Girl Talk- All Day

Whoa. Thanks for the head's up. Night Ripper is amazing, so I can't wait to check this out.

Illegal Art is buggy as all shit right now, probably because everybody and their grandma is downloading this shit. I can't wait. Work, goddamn website, work!

I'm surprised there isn't an option to pay as you go like there was with Feed the Animals. Maybe enough people didn't pony up. Cheap bastards.

Seems like the samples tend to play out a little longer this time, which I like. I get the argument that the quick changes keep things moving but I like being able to enjoy some of the combos for more than a few seconds.

I think, in general, the longer the samples are allowed to run, the less it becomes about Girl Talk's ability for structuring and creating mini-climaxes and more about the quality itself of the mashup, or the fit between tracks. There are several parts in Feed the Animals were it really stops mattering what is being mixed with what because you are already anticipating a moment and the more it becomes about the mashups themselves, the easier it becomes to treat Girl Talk like many other online mashuppers were you listen to the whole album, then remove 85% of the tracks from your playlist and keep the few jewels.

That said, I think the album picks up considerably in the second half. And relistens will tell everything.

Is it just me, or are others having a hard time downloading this? So frustrating.

Does anyone know if it's available anywhere else without as much trouble?

Site is being overloaded. I suppose there's no problem linking to mediafire in this case, right? Being what it is?

No problem.

I can't wait to listen to this.
Feed the Animals wound up being one of the albums I've listened to the most from this past decade. It was fun to pick out all the samples but after a while it's just a great listen.

Thanks for the mediafire link, Francis!

Yes, many thanks. Finally downloading.

Finally got this downloaded a little bit ago.

On first listen: it's very good, right up there with Feed the Animals if not Night Ripper. The longer samples are a nice change in direction, but other than the songs being longer (which doesn't really matter on an album like this anyway) that's really the only change in direction. But Girl Talk is the type of artist where if he released a carbon copy of Night Ripper every couple of years, I'd be more then happy. They're that much fun.

Not that he's doing that. All of his albums (even his earlier ones, which are a lot artier) have their own unique personalities. Yes, this is a variation on the party album he's been making for a while, but it has it's own feel to it and not being jam packed full of samples is part of it.

What a fucking year in music this is. Incredible.

So the samples are on Wikipedia, but this guy has a great service that allows you to stream the album while information about each sample used pops up simultaneously. He did the same thing for Feed the Animals and it's really cool.

Check it out here.

Wow that's really cool Parker, thanks for the link!

It picks up halfway through, but overall there's a little too much reliance on the old 'rap capella versus rock-funk musical backdrop' to my liking. And quite a few instances where the mix of sung vocals & music is just off key (like the Ramones-Doors mashup, sounds just wrong to me). Far too few truly impressive matchup moments like the beginning of 'This Is The Remix', where there's like five layers of music that gel together perfectly. I was expecting more of that, since he should have the skill down pat by now.
Weird, cause his previous album was full of that- I was more impressed by the technique he displayed there. Maybe also because production technology has evolved so much by now (Ableton Live is simply mindblowing in that regard), and there's quite some artists who have evolved the artform to the next level. I also notice a lack of coherence between different song parts, sometimes it sounds like bits of mashup pieced together. It sounds like a very good mixtape at best. Nothing wrong with that of course, but there's loads of great mixtapes out there- little here to make it stand out as an individual work like the previous GT albums.

This may be a good place to drop a link to J-Slim- musicwise more dubstep, although he does great things with pop as well. And adds scratches and truly impressive timed video trickery. If you like this sort of thing, have a look:
http://vimeo.com/13930071

The funny thing is that though Ableton Live would probably make his job so much easier, GT still uses Audiomulch when he plays live. It's positively antiquated by comparison.

Still, his biggest strength is just finding songs that go so well together. Part of the joy of 'Feed the Animals' and this album is that some samples just go so well together that it's easy to forget they're samples at all.