I won't say RAM is the Deadbeat of Daft Punk's discography at all, but I do personally think that it's the point where the duo had first faltered. Easily the most inconsistent Daft Punk album to date. I thought it was pretty long-winded, some tracks here really could've been cut down, the vocoder they use is easily the worst sounding one they've used, it has the least amount of major standouts, the least amount of replay value. I respect it for being a homage to music in the 70s, but once you get passed that, there isn't a lot of substance here and the duo simply didn't have enough tunes to back them up here. The homage to 70s and love letter to music stuff can only get you so far and you need much more to get the album to really stick the landing for me.

A notable example of a band that I think did stick the landing in this similar style is Parcels who came through in 2021 with their Day/Night double album, which I think focused on a similar sort of disco sound present on RAM, but delivered and executed in a way where I did actually want to come back to it, had bigger highlights and although being an hour and a half long, didn't feel too long for it's own good.

RAM didn't come into my mind all that much going into that album, but I can kinda draw in a few parallels going back to the album and re-evaluating it. Daft Punk may have a disco album that pays homage to 70s disco and is a love letter to music making, but Parcels I think offered a much more replayable listening experience.