Customer Reviews

Secret Diary

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

Like the other reviewers before me, I will preface this by saying that I LOVE the Night Ripper album. It's a brilliantly calculated album of near perfect mash-ups. And one of the best albums of 2006.

Unstoppable, the previous album, is not as strong, but you can tell he was improving his craft, working his way up to the brilliance of Night Ripper. At least those songs sound like mash-ups in the traditional sense.

But Secret Diary, his first album, is just a mess. These "songs" are nowhere near as fluid & coherent as his later albums. Instead it sounds like your CD player is skipping. (As one reviewer pointed out, I too had to check to make sure the disc wasn't damaged!) Either that, or it brings to mind the sound your radio makes as you quickly scroll across the dial, catching split-second snippets of songs. I'd be hard-pressed to call it music. And it's certainly nothing you can dance to! One track, "Time To Get Glamorous," doesn't even use songs, but rather sound effects & such!

This album is more a meditation on noise experimentation if nothing else. It's the CD equivalent to record scratching. And it's not enjoyable. Skip this & instead go for Night Ripper & Unstoppable.

This is damn near unlistenable. It won't ever be played again. It's like they took what might have been a good mix/mash and destroyed it on purpose by sending through some assinine chain of effects boxes. There's so much distortion and bit-rate manipulation that you can't tell what's going on underneath. And that's the problem, you can't hear the music. Art is art, whatever, but this just isn't fun to listen to. It's not thoughtful, playful, deep, or anything else, it's noise for the sake of noise.

I gave Night Ripper 5 stars but I can't in good conscience recommend this whatsoever.

I will be the first to say that Girl Talk's "Night Ripper" is simply incredible, and it never seizes to amaze me everytime I listen to it, which is approaching the thousands.

This obsession led to a understandable Girl Talk high, prompting me to order this album.

To be honest, I spent the first hour of owning it testing the CD in every disc playing device I owned, making sure that my ears weren't deceiving me. I was convinced the disc was severely scratched or damaged. However, I was completely wrong. The tracks are supposed to be like that.

One of the most annoying things I can think of is a cd skipping, killing a mood. This entire album is intentionally like that, and it's repulsing.

Purchase Night Ripper, which is nearly perfect, but under no circumstances purchase this album.

Simply put - don't buy this CD.

In a time long ago, before mash-up was anywhere close to what it was today - this may of been an intriguing album.
But as all the other reviewers pointed out, different then Greg's latest efforts - this CD is basically un-listenable.

I don't fault Girl Talk. Relevant to the music at the time and the glitch scene in general, this may of been an interesting listen.
But today, with the hindsight we now have, this CD appears to be something that never should of been recorded and released.

Save your money and support this amazing artist in a different way.

This CD is not enjoyable to listen to. It is not like other Girl Talk albums. It lacks as many recognizable songs, and sounds like the CD is skipping a lot of the time. Stick with 'Night Ripper' or 'Feed the Animals' if you want something truly cool.

All the other Girl Talk albums are awesome. This one is terrible. It sounds like a CD player skipping. I just purchased all the albums because I thought they were all as good as night ripper. This is $9 completely wasted, I'm deleting it off my computer. Terrible.

I bought Girl Talk's debut "Secret Diary" after hearing his party CD "Night Ripper." I had the same visceral reaction as many reviewers after I popped the disc in: was it horribly scratched? Did I really pay money for so many broken tracks? "Secret Diary" is extremely glitchy and uneven, but that's by design. There is really a method behind the madness.

Listen to "Secret Diary" a few times over at a reasonable volume, preferably with headphones on. It truly is an acquired taste, an album composed of samples that sound very harsh but actually flow a lot more smoothly than one would expect.

That said, if you're looking for a mix to play at a party, please buy one of Girl Talk's newer releases. This is strictly experimental, a glitchy pastiche of pop music.

Like all others before me I will say that the other ablums are good, and "Feed the Animals" is classic and brilliant, but this CD is absolute trash. I think a 5 year old with a computer could make a better album. It literally hurt my ears. I just hope others will take the review seriously and not get this album, it is straight up wrong.

...the noise. I hope Greg comes out with another just like it only more songs. Bring on the mix (Night Ripper), bring on the glitch (Unstoppable), and bring on the noise (Secret Diary)! He does it all...SO SO SO SO well!

Oh my God, I can't believe how right all the other reviews are. I'm listening to "What If..." right now and cringing as I write this. In fact, I'm going to have to finish this review ASAP so I can cut this track short. This album sounds like a half-finished bunch of mixes--like Girl Talk was working on it, lost interest, and just published a bunch of random nonsense that grates on your ears exactly (as a previous reviewer compared this to) like a skipping cd. Awful, awful, awful (but Night Ripper still rules). Now, where is my delete key for these terrible MP3s?