thezerofire
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I thought I heard that
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Daft Punk - RAM lOTl - They're nice robots, they chose to stay.
- Thread starter wenis
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Listening to Contact right now
WHAT THE FUCK?! could you be more spot on?
Listening to this album for the second time now, probably The Game of Love or Within.
Everything else is stellar though IMO.
GotchaForce
Member
If I labeled any song safe it would be Instant Crush.
I don't know, the bridge is still fantastic.
slightconfuse
Banned
not feeling doing it right.
weakest for me
weakest for me
Try this direct link. Working on my iPhone:
http://a1.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/000/Features/AlbumStreaming/RandomAccessMemory_DaftPunk.m4p
metalslimer
Member
As someone who typically isnt a huge Daft Punk fan, this album's sound is much more my style. I'm really liking this. Give Life Back to Music the perfect intro track and Contact is the perfect outro.
maniac-kun
Member
Currently listening to Giorgio by Moroder. Love it so far 
This album destroys Human After All. This is actually listenable.
Sadly, Get Lucky.
Hold on, if love is the answer you want.
Hold on, if love is the answer you want.
Hold on, if love is the answer you want.
Touch, sweet touch.
You've given me too much to feel.
Sweet touch, you've almost convinced me I'm real.
I need something more, I need something...more.
Ironically enough, these were the most "Daft Punk" sounding songs on the album which explains why you and many others don't like the album.
Hold on, if love is the answer you want.
Hold on, if love is the answer you want.
Touch, sweet touch.
You've given me too much to feel.
Sweet touch, you've almost convinced me I'm real.
I need something more, I need something...more.
Ironically enough, these were the most "Daft Punk" sounding songs on the album which explains why you and many others don't like the album.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Yeah. Human After All's only redemption is that it gave us some great loops for Alive 2007.
Neffarias_Bredd
Member
I really like it. Seems like it will be very re-playable for me
paradise_circus
Member
it's a pretty good album. can't await the cd release.
The japanese audience is gonna be like "NANI KORE WA? The album isn't over even after this track!? [Contact]"
Damn right it is.
slightconfuse
Banned
Contact is exausting song.
so good.
so good.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Pretty much. Or 808s, or whatever. It's going to cause a rift for sure.
maniac-kun
Member
Is this still digital music when you use live musicians?
Red Blaster
Member
no it wasn't, short circuit was based around a discrete synth riff
contact's a throwaway album track that's obviously geared towards a live show
Yeah, I didn't like HAA all that much either except for a couple tracks which I absolutely adore. Which makes me even sadder that I rank RAM lower than it.
white dynamite
Member
It's so broadway and theatrical that it doesn't even seem in line with the rest of the album. It's a pleasant surprise.
I didn't want to make the comparison after just one listen but yeah... it kind seems like it?
Ah so we are at the point where human after all is so bad it ceases to exist I see.
slightconfuse
Banned
Giorgio is such a great song.
top 5
giorgio
contact
touch
beyond
within
top 5
giorgio
contact
touch
beyond
within
John Rabbit
Banned
so i just finished this. it's not what i wanted, but it's not outright bad either. it's certainly only tangentially an "EDM" record--which whatever, who cares about genres.
the track order on this album is a complete mess; it's so back-heavy. from get lucky (better here than in the radio edit) onward it's mostly solid. the 3-song block of motherboard-fragments-doin' it right is almost perfect and definitely more in line with what i would expect from "the new daft punk album". the way contact ends and loops back into give life back to the music makes me wish the album ended that way. overall the album has no flow, tracks just sort of lurch into one another and the pace is uneven.
contact to me isn't even that great, 6 minutes of endless build with no payoff. and no i don't mean a "sick drop", the song just doesn't go anywhere, it just gets louder and more abrasive. at worst it's reminiscent of "human after all" in that it abuses the same 20 seconds of music for the entire second half of it's duration. if i wanted that i'd listen to the brainwasher, which upon listening to it as i type this, i can totally see (hear?) contact getting mashed up with in a live performance.
overall it's just kind of a limp record to me, slow and meandering on the front-half, wasted potential in the back. the guest performances don't seem to add anything to the album other than simply being an additional "feature" they could (have) use to market it. oh well.
top 5:
motherboard
fragments of time
doin' it right
give life back to music
beyond
the track order on this album is a complete mess; it's so back-heavy. from get lucky (better here than in the radio edit) onward it's mostly solid. the 3-song block of motherboard-fragments-doin' it right is almost perfect and definitely more in line with what i would expect from "the new daft punk album". the way contact ends and loops back into give life back to the music makes me wish the album ended that way. overall the album has no flow, tracks just sort of lurch into one another and the pace is uneven.
contact to me isn't even that great, 6 minutes of endless build with no payoff. and no i don't mean a "sick drop", the song just doesn't go anywhere, it just gets louder and more abrasive. at worst it's reminiscent of "human after all" in that it abuses the same 20 seconds of music for the entire second half of it's duration. if i wanted that i'd listen to the brainwasher, which upon listening to it as i type this, i can totally see (hear?) contact getting mashed up with in a live performance.
overall it's just kind of a limp record to me, slow and meandering on the front-half, wasted potential in the back. the guest performances don't seem to add anything to the album other than simply being an additional "feature" they could (have) use to market it. oh well.
top 5:
motherboard
fragments of time
doin' it right
give life back to music
beyond
EdibleExplosives
Member
Really liked it after the first listen. My opinion always changes on albums after multiple listens, so I have absolutely no clue where I'd rank it against their other albums.
Not sure why people were bugged about the talking part. Doesn't seem to be that intrusive to me.
white dynamite
Member
It's kind of early, but where would you guys rank this among their other albums?
Hard to tell, but it's probably a little behind Discovery but better than HAA and Homework.
VindicatorZ
Member
Instant Crush is by far my favorite. What a fantastic vocal melody in the chorus.
John Rabbit
Banned
it's their weakest, by a wide margin.