From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Feed the Animals
Feed the Animals
Feed the Animals of music and then subsequently broken into individual
songs.[3]
Release
Girl Talk’s record label, Illegal Art, presently sells the al-
bum in a fashion similar to Radiohead’s release of their
2007 album In Rainbows – a "pay-what-you-like" system
for nonseamless mp3s. 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
Remix album by Girl Talk made from sampling"; "I am part of the press, radio, or
music industry", or "other reasons".[5] However, those
Released June 19, 2008 (download) who pay $5 can access FLAC files and a one-file seamless
November 11, 2008 (LP/CD) [1]
mp3 version of the album; for $10, users can obtain a CD
Genre Mashup copy. Originally, the CD version was planned for release
Plunderphonics on September 23, 2008, but Gillis has stated that there
Experimental music were "manufacturing issues" involving the production of
Length 53:53 the CDs, forcing the date to be pushed back to November
11, 2008.[1][6]
Label Illegal Art(CD/Download)
On March 19, 2008, a purported leak of the album
Wham City (vinyl)[2]
was released on the web and spread quickly on torrent
Producer Gregg Gillis networks. The next day, Gillis posted a message on his
MySpace account to assure that the version was a fake.
Professional reviews
The original artist, Speaky (Sam Bye), soon apologized,
The reviews parameter has been deprecated. explaining that the leaked album was in fact his album
Please move reviews into the “Reception” section Mashcore Volume 2 and that he had posted the album un-
of the article. See Moving reviews into article der its correct name but it was subsequently retagged.
space. In their December 2008 issue, Blender magazine
• Allmusic link named Feed the Animals as the #2 best album of 2008, be-
• Blender
hind only Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III. In Australia, the al-
• CHARTattack link
• Chicago Sun Times link bum debuted at #83.
• Pitchfork Media (8.0/10) 2008 As of 8 July 2011, the album can be purchased as an
• PopMatters link MP3 download from Amazon.com for $5.99. No Girl Talk
• Rolling Stone link albums are currently in the iTunes Store catalog.
• Tiny Mix Tapes link The album is licensed under a Creative Commons
Girl Talk chronology Attribution-Noncommercial license.[7]
Bone Hard Zaggin’
(2006)
Feed the Animals
(2008)
All Day
(2010) Track Listing
1. "Play Your Part (Pt. 1)" - 4:45
Feed the Animals is the fourth album by Girl Talk (Gregg 2. "Shut the Club Down" - 3:07
Gillis), released on Illegal Art in 2008. It is composed al- 3. "Still Here" - 3:57
most entirely of samples taken from other artists’ songs, 4. "What It’s All About" - 4:15
plus minor original instrumentation by Girl Talk. Gillis 5. "Set It Off" - 3:42
has stated that the album was created as one long piece 6. "No Pause" - 3:12
1
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Feed the Animals
Chart (2009) Peak
Position
ARIA Australian Albums Chart 83[8]
7. "Like This" - 3:21 __girl__talk___feed__the__anima.ls___/
8. "Give Me A Beat" - 4:12 no_dollars_no_cents/. Retrieved June 23, 2008.
9. "Hands in the Air" - 4:20 [6] Montgomery, James (June 17, 2008). "Girl Talk’s
10. "In Step" - 3:23 Just Completed New LP Coming Out Thursday -
11. "Let Me See You" - 4:04 MTV News". http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/
12. "Here’s the Thing" - 4:46 1589448/20080617/girl_talk.jhtml?. Retrieved June
13. "Don’t Stop" - 2:58 23, 2008.
14. "Play Your Part (Pt. 2)" - 3:25 [7] "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial
3.0 Unported". http://creativecommons.org/
Charts [8]
licenses/by-nc/3.0/. Retrieved August 5, 2008.
"Pandora Archive". Pandora.nla.gov.au. August 23,
2006. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/
References 20090220-0000/issue988.pdf. Retrieved May 16,
2010.
[1] ^ "Pitchfork: Girl Talk Video Blogs From Tour,
Animals CD Delayed". Pitchforkmedia.com.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/ External links
146548-girl-talk-video-blogs-from-tour-animals- • Feed the Animals official release at Illegal Art
cd-delayed. Retrieved May 16, 2010. • Girl Talk on Myspace
[2] Paul Thompson (June 19, 2008). "Pitchfork: Girl • Andy Baio’s analysis regarding songs sampled in the
Talk’s Feed the Animals Available Now!". album
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/ • Interview with Pitchfork Media
51389-girl-talks-ifeed-the-animalsi-available-now. • Further analysis from Andy Baio, including
Retrieved June 23, 2008. comparison of latest samples listed on the album’s
[3] "Girl Talk/Gregg Gillis On New Album, Music Wikipedia article vs. the official "Source Material"
Industry". The Washington Post. July 29, 2008. list from the CD release of Feed the Animals
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ • Amazon MP3 Album
content/discussion/2008/07/16/ • Feed The Animals Samples, a web-based music player
DI2008071601445.html. Retrieved May 2, 2010. for the album with a synchronized readout of the
[4] graham. "Girl Talk Interview - Don’t Call Him a DJ". samples.
Metrowize.com. http://www.metrowize.com/girl- • User-editable breakdown of samples and timings for
talk-feed-the-animals-interview. Retrieved June 23, Feed the Animals
2008.
[5] "Girl talk - feed the animals - illegal art".
http://74.124.198.47/illegal-art.net/
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