All Day (Girl Talk album)

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]

All Day
Studio album by Girl Talk
Released	November 15, 2010
Genre	Mash-up
Label	Illegal Art
Producer	Gregg Gillis
Girl Talk chronology
Feed the Animals (2008) All Day (2010) Broken Ankles (2014)

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]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	6.2/10[8]
Metacritic	79/100[9]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
Alternative Press	[11]
The A.V. Club	B+[12]
The Boston Phoenix	[13]
MSN Music (Expert Witness)	A[14]
Now	3/5[15]
Paste	8.2/10[16]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[17]
Rolling Stone	[18]
Slant Magazine	[19]

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

1. "Oh No" – 5:39
2. "Let It Out" – 6:29
3. "That's Right" – 5:22
4. "Jump on Stage" – 6:22
5. "This Is the Remix" – 6:02
6. "On and On" – 5:09
7. "Get It Get It" – 5:33
8. "Down for the Count" – 6:37
9. "Make Me Wanna" – 6:23
10. "Steady Shock" – 5:47
11. "Triple Double" – 6:27
12. "Every Day" – 5:10