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Post by pram »

symlinkk wrote: post #43
aphextron wrote: post #38

I don't believe it yet. But I can see the logic. They're kind of in a Half Life 3 situation with regards to Random Access Memories. At this point, there's almost no way imaginable they could top it, and anything they do come out with will probably be compared unfavorably.

I thought RAM was already on the downturn. They peaked with Discovery and Alive 2007 in my opinion.

Human After All was already on the downturn.

To me RAM sounds like an Air album, not a Daft Punk album. I don't consider that a bad thing though.

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Post by dahart »

vinger wrote: post #99
IgorPartola wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blue Man Group is slightly different but I would not recognize any of them on the street either.

Who they are changes based on who is performing in what city.

It didn't start that way in NY, but now they have that option precisely because nobody can recognize them, right?

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Post by maaaaattttt »

I still remember seeing the Alive set at a festival in France. They were headlining but I didn't really care about them anymore back then. I went to the concert anyway as it was the last of the night. The whole show blew my mind! The stage, the lights, the mashups that made the old songs feel like new and made the new songs don't feel so new. I can tell you the 30+K people attending the concert that evening were almost all in trance during and after the show. I cared again about them after that!

I also remember listing to the live record (which is the Paris recording if I'm not mistaken) after it came out and it was very different of the one I saw. So definitely some live creation happened during that tour, or some in-between sets work maybe (if you don't believe in magic).

Side note and personal opinion, I think "Veridis Quo" would be the perfect soundtrack for this announcement, and is one of my all time favorites of them. Here's to a bright future for both of them hopefully!

Re: Daft Punk Break Up

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Post by bredren »

theptip wrote: post #116

I’d encourage anyone who might just know them for “Get Lucky” to go back and do a full play through of the discography, Discovery and Homework were really watershed albums, particularly notable at a time when house music was driven by singles/EPs on vinyl and few were putting together full, cohesive albums.

I thought Get Lucky’s quality was more a reflection of Pharrell and Rogers’ talent than DP. The rest of that album was a whiff.

That said, GL the song and video were great and no hiding the string of classics. I remember hearing Around the World on the radio for the first time and pulling my car over. I was in high school.

A few notes on this video:

1. I wonder if this was delayed due to the bomber in Nashville. Still seems almost too soon.

2. Obviously has black rock vibes, looks like one continuing on to the mythic show at the trash fence.

3. Suggests one member wanted to keep daft punk going, where the other had enough. Otherwise I would have expected a mutually assured destruction.

The symmetric hands around the dates suggest amicable closure prior to conflict of ruin, which would be for the best in any partnership.

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Post by alexmorenodev »

lm28469 wrote: post #87
mu_killnine wrote: post #9

I love daft punk and had countless nights in college studying, gaming, and coding to their albums. I will continue to love their music but totally understand wanting to move onto something new after almost 30 years :) Best of luck to them in whatever they move onto next

> gaming I used to play HL 2 while listening to Discovery, I know, kinda weird, and now every time I hear songs from this album I have HL2 flashbacks. Somehow these are some of the most vivid memories I have, I can still see the screen and the in game scenes

I had this same feeling with SNES games and Diablo 2 and stuff I listened to when I was 10 till 14 (especially with System of a Down). Took me years to disassociate then. Not that I wanted, but it happened eventually.

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Post by dunnevens »

spoonjim wrote: post #76
keiferski wrote: post #17

I always thought Daft Punk figured out the perfect solution to the how to be famous problem. Everyone recognizes their artist name and their artist costume, but virtually no one knows their real name or would accost them on the street.

You might be surprised how little of a “disguise” can make you unrecognizable. Shakira took a history class at UCLA and just by not wearing makeup and using her legal name Isabel, nobody recognized her (or if they did, they didn’t say anything). The “Shakira” you see on TV is such an artificial construction that someone seeing her without any of the artifice has no idea it’s “her.”

Agree. David Bowie once demonstrated it to a reporter. They walked together through Manhattan. No one bothered them. Bowie then said he was going to “turn it on”. Something in his expression slightly changed. And then he was mobbed by fans.

Re: Daft Punk Break Up

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Post by albertshin »

I feel like the artists/celebrities/directors who publicly announce that they're quitting usually end up coming back in a few years... Director Miyazaki comes to mind in more recent years.

Those that actually "quit" just quietly drift away out of the public scene.

Re: Daft Punk Break Up

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Post by pram »

strictnein wrote: post #47
arethuza wrote: post #23

Well, I guess we still have M83 and Carpenter Brut to supply French synth awesomeness, but I'll really miss Daft Punk.

Is Air still around? Still probably have my copy of Moon Safari somewhere.

Random Access Memories sounds more like Air than Daft Punk imo. People should definitely give their discography a listen if you liked that sound.

Re: Daft Punk Break Up

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Post by jw1224 »

dunnevens wrote: post #126
spoonjim wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might be surprised how little of a “disguise” can make you unrecognizable. Shakira took a history class at UCLA and just by not wearing makeup and using her legal name Isabel, nobody recognized her (or if they did, they didn’t say anything). The “Shakira” you see on TV is such an artificial construction that someone seeing her without any of the artifice has no idea it’s “her.”

Agree. David Bowie once demonstrated it to a reporter. They walked together through Manhattan. No one bothered them. Bowie then said he was going to “turn it on”. Something in his expression slightly changed. And then he was mobbed by fans.

Wasn’t that story about Marilyn Monroe?

https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-marilyn-monroe-effect-the-...

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