Daft Punk - Human After All

It's not so hard
We're only human after all

Now there was a band.

FAKE.

(xpost OH well, at least I've discovered Alter Ego!)

It was in an rar that I got off slsk. Never been duped there before. It's taken down all ready so no more damage can be done.

also:

(xpost OH well, at least I've discovered Alter Ego!)

-- The Ghost of Dan Perry (djperr...), January 7th, 2005.

agreed.

it gives me yet another opportunity to say, maybe i should just wait...

Personally I've always wanted to make a fake album and release it, claiming it is a famous upcoming release, ever since Nick Sylvester was initially convinced that They Were Wrong So We Drowned was fake.

But, yeh, who mislabels songs on purpose?

wait, you mean it ISN'T fake?

also, i have scarlet fever and am somewhat delusional. I blame it all on that.

I was Daft Punk'd!

I'm reading the record/song title as bittersweet.

i am asusming the fred falke / alan braxe influence will reach fatal proportions on this recording. stevem's suggestion re: slap bass (on the other thread) sent chills up my spine.

Alter Ego - RFI, C/D, S/D etc.

You could probably say the same thing about Homework and Discovery. If they weren’t helping originate waves, they were very shrewd about riding them, and didn’t really mine the same niche twice!

xp it was not what I wanted it to be

at the very least now it's clear that HAA provided the backbone for Alive 2007. It's almost like it was planned that way ahead of time.

I have the suspicion this album was a piss-take.

I do like “Make Love” a lot... it might be the only song in here which doesn’t drive me mad with the absurd repetition and lack of progression, it might also be the only track which doesn’t use that bitcrusher, distorted “yeah” effect sound that is used in every fucking song. Is that a bass ot a guitar thru a pedal? I’ve seen people replicating it with pedals... anyhoo it gets annoying. According to this post on reddit is used 1154 times on the album!

It sounds like a guitar when the effect is longer like on”television rules the nation” but even there I can’t stop not hearing it as a “yeah”.

But it kind of confirms that those “yeah” sounds are a distorted guitar effect cutted up to trigger on a synth or whatever.

It sounds cool alright but not cool enough to be the party trick you keep using all night.

oh for the love of god

you don't get it: it's supposed to sound annoying as shit

I get it, that’s why I think it’s a piss take.

you guys are babies. 'steam machine' doesn't sound annoying it sounds cool as hell

I like Daft Punk, but I don't get why we are supposed to accept them as utterly beyond reproach.

because discovery is fucking awesome

D40 otm

Discovery is the boring album

The poppier they became, the worse they were

RAM is their poppiest album. I have the absolute opposite problem with it in that it's had a lot of the rough edges smoothed off completely, and the glances at experimentalism (Giorgio By Moroder) don't really land well enough to stand up to future listens. It's a strangely forlorn little album for one that spawned Get Lucky. I can't get my head around the idea that Discovery is boring though.

RAM is abjectly terrible

they tricked EDM fans into buying a record that sounds like early '80s Deodato which is hilarious to me

they really have an all-time weird career arc

i appreciate ram as an exercise still, making explicit connections between your music and not just the records but the very context of the records that inspired it ('70s/'80s disco/boogie/r&b played by crack studio musicians and sounding like it was produced by quincy jones)? pretty dope

also makes way more sense as a final record probably

whoever said "fragments of time" -> "doin it right" was a peak for them was correct

the release of ram coincided with me getting really into post-disco and electro-r&b and for that i will cherish it as like a talisman or a prism forever

RAM is definitely one of those albums where every track individually sounds pretty great but I cannot get into it at all as an album. by the time "Game of Love" comes on I want to put on literally anything else

it is an enormous unwieldy album experience for sure

whoever said "fragments of time" -> "doin it right" was a peak for them was correct

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 24, 2021 10:42 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sup

The poppier they became, the worse they were

I agree with this take at the same time as I think Discovery is their best (really only) album.

whoever said "fragments of time" -> "doin it right" was a peak for them was correct

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 24, 2021 10:42 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sup

― J. Sam

X3

well at least a couple of people came to praise DP not to bury them

Agree that RAM is a bit much to digest in one go despite being made up of some strong elements.

It veers wildly around in mood,so that even the more ebullient moments harbour a twinge of defeated melancholy. One minute we're being invited to Give Life Back To Music, but immediately having the wind taken out our sails with the sad robot music of Game Of Love. This happens throughout, and I'm never quite sure if I'm really meant to be losing myself to dance, or if this is a reverse bathos going on.

i think there are several reasons why it doesn't matter whether you think an album released in 2013 works as a consistent piece beginning to end

or an album released in 2005 even if we're just going to randomly access threads

Does the year it came out matter? One of the things I like about Discovery is how well sequenced it is, which is further cemented by how it was used on Interstella 5555

RAM has the best sequencing of all their albums!

yuman after yall

Xp maybe the second half, but I find the sequencing of the first three tracks really odd and jarring

So, I spent an evening editing this down from 45 to 30 minutes, which was surprisingly easy given its loopy, minimal nature. No song is longer than 4 minutes, and some songs like Emotion, The Brainwasher and the title track sound a bit less wanting as they express their core ideas more concisely. I took maybe one creative liberty on a transition, but other than that the edits almost feel completely natural.

Here's a link if anyone's interested:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AeBYVJiThQafBqqtp28CKmShiOsqcqfD?usp=sharing

Downloading now. Sounds interesting

Well that was enjoyable. Definitely felt like an easier listen and less like I was being pummelled into submission in certain places. That said, in others I missed the pummelling, particularly on the first two tracks which I always liked just fine. I did enjoy the artistic liberty you took with Prime Time (I think) though, that was fun

🤮

Thanks! The creative liberty I think I was referring to was the edit to only a single "Technologic" before the first drop instead of four. The fact that didn't actually stick out as noticeable is a victory I think hah.

Re: PTOYL, it was the hardest song to edit, because it's the only one on the album I actually enjoy its full length for the most part. However, I forced myself to get it below 4 mins just to see, and was able to slice out the 2nd half of the intro successfully. Flows better now I think, but I did cut out the part with the most personality. I still think most people casually listening wouldn't even notice. It's basically an album of radio edits.

Thanks for the work - this is kind of reminiscent of the Rex the Dog compilation.

god this album is so dope

The perfect anxiety album. I've written about it as such n' all

20 years ago today

"make love" is all time for me

my enduring memory of this was when it leaked 9 months early and everyone thought it was fake only to be bitterly disappointed when the real thing came out

the Alive 07 mixes/re-workings/mashups totally saved these tracks for me.

ya as soon as I saw the tracklist my first thought was "oooh, that'll probably work really well"

I once expounded 3,300 words on why this is my autistic depression comfort album

"robot rock" sign of poor judgment imo

relistening to "make love" it is indeed good

something abt this being 20 yrs old really shakes the marbles outta me