History Music / RandomAccessMemories

--->''I know you don't get a chance to take a break this often.\\

Upon release, ''Random Access Memories'' received widespread critical acclaim. Its number one hit, "Get Lucky", finally gave the band a legitimate American hit and paved the way for a series of further disco/funk influenced Top 40 hits from other artists, like Music/RobinThicke's "Blurred Lines" (which unfortunately blocked "Get Lucky" from the top of the charts in America), Music/BrunoMars' "Treasure", Mark Ronson and Mars' "Uptown Funk", among others. It also gave Daft Punk five Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Album of the Year award. In 2020, the ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine ranked it at number 295 in their [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime2020 500 greatest albums of all time]]. The album was also a major commercial success, topping the weekly charts in 24 different countries (among them being the US, the UK, and a huge chunk of continental Europe, including Daft Punk's native France) and the Billboard Dance/Electronic weekly charts, topping the year-end album charts in the US and Australia, and ultimately becoming the 99th best-selling album of TheNewTens in the United States. The double-LP release of the album was particularly popular, aided in part by the heavy focus given to it in promotional material, selling 49,000 copies in the United States alone and becoming the top-selling vinyl release of 2013.

* EpicRocking: "Giorgio by Moroder" and "Touch" from ''Random Access Memories'' are over 8 minutes long and go through several musical styles.

* {{Retraux}} Aiding the GenreThrowback nature of the album, the packaging on both the CD and LP releases are evocative of CD and vinyl releases from the 80's, and in the latter format's case the 70's as well. The CD jewel case spines mimic the style of those that were standard for many record labels' CD releases in the 1980's, and the CD and LP labels replicate the yellow-on-red LP labels that Creator/ColumbiaRecords introduced in 1970.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The front cover is the duo's only cover to their studio albums to not feature the band's [[IconicLogo wordmark]] and the only one to show both their helmets and the album title. Since the duo has now broken up, this is likely going to stay that way.

* LimitedLyricsSong: "Lose Yourself to Dance" repeats the same verse about 4 times over the course of the 6 minute song. Pharrel Williams is singing the lyrics, but Daft Punk adds some extra lines later into the song as background lyrics.

Upon release, ''Random Access Memories'' received widespread critical acclaim. Its number one hit, "Get Lucky", finally gave the band a legitimate American hit and paved the way for a series of further disco/funk influenced Top 40 hits from other artists, like Music/RobinThicke's "Blurred Lines" (which unfortunately blocked "Get Lucky" from the top of the charts in America), Music/BrunoMars' "Treasure", Mark Ronson and Mars' "Uptown Funk", among others. It also gave Daft Punk five Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Album of the Year award. In 2020, Magazine/RollingStone ranked it at number 295 in their [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime2020 500 greatest albums of all time]]. The album was also a major commercial success, topping the weekly charts in 24 different countries (among them being the US, the UK, and a huge chunk of continental Europe, including Daft Punk's native France) and the Billboard Dance/Electronic weekly charts, topping the year-end album charts in the US and Australia, and ultimately becoming the 99th best-selling album of TheNewTens in the United States. The double-LP release of the album was particularly popular, aided in part by the heavy focus given to it in promotional material, selling 49,000 copies in the United States alone and becoming the top-selling vinyl release of 2013.

Upon release, ''Random Access Memories'' received widespread critical acclaim. Its number one hit, "Get Lucky", finally gave the band a legitimate American hit and paved the way for a series of further disco/funk influenced Top 40 hits from other artists, like Music/RobinThicke's "Blurred Lines" (which unfortunately blocked "Get Lucky" from the top of the charts in America), Music/BrunoMars' "Treasure", Mark Ronson and Mars' "Uptown Funk", among others. It also gave Daft Punk five Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Album of the Year award. The album was also a major commercial success, topping the weekly charts in 24 different countries (among them being the US, the UK, and a huge chunk of continental Europe, including Daft Punk's native France) and the Billboard Dance/Electronic weekly charts, topping the year-end album charts in the US and Australia, and ultimately becoming the 99th best-selling album of TheNewTens in the United States. The double-LP release of the album was particularly popular, aided in part by the heavy focus given to it in promotional material, selling 49,000 copies in the United States alone and becoming the top-selling vinyl release of 2013.

''Random Access Memories'' is is the fourth and final studio album by the veteran electronic music duo Music/DaftPunk, released in 2013 after a lengthy hiatus from their third studio album ''Human After All''. The album, rather than the French house of ''Homework'' and ''Discovery'', is a GenreThrowback to 70s and 80s disco and funk. Production of the album involved a slew of guest vocalists and reduced electronic components; emphasis was on live instrumentation and vintage synths, leaving only drum machines and vocoders as the main electronic sounds of the album (and even then, live drumming was used on several songs anyway).

''Random Access Memories'' is is the fourth studio album by the veteran electronic music duo Music/DaftPunk, released in 2013 after a lengthy hiatus from their third studio album ''Human After All''. The album, rather than the French house of ''Homework'' and ''Discovery'', is a GenreThrowback to 70s and 80s disco and funk. Production of the album involved a slew of guest vocalists and reduced electronic components; emphasis was on live instrumentation and vintage synths, leaving only drum machines and vocoders as the main electronic sounds of the album (and even then, live drumming was used on several songs anyway).

Upon release, ''Random Access Memories'' received widespread critical acclaim. Its number one hit, "Get Lucky", finally gave the band a legitimate American hit and paved the way for a series of further disco/funk influenced Top 40 hits from other artists, like Music/RobinThicke's "Blurred Lines" (which unfortunately blocked "Get Lucky" from the top of the charts in America), Music/BrunoMars' "Treasure", Mark Ronson and Mars' "Uptown Funk", among others. It also gave Daft Punk five Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Album of the Year award.

* NewSoundAlbum: A GenreThrowback to disco and the early days of electronic music, and features more live instruments and guest vocals instead of say, drum machines and vocoders only.

* {{Sampling}}: Notably, the album in its entirety contains only ''one'' sample during "Contact".

Upon release, ''Random Access Memories'' received widespread critical acclaim. Its number one hit, "Get Lucky", finally gave the band a legitimate American hit and paved the way for a series of further disco/funk influenced Top 40 hits from other artists, like Creator/RobinThicke's "Blurred Lines" (which unfortunately blocked "Get Lucky" from the top of the charts in America), Music/BrunoMars' "Treasure", Mark Ronson and Mars' "Uptown Funk", among others. It also gave Daft Punk five Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Album of the Year award.

Upon release, ''Random Access Memories'' received widespread critical acclaim. Its number one hit, "Get Lucky", finally gave the band a legitimate American hit and paved the way for a series of further disco/funk influenced Top 40 hits from other artists, like Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" (which unfortunately blocked "Get Lucky" from the top of the charts in America), Music/BrunoMars' "Treasure", Mark Ronson and Mars' "Uptown Funk", among others. It also gave Daft Punk five Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Album of the Year award.

''Random Access Memories'' is is the fourth studio album by the veteran electronic music duo Music/DaftPunk, after a lengthy hiatus from their third studio album ''Human After All''. The album, rather than the French house of ''Homework'' and ''Discovery'', is a GenreThrowback to 70s and 80s disco and funk. Production of the album involved a slew of guest vocalists and reduced electronic components; emphasis was on live instrumentation and vintage synths, leaving only drum machines and vocoders as the main electronic sounds of the album (and even then, live drumming was used on several songs anyway).

* GenreRoulette: ''Random Access Memories'', while listed as "Pop" on iTunes, toys around with many different genres and genre influences between songs. "Give Life Back to Music", "Lose Yourself to Dance" and "Get Lucky" are disco, while other songs like "Giorgio by Moroder" and "Contact" are more influenced by electronica, though with some live instrumentation. "Doin' it Right", and "Fragments of Time" fall squarely into soft rock, while "Instant Crush" is a more electronic take on the alternative rock music of singer Julian Casablacas in Music/TheStrokes. Their collaboration with PaulWilliams, "Touch," is a roulette game by itself, mixing disco, pop, roadhouse piano, a children's choir, and sci-fi psychedelia.

* GenreThrowback: While Daft Punk have always toyed with this idea, ''Random Access Memories'' was the first time that they actually sounded like their heroes from TheSeventies. The album features Nile Rodgers of disco band Music/{{Chic}} and Giorgio Moroder (disco producer most known for creating Music/DonnaSummer's best works). The session musicians used for the album were given music by Music/ElectricLightOrchestra, Music/{{Supertramp}} and Michael [=McDonald=] as reference points, and it shows.

* FloatingHeadSyndrome: The cover features both halves of the duo's robot helmets perfectly juxtaposed. [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/731265-daft-punk Any worthy parody of it]] will also share the same design.

Upon release, ''Random Access Memories'' received widespread critical acclaim. Its number one hit, "Get Lucky", finally gave the band a legitimate American hit and paved the way for a series of further disco/funk influenced Top 40 hits from other artists, like Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" (which unfortunately blocked "Get Lucky" from the top of the charts), Music/BrunoMars' "Treasure", Mark Ronson and Mars' "Uptown Funk", among others. It also gave Daft Punk five Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Album of the Year award.

Upon release, ''Random Access Memories'' received widespread critical acclaim. Its number one hit, "Get Lucky", paved the way for a series of further Top 40 hits from other artists, like Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines", Music/BrunoMars' "Treasure", Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk", among others. It also gave Daft Punk five Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Album of the Year award.

* GenreRoulette: ''Random Access Memories'', while listed as "Pop" on iTunes, toys around with many different genres and genre influences
between songs. "Give Life Back to Music", "Lose Yourself to Dance" and "Get Lucky" are disco, while other songs like "Giorgio by Moroder" and "Contact" are more influenced by electronica, though with some live instrumentation. "Doin' it Right", and "Fragments of Time" fall squarely into soft rock, while "Instant Crush" is a more electronic take on the alternative rock music of singer Julian Casablacas in Music/TheStrokes. Their collaboration with PaulWilliams, "Touch," is a roulette game by itself, mixing disco, pop, roadhouse piano, a children's choir, and sci-fi psychedelia.

* GenreRoulette: ''Random Access Memories'', while listed as "Pop" on iTunes, toys around with many different genres and genre influences between songs. "Give Life Back to Music", "Lose Yourself to Dance" and "Get Lucky" are disco, while other songs like "Giorgio by Moroder" and "Contact" are more influenced by electronica, though with some live instrumentation. "Doin' it Right", and "Fragments of Time" fall squarely into soft rock, while "Instant Crush" is a more electronic take on the alternative rock music of singer Julian Casablacas in Music/TheStrokes. Their collaboration with PaulWilliams, "Touch," is a roulette game by itself, mixing disco, pop, roadhouse piano, a children's choir, and sci-fi psychedelia.

* The cover features both halves of the duo's robot helmets perfectly juxtaposed. [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/731265-daft-punk Any worthy parody of it]] will also share the same design.

!!''I listened to your tropes, Now listen to mine''

* SpokenWordInMusic: The autobiographical song "Giorgio by Moroder", in which Moroder himself speaks about his music career.