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Daft Punk - RAM lOTl - They're nice robots, they chose to stay.

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flake

Member
So has someone made a 10 hour youtube video of non stop 'touch'? I'd be down.

It always brings a smile to my face when the music kicks in.
 
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Majine

Banned
Mister Negative said:
Can someone please explain to me why people seem to like Lose Yourself to Dance so much? I'm not shitting on people that like it, I'm just genuinely curious as to what makes it so good. I really can't stand Pharrell's singing on it, it seems way too falsetto.
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The way the melody shifts is like porn to my ears. Also Pharrell is not that bad IMO.
 
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roosters93

Member
JAY the BIRD said:
Had a feeling someone would have posted this in here. I made it. Here are two others...

http://rumblephish.deviantart.com/art/Daft-Punk-Poster-2-372109190

http://rumblephish.deviantart.com/art/Daft-Punk-Poster-1-372109057

Loving the new album btw.
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Getting a Blade Runner vibe from the second one. Great work man.

Messypandas said:
So I've been working on this crazy mash-up music video with 39 Daft Punk tracks for like a month in preparation of the album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HwoWE-bbJo

Let me know what you guys think.
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This is great. Genius idea with showing the tracks playing like that, don't think I've seen something quite like that before.
 
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Danj

Member
I notice the OP says this is out in Europe today, is there anywhere other than iTunes that I can buy the digital version?
 
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Owensboro

Member
Messypandas said:
So I've been working on this crazy mash-up music video with 39 Daft Punk tracks for like a month in preparation of the album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HwoWE-bbJo

Let me know what you guys think.
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You made that? Awesome man! I'm no music expert, but I'm enjoying it. I've been having a fun time keeping it in another tab in the background and trying to guess the songs that are mashed up. I'm doing a lot worse then I think I should :(
 
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Martian

Member
Hmm, still my least favourite DP album, but it's not completely bad.

I agree that Giorgio by Morodor is pretty cool (a bit too long for my tastes) and Lose Yourself to Dance is cool as well.
But other than Motherboard, it just feels plain.
It feels like they just through a bunch of sounds together, hoping it would sound well.

The album is probably not meant for me, ah well
 
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gotoadgo

Member
Messypandas said:
So I've been working on this crazy mash-up music video with 39 Daft Punk tracks for like a month in preparation of the album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HwoWE-bbJo

Let me know what you guys think.
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Really well done man.
 
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Dreaver

Member
The Alive 2007 talk on page 42 reminds me how sad I am that I missed that, if there is one concert I could travel (back) to it would be that.. The energy that flows in the songs and visuals/crowd is insane.
 
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gotoadgo

Member
Dreaver said:
The Alive 2007 talk on page 42 reminds me how sad I am that I missed that, if there is one concert I could travel (back) to it would be that.. The energy that flows in the songs and visuals/crowd is insane.
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I am so glad I got to see them in Sydney. Was the most insane concert I've been to. My girlfriend who wasn't even really into them at the time walked out blown away.
I almost missed it too as I had to buy tickets from eBay for it and they never came until the day AFTER the concert. Luckily the chap I bought them off refunded me half the cash(I know but whatever) and called me the day of the concert while I was in a movie to tell me more tickets had been released from ticketek. Needless to say, we never saw the end of National Treasure.
 
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Gav

Member
Dreaver said:
The Alive 2007 talk on page 42 reminds me how sad I am that I missed that, if there is one concert I could travel (back) to it would be that.. The energy that flows in the songs and visuals/crowd is insane.
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I saw it twice, and both were the most incredible nights.

I had a friend turn it down... when it was 6 miles from his front door. I still give him grief over it.

Those two shows were an insane, amazing experience in their own right, but i have made some great friends from them and the weekends of the shows in general are full of memories.
 
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IceCold

Member
My parents had planned a family vacation and only later did I found out I'd miss the concert because of it. Sucks...a lot of my friends went. But I will make sure not to miss their next tour.
 
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mattiewheels

And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Mister Negative said:
Can someone please explain to me why people seem to like Lose Yourself to Dance so much? I'm not shitting on people that like it, I'm just genuinely curious as to what makes it so good. I really can't stand Pharrell's singing on it, it seems way too falsetto.
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The first 30 seconds of that song gives me goosebumps. Its just a fucking serious groove, the stomping and grinding and clapping and that guitar...just get Prince to sing it and it would make more sense.
 
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tanuki

Member
Lose Yourself To Dance is pretty much what I thought the album was going to sound like. It's got the catchy repetitiveness of French House, but done with musicians.

And it's all catchy. That guitar riff. That vocal hook. That robot hook. It's perfect to me.

I also think Pharrell is great on vocals on that one. Sure, you could've got someone better to sing it, but I think he does the song justice. It's going to be everywhere this summer.
 
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Antiwhippy

the holder of the trombone
I keep imagining daft punk doing crotch chops while singing "party on the floor" during Lose yourself to the dance.
 
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Owensboro

Member
Grantland has another good read on RAM up : http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9283113/looking-daft-punk-new-album-random-access-memories

Grantland said:
Its weird mix of champagne-sipping soft rock and lite-funk jazz-odyssey indulgences (all played by distinguished studio musicians instead of computers) is a reaction against the current sound of status quo EDM, which derives in part from Daft Punk's first two albums, 1997's Homework and 2001's Discovery. RAM is uncommonly abundant and moneyed for a contemporary pop record. It manages to be ridiculous in places without exactly being fun. The single "Get Lucky" is definitely RAM's most infectious track; the "Radiolab"-like "Giorgio by Moroder" is definitely not. This will be remembered as the third-best Daft Punk album.

I can sign off on all of that. This leaves two questions open to debate:

1. Is Random Access Memories good?

2. Is Random Access Memories good enough?
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More at the link.
 
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LevelNth

Banned
Silex said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNEKfq0cY0o

Not much to see, but.. that looks fun.
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Not physically possible to watch that and not imagine just how epic Contact is going to be in their next live set.

Grantland has another good read on RAM up : http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...ccess-memories
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That was a horribly overwrought and painful article to read (as is all music critique), but I did agree with the last paragraph:

Where's the future on this record? Random Access Memories posits that (musically speaking) there is no "future" (or "past" or "present"). It's an album where sounds, production techniques, and cultural references once associated with bygone eras are as present today as so-called "modern" music. By merging rockism with dance music, pop with prog, openness with obscurity, human musicians with songs about robots, and every era of 40-some years of popular music in one overstuffed package, Daft Punk has made a record that is unstuck in time and available for whatever context you choose to bring. (My Paul Williams and Comedown Machine might be your Todd Edwards and Herbie Hancock's Thrust.) This is to say, Daft Punk is once again pointing the way forward. We're all robots now, with a hard drive of randomly accessible and increasingly disconnected experiences — only we don't yearn to be human, because we believe we still are.
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Appleman

Member
So... Something is really not sitting right with me in Lose Yourself to Dance, and I can't put my finger on what. I really dig the guitar riff and robotic voices, but it seems like the bassline is... Off a bit or something, kinda like the bass is playing the wrong chord progression... It's weird.
 
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