Interesting review.NER wrote:ghettosynth wrote:As a toned down version of your point, I don't really like the album, as I said, I won't buy it. I would like it to be influential, however, and this is largely as a response to Skrillex et al. That said, I'm not sure that I see it happening. It doesn't seem that it's quite strong enough to have a lasting effect. Will people be wanting more EDM that is groovy and features disco musicians? I find that unlikely.NER wrote: Thus far it looks like a lot of people like this album out of spite of Skrillex or EDM. I'm going to bet in 6 months people won't ever want to hear this schlock again. Even the single 'Get Lucky' got extremely old quickly.
Well pitchfork apparently gave it a 8.8/10 for similar reasons.
"So RAM is best appreciated as a counter to these trends." http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/180 ... -memories/
They even said 4 of the songs weren't good. That is 30% of the tracks! What load of crap. I wonder if their exclusive cover story was granted in exchange for a (clearly) undeserved rating?
am I the only person on the internet who doesn't like the new Daft Punk stuff?
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- KVRAF
- 16733 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
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- KVRAF
- 3817 posts since 8 Mar, 2006
A bit late to the party...
listened the new album last week or so...
A bit disappointing and a bit more after the expectation their producer collab mini-documentary videos had created.
A good thing tho, re-listened all (I think) their previous albums and remembered some of their great tracks and the reason I got into Daft Punk's music some good years ago.
The new album.. sure it sound nice and it's "pretty".. some few tracks are quite cool IMHO... but I think it lacks that magical something that makes Daft Punk come alive.
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I recommend:
Human After All
The Prime Time of Your Life
Robot Rock
Daftendirekt
Revolution 909
Da Funk
Fresh
Teachers
Almost all track within their Discovery album too!
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listened the new album last week or so...
A bit disappointing and a bit more after the expectation their producer collab mini-documentary videos had created.
A good thing tho, re-listened all (I think) their previous albums and remembered some of their great tracks and the reason I got into Daft Punk's music some good years ago.
The new album.. sure it sound nice and it's "pretty".. some few tracks are quite cool IMHO... but I think it lacks that magical something that makes Daft Punk come alive.
......
I recommend:
Human After All
The Prime Time of Your Life
Robot Rock
Daftendirekt
Revolution 909
Da Funk
Fresh
Teachers
Almost all track within their Discovery album too!
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- KVRAF
- 12184 posts since 7 Sep, 2006 from Roseville, CA
Never been a big DP fan, but I finally got around to checking out the album and now I see for myself what all the 'meh' is about. Neat idea, but a cheesy execution. And, for some reason, I have this strange urge to smash robots over the head with a vocoder. 
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- KVRer
- 7 posts since 6 Jun, 2013
Forgettable. I guess that;s where the album title stems from primarily, as opposed to suggesting a harking back to a golden age of times past gone by.
I do like that they're getting back to 'real' instruments, and that funk disco thing etc. But Pharrel and the hype, and knowing what they've produced in the past? - A definite massing whopping MEH indeed.
You are not alone my friend. You are not alone. Daft haters UNITE!
I do like that they're getting back to 'real' instruments, and that funk disco thing etc. But Pharrel and the hype, and knowing what they've produced in the past? - A definite massing whopping MEH indeed.
You are not alone my friend. You are not alone. Daft haters UNITE!
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- Banned
- 41 posts since 10 Feb, 2012 from Poland
I Don't listen to the radio and don't watch TV - so i guess im one of the lucky few.
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- KVRian
- 1082 posts since 13 Oct, 2005 from UK
Its not that I dont like daft punk cos I do. Ok , I'll expand on that.......
A)"da funk" is the best track they ever did , and they've never bettered it
B) The Tron soundtrack is brilliant
However , after an 8 year hiatus , I was expecting something sublime , transcendant even , but they return with a disco rehash with nile rogers in tow. Whats next ? A shakatak remix with pans people in the video ?
Unfortunately with these big artists , they have their fanbois who would buy "3 blind mice" if any of these acts released it , instead of saying " actually , you were gone for 8 years. ........I expected something better than disco "
A)"da funk" is the best track they ever did , and they've never bettered it
B) The Tron soundtrack is brilliant
However , after an 8 year hiatus , I was expecting something sublime , transcendant even , but they return with a disco rehash with nile rogers in tow. Whats next ? A shakatak remix with pans people in the video ?
Unfortunately with these big artists , they have their fanbois who would buy "3 blind mice" if any of these acts released it , instead of saying " actually , you were gone for 8 years. ........I expected something better than disco "