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#41
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You're correct. Columbia Records also conformed the track listing that was revealed a few days ago on some sites, though one of the tracks seem to have a different name depending on where it's listed. Sometimes track 10 is listed as Motherhood, while some claim it's called Motherboard. The video from Vine confirms it's Motherboard though. Strange how some sites got that name wrong.
#42
They have revealed so much from that song now that I can't help but wonder...why the fuck hasn't the single released yet? I wouldn't be surprised if we've now heard like 50% of the song. Just release the damn thing as a single now, Christ...
#43
Quote from: RichChap on April 15, 2013 03:45 AMI don't understand how someone could evaluate homework as better than discovery... for me discovery just has so much more good stuff than homework. I'm also sad that you don't like crescendolls or high life. Ive always thought high life was kind of a hidden gem on their second album, and there was a chunk of time when crescendolls was one of my favorite songs ever.

Different tastes I guess. I enjoy every song from Homework and love 11 of the 16 tracks from that album. Not only do I think it's an excellent album, but it's my favorite electronic album of all time.

Quote from: RichChap on April 15, 2013 03:45 AMWhat I love about homework is the first track, and how the groove through that carries throughout the album, especially in da funk. Besides those, revolution 909, and around the world, nothing else on that album is really that spectacular to me. Its got a few other cool moments, but for me their first album feels very choppy and experimental, while discovery feels outrageously polished in comparison.

No love for Rollin' & Scratchin' and Alive? D:

Quote from: RichChap on April 15, 2013 03:45 AMThat said, I'm insanely excited for their new album, the little that we've heard from it is exactly what I want to be hearing. The entire feel of their marketing with the old-school-esque commercials/logos/etc is also so perfect to me. Plus I've always been a HUGE fan of nile rogers, as well as most of the other collaborators on the album. If some of them, or even just nile were to go on tour with them potentially, it would be the greatest.

It'll be interesting to see how they handle future tours. I would love to see them bring additional musicians with them.
#44
Quote from: rtil on April 14, 2013 10:55 PMthere you go again comparing it to gangnam style :wile:

Well, yeah. Of course I'm going to make comparisons to Gangnam Style. I'm always going to make comparisons to an artist's past work when looking at their newer stuff. I didn't expect his next single to be as good as Gangnam Style, but what we got was a lot less interesting than I expected. As I mentioned earlier, it didn't help that both songs had a lot of structure similarities which made quality comparisons even easier to make.

Quote from: rtil on April 14, 2013 10:55 PMi think the reality is that you just prefer certain styles of their music. all of the albums have their own flavor, and are extremely consistent in that sense. homework might have less ups and downs, but every song is essentially a basic beat that gets built off of and plays for 5 minutes. discovery has real meat to it, you just don't happen to like all of it. discovery is their best album.

I feel Discovery has some of the best work they ever made and had the potential to be their best album, but the worst songs from it negatively impacted my view of that album a lot more than how the worst songs from Homework affected that album.
#45
Quote from: rtil on April 14, 2013 10:20 AMactually my point was that psy's new song is actually a good pop song but people expect too much of it because of gangnam style. if you are unable to separate the popularity with the music then there is a problem - nobody can live up to that kind of viral popularity on a consistent basis.

My opinion is based off of the quality of the song and how it compares to his previous work. It's not a bad song, but the song and the music video are nowhere near the quality of Gangnam Style. I also felt it borrowed too much from Gangnam Style in structure which made it look like a weaker song in comparison.

Quote from: rtil on April 14, 2013 10:20 AMi'm not sure how you gauge discovery as an album with inconsistent quality when you personally identify half of the tracks as "classics". most albums only have one or two good songs - discovery is fairly consistent as an album as is daft punk as a band.

I base my opinion of its quality consistency from how much each song differs in quality. If the difference is huge between several songs, then I feel its quality is inconsistent. I enjoy every song on Homework, Alive 1997, and Alive 2007, where as I find songs like Crescendolls and High Life to be somewhat obnoxious and tend to look forward to when those songs finally end. Sometimes I've even skipped those songs while listening to the album. While part of Crescendolls was played at Alive 2007, it was pulled off better than how it's played in its original form and the same can be said of almost every song from Human After All that got played at Alive 2007. Human After All was only worked on for three weeks and it showed. It's unfortunate because I felt that album could've been much better if they put more effort into it. Alive 2007 improved the hell out of many songs from that album so they made up for it at least.

Quote from: BluPhoenix on April 14, 2013 02:19 PMi don't see how you can say you dislike crescendolls or highlife immediately after saying you think that superheroes is a classic, the aesthetics of the songs are all very similar.

While there are similarities, the composition, vocal style, and overall sound is very different. Plus I've always really enjoyed Superheroes a lot, but could never like those other two songs.

Quote from: W.A.C. on April 14, 2013 10:17 AMthe only thing i hate is that you're subscribed to feministfrequency on yt

She's definitely a controversial personality and has some serious flaws in how she approaches many issues, but I enjoyed the first episode of her series Damsel in Distress so I subscribed to her.

Damsel in Distress: Part 1 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games

For anyone who doesn't know a whole lot about her, I recommend giving these videos a watch to understand why she's so hated.

Anita Sarkeesian Part 1: The College Graduate
Anita Sarkeesian Part 2: Burqa Beach Party
#46
Since I got tired of my old cover photo, I decided to modify that image rtil posted and turned it into my new cover photo.



Yes, I use that old image as my profile picture. For those who hated that image, be glad I never bothered to change my cat avatar on here.
#47
Yeah, the new single by Psy was pretty disappointing. Considering the giant amount of hype Daft Punk have created for this album, hopefully it'll live up to that hype. I'm listening to Discovery and it reminds how the album is so inconsistent in quality. Songs like the first four tracks, Superheroes, Voyager, and Veridis Quo will always be important classics to me. Songs like Crescendolls, High Life, and Too Long however... Well, let's just say they do not excite me when they're about to come on. Too Long should've never been so goddamn long. -_- The joke behind the song's title stopped being funny after the first listen.
#48
Quote from: rtil on April 14, 2013 07:16 AMi really wish they'd stop teasing and release a single an the mv already
The teasing is getting ridiculous, but it is effective in building a fuckload of hype. :/ Brilliant marketing on their part.
#49
Daft Punk Pharrell SNL Ad

Daft Punk released another commercial for SNL tonight. :D Most of it is the footage from Coachella, but now we can see it in great quality.
#50
New SNL ad. This time we finally get a sample of a song that's a different song.

Daft Punk's "Lose Yourself To Dance" Teaser
#51
Too bad the sound quality to Alive 2007 sucked. Alive 1997 had much better sound quality but musically, both live albums were awesome.

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The titles of the songs have now been revealed: [LINK]
We now have additional information about Daft Punk's new look: [LINK]
#52
By the time their new album releases, hopefully I won't end up getting sick of their main single. >_> I played that Coaci'm gay video over ten times last night. RELEASE THE ALBUM, DAMMIT!

QuoteThe album's move away from computerized sounds reflects Daft Punk's "ambivalence" about the EDM craze they helped to inspire. "Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone and it's not moving one inch," Thomas says. "That's not what artists are supposed to do." He adds that the genre is suffering "an identity crisis: You hear a song, whose track is it? There's no signature. Skrillex has been successful because he has a recognizable sound: You hear a dubstep song, even if it's not him, you think it's him."

Source: [LINK]

Unsurprisingly, the stale state of the electronic dance music scene had a big impact on their musical direction's future.
#53
Let's face it, mainstream dance and electronic music has gotten really stale...really...really...really fucking stale. Much of it sounds the same and dubstep took over mainstream electronic music (which also sounds the same WUBWUBWUB). The future of dance and electronic music has not looked very good and as a result, I think many people are getting sick of it. This is probably why artists like Adele and Gotye have become so successful because a lot of people want something new. So in a time when electronic dance music is the most sale it's been in ages, the long awaited 4th album by Daft Punk seems like it might the glimmer of hope this industry needs. After a series of teaser commercials, they launched a video series called The Collaborators where people who worked on the album talk about their experiences in the music industry and their involvement on the album.

Daft Punk | SNL ad ▲
Daft Punk | Random Access Memories SNL ad ▲
Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators: Giorgio Moroder
Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators: Todd Edwards
Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators: Nile Rodgers

After three episodes, it became very clear this album was going to be very influenced by '70s disco. Last night, they finally revealed more about the album in a surprise video demonstration at Coachella and yeah, they are going full out disco.

Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" Teaser at Coachella 2013

How will this album change the industry? Could many of these collaborators have a career revival? Will disco become huge again? Soon we'll find out and I couldn't be more excited about this album's release.

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lol coachella. Damn word filter.
#54
Thanks for the advice. I'll keep that in mind next time I play the game. I imagine the only way I'll get good at the online play is if I play it a lot, but I figure it's best I try to get far in the single player first so I'm very familiar with the maps. Currently, I have all the stars for the first 3/5 cups or whatever they're called in career mode. Haven't tried any of the other modes yet, but a lot of them seem very fun as well. This game was definitely worth the $20.25 I spent at Green Man Gaming. For anyone interested in this game that doesn't own it yet, you can buy it for only $14.98 at GamersGate. [LINK] They also have a ton of other Sonic games on sale too.
#55
Plus Sonic Heroes was kind of crappy. I originally pre-ordered ASRT and but couldn't really enjoy it until recently because of computer problems. I've only really played this game on two different nights and put over 5 hours into the game both nights. If I had zero responsibilities, I probably would have over 40 hours logged in by the end of next week. >_> It took me 13 years to finally find a kart racing game I like about as much as Crash Team Racing and finally found it with this game. Mostly just playing single-player right now until I complete a ton of stuff since I want to be good at the game before heading online. You can find me on Steam here. With the exception of Alien: Colonial Marines, it seems like nearly every game SEGA has released lately is considered at least of "good" quality and I like that they're taking the PC platform seriously nowadays. I don't think consoles will do as well next gen and many PC gamers such as myself enjoy SEGA games so this was a smart move on their part.

Quote from: Flash on February 16, 2013 04:07 PMmario kart for wii was so horrible that i don't think i'll ever play another racing game again for as long as i live and i shall die old and full of remorse

Mario Kart Wii's weapon balancing system sucked which ruined that game for me while ASRT has solid weapon balancing. The game lets you know if a player has a weapon and the weapons are usually dodgeable if you're skilled enough. Plus like rtil said, none of the attacks are anywhere near as cheap as the blue shell from the Mario Kart games. I fucking hate the tornado attacks though. Damn attack is disorientating and ruined what could have been some great rounds for me. >_<
#56
The Gallery / Re: Custom Banjo-Kazooie Level
February 2, 2013 07:30 AM
Not a big fan of the series, but that looks like a pretty cool rom hack. Nice work.
#57
I'm an introvert, but definitely not an extreme one like I used to be. I was extremely anti-social in my teenage years and liked the fact I had no rl friends. Nowadays, that has changed a lot. I have made a lot of rl friends, I love having out with them, and I love partying. But I also love having time to myself and learned I need a balance of sorts. Too much time alone can make me go nuts, but being around people constantly is exhausting and can make me more sick of dealing with people. >_> Really enjoyed watching both that video and the newest episode that released today.

The Power of Introverts - Ep 2
#58
General / Re: Your Username and You
December 8, 2012 11:14 PM
Wow, I'm surprised so many people here had their usernames originate from their initials as well. o_O I originally came up with my username for a Sonic sprite comic I made in 2003 that never went publicly online. The character was a modified version of the Tails sprites from Sonic Advance and it looked generic as fuck. The character was blue, wore a red shirt, wore black pants, and for some fucking reason, I had the character wear green shoes. Two years later, I made a different version in 2005 that looked less shitty.



Then later that year, I discovered furries and ditched my character once I found out it some people thought I was a furry because I hated furries at the time. (Ironically, many years later, one of my best friends is a furry.) While my fan character was scrapped long ago, I'll never ditch my username. I use it on any site that allows me to use periods. My alternative variations are W-A-C, WAC, wac, WAC89, and wac89. Hmm... WAC89 is my initials and the year I was born. >_> I'm so unoriginal with usernames.

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Worth mentioning I use FriedCrickets for PSN and YouTube, and I hate that username nowadays.
#59
General / Re: Post Yourself pt. IX
November 18, 2012 09:42 PM
Quote from: BluPhoenix on November 13, 2012 02:30 PMhe's a man now

:')

I've been an adult since 2007. >_> I'm 23 now.

Quote from: Greenkitten on November 16, 2012 04:33 PMI can begin hating you if you want I mean I'm not that much of a dick usually so I'm sure I have some hate to spare.

Nah, I'm good.
#60
General / Re: Post Yourself pt. IX
November 12, 2012 05:38 PM
Thanks guy I also don't know.