girl.talk.

Oct 27, 2006 at 8:08 PM
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Are you the kind of person who likes to balance their intake of popular music by switching between hip hop, motown, alternative, and 80's hits on the radio? Oh are you? Well you are in for a surprise.

Night Ripper

Girl Talk is the hottest popular culture overload to date. Its just so meta. Girls love it. Boys love it. College kids love it. Hipsters love it. And I think its about time voxers get a taste too. You may find it a bit overwhelming at first, your aural senses bombarded with switching beats and overlapping lyrics that visit your most expansive adventures in pop music. Sometimes you'll get lost, and wonder where you started from. But then, mixed beats like Ying Yang Twin's 'Whisper Song' pulse behind the sensitive melody of The Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' and you'll notice that everything is in its place again.

Harold, just blogged about it, including the album Night Ripper's first track. I'm going to go ahead and post the third track, 'Hold Up' for your listening pleasure. If you want to map out my favorite moments, key into the track at 0:42, 1:45, and 2:28 for some delicious mix-up moments.

Hold Up

Girl Talk

I could approach this music at a different point, and go on about its existence as a cultural artifact of the media-saturated society that is our modern time. But I won't. Girl Talk is just too much a of a guilty pleasure to spoil. F'uh raaaals.

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I've been having a hard time with this album. I have it, on the recommendation of my girly, and she generally has superb taste. I've loved the first track a heck of a lot, but from there on it seems to lose me. I am perservering though; I want to love this album.

[this is good]

Thanks for the tip.

[this is good]

Hmm, I struggle to consume the jumble of melodies. Perhaps it is my 80's music upbringing where songs thrummed away for 3 minutes expounding the same melodies, beats and lyrics. Is this style of mashup and its popularity a sign of our ADD times and the flash, flash, flash of media consumption? Or, is it something new and my old ears just can't consume it ... Yet.

ha -- you bunch of old fcks..lol. I bought this album a couple of weeks ago -- good fun but doesn't seem to get much play from me..a similar albulm that kicks booty was put out by that prodigy prodigy.. cant remember his name but the albulm is.... (one sec).. the dirtchamber sessions..

rocks.
same shit but from 1999 at the end of the millenium.

At the moment, my music service only has Secret Diary and Unstoppable from Girl Talk. I found Secret Diary to be unlistenable, but Unstoppable was good. Hopefully they'll add Night Ripper soon. Thanks for sharing.

i forget to mention the proverbial "if you like Night Ripper, you might also enjoy..."

As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Part 2

Which isn't ground up quite so finely,but kicks all kicks of ass.

Any and all 2 Many DJs material is Highly recommended for fans of Night Ripper.

Hmm... I didn't like it for the first 30 seconds or so, but it's growing on me. I don't know how I feel about them using one of the best songs ever by one of the best bands ever (Pixies). Oh, and now I'm hearing Weezer. This is nutty.

Hey all! It was really cool to see everyone's response to this music. I didn't include this in the main post, but I have to admit, the first time I heard it I thought to myself 'This is way way way too much in too little time. Its too much to handle', and didn't plan getting the album or revisiting Girl Talk again. My housemate played it two weeks ago when we were lounging around with some folks talking, and thats when I really started to grow on it. Once I played it again for my intern friends at my internship, and we were all jamming along talking, working, and singing to the tracks I really had a knack for it.

It is definitely a media overload, calling to the ADD culture (as Sean Smith proposed) that has characterized much of my generation. But through its absurdity and beat matching, it is quite the complexly designed musical tapestry. I have to say that I think it works best in the background of a loud party, while working hard at your computer, or dancing with yourself, not quite the kind of music you would lay down and listen to while contemplating the meaning of your belly button.

Thanks for all of the other recommendations too guys.

girl.talk.

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