Idolator

Every time Gillis pulls up a song in fucking Ableton, he should be forced to explain why he chose to pay 0.00 for the use of it.

Gillis is no Steinski and, now that we have Steinski around again, why do we need him?

holy shit...this is REALLY bad.

Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers will never be replaced in my heart.

I'm as much for polyglot universal pop as anyone, and the bit where he put "C.R.E.A.M." on top of Argent's "Hold Your Head Up" sounded epic as hell, but the contrasts sound more like conflicts now and there's nowhere near enough surprise to make the novelty, well, novel. I think I gave up on liking this once I heard "Lip Gloss" over a Metallica riff. Eesh.

I'm pumped for this, "Night Ripper" gave me chills several times. Also, I love that he takes music that I find largeley intolerable in it's original form and boils it down to an interesting compositional element. This is going to be like mainlining two years of radio shit in one sitting with the added benefit of (probably) being good art.

@natepatrin: Lip Gloss + Marnie Stern is incredible if you haven't heard it yet.

oh my god, this is terrible! What did he do? raid my dad's itunes for inspiration? take a trip to walmart in 1997 and buy all the "now: that's what I call music" cd's he could find? Listen to WLIT the Lite?
Argh! Night Ripper wasn't so bad, at least the "sample" choices seemed a bit more inspired, (Elastica! yay!) not just what was in the bargain bins, I mean he can use ANYTHING right? It's not like he clears the samples?

I'm still waiting for this to download but I like the idea of Girl Talk. I listen to Night Ripper frequently.

@RaptorAvatar: he took colored-peoples' music and made it white! what's not to like, right?? and since its white..its (probably) art.

@Weezy F Baby: Bad news! He uses Audiomulch and Adobe Audition, so he won't be doing much explaining.

The new Girl Talk is, as he said it would be, a bit less ADD than Night Ripper, but I think it's more awesomer as a result. Prepare to get sick of hearing this at parties.

i haven't heard this yet, but i am totally prepared to enjoy it as a disposable item. girl talk's live shows are fun as hell if you choose to get involved and look stupid and enjoy them, and night ripper and his earlier stuff still have pretty great moments on them. but i stopped listening to night ripper pretty much 6 months after i got it, and i'm sure it'll be the case here as well. it's music that's just not made for a long-term shelf life, largely, and i think everyone who wants to be is okay with that. i still have friends that listen to it all the time, but i feel like those people decrease in numbers everyday. also, i'm not entirely sure he cares about turning 40 different songs into 1?

@sparkletone: oh, please.

Wait, did somebody actually say "he took colored-peoples' music and made it white!" on this thread? Awesome.

@Weezy F Baby: Pedantry is, perhaps, the best response to glib snarkiness.

@Weezy F Baby: The rest of my first post in this thread wasn't really directed at you, but at the general thread topic.

I've been listening to this on and off all day, and was all ready to post a "what are you talking about? This rules" comment until I 1) got pretty bored with the disc, as predicted, and 2) realized I was only on the FOURTH TRACK. So, yeah. Point taken.

wait, did all you haters hate night ripper too? So far, it's tough to compare, but I LOVED night ripper, and this is doing well so far.

On track one he combines a sped up "nothing compares 2 u" with "gettin some (head)" - yes, this rules.

And the entire track "Still Here" is incredible!

How can the same readers/site that pick "Coconut Juice" as the summer jam of 08 *not* like this? You guys make me laugh. Granted, there may not be such an overlap, but the idea of it just makes me laugh.

i'd rather just listen to the dad rock without hearing the same verses EVERY masher-upper has been using for the last few years laid over them.

why even TOUCH "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" after the Hood Internet's completely balls-out take on it?

Gillis is really proficient, so yeah, there are some inspired, seamless moments ("No Diggity" + "Flashing Lights" worked esp. well), but eventually the juxtapositions began to just feel like two adjacent things with the same BPM, as opposed to any sort of artistic choices.

It's damn good party music, what more are you asking for?

"Night Ripper" was both art and good party music - he's probably a victim of having raised the bar too much last time.

and let's face it - being on a label called "illegal art" suggests something more than good party music, as does questioning people about why they choose not to pay for it.

not to be too much on the Hood Internet's jock, but their shit is damn good party music, too, and they just release it for free, no questionnaire.

So fickle this group! Indie darling to sellout as quick as he changes songs.

I have the utmost respect for what he does. Most people don't realize how complicated and tedious it is to create this.

I was a fan of the Latin Rascals in the mid-80's and this is the closest I've heard to their mixes. They were like the Beethoven's of mix DJ's.

Hate all you want, he does his thing. And people love it!

@tankboy: I personally like party music that doesn't change its beat every twenty seconds.

@the_j: Trust me, if there's one thing I get about this album, it's that its "complicated and tedious."

i think it starts off strongly, but by the end it doesn't flow together at all. Night Ripper was like a single hour-long track, but this one is just bleh.

Even the people who don't like it shouldn't front when it comes to how cool the album art is.

He's always been one of the laziest mashup artists around. It's good to see the backlash has finally caught up with my scorn.

All the talk about this being "party music" is making my NRBQ records cry.

@Weezy F Baby: Actually, I only like him because he went to college. If he was some Appalachian Savant who had whittled this album from Vinyl 78s of old blues guys, using only his daddy's pocketknife while high on gas fumes; I would have to spend a year saying it was overrated before embracing it. I also find your Girl Talk hate amusing because you took your username from someone who's work would be way more engaging if he had Gillis's sense of craft and editorial instincts.

funny. classic case of internet buzz turned against a year later. it's pretty much the same as what you all worshiped, but now it sucks because you heard it already. glad AC/DC or Motorhead wasn't just starting out now.

@roeblingx: I think that you're right, it is hard to be a fledgling artist these days, putting out a second album- everyone wants to hear something new. However, I think that maybe the spectacle of what Girl Talk did with Night Ripper isn't suited to a follow up. The formula seems a little dusty the second time around, and a bit overkill. If Feed The Animals came out before Night Ripper, I'm sure the acclaim for it would different, it would probably of had the same buzz that Night Ripper had. You don't really need both albums, which is why there's a backlash. I think he needed to switch up the formula this time around.
That being said, I think that there are great moments on this one, but they all last for about 30 seconds so there's no point getting invested in them.

"Casey Kasem casserole" is the best thing i've heard all week. thank you for hating this bullshit as much as me.

I think to judge this release with the same standards as you would a regular album is a little silly. If you take it for what it is (a DJ set) instead of worrying about Gillis as an "artist", it can be a lot of fun. It's suppossed to make you laugh and dance. Its no different from a Drum and Bass mix album or a mixtape.

I don't really like the "rap" musics that the kids like (why does hip hop hate melody?), but when a visionary band like The Girl Talks put the hippity-hoppity words on top of music I know, like Twisted Sister and Metallica, I feel like I can finally relate. Listening to this album makes me feel like I can "represent". Does anyone know where I can buy a neckerchief?