Touch, sweet touch
You've given me too much to feel
Sweet touch
You've almost convinced me I'm real...
You've given me too much to feel
Sweet touch
You've almost convinced me I'm real...
— "Touch", Random Access Memories
- "Something About Us", especially when it plays during Interstella 5555 when Shep dies.
- Paul Williams' vocals on "Touch" will break your heart. Especially the last few lines. Williams has hinted that the lyrics are an allusion to his addictions to drugs and fame throughout the 70s.I need something more. I need something more...
- The video for "Instant Crush" is just depressing. It's a love story between two MANNEQUINS, for crying out loud, but their ultimate fate is both heartwarming and heartbreaking.
- The video for "The Prime Time of Your Life" manages to be both tragic and completely horrifying, most especially when you realize what it's all about.
- Electroma. Mon Dieu, Electroma.
- Their short film "Epilogue"
, announcing the duo's break-up, is the ending of Electroma slightly modified. Thomas and Guy-Manuel are walking in the middle of a desert, but Thomas is walking slower and slower until he stops walking. Guy-Man then turns around and walks up to the sullen Thomas, who proceeds to take off his leather jacket and turn around to reveal a Self-Destruct Mechanism. Guy-Man activates the minute-long timer, and Thomas walks a safe distance away from Guy-Man. At four seconds remaining, he clenches his fist waiting for the inevitable, and when the timer runs out... BOOM. Thomas is no more, and Daft Punk is over. We see an image of the duo's hands coming together, forming a triangle around a bright light, and finally we see Guy-Man walking off into the sunset. And the final song they used? "Touch."1993–2021 - It adds to the effect when you realize that "Touch" is the song that featured Paul Williams, the co-star and music composer of Phantom of the Paradise—aka, the movie where Daft Punk first met when they were children. Let the tears flow.
- Their short film "Epilogue"
