Random Access Memories Is A Masterpiece
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- Reflecting on Daft Punk's final album 10 years later.
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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
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It's a love letter to their inspiration and a historical document.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?
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
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
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.
@@DarkTyyp the peak of Contact is brain melting
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.
The song Touch is absolutely insane
They’ve shared that Touch has over 250 different tracks that make up the song
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.
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 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
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
Dude, it's unbelievable this album is already 10 years. Still sounds so fresh.
Can't forget about 'Horizon', the Japanese bonus track, one of the best tracks on the album
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Give life back to music is SUCH a good song.
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.
Was surprised when you put it in B tier for your DP tier list
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.
"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.
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 💀💀💀💀
This record is going to age like fine wine. Still one of the best records of the 2010s
Instant Crush never gets enough love.
Get Lucky is a masterpiece, played to death and it still sounds great whenever its on
10 years later, still a 10/10 album.
I regrettably only listened to bits and pieces of their work before they broke up. I liked them, but I was definitely a casual fan. But when I watched Epilogue, I immediately fell in love with the track they used at the end. That song, of course, was Touch from R.A.M. and it made me finally give the album a listen from start to finish. Not only would I call it my current favorite album, Touch is one of the most life-affirming pieces of music I have ever heard. I've legit bawled my eyes out listening to this song.
Just jammed this album the other day, and it still rocks. It's just timeless and filled with such incredible grooves. Glad it's getting attention
Lose yourself to dance is still my favorite song on that album, it feels endless
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
This album is so important to me. I was in college, struggling for various reasons and this album was on loop for that school year.
It really pulled me through it.
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 CZcams 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
This was a coming-of-age album that defined a new stage of my adult life. For that, it will always hold a warm, nostalgic place in my heart and record collection.
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
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.
It's really been growing on me lately, I appreciate it more and more with each listen
3:08.. Glad you came around on literally, arguably, the best track on the entire album.
Was actually just listening to this today. This and discovery are 2 amazing albums and this album specifically feels like a celebration of music
Every time I come back to Random Access Memories I’m always discovering (pun intended) new instruments and details about the record. Such a phenomenal album, and with it being their final statement, what a way to end their run.
Instant Crush, Lose Yourself, Touch & Get Lucky. My favourite 4 songs run of all time
When this album came out. I was so obsessed with the song "motherboard" & to this day this song has been my ringtone since 2013 (from the mark 4:08). It's like heaven's gates open up, total eargasm.
Yeah. Was beautiful when it came out and still shines as bright. Fragments of Time is one of my favorite Daft Punk tracks and it stands out so definitively from the rest of their catalog. So many tracks just trying to explore different facets of music on this album. It's a celebration just like you said. Happy to be celebrating 10 years later.
I remember hearing a review of RAM by an older musician, and it was so interesting to hear him pick apart the songs and talk about the accompanying artists different styles. Honestly I think the reason it sounds so clean was because of how many other people were involved in this and all of the real instrumentation they used instead of sticking to more synthetic beats like they typically did in their earlier albums. 10 Years later still amazing and one of my favorite albums of all time
My dad is a hobbyist musician and composer. Pretty good one at that. He likes old school jazz, 70s pop, some Latin music, and very little else. He gets pretty gate-keepy and serious about things, and that makes it hard to connect with him on a musical level sometimes. (I typically enjoy the stuff that he likes, but he hardly ever steps out of his comfort zone when it comes to music) Once, I was explaining to him the many reasons why Daft Punk is my favorite artist of all time. He had his speakers set up, and so I played Touch while we quietly listened together. He cried, and cried softly. It was one of the most beautiful and tender moments that I’ve ever experienced with my dad, and I’m so grateful for it. It felt as if in that moment that he understood me a little better, though that song. I’ll never forget it.
There will never be a duo more iconic than Daft Punk, I can’t see anyone being able to fill the vacuum they left behind
It's been my Album of the Summer for the past ten years. An absolute classic.
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 forget just how spectacular this album is. Even the worst song on here is a great one. Near perfect record, a love letter to music is such a good way to put it.
RAM is my favorite album of the 2010s, and it means so much to someone whose dad grew up listening to disco, electro, soft rock, R&B, prog rock and other genres featured on it that Daft Punk helped revitalize and recontextualize after being rejected and/or forgotten in the public consciousness
10 years, and still a great album. Then shortly after, the release of Daftside - Fragments of Time... absolutely a vibe
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.
Yoooo that’s crazy he put out a video about this because I randomly started listening to this without even knowing it’s ten years old. Out of nowhere
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
Just bought this on vinyl I would call it a masterpiece of our time, I’m glad Daft Punk didn’t even try to go further and out do themselves with another album respectively. It’s incredible how many people actually participated on the making of the album shown in the liner notes
It grew to be my fav album through the years. The very essence of life is in there, it feels like this album knows me and everyone and it's just so comfortable of a listen, just incredible
Human After All shines most during their Alive 2007 tour in which they use the HAA tracks as a backbone to the entire set list that also fuses together live remixes of classic tracks from their first two albums. Television Rules the Nation combined with Crescendolls is amazing and immediately had myself questioning my own negative opinion of HAA.
Nile Rogers' guitar rifts here is so cool, it's impossible to not have a nodding head if you hear it.
Get Lucky goes unfathomably hard. *That baseline.*
I just watched your Daft Punk tier list yesterday so this came out of nowhere! Glad you have given it more acclaim.
This was one of my absolute favorites of all time, growing up in high school with it.
One of the most important albums to me that has come out during my lifetime. Very inspirational and motivational.
This album was extremely important to me. I listened to it all senior year of HS when it came out.
When this album came out I was working on the road, traveling to almost every corner around the country I loved. It was the soundtrack to discovering old and new places and just could not have been more perfect. I listened to it for like a year straight. Now when I Access those Random Memories, this album will be it's score, love it.
This album is incredible. I was introduced to it a few years ago and had never really listened to house or dance music before and this was a perfect introduction. Each song is simply incredible. Feels like an album of singles that could've been amazing on their own, but combines to be almost perfect.
can not beleive it has been 10 years. i got heavy into daft punk and electronic music in general in high school. starting making music. then I was obsessed with this album with it came out. would listen to it with headphones in the dark and do nothing else constantly. 10/10 i think motherboard is my favorite track. or Giorgio by Moroder. but the rest are so close behind.
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.
man I remember hearing this album while in school, and that nostalgia factor hits for sure. Overall I really enjoy listening to this album front to back till this day
This album was like discovering a portal which I just passed across and never got back. I remember listening to it at work, and my day became enlightened. It made me smile that day, ten years from now and it makes me smile today. It is the soundtrack of one of the best periods of my life. Represents freedom, friendship, love and music. Still can’t express how important it is, but this is my shot. RAM ❤
Daft Punk just knows how to express a lot of deep emotions, sometimes even without words. This album and Discovery are masterpieces.
Such a great album, crazy to think it has been 10 years
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
Literally listened to it all the way through for the first time last night and you drop this video
Just listened to it on vinyl, it’s a great album
“Marterpiece”
Gives it a 8/10
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'll never forget my first exposure to electronic music was staying up really late at night as a 12 year old and watching MTV's Amp, and being mesmerized by Daft Punk's Around The World. I was like, what is this alien music? It was hard for me to comprehend all this weird electronic stuff I was hearing for the first time. I've never been this huge Daft Punk fan but they'll always be an early memory and basically my introduction to electronic music, so they're special to me for that reason.
the album that I use to test every audio system including head-fi gears for years. it's just "perfect" digitally or analog, excellent hybrid recording. a million dollar recording that sounds like million dollar. I love all tracks but Fragments of Time, it's perfect. if you love the album, get the vinyl record. and get 2.
The overly sterile production quality rubbed me the wrong way when I first listened, especially when compared to the digital rawness of their earlier stuff. But going back to it over these past 10 years, that “over production” almost serves to preserve this album and gives it a timeless quality. Pair that feeling, with the fact that this ended up being their final album. RAM is this perfect capstone to their entire discography. It’s an important album and an all-time classic imo.
This is the kind of album that evokes nostalgia of where exactly you were in life when it came out. It is an absolute classic, and is so visceral to the human experience. Truly a work of art.
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.
It was one of the last big "pop culture albums", I feel like something changed drastically after 2013
RAM is one of the best albums in history in terms of production, composition, arrangement, interpretation, mixing and mastering. Can't describe it yet. My main inspiration to become a music producer. Each time that I listen to it I discover new things that I've never noticed before.
Touch is one of my favorite songs of all time. A true musical masterpiece
Man 10 years. My feelings on daft punk have changed so much over those 10 years. I used to be a very casual listener, really only liking instant crush and get lucky of this record. but as the years have gone by and I've matured more in my tastes, I find myself going back to this album more and more. Starting actually from a video where giorgio by moroder was put to a clip of the regular show, I had to find out what song that was, and that's what lead my on my musical journey to what I feel confident in saying is my favorite album, not just by daft punk, but really of all time.
Random access memories was such an amazing album to end on and I'm glad daft punk got to end on such a high note. Not all artists do.
I remember finding a random itunes gift card on the street for 20 bucks. Surprised it actually worked I bought the first album on iTunes I saw that day. Thank God it was RAM and the impact each song has had over the years cannot be put into words.
listened to it yesterday 3 times. i gave it a 7/10 back in 2013 but i bumped it up to a 9/10 now. this album is incredibly beautiful and has aged very well. think i will buy the 10 year anniversary lp.
I still have a (random access) memory of the week leading to this album releasing. It was also the last week of my sophomore year of high school, and I had made friends with a classmate over listening to music on breaks. I introduced him to daft punk the week before RAM with Discovery and HAA, before listening to RAM on day of release. We then went on summer break and didn't talk in-between that. But when I started my Junior year, I walked by him and all he said was "thank you for introducing me to Daft Punk!", and that was one of the last times we interacted.
Hope he's doing well 🙏
i remember listening to RAM when i was just 10 now having listen to it for a decade my lord it really stands its ground what a brilliant mix of electronic music and orchestral/classical/funk
Glad to see you revisit this, easily one of the best albums I've ever heard. How many other albums can you complain about the production being too clean? As much as I miss the robots, it's hard to imagine topping an album this pure in vision and execution.
Hard agree.
I miss them, so much. I can't argue with their discography. All of their stuff is iconic and influential and, most importantly, great to listen to.
Their last album was a banger.
I think I know what I'm listening to today, thanks melon!
I love Daft Punk so much and this album really did encapsulate everything they are about! The drums in contact are fantastic and always get me racing with energy! Its fun how that track finishes with an intergalactic warp drive kind a vibe and then next time we see them is The Weeknds Starboy and I feel it coming where they are on an alien planet! Damn i miss them so much :(
This record is important to me because it's something my mother and I bonded over... I should revisit it with her, maybe I'll share this. It's a real shame Daft Punk never put out another proper album. Sigh... the strange nostalgia that haunts this record is so sweet and melancholy.
Daft Punk da 🐐 no 🧢
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
My band mates and I were about to graduate college when this came out, so we setup big speakers, hit play, and let it wash over us. It felt like a seminal moment, and I’ll always remember how blown our minds were in the moment, track after track.
Such an amazing time front to back. "Touch" is probably my favourite, though.