No thread on the Girl Talk album, surely some mistake

Still, I'm gonna start loading my hard-drive with song-pieces now! My roommate's gonna try too. I'll post the results in 2008 if I pull it off! Everyone should do this.

Far more important: the sweet alarm of the synth on the chorus.

Seattle should be declared a Music-Free City. It would save the world from copious amounts of dreck.

-- The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (rodneyjgreen...), January 7th, 2007.

No Christmas card from Sir Mix-a-Lot for you this year!

otm

The idea of Girl Talk is better than its execution. The songs don't congeal into something greater than the sum of their parts,

This is patently false. That was one of the most compulsively listenable albums of last year.

terrible

Still love it.

Did you even hear it, deej? Your post above implies not.

Your post from January, I mean.

this album either makes me want to hear the songs in their entirety or it bores me because the song choices are obvious.

sometimes both at once

so so terrible

Decrying the obviousness of the song choices = way to miss the point.

OTM.

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.
OTFM

haha this disc is great
i'm white btw

we could have guessed that.

xxxpost The point of the album is recontextualizing songs you already know.

song choices being obvious aka familiar is half of why this is so great in the first place.

right :/

i'm not missing the point, i just don't care about this guy's recontextualizing.

there's nothing as complex as recontextualization going on with this album...

no matter what context i hear 'in da club' in, i don't want to hear it any more

he can recontextualize it all he wants

merely sticking songs and bits on top of each other is not recontextualizing in and of itself.

you have to have vision

a vision

yeah except most of the songs he uses aren't as dated as 'in da club.' they will be in a few years (which is obv a problem), but a good portion of the rap is stuff from 2005-6 xxxpost.

and you have to recontextualize it as something, not just lump it together with everything else

xp

but i guess you'll just say you're tired of hearing "laffy taffy" or "oh" and i still buy that. matter of taste, etc.

or tolerance rather.

"This mix CD doesn't use the songs that I like!"

"I'm not tired of Das Damen. Why doesn't he recontextualize some Das Damen?"

"This mix CD doesn't use the songs that I like!"

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:40 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this is not a legit criticism why?

"In Da Club" still sounds tremendous.

"This mix CD doesn't use the songs that I like!"

sarcasm RIP

the album was pretty much bullshit, i'll give it another try on a party night or something

this is not a legit criticism why?

-- deej, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:42 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Because he's clearly not making his music for you.

there's nothing as complex as recontextualization going on with this album...

I'm just gonna quote something I wrote a while back:

Two stray thoughts about Girl Talk's Night Ripper:

1. When I'm listening to the album, the Ciara/Sonic Youth collision doesn't totally gel -- up against that ringing guitar, her voice is just a little off, pitch-wise. But when the mash-up surfaces in my mind a day later, it's perfect: "rock it, don't stop it, everybody get on the floor" syncs up with the stripped-down chords and it becomes this ideal blend for someone like me who appreciates slick new-school R&B as much as dirty art-school rock, triggering simultaneous memories of bumping Ciara in the car last spring and making out to Sonic Youth in high school -- even if the perfection doesn't quite exist outside of my head.

2. So much of the pleasure of Night Ripper has to do with anticipation, but it's a different kind of anticipation than in a song where you're like, "Oh oh, wait for this awesome drum fill" -- because what you're waiting for (whether it's the intro to "Another Day in Paradise" or the main lick from "Mundian to Bach Ke") a) doesn't seem to have anything to do with what you're currently hearing, and yet b) also feels completely inevitable. This is why I don't really buy the argument that the album doesn't have any replay value. It's only because I've heard it more than once that I can experience this discrete thrill -- and when it happens over and over, in rapid-fire succession over 42 minutes, it's a recipe for delirium.

In a weird way, it reminds me of performing Shakespeare: just as Night Ripper dazzlingly stitches together samples, A Midsummer Night's Dream assembles strings of iambs. And so after you've run through the show enough times, each absurd, archaic line no longer exists on its own: they all spill out in an oddly logical sequence, unbroken in your memory.

i remain unconvinced