All Day
Encyclopedia
All Day is the fifth album by American mash up
musician Girl Talk
, released by the record label Illegal Art
on November 15, 2010 as a free download. The album consists of 372 overlapping samples
of other artists' songs.
All Day was released as one seamless 71-minute file and as 12 separate tracks, available in MP3
and FLAC
. As with prior Girl Talk albums, the Illegal Art website states that All Day was "intended to be listened to as a whole," but was "broken up into individual tracks only for easier navigation."
, posted a complete list of samples used on the album on their website. Illegal Tracklist also added a track listing on All Day as well. Other sources have created time listings to assist in studying the music.
, the album has a score of 79 out of 100, indicating "Generally positive reviews." It was released as a free download without prior advertising.
The 372 samples in the album were described as "instantly recognizable hooks" Reviewers frequently praised the innovation of the music style, saying that it is "like nothing you’ve ever heard," "[rehabilitation for] disposable pop," among those "tricks [that] just don’t get old," with appeal "first for the sampled songs themselves, [and] second for the thrill of the novelty of early mash-ups," and that "the entire mega-mash-up is stupendously danceable."
Mashup (music)
A mashup or bootleg is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another...
musician Girl Talk
Girl Talk (musician)
Gregg Michael Gillis , better known by his stage name Girl Talk, is an American musician specializing in mashups and digital sampling. Gillis has released five LPs on the record label Illegal Art and EPs on 333 and 12 Apostles....
, released by the record label Illegal Art
Illegal Art
Illegal Art is a sampling label that was started by a person using the name Philo T. Farnsworth in 1998. The label was instantly launched to infamy with the legal threats surrounding Deconstructing Beck, a compilation made exclusively from sampling Beck's music. This was followed by two other...
on November 15, 2010 as a free download. The album consists of 372 overlapping samples
Sampling (music)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...
of other artists' songs.
All Day was released as one seamless 71-minute file and as 12 separate tracks, available in MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
and FLAC
FLAC
FLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost...
. As with prior Girl Talk albums, the Illegal Art website states that All Day was "intended to be listened to as a whole," but was "broken up into individual tracks only for easier navigation."
Track listing
Girl Talk's record label, Illegal ArtIllegal Art
Illegal Art is a sampling label that was started by a person using the name Philo T. Farnsworth in 1998. The label was instantly launched to infamy with the legal threats surrounding Deconstructing Beck, a compilation made exclusively from sampling Beck's music. This was followed by two other...
, posted a complete list of samples used on the album on their website. Illegal Tracklist also added a track listing on All Day as well. Other sources have created time listings to assist in studying the music.
- "Oh No" - 5:39
- "Let It Out" - 6:29
- "That's Right" - 5:22
- "Jump on Stage" - 6:22
- "This Is the Remix" - 6:02
- "On and On" - 5:09
- "Get It Get It" - 5:33
- "Down for the Count" - 6:37
- "Make Me Wanna" - 6:23
- "Steady Shock" - 5:47
- "Triple Double" - 6:27
- "Every Day" - 5:10
Critical reception
All Day was well-received by most music critics upon its release. On the review aggregate site MetacriticMetacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
, the album has a score of 79 out of 100, indicating "Generally positive reviews." It was released as a free download without prior advertising.
The 372 samples in the album were described as "instantly recognizable hooks" Reviewers frequently praised the innovation of the music style, saying that it is "like nothing you’ve ever heard," "[rehabilitation for] disposable pop," among those "tricks [that] just don’t get old," with appeal "first for the sampled songs themselves, [and] second for the thrill of the novelty of early mash-ups," and that "the entire mega-mash-up is stupendously danceable."
Press
- New York Magazine's Vulture blog essay on Girl Talk by Nitsuh Abebe (November 18, 2010)
- SPIN.com interview with Gregg Gillis by Peter Gaston (November 17, 2010)
- MTV.com interview with Gregg Gillis by James Montgomery (November 15, 2010)
- Interview w/ New York Magazine's Vulture blog by Mike Ayers (November 17, 2010)
- Spinner Interview w/ Gregg Gillis by Jason Anderson (November 15, 2010)
- Dallas Oberserver's DC9 blog on The Toadies and Girl Talk by Pete Freeman (November 16, 2010)