After hearing his newer one, listening to his (also free!) (better liked, by some) debut seemed like an obvious choice.
This one is actually a lot better in subtle ways. It's more fun, it's more briskly paced, just bursting with ideas, overflowing with enthusiasm for the next sample, rushing headlong to the next and the next. Torn Up is comparatively ponderous. Also, maybe this where he used up some of his best ideas, because the song selections are top notch here - he still falls behind Girl Talk in terms of diversity, but this has more of my favorite songs than any mashup album ever. Wolf Parade, The Unicorns (!), Yoshimi, YYY's, The Strokes, they all make appearances in the first 7 minutes, and are all used to incredibly good effect. By the end of the album we've heard 4 Spank Rock sections and Crystal Cat and I'm sold.
There's something more listenable about this one than the other one. He still lack's Girl Talk's overall showmanship and mastery of pacing (see #332 for the full comparative analysis), and this is in many ways a "smaller" work, even smaller than Night Ripper on the Girl Talk spectrum. But it's charming, and its brisk pacing and lack of big heavy moments makes it weirdly addicting.
If I had never heard Girl Talk, this would be an easy 5. But I have, and the newness of Night Ripper is part of why I loved it so much and why I still hold it in such high esteem. Fuckit though, you know what, this is a worthy entry in a pantheon of top notch mashups. Girl Talk's going to continue his reign over my car, but this guy has earned a top slot in my headphones 5/5
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