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How much different is "Get Lucky" from Haddaway's early 1990 hit "What is Love?" used as the backdrop for a hilarious SNL sketch featuring Chris Kattan? Not very! The record is part disco, part progressive rock, part space rock, part funk, part dinner-theater, and part psychedelic. So will most of the rest of this lavishly produced thought-inducing party album that proves if you want to give listeners a good time in the digital age, it is still possible. Musically, it will have those who lived through the 1970's scratching their noses.
#Daft punk random access memories best vinyl records manual#
The album opens with an anthem: "Give Life Back to Music", which is almost an instruction manual for a disengaged from music generation imploring them to "Let the music in tonight/Just turn on the music/Let the music of your life/Give life back to music" And if you're old enough to remember this time period, you are guaranteed to have an endless flow of random access memories as well as of the sad fact that we now live in a basically joyless, on-the-cheap world.
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There's not much here to engage the mind in the lyrics (other than on a few tracks like "Touch" and the finalé "Contact" which features a clip of astronaut Gene Cernan's spotting of what appeared to be a UFO) but in today's dead from the neck down world, though the body is in need of engagement and this record offers that plus a constant flow of "ear-delicious" sonics in the form of Liberace-lavish production and arrangements. Everything was laid down to both analog tape and to digital, with the final choices made based upon which sounded better to all concerned, including mastering engineer Bob Ludwig. The two guys (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) reportedly spent upwards of a million dollars of their own money producing this record, which was recorded at Henson Recording Studios, Conway Recording Studios and Capitol Studios in California, Electric Lady Studios in New York City, and Gang Recording Studio in Paris, France (where most of the vocals were recorded). Other than the Vocoder-processed vocals, this album played mostly on real instruments (including a lavish string section, horns and woodwinds) has been produced to sound like the great records of another era by the body French musical duo as opposed to Air, which is the head French musical duo. First of all, the recording is spectacular! Any dimwit happening upon this even in stunted MP3 form can't help but hear a recording that's also retro in the best sense of the word. Maybe that's a good thing for a number of reasons. Only gay people seem energized and committed and they are (slowly but surely) getting what they want.Įnd of rant, okay? So here's this retro-disco album (a tribute album, not to an artist but to a musical time and place ) and the hit single "Get Lucky" is dominating summer airplay. Do they care that in state after state that they or their girlfriend's right to a safe, legal, constitutionally protected abortion is now extinct? Maybe they don't have girlfriends.
Spying on their emails and Internet chatter? No problem. Who are they? What do they stand for? How much abuse will they stand for before they react to what's going on around them? No jobs? Okay, we'll live at home with mommy and daddy instead of holding politicians accountable.
What do I mean by "Summer of Blah"? Is this not the most, compliant, passive, drippy, "blah" generation to come down the pike in decades? Likewise, unless you shuttered yourself indoors throughout this year's "Summer of Blah" you simply couldn't avoid Daft Punk's break out hit "Get Lucky" culled from the unlikely number eight spot in the album's thirteen song sequence.
Escaping The Doors' "Light My Fire" was impossible throughout 1967's "Summer of Love".
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