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If you do it right
letting go all night
shadows on you
break out into the light...
getting obsessed about this track, just wish the secondary vocal wasn't as annoying.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/5764ccf637/daft-punk-andrew-the-pizza-guy
on spotify now too so i'll have a couple more listens.
I think the whole album needs to be remixed, harder and faster, taking out a lot of the shit bits and making the most of the great bits. I love the way moroder says 'synthesizer' for eg.
Another one who loves the album here... Just waiting for the CD to arrive so I can blast it out in the car!
Must admit it took me 5 or 6 listens on the iTunes stream through before the genius of certain tracks hit me, definitely a slow burner.
asherh - its one of those albums that's best listened to in one go with no distractions IMO. There was an excellent review of it in the Guardian ( i know :-)) that went quite in depth about the background of the album.
Compared to the complete dross being pumped out at the moment i love experimentation. It can either work beautifully or fail on every level. For me this works so so well. 🙂
I got a message from spotify at lunch today telling me it was now available. Never had that before from spotify!
Well , I got it on vinyl today and .....
I think it's glorious. Best sounding record I've heard in a long time. I'd listened a couple of times on the iTunes stream and wasn't 100% before, but I'm completely sold now
Love it
(But then I do love disco, early 80s fm rock and the doobie brothers - if you are wanting a hard and fast dance album you need to look elsewhere )
Popped into Rise in Brizzle today to pick up The National's [i]Trouble Will Find Me[/i] but read this thread while I was having a coffee. Was convinced to give it a try based on those who dislike it so much.
yeah I was after something you know..[b]harder[/b], overall a bit [b]better[/b], there are too many slow tracks (track 4 is awful) so something definately [b]faster[/b] and this is a bit weak so [b]stronger[/b] would also be good.
Get Lucky has put me off listening. However, this is all kinds of awesome:
Got Trouble Will Find Me too! Not listened to that yet though - the National are more suited to a late night listen
It's awesome grevioustim! 🙂
(Although, as it's The National, it should be a 😐 )
Seeing as a mate's record label first brought Daft Punk to the masses back in 94/95 with "Da Funk" you'd expect me to sing the praises of it but i have to say i am seriously underwhelmed save for a couple of tracks, "lose yourself to dance" and "get lucky" which are aided by the voice of pharrell williams. It pains me to say the rest of the album leaves me shaking my head and hoping, just hoping that the coming remixes will be outstanding as i know a few folk who are working on them at the moment so fingers crossed they'll be soundtracking my summer to come.
On a few of the tracks there is nice ear worms of funk and disco that only daft punk can carry off but then they don't progress and develop the few snippets that grab your attention so it's a big thumbs down from me, tiz' a shame as i was so looking forward to it.
Compared to the complete dross being pumped out at the moment i love experimentation. It can either work beautifully or fail on every level. For me this works so so well.
I don't mind experimentation, or whatever, but there's nothing experimental about this, it's just Chic samples, or might as well be, mixed in with laptop generated, fairly predictable dance beats.
For more experimental, I turn to The Knife, or Crystal Castles, recycled 80's disco electro-funk is just so, well, [i]80's[/i].
I've heard it all before, it didn't excite me last time around.
And the producer bloke gushing about it on 6 this morning was just [i]so[/i] embarrassing! He really deserved the American pizza piss-take.
I don't mind experimentation, or whatever, but there's nothing experimental about this, it's just Chic samples, or might as well be, mixed in with laptop generated, fairly predictable dance beats.
Nothing laptop generated about it - the album was recorded "live" using legendary session players
Not saying this means you have to suddenly start liking it mind
Nothing laptop generated about it - the album was recorded "live" using legendary session players
Not saying this means you have to suddenly start liking it mind
Oops.
😆
RIP Romanthony.
Personally quite like the album. Its definitely going to grow very subtly. Probably a lot more depth as you repeat and zone in. However saying that - this is incredible.
I really like the album. I agree it's not like the Daft Punk of old but then I don't want it to be, I'd rather they tried something new than tried to emulate what's been done before, every album has it's place in life and this one is finding its place in mine.
Instant crush - on a permanent loop here 🙂
[i] Was convinced to give it a try based on those who dislike it so much.[/i]
*waves*. 🙂
[i]I'd rather they tried something new than tried to emulate what's been done before[/i]
Yeah, me too. Me too. 😆
Beats the shit out of LanaDelRey DezzieBee 😀
Lana Del-who 😉
It's just a total grower and requires you to not lazily expect Daft punk to churn out the same style of tunes. I personally think its great to see a group move away from what everyone expects and try something else. Stick with it doubters and eventually the light will go on. Giorgio is amazing.
Come on, if it wasn't Daft Punk it wouldn't have even got a release.
Bland bland bland.
It gets better and better with repeated listening.
The refreshing thing about it is that they've clearly recorded the album they really wanted too, the way they wanted to do it, despite taking years, and at enormous expense.
They're happy with it, and they clearly couldn't give a flying one what, you, me or anyone else thinks about it. A refreshingly French approach 😀
Repeated? I couldn't even get through it the first time. Nah, there's way too much interesting new stuff about to repeatedly listen to something boring and nostalgic until it works!
(I keep posting cos I'm quite annoyed at how bad it is!)
What? Don't you like it?!!!
It's BRILLIANT!
Gave it another listen and have come to the conclusion that its a documentary rather than an album. If you were a young North American, into Skrillex, Crapmau5 an ting, then this would be the start point for discovering everything dance music before all that tosh. Otherwise its an interesting listen, but nowt amazing. I'll be waiting to hear some remixes.
Heard it all before and it sounds like this album from the 90's
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The production quality is so good it makes my ears bleed. 😛
I agree mr no eyes dear, the drums and and claps are so crisp and pure, and yes repeated listens brings rewards. It's like a piece of art, one to be admired and repected, pondered and savoured. There's a sense of what I can only describe as melancholy throughout the album, as a cohesive collection of tracks, yes that's it, reflective melancholy but it's not depressive.
I like it and love the moroder track. There seems to be a lot of jean Michel Jarre influence running through the album (in a really good way).
Having had another listen today I'm part way taking back what I said previously. While I'm not giving it genius status just yet, it does benefit from several listens.
Also I didn't realise that it was a bit more "live" than usual Daft Punk stuff 😳
if you do it right
letting go all night
shadows on you break
out into the light
*repeat*
first listen last night
was better than expected after reading this thread
some odd moments, but most Daft Punk albums have that
I reckon it's a slow burner
and Omar Hakim on drums is worth listening to over and over
two listens and I love it already, bar two or three tracks that I've just skipped past (Touch is hard to listen to) but will go back to in case they're growers.
it might be a nostalgic indulgence but it makes me want to just kick back, close my eyes and think of simpler times/ nothing.
reminds me of the 00s, chilling with a stubbie in a chalet in the French Alps after a day of boarding, listening to Air.
Fragments of Time sounds very much like Phoenix, another current fave.
So a few weeks on and no doubt everyone is totally sick of get lucky being played continually.
But has anyone who was initially sceptical changed their mind or or lovers gone off it?
Nope, only listened to it once. Won't be rushing to listen to it again
I'm sure it's getting better and better for those who can't find anything else to listen to!
It's very good.
I listen to other things too.
If you don't like it, that's ok, I won't try and make you feel bad about it.
It's not as good as JLS's first album.
It's good but not a patch on Discoveries. Pharrell has milked the machine.
It has grown on me, really like it, will be reburning a new CD for the car w/out Get Lucky, I actually dislike the lyriks. Can't help find them a bit nasty.
Love Touch, Gorgio & Fragments of Time.
[i]It's not as good as JLS's first album.[/i]
Goes without saying