Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

seemingly more than you would about irony

You would have to be ironic first to worry about irony... like rain on a summer day

Or your mum who's a free ride when you've already paid

get lucky is pretty much the most addictive tune ever

Nah, Touch of Grey by the Grateful Dead is.

For what it's worth I think Homework and Discovery are brilliant albums. I can see why some people can't get into Homework as an album though, some of the songs are quite long, generally without any vocal samples and are quite raw sounding beats. Discovery however is a fully polished gem of an album, which quite rightly has elevated them to the level which they're at today. Human after all is a bit dull and the Tron sound track is what it is, generally short ambient pieces to fit with visuals, works with the film but quite boring to listen to (Derezzed is a top tune though). I've got high hopes for this new one, they've certainly had enough time to get the songs right.

After a few listens, Get Lucky has really grown on me. Although every time it comes on I keep thinking it's Chromeo :/

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Album streaming now...

So, I've got a .bin file with the album but want to separate all the tracks and stick it on my phone.

No idea how I do this, though

on first listen it's a bit underwhelming. A LOT slower than anything previously done.....but trying to recreate Homework or Discovery would just be boring. But I feel they've gone and tried to jump on the 80s fad that's around just now. I recon it'll grow on me but it just feels like a Scarface soundtrack tribute at points. It's the kind of album you'd stick on at home with mates, not an album i'd put on before going out to get mashed.

Also for Homework they never actually set out to make an album, just had enough good 'tracks' to make it up. Here feels like they have really tried to make an album but it seems a bit disjointed. As I said I recon on subsequent listens I'll like it. Listened to it on the way to work this morning will give it a bash later properly

Listened to it 3 times now. Once last night and twice this morning.

Was a little underwhelmed myself with the listen through last night but really enjoyed it this morning. It's very 70's/80's/disco, almost to the point of parody at times, but, I can't deny that it makes smile and some of the grooves are just, well, groovy as fuck.

Will it have lasting appeal? Not sure, but for now, I'm digging it. Giorgio by Moroder is so fucking big. Touch is also amazing if not a total cheesefest but it's the perfect lead-in to Get Lucky.

I'm liking it also. Touch is just weird though. Lose Youself to Dance is excellent and Contact is a brilliant closer. It's definitely a grower and will be filed alongside Moon Safari for late night stoned listening. Guy and Thomas have been saying they've been totally disillusioned with dance music and this is them returning to their roots which is why it's so different from previous DP stuff. It almost feels like a side project. I think they've just got older and are making music for the likes of me

I think that will make it the most accessible DP album for me, then I might give another try to the old ones.

Only one listen through, but a bit hit and miss, for me.

Feels like 6 years 11 months has been spent on production and flourishes and a month spent on song-writing.

I like Giorgio by Moroder, Get Lucky, Doin' it Right and Contact.

The rest feels a bit of a mess.

But, it's only one listen through.

Can't get over Touch

I seriously love it. It's like a fat girl with a dairy intolerance whose just found out that certain cheddars are okay; big, happy, cheesey.

Control is also real big although Clash would disagree;

‘Contact’
A spaceman is delivering stilted walkie-talkie banter. Sounds like a sample from the final Apollo mission, mumblings about a UFO. Grandiose organ chords build and massive drums tumble forth. Huge, digitised guitar parts chime as the ascending screech of a spacecraft dominates the sound field. This is fairly agonising. Child-like volume control flicks jar heavily with the lush production on other songs. The overall composition gathers pace, its makers clearly trying to write an expansive club banger; but it's a mess of ideas and sounds dated. Eventually the muttering is lost to the static fuzz of near silence. All three journalists look cautiously at each other before shaking heads at the offer of listening to any specific part or song again.

I think they've completely missed the point. It's hardly meant to be a club banger. Sounds to me like a an album closer- spaceship crashing- END OF ROBOTS.

Some tracks would benefit from being one or two minutes shorter, I know the repetition is their mark but some of the slower ones build to... not really anyhing. Others could skip some uneventful bits in the middle and bring forward the meat.