Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

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I think they're being savvy about building up hype enough to ensure big first week sales.

They sort of feel like the biggest band in the world right now. I know they aren't, but maybe they should be.

when I heard the bit of this lucky song on the advert a while ago with the vocoder bit I thought he was singing funky and now it becomes clear he's singing lucky and I am not buying this record

the snippet of the video with pharrell and nile is refreshingly atypical of 2013 music video look/feel

otm

also no anime thank god (worse thing they ever did, 100x worse than tron)

Nile listening to the track on hps is pretty genius. The whole campaign seems scripted like clockwork. Can't wait to see how it progresses from now on

there is something about the unexpected shot of pharrell, centre-stage, smiling, that reminds me of the crash zoom into leonardo dicaprio's face in the django unchanged trailer. it works out really well though. he flexes into the shape of disco vocalist very smoothly.

so the album cut of this is gonna be 6 minutes long; I can dig it.

8- Nile Rodgers (Guitar), Pharrell Williams (Vocals) - 6:07

is the vocoder being modulated by Pharrell's voice *and* Nile's guitar?

what is this i'm feeling
if you want, believe i'm ready (?)
ahhh-ahhh
we've come too far
to give up who we are
so dance, raise the bar (?)
and our cups
to the stars
she's up all night till the sun
i'm up all night to get some
she's up all night for good fun
i'm up all night to get lucky
we're up all night till the sun
we're up all night to get some
we're up all night for good fun
we're up all night to get lucky
we're up all night to get lucky
we're up all night to get lucky
we're up all night to get lucky
we're up all night to get lucky

kinda weak but i don't hate it

http://www.ysl.com/en_US

the chorus is vmic for Daft Punk

The way he sings the "we've come too far" bit is amazing.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-daft-punk-reveal-secrets-of-new-album-20130413

I can't stop listening to this clip, it's amazing.

ugh ugh ugh so good

The album's move away from computerized sounds reflects Daft Punk's "ambivalence" about the EDM craze they helped to inspire.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

1. "Give Life Back To Music (ft. Nile Rodgers)" 4:34
2. "The Game Of Love" 5:21
3. "Giorgio by Moroder (ft. Giorgio Moroder)" 9:04
4. "Within (ft. Gonzales)" 3:48
5. "Instant Crush (ft. Julian Casablancas)" 5:37
6. "Lose Yourself To Dance (ft. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)" 5:53
7. "Touch (ft. Paul Williams)" 8:18
8. "Get Lucky (ft. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)" 6:07
9. "Beyond" 4:50
10. "Motherhood" 5:41
11. "Fragments of Time (ft. Todd Edwards)" 4:39
12. "Doin' It Right (ft. Panda Bear)" 4:11
13. "Contact (ft. DJ Falcon)" 6:21

no idea the veracity of that

i love that there's already a backlash

Ronan, I am the Gerard hassling u on twitter btw, tbh and iirc

backlash? if only ...

nice clip, this will be good. for those in a daft punk mood who don't know, there is a movie on the pirate bay https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8346219/Daft_Punk_-_Alive_2007_by_Jarodc
"Live concert of Daft Punk at Bercy for the tour Alive 2007"
it is entirely made of clips filmed by the crowd's handheld devices. it sounds good, looks a bit worse than the concept on paper but i liked it. one great bit: at one point, part of the crowd were making pyramid signs with both hands in the air.

They sort of feel like the biggest band in the world right now. I know they aren't, but maybe they should be.

Everything's lined up almost too perfectly... This could very well be the case within a few months.

FWIW. I mean, for all I know Skrillex is the biggest band in the world, but I don't know what the even means anymore. I guess it can be gauged by how many people it can attract to a live show?

I think the hype is hilarious but in all seriousness I hope for the best and they'll obv make a better "current biggest band" than Mumford and sons.

Cival-war-wave is the 80's metal to Random Access Memories' Nevermind. lol

consumptioncore

i hope they really go with the poor carl carlton approximation thing tbh

i think the second line pharrell sings isn't "if you want, believe i'm ready" but "IF YOU WANNA LEAVE, I'M WIT' IT"

On the real tho, turning the practice of staying out all night in the hopes of getting laid on its ear and making it sound elegant instead of desperate it a pretty spectacular achievement.

like watching the end of a party through smoke a waterfall

i kind of hope this is the video for the song, just skateboard p, nile, and the robots jamming in the black

black and gold is agl.

i think this could still fall a little flat, like there's a risk of it being a retro pastiche and the parts not really adding up or making sense, those lyrics have me a little worried and i'm not that impressed w/ pharrell's vocal. but then the chorus has a lovely melody and nile jamming is still just the best thing in the world. i'll definitely enjoy this fwiw.

putting casablancas on this album is an amazing troll

i'm up til at least 9:30 to get lucky

feel like if they had a good diva collaboration they could have really knocked this out of the park. but then i would. xp

xxpost -- Glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.

care to explain?

They've never used a female vocalist have they? I know a lot of their vocals are fairly androgynous but it's still a bit weird

i like julian casablancas' voice, i don't think it's a troll as much as it feels a little focus grouped to me, like let's do a real album with all these real musicians, gotta include the strokes guy and the animal collective guy. hmm idk. anyway, i hope they gave todd edwards carte blanche.

They've never used a female vocalist have they? I know a lot of their vocals are fairly androgynous but it's still a bit weird

― Number None, Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:38 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It is kinda weird!

"High Life" seems specifically female, but yeah, I'd never thought about their general lack of female vocals before.

well how many guest vocalists did they have before this album?

just Romanthony and Todd Edwards

yeah, that objectification of male sexuality in French electronic music has always been interesting to me (it's pretty much the vibe to all French house/disco, but also Air's "Sexy Boy", Talkie Walkie... and I suppose the sensibility includes a lot of continental house/disco/techno guys as well... tho nobody does it like the French). def a vibe that would code differently for mainstream America