No thread on the Girl Talk album, surely some mistake

oh, now i see. thanks

yeah, don't want any corny-looking white dudes hurting the credibility of the group who made those acclaimed mixtapes with Clinton Sparks

-- some dude, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:39 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

in conclusion some dude is a corny looking white dude

The Carla Bozulich thread gave it away for me.

i understand diplo thinks hes not just corny looking ...

really feeling this guys aaliyah mash up with oasis. fucking hot ass man.

so, it's out

paid $5

Paid $10, which only seemed fair considering how much I loved Night Ripper. I've listened to about half so far, still trying to decide how I feel about it, although the "Ghetto Superstar"/"Autumn Sweater" bit did make me smile on the train this morning. It does seem like he's letting samples play out a little longer (although there are also apparently more of them, too -- not sure how that works).

Maybe this is a stupid question, but is this new album the same kind of thing (which I liked)? A bunch of layered samples of hip hop/AOR/indie traxxx/alternative nation stuff? If so, is there a sample-spotting list?

(x-post - I guess that explains it!)

he doesnt put out a sample list himself, but there is a really detailed one on the wiki page for his last album, so imagine there will be one for this one pretty soon as well

Man, I wish I could edit Wikipedia at work. Someone needs to change En Vogue to Soul II Soul. Plus, some samples aren't on there yet (like Carole King's "It's Too Late" on "Give Me a Beat").

Another stupid question - he doesn't pay to clear these samples, right? (I mean, I guess the label is called Illegal Art and stuff, but - he's got to be on big labels' radars, no?).

Nope, he doesn't pay.

Also, it's Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy" instead of "Dreams."

fwiw feed the animals is 12 mins longer than night ripper

this is definitely more like his live shows-- samples laid out pretty plainly and played for longer, doesn't seem to have any moments as intricately built up to as the "say it aint so" solo moment on night ripper or even the "laffy taffy" one

in fact he's actually using a lot of the same rap vocals ("throw some d's", "hood nigga", "i get money", "my drink n my 2 step") as when i saw him probably 8 months ago which probably gives you a window into how long he's been working on this

and how uninteresting it sounds

oh shit deej is really bringing it

but its not just rap songs from 2 years ago... its rap songs from 2 years ago over alt-rock from 6 years ago!!

or even the "laffy taffy" one

I was thinking about this exact moment earlier this morning as the kind of thing I missed on the new album. But it also took me a few listens to Night Ripper for it to really gel with me -- in fact, what amazed me about the process of listening to that album over time is how parts that sounded dissonant at first suddenly began to seem like they'd always gone together and I could anticipate each transition.

There's stuff from 2008 on here: "Sexy Can I," "Low," "Lollipop," etc.

diggin in the crates

is it lollipop over arcade fire or does he go real deep and put it over weezer

That's not the point, though...? I mean, Girl Talk thinks of what he's doing as a tribute to pop music (he talked recently about all of the "wedding songs" on the new album), and one of the interesting things about listening to Girl Talk is how it recontextualizes songs that everyone already knows. If it was about finding the most obscure samples, it wouldn't have this effect.

diggin in the 2004 iTunes folders

xxp It's "Under the Bridge," lol.

ya criticizing girl talk of all people for using popular songs doesn't really hit the mark

my favorite tribute to pop music is the radio. when i move the dial, i can go from 'lollipop' to 'under the bridge' in like 5 seconds

grandpa.jpg

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33642

at least jaymcs arguments dont rely on the twin bastions of reasoning that are "because its fun" and "because youre old"

the grandpa joke was a cheap shot i admit but you must admit, in turn, that you sounded like a comedy grandpa there.

haha yah it was a good zing

red hot challopeppers

i defly share reservations about this stuff and i had a similar show-going experience that felt like a weirdo senior prom with all these college kids swaying back and forth onstage with their cellphones out and shirtless girl talk dude saying "OK HEY GUYS..> GUYS..." over and over again. but at the same time i like it as an exercise in pushing my pop-memory/nostalgia buttons...

nostalgia for the pop radio sounds of 2008

kind of!

you guys remember the days when "Sexy Can I" was all over the radio? those were good times

were u raped by girl talk

though the stuff i found worked the best was like biggie over elton john or whatever

xp

the nightraper xp

red hot challopeppers

-- and what

^^^nice recontextualization

ya of an ILX meme from 2008

ilx was a lot better then

lol lighten up old man, it's catchy

back in the days when memes were cool

it just sounds like one of those upbeat pop/lite-rock for your workday radio stations + a couple rap songs

add gorilla zoe and paul wall to this playlist http://b985.com/lsp/index.html & you could have the next highly anticipated girl talk LP

madonna, prince, animotion, men at work, janet jackson, fergie... all recontextualized by wacky morning djs!!

i guess youd also have to replace nickelback with clap your hands say yeah or something

i like it as an exercise in pushing my pop-memory/nostalgia buttons...

Yes, definitely.

the problem w/ this album i think is that it's kind of the album that haters like deej and ethan who know what he sounds like w/o really listening to him assume he makes, basically kitschy and in some ways obvious vocal samples over kitschy and in some ways obvious instrumental samples just laid out there for ppl to decide "this is a good idea" v. "this is not a good idea". there's no real build-up in these like there were on night ripper, and it's kind of nice but not as much fun. it sounds like his live shows do, it's just not as much fun when you are in your bedroom. i still like this a lot cuz it's like listening to the radio for an hour basically but it's def not on night ripper's level.