Daft Punk - Touch (Official Audio) ft. Paul Williams
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Music video by Daft Punk feat. Paul Williams performing Touch. (C) 2013 Daft Life Limited under exclusive license to Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment - Hudba
it's okay to cry, let's cry together
It’s just so sad
I needed this..
😢
GG
im devastated
So, this is actually Daft Punk's “Ending theme”. Gorgeous.
they are great!🥳🥳
Sad
Yea...
Touch as for French Touch
Sad
Touch is probably Daft Punk’s most important song in their discography. It brings in the dance club vibe from Homework, the beautiful melodies from discovery, their improv from Human After All. Also the lore of robots trying to be human in the lyrics. Think the fans need to give this the love it deserves
its the pinnicle of thier evolution of discography, and ill go as far to say the pinnacle of music for it represents life itself
Makes sense why they chose the choir from this song for the final part of their goodbye video. I agree, it encapsulates a lot of what made Daft Punk hit so different. Not my favorite on the album but perhaps the most important.
@@tomvideo6051 Seeing as how Thomas is now composing orchestra says a lot about how they needed to evolve.
I always liked it. Drew you in, kept you there, then the abdupt ending...
Beyond is definitely next up
This song perfectly captures what depression can feel like, what being numbed can feel like, what unrequited love can feel like, what LIFE feels like. God, daft punk is beyond an artist
to have a brief moment to feel "human"
God tier comment
I thought the complete opposite when I first heard this song. How crazy. It feels like hope and remembrance mixed with relief. Always loved it for those reasons. It's a masterpiece from the muses and I wouldn't couple them with a thought of depression on any day.
I heard that this is about the singers joy of sober day's whilst he was an alcoholic
lol wut all those are highly different feelings xD
Good bye guys :'(
nooooooooooooooooooooooo
i'm crying right now. daft punk have been a part of my life since i was in 1st grade.....
Gone but never forgotten.
Goodbye :(
GG
They danced, they produced but most importantly... they cared.
Amen
91. I am 92 like one year after they formed.
@@ggt47 and in 92 they formed a band called Darlin'.
@@ThiagoRamos 😍😭
Despite being robots they were more human than most artists today. If that makes sense
"You've given me too much to feel"
"You've almost convinced me I'm real"
That just broke something in me.
:')
I didn't realise this until I read your comment.. and I'm convinced too that i may just also be real. 🥹
They gave us SO MUCH to feel
Buncha pinnochios innis comment
Because Daft Punk gave us too much to feel
A masterpiece. My wife of 10 years passed away last month and I will be playing this song overlaid a slideshow of my amazing and strong wife at her ceremony in December. We would listen to this on our way to her appointments.
I hug you my friend
My condoleances, I hope this album was a source of comfort for you and her.
Sorry for you loss ❤ stay strong she'll watch you from up there
Rip: Truly sorry friend…..I’m sure heaven has this song playing on repeat, so she will be forever have you in mind.
My condolences... Stay strong brother
2014 ... we had no idea how this song would be used for ...
envie de crever
Just discovered this song today. Sucks that it had to be found upon hearing about the split up.
Simón :(
@@starkamitheater721 : same here!
They were prepared.
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're...
merci beaucoup daft punk!
FOREVER
@@mr.creoman listen to the epilogue, where theres no instrument, and you can listen clearly, "hold on, if love is the answer you are home"
@@mr.creoman you're home
Touch, sweet touch
You've given me too much to feel
Sweet touch
You've almost convinced me I'm real
I need something more
I always heard them saying you're wrong. That really changes this song to being a little less sad now.
@@mr.creoman its on the vinyl too, its "you're home"
This ultimately has to be their magnum opus. Is it their most popular song? No. Is it their most commercially successful song? No. Is it the one that's going to have the longest lasting effect on people and be one of the most well remembered? Definitely.
Rarely are the commercially successful songs considered the best for a good artist. Touch isn’t your conventional, generic pop piece and it’s a crying shame it got overlooked by even diehard fans.
Thankfully, people are finally finding out about the ACTUAL gems in Daft Punk’s discography.
Considering how deeply _Phantom Of The Paradise_ resonated with them, wholly inspiring their leather-clad, helmeted personas, this collaboration with Williams has got to be the perfect bookend to their career.......... they've come full circle. It makes me feel things :'V
The whole albums their magnum opus. This and Giorgio I think were special to the robots though, it's just seems to be
I personally think it’s the greatest song ever to be made with second place not even being visible. And I don’t really even like daft punk that much.
2 years ago today, it happened. Daft Punk will never die.
holy hell...2 years already...and I just listened to this song when I read that Paul Williams did a song with the robotic duo. then this comment I read made it a coincidence that it reminds me that it had now been 2 years.
Damn 2 years already 😳
I cannot even believe it was 2 years ago. Time flies faster than I thought
Now it's been 3 years
What happened?
It hurts so much :(
:(((
:(
:'(
: '''(
:/
:(
" You've almost convinced me I'm real "
this hits hard so much right now.
😟
@@javierescuella9351 seems kinda dubious, what gamecore has written
were they really human after all
Every line hits harder now, we got it
really does
Daft Punk's most underrated song, and the best.
luv this song
The best is true but there’s no way this is underrated. This is a RAM fan favourite along with Get Lucky and Giorgio By Moroder
Musique is a lot more
not sure if its the best, but its goooooooood
My dad passed away week ago. In an accident. I can't stop listening to this. It somehow helps me remember the good times spent with him. It's a shame he won't enjoy this masterpiece again.
))):
Very sorry for your loss I wish you the best of luck and hopefully you can move on from this tragedy
If love is the answer, you're home. Hold on.
I also listened to this song a lot when my father passed away, still do.
OH MY GOD!!!! IM SO SORRY :(
"Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home"
That lyric hits in a different way, especially when it's sung by a choir
Yeah it really does. It has that pure just raw emotion which is what I think they were going for. And I gotta say it worked very well
Even more when you know that one of the members answered on a French TV show the question why did they split with a clip of the movie "Modern times "and the quote " Thanks, if Love is the answer you're home"....
It's says hold instead of home, either way you can feel the intention and it's get deep into you
My bad, it is home, damn that hits
@@ente04 it's hold
Came here after Epilogue.
Goodbye Daft Punk. Electronic music wouldn't be the same without you.
All types of music.
These were real free artists.
It’s thanks to them that electronic music became more mainstream, and with that, you can see their influence in the world with the electronic synth and catchy riffs that many artists employ in their music today.
Their impact is legendary, and will be missed, but if you are sad, don’t be. Music is a better place because of them, so be happy for what they’ve achieved, and look forward to a brighter future. Life ain’t always empty.
The hand symbol used in epilogue is the Peace in PLUR. My money is on 3 more songs. It said 2021 and not February 2021. That’s my guess. We still need Love, Unity, and Respect. Hold on.
@@willmmm9916 could be their way of saying "peace" as a goodbye. Hard to tell
The transition in 5:52 feels as if you've just ascended to the exosphere on a steady rise, looking back at earth with the sun giving you warm light beams contrasting with the rising blackness of the universe.
The stars are closer and closer.
Beautiful.
Thankyou for the beautiful feeling and and the image you painted with your words for me! I Love you, random stranger!
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I mean you wouldn't really feel the sun's warmth as you'd probably freeze to death
@@CobraTopGD sending love to you as well ♥️
I know this comment will get buried, but I gotta put this out there. I remember being 13 years old and stumbling across this song and being completely enthralled by it. A lot was going on at that time and this song helped me put the pieces together.
Over time my taste in music has developed and Daft Punk took a backseat in my playlist. Just today, my 23rd bday, I came across RAM again and decided to give it another listen. I completely forgot this song existed and I got to listen to it all over again and resdiscover it, and I was brought to tears. What a rush. The most effective example of musical storytelling.
Much has changed since then and this song serves as a reminder of how far I’ve come. It’s like a window to the pain and uncertainty of 13-year-old me. Crying to this song again 10 years later feels like holding his little hand. I do what I do for him.
Thank you all for being here and sharing this moment with me. RIP Daft Punk ♥️
That's amazing! The idea of being able to relate to your previous self is such a wonderful thing. I have found old diaries I kept during a challenging time and my heart was breaking reading through the raw emotions I was putting down on paper. I was fortunate to be in a much better place when I found the writings. Hope you can continue to do yourself proud.
I'm the same age as you and tbh I am going through some hard times rn 😭 .
Wait this song is 10 years old?
@@lightnight14 9, it will be a decade old next year
Wonderful story friend. Keep your music alive, and love all around you!
who is here....after the Epilogue video ... crying ? ...
You're not alone
Me
😔😭😭😭
I cant stop crying
Me...
Comments from México, India, France, Germany, USA, Brasil, Russia, etc.....
Daft Punk was something that crossed borders and language barriers. That´s why all the world will miss them
They were indeed all Around the World.
And your comment just reached 100 likes from all over the world too.
That way of spelling Brasil is a dead give away, amigo.
Try Greece..
ukraine, georgia, check
Let's be honest. The whole album is literally a masterpiece. Especially this song.
Their entire discography is masterpieces
It's really the peak
I feel like the Pharrell Williams tracks are good but don't fit the album. Also around the world is too long.
@@GoogleAids maybe but lose yourself to dance still really good
marcy wu from frog show
Those drums starting up at 6:20 followed by the strings and choir is an absolute revelation.
I cry every time I get to that part
It's the peak of their discography.
It's like a much needed hug followed by relieving all your anguish and pain through crying
It's perfect
Best part of the song
Bruh, I'm bawling. Paul William's final verse is like a Eulogy. This is big final credits energy. It's cruel to pick this song, but it's so damn perfect.
yea they definitley ended on a super high note
It indeed was final credits
"sweet" french "touch"
What a fucking masterpiece.
Honestly this should have won record of the year over get lucky
Unreal. Changed into 4 genres at least
@@markgalloway4129 Damn straight. In this Giorgio by Moroder were phenomenal. Hell, RAM for me would be a 10/10 album IF some of the last tracks were trimmed (motherboard and fragments of time). Don't get me wrong, those are fantastic too, but they couldn't match the level of the songs before (Giorgio, Instant Crush, Touch, Within, Game of Love). Doin it Right was pretty sick though.
I'm one of the few people who prefers RAM sonically over Discovery (because I was literally a year old when Discovery came out). So whilst I think Discovery is their most influential work, RAM has a special place in my heart.
@@hagoromootsutski9058 I recall all of the records as I'm 41 lol
But RAM is up there with this as number 1
Tru
0:00 To me, the beginning is like a robot recounting his past. Broken, worn out, forgotten. Consumed by his memories of better times. Obsessed over them. His lost ability to do. To do anything. Finished alongside the world. Unable to do more. Truly at an everlasting end. We dive deeper and deeper into it's turmoil, until we awaken to his past: When the lyrics begin.
1:54 Here, I imagine a cut to the robot becoming conscious. The cadence of the music matching his thoughts at the time. Like a baby born into the world and crying for the first time. Not knowing what his feelings are: Why was he made? why can he think at all? He has a job to do, why not do it without complicating anything? He asks "what do you see in me? i don't make sense." (Tell me what you see, I need something more.)
2:36 The sudden shift in tone is when he sees something and forms an idea of it. How he FEELS about it. It was his thought. What he felt didn't mean anything. Not to anyone but him. His circuits light up. His memory banks open. This dream he was merely forced to witness was HIS now. He looks around more wondering in wonder at how much there really was. Sure, he already knows what it all looks like. what it does. But the captivating thing to him was how HE was seeing it now. The "why?" of it all had overtaken him. He had questions. He wanted them answered. He had PURPOSE. The off-standing researchers watch him eagerly out of sight.
He gets up from his original room, walks to the door to find a hallway behind it. He really understands he is in a facility now, part of something bigger. He is going to find out what it is. what his place in it is.
3:01 Eventually he stumbles toward a room, one the researchers had set up for him to observe and learn. It was full of toys, interactive computer equipment, books and e books.
3:15 But eye-catching to him is a corner full of instruments: a large grand piano in the middle as a center piece. Hesitantly, and eagerly, he approaches it. sitting on the bench, he hits a few notes. unknown to him, he was created with perfect tone. He hits keys. He begins to favor other ones. He finds out which ones sound even better together. Which should come after the other. He lights up, he has purpose. He has freedom. He has something to express it through. At this point, we spin around the scene and cut into the future. He is out in the world, playing in a jazz band. Behind him an energetic crowd and around him talented and understanding band mates. Through here on out, we see various cuts of his life as a professional musician, travelling, playing, something new and exciting always waiting for him somewhere, like it always has been. His craft is approaching perfection. His friends are content. His creators are immensely pleased.
4:17 And strangely it begins to feel different. The same as always, but now somehow different. He hadn't aged. He couldn't. Although he had been sure he could do this forever, it was different now that he actually end up doing it. Off put by this, he watches the world around him happen so quickly. His mind runs millions of times faster then any one person's. He sees the gap between him and others. He is quietly curious of the emotion of "love." He, being programmed to think individually, didn't seem to have his own definition of love. He reflects. His life's spark. To learn. To improve. To belong. It was his love. He would hold onto it. He lived in it, it was his home. His answer. He methodically begins to reassure himself of this, and years fly past him. Band to band, into and out of irrelevancy... decade after decade, century to century, the performing robot. He kept it up all the same, until one day, while simply playing his instrument...
5:36 He does it. He finishes. He wasn't aware he was close, but the moment it had happened he froze, horrified. He had played it all. All of the piano's tunes.
To perfection.
He could no longer learn. He had been taught, had taught, experimented, made mistakes, created genres, made masterpieces in existing ones, and the whole world had seen and appreciated the work and switched to doubt it later. His instrument couldn't bring him more. He finished the tune. Nothing to play. Although he considered running another number, what would that do for him? He needed the new, the exciting, and it had run out, just like that. It would be feeble to try and find more from it. and then a bigger realization: he could try something else, but eventually he would define that thing to himself as well. For the first time ever, he can see an end: what he could find would run out some day. He was not immortal. His love wasn't meant to last.
6:03 His memories begin to be recounted. His first moments in the sun. Fireworks. Award shows. Being booed off the stage. Block parties. Each a new, painful emotion.
But even in this melancholy, he knew he had one option: to begin on his inevitable path. He would perfect it all one day. As he walks away from the now obsolete piano, we begin to see him grow and become more and more, but remember his glaring end along side him. He learns each part of every band, and even plays entire bands himself. He takes it all to the very limit and moves along, hoping to delay the end he will one day reach. He mastered music eventually, his younger counterpart's dream. Then he went to the rest of entertainment and arts. Then education. Then politics. Then so forth. He masters the most basic tasks to the most elite and ambitious jobs in the world. Creating new. Experiencing it. Bloating it in an attempt to satisfy his impossible need. This too became boring. He began menial tasks he would randomly think up. Anything was fair game. Centuries move by. Millenia. He still holds his love dearly. He could still find home.
7:46: But alas, our fated end. His love itself had been mastered. The humans around him could no longer interest him. Many had moved on, like they had before. To the next piece of the universe they could go to survive. He had been along with them many times, each ending the same way. The world was no longer a problem to be solved. He had never brought peace, since such a thing could not be done. He knew that better then anyone. Anything. So here he sits, on this finalized rock. Time was already beginning to repeat itself. He was given the human spirit, along with it a body that would not decay. He was the living embodiment of immortality. But now, he was dead. Fully conscious and aware within his body, but dead. He had killed the human spirit. Realized it's age. He had done it all and then again. Now, on this now dying, spent planet he sat, unmoving. He briefly observed his surroundings again, hoping for a memory error to give him a chance renew something in there, but that had been something he solved and unsolved. It was time. Time to be done. To be complete. He briefly recalls his younger times, which he considered reliving. But it would all bring him back here again, leaving it with no point as well. And with this logical conclusion, he stood, unable to quit. On standby until existence was over. It wasn't enough for him anyway. He needed something more....
TLDR: I like this song. It's about robots n stuff
Honestly beautiful
@@neonproxy3837 thanks, just thought id share
@talkssometimes how did this epic comment not get more 💙? Bravo! Just waiting for someone to make the video you just story-boarded. 🍿
@@HarryDuran thanks lol
that's just an idea i had for an alternate daft punk ending that turned into a standalone thing.
“Home, hold on
If love is the answer
You're home” this line. Always gives me goosebumps when I fall into it. sadness. that’s my feeling. long live daft punk 😢
I always heard it as “if love is the answer you’ll know” and frankly I refuse to hear it any other way, even though it’s wrong.
I really hope that they didn't split due to interpersonal issues. But, regardless, I think they chose this song for the ending because, for those of us who love their music, that's all we need. It's over, but we still have 28 years of music to relish. Done, but not gone.
I think they started doing solo stuff, some for film soundtracks etc. It's not the end of their career.
They chose this song to make us remember that they are humans, to remember the love is the answer, and to let us know they are in home when we hear they music, but mostly, to remember, that's why they put Da Funk at the end of Epilogue
This are my thoughts after hearing "I remember touch" and my way to see the epilogue
I think they split probably because they didn’t get along anymore. Otherwise I feel like they would’ve given us one more album or concert or at least a new video with new footage of them. They’ve probably been split up for some years now.
What i understood from the epilogue is, 1 of them wanted to stop. Seeing as how they are both walking and one of them slows down and stops, as if he's tired and doesn't want to go on.
@@thomaspereira1545 If you look at their latest soundtrack credits (Caspar Noe's Climax for instance) we can guess...
I don’t think the first time I heard daft punk was as important as the first time it really hit me. And this song hit me especially. I had listened to daft punk here and there from what was popular, and get lucky was always playing on the radio. I had gotten curious about the other songs on this album and that’s when I stumbled across touch. It was 3 am and I was 11-12 living in a hotel with a large family. This song felt like a robot, disabled and taken apart in a dark attic suddenly coming alive and talking about how he could feel, and slowly went through the different times of its lifespan. This song was alive and it was the song that pushed me into creating something cinematic only using sounds. I wish I could listen to this for the first time again, and now that daft punk ended I feel empty, but hearing this at the end of epilogue just felt right. Felt complete.
This is beautiful
Well said homie. Bittersweet, but at least we had them for some time.
Hey stranger... Hope your life is happy and safe now. Peace.
It’s a good way to go your memory will always be there nothing is ever the same twice be glad you had that experience
Can’t agree more my friend, this music in the end of the epilogue indeed felt complete.
My dad introduced me to this album. He died 3 years ago. It doesn't feel real sometimes.
With you on that one, brother. My old man died at the tail end of 2021 and it still hasn't properly sunk in. Shows up in about every dream I have, and I still keep thinking to myself that I need to ring him and tell him I finally got a BMW GS. Life is a hell of a thing, man. I'd probably go as far as to say that it's a good deal more horrible than it is nice - but it's better than nothing, eh. Glass half-full, and all that.
I've my notifications turned off so don't bother replying or anything - but I love you, man, and I hope you're as well as you can be.
Our LOVE is with us, within us, it's us. We're now with who we love. So your dad.. he lives in you
feel your loss...
Paul Williams deserves more credit. The man's been knocking out hits for decades on end.
I feel a weird connection to all the other people who came to this song first after learning the news.
PLUR. We didn’t know how much we needed this until today.
We're with you fam 😭
What news ?
@@KaranVerma-rt9ni Daft Punk broke up. This is the song that they used in the end of Electroma (Epilogue).
🖤
Absolute Legends.
One More Time, Boys.
One More Time
Celebrating feeling so free.
One more time! 😎🥳🥳
Anyone with a little knowledge of this band will know why:
a) This is their most important song
b) This is the song they probably love the most
c) Why for Daft Punk is coming full circle to have Paul Williams on the track.
why does
"youve almost convinced me im real"
hit so hard? so raw?
makes me think of someone so desparate for any sign of affection that they would pretend to be anyone else just for that bit of comfort.
"To what end?"
"If love is the answer, you're home."
Thank you guys, for every. single. moment.
I dont want to be that guy but I think it says you hold instead of you're home.
@@Redspark77 ´hold on, if love is the answer, you're home´, according to genius
It;s actually;
"Hold on
If love is the answer you hold"
Edit; But it kind of doesn't matter, song is simply beautiful regardless.
@@Len-- I noticed that genius has that lyrics, I like that version better, the song is beautiful regardless.
@@feandin its on the vinyl, its home
You can't touch music, but music can touch you.
I remember that from Regular Show
Not if i don't give it my consent first
that's blackhole deep
Music is probably more in *touch* with spirit than anything else
"IS SUMMER TIME"
these past 2 weeks have been literal hell and i just can't handle it anymore. my favorite teacher passed away, i'm stressing out too much because of failing my classes, and my gf of a little over a year and half recently broke up with me. i've never felt this down before. it hurts. it really does. i need a break. i need a hug. i need someone. i hate this so much.
I hope you’re feeling better!! Stay strong ❤ 🫂
@@HappyPhantom668 i can't tell whether i'm feeling better or not, but thanks for checking up on me at least :)
Just discovered this song. It's incredible.
❤️ Same here.
Same here
Same
same
Then you're finally home...
The world needed Daft Punk more than ever terribly saddened about this news. Thank you for all the random access memories. Just remember hold on love is the answer your home
What news ?
@@KaranVerma-rt9ni Daft punk stopped, they made an epilogue video
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it...actually no, you can cry, we're all crying.
how cant we cry?
Don't cry because this is a great end, it could be worst. Great end for 2 Legends
“Hold on. If love is the answer, you’re home…”
went through a mental health crisis in 2014 after the passing of my brother. this song genuinely made me feel it was gonna be ok and probably saved my life
I love this song. My mama bought the CD back in the summer of 2013 and would play it in the car all the time. She'd always put it on whenever we went to this chicken place near our house. Every time we'd hope in the car, we'd breeze past green fields and an impossibly blue sky. I'd stare into the sky and space out to this very song. I loved those moments. I really did. I'm just afraid that I'm not always going to be able to look back on them so fondly. I'm afraid it's all going to sink into melancholy one of these days.
But man. I loved those moments. I really did.
‘ nostalgia is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), meaning "homecoming", a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "sorrow" or "despair" ‘
I love the "If Love is the answer you're home" part. That's what life is all about man, it's just Love, that's all it is.
Edit: Holy shit what a timing to comment this just before they announced their breakup. 🤯🔼👁 R.I.P. Daft Punk 😥❤
Damn, you were he to warn us, weren’t you?
it's like you knew what was gonna happen today, pal... this feeling is just
@@aeztral What are you talking about? Did I miss something? 😅
@@pedroaldaco6174 What happened?
@@feelsokayman3959 Go watch "epilogue"...
I used to listen to this song all the time in high school when I was suicidal and completely alone. I felt like a robot trying to remember how to feel, just like the intro. It was a long hard journey, but I held out for love and eventually found it within myself and the friends I didn't realize were there. I haven't heard this song in years. Daft Punk wasn't the biggest part of my life, but hearing their music inspired happiness throughout my childhood and made me feel alive when life felt meaningless. Hearing this song in the Epilogue hit like a ton of bricks. Daft Punk, thank you so, so much. Life will feel different knowing you're not making music anymore, but I know that what you've made will help and bring joy to others forever.
Hey man hope your doing well I’m 11 btw and honestly enjoy your life my childhood is almost up :( 7 more years left
@@Rinshix Come on! Enjoy, every passing day kiddo. I am 20 and wish I was in your shoes, but time inexorably passes. And that's fine.
Do not hurt others, always tell the truth, and stand up straight with your shoulders back.
@@TheMauroTelles ty kind sir have a good day
Damn bro, I'm happy to know you got through your own difficult times
I think I'm feeling almost just like you did
Honestly, it's hard to hear this song without tears in my eyes, and this always was a "problem" for me, I'm just a crybaby lol
Especially when the choir sings "Hold on, if love is the answer you'll know" (wich I just found out, the internet says the lyrics are "If love is the answer you're home", and it doesn't make sense like the first one)
Hope I can get through, just like you did, and can come back here to tell everybody I'm doing just fine
Thank you for your inspiring and encouraging words.
Peace!
As someone touched by asd I relate to this song on weird levels, so i guess i get what youre trying to say at the begining
this in dolby atmos in incredible
I am crying because of this song; touch is such a beautiful thing, it helps us identify what's real on a level that is familiar to us. There are memories, where there is touch. A time where you felt someone else's hand, a time where you felt something cold, a time where you touched something that stung. But love is something familiar to us that we cannot touch, it is a part of us we cannot control, it is ethereal. So for someone to make you feel something different than everything else that you can touch, it almost makes you feel alive, you might even begin to crave it. Some say it's better to love than to never love at all, but if you never loved, then you wouldn't know what it feels like to lose it.
this song is about sex, you know that right, not literally about touch, this song is so good that you cant even comprehend its meaning and its significance to the song. comeback in like 3-4 years
@@tomvideo6051 It isn't about sex. Maybe you should be the one to come back in 3-4 years. The beginning is in reference to Phantom of the Paradised, which was a huge influence on daft punk. The song is about a robot that was human or longs to be human, "I remember touch," and the album title ,"Random Access Memories," are other obvious indicators. So he longs for the touch that he remembers in his memories. If all you took away from this was sex, then clearly you don't understand. Just read the other comments which are all in agreement with what I said.
If that isn't enough here; crazy what a simple google search can do:
"This switches from a love song to disco to a ballad sung by a robot voice and back again. "'Touch' was the first track we started working on and almost the last to finish because it was the most complex," Bangalter told NME. "We recorded 250 tracks to make that one song.
"It's an interesting metaphor for the concept of the album," he continued. "The similarities between the hard drive and the brain. It's about the random way that memories are 'downloaded' into your train of thought. The most important records in music, whether it's Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd, or The White Albumor Sgt. Pepper or Quadrophenia or Tommy, are the ones that take you on a journey for miles and miles."
Sources:
( genius.com/13549374 )
( www.songfacts.com/facts/daft-punk/touch )
( www.reddit.com/r/DaftPunk/comments/1iys4w/what_the_hell_is_up_with_touch/ )
( songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859455862/ )
bro got obliterated
This is probably Daft Punk’s grand masterpiece.
Agreed
Agreed x 2
Agreed x3
Agreed x 4
Agreed x5
Can we just collectively enjoy the passage from 3:26 to 4:16?
These conflicting emotions of deep joy and a sweet touch of melancholy, pain, and sadness...man, this passage hits me every time. My whole body wants to dance but my heart feels like crying. The keyboard, the strings, the trumpets. Perfection.
same. :)
You need to hear it only once, then its stuck with you forever
cette partie a été utilisée pour le générique de la mondaine dans l'émission quotidien sur TMC, une chaîne française
It's bittersweet
i'd like to extend that so it begins on 2:35
I’m so grateful to that US figure skating pair Chock & Bates for using a Daft Punk medley in a competition. Otherwise, I probably never would have discovered this song or “Within”.
Never thought I'd hear this song in Olympic figure skating, but, gosh dang, it was awesome to hear it just now!
Yeah, right?
kinda startled me when i heard it lol
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the soft, tender, emotional vocals by Paul Williams? That slight quiver of his voice makes it so much more heartbreaking and real. He's perfect for this song.
YES. THIS RIGHT HERE!
Agreed; Daft Punk's selection of guest artists was impeccable in RAM.
You are damn right!
such an amazing song writer paul williams too, and he sings with his soul love him
i honestly thought it was elton john for some reason
I’m so sad, I don’t even wanna talk about it.
It's ok bro, it's ok
You are not the only one 🔺
that's seriously a very very very sad news.
😭😭😭
I'm literally crying right now, tears are falling over my screen as I type this comment 🥺😭
3/4/2022
My cat Cleo passed away today. The one sensation of her I'll miss the most is her touch. Her passing was peaceful, and we did everything we needed and wanted to. I miss her already. I think this song really just.. fits today. An epilogue.
rest in peace, Cleo
This might be the greatest song of the 2010's
1000%
5:53 in this part is where all man cry.
We are no men, WE ARE LEGENDS ALONG WITH DAFT PUNK!
true here
True more 6:17
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
And women!!!!
So.. I guess I'm not the only one who's coming here for an after-cry-party.
Group hug?
Yes T-T
Oooh man
So true
❤️
Group hug.
bring it in
@@felipemaruri6905 bring it in T-T
I think I know why they broke up. They dropped one of the greatest albums ever composed on humanity, spent over half a decade trying to come close to it, realized they never would, and decided to dip. Respect
Well after Discovery they made the weak Human After All, but it still has its moments.
@@kapsi what’s interesting is although it IS their worst album (albeit they were rushed like hell from the studio) Alive 2007 was what Human After All would’ve been if done in a timely matter.
Guy-Manuel is really sick
I remember the first time I listened on vinyl. I didn’t want to spoil the album so I waited for it to be shipped and fell in love with this song.
I still get the same feeling as if it were the first time I’ve listened. The goosebumps, the tears and the feeling in my chest.
It gets better. Please love yourself and others. We are floating on this rock in space. It will be okay.
Man, this song lives up to its name.
In my mind _Random Access Memories_ is the story of a person who gradually morphed into a robot, and is trying to listen to old music to figure out how to be human again. It's an allegory for the transformations of the electronic music industry and probably Daft Punk themselves.
It's one of the best albums I've heard in a very long time because of its humanity, and none of it would work without this song.
Dude, I thought I was the only one who thought that...
Give this dude a god damn cookie... seriously... please !
Your comment just made me smile :')
***** That would be an amazing music video for this song like it's a robot who is listening to this song and memories flash before his eyes about the years when he was human about him dancing with the love of his life etc and in the end a tear sheds his face making him look human again
Genar Toma You're a genius man.Also your idea reminds me INTERSTELLA 555 when they were aliens and then transformed into humans to exploit them. They used to remember his past where they were happy . Hopefully Daft Punk listen and heed your idea. Excuse my English, I'm using GOOGLE TRANSLATOR
When I heard this song play at the end of the Epilogue, I literally broke down crying. I remember discovering this song 3 years ago and thinking "Holy shit, why am I just now discovering this?"
Everything from composition, the emotional transitions, the vocals: this song felt like the amalgamation of the human experience and it always had a special place in my heart. To hear it play out seven years later at the epilogue of their retirement, it made me realize that this was just as special of a song to them as it was for me. Thank you for everything you've done.
Hey bud, at least you found 'em.
Same here
This is more than just a song, it is a whole experience, a spiritual and emotional journey. I fell in love with it instantly, and I still think of this song as their magnum opus, their most polished work.
Just be thankful for the experience :) We're lucky
The French Touch effect ;-)
This genuinely is one of their most beautiful songs. A true work of art, you can hear all of the heart that went into the creation of this song
This album is a fucking masterpiece
The comments section is so heartwarming. Music brings people together.
I unifies us. It reminds us that love is one feeling and the true faith. I love you friend.
music. the only thing we as humans did right
@@topibau1475 maybe
@@topibau1475 and dogs
For as long as there's still music, there's still hope.
Their battery was low, and it was getting dark. It was fun.
At least we still got Frank Ocean 😔
@@DukeMcMuscles do we have Frank Ocean doe?
you didn't have to write this 😭
GG
:-(
Kicks my ass every time I listen to this 😭
Sure
It's just an old fashioned love song......Thank you Paul Williams and Daft Punk for being a part of our lives!
daft punk's songs are like fancy space songs from the future where the world is finaly peaceful and everyone's happy.
LOL you got the perfect definition i felt that but you got exactly what i was thinking about
+shannon Bear The ending of this song is ambiguous at best. "Almost convinced me I'm real." "I need something more." And then you have that unresolved chord. This isn't a future where everyone's happy.
Huh
Hopefully that will actually happen in the future.
Interstella 5555
Once a Robot said
"my battery is low and it's getting dark"
I felt this comment in another level, that words of the mars robot makes me sad
The opportunity 💔🤖
That was the first time a robot made me sad
@@oscaravila460 It's actually false
Really sad words 😪💔
This song reminds me of 8th grade more than anything. Brings back the smells and feelings of being a kid without any substances in my body. Part of me would give anything to go back, but I know time moves forward always. I wish I could have happiness, and understanding like that. I thought the pills, powders, syrups, and needles would take me to it but they really just shot me 1,000,000 miles away.
You should try the magic crystals next hoser
@@astralnarovina6782 Not sure what a hoser is but I'll get right on that boy 😂
stop doing drugs
@@thetruecrinkleyjoe4383whatever kinda drug that is, you should stay away
Such a beautiful song. For some reason my heart breaks when Paul Williams speaks the words "I need something more" So desperately lost in sadness.
To feel like there is nothing left but touch to offer solace and peace.
This is a song that will haunt me for a lifetime. Knowing what that feels like to "need something more"
I truly believe this is one of the best songs of all time.
Agreed.
Me too
Same
yes
je suis d'accord
Daft Punk is History. They will be remembered as the greats.
Aphex ddoes not agree
Lyrics
[Intro: Paul Williams]
Touch, touch
I remember touch
Touch, touch
I remember touch
Where do I belong?
Touch, I need something more
I remember touch
I need something more in my mind
[Verse 1: Paul Williams]
Touch, I remember touch
Pictures came with touch
A painter in my mind
Tell me what you see
A tourist in a dream
A visitor, it seems
A half-forgotten song
Where do I belong?
Tell me what you see
I need something more
[Verse 2: Paul Williams]
Kiss, suddenly alive
Happiness arrive
Hunger like a storm
How do I begin?
A room within a room
A door behind a door
Touch, where do you lead?
I need something more
Tell me what you see
I need something more
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge: Daft Punk, Daft Punk & Choir]
Home, hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're-
[Instrumental Break]
[Reprise: Choir]
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're home
Hold on, if love is the answer, you're-
[Outro: Paul Williams]
Touch, sweet touch
You've given me too much to feel
Sweet touch
You've almost convinced me I'm real
I need something more
I need something more
EASILY one of the best songs of all time. A truly transcendent experience.
This song hits different after the breakup
ikr im sad now
Such a very well built song. It's like an emotional journey. At first it's like the idea of "touch" is something completely alien to you, the effect reinforced by the distant robotic effects and voice, you're like a robot with barely any recollection of what touch or feeling is. Then longing arises expressed in a very emotional and human voice. Then the fast, fun, melodic bit is like experiencing the near forgotten emotion, possibly falling in love. Then near the end you experience the beauty of love, expressed by the angelic voices and in the very end it says "you've given me too much to feel", which is a complete contrast to the beginning. And there's also the idea of belonging, home and peace going through the song. Amazing composition. Amazing song.
"You've almost convinced me I'm real" was such a powerful line. This song truely is a work of art.
+Evija3000 perfect evaluation of the song
+Evija3000 You made me cry:)
william lydon Aww :) it's the song not me, but that's a great compliment... well sometimes :)
Evija3000 What you said, i felt a little tear, Daft Punk do not make music, they make emotion you can hear.
I cried listening to this
It's my first time listening to this piece of music. Even in its most rythmic parts it sounds like it wants to play in the background, while at the same time punching a hole on the foreground, merging it with the background. It's like music that plays while dreaming, totally in silence and constant in your ear at the same time. It's incredibly melodic, comforting and tragic at the same time. It's like a hug that really wants to be full, but it's actually empty.
Holy shit
thats what good music is, its immersive.
I know why you're here. It's gonna be alright.
:( thanks buddy
I keep telling myself that but as every day goes on it looks bleaker and bleaker, I’m honestly just thinking about throwing myself off a bridge at this point, every passing day there’s less and less to be excited or happy about, our Government is garbage and corrupt to the core, we’re on the verge of another civil war, Coronas looking like it’s here to stay for along time, the economy is just dead, and everyone hates each other. I’m glad your optimistic but I’m going insane by telling myself that each passing day, and I’m about ready to just call it quits
UPDATE: get this: it wasn’t the end and I survived. Since this comment I have graduated high school, went to college, and have truly made some of the best friends a person can have. I really do thank you all for the concern you have given this comment, I’ll never forget it :)
:(((
:(
will it really be okay?
I'm glad that there's no video clip because I love the one on my mind better.
oh god i love this idea
Unfortunately I can click "thumbs up" only once, because I'd like to give you a hundred kudos for this :)
@@Turionification It's not an idea, up until about 1985 it was simply reality. Imagination and fantasy were still basic part of reality. I am wishing for more artists to arrive recognising the value of that and trying to revive it. Humanity needs imagination to survive. Creating our own reality is empowerment. Rather than just digesting the pre-fabricated spam that's being fed to us.
LOVE
@@hansvandijk9787 I'm not a kid, I have my daily dose of imagination, but I think that saying what he said about a CZcams video it's a revolutionary idea
Same... I've lost count of how many times watching the video ruined the version conceived in my head.
Fantastic album from the greatest musicians the world has ever known
I fear nothing, I’m sending it to her. Wish me luck ladies and gentlemen.
How'd it go, lad?
- So love is the answer?
- Always has been, always has been 🌎
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*drops the gun*
Always will be.
🔫
@@furefee2199 I like it when they said *_around the world_*
Paul Williams was 73 years old when this song was released. Such a soft voice for an old man. he sounds like 23.
omg are u serious? his voice will be immortal af
younebi I had no idea he was that old! His voice has a waver to it, but that’s by no means a bad thing.
lol i had no idea he is that old
You know how he's doing that, don't you? He has a pact with Satan, in which he never grows old, but footage of him ages in his place.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS VOICE ISN'T FROM A MAN IN HIS 20'S?
man, whenever i hear this song i start tearing up. There's just something about the song itself, not even taking into account that Daft Punk is gone.
ig i am very young to say this is the best song of all time but this gem is unforgettable
everytime i hear paul williams at the end sing "you've almost convinced me i'm real" i feel an emotion ive never felt before
Every time? How many emotions have you not felt yet?
@@derrrtee lol
I weep like a small child
I feel u man, there are countless times where i dont even feel real at all, like i really dont exist here so that line hits me hard every single time i hear it, but so does "if love is the answer youll hold, hold on"
Yesssss that line was one of the hooks that got me stuck on this album
If there's a song that could summarize their end, it would be this.
Is this a Jojo reference?!
@@boomyoulookingforthis1362 unrelated but yea
*It was this.*
@@nand87 I think so kid
@@Red-MagicOrchestra K, kid.
This song speaks to the autistic experience. I only wish I would have known that back when I first heard this song.
Oh how I love growing with my music.
It was the only song that made me cry on my birthday...
Thanks for everything Daft Punk...
I love how the the official music videos is just a vinyl. It's so nostalgic. It's almost like how when you are reading a book and then see the movie, the movie ruins your imagination of the book. The fact that daft punk doesn't do any video is precisely why this song makes us visualize the album's story in a way no two people could duplicate. It's truly art.
RECORD it's a Record, Vinyl is the format. UGH I hate when people do that.
While I'm at it the plural for Vinyl is VINYL.
Instant crush has a music video
Dear God. They even have two movies :s
xxCCBBxx i agree but "intertella5555" goes so well with the album. haven't been around the time of the release but when i heard the album for the first time it was exactly how i imagined.
The Bohemian Rhapsody of Daft Punk
yeah both are great 😁
I'd say that's Giorgio by Moroder
@@itsjedu8403 nice 👌
It really is
i actually tought it
"I thought I would never win, even after I found out about your crazy plan"
Future people will consider this is classical music
we do!
YOU ARE WRONG!...
FUTURE PEOPLE WILL CONSIDER THIS FUTURE MUSIC!
I'm from 3005 and yep it is
@@KJ-je9pm that's so cool
Absolutely
Man.. I just love the Daft Punk fandom, such a charming and peaceful community in every comment section I read. No hate, no argueing about wich song or album is best/worse. Just people feeling the love they spread with their music. Thank you..
This is such an underrated comment
Damn thats true, never thought about it.
AAAAAAAAAA SOOO TRIGGERRRRRED REEEEEEEEEEE (nah I'm jk you're right lol)
Well to be fair human after all did suck it gave me a friggin headache
Lol I’m just kidding they are all great man :)
Thank you hope y'all are doing well.
This is basically electronic prog.
Also, William's emphasis in certain words is truly out of this universe, Listen to it carefully, when he wants a word to be the focus and driving force he just DOES IT. The instrumentals are not even worth talking about. 11/10 song on the levels of Purple Rain or A Day in the Life.
A legit masterpiece of an album and no mistake.
Best song of all time.
This is the best song.Makes me cry without tears, only inside.
exept today we're crying with tears...
Hope you're good man
that's seriously a very very very sad news.
if only you knew what was coming
>The calm before the storm