First off – special thanks to @bb42 and @sranderson for turning me on to this album – Feed the Animals
by Girl Talk.  Feed the Animals is the work of Gregg Gillis and is made entirely of sampling with a little bit of composition.  In the first couple of minutes, you’ll be introduced to never heard before mixes such as Twisted Sister’s We’re Not Gonna Take IT and Unk’s Walk It Out.  Where did that come from? I don’t know but it doesnt stop there.  The album which was originally composed as one longfile was chopped into 14 different songs which are more like groupings of samples than actual songs.

Some of my more favorite samples include the almost oversampled measures from Bob James’ Take Me to the Mardi Gras. Most of you will recognize that as the bells from Run DMC’s Peter Piper;  the mix in the tenth song – “In Step” – of Salt-n-Pepa (“Push It”), Dee-Lite (“Groove is in the Heart”), and Nirvana (“Lithium”); and the “What It’s All About” mix of The Police, Busta Rhymes, and Phil Collins only to bring in Faith No More and Boogie Down Productions.  All of them are very cool and I counted over 100 different bands / songs, so you’ll definitely find something that you remember.

The kicker is that while I like all of the music, I dont know when I would listen to it except on my iPod by myself or in my car.  You can find them on myspace or at their website. If nothing else and for a brief stint, somehow they made Wilson Pickett, Avril Lavigne, and Rod Stewart sound cool.

Dana