gorillaz

how did we organise this coup, you ask...

Nauseating.

The garage touches are the only thing I can stand about the song so I doubt I'll like the original mix much.

It's one of those records where it's hard to find the words as to why exactly it's bad - it's a kind of faith-based dislike. I'm sure a lot of it is Damon Albarn but I really like some records he's been involved in. The rhetoric around it is horrible. But there's something embarrassingly lame about it anyway: it has that kind of inert so-whatness you get with a lot of old trip-hop music, that deadly lack of playfulness that I tend to read as self-regard and over-reverence for influences.

But yeah, a lot of it is Damon Albarn.

I will give him credit, though - he's in the chart and people are obviously liking it, cause it's sticking around. He said he'd make a pop record and he made one.

sod the haterzz.
i'm loving the tracks for the forthcoming Monkey album.
3 are streaming : here

Unbelievable bitterness up-thread. Hard to remember a time when Albarn could have been taken so seriously by so many. Love him in the Rillaz. Is perfection.

GRRR!!! POP MUSIC!!! GRRR!!!

hong kong on the d-sides compilation is totally gorgeous and fits the autumn mood perfectly.

maybe i do need to get the ipad album after all ..

no idea who the 10 year comp thats being released is aimed at given that all the albums can be got for next to nowt in any shop.

unless they stick on a previously unreleased offcut or something.

Does Albarn even sleep? That horribly named Rocketjuice to the Moon thing, The Good the Bad and the Queen gigs soon, Blur meeting up again and now I'm reading about some opera that he did?

never heard of rocketjuice ..

It's his 'new' thing. As Flea is involved I assume the stupid name came from him.

oooh that .. as soon as i saw fleas involvement i switched off ..

There was some funny thing when Mike Watt was going to play with the Stooges Iggy told him "Don't Flea out on me, no triads, just play the regular bassline"

new free track released via converse feat. james murphy and andre 3000

yuck.

there is a reason they've given it away.

I don't like it either

13 minute full version is pretty f*ckin' good actually.

http://blogs.1077theend.com/endmusicdiscovery/2012/02/23/end-music-discovery-gorillaz-james-murphy-andre-3000-do-ya-thing-13-minute-version/

sounds like a demo, more a scrapbook of potentially interesting ideas than anything worth listening to on its own. albarn is horrible, andre goes back and forth from horrible (singing, "i'm the shit!") to kind of okay for half a minute (rapping), same ratio of badbadbadbad to good in the track.

i love the full on chaos around the 7 minute mark.
it's very much in line with james lcd love for drawn out build ups.
the albarn opening i can pretty much ignore as i know things are going to get a lot more fun in a few minutes.

"rhinestone eyes" fuckin bumps

my fave track on PB - great vocal

http://pitchfork.com/news/58282-gorillaz-creator-jamie-hewllet-confirms-groups-return-on-instagram/

hewllet

There's a new single with slowthai and Slaves. It's not very good.

looks like they're doing their own version of Underworld's Drift

Track with Fatoumata Diawara is great. Think the Song Machine project will be all over the place stylistically and quality wise. As is most of their work.

Hopefully the Engelbert Humperdinck collaboration will finally happen.

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oh well
lol back in the old days that usedta work

i think its become very easy to dismiss gorillaz on a number of fronts, and i think thats what a lot of people are doing here.

and i'm going to do the same too. utter wank.

― gareth, Sunday, 6 May 2001 12:00 PM (twenty years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Anyone caught the new tour yet? Not sure what inspired me to get a ticket but here goes.

I've realized I only really know a handful of tracks by them so I've been trying to get up to speed and not impressed much. Rhinestone Eyes is sort of middling Blur quality plus lotsa production.

Earthgang's opening and I'm just hearing their material for the first time, nice. Think I might be arriving early and leaving early, I'd probably rather catch their whole set than Gorillaz.

you were a gorillaz fan for all of 18 minutes, damn

lol yeah, i mean it only takes 4:44 to listen to Empire Ants, what were you doing the rest of the time.

i like "rhinestone eyes" a lot *shrug*

'Fan' might be a bit generous. An ant-scale fan probably.

Good one Lukas, you know my speed.

Rhinestone Eyes will likely grow on me. It's already better this time around, what can I say I'm a fickle little shit.

I had a great time overall, the guest appearances made it for me really. Alburn is the consummate showman tho. (He did seem a little burned out, making one quip early on about the “amazing…and LONG tour”, but his energy picked up as the show went on.) As far as his band, the bass player really stood out to me.

There were no holograms or anything, most of the videos and overall stage show were completely on point although some of the videos did seem remarkably dated.

Gotta say the Slowthai song completely fucked up the flow from my POV although a certain section of the crowd were moved to thrash around to it.

Roffle at this Del interview where he talks about how wrote his verse for Clint Eastwood based on a song about writing hit songs he was reading. He was mainly a fan of the art. "That video is cooler than the song is."

based on a book