[QUOTE=halfer;53145141]You guys seem to be fans, what do you think of Cross overall?
I listened to it for the first time about 2 years ago and the the second half of the album is fucking obnoxious. Like, "Tthhee Ppaarrttyy (Feat. Uffie)", for example, or Waters of Nazareth. Do you guys like this stuff? I think I only managed to listen to the album whole way through 4 times, otherwise I stop at "Valentine" and have no regrets
Also, since people mentioned Daft Punk, what do you people thought of RAM?[/QUOTE]
I always thought Random Access Memories was a weak album. I think a handful of songs could be considered genuine to the Daft Punk style, but as a whole, it didn't sit well with me.
Also, Cross is the shit, and Waters of Nazareth is too...
[QUOTE=halfer;53145141]You guys seem to be fans, what do you think of Cross overall?
I listened to it for the first time about 2 years ago and the the second half of the album is fucking obnoxious. Like, "Tthhee Ppaarrttyy (Feat. Uffie)", for example, or Waters of Nazareth. Do you guys like this stuff? I think I only managed to listen to the album whole way through 4 times, otherwise I stop at "Valentine" and have no regrets
Also, since people mentioned Daft Punk, what do you people thought of RAM?[/QUOTE]
I like how Valentine follows into tthhee ppaarrttyy though
[QUOTE=Mech Bgum;53145153]Since we are fans, well, we... like it, duh.
Justice did a great job putting together a dance music album with peaks and quiet moments. Like, as far as dance music albums go, it's up there near Discovery. They really are basically Daft Punk 2.0. These dudes are genuinely into all sorts of pop, rock and dance music, ranging from 50s to 90s. Which is a shame for all of us who want more Cross stuff and not EDM homages to AC/DC and 80s pop.[/QUOTE]
You can be a fan and dislike stuff, or have a more complicated relationship with a piece of art.
But I get you, I just wanted to see what people thought of the album nowadays
With RAM it feels like they wanted to make a more "concepty" Discovery, putting an even bigger emphasis on their influences and history; but they ended up making an album that seems to be 40% Muzak, at least that's the way I feel about it. Get Lucky is great though
[QUOTE=Davoc;53145163]I like how Valentine follows into tthhee ppaarrttyy though[/QUOTE]
I like the transitions too, the songs themselves don't work for me [b]at all[/b], unfortunately; and it's not like I'm a stranger to glitch and noise music
[QUOTE=halfer;53145141]:snip:[/QUOTE]
I found Waters of Nazareth un-listenable the first few times I heard it but it kind of grew on me after a while. As for Tthhee Ppaarrttyy, I've always thought it would be a lot better off without Uffie.
[QUOTE=halfer;53145141]You guys seem to be fans, what do you think of Cross overall?
I listened to it for the first time about 2 years ago and the the second half of the album is fucking obnoxious. Like, "Tthhee Ppaarrttyy (Feat. Uffie)", for example, or Waters of Nazareth. Do you guys like this stuff? I think I only managed to listen to the album whole way through 4 times, otherwise I stop at "Valentine" and have no regrets
Also, since people mentioned Daft Punk, what do you people thought of RAM?[/QUOTE]
Waters of Nazareth was what got me into Justice in the first place.
I despised The Party and removed it from my playlist until years later when I suddenly loved it.
I hate the first few seconds of Stress then it's a banger.
RAM is very average. It's not bad in any way, it's a slow burner and not as avant-garde as any of their previous albums.
Also I just realized it's 2018 and we didn't get Alive 2017.
[QUOTE=halfer;53145141]Also, since people mentioned Daft Punk, what do you people thought of RAM?[/QUOTE]
RAM was weak. There was only one song that stood out on it for me, which was Giorgio by Moroder. All the rest of the songs felt more like background music rather than anything with substance.
Seriously, gimme an album full of this, I'll drop money hard.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhl-Cs1-sG4[/media]
[QUOTE=Bonzai11;53144712][hd]https://youtu.be/sy1dYFGkPUE[/hd]
Need to finally get around to getting some prints of shirts from D.A.N.C.E. made[/QUOTE]
I literally just picked up the special edition 7inch of this yesterday, fucking love Justice man, music of 2006-2007 <3
[QUOTE=Weirdness;53145518]RAM was weak. There was only one song that stood out on it for me, which was Giorgio by Moroder. All the rest of the songs felt more like background music rather than anything with substance.
Seriously, gimme an album full of this, I'll drop money hard.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhl-Cs1-sG4[/media][/QUOTE]
Yep, exactly! Like I said, 40% of it feels like muzak
[QUOTE=notlabbet;53144723]why did they edit the audio of the music video to have stupid sound effects for the words?
it sounds so much worse[/QUOTE]
Yeah, has very fucked up mixing. At some parts it almost sounds like there would fuckload of passing cars playing this song and they were passing right next to your ear.
When I spoke to Gaspard, he kinda talked about that had more live ideas for Woman then the album itself, as it focuses less on the heavy house vibe from the Cross era, yet live the go fucking mental on some tracks, like Chorus being a full fledged minimalistic german techno kinda thing, and Fire, Alakazam, Pleasure and a bunch of other songs going into each other.
After I picked up the AAA and ACtU albums, I have fallen more in love with the live performances, and treat them as their separate entity in general, due to the nature of them being so different. I dislike the studio version of Helix now, after you have the intermission section that bridges it into Phantom I on the AAA album.
Edit - My thoughts on Cross is the fact that their House vibes really elevate the album for me. Like they sampled Britney Spears I think on either Valentine or the Party along with D.a.n.c.e, and I just love the fact that Tenebre got 2 massive songs, along side hooks from Prince, Boney M, The Brother Johnson, Night on Bald/Disco Mountain and Michael Jackson is the main ending part for Waters of Nazareth, which is why people debated if "One Minute to Midnight" is kinda a nod to the fact that they resampled Thriller as the ending for Waters
I was disappointed by their second album but still thought it was catchy in its own way.
I went to their AVD tour and holy fuck it was like a different timeline where they never stopped producing songs from the Cross era. They merged what I liked about AVD with what I loved about Cross.
Somehow the album release of their AVD tour is very different from what they played in Montreal and I enjoy it much less.
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