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When I bust out the record to listen to while I make my lonely meals for myself I'll usually go with either side 2 or side 4. Contact just sounds so awesome with the full room for the song to breath. People who only listened to the itunes rip of it and wrote it off as scratching whiny noise are really missing out.
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SeXReX posted:People who only listened to the itunes rip of it and wrote it off as scratching whiny noise are really missing out. Well some of it is scratching whiny noise, and that's why it's so good 
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Uhh, guys... http://mcmangos.bandcamp.com/album/gangnam-access-memories  e: Oh my, the Giorgio one is clearly the best of all of them. My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everyone calls me Psy. e2: Okay, maybe not. The Doin' It Right one is also a strong contender for best one here. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Jun 16, 2013 |
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Jun 16, 2013 09:43
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I don't want to live in a world where Daft Punk and Psy is mashed together. :|
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RAM is not what I wanted but I can't say it doesn't make sense for them. They started out as a band. I also don't like that they worked with not disco legends but that's not a real complaint either. Album is average for me. Doin' It Right and the track with Giorgio are my favorites.
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Jun 17, 2013 07:20
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-Inu- posted:Because I like to see other people enjoying music from some of my favorite artists? Crazy poo poo, I know. It's also notable because daft punk has never had this much mainstream success before. Ah yes. Noted underground, low-key artist Daft Punk.
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Jun 17, 2013 14:34
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Nail Rat posted:Ah yes. Noted underground, low-key artist Daft Punk.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Nice false dichotomy there. I'm not sure what circles you run in, but most people I run into at work and such don't know who Daft Punk is when they ask what I'm listening to. But since it's apparently a cardinal sin to want Daft Punk to enjoy a larger following even if they're already larger-than-unknown, I guess I'd better grab my rosary and atone.
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Jun 17, 2013 15:12
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I "run in the circle of" a world where they had sold two million records before they headlined Lollapalooza(hint: this means they're mainstream and people know who they are) and created the soundtrack for a big budget Hollywood action movie. Those two million sales mostly coming after the onset of online piracy. They have always been known in the mainstream. I could find some groups of friends, I'm sure, where not one of them knows who Arcade Fire is. That doesn't mean Arcade Fire isn't huge. It doesn't mean you can't be happy for them but this isn't like some local underground rapper just blew up and is doing a number one single with Snoop or something.
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Jun 17, 2013 15:13
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Daft Punk is enormously famous and you're deluding yourself if you think differently. They're huge.
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Jun 17, 2013 16:06
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All I know is my brother just bought the album yesterday (a physical cd nonetheless) and he NEVER buys music, let alone daft punk. He's not into house music , but he LOVES this album. So their audience grew for sure.
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Jun 17, 2013 16:46
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I know Im late on this but I finally picked up the vinyl the other day. There are still a lot of tracks I skip every time but this album has largely grown on me (ie. i finally get it - some might recall i kinda hated it at first). That being said, this is one of the best sounding records in recent memory. The master is drat sweet, as is the artwork. The inner gatefold synth art is so cool (will add a pic when i get home) and I like the oldschool label-oriented look of the stickers on the actual records. Those are the kinds of thoughtful touches that I expect from modern vinyl. All around it is very nice package and was worth the (rather high) price tag.
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Jun 17, 2013 16:57
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Yeah over the past couple of weeks I've had really out of left field people tell me they really like this album. Chief among them being my parents who listen to Disney park music, lady gaga, easy listening rock and C&C music factory. Actually I guess that kind of makes sense in hindsight.
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I was never the biggest Daft Punk fan but I finally got a chance to listen to the whole thing this past week, and I was really let down. It had the occasional moment to it, but overall I found myself barely caring. I really like how "contact" went sorta nuts and built up, but that was the only song on the album that kept my interest all the way through. Everything else felt at least a minute too long and repetitive. I haven't listened to Get Lucky that much ( <10 times) but even by the album listen I was getting bored by it, and outside Contact Get Lucky was the only song I sort of liked. Nothing felt terribly fresh, it just sounded kind of self indulgent. I was really disappointed. I really don't get the love. I'll have to try it a few more times before I'm secure in that opinion though.
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Febreeze posted:it just sounded kind of self indulgent. Thank you, until now I've been unable to pinpoint what exactly I don't like about it. I was expecting the grandfathers of disco/funk house to come back with Discovery 2, or close to it, in the form of amazing samples backed with the likes of disco legends. Not saying they should have done that but I was sure they would. With french house finally making it's way to the US via people like The Phantom's Revenge, Solidisco, J Paul Getto, etc. it only made sense that Daft Punk would come back and rip a hole in the universe with the best french house in years. Instead they went with something more marketable and I cannot blame them. Bit of a letdown is all.
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Jun 18, 2013 23:18
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I would pay many dollars to hear Hall & Oates cover Fragments of Time.
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Yeah, even now that the album is grown on me, I still skip half of the tracks. Give Life Back to Music, Instant Crush, Lose Yourself to Dance, Get Lucky, and Fragments of Time are all great to me though. Contact is a cool closer but I stand by what I said about how that Japan bonus track (despite being an obvious Air pastiche) would have made a good denouement after Contact to wrap the album up.
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thathonkey posted:Yeah, even now that the album is grown on me, I still skip half of the tracks. Give Life Back to Music, Instant Crush, Lose Yourself to Dance, Get Lucky, and Fragments of Time are all great to me though. Contact is a cool closer but I stand by what I said about how that Japan bonus track (despite being an obvious Air pastiche) would have made a good denouement after Contact to wrap the album up. You don't like Game of Love/Beyond? You crazy
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yeah beyond is awesome. The intro seems out of place, but the song itself is one of my favorites. "Remember, love's our only mission. This is a journey of the soul"
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an skeleton posted:You don't like Game of Love/Beyond? You crazy Those I am pretty neutral on so I will give them a few more spins and get back to you.
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Jun 19, 2013 02:38
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http://youtu.be/pyU1hymk6no i like this remix. Kanye and some tweaks to the tempo. Pretty neat.
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Jewel Repetition posted:Here's something cool: This was really cool and I feel compelled to track those songs down now.
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I think I ruined this album... well, not ruined but just that I was reading the Steve Jobs biography when this came out non-stop and well, all the songs bring back certain chapters of that book to mind each time. From the sad stuff when he was dying to the upbeat songs when poo poo was going good.
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Jun 19, 2013 05:23
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Vintersorg posted:I think I ruined this album... well, not ruined but just that I was reading the Steve Jobs biography when this came out non-stop and well, all the songs bring back certain chapters of that book to mind each time. From the sad stuff when he was dying to the upbeat songs when poo poo was going good. I did this with Joe Hill's NOS4A2. So creepy child-kidnapping monsters pop into mind sometimes while listening. Thanks, Joe Hill!
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somnambulist posted:http://youtu.be/pyU1hymk6no
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Get Lucky jumped up this week. Sitting at #2 in the US now! Also, RAM went gold. Good week for Daft Punk. Just need a #1 and a platinum now. http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1567379/robin-thickes-blurred-lines-remains-atop-hot-100-chart edit: fixed link/typos because phone posting is poo poo -Inu- fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Jun 20, 2013 |
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Awesome! I have been giving the album a rest but I may spin it again today in celebration.
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-Inu- posted:That off time kick drum is driving me up a wall. Seriously, that fucks up the entire premise of it being a DJ re-edit or whatever, I can't believe that dude would release it like that.
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Nicolas Jaar remixed the entire album. He's played around with the track order, so if you've never heard of Nicolas Jaar I'd recommend starting with Beyond as that's the most accessible. The first two tracks are pretty much just experimental noise, so stay away from those if you're not into that kind of thing. Everything after that is gold though.
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Jun 21, 2013 10:42
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drat, that's good! I think I'm starting to like the remix of Get Lucky more than the original song though.
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Man, that is one sweet remix!
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Goddamn. That beyond remix. Fffffffffff. Funky as hell. love it.
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This might have been posted early on but I was just reading this interview with the Mick Guzauski who engineered and mixed Random Access Memories and I found it very interesting in regards to how the album was recorded/mixed and why it sounds so tasty: http://www.sonicscoop.com/2013/05/27/icons-mick-guzauski-on-engineering-and-mixing-daft-punks-random-access-memories/ I hadn't really payed much attention to Daft Punk after Human After All so I'm having great fun getting acquainted with Alive 2007. It sounds weird to say but I'm really proud of the guys and how they have manifested Daft Punk throughout the years.
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thathonkey posted:I know Im late on this but I finally picked up the vinyl the other day. There are still a lot of tracks I skip every time ...
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I really want an entire album of stuff like Fragments of Time, it's just so funky and spacey and relaxed 
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It's called Hall & Oates, dude.
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It's also the Doobie Brothers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJe1iUuAW4M
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This album keeps growing on me. I've loaded it quite a few times with the intention of only listening to my favorite tracks and ended up playing the entire album. I think that the album would benefit from a track re-ordering but it's still quite strong as is. Like a lot of other people I love Giorgio (especially when the strings kick in halfway through) and Contact. I don't know much about electronic or dance artists, so who should I listen to if I want to hear more of those styles?
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kalensc posted:This album keeps growing on me. I've loaded it quite a few times with the intention of only listening to my favorite tracks and ended up playing the entire album. I think that the album would benefit from a track re-ordering but it's still quite strong as is. I can't think of artists that fit the styles of those songs, really, except maybe Giorgio Moroder (his stuff for Donna Summer and probably other stuff) for Giorgio, and for some reason Contact reminds me of Justice. I just recently heard their first album, Cross, for their first time and it is pretty good stuff.
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