What if I started blogging again? I haven't written anything in a long time. Football season was great, but I wish we were still playing. Now is the season for shredding! But this is not an entry about shredding; it's about music.Yesterday on NPR-ATC(all things considered), Rob, Melissa, and Tom, the NPR music critic, reviewed the new release All Day by an artist I hadn't ever heard of, Girl Talk. I don't even know where to start. The album is a remix on steroids. I think it's made of 100% sampling, because there's absolutely nothing in the album that I've never heard before. But in the same breath, everything's been mixed to create something I couldn't ever imagine. I would describe the listening experience as an exercise in nostalgia and... well... let me start over. I would describe the listening experience as being lead through all the pop music of the last... Ok here's an example: Lil' Jon mashed with Simon & Garfunkel, but only for a second or two before Girl Talk moves on to mashing up at least 2, and sometimes 3 or four samples from oftentimes completely unrelated genre's and eras.
Get it. It's a free download from illegal art as either one continuous 70 something minute track or multiple tracks for easy management. I prefer having the album split into tracks, All Day really is one entire track and album that should be experienced in its entirety at least once!
