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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Reflecting on Daft Punk's final album 10 years later.
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To me, Touch will always be one of the best celebrations of music and the powerful emotions it can bring out
I remember touch...........................
nah that joint a lil kept me sane during the full lockdowns
it had been years since the last time I listened to it and I could still remember the lyrics
Touch is indeed the centerpiece I think it’s the best most moving track on the album
God I love Touch. My favorite daft punk track hands down. Legit made me cry the first time I heard it.
It's genuinely one of my favorite songs, but I don't listen to it too much because I want to make every single time an experience, and it also makes me cry lol
Anthony Fantano the only guy who can call an album a masterpiece and give it an 8
when did he say “8/10”?
@@noturboi909 In his review of the album
@@HeyItsBoofy but where? timestamp it
@@noturboi909 bruh he has a previous review, in that review he gave them an 8
@@TuTosRARE then he changed his mind lmao
touch easily one of the greatest daft punk songs of all time
And Contact
Literally my 2nd fav from them, yes i held it higher than Giorgio by Moroder, Around the world, one more time, and Da Funk.
Touch. I remember touch.
The way Touch was used in their goodbye video was perfect. Made the news hit so much harder. It might be my favourite track by then.
@@BraxtonKovary the peak of Contact is brain melting
Dude, it's unbelievable this album is already 10 years. Still sounds so fresh.
Get Lucky and Instant Crush are two of my favorite songs off the album, they still slap even 10 years later!!! Such a fantastic album and one of the best of the 2010s for sure.
Wow its been 10 years
Daft Punk had pretty much a flawless career. Banger album after banger album. They put their entire soul into their really well produced and fun songs
They might be gone but they have all out respect
I will die on the hill that Human After All is actually a GREAT album. I love the consistency and the grime it's got.
@@ricardofigueroa7716 even their weakest projects arent bad
This was the first album I had ever bought. I bought it digitally on Play music using my dad's credit card. The singles - Get Lucky, Lose Yourself.. and Instant Crush were enough to get me hooked. I cherished EVERY SINGLE track. I remember not being as enamoured with the ballads such as Within or Beyond but I soon grew to love them and their places on the album.
I think this album is crafted to perfection. Each production choice, from the way the acoustic drums are processed to the insane effects on the synthesisers, is immaculately executed to create a unique and holistic sound that never wears itself out throughout the album.
I also love the diversity of tracks and how Daft Punk manages to keep the same DNA within each one. Tracks as different as "Fragments of Time" and "Contact" both sound completely different in style and structure but manage to work harmoniously together on this record.
It's a love letter to the past, present and future of music while being distinctly Daft Punk. This is not only my favourite album, but in my opinion, the greatest album I have ever heard.
Without knowing this was coming up on ten years, I had just bought this on vinyl during the weekend and it was a very exciting and nostalgic listen for me. The time period in my life was filled with a lot of teen angst, it was my junior year of high school and things were… weird. As they are for any teenager. The year prior I was getting into Daft Punk, listening to everything they had to offer. And when this dropped, I was floored. It had swept me off my feet. It was on repeat for the next few months, and even a lot of the songs followed me into my adulthood. I was devastated to hear they broke up, but I have some solace knowing they left us with such an amazing piece of art. And you’ve summed up a lot of my feelings about the album here. Thanks for taking a look back! Awesome perspective.
Album so good, songs so identifiable (as you said) that i now have the album script of fragments of time tattood on my right inner forearm. That song, and indeed the entire album encapsulates what I believe music to be. Creating memories and melodies that we can play back forever within our minds until we pass. Absolutely beatiful piece of artistry and a very fitting farewell. The perfect song is framed with silence...
I'd say Niles Rodgers funky funky fun-kay geetar on lose yourself to dance alone makes that song real nice in my book.
Daft Punk just knows how to express a lot of deep emotions, sometimes even without words. This album and Discovery are masterpieces.
Well you said it best, Anthony. 10 years, still a 10/10. Should be a top 100 album for virtually everyone who’s a fan of music
Giorgio and Touch are 2 absolute classics off that record.
Touch is definitely my fav song off this great album
Gust of Wind on Pharrell’s Songs about Girls has the RAM sound too .. masterpiece vibes
🌬💨🎶
One of my favourite tracks ever that I can listen to anytime I want to listen to something is Contact. It never gets old or boring
daft punk are and will forever be my favorite musical artists of all time, the praise for RAM will never get old to me. it’s well deserved and i recommend it to anyone and everyone. a genuine masterpiece in my opinion.
Turn on the first song and sit back. And suddenly everything becomes more beautiful.
Just listened to it on vinyl, it’s a great album
when it came out I thought Giorgio by Moroder was the best track on it, but now I'm older (and with some heartbreak) Instant Crush is indeed the best track.
crazy to think they recorded circa 2009/2010 and had it on hold for 3 years to release on RAM
daft punk forever
Considering its the book end to the album and in a way the final daft punk song, Touch is a masterpiece through and through. Its storytelling is strong, it sounds hauntingly beautiful and serves as a perfect send off to a duo that definitely hold a key in the history of music
Jk not the final song on the album. Welp.
Agreed, the first day this album dropped my friend and I drove to lake Casitas our senior year and listened to this the whole way there and back and that memory is forever planted in my brain
If you guys are looking for a new way to listen to the album, someone mashed it up with MJ's Thriller album, called "Thriller Access Memories". Has some good stuff 👍
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ive never listened to anything from RAM, so before watching this video, i played one song from the album just to kinda get a vibe for it. the song was lose yourself to dance featuring pharrell williams. my immediate thought was "wow this is the first time i've enjoyed pharrells vocals on anything, this sounds incredible." and they do, theyre great. subscribed.
Can't wait for the drop of the full Give Life Back to Music (feat. dog) music video.
I wish both Pharrell songs were on a separate release and the panda bear song was one of the bonus ten year anniversary tracks. Doin it right bummed me out. It starts out so catchy and then nothing happens
My favorite thing about RAM is an anecdote I read online from one of the session musicians. They said the microphone they recorded vocals on cost more than their house.
it just gets better and better with time. aging BETTER than wine. certified classic, fight me.
Throwback to when fantano didn’t even have Touch as one of the best songs
Yeah, 8 wasn’t enough after all!
Touch is a gorgeous song. Makes me cry
Instant Crush is one of the greatest songs ever. I can’t get enough of that track
In college, some friends and I all ate shrooms and took a journey with this album playing -- I'll never forget sitting on a futon with Contact blasting from the speakers....for all I knew, I was sitting in an intergalactic spaceship with colors swirling around me from the drums. The whole album is tremendous but over the years I've gravitated towards Beyond and Motherboard as super underrated deep cuts
hearing touch for the first time made me cry
Superb album. Was in school when it came out - was great then, is awesome now. Love it love it love it
It was strange how daft punk grew up with their reach to me when I was swimming in the pool of electronic music while I didn't really give any focus for them for most of the years.
I just thought that they didn't play out hard enough, even if the craft was like jewelers do with gem stones.
I never met them by the flows of musical rivers.
There is one dudde who basically had my ears for them for all those years.
As they were the easiest to listen while playing games.
Dp asks for me to give them time and thought and I couldn't handle that I would have to betray someone like that.
Still I really want to see someone take a stab and bring a bigger feast on the table of Valhalla, because that's how I would describe their works.
The one I had for my games... They are like fountain of youth, but it's just water. Their name is lapfoxtrax or halley labs, and I just love them.
I think tron goes D just because Tron is such a drag. Seriously having a movie, but only selling it because Daft Punk might have been there. :l
RAM was released during a change of period in my life, just like the drumless edition... It has special place, and not just a rank.
It's next to Gintama, and keeping up appearances. Sure all of these ascended productions have their faults, but I think I wouldn't have seen them without the cracks, because that's what is human. Imperfection, which is perfect.
I'm such a game nerd that I don't really have games to rank. Which is somewhat funny. Runescape is great, absolute beast, but not sure I would place it next to these giants.
I have to place Populous:the Beginning there, and Crash Bash.
what about Mount Eerie turning 10 towards the end of January?
1 - Discovery
2 - Homework
3 - RAM
4 - Human After All
I often think RAM to be overrated cuz being repetitive only works well with House Music
This is one of my top 3 albums ever, literally a perfect way for Daft Punk to end
Love the panda bear feature on Doin it Right
I bent my record needle and have to wait until Saturday to listen to this album the way I like to. Even wrote down the optimal volume, bass, treble and subwoofer settings for this album 😻
Gotta agree with you Melon. I began a vinyl collection at the end of last year and RAM was one of the first records I scooped.
crazy how you talked about this album without mentioning the banger that is touch
Sonically, the album is damn near peerless.
My brother introduced me to this album. Not even close to the music I normally used to listen to. Now my music taste's have completely changed.
Nothing to do with the album, but I love your ads lol so non intrusive and quick, no flashing graphics. Very nice
Have you heard that new Daft Punk single Get Lucky? Sound of the Summer that one
I agree anthony, RAM is the best Paul McCartney album for sure
Still my favorite album of theirs after all this time.
I’m fine with Daft Punk ending their careers with RAM, it feels appropriate as a final sendoff.
What I am NOT fine with is the fact that we did not get a last Alive set mixing RAM. Alive 2007 was incredible and the mixes that came out of that set elevate all of their previous albums into something else entirely. All the songs came together perfectly.
It would’ve been very interesting to see what Daft Punk could’ve done with RAM, as it is such a different project than the rest of their catalog. Guess we’ll never know.
doin it right is unreal. pure magic. i do like the rest. but wow that one kicks.
So I’ve always loved Daft Punk as a child. But I was never into listening to albums. My 10 year old brain just didn’t have the attention span for it. In 2019, I decided to change that. I wanted to listen to albums from artists I’ve loved over the years, and Daft Punk was on my list. And after going through their discog, RAM might be my favorite album from them (tied with Alive 2007)
I agree...you know who also made two masterpiece last decade? The Avalanches
I absolutely love lose yourself to dance. been dancing to that track for a decade
fresh has gotta be one of my fav songs from DP
The only downside this record has is that Discovery exists.
Yes. Yes it is. My fave album of the 2010s.
Instant crush is one of my favorite songs of the decade
Contact is such an amazing track, there's so much to say about it, it's best to simply say it's perfect.
Listen to it monthly
Antonio el Fantas
Human After All is underrated
It has been my favorite album by far since it came out 10 years ago.
RAM is a masterpiece and I’m tired of pretending that it isn’t
Similar to you, more songs are attractive to me ten years later than originally-however, what remains to me is a lack of relistenability. If I listen once all the way through, I love it. But if I go back right away, I'm skipping over quite a bit it seems. But the concept and execution is pretty dang top knotch, and I wish we knew we were getting more of these Frenchies. It's funny to think how they did so much, while somehow also doing so little, as far as number of albums and tours goes.
I come back to Fragments of time on a monthly basis.
Can’t believe it’s been 10 years since. What an amazing album
Same for interstella 5555
Man, you're everywhere, aren't you! ^^
Agreed
My friend in high school had one of the helmets and was on home coming court. Came out to this album with the helmet on, a suit and just dropped it all out. Made being a nerd cool for a moment
It's not that good
The way Daft Punk always managed to respect the genre they were drawing influence from was one of their defining features!
especially as they manage to retain their distinctive features at the same
@@edwilson397 time
Nice take Mr Awesomedude, love your overwatch and GOW clips!
It's a love letter to their inspiration and a historical document. Who else can blend documentary interviews into an LP and make it all work?
It’s crazy how this album to this day seems absolutely timeless
I guess that happens if you release something that doesn’t sound like when it came out
i mean, it was 2013, not fuckin 1973 lmao
because funk and disco itself is a timeless genre.
Discovery is super ahead of its time as well, you can put it on the Radio and still sound up to date.
also the REAL reason it sounds timeless is the immaculate clean production, so props to Daft Punk for that
My God, it has been 10 years?!? I still remember like it was yesterday... album of the year was being given out. Alicia Keys finished up saying the nominees, including Taylor Swift's Red. A reaction camera was fixed on each of the artists nominated. As soon as Keys said "Rrrr" Swift's crew started to stand, then the three best words of the night came out of Alicia's mouth: "Rrrrandom Access Memories!" The look of disappointment on Swift's producers is something I will always remember and cherish. Those old f**ks' became so salty and seem to care about the winner of the Grammy. The only person who was applauding was Taylor. It was glorious.
wow, i had to rewatch the clip again to see it for myself
thanks for that beautiful reminder lol
It's totally fine to be salty or disappointed that a piece of work you spent days or months making didn't get an award you wanted, Not saying Daft punk didn't deserve it but it's totally understandable someone would feel disappointed
That grammy show was in 2014
@@gasmask1408 well, yeah. Just like the Super Bowl for the 2013 season was played in 2014, the same principle applied to the 56th Grammys...as it is with every single Grammy Awards show lol.
@@perplexed1783of course I agree with you, no doubt. I was feeling schadenfreude toward the label executives from Big Machine Recods and the other greedy dudes behind the scenes who were literally sitting behind Taylor Swift that night. Not Taylor herself. The same studio execs/producers with whom she cut ties, arguably for valid reasons (greed and other contract-violating acts). Namely, Scott Borchetta and later, Scooter Braun. Just wanted to clarify a bit.
Honestly, this album was so good it’s no wonder they decided to break up. In their later years, you can see how much they tried (and succeeded) to push new and interesting sounds in the EDM and house space. I don’t think they knew where to go from RAM and decided to let future artists lead the way. They’ve done their job, long live Daft Punk
dont forget all the production work they did afterwards esp all over the weeknd starboy
RAM and like the other two disco singles demonstrated that crazy new "retro" sounds could be adopted by the suits to make money leading to a full decade of reexamining what made real synths and real instruments so appealing in the first place in the "mainstream" and all over the underground
beautifully put. thanks
I was literally just listening to this coincidentally
I think it's a perfect send off to the duo on hindsight, after years of proving their technical ability, they focused on celebrating their influences and you can feel their love of music shine through
I just bought in on CD it's still fucking brilliant.
I personally love Lose yourself to dance, especially the music video
The music video is a classic, you can't beat Nile Rodgers with that fuckin glass guitar jamming like there's no tomorrow
Me too.. the falsetto. To me it was wht I had fun with. Fck the technicality.
God damn right it is.
Instant Crush is one of my favorite songs of all time.
Also apparently there was an experimental version of Giorgio where the monologue was 15 minutes long and god I wish I could experience that
The transition from Contact to Horizon is perfection
As much as it kills me that there'll be no more Daft Punk, "Contact" is one hell of a track to end a career on.
Technically their last song released on the album was Horizon and also they did a collaboration with The Weekend and The Parcels in 2017
It’s no longer Contact, it’s Infinity Repeating now
I remember there being like a limited podcast series coming up to the release of RAM. There was one where Giorgio Moroder talked about walking into the studio to record his lines for the song, it was just him and the recording engineer and he saw three microphones. One was from the 70s one was from the 80s and one was a modern microphone. He asked why he was recording the different parts of the song into different microphones and the recording engineer said that that's what Daft Punk wanted. Giorgio asked if anyone would notice and the recording engineer said "the listener probably won't but they (Daft Punk) will." I might be misremembering this but it's something that's stuck with me about the album.
It's called random access memories the collaborators
@@mythbusta52 an Italian famous movie director had something similar
After many retakes he said
Refill the champagne on all the glasses in every table
But mr director it doesn't make any difference on the big screen no one would notice if those glasses are still sparkling or not with fresh champagne
They wouldn't notice but I would
The song Touch is absolutely insane
They’ve shared that Touch has over 250 different tracks that make up the song
Can't forget about 'Horizon', the Japanese bonus track, one of the best tracks on the album
Went to my normal open mic night, then to Atlanta with a buddy for a stand up competition. Didn't get home until 11 am the next day. I laid in bed ready to pass out but opened Facebook and saw the announcement for RAM. Such a nice and vivid memory. Such a great album
I was 15 back then and I vividly remember following the campaign for the album with huge excitement: the short promotional clips, the little excerpts of Get Lucky, the interviews with the featured artists. I have such nostalgia for that time of my life. It was fine by itself, but that genuine excitement for music really complimented it.
The problem with albums as well-produced as this one is that they might sound a little thin if you’re not listening to them through hi-fi speakers or headphones. I didn’t realize what I had been missing in this album until I listened to it in a car with a high-end sound system. It transformed the album and brought it to life.
Would you say that it "Brought life back to music?"
@@ThisIsVisser Hah good catch.
The album helped me get through my parents' divorce. No piece of music has ever had an effect on me like RAM has, I'm eternally grateful to them because of it.
I guess your parents marriage was like RAM, meaning not permanent (volatile) HAHAHA
@@chune4383 what is your problem exactly
@@chune4383 brutal joke lmao
@@chune4383 lmao bruh wtf
@@chune4383 💀💀💀💀
i love how throughout the album they use this theme of making robotic voices sound extremely human. that statement alone lets the album speak for itself. forever
“Touch” is a perfect example of that. Still gives me chills
Yeah Julians vocals were vocoded and then they tried their best to transform his vocoded voice into a human-sounding one. Big themes of robots achieving humanity while humans lose theirs and become more and more robotic
they're human after all
@@elpis.i applaud you
Yeah, it's the opposite of Human After All, where despite their human element they were glitchy, distorted and almost disturbing, kinda showing the industrial influence. Here we have probably some of the warmest and sweetest robot sounds they've done, like on Beyond or Within
Horizon, the bonus track included in the japanese version, is one of Daft Punk's best songs ever. So emotional. When they announced that the group was over, Horizon turned out to be the saddest and most beautiful outro of any musicians career.
Daft Punk da 🐐 no 🧢
Give life back to music is SUCH a good song.
Was surprised when you put it in B tier for your DP tier list
10 years later, still a 10/10 album.
Get Lucky is a masterpiece, played to death and it still sounds great whenever its on
Instant Crush never gets enough love.
Just listened to the whole album and I loved to death Touch
```ifloveistheansweryou'rehome``` doesn't need any explanation
Also, Giorgio by Moroder is *incredible,* I adore the grand musical voyage it sucks you in and the way it's perfectly put together (also, the monologue is very beautifully inspiring)
Sometimes I imagine how Get Lucky and Lose Yourself would’ve sounded with George Michael instead of Pharrell. I feel like that would’ve been a perfect match.
The year this album released I was 15, almost 16. My buddy let me download it off his Apple Music because he had pre-ordered it. We both decided to hit play on it at the same time and text each other about it. He was an avid fan, I was nearly brand new to DP and this kind of music in general. I'll never forget it, it was something special for me. It legitimately changed the way I perceived and enjoyed music from that moment on. It may sound hyperbolic, but I didn't listen to much music besides the popular radio hits occasionally. This album changed that for me and I'll forever have a special place for it in my heart.
I'll keep saying it forever; The Weeknd biggest, absolute flex was to bag the last 2 tracks ever produced by Daft Punk.
"Giorgio by Moroder" is so beautiful. Moroder's storytelling not on beat with the melody and rhythm gives it life. The cork pop-chef's kiss. The drop-insane. A wonderful way to pay homage to the inspiration with contemporary production.
This record is going to age like fine wine. Still one of the best records of the 2010s
This album is real important to me as I became a huge daft punk fan right before the rollout of this album happened so you can imagine my joy as the teasers were released. Still love this album to this day.
Same here. Heard discovery on RUclips in 2012, couldn’t believe it when only a bit later they had one of the biggest singles on the radio
Grew up with Discovery in 2001, still don't really get RAM. Especially as a long time fan 🤷♂️
That marketing campaign was genius. I mean just a new Daft Punk album would be enough to generate traction, but the promotional stuff really made it all the more special
My dad fell in love with Daft Punk because of this album. He was 52 at the time and pretty much only listened to classic rock.
My classic rock phase is kinda where I fell in love with daft punk so I wonder if that's a pattern or just a coincidence. I think it's a pretty easy path to follow from one to the other though
Lose yourself to dance is still my favorite song on that album, it feels endless
Pee is stored in the Balls is what could have made it a 10 still Great album though.
Get Lucky was one of those radio hits that you couldn't get away from but you would *still* let play out, no matter how many times you heard it. I swear only Daft Punk had that power