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Posted 21 September 2013 - 7:25 AM
Absolutely not, you and other music enthusiast who enjoy this album are not in judgement here. I'm just pointing out that casual musical listeners are manipulated by record companies and their marketing partners. All the hype and positive reviews from critics for R.A.M. is only smoke and mirrors. Whether the album sounded good or bad, there was always going to be a positive spin to this album. It was an automatic winner to make a lot of money. So of course it achieved it's desired results. Not that I care about the Grammy's or music awards in general, but I guarantee they are a shoo-in for every category they are selected for.
I've accepted this. I understand this is the way it works when becoming mainstream. Where I become disappointed, is that R.A.M. is sub par. To waste so much attention and effort on a bad album that will influence the masses and give credibility to this mediocre electronic music, is extremely disappointing.
If that makes me an angry teenage music snob, so be it.
I've accepted this. I understand this is the way it works when becoming mainstream. Where I become disappointed, is that R.A.M. is sub par. To waste so much attention and effort on a bad album that will influence the masses and give credibility to this mediocre electronic music, is extremely disappointing.
If that makes me an angry teenage music snob, so be it.
tom_rowlands_chemical_chi, on 08 January 2003 - 8:53 PM, said:
This old man,
he play beats,
He don't need no music sheets,
but with a snip-snip-snippy-snip
gave his mop a chop,
Old man hairstyles are a flop.
he play beats,
He don't need no music sheets,
but with a snip-snip-snippy-snip
gave his mop a chop,
Old man hairstyles are a flop.
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Posted 21 September 2013 - 7:34 AM
Bouh, on 20 September 2013 - 8:54 AM, said:
How many people know nothing about the chemical brothers but galvanize or hey boy hey girl?
Bouh, the pop culture in our respective countries is not the same. I'm sure "Get Lucky" is probably the new national anthem in France by now. Respectable electronic artists get little to no attention here in America. So when a quality group like Daft Punk has the opportunity on a grand scale to influence the the casual listener, only to put out a stinker. It's horribly disappointing.
But seriously guys, I'm done talking Daft Punk. Save your insults and continue to think I'm crazy.
tom_rowlands_chemical_chi, on 08 January 2003 - 8:53 PM, said:
This old man,
he play beats,
He don't need no music sheets,
but with a snip-snip-snippy-snip
gave his mop a chop,
Old man hairstyles are a flop.
he play beats,
He don't need no music sheets,
but with a snip-snip-snippy-snip
gave his mop a chop,
Old man hairstyles are a flop.
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Posted 21 September 2013 - 3:27 PM
OMG BOSCO IS A PHAG! but seriously, you're right that we should leave it there. We're just going round in circles and you'll never concede that I am correct in all things.
On a sad note, I heard Get Lucky this morning and it brought a tear to my eye - I haven't got lucky for a while.
On a sad note, I heard Get Lucky this morning and it brought a tear to my eye - I haven't got lucky for a while.
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Posted 22 September 2013 - 1:08 AM
I cant get over how boring this track is (lose yourself to dance). It goes no where. And yes this is based one what Daft punk I know have done in the past with the production and couldve taken it somewhere more interesting for me.
They had the cheek of teasing the fans of a 1 min preview of this film clip and now they finally release it, and all it is is the preview but goes for 4 mins (people dancing bowing down to Mr. Ego himself Pharell.
They had the cheek of teasing the fans of a 1 min preview of this film clip and now they finally release it, and all it is is the preview but goes for 4 mins (people dancing bowing down to Mr. Ego himself Pharell.
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Posted 22 September 2013 - 1:24 AM
mikl, on 22 September 2013 - 1:08 AM, said:
They had the cheek of teasing the fans of a 1 min preview of this film clip and now they finally release it, and all it is is the preview but goes for 4 mins (people dancing bowing down to Mr. Ego himself Pharell.
Yeah the vid's a bit boring. I think I prefer the unofficial video I embedded back on p16 of this thread.
On a vaguely DP related matter, this weeks NME has a free Franz Ferdinand CD stuck to the front of it. It includes DP's mix of Take Me Out which hasn't been especially easy (or cheap) to find on CD up to now, as far as I know. http://www.discogs.c...release/4925597
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Posted 22 September 2013 - 6:15 AM
skyscraper, on 22 September 2013 - 12:24 PM, said:
Yeah the vid's a bit boring. I think I prefer the unofficial video I embedded back on p16 of this thread.On a vaguely DP related matter, this weeks NME has a free Franz Ferdinand CD stuck to the front of it. It includes DP's mix of Take Me Out which hasn't been especially easy (or cheap) to find on CD up to now, as far as I know. http://www.discogs.c...release/4925597
Did Ben J happen to post it on facebook by any chance? Hilarious.
that remix is basically the original but with distortion from the contact song throughout. WTF (oh and seem record pops and scratches at the start) They need to stop taking lines of coke they can now afford so they can get there heads straight again.
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Posted 22 September 2013 - 9:45 AM
mikl, on 22 September 2013 - 6:15 AM, said:
Did Ben J happen to post it on facebook by any chance? Hilarious.
that remix is basically the original but with distortion from the contact song throughout. WTF (oh and seem record pops and scratches at the start) They need to stop taking lines of coke they can now afford so they can get there heads straight again.
that remix is basically the original but with distortion from the contact song throughout. WTF (oh and seem record pops and scratches at the start) They need to stop taking lines of coke they can now afford so they can get there heads straight again.
I don't follow Ben J on facebook. Please explain. ('following' may be more of a Twitter term but, whatever)
Yeah I never said the DP mix was any good! I bought the 12" blind when it came out (HMV had a blurb stuck to their display copy in the shop saying something like: Buy this, it's rare and it's amazing). I was a bit disappointed when I got home and played it. Mentioned it here in case some DP or FF completists might like to know about the NME cd anyway.
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Posted 22 September 2013 - 5:59 PM
mikl, on 22 September 2013 - 7:15 AM, said:
that remix is basically the original but with distortion from the contact song throughout. WTF (oh and seem record pops and scratches at the start) They need to stop taking lines of coke they can now afford so they can get there heads straight again.
ha yeah one of the laziest remixes I've ever heard! Though I still prefer it to the original!
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Posted 22 September 2013 - 6:50 PM
mikl, on 22 September 2013 - 1:15 AM, said:
Did Ben J happen to post it on facebook by any chance? Hilarious.
that remix is basically the original but with distortion from the contact song throughout. WTF (oh and seem record pops and scratches at the start) They need to stop taking lines of coke they can now afford so they can get there heads straight again.
that remix is basically the original but with distortion from the contact song throughout. WTF (oh and seem record pops and scratches at the start) They need to stop taking lines of coke they can now afford so they can get there heads straight again.
ok, lemme teach you about the remix, it was made in 2004, and that "distortion" sound was from way before contact. That's actually a Juno 106 making that sound, it's like one of their signature sounds, it was used in most of Homework (Burnin' Rollin N Scratchin', Rock N Roll,) and in Discovery (Aerodynamic) and TRON (I forget which composition but it's in one of them, I want to say it's The Fall)
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Posted 22 September 2013 - 8:02 PM
Bosco, on 21 September 2013 - 9:25 AM, said:
I've accepted this. I understand this is the way it works when becoming mainstream. Where I become disappointed, is that R.A.M. is sub par. To waste so much attention and effort on a bad album that will influence the masses and give credibility to this mediocre electronic music, is extremely disappointing.
R.A.M is electronic music now? Really?
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Posted 25 September 2013 - 1:57 AM
Bouh, on 22 September 2013 - 1:02 PM, said:
R.A.M is electronic music now? Really?
In a technical sense, since it involves synthesizers, yes.
But I don't know if you remember this duo called "Daft Punk." They made nothing but electronic music.
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Posted 25 September 2013 - 1:23 PM
MadPooter, on 25 September 2013 - 3:57 AM, said:
In a technical sense, since it involves synthesizers, yes.
But I don't know if you remember this duo called "Daft Punk." They made nothing but electronic music.
But I don't know if you remember this duo called "Daft Punk." They made nothing but electronic music.
Everybody has been using synthesizers from hip hop producers to rock bands. As far as I know they are not categorized as electronic acts, are they? This definition is just wrong.
I just don't get your last point. Are you arguing that R.A.M has to be thought as electronic music because of the previous records that daft punk made?
According to many interviews they did, they wanted to produce a reccord that was different from their previous work.
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Posted 25 September 2013 - 8:02 PM
Bouh, on 25 September 2013 - 8:23 AM, said:
Everybody has been using synthesizers from hip hop producers to rock bands. As far as I know they are not categorized as electronic acts, are they? This definition is just wrong.
I just don't get your last point. Are you arguing that R.A.M has to be thought as electronic music because of the previous records that daft punk made?
According to many interviews they did, they wanted to produce a reccord that was different from their previous work.
I just don't get your last point. Are you arguing that R.A.M has to be thought as electronic music because of the previous records that daft punk made?
According to many interviews they did, they wanted to produce a reccord that was different from their previous work.
unless you count Doin' It Right, and I do hear a lot of synthesizers throughout the album, and some drum machines, so it's a little electronic, but for the most, it's disco. They are doing music that layed the groundwork for Homework, Discovery, etc. Which was mainly disco, but then there was premature electronic music (Giorgio by Moroder, Doin' it Right) influence, so it's technically both.
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Posted 25 September 2013 - 9:42 PM
Mr. Hoosteen, on 25 September 2013 - 10:02 PM, said:
unless you count Doin' It Right, and I do hear a lot of synthesizers throughout the album, and some drum machines, so it's a little electronic, but for the most, it's disco. They are doing music that layed the groundwork for Homework, Discovery, etc. Which was mainly disco, but then there was premature electronic music (Giorgio by Moroder, Doin' it Right) influence, so it's technically both.
They barely used any drum machine on this album except for doing it right. Again, many hip hop producers use a machine drum, it doesn't make them electronic music producers
It's not about what you use but the way you use it. Should we consider the chemical brothers as a rock band since they used some guitar tracks in their records? It doesn't make any sense.
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Posted 25 September 2013 - 10:22 PM
I can't enjoy the album over the sound of everyone talking/posting/tweeting/blogging about it. I'm going to wait until everyone shuts up about it and then give it a solid listen, other people's opinions about music just seem to sour my listening experience of mostly anything and that's definitely the case here. There still are too many opinions flying around about it for me to enjoy it. I feel like I might not be the only one here who thinks this.
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Posted 25 September 2013 - 10:42 PM
Thank you Bouh for correcting me. I'm so sorry everyone. RAM is not electronic music! It is electronic music lite. 
tom_rowlands_chemical_chi, on 08 January 2003 - 8:53 PM, said:
This old man,
he play beats,
He don't need no music sheets,
but with a snip-snip-snippy-snip
gave his mop a chop,
Old man hairstyles are a flop.
he play beats,
He don't need no music sheets,
but with a snip-snip-snippy-snip
gave his mop a chop,
Old man hairstyles are a flop.
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Posted 25 September 2013 - 11:02 PM
tom_rowlands_chemical_chi, on 08 January 2003 - 8:53 PM, said:
This old man,
he play beats,
He don't need no music sheets,
but with a snip-snip-snippy-snip
gave his mop a chop,
Old man hairstyles are a flop.
he play beats,
He don't need no music sheets,
but with a snip-snip-snippy-snip
gave his mop a chop,
Old man hairstyles are a flop.
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Posted 25 September 2013 - 11:08 PM
Bouh, on 25 September 2013 - 11:42 PM, said:
They barely used any drum machine on this album except for doing it right. Again, many hip hop producers use a machine drum, it doesn't make them electronic music producers
It's not about what you use but the way you use it. Should we consider the chemical brothers as a rock band since they used some guitar tracks in their records? It doesn't make any sense.
It's not about what you use but the way you use it. Should we consider the chemical brothers as a rock band since they used some guitar tracks in their records? It doesn't make any sense.
So what do you believe is the right ratio to called it either way?
Daft Punk has been producing electronic based music all along, and even though RAM contains live instrument and funk elements, it still has a fair share of electronic influences and ingredients(among which I'd like to count the style of Discotoo). Or how else would you understand their tribute to Giorgio Moroder if they wouldn't understand themselves as coming "from the electronic" section of music? Furthermore, how would you explain their PR-strategy to produce themselves as robots in a spaceship type of thing with a touch of oldschool vinyl?
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