No thread on the Girl Talk album, surely some mistake

it's fun just to 'sample spot'!!!!!!!!

Is anyone wondering if this record is going to get big enough to draw the attention of Big Labels & RIAA? With all the press it's received, I'm little worried Gregg's gonna get sued into next century, because these are Top 40 samples/platinum singles he's hawking left and right. Keep it underground.

I don't have too much else to say about it at this point except that it's my favorite album of the year.

And if anyone wants to go in a chatroom one day to help make a comprehensive list of every sample on the album, then that might be fun. Since his credits are all fucked up ("Oochie Wally" is QB's Finest, not Nas, duh!)

Plus, he won't get sued because:
a) It won't sell more than 5,000 copies
b) What would a label have to gain by suing him? He's probably broke!

Oh, fuck me!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Ripper

i think "night ripper" works fantastically well as an entire mix. there are parts that i get stuck in my head occasionally -- such as ciara/sonic youth and ying yang twins/michael mcdonald -- and i mean i hear both song-sources at once. when i think "rock it, don't stop it, everybody get on the floor," i now hear chiming guitars behind it. and having listened to the whole mix several times, i'm able to anticipate the little snippets when they appear. like "okay, here's where the little arpeggiated bit from the beginning of the pumpkins' "today" comes in." to the point where it now seems so inevitable. i do remember when i first heard the elastica/ciara mash on "bounce that," it seemed awkward, but it doesn't so much anymore.

I believe I will do some adding/correcting!

The first time I listened to it, I sorta felt over-targeted, if you know what I mean.

Runner up for favorite: "Hate Me Now" plus "Say It Ain't So" makes it seem like 1997 again.

The Ciara/SY part too. It's a hell of a lot of fun. Makes a four mile run go quick.

I want to play it for my mom. That'll be the ultimate test!

"Hate Me Now" came out in 99. < /pedant >

i think jeezy over in utero is the balls for me.

you mean minus all that fucking annoying scratching? whew (his new single is OK tho)

i will 2nd that emotion.
somedays.
not all, but some.

Yeah, but you don't like mash-ups.

dude: Girl Talk Fan Organization could always use members

five years ago I'd be caught dead before being seen at a Girl Talk Fan Organization meeting, nowadays, I'll have to seriously reconsider my position

gtfo

i mean, that's great, i'm just a little surprised is all

i will go and get my coat

and maybe he just wanted to make a good, solid party record that, you know, could be listened to for F.U.N., without him having to worry about it being mistaken as his latest friggin' high school science project?

but nah, that can't possibly be it, rite? i mean, cripes, man, wot wuz i even thinkin'?

― hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Friday, November 26, 2010 4:56 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

the album is less fun to listen to than the previous ones. maybe it's more fun to get drunk & dance to but kinda hard to test out that theory, not many drunk people in my living room

surely some mistake

jordan do you like this album y/n

yes, much more than 'feed the animals', altho it's making me wonder if i was too harsh on FTA but i haven't had time to go back & listen to it

and you dont find he lets the samples drag on for way too long? or is doesn't bother you? is your living room full of drunk people?

well honestly i never saw 'night ripper' as party music -- i think it's frenetic in an exciting & listenable way but i always thought it was a bit awkward to listen to -- i thought his show was easier to dance to, but i don't think that style translates as well to record -- but that may just be function to me

if i'm dancing i'd still rather listen to the original 'teach me how to dougie'

awkward to dance to**, sorry

i guess i'm being a bit contradictory but that's the role GT plays in my life

i thought his show was easier to dance to, but i don't think that style translates as well to record -- but that may just be function to me

i agree & that's why this album does so little for me

my ta in a history class im taking asked us what the 2010 equivalent of the soulja boy dance was & i said 'teach me how to dougie' and no one in the room had even heard of it and they all laughed at me for being hip to black teenpop dance trends. had a very whineyesque moment & was tempted to snap back w/ like pfft i bet you dorks would dance to it on the girl talk album, but i thought better of it and just shrugged

lol

looooool

why was he asking you what the 2010 equiv of the soulja boy dance was

she lived in germany for the past two years i think

two eventful years, evidently

teach me how to germany

I have opted to pay $0.00 because:

i find he lets the samples drag on for way too long
my living room is full of drunk people
i was in germany for the last two years
I have no problem w/ the idea of what girl talk does, I just think he's lazy and gimmicky and only hits 2-3x per album
it's like why wouldn't he want to produce some relatively more original shit by doing some crappy Duck Sauce type thing??
also he put 'girl' in his name and people like girls
the little sprat was doing this kind of "hey i'm a rapper now! now i'm procol harum! now i'm 80s keyboard dude" choreography,

does it absolutely kill anyone else when the keys of the vocal and instrumental don't match? it doesn't even happen that often on this new one but totally takes me out of it when it does. love this dude though, i think he's doing something that kinda needs to be done and the few other kitchen-sink remixers that i've heard really can't step to him imo

omg, new post from a facebook friend:

Greg Gillis of Girl Talk: Nothing else has stopped me dead in my tracks with my jaw in my shoes. Whether or not you appreciate the artistic merit of a good mash-up, you have to be able to admit that this person took the concept of a simple "mash-up" and created his own musical category. My brain exploded when I heard "Feed the Animals." It nearly atomized as I digested "Night Ripper" and the most recent release, "All Day." I realize that this might be cheating, as each album contains snippets from something like 300 artists, but if you can combine Lil' John and Paul Simon and make it sound not just good, but amazing, you're a bona fide genius in my opinion. I like Beyonce and Kanye and Lady Gaga as much as the next guy, but I think I appreciate them a lot more when combined with something crazilyunexpected. Is it legal? I'm not sure. Is it awesome? You bet your sweet ass.

stop the presses -- ilxor has corny friends

You bet your sweet ass.

lol deej

Lil' John

stop the presses - non-music nerd enthusiastically expresses unstylish opinion

surely some mistake

let he who has never enthusiastically expressed an unstylish opinion cast the first zing

stop the presses - non-music nerd enthusiastically expresses unstylish opinion

― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Wednesday, December 8, 2010 11:15 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

idk he sounds like a music nerd to me

he's failing pretty hard at being a nerd if he heard Feed The Animals before Night Ripper

surely some mistake

― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Thursday, December 9, 2010 12:16 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark

Damn it. Wiki got rid of the nicely detailed samples list for this new one, they link to the Illegal Art where its just every sample on the entire album in alphabetical order. Annoying.

surely some mistake!

there's http://alldaysamples.com but you have to listen thru for the sample listing to appear

but http://mashupbreakdown.com looks better

i bet the wikipedia talk page still has the old version

that discussion page makes me want to stab my forehead with a pencil. I can't believe people actually spend their free time debating wikipedia policy about an album they have never listened to, to come to a conclusion to removes what almost all admit is a useful resource. Idiotic.

i copied the cached wiki before it went away. will post sometime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zueKq3z3Sk

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All_Day_%28album%29&oldid=401920216#Track_listing

every edit to wikipedia is in the history...only like libel and shit gets deleted deleted

I raved and ranted about it on my blog back in May.
http://aprilfish.blogspot.com/2006/05/plundertronix.html

I don't have too much else to say about it at this point except that it's my favorite album of the year.

And if anyone wants to go in a chatroom one day to help make a comprehensive list of every sample on the album, then that might be fun. Since his credits are all fucked up ("Oochie Wally" is QB's Finest, not Nas, duh!)

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, August 22, 2006 5:25 PM (6 years ago)

any Girl Talk news?

Idk. I am curious.

Interesting to read first 50 posts on this thread, which are very positive! Bc my assumption these days is
" ilx types are not fond of mr Gregg gillis."

let he who has never enthusiastically expressed an unstylish opinion cast the first zing

― the nagl is the nagl (dayo), Wednesday, December 8, 2010 9:22 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What?

http://fortressamerica.gawker.com/media-critic-calls-chris-hayes-sexist-for-girl-talk-r-1635774906

Mark Finkelstein, a NewsBusters editor dedicated to "COMBATING LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS" who "spent ten days in Iraq" once, has a scoop: MSNBC host Chris Hayes was really sexist on the air last night. Which is true, if you don't know who Girl Talk is. Mark Finkelstein does not know who Girl Talk is.

"Paging the MSNBC PC police!" Finkelstein crowed:

On his All In show this evening, Chris Hayes used some decidedly un-PC language to dismiss concerns that ISIS or other terrorist groups might be infiltrating across our porous southern border.

Huffed Hayes: "in the years since September 11, there have been occasional stories of this type. Sort of, a kind of girl talk mash-up of the fear about the border and the fear about terrorism being fused together." The fear of terrorists coming across the border is "girl talk?" Off to the re-education camp with Chris!

Speaking of re-education, by morning Finkelstein had appended his attack on Hayes' "frankly unfeminist... political incorrectness" with an "update":

UPDATE: Reader Tom E. has brought to my attention that "Girl Talk" is the name of a DJ who specializes in mashups. I'd surmise that, like me, most Hayes viewers didn't get the cultural reference and took "girl talk" at face value.