Play Your Part...

January 2, 2017 8:27 PM

Feed the Animals, Annotated. With a Y-Axis for year of the samples' release, even!
posted by Navelgazer (7 comments total)

It's so much fun letting this stream and watching the surprises pop up below the timeline. I hope Girl Talk uses this format for his releases from here on out.
posted by vverse23 at 8:44 PM on January 2, 2017

So much talent from a former engineer and a front-end developer, to mix together some unfortunately pretty crummy songs.
posted by anarch at 12:33 AM on January 3, 2017 [1 favorite]

That is, just, wow.
posted by Mchelly at 7:01 AM on January 3, 2017

some unfortunately pretty crummy songs

Agreed. The songs he chose for vocals made me stop listening 15 minutes in. I did enjoy everything else though. Wished he would've picked better rap lyrics.
posted by numaner at 8:43 AM on January 3, 2017

The first minute of Play Your Part is on the short list of my favorite first minutes of songs ever.
posted by Lucinda at 8:47 AM on January 3, 2017 [1 favorite]

So good! Thanks for posting!

For most people, Girl Talk is either a love or hate thing. There doesn't seem to be much middle ground. Liking hip-hop is probably a prerequisite.

mashupbreakdown.com used to have a visulization of Feed the Animals and also one of his All Day album, but it's been down for a while unfortunately.
posted by macbot3000 at 8:46 PM on January 3, 2017 [1 favorite]

Love Girl Talk. Love his unabashedly juvenile tendency to sample the most vulgar lyrics.

Interesting how, almost a decade later, this album seems less like a broad sample of fifty years of music and more like a portrait of mid-aughts pop. (That could be the link's visualization talking, though.)
posted by HeroZero at 5:55 AM on January 4, 2017 [1 favorite]