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Daft Punk - RAM lOTl - They're nice robots, they chose to stay.
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Douglas Quaid
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This album is a masterpiece. So beautiful, so well crafted. Release day, oh man.
Give Life Back to Music (hell yes Niles), Giorgio by Moroder, Instant Crush, Touch, Beyond, Motherboard, Fragments of Time, Doin' it Right, Contact (epic space symphony, fast and heavy, holy shit), all so amazing! YES!
Give Life Back to Music (hell yes Niles), Giorgio by Moroder, Instant Crush, Touch, Beyond, Motherboard, Fragments of Time, Doin' it Right, Contact (epic space symphony, fast and heavy, holy shit), all so amazing! YES!
Discotheque
Banned
the second half of that is the best thing on this album.
working out to this album? lmao, good luck yo. it's more of a post-workout chill thing.
terribletwo
Member
RAM is hella layered. Impossible to absorb in one day. Probably won't really crack it for a few weeks. Then it will wash over me like a million penises
FTFY
Been listening to all the songs a few times through out the day and it's become clear to me that Touch is the absolute stand out track for me. The thing is I hate the vocals at the beginning so much, but the rest is so haunting and beautiful, it almost makes me cry with happiness. That part at 5:45 is the peak of the album to me.
I always loved the section in Superheroes from Discovery where the synth sounds like it's on an arpeggiator. 5:45 on Touch instantly reminded me of it, then the choir comes back in and the wave of sounds hitting you all at once, it's fucking spectacular. There's a lot of tracks off this album I feel are way better dance tracks that are made for parties or clubs. Touch would never work at a party or club, but on it's own as a piece of music, simply sublime.
I always loved the section in Superheroes from Discovery where the synth sounds like it's on an arpeggiator. 5:45 on Touch instantly reminded me of it, then the choir comes back in and the wave of sounds hitting you all at once, it's fucking spectacular. There's a lot of tracks off this album I feel are way better dance tracks that are made for parties or clubs. Touch would never work at a party or club, but on it's own as a piece of music, simply sublime.
Cheesemeister
Member
Good gravy. "Contact" could be early Pink Floyd.
Now that I think about it this is almost like a new beginning for Daft Punk. I hope they continue to explore the sounds and ideas of RAM in the future.
where the drop at, yo
Some people can't handle chill, laid back music.
where the drop at, yo
Some people can't handle chill, laid back music.
DP RAM...
I can work out to Miguel. Don't do me bro.
MikeHaggar
Member
YES!!!! i'm listening to it right now and thinking the same thing. for those that aren't familiar with that song, it's also the sample for warren g's "regulate."
explains why my chillwave thread is never busy.
Alright, next album to get excited for: Sigur Rós - Kveikur.
terribletwo
Member
"Game of Love" should probably come later in the album tho. I'll probably reorganize the mp3s on a playlist
So, there is a story to the album right? I'm not crazy in thinking that it starts off sad, the robots get rejected, it gets disco-y and happy "You've almost convinced me I'm real", Get Lucky happens and then it starts to get spacey, Contact is when they leave earth.
Or am I just completely off the mark?
Or am I just completely off the mark?
First listen: Give Life Back is somewhat like Get Lucky; taps into disco heavily but is pretty tame and non-offensive. Game of Love is totally elevator music, tribute to the typical 80's love ballads, it seems.
Giorgio is the standout thus far, without too much surprise.
I'm convinced it's the people who can't tell it's elevator music who are the ones who don't know anything about laid back music.
I mean, seriously?
Could be; most albums that are anything above decent have some vague narrative.
Giorgio is the standout thus far, without too much surprise.
I'm convinced it's the people who can't tell it's elevator music who are the ones who don't know anything about laid back music.
I mean, seriously?
Could be; most albums that are anything above decent have some vague narrative.
I don't go by the name IceCold for nothin' man.
I saw it as as build up on the origins of the music, getting into the poppy youth of disco and culminating in the full blown adulthood of what disco became.
then contact explodes and takes us into the future. Wherever that is after this album.
Where is that guy. This album couldn't be further from "entry level". The schism in this thread pretty much embodies how this is nothing like modern EDM.
How are people listening to this? The OP says it's not out anywhere worldwide until the 17th.
*edit* Facebook says that the album was leaked and iTunes is playing damage control by streaming it? I'm sad it was leaked.
AFAIK it was always meant to stream today on iTunes, artists do that nowadays.
i'm probably the biggest Future fan on GAF, and while he's on everything right now, i wouldn't say he's running anything. that could all change w/ his next album though.
BlazingDarkness
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First listen
- 'Within' is pointless, can be removed
- The vocals on 'Touch' are bad, the choir bit and the instruments redeem it
- 'Fragments of Time' is just terrible all round. The vocalist is cheesy, by far the worst track of the album
I'd skip all of those when I listen to it. (I think 'Touch' will grow on me though)
The rest of the album is flawless. Favourites are; 'Game of Love', 'Instant Crush', 'Lose yourself to Dance', 'Get Lucky', 'Beyond' and 'Contact'.
I'd love 'Giorgio' more if it was a bit shorter, cut out the talking at the opening - and 'Motherboard' if it had some robots!
- 'Within' is pointless, can be removed
- The vocals on 'Touch' are bad, the choir bit and the instruments redeem it
- 'Fragments of Time' is just terrible all round. The vocalist is cheesy, by far the worst track of the album
I'd skip all of those when I listen to it. (I think 'Touch' will grow on me though)
The rest of the album is flawless. Favourites are; 'Game of Love', 'Instant Crush', 'Lose yourself to Dance', 'Get Lucky', 'Beyond' and 'Contact'.
I'd love 'Giorgio' more if it was a bit shorter, cut out the talking at the opening - and 'Motherboard' if it had some robots!
Whatever you say mayne.
Chucker said:
There might be a story here but it's pretty subtle if so.
You've had an exchange or two with him lol. You just didn't recognize him because he's not sporting the Cena avatar anymore.
terribletwo
Member
Yah the Giorgio voice over kind of lays it out. He says he wanted to have an album that did a bit of this and a bit of that with a sample of the future
damn Giorgio is one of my least liked tracks
I think Lose Yourself is my favorite track which is weird because I don't like Pharrel on Get Lucky
Whatever the case may be drake is not running things currently. His singles are not dominating the radio.
Damn, what is his username. He went camouflaged.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
I love the progression from smooth jazz a la steely dan to that classic disco sound, then breaking down midway and exploding into this 80s-90s hip hop finale. Though Giorgio's overlaid vocal track kinda kills it for me. It's very neat in this sort of retrospective way, but it weakens my will to listen to it repeatedly on its own.
Dave Metzler? Meltzer? Sorry, Dave, I butchered your name. Please don't reduce me to entry-level user.
Nailed it, such a great post man. I love how every Daft Punk album has a theme and they always strive to achieve the sound of that theme. Look at Discovery and how a good portion of it was inspired by childhood and the lightheartedness of anime.
I dig it up until the hilariously bad slap bass and drum solo stuff
joined, let's do this
what in the blue fuck at doin' it right in second place.
Unless Get Lucky has something particularly new added, Lose Yourself is better by miles.
Within and Instand Crush were also surprisingly good. Giorgio doesn't really seem like the contender for best track on the album anymore.
Contact's constant build up really leaves you with blue balls if you're expecting some crazy payoff at the end, but it's really perfectly designed to mirror a trip up to space, IMO.
When the rocket launches you start feeling the Gs, it gets hard to breathe, you're trying to hold your lunch down in your stomach, you're holding on to your seat for dear life. It just gets crazier and crazier, but once you exit the atmosphere and enter space...silence. You're just catching your breath.
That said, it will burn arenas down when they remix it and/or play it live.
When the rocket launches you start feeling the Gs, it gets hard to breathe, you're trying to hold your lunch down in your stomach, you're holding on to your seat for dear life. It just gets crazier and crazier, but once you exit the atmosphere and enter space...silence. You're just catching your breath.
That said, it will burn arenas down when they remix it and/or play it live.
Moroder + Doin it right as first places = people wanted old Daft Punk
I believe it. Game of Love at 1% makes me sad.