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Random Access MemoriesDaft Punk

marguerite · 3 days ago

8.4

The playing is immaculate and the drums sound better than anything else released that year. It is also twenty minutes too long and it knows it. Docking it for the stretch between Touch and Motherboard, which I have skipped every single time.

Song average: 8.4
Lyricism: 8
Production: 11
Delivery: 8
Album experience: 7
Replay value: 8

Best Giorgio by MoroderWorst Motherboard

4 replies

devonh2d
Production 11 is the only correct take on this page. That snare is a public service.
34
ninaonline2d
Skipping Motherboard is a choice and I respect it, but Touch is the whole point of the record. Album experience 7 undersells the back half.
18
margueriteauthor1d
Fair. I have gone back and forth on Touch more than anything else here.
11
okcomputerfan1d
An 8.4 for this is generous. Half of it is session musicians doing very expensive karaoke.
-6

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