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[wenis]

pretty great background

 

[Solo]

I see an empty quote box, wenis.

EDIT: n/m, now its there

 

[donkey show]

You say complemented, I say


SWEAT


SWEAT


SWEAT




LOSE YOURSELF TO DANCE!

 

[iDotDotDot]

pretty great background

sweet stuff thx

 

[jett]

Casablancas voice is hit or miss. Plus the new Strokes album was pretty underwhelming. I don't blame Daft Punk for putting his voice through the vocoder; I love the way it sounds on Instant Crush.

And I imagine Casablancas collaborated on the song too, and wasn't just a for-hire voice, so I'd assume that's why the got him on board.

Yep Instant Crush has Casablancas' mitts all over it. I love how his voice sounds through the vocoder btw.

lolno

I'll take each of Give Life Back To Music, Giorgio, Lose Yourself To Dance, Instant Crush, Get Lucky, Doin' It Right and Contact over Touch.

Doin' it Right is easily the weakest track in the album.

 

[Dany]

Well I'm sure we can agree that it shits on Contact.

contact>everything in ram.

 

[jett]

contact>everything in ram.

 

[Error]

1. touch
2. giorgio by moroder
3. beyond
4. give life back to music
5. instant crush

my top 5

 

[hsin]

There were those who balked when I asked if Touch was a great Daft Punk song, or the greatest.

Soon you people will see the light.

I am validating this opinion. Touch is such a beautiful piece of music.

 

[Majmun]

The more I listen to RAM, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that Human After All is the better album

 

[Courage]

The more I listen to RAM, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that Human After All is the better album

oh you

 

[Wind's Howling]

Doin' it Right is easily the weakest track in the album.

Yet I still love it. Guess it shows how great the album actually is.

 

[Error]

the drums in this album are amazing, they sound so clean and crisp. hope they never go back to sampled music, would feel like a massive step back.

 

[overcast]

This is the worst thing they have ever put out. Not terrible to listen to but very Meh.

It's official, they're has-beens. Oh well, nothing good lasts forever.

Have fun living in denial kids who were 7 when discovery came out and are trying to be cool.

Lol. It's okay to not like something man. I'm worried you have some problem with us though.

 

[dmshaposv]

lolno

I'll take each of Give Life Back To Music, Giorgio, Lose Yourself To Dance, Instant Crush, Get Lucky, Doin' It Right and Contact over Touch.

Touch is a DP masterpeice solo, you just need to feels it.

And such feels, they are

 

[Solo]

Doin' it Right is easily the weakest track in the album.

Newp. Take your pick between Game of Love, Within, Beyond.

Doin' It Right is also *the* most infectious song on the album.

 

[Dave Meltzer]

Touch is cheesy and awful. It's also about as subtle as a dog ripping your face off. The lyrics are terrible.

 

[jtb]

Get Lucky is the worst song on the album. Lose Yourself to Dance should've been the first single, but I guess they didn't want the hype to peak too early.

I'm also a Touch hater.

 

[Dany]

Does someone have a link to the earlier version of Contact?

 

[SKINNER!]

contact>everything in ram.

After the very first listen? Yes. It's the track that immediately stood out.
After a couple of listens? Heellll Naw man. Scratch the surface and you'll find greatness.

hope they never go back to sampled music, would feel like a massive step back.

Woah now, let's not get hasty.

 

[Eidan]

I am validating this opinion. Touch is such a beautiful piece of music.

Our numbers grow.

 

[dmshaposv]

Newp. Take your pick between Game of Love, Within, Beyond.

Doin' It Right is also *the* most infectious song on the album.

This i can agree with.

Game of Love is plain boring. I just skip it now. Within is meh and beyond im indifferent towards.

Doin it right isnt perfect, but is much better than those.

 

[jtb]

Does someone have a link to the earlier version of Contact?

https://soundcloud.com/lifelike/cassius-t-bangalter-dj-falcon
go to 2:21

the opening chords are sampled from "We Ride Tonight"

 

[dmshaposv]

Touch is cheesy and awful. It's also about as subtle as a dog ripping your face off. The lyrics are terrible.

Lol every bit of music in this album is cheesy. Touch being the champion of it and pulling it off in grand style.

 

[Solo]

I'd love to see them do some of these tracks live, w/ Nile Rodgers on guitar and live drums.

 

[PBY]

Lol every bit of mysic in this album is cheesy. Touch being the champion of it and pulling it off in grand style.

Pretty much.

Touch is cheesy and awful. It's also about as subtle as a dog ripping your face off. The lyrics are terrible.

And pretty much.

I really love this album, but depending on my mood I either love the cheese or am put off by it. Touch is the worst offender, especially when the horns kick in.

 

[Soma]

Doin' it Right would be good if someone other than Panda Bear was on vocals.

 

[MThanded]

I am validating this opinion. Touch is such a beautiful piece of music.

Cosign.

 

[Dany]

Well I'm sure we can agree that it shits on Contact.

https://soundcloud.com/lifelike/cassius-t-bangalter-dj-falcon
go to 2:21

the opening chords are sampled from "We Ride Tonight"

Thanks! That version sounds good but I'm glad with what RAM is.

 

[dmshaposv]

Doin' it Right would be good if someone other than Panda Bear was on vocals.

Panda bear is great, just not a fan of him halting his delivery for some verses.

On repeat listens, it gets much tolerable and the underlying progression still shines.

 

[Error]

Discovery is full of cheese too. I mean, Digital Love anyone?

 

[overcast]

Discovery is full of cheese too. I mean, Digital Love anyone?

Was just going to say this. Daft Punk is just brilliant at pulling off cheese.

 

[Gav]

I am validating this opinion. Touch is such a beautiful piece of music.

Absolutely 100% correct.

 

[Rastafarian42]

Doin' it right is best song.

 

[Eidan]

touch
i remember touch
pictures came with touch
a painter in my mind
tell me what you see
a tourist in a dream
a visitor it seems
a half forgotten song
where do i belong
tell me what you see
i need something more

kiss
suddenly alive
happiness arrive
hunger like a storm
how do i begin
a room within a room
a door behind a door
touch where do you lead
i need something more
tell me what you see
i need something more

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

Deserves to be on every page.

 

[wenis]

Pitchfork Cover Story Outtakes

Thomas Bangalter on drummer Omar Hakim's playing on the second half of "Giorgio by Moroder": "I remember going to him and humming this really complicated drum and bass programming and he's like, 'Like this?' [makes drum noises] He's doing it exactly like I hummed but like 10 times beyond. It felt like, 'Whoa! What have we been missing being limited by our own programming skills?' He probably only did two takes for that part."

guess the guys are seeing what they've been missing.

Giorgio Moroder on telling his 23-year-old son about his plans to initially meet Daft Punk two years ago: "He had gone to see them at Coachella as a teenager and loved it so much. So when I told him that I was going to have lunch with them, he said, 'I have to come.' I said, 'I don’t know if they want you there.' But he said, 'I don’t care, I'm coming with you.' [laughs] He was so impressed-- now, suddenly, I am somebody to him."

Nile Rodgers on the creative role of a producer/composer: "You can always visualize a producer the same way you would think of Beethoven-- he can write the Ninth Symphony, but he needs a symphony orchestra to play it. So if you're the composer, or the creator, or the curator, or whatever the hell you want to call it, that's what your job is: to give the public the finished work. I like to be thought of as a virtuoso, and I also want to hire virtuosos to do the creative parts that I've constructed. And that's what Daft Punk have done impeccably with this album. The highest form of composing is when your ego is out of the way."

Nile Rodgers on his ability to essentially play both lead and rhythm guitar parts at the same time: "When I was producing a record with Eric Clapton once, I was sitting in the control room and playing the full arrangement for him. I wasn't actually playing what I was going to play on guitar or what he was going to play, but rather an overview of both. After I did it, Eric looked at me and said, 'Nile, what the hell am I going to play?' I laughed and said, 'Man, I'm showing you the whole arrangement, but believe me, I'm not going to play that-- that sounds corny as shit to me. It's the full song, but it's not funky.' But Clapton thought it sounded hip."

Chilly Gonzales on the potential impact of Random Access Memories: "It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever."

 

[Jarmel]

The problem I have with Touch is how messy the later half is.

 

[jett]

My favorite could actually be Give Life Back to Music. Definitely the grooviest track, and it has the best Rodgers licks.

Newp. Take your pick between Game of Love, Within, Beyond.

Doin' It Right is also *the* most infectious song on the album.

Welp, opinions and all that.

 

[Smelly Tramp]

i can appreciate people enjoying this album even though i don't, and it's certainly not terrible, but people saying its better than either homework or discovery after a few listens are just victims of the hype train.

like when people thought mgs4 or gta 4 were good at the time.

 

[Gav]

The problem I have with Touch is how messy the later half is.

Ha, im totally the opposite. The second half of Touch is amongst my favourite parts of the album.

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

The problem I have with Touch is how messy the later half is.

the later half is the best part....

 

[MThanded]

The problem I have with Touch is how messy the later half is.

what?

 

[Eidan]

i can appreciate people enjoying this album even though i don't, and it's certainly not terrible, but people saying its better than either homework or discovery after a few listens are just victims of the hype train.

like when people thought mgs4 or gta 4 were good at the time.

I definitely put it over Homework. Easily. It's Discovery I'm still wrestling with.

 

[cloud_sleep]

pretty great background

Nice. If it's not already taken I'm using it for my avatar.

 

[Snakeyes]

Lose Yourself To Dance is the best track on the album, IMO. Simple, funky, catchy as hell and feels like an awesome spontaneous jam session. <3

 

[jett]

Thomas Bangalter on drummer Omar Hakim's playing on the second half of "Giorgio by Moroder": "I remember going to him and humming this really complicated drum and bass programming and he's like, 'Like this?' [makes drum noises] He's doing it exactly like I hummed but like 10 times beyond. It felt like, 'Whoa! What have we been missing being limited by our own programming skills?' He probably only did two takes for that part."

Dat live drumming. They really won't ever go back to sampled music and drum machines.

 

[dmshaposv]

Deserves to be on every page.

Someone earlier on described touch as "hauntingly beautiful"

Sounds about right.

 

[Solo]

I think my ratings are

1. Contact
2. Give Music Back To Life
3. Get Lucky
4. Lose Yourself To Dance
5. Giorgio By Morodor
6. Doin' It Right
7. Instant Crush

*gap*

8. Touch
9. Fragments Of Time
10. Motherboard

*gap*

11. Within
12. Beyond
13. The Game Of Love

Nile Rodgers is BY FAR the most successful collaborator.

 

[MThanded]

i can appreciate people enjoying this album even though i don't, and it's certainly not terrible, but people saying its better than either homework or discovery after a few listens are just victims of the hype train.

like when people thought mgs4 or gta 4 were good at the time.

When music or games become objective get at me.

 

[Jarmel]

what?

I really despise the sound effects they used for the transitions and the one at 5:40 feels really unnecessary instead of just letting the song finish.