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All the usual ILM friendly faves mashed up into one 16 track extravaganza. Pavement, MIA, Neutral Milk Hotel, Annie, even a bit of Beatles and Genesis to keep Geir happy. What's not to like?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

and straight outta PGH!!!

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

― edde (edde), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

I feel Gregg's style is Memory-lane Assault!! The Smashing Pumpkins tease riffs, etc. Does anyone listen to his work repeatedly? It seems like this novelty that you listen to once, think "neat!" and then put it on the shelf. Low on the replayability and he's killing the conventional DJs- when people show up expecting to dance to something like Girl's laptop and mouse style.

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.

― Employee of the Month (soulex45), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 16:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

I would've started a thread on this but didn't bother after the pfork review since I knew there'd consequentially be so much hate.

― xave (xave), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

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, 22 August 2006 17:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

Also, EOTM, I listen to this album all the time because Gregg understands the push and pull of the original tracks. He knows where the climax should be and which parts of a song are the parts you want (seriously, is there ANY part of that Rentals song you need besides one or two "Ooh-ooh-hoo-hoo"s?)

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!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

i dunno, i think it's got replay value.
but, then again, i could sit all day and enjoy the Memory Lane Assault style!

― edde (edde), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, probably the worst that might happen is a Cease & Desist order.

― Rodn y Greene (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

uhh, like, "oochie wally" is by the bravehearts, not qb's finest, duh! :)

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

I play it all the time. It's my favorite non-reissue of the year so far.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

no mistake

― marc h. (marc h.), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

i think this is pretty cool. reminds me of the avalanches kinda.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

uhh, like, "oochie wally" is by the bravehearts, not qb's finest, duh! :)

Oh, fuck me!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

i play it relatively alot too - it's good for workouts, shelving books, etc.; i can't imagine dancing to it really. has probably too many moments for me to rave unreservedly and only a few that completely own me. i definitely play it alot though. one thing i like about it in contrast to the avalanches, 2manydjs, frenchbloke, whatever other mashup mixes of yesteryear, is that it's baseline is very firmly hip-hop, instead of rock or pop or 'dance'. i still prefer avalanches gimix and the triple j from - dear god june 02 - but i haven't worn this out yet. truth be told what it reminds me of most, without being nearly as time focused or 'spot the break', is playgroup's partymix.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

'too many moments that don't quite come off' i should say

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

His shirtless/breathless live performance is a lot of fun.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

if you're interested in which samples are used, check out the wikipedia article:

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

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

by the way, what's the sample that ties 'hate me now into 'laffy taffy', that intense distorted thing? i don't see it listen on the wiki.

― sublime frequency (sublime frequency), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

I really love the album. From an e-mail to my brother, who was complaining that some of it sounded forced:

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.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh also, Annie is a little shoehorned in there. It's not a very good segue, it comes off more like, "Oh shit, half hour in, and I haven't put any Annie in there yet."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

if you're interested in which samples are used, check out the wikipedia article

I believe I will do some adding/correcting!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ha ha, that wiki article contains the answer to a question I've had while listening ! Thnak you ILM.

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

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

My first wiki edit ever!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

it's really, really, really wonderful. party of the year, but it's also fun to just play spot the sample for 40 minutes.

― Emily B (Emily B), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

Biggie plus Elton John is about 600% better than Eminem and Elton John.

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

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

Love that Biggie/Elton John bit as well.

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

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

This is the only album that my 18 year old pastry chef and I can listen to in the kitchen and not fight about. It's fun to try and explain the source material to someone who has never even heard of the Pixies.

― Dan Floss (Dan Floss), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:03 (6 years ago) Permalink

wooo pittsburgh

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

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

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Hate Me Now" plus "Say It Ain't So" makes it seem like 1997 again.

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

― Rodn y Greene (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 04:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

This album is kind of unfortunate.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 05:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

The album fucking exhausts me. Recognizing a sample is rush-inducing, but nearly an hour of nonstop rushes gets tiring. I frequently find myself wishing dude would let some of his samples play out to even out the energy.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 24 August 2006 00:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

this reminds me of hollertronix "never scared" for obvious reasons and for the first-time "wheeee!" factor followed by rapidly diminishing returns on repeat listens. still... good first listen!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 24 August 2006 01:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

i didn't think i was ready to admit it, but this album makes me happy. with the full awareness that i'm being more or less demographically submission fucked. but its still gets me smiling after ten or twelve listens.

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

― pm (p-m), Thursday, 24 August 2006 03:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

Never Scared is just so precious compared to Night Ripper. I never got the hype over that album anyway. Z-Trip and P's Uneasy Listening came out a year before and mops the fucking floor with Hollertronix.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 24 August 2006 06:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

Has nobody on this thread ever heard a fucking mix album before? It's like DJ Yoda with all the fun sucked out of it and replaced by a shitload of chinstroking tedium.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's like DJ Yoda with all the fun sucked out of it

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

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

No 80s kids TV themes, no credibility.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 August 2006 12:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

wooo pittsburgh

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

― edde (edde), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

This album is kind of unfortunate.

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

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

I tried to get into this but for every three great moments there's one that makes me cringe. Still haven't made it from beginning to end yet. It doesn't seem all that new to me, coming after all the other mixes mentioned upthread -- 2 Many DJ's, Playgroup Partymix, Hollertronix, Caps and Jones, etc. Guess I am burned out on this style.

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

dom your stumping for the aesthetics of mid-90s dj'ing never ceases to bring a tear to my eye

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

if anything girl talk is like a really hyper internet-age update of those 80s latin rascal/shep pettibone megamixes

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

pop hits, y'all

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

5 minutes of huge, cavernous, anonymous electro drums...wtf hall and oates?!

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

Using the word "mash-up" around this record is insulting.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

pfork + latin rascals is as accurate a summation as i can imagine

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

one thing i did appreciate about dude live is that he kept a...well not a steady beat but definitely a pulse going throughout. you could dance to all of it. (and people did.)

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:14 (6 years ago) Permalink

i listened to it again yesterday....it's pretty neato....it's kind of like watching someone do card tricks or pulling coins out from behind your ear.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

ADD DJ

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

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are there people doing this same thing and doing it better? considering how easy it seems... (I don't pay enough attention to know)

― iatee, Friday, 26 November 2010 20:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

like 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

― iatee, Friday, 26 November 2010 20:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

think this record was designed more than ever to be played on a dancefloor to drunk people, and not to be listened to in your home

― ＿|￣|○|￣|○|￣|○ (dayo), Thursday, November 25, 2010 8:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i keep hearing either this, or the entire opposite of this, from supporters. not v much party unity on this one

― challop and a muff (deej), Friday, 26 November 2010 20:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

I think it's more that this is not an album for repeat listening, unlike Feed The Animals (imo).

― seandalai, Friday, 26 November 2010 20:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

maybe not, but it sure does sound great NOW.

― hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Friday, 26 November 2010 20:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

i keep hearing either this, or the entire opposite of this, from supporters. not v much party unity on this one

― challop and a muff (deej), Saturday, November 27, 2010 4:53 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

I missed the last weekly Girl Talk Supporters Association meeting, also forgot to paid my dues, can't get the 20% discount to Girl TAlk shows like I used to have

― dayo, Saturday, 27 November 2010 00:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

dude: Girl Talk Fan Organization could always use members

― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Saturday, 27 November 2010 00:42 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― dayo, Saturday, 27 November 2010 00:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

gtfo

― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Saturday, 27 November 2010 00:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Saturday, 27 November 2010 00:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

i will go and get my coat

― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Saturday, 27 November 2010 00:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― samosa gibreel, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

surely some mistake

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

jordan do you like this album y/n

― samosa gibreel, Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 November 2010 21:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

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?

― samosa gibreel, Saturday, 27 November 2010 21:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

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'

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 November 2010 21:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

awkward to dance to**, sorry

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 November 2010 21:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― J0rdan S., Saturday, 27 November 2010 21:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― samosa gibreel, Saturday, 27 November 2010 21:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

lol

― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Saturday, 27 November 2010 21:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

looooool

― markers, Saturday, 27 November 2010 21:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― dayo, Sunday, 28 November 2010 00:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

she lived in germany for the past two years i think

― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 28 November 2010 01:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

two eventful years, evidently

― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Sunday, 28 November 2010 01:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

teach me how to germany

― dayo, Sunday, 28 November 2010 01:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

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,

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 28 November 2010 08:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― sleepingbag, Sunday, 28 November 2010 22:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

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.

― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 9 December 2010 04:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

stop the presses -- ilxor has corny friends

― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Thursday, 9 December 2010 04:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

You bet your sweet ass.

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 9 December 2010 04:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

lol deej

― flopson, Thursday, 9 December 2010 04:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

Lil' John

― the nagl is the nagl (dayo), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

surely some mistake

― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― the nagl is the nagl (dayo), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Thursday, 9 December 2010 05:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― maher shalal hash tagz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

surely some mistake

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

― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Thursday, 9 December 2010 06:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

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.

― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

surely some mistake!

― sarahel, Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― modrić in paradise (blueski), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

but http://mashupbreakdown.com looks better

― modrić in paradise (blueski), Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

i bet the wikipedia talk page still has the old version

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 17 December 2010 00:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

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.

― skip, Friday, 17 December 2010 00:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― rhymes with a$$ange (Hunt3r), Friday, 17 December 2010 02:48 (2 years ago) Permalink

― franz kaptcha (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 December 2010 02:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― zvookster, Friday, 17 December 2010 03:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

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

― zvookster, Friday, 17 December 2010 03:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

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.

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

― Einstürzende Joebarton (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:34 (8 months ago) Permalink

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