The bouncing beat lulls you into a false sense of happiness as you crunch on your sugar-coated mind-control bites. Slurp up the pink-and-purple swirl of milk and wash away the feeling that there might be something more meaningful at stake. There you are! You're ready for the dance floor called life. There's no denying the fabulous funk of this Humanz single. It's got an interstellar groove that boldly goes where no cartoon band has gone before. It's a fun, seemingly innocuous song, but it's actually very personal to Albarn.
It's named after a nightclub from his youth, and it was the only place that played soul music in the area. He tried to capture the spirit of those nights in the song. It's an emotive dance track with highs, lows, sick synthlines; in short, everything you need in a dope dance hit.
Vince Staples. Sirens and Staples' apocalytpic party-starting mark the impending dopeness that will certainly leave your ears damaged and demanding more. The off-beat melody creates images of women twerking in dirty streets as buildings crumble and people spontaneously combust.
Ain't no club like the end of the world, and when this world meets its demise, put this Gorillaz song on full blast.
If you were a nerdy kid around the turn of the Millennium, it's highly likely you remember that night when Cartoon Network's Toonami ran a bunch of animated music videos.
It was the first taste a generation of youngsters got of Daft Punk's Interstellar , and it was also the most we'd ever seen of Gorillaz to date. This song blew my mind when I was 13 — I'd never heard anything quite so strangely, electronically funk — as did its explosive and hilarious video.
It's like a modern day Looney Tunes episode, and it helped introduce us to the characters we know and love today.
This lo-fi beat comes straight from the band's debut LP and hits you right in the soul. It's the kind of rainy-day rhythm that turns you inside out and has you thinkin' all deep and stuff.
It's all blues and grays -- the underlying melancholy sucks you in, but you can't help but head-bob. It's a little sad, but it's still a mean groove.
This is one of those rare Gorillaz singles that isn't a down-and-out dance tune. It's beautifully sad, the melody of one stuck between a rosy yesterday and the far-off gleam of a better tomorrow. The other two band members are Russel Hobbs, percussion, and Noodle, lead guitar, who complete the animated team. The time is NOW! Arrive early. Home Gorillaz.
Gorillaz Wiki Explore. Biographies Gorillaz Collaborators. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? History Talk 0. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems. At some point in late , Murdoc or the authorities apprehended the crazed doctor and returned the Winnebago to its rightful home in the Kong Studios Carpark.
In Summer , Gorillaz decided to tour Japan, however this lead to Noodle beginning to have melancholic feelings and thoughts. Not knowing her past, and feeling isolated from her homeland. Also during this time is when Noodle began to suffer from nightmares regarding her forgotten past. Russel decided to buy her a jetpack to cheer her up.
During the Japan tour, Gorillaz noted that their popularity there wasn't as big as it was in other parts of the world. To attempt to boost album sales and popluaritiy Gorillaz came up with G-Sides , a compilation album that consisted of bonus tracks, b-sides, and remixes from the band's singles off their debut album.
This had the desired effect, as G-Sides released later that December, and went on to sell half a million copies worldwide. On September 11th , due to the collapse of the twin towers, and closed airports. Gorillaz allowed the group to stay at Kong Studios for the time being, during this time the track "" was born, which served as a response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
The track would later feature contributions from Specials frontman, Terry Hall. The song was released as a downloadable single later that winter on both Gorillaz and D12's websites. In Fall , the band embarked on a tour of Europe, not long after the tour the band released their 3rd single and final music video off their debut album, "Rock The House".
In Christmas , Gorillaz released a series of little short's known as G-Bites which allowed fans to gain an insight on to how Gorillaz live off screen.
On February 20th, , Gorillaz performed at the Brit Awards where they were nominated for 6 Brit Awards but won nothing. The tour was met issues immediately from the beginning, as Murdoc was arrested as soon as the band arrived in America, due to an incident in Nebraska 15 years ago.
During this tour, Noodle began suffering from nightmares again, which led to her losing much sleep. The band passed this off as a feeling of road fatigue and touring at a young age. On February 25th , the band released the final single off their debut album, which was a single re release of "Tomorrow Comes Today", but featuring two new B-side tracks instead of the previous ones. The tour was going pretty well for awhile, until the disasterous show in Mexico on March 11th After the end of the tour, Gorillaz took a six-month break in L.
A on March 13th. There they attempted to get a movie project off the ground. At the end of the gig, a fan asked Murdoc to sign a CD for him, the CD in question being a release from a group associated with Gorillaz, that he didn't even know of: these were the Spacemonkeyz. Three chimps, who were tested lab monkeys that were sent up to space. Upon arriving back to Earth, the chimps stumbled upon Kong Studios, after 2-D had accidentally left the studio front doors before the band left for the tour, which allowed the Spacemonkeyz to break in, and steal the master tapes for the band's album.
Alas, the film was not meant to be, due in part to extensive over-partying, in-fighting, and disagreements with producers, directors, and a notable incident of Murdoc getting himself banned from the Playboy Mansion for stealing ashtrays. Gorillaz tried to create a movie, but everyone was too concentrated on doing drugs and hanging out with celebrities. Murdoc almost got a TV show, but they replaced him at the last minute. During the film's production, the band worked with director Alfred C.
Klinker, who kept changing the film's script everyday, this led to the band eventually firing Klinker, and deciding to check into a Hollywood motel to write the film themselves in August However, this did not work, as constant fights broke out between the band members, and sense of distrust was grown between everybody.
It all came to a head, when one fight led to Murdoc attempting to strangle 2-D to death. Russel and Noodle broke up the fight, but Murdoc finally sick of it all, walked out of the motel, and ended Gorillaz there and then. After attempting to kill 2-D and leaving Gorillaz, Murdoc headed off to Mexico to get some sun and relax, however after using fake dud cheques at a brothel, Murdoc was arrested and sentenced to thirty years at La Mesa State Prison on October 31st During this time, Murdoc met cellmates who taught him a bit of black magic, and acquired himself a pet raven named Cortez.
Meanwhile, that same evening, Kong Studios had been shut down tight in its owner's absence by local law enforcement after an unknown man was seen running, naked and in hysterics, in the marshes near the studio. The police proceeded to keep the area secured while they investigated the strange paranormal events surrounding Kong.
After Murdoc left, the next to leave was Noodle. Noodle went back to Japan in a fruitful attempt to uncover the secrets of her own past after suffering from nightmares and visions on the Gorillaz Tour. Noodle left for Japan on October 1st , she checked into a capsule hotel, and began her search. However, after Britt spent every night banging on the walls and building a wicker statue, and getting sick of the Los Angeles life style, 2-D decided to go back to Eastbourne and work at his father's funfair.
It was during this time 2-D's ego got a significant boost and he re-established his grip on reality, coming to terms with his newfound pop icon status with the ladies. He also began a friendship with Shane Lynch from Boyzone.
Russel remained in L. A for sometime but became increasingly haunted by the Grim Reaper, who eventually banished Del from his body. Luckily, Russel was approached by Ike Turner who offered him sanctuary in his basement to recover. After a year of searching in Japan, Noodle was close to giving up on her search, she decided to head down to a sushi bar in downtown Hong Kong, to eat in woe. While she was there a waitor called for an order of "Ocean Bacon" and all of Noodle's memories came flooding back.
Kyuzo who was working as a chef at the establishment and learned that she was part of a secret government super soldier project and could speak English fluently. Noodle was the only survivor after the project was scrapped. Armed with her newfound knowledge and iron resolve, Noodle decided to return to Kong Studios. She also discovered that the building was invested by zombies and a monster infested darkness. Using the Kong security room as a safe house Noodle slowly cleaned the building of it's unwanted inhabitants.
Now knowing English, Noodle began to soak up what was playing on her TV in the security room, and discovered society was being fed manufactured shit.
It was here that Noodle began writing and putting together the concepts of the band's sophomore album "Demon Days". While Noodle was clearing Kong, Russel was still recovering in Ike Turner's basement, it was here that Russel began recording demo's for a solo hip hop album. However, after seeing hallucinations of demons flying out the speakers, Russel decided to bury the demo tapes, believing that they were causing several world problems. Finally, in February , Noodle finally cleared Kong of the undead and began contacting her bandmates, but Murdoc was still in prison!
After spending a year in jail, Murdoc's patience began wearing thin, he teamed up with his cellmates and escaped from La Mesa State. He returned to the Chicken Choker brothel, to commit the same crime he did before, then heading over to the airports, and flying back to England. Gorillaz were together again. The band caught each other up on what they had been up to, before Noodle unveiled her Demon Days project. Recording for the album began the next day.
Noodle drafted in Damon, and producer Danger Mouse to help out with the record. Noodle also set out to make the album prove that Gorillaz were more then a marketing ploy gimmick, as many critics accused of Gorillaz in regards to their last album. Recordings completed in November A month later on December 12th , Gorillaz announced their comeback with the release of a new music video for a new song called "Rockit.
A competition in which fans could submit themselves doing a talent, and submit said video or piece of artwork to Gorillaz website. Gorillaz also launched the Reject False Icons campaign, which encouraged fans to reject false celebrity icons. The cherry on top of all of this was a complete renovation to Kong Studios, new rooms and new minigames for fans to explore and interact with.
The song and video was a huge success. Once more bringing Gorillaz mainstream, charting increasingly well, and properly replacing Clint Eastwood as Gorillaz signature tune. On May 23rd , the "Demon Days" album released, the album received critical acclaim, topped many charts, sold millions of copies, and was listed on various publications lists of the best albums of , and the best albums of the s.
Like always however, issues immediately began, when the band's tour bus was being shot at consistently every night. Klinker, Dr. Wurzel , and Noodles Government Bosses. To keep his mind stable, Russel began experimenting with taxidermy during this time.
Eventually, the band getting sick of being shot at every night as someone probably would , Murdoc decided to take things into his own hands, asking the tour manager Jimmy Manson, to see what he could do about the shootings. The next night, shootings stopped, and the tour continued as usual. Noodle recorded the "DARE" music video, without letting any of the other band members know. The single and video later released on August 29th , reaching No. Later that same summer, Gorillaz headed off to the deserts of Africa to record the music video for the track "Dirty Harry" featuring Bootie Brown.
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