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Feed the Animals
Feed the Animals cover
Studio album by Girl Talk
Released June 19, 2008 (download)
November 11, 2008 (LP/CD) [1]
Genre Mashup, Dance, Experimental music
Length 53:53
Label Illegal Art(CD/Download)
Wham City (vinyl)[2]
Producer Gregg Gillis
Professional reviews
Girl Talk chronology
Bone Hard Zaggin'
(2006)		 Feed the Animals
(2008)

Feed the Animals is the fourth album by Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis), released on Illegal Art in 2008. It is composed almost entirely of samples taken from other artists' songs, plus minor original instrumentation by Girl Talk. Gillis has stated that the album was created as one long piece of music and then subsequently broken into individual songs.[3]

Contents

[edit] Release

As of June 19, record label Illegal Art is selling the album in a similar fashion to how Radiohead sold their 2007 release In Rainbows – a "pay-what-you-like" system. Gillis states that the goal behind this is to "make it easier for people to get their hands on the music, which is my number one priority."[4] Users choosing to pay $0.00 have to explain why, selecting "I may donate later"; "I can't afford to pay"; "I don't really like Girl Talk"; "I don't believe in paying for music"; "I have already purchased this album"; "I don't value music made from sampling"; "I am part of the press, radio, or music industry", or "other reasons".[5] However, those who pay $5 can access FLAC files and a one-file seamless mp3 version of the album. For $10, users can obtain a physical copy of the album, once it is released. Originally, the physical copy was subject to be released on September 23. However, Gillis has stated that there were "manufacturing issues" involving the production of the CDs, forcing the date to be pushed back to November 11.[6][7]

On March 19, 2008, a purported leak of the album was released on the web and spread quickly on torrent networks. The next day, Gillis posted a message on his MySpace account to assure that the version was a fake. The original artist, Speaky (Sam Bye), soon apologized, explaining that the leaked album was in fact his album Mashcore Volume 2 and that he had posted the album under its correct name but it was subsequently retagged.

In their December 2008 issue, Blender magazine named Feed the Animals as the #2 best album of 2008, behind only Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III. In Australia, the album debuted at #83.

As of 1 May 2009, the album can be purchased as an MP3 download from Amazon.com for $8.99. No Girl Talk albums are currently in the iTunes Store catalog.

The album is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.[8]

[edit] Track listing

An incomplete list of sampled tracks is included under each song. However, the CD includes a list of source material, listing both the song and the artist.[9][10][11] Each track is named after a lyric contained in one of the songs it samples.

[edit] 1. "Play Your Part (Pt. 1)" - 4:45

[edit] 2. "Shut the Club Down" - 3:07

[edit] 3. "Still Here" - 3:57

[edit] 4. "What It's All About" - 4:15

[edit] 5. "Set It Off" - 3:42

[edit] 6. "No Pause" - 3:12

[edit] 7. "Like This" - 3:21

[edit] 8. "Give Me a Beat" - 4:12

[edit] 9. "Hands in the Air" - 4:20

[edit] 10. "In Step" - 3:23

[edit] 11. "Let Me See You" - 4:04

[edit] 12. "Here's the Thing" - 4:46

[edit] 13. "Don't Stop" - 2:58

[edit] 14. "Play Your Part (Pt. 2)" - 3:25

[edit] Unindentified samples

The following tracks were sampled on the album and listed on the "Source Material" inlet of the album[13], but the track in which the track is sampled is currently unknown.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2009) Peak
Position
ARIA Australian Albums Chart 83[14]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/146548-girl-talk-video-blogs-from-tour-animals-cd-delayed
  2. ^ Paul Thompson (2008-06-19). "Pitchfork: Girl Talk's Feed the Animals Available Now!". http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/51389-girl-talks-ifeed-the-animalsi-available-now. Retrieved on 2008-06-23. 
  3. ^ "Girl Talk/Gregg Gillis On New Album, Music Industry". http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/07/16/DI2008071601445.html. 
  4. ^ graham. "Girl Talk Interview - Don't Call Him a DJ". http://www.metrowize.com/girl-talk-feed-the-animals-interview. Retrieved on 2008-06-23. 
  5. ^ "GIRL TALK - FEED THE ANIMALS - ILLEGAL ART". http://74.124.198.47/illegal-art.net/__girl__talk___feed__the__anima.ls___/no_dollars_no_cents/. Retrieved on 2008-06-23. 
  6. ^ Montgomery, James (2008-06-17). "Girl Talk's Just Completed New LP Coming Out Thursday - MTV News". http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1589448/20080617/girl_talk.jhtml?. Retrieved on 2008-06-23. 
  7. ^ http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/146548-girl-talk-video-blogs-from-tour-animals-cd-delayed
  8. ^ "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported". http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Retrieved on 2008-08-05. 
  9. ^ http://waxy.org/2008/10/feed_the_animals_official_sample_list/
  10. ^ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjheil/2968758633/sizes/l/
  11. ^ "Girl Talk Talks To Us About Feed The Animals". 2008-06-20. http://stereogum.com/archives/girl-talk-talks-to-us-about-feed-the-animals_010561.html. Retrieved on 2008-06-25. 
  12. ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/07/16/DI2008071601445.html Girl Talk says that he used Andrea True Connection's "More, More, More" because his original sample idea, Len's "Steal My Sunshine," did not have a section that isolated the piano loop.
  13. ^ Spreadsheet analysis by Any Baio of songs featured on the "Source Material" inlet of Feed the Animals not listed on Wikipedia
  14. ^ http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20090220-0000/issue988.pdf

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