Girl Talk... Name that Sample
Late Friday night, trying to find a few last mp3s before canceling my eMusic account, I listened to a clip of Girl Talk after a recommendation by Dodge. When it came up shuffling on my ride home, I was hooked. As a mash-up album, it’s a medley of familiar pop songs, rap songs, and staple rock songs. Unlike most mash-ups you might be familiar with, instead of combining two or three sources, Girl Talk's Night Ripper uses dozens of samples on each track, making it nearly impossible for those with ADD to find a point to disembark. Why Gregg Gillis chose the pussyname Girl Talk for his moniker I do not know.
Night Ripper embodies the same appeal that a DJ creates on the dance floor during those brief 30 seconds when both tracks overlap. Here, the whole album is in that state of contant transition. Some samples feel ornamental [Smashing Pumpkin's "Today" lick for one] and every once in a while when I catch myself saying -"I love this song!"- I remind myself: Of course I do. The album is designed to be loved. Not to get all Ayn Rand on y'all, but Gillis is manipulating us. He's pulling our heartstrings by sequencing our favorite tunes from 6th grade through... well... a few months ago.
Coincidentally, this morning, PFM rated it Best New Music. When you are sampling MIA, LCD Soundsystem, Kayne West all of which were Best 2005 Music, you are bound to be loved. If you buy one album this summer that has 200 partial songs, this is it.
Girl Talk - Too Deep (mp3)
Girl Talk - Minute by Minute (mp3)
Girl Talk- Bounce That (mp3)
With 150 samples, most of which will are used under the pretext of Fair Use, it's as if they should have titled the album, Here Come the Lawyers. It makes the Grey Album look like trilobite. Buy it while you can.
Written from jerry yeti's cave at 9:49 AM
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Been listening to this for a couple weeks, now -- he was at Lit a couple Fridays ago (but who goes to see shows at Lit?) -- and I go back and forth between "This is the greatestthingever!" and "Shameless 'I Love the VH1's!'-style pabulum."
When I first got the record, I thought the band's name was Night Ripper, and the CD was called Girl Talk. I wish I still thought that.
woohoo! tits, i love this album...glad you do to!!
great post!
love the mp3s!
This record is gonna explode -- at least for as long as it's able to exist. I put another track called "Hold Up" (which is James Taylor/50 Cent/Weezer) in one of my radio/DJ mixes a coupla months ago. I got the CD from the dude at the label and was b-l-o-w-n a-w-a-y.
Does anyone know the bassline at the end of Minute by Minute (the one with 50 Cent rapping)? It's not the Pixies, but I can't place the name of the group or the song...thanks!
Weezer "Only in Dreams" (sped up a bit) I believe.
Hmmm...just listened to that tune and it's very similar, but I'm thinking along the lines of a song that sounded EXACLTY like the bassline in Minute by Minute...it's bugging me so much that I'm not getting any work done...haha! :)
actually, i think it might be the song "good" by better than ezra. that's the best part of this album. so many forgotten pop songs. ahhh... it's perfect retribution for pitchfork style ready-made hipsters - they don't know their pop past. this album will separate the wheat from the chaff for sure. for once, knowing the ridiculous pop songs (along with the obscurities) will make you cooler than the cooler than thou. yeah.
of course, there is the possibility it isn't better than ezra...
is there a definitive message board for deciphering the samples on this?
Does anyone know the bassline at the end of Minute by Minute (the one with 50 Cent rapping)? It's not the Pixies, but I can't place the name of the group or the song...thanks!
OK, FOUND IT! The sample is from Better Than Ezra's "Good". I feel relieved!
EDIT: hahah...I didn't see the post above this...
No shit. I had a poster of them on my wall in 7th grade (along with 20 other bands). If it wasn't Pixies or Weezer I was lost.
And yeah, there totally need to be a forum and wiki to figure the rest out.
The most surprising for me was Folk Implosion's "Natural One" ... not sure which track it appears on.
Love it! its like Jive Bunny for the 21st century, but much cooler!
well, i've started to put together a bunch of the samples that i've noticed. if someone finds a place to store it - wiki, forum, otherwise, i'll send what i have. it's certainly incomplete and there are some samples where i'm unsure.
i just love how the album digs deeper when you know the sources. like when salt n pepa's "let's talk about sex" is coupled with the music from george michael's "i want your sex" then segues into bell biv devoe's "do me." those deeper references show how clever girl talk actually is. this is the musical equivalent to a dennis miller rant - the more you think about it, the more you understand it and the better (or funnier) it becomes.
someone help me, what is the key-tar riff that blows into the rock riff that rounds out "bounce that" i wanna say it's mid-nineties brit-pop electronica but i cant put a name on it
you must be thinking of "connection" by elastica.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Ripper
yeah, the album really is amazing. good shit.
I agree, I love this album. However, I found your homophobic comment about "Girl Talk" insulting. This album is very gay friendly.
Homophobic? Huh? Not sure why you'd immediately assume that. I apologize if you read into my comments something insulting. Why wouldn't an album -any album- be "gay friendly"? We're talking about about Indie Rock here. We're ALL gay friendly.
Try out Lo-fi FNK's album "Boylife" for a fantastic "gay" album.
In "HOLD UP": Does anyone know that song (music portion) that starts at 1m25s then gets faster at 1m45s? Its sort of a distorted synth or guitar during "shake that laffy taffy".
does anyone know the 80s sample in the middle of "girl talk bounce that"
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