The Music Thread

[Wardenclyffe]

Giorgio by Moroder really liked that song though. Along with Get Lucky (Pharrell Williams I do like) as well as Contact but everything else...:(
To be honest, I honestly didn't know what to expect so I can't say I'm disappointed and I don't consider the other songs to be bad. What would you say is good about the album that I may have over looked?

Despite the fact that Daft Punk's claim to fame was how far they pushed the limits of producing EDM in house (meaning they didn't use a studio, they literally made their music in Thomas Bangalter's bedroom), they've decided that there isn't enough of the human touch in EDM anymore. As a result, they've made this album to reflect upon what made them want to make music in the first place, and made bringing back the west coast feel of the 60's and 70's music to present day EDM their main objective. They took their token style into the studio and for the first time used actual instruments, something that's practically unheard of in EDM these days.

I'm sure by now you know how many big name artists they've brought in to work with, so I won't go into that. If you don't know about who they've brought in, watch their series of short interviews with everyone (except Julian Casablancas, front man for The Strokes) they worked with on youtube. This album is basically a huge throwback, a love letter composed of funk, to the origin of funk/dance/electronic music. If you listen to the album knowing that, I think it will make a huge difference.

One thing I really enjoyed about this album is that unlike previous Daft Punk albums, no two songs are really the same. Homework's, Discovery's, and Human After All's tracks all fit within the same self contained genre. You can listen to Homework and say "Around the World and Phoenix are cut from the same cloth". Just about every track in Discovery shares the same hyper dancey tones and cut-up sampling. But with RAM, you can't really compare most of the tracks to each other. "Get Lucky" and "Lose Yourself to Dance" are easily the most similar to each other. But now try comparing "Get Lucky" to "Touch", or "Give Life Back to Music" to "Motherboard". Aside from the heavy use of vocoders (another thing I absolutely loved about this album), comparing each track is basically an apples to oranges situation.