So I’m about a month late on the Girl Talk coverage. To be honest, this is because I was pretty disappointed with the show early last month. Perhaps by no fault of Gregg Gillis himself, the show was nevertheless a breeding ground for unsavory characters and sweaty alt bros to borrow a term from hipster runoff. It also marked the first concert where I found the females were causing more trouble then the males. Why? I have no idea. But every time I got elbowed more than necessary, pushed or had to deal with someone super high on drugs it was more often then not a girl. One in particular, you know who you are.

The show itself was fine though and I probably would have enjoyed it at a smaller venue. I’m therefore renouncing my future attendance to any sold out shows at Metropolis, barring extenuating circumstances. I think it was originally planned for Club Soda and got moved. Which by the way I didn’t find out until I showed up that night and saw a big crowd outside Metropolis and no one at Club Soda. Holy unorganized shit batman.

So this week I’m gonna post an old favorite Girl Talk remix of mine, because it would be really lame if I posted something from Feed the Animals, you should all have that album by now. Oh, and this dude named Kanye West released an album. I think it was called 808s and Heartbreaks. The sales figures for the first week were no graduation but I supposed that this album is more of an experiment so a mere 450,000 for the first week will do.

I’m not going to post a song from that album because Island records will likely harass me. Instead, here’s a filthy Common song featuring Kanye West that seems to be entirely about sexual innuendo.

Peter Bjorn & John – Let’s Call it Off [Girl Talk Remix] (zshare)

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Common – Punch Drunk Love [feat. Kanye West] (zshare)

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Gregg Gillis has fed the animals, and my appetite for an unreasonably fun, insurmountably catchy summer mashup album. I doubt I was alone in holding my breath in anticipation of a new Girltalk album. Surely it would fall short to the high standards Night Ripper set… After listening to the album about 10 times through over the last two days, I’m prepared to say that it is every bit as catchy and well though out as Night Ripper. In fact I’m prepared to say it’s even better.

Taking a page from the book of Radiohead, Feed the Animals is available online on a pay what you can basis. Paying less than 5$ will get you the album in mp3 format, paying 5$ or more will get you the mp3’s, the FLAC files and a single mp3 with the whole album mixed. Paying 10$ or more will get you all that and a physical copy of the CD once it comes out. Download it here.
Girl Talk – Shut the Club Down (zshare)

Girl Talk – Still Here (zshare)