your ears off are two very different things. I don't think context helps that song at all.
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May 30, 2013 03:34
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Lechtansi posted:The part he played is the phantom, right? The scene where he has the mask on and is playing a bunch of synthesizers with a vocoder is the inspiration for the daft punk image, as far as I can tell. He sang the Phantom's parts, but mainly played Swan, the producer.
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May 30, 2013 04:23
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mr. stefan posted:The first part of Touch makes a lot more sense if you know its a reference to Phantom of the Paradise, which Paul Williams did the score for (and played a part in.)
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May 30, 2013 04:57
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There's already some amazing remixes floating around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5n5DWdNUMU God. drat. It's only going to get better too. RAM has some GREAT material to pull from, I cant wait to hear Daft Punks remix for this album.
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May 30, 2013 05:09
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Meh, that was pretty boring. I totally agree with you on RAM having great material that will yield awesome remixes, but this isn't one of them. The original actually felt like it had something to say. This doesn't.
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May 30, 2013 05:17
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Yeah i'm already bored of it, but I do like some aspects of it. I'm really interested to see how people turn RAM into a club album.
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May 30, 2013 05:29
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I really kind of like this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7zhvNWVnEc (says it's Daft Punk's version. It is not)
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May 30, 2013 05:29
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I haven't heard an Instant Crush remix that's better than the original, except the original one from the BBC set. They're all really boring or repetitive.
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May 30, 2013 05:32
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Wario In Real Life posted:Not really, no. Actually, yeah, it does. It's a direct reference to the film, and the Daft Punk image and a lot of their ideas on the intersection between technology and humanity in regards to music come from de Palma's film. It's an excellent movie, for anyone who hasn't seen it. By the way, the Paul Williams vocal parts are the best parts of Touch. The build up at the beginning is powerful.
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May 30, 2013 05:53
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Powerful like someone's corny grandpa singing a ballad through his dentures.
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May 30, 2013 07:15
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Wario In Real Life posted:Did you not hear the TRON soundtrack? I never watched TRON Legacy or listened to the soundtrack but I think I will now because those drums are tight.
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slogsdon posted:I never watched TRON Legacy or listened to the soundtrack but I think I will now because those drums are tight. Yeah, rectify this. Immediately. (Hell, there's even a song on the TRON Legacy OST called "Rectifier". Though it's one of the least Daft Punk sounding tracks on the whole thing.)
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