OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

this is some all-american stuff right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySZHeosB0rI

its the american version of that verve video.

ILX's Girl Talk hatred is one of the most misguided things ever on this site. "Only WE can be music geeks! Everyone's OTAKU now! Ugh!" Seriously reeks of Star Wars fans complaining about chewbacca tea cozies or something

i'm actually surprised you're not hating on him

i've always rode for Girl Talk

this is just the aftertaste of the goon-culture days when everyone besides me and xhuxk was too shook to have any opinion on rap different than ethan's at risk of being called a herb or a kid-fucker

herbs...
kid fuckers..
curbs...
herb fuckers!
herb fuckers on the bench!
/arlo guthrie

http://www.sonofnostalgiazone.com/prodimages/InsideBaseball03xx.jpg

*rolls eyes, dies*

my dislike of girltalk came more from a vahid/"dahnce" POV than whatever ethan-phobic projection yr going on abt

chewbacca tea cozies

*jizzes on belly*

ILX's Girl Talk hatred is one of the most misguided things ever on this site. "Only WE can be music geeks! Everyone's OTAKU now! Ugh!" Seriously reeks of Star Wars fans complaining about chewbacca tea cozies or something

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, April 14, 2014 5:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've always rode for Girl Talk

this is just the aftertaste of the goon-culture days when everyone besides me and xhuxk was too shook to have any opinion on rap different than ethan's at risk of being called a herb or a kid-fucker

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, April 14, 2014 5:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You are starting to overheat. I just don't like girl talk.

goon-culture days when everyone besides me and xhuxk was too shook to have any opinion on rap different than ethan's

dude fuck you

it's funny how that post is like the mirror image of what he's accusing *the entire rest of ILM* of doing

i understand why ilx doesn't like girl talk but my guess is that it boils more down to politics than snobbery. white suburban dude remixing popular radio for hipster listeners is never going to get broad acceptance here. it is just close enough to actual pop music to feel uncanny

i just can't believe girl talk doesn't play his own instruments and write his own songs. can't we all agree that's what's really wrong with music nowadays?

ok, in retrospect, that ethan post was cray on my part hahaha

it is just close enough to actual pop music to feel uncanny

I think there is something to this

i haven't heard much girl talk stuff but i know i didn't hate it. it felt more rap-oriented or hip-hop than indie/hipster stuff usually does. i can totally believe people lose their shit to it live. i mean i am an olde-tyme sampling/remix/megamix/edit fan, and i think he's got something. dunno if i could listen to a whole album of it, but in the 80's he might have been a cool freestyle edit/remix dude. maybe. i wouldn't mind hearing some of his good rap remixes. he must have some. or production for other people like that freeway thing.

i mostly just remember the girl talk black sabbath thing and i was into that. but then i loved rick rubin's we will rock you remix, so, you know...

yeah whiney i know you didn't start posting til like 2005 or whatever but i can assure you ethan was not the hip-hop consensus in early days. i liked that first really big girl talk mix (the one w/ the neutral milk hotel mashup), i kinda enjoyed it as similar to soulwax mixes etc only coming from an american perspective so there was this rooting in hip-hop and altrock and classic rock and amerindie instead of like betty boo and gary numan, reminded me of danger mouse's parties in the late 90s (he'd always get the crowd going to 'holland 1945' also). felt a little hilarious and really? to see ppl putting it on their year end lists but it was a good workout mix. the later ones didn't do as much for me and i was kinda surprised ppl were still enthusiastic about the guy, like whiney treating him like he's an unparalleled dj god is kinda amazing, but i don't doubt this guy could get a crowd ecstatic, as long as he didn't play any outkast i guess.

i was just thinking of the mid-2005 days when ethan and strongo were dogpiling on ol' Girl Talk

I mean, the thing I loved about him was that he came from the arty, quasi-political Negativland/John Oswald world of plunderphonics and somehow made it commercially viable. He's not some dude just slapping Jeezy YYYYEEEAAAHSSSS on Jimmy Eat World songs.

yeah i've heard so many shittier versions of what he does just from schmucks around town (which must mean there's hundreds of these guys in america alone) and these guys never hesitate to stop the party or the flow of what they're doing regardless of whether ppl are enjoying it to do some lazy 'look at me, i downloaded this app on my ipad!' trick or some clever drop, though really i'm talking more five to eight years ago, most of those guys are doing straight brostep now, i guess due to the decline of hip-hop w/ white millenials.

it's not that I'm baffled that girl talk is popular, more that I forget they exist roughly every other year

girls keep talking, girls always...work it out

MUSIC CRITCS ARE THE ART OF PRETEND FORGETFULLNESS

oh for fuck's sake

apologies for not properly following the writing guidelines from a 10-year-old thread

o but you did!

don't sweat it -- you're in good company.

(ironically i forgot about that thread)

it's just a funny affectation, everybody does it

i did mit mystery hunt this year and one of the puzzles was based off girl talk's discography:

http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2014/puzzle/monster_potatoes/

oh and here's the solution:
http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2014/puzzle-solution/monster_potatoes/

and guess who figured out the conceit of the puzzle

that's right

freelance hellraiser?

Whiney otm

I saw Girl Talk play to 120 ppl above a pub in 2006, it was great

would not go anywhere near the 1600-cap theatre shows he's played since

check my awesome two-bladed snobbishness!

saw Girl Talk play to 120 ppl above a pub in 2006, it was great

yet how many of these attendees went on to form bands?

you don't start a band after seeing Girl Talk, you put you iPod in shuffle mode and find yourself unable to stop skipping to the next track every 30 seconds

I had no idea ILM hated Girl Talk and kinda wish this thread gave me a better idea of why, tbh. Scott otm too, I'm still loving his ep w Freeeway a lot so far as him doing hiphop stuff goes

i just lump him in with the likes of matt & kim at this point, which is probably more the fault of me seeing him at bamboozle '09 than anything else

haha i have no idea what matt and kim sound like but had this vague assumption in my head that you have just completely overturned

and yeah echoing girl talk's kinda lineage in plunderphonics if you listen to the mix before night ripper you get more of a sense of that. as much eye rolling and tiresomeness eventually (well, pretty quickly i guess actually) came out of that mashup moment there's still alot there i remember fondly. also, for ppl who don't know, jason forrest aka donna summer became some kind of motivational sales coach guy, his motivational album (?) is on spotify. this, sadly, isn't but is still awesome - http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Jason+Forrest+10+Amazing+Years

wait wait wait that's not really the same jason forrest is it?! the motivational guy???

oh i mean girl talk and matt & kim at this point serve the 'festival music' function of being made for partying/glowsticking/dancing along with. girl talk just has more recognizable hooks than his compadres (although the time i saw axwell and he dropped songs by rhcp, the fray, and coldplay into his set probably dovetails with gt's sustaining appeal).

actually this (terrible) piece on outkast's place in the edm-heavy festival land kind of sums up gt's appeal at this point

http://edm.com/blog/why-its-EDMs-fault-Outkast-flopped-coachella-2014

haha i actually have no idea - i've looked at pics of both and been like 'maaaybe?', i might have prosopagnosia though, i have my doubts about my temporal lobes.

I did the same thing.

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1534276_697687620264711_26413011_n.jpg
http://www.viceland.com/blogs/nl/files/2010/01/j_forrest_05_cut_web.jpg

aaargh I need answers

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1656012_715049978528475_1406772524_n.jpg
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPiMTtobWVE9cN7stmCTfYR78VH9f0Z3xUfugyqZXo9YMlvtcL

Yes, I'm absolutely trying to kill the thread.

Maura that piece makes a lot of sense, unpleasantly written tho it may be, think hipster crowds've been heading in this direction since early 00s/electroclash rly

Donna summer is fuckin awesome btw