Why "Random Access Memories" is a MASTERPIECE
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2023
- Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” was released in 2013, and it 2021 they announced they they had disbanded - but listening through this album - it’s clear that, this was ALWAYS going to be their last album. While their 2001 album “Discovery” has a ton of samples, and comes to a head on the song “Face to Face” where they’re essentially playing like 8 different sampled as it’s own instrument - Random Access Memories mirrors that with Daft Punk sampling… humans.
I know that “Sampling Humans” sounds like a horror movie, but stick with me, we’re gonna unpack this ENTIRE album, all 14 tracks - YES 14! There’s a bonus track that you may not have heard - and see how this album is a masterpiece about love, music, humanity, robots, looking back on their career, and blasting off into new… Horizons.
Take a seat and relax, we’ve got a LOT to talk about. Let’s start from the top.
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SOURCES
www.npr.org/sections/allsongs...
www.rollingstone.com/music/mu...
Giorgio Moroder talking about the recording process: • Daft Punk wouldn't tel...
Omar Hakim Interview: • Drummer Omar Hakim: Ge...
www.billboard.com/music/music...
NME article: imgur.com/a/bjnDB
BBC Interview from this year: www.bbc.com/news/entertainmen...
anthemmagazine.com/the-work-of...
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Topics Covered
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
10th Anniversary
Breakdown
Analysis
Thomas Bangalter
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
Nile Rogers
Omar Hakim
Pharrell Williams
Paul Williams
Todd Edwards
Panda Bear
Julian Casablancas
Giorgio Moroder
Nathan East
John Robinson
Samples
Sampling
Robot Music
Breakup
#daftpunk #randomaccessmemories #musichistory
I love Daft Punk
Same 🤖
Don't we all?
Did you guys notice how similar the beginning of *Give Life Back To Music* to Christopher Cross' *Ride Like The Wind* is?
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@@Asterkool2 you must not like daft punk
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*This* is the exact reason I wanted to fight the people who bullied me throughout school who said that there was "something wrong with me" if Daft Punk was my favorite artist. Everything they make goes SO much deeper than what the majority of people hear. I am a choir girl who was classically trained and will forever be a music nerd whose favorite genre is house music. Those two concepts seem completely opposite (human vs robot) but they actually make more sense together if you examine further (Daft Punk).
Also, it makes me feel better that they got their name from a "bully" music critic. They made something truly beautiful out of it
Yes - music is music 🔥
Well said. I'm proud that you stood up for yourself.
@@Ustaleonestill, it's annoying to have people giving their judgement as if they were superior.
Imagine being bullied for loving Daft Punk. What kind of fucked up country did you grow up in?
I thought everybody loved Daft Punk. Some people just don’t get it. RAM is a top ten album of all time for me
Thanks for doing this and explaining WHY it’s a masterpiece. I feel like it’s so underrated EVEN though it won Grammys, it’s still underrated. It’s so conceptually deep yet accessible so I feel like people don’t get past the first layer.
They aren’t just playing you songs, they’re TELLING you a story through music. It’s sharing a journey
Exactly 🔥
I love this album so much, but I just wish we had one more record, it really took them 8 years to announce their breakup 😭😭
That came as an unexpected blow for sure
Indeed.
Discovery is on my unskippable album list for me but this is also a good listen
@@9theomo Discovery is my favorite album of all time
My biggest regret in life is that I never got to see Daft Punk live. *If* they ever do tour again, idc if the only show is on the damn moon, and I’m 80 years old I’m there.
If you're going to deconstruct albums, An Evening With Silk Sonic is musical reference heaven :)
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A lot of references to The Dramatics and The Stylistics.
YESSSSS
Absolutely
you're comparing shit to glitter.
00:54 - Give Life Back to Music
04:41 - The Game of Love
07:53 - Giorgio by Moroder
10:24 - Within
11:06 - Instant Crush
12:14 - Lose Yourself to Dance
13:02 - Touch
15:05 - Get Lucky
16:26 - Beyond
17:05 - Motherboard
17:43 - Fragments of Time
19:45 - Doin’ It Right
21:03 - Contact
22:35 - Horizon
He forgot pee is stored in the balls
You made me realize that I inadvertently play Daft Punk in all of my DJ sets. When you have tracks like One More Time, Voyager, Face to Face, Get Lucky, Lose Yourself to Dance, Robot Rock, and Around the world, It makes complete sense. All party jams. Amazing video!!
So many classics!
@diggingthegreats All of them. Thank you. This video is truly needed today.
Girl Talk agrees lol
@@DJAUDIO1let's goooo
Man, you really know how to break down anything and everything. And it makes me want to go back and listen to anything you cover. Thanks for doing the research and giving us a music class we didn't know we wanted or needed.
Thank you 🙏 Definitely give this another listen through! Check the Spotify link in the description for a playlist of every song mentioned in this video in order
This is my favorite album ever, thanks so much for improving my enjoyment of it!
Thank you so much for the support 🙏
I’m only 1 song in and you’re already changing the way I understand not only the album, but Daft Punk in general, way better than I used to.
This is why I keep singing your praises for making maybe the best music analysis/history/education channel on YT.
🙏🙏thank you, this means a lot
Right?!? I NEVER thought this album told a story like Discovery did!
Biggest Daft Punk fan here (and absolutely freaking love your channel, it is always gold).
Amazing take on that masterpiece! Very good references, soundtrack choice, and very knowledgeable input as usual.
A few more cool anecdotes:
1) Horizon (the Japanese Bonus Track), uses Machine Drums at first and then transitions into organic Drums in the middle of the track.
2) I've always felt like Contact was their spaceship launching (pretty obvious metaphor) and Horizon was them floating in space.
3) Giorgio Moroder, when seeing the 3 microphones from 3 different eras in the Studio, reportedly (from his own admission) asked the sound engineer: "Who the hell will hear the difference between the 3 microphones". The sound engineer answered: "Oh, nobody! But they will." ("They" being Daft Punk, obviously).
4) Pharell came up with the lyrics from Get Lucky's hook while tipsy/drunk: he was tired from the jet lag.
5) Human After All was made in a rush (a few weeks), based on the famous dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell (Bangalter's words IIRC). It was meant to represent the fear of Technology (hence the purposeful rush in creating the album).
6) The people at NASA were reportedly super stoked to share samples with the Robots.
7/ The 1 million it cost to record RAM was self-financed by the band, so they had no obligation to release anything.
8/ They recorded the sound of a busy restaurant by placing microphones in front of the forks of a group of people and the effect of dripping water recorded on a soundstage.
9/ Give Life Back to Music is the first track for a reason:
When RAM was released, Bangalter and Guy-Man went on tour in French radios, explaining that they were tired of "Electronic Music consisting of remixes of remixes of remixes" and wanted to go back to something "more organic".
RAM is also a way to give organic material to sample for future generations of musicians: a way to pay it back.
10/ On that note, after RAM was released, Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington (the band DARKSIDE) recorded an entire Remix Album of RAM, under the name of Daft Side.
It's called "Random Access Memories Memories".
"Beyond" and "Give Life Back to Music" from them are two of my favorite all-time Daft Punk remixes:
Beyond is very Pink Floydish/trippy. An LSD trip under the milky way in the desert.
if "Pink Floyd and Daft Punk had a child", it's that song.
Give Life Back to Music is very experimental but hands-down the BEST EARGASM I've ever had.
I'd pay good money to live that first time again, but beware:
- You need to put on good headphones and close your eyes.
- Keep the volume as up as you can humanly handle.
- The first part is purposefully overly saturated.
It's normal, it's uncomfortable, it will be painful.
But you need that first part to enjoy the second.
- DON'T turn the volume down before the drop.
Go through these 2 minutes and 52 seconds of pain and discomfort.
It's worth it.
Trust me.
You'll thank me later:
ua-cam.com/video/bgaCNGZ2wJA/v-deo.html
This channel has the best music history dives I've found. Shit I've wanted to know about for years, and a ton of stuff I never knew I wanted to know.
my god man, you have NO idea how long i've been waiting to see such a deep, accurate, and understanding video of this album to be made. i hope all fans of daft punk, new and old, get to experience this well thought out, and considerate masterclass of a video, as its some of the most insightful and entertaining takes on daft punk ive ever seen ♥
Yeah it really is great.,
this video just blew my mind. thank you so much for working so hard putting all that information together. i’d love to see more of this for other DP albums.
I miss videos like yours, so we can praise the albums we already love even more. Thank you so much for sharing your art with us
man oh man... digging the greats, you are doing more for sampling, hip-hop and wider music culture than any other channel i've seen on this platform. When im running low on inspiration I listen to one of your deconstructions and you immediately remind me how beautiful and emotionally compelling music can be. Keep it up man, big love
One of the best albums of all time to me - and this channel is criminally underrated for the way you understand and break down the technical and emotional sides of great music. A+ keep it up!
Man, 10 years ago I listened to this album and loved it. But DANG! Never thought about all these connections you just dropped.
You are a true professor, sir. Thanks you!
Giving RAM another listen tonight, and forevermore with all this new insight!!
PLEASE do this for the rest of their albums! Hearing the history, and magic of the GOAT robot duo so fun, and your content is so well crafted together.
Hell yeah. This came out during one of my hardest breakups and it always felt really appropriate for that part of my life. Such a great album. Amazing breakdown!
this was an amazing vid Brandon. I was swept away by this album when it came out in 2013 - it hit me at just the right time in life. can't say I was a huge fan of DP before this album so it sort of came across my path when a friend recommended it to me on a whim because of the 70s and 80s undercurrent that ran through the songs. A decade later and I still find myself falling in love with this album over and over again but now I have an idea WHY. Truly an immense piece of work, it's interconnectivity and subtext is so subtle that it doesn't disturb the sonic journey that a casual listener would be on, it's just there to encourage you to look a little bit deeper.
Such a fantastically well made video!! You really pull out the stops with your editing, and it seems like your research is about as deep as is possible for each subject. Thanks for making quality, interesting content!
Yes! I remember buying this album in college. It had a profound effect on me. Thank you for breaking this down, I learned so much about one of my fav albums!
Thanks for making this. I've always loved this whole album and the way it's really like nothing else I've ever heard. It's great to hear your various insights into the different songs, musically and emotionally and technically, just everything.
RAM is a absolute classic of an album and you totally matched it's greatness with your analysis!
This is one of my favorite albums, but I didn't realize how conceptual this album was. Great in depth video!
I've been waiting for for this video ever since I read the Sound on Sound article years ago. Great research. Great content. This is amazing. Thank you.
I keep coming back to this video. I have ALWAYS freakin’ LOVED this album. And I really appreciate the journey that you take us on to tell the story of this album.
Holy shit, I really underappreciated Random Access Memories back when I was in high school.
Few days ago, I rediscovered Daft Punk again and listened to their whole discography excluding Tron ones, and I really really adore them now. RAM for me was a bit weird since it includes a lot of "natural instruments" and "human voices" as you say, but when you say they're sampling humans, it just clicked.
And you took an 8/10 album for me into goddamn MASTERPIECE.
Did you give Tron a try? It's kinda cool :)
Aaaa you must listen to the tron ones! It's a different to their usual style but honestly it's their best imo! Really brings me back when I was a child haha
@@banarnya I will, eventually! I'm starting to collect their whole discography on vinyl records so I will listen to it
Tron soundtrack might be some of their best work
I thought they did an excellent job scoring Tron, but I never found the music all that enjoyable to listen to on its own.
This was a gift. I can feel your passion on all your vids🙌🏽🙏
Dude, I've been watching your videos all day because I found your Daft Punk sampling videos which I appreciate so much! I think you're freaking amazing
The mashup I didn't know I needed so bad. Thank you! It confirms my love for Daft Punk and your channel! Just incredible incredible production.
I couldn't put it into words why this is my favorite album ever but you just did. This is a great video, well done!
Awesome video man, this ignited my love for RAM to whole another level. Basically giving me another context for the album to listen.
The edit, the aesthetic the old vcr transition and sound design. Just perfect 👌🏻👌🏻👍🏻
I break down every time I listen to this album, and once again broke down while watching this. Thank you for this video ❤
This was the best thing I’ve seen in a long while. Thanks!!
AMAZING video AMAZING musical duo, thank you for your efforts in creating this
this is one of your best videos. thank you so much
This is possibly the best upload I have ever come across on this UA-cam thing. Thx for adding layers and layers to my already immense love and appreciation for this work of geniuses...
I have always told people that this album is my favorite. Every time someone asks out of all the good music out there. THIS. stands out.
You breaking it down like this now…man.
10/10 album 10/10 video. Thank you
This is one of the best album analysis video essays I’ve seen on UA-cam. Thank you for giving me a newfound appreciation for one of my favorite albums of the 2010s
Such a great video. I'm a huge fan of this channel. Keep up the great work!
After this breakdown, amazing job, btw. I gotta go back and re-listen to this whole album.
Man thank you for making me see one of my favourite albums from a different point, more complete point of view, Really really appreciated the content, thank you man!
Dude, thank you so much for this in depth analyse of the album. There are so much things you can't even realize just listening to it. It shows how much involved they are in their music. Thank you for the excellent content you provide to us. Keep the good videos like this one coming. I'm waiting for them. Love and respect.
Amazing video man, I love all the musicians they pulled onto this album but never made the connection until I saw this video. You’re awesome, keep it up!
Your content is some of the most satisfying content I’ve found. Quality everything, production, ideas, presentation, persona, information, insight, everything. Thank you, it matters to us as much as it matters to you. I feel like I’m kickin it with a homie who is droppin knowledge when I watch your videos.
Amazing quality of content. Thanks so much for this video!
Excellent video man. I discovered this album like yesterday and I'm searching for as much knowledge as I possibly can about it and you delivered!
Aww yeeeah . Another awesome video to check out. Keep up the great content! Killin it
This album makes my heart sing. So much ingenuity and passion. Thank you for unpacking the goods!
This is an incredible cover of this album. I listened to it again immediately and it shed so much more light on this album and its absolutely magical. Great video!
This video demonstrates that this album is more than just really well recorded groovy funky and soulful music, but it's a journey of humanity and emotions, has a wonderful arc, and has a wonderful lesson in learning to just let go and be free and alive. The album and this analysis has touched me deeply. You could say it opened the door behind the door. Thank you.
This is an awesome Master Class! Thank you professor! Made me enjoy and appreciate more my favorite band.
You have such a beautiful voice, your editing is on point and your knowledge of music and the topics you talk about is so vast and precise while also giving your own thoughts and opinions on the projects you talk about!!! excited to see more from you in the future :)
Im proud of you and your channel...not that you need my words of encouragement, but its beautiful to see someone else with an open appreciation for music
Thank you for this awesome video!
I've been a big fan of Daft Punk since Homework and they are the reason I got into DJing.
I am very happy I got to complete my vinyl collection with the anniversary edition of RAM and thanks to this video I'll revisit it again with a cool new view on things.
Another amazing video!! I rarely comment on videos but I leave a comment on nearly every one of yours. I came to some of your perspectives by listening to it over the years, but this just gave me a whole new appreciation for an album that I already love so much. Thank you for the work you do!!
Thank you so much 🙏 and thank you for the ultra rare comments 🔥
Loved this album from start to finish; having this album on my phone I played it more than almost anything else I own. And it's good EVERY time. Like your favorite movie you can't get enough of. I never got the comments about it fairing off from what they where. The journey they were trying to portray was so obvious to me. And even if you didn't got that the whole vibe of it is amazing; the build up of every song, the story each song has in it, the sound effects that lead up to it. I remember putting the album on the morning after a good party with everybody slowly waking up; half of the people where floating away on it, the other half just didn't get it.. Which is fine, it doesn't need to be for everybody. Thank you for such a amazing break down of the album, came here from your similarly amazing break down of "discovery". Subscribed!
Always bringing the heat and bringing me a deeper love to the music I already love so much
This album is one of my all time favourites. For the following two years after it’s release I listened to it easily once a week. And I still to this day play it once every couple of months. Great job man 🙌
Thank you for this amazing review.
This was already one of my favorite albums, but from now on I will appreciate it even more. Thank you.
Discovery is my favorite. The samples on face to face and aerodynamic 👌 And the disco part mixes so well with there sampling technique
When was 13 I suddenly realized I loved music but had no idea what genre I like. Aerodynamic was my first "favourite" song ever. I regard it as finding my musical path! It's like they sent me on it ❤
this was so good! i will try watching while listening to the tracks next time ^o^
I love this album. Great breakdown of the tracks!
@1:37 I’m basically already in tears with how masterful this album is. Thx for putting this together. the sound on your video is very well done btw.
Your analysis is so on point! Now i appericate Random Access Memory more. Love your video.
For real, I love it even more now haha
haven't had many people talk about the bonus track before, glad to see it get some recognition!
great video btw this stuff is amazing
Awesome stuff, this is probably my favorite album and it's fun learning more about it and reading into the story in the lyrics. A little surprised you didn't include Infinity Repeating, but I appreciate your analysis either way. Subbed.
Dude your videos are SO fucking good. Legit feel completely engaged through every second of them. Keep it up man!
Also, this album has become an all time favorite of mine looking back on it after hearing the breakup announcement. For 8 years I never knew how special this album really was. I’m super happy to be able to listen to it whenever I’d like, though it’s very bitersweet knowing that this is likely the last Daft Punk album ever. I’d love a sequel.
You opened my eyes and only now I realize why that album was always attracting me like a magnet. Thank you for sharing your interpretations of it, and it has given me loads to think about and to reflect. It's inspiring to see somebody going so deep exploring, and explaining, other peoples work and to show what a true masterpiece it really is.
This is amazing and it has touched me to a new level. Thank you so much.
Thanks again! You're content is so entertaining but I learn so much at the same time. You make me listen to music in a different way and it makes me a better musician and I thank you for that. I still don't understand how you're able to do this. Is it cos we both see music through the eyes of a bassplayer? I duno. Stay funky bro 🤩
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Bro your channel came out of no where and it’s blowing up like crazy and I’m all for it this channel popped up at the same time that I been wanting to get into music and I love love love love LOVE Just learning what amazing arist have done in the past or just the history and techniques just wow I love it good shit bro
I already loved the album, but this gives a whole new perspective to it. Love the video, I am totally mind blown! Now I love it even more!
What an insane exploration of this album. Truly truly a masterpiece, I love it to bits. Great video!!!
Truly one of the greatest albums of all time much love to Daft Punk
By the way your videos are absolutely phenomenal, the extreme detail and insight into these songs we love is a thing of beauty and you sir are a damn good professional. By this time next year you’ll have 1 million subs
So sick. Thank you for creating this! It’s bringing me a lot of joy to learn about one of my favourite albums in such depth. Also, love your delivery and energy!
Keep the uploads coming man, great content
THANKS FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO, I always wanted to take a closer look at Daft Punk's albums but I never could since I don't know much about music on a technical level, thanks to you now I see the albums with different eyes and I can enjoy them more deeply
Great content as per usual. Your passion and nerdiness really shines thru..
i really like the way how you listen to music and then put it together and translate it to us. Thank you
Excellent analysis. I loved it from the very beginning. That good you are!
You're really good at this. Thanks!
Your videos are so good, like you were made to do this! Excellent
This is so fire! love the new setup too
Awesome/great/incredible job! This whole video - and also Daft Punk and RAM - is peak art at its best.
Holy shit, what an amazing album. And what an amazing channel, subscribed my friend 👍
Thanks for doing another video on my favorite artist!!! 😮 Too much of a good thing 💛🩶
Thank you for this incredible video !
This review was fresh. Just like the others 😎 great work on showcasing artists' approach and how it transcends to other works of art
you blow my mind......
often when im listening this album, i have many of the thoughts you mentioned in this really nice youtube content on my mind.
thank you for this enlightment !!!
i allways thought there is more than music with daft punk and overall this album
FANTASTIC VIDEO, THANK YOU ❤
Such an excellent breakdown. Keep up the great work!
Such an impressive collection of interpretations bouncing off one another, amazing job !
So excited to check UA-cam and see you have a new video up. I know it's usually hip hop oriented but I'd be super interested in other edm sampling videos. Drum and bass and the amen break perhaps?
Thank you for all your work, this is fantastic once again. ✌🏼
I love you man, seriously, what a video 😮💨