All Day is the fifth studio album by American musician Gregg Gillis, known by his stage name Girl Talk. The album was originally released as a free digital download by Illegal Art on November 15, 2010. Gillis composed the album using overlapping samples of 372 songs by other artists.[1]All Day was released as one seamless 71-minute file and as 12 separate tracks, available in MP3 and FLAC.[2] As with prior Girl Talk albums, the Illegal Art website states that All Day was "intended to be listened to as a whole," but was "broken up into individual tracks only for easier navigation."[3]
Illegal Art later published a complete list of samples used on the album on their website.[4] Other sources have created time listings[5] to assist in studying the music.[6] The album, segmented into twelve "episodes", is used as the soundtrack to the 2011 feature-length Jacob Krupnick dance video, Girl Walk // All Day.[7]
All Day was well received by most music critics upon its release. On the review aggregate site Metacritic, the album has a score of 79 out of 100, indicating "Generally positive reviews."[9]
The samples in the album were described as "instantly recognizable hooks".[20] Reviewers frequently praised the innovation of the music style, saying that it is "like nothing you've ever heard",[21] "[rehabilitation for] disposable pop",[22] among those "tricks [that] just don't get old",[23] with appeal "first for the sampled songs themselves, [and] second for the thrill of the novelty of early mash-ups",[13] and that "the entire mega-mash-up is stupendously danceable".[12]
Track listing
"Oh No" – 5:39
"Let It Out" – 6:29
"That's Right" – 5:22
"Jump on Stage" – 6:22
"This Is the Remix" – 6:02
"On and On" – 5:09
"Get It Get It" – 5:33
"Down for the Count" – 6:37
"Make Me Wanna" – 6:23
"Steady Shock" – 5:47
"Triple Double" – 6:27
"Every Day" – 5:10
References
Notes
^Blinov, Paul (November 24, 2010). "All Day". Vue Weekly. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2010.