used to be experimental and flowing in and out of different genres but settled on being rap hop songs that would be on the top 40 for a week then go radio quiet for another few years.
Not him, but my favorite Gorillaz songs are >19-2000 >Melancholy Hill >Dare >Stylo
I don't have a problem with their their songs which have hiphop sections, but my favorites of theirs don't have them.
theres a difference between hip hop as a legit good music genre and Black person babble gangbanging CIA israelite MKultra mindfrickery that is rap music.
Not either of the insane people that replied to you, but I love hip hop and love Gorillaz, but the new stuff is really crappy pop rap and a lot of Damon Albarn songs with barely any real Gorillaz flair. There's no grit to any of it anymore. Too much live action crap too
My favorite Gorillaz songs are >Every Planet we reach is dead >Kids with Guns >Empire Ants >On Melancholy Hill >Pirate Jet >That intro part in Hillbilly Man >Little Pink Plastic Bag
None of them contain any of the moronic Oogabooga Rap
Gorillaz and Demon Days stuck with (on average) one guest artist per song. Plastic Peach was initially received mixed for the same reasons Humanz is. But Plastic Beach's songs are tonally consistent. A prime example are songs like Pink Phantom, where Damon and Elton John's voices are clearly working together pretty well before being interrupted by fricking uneven autotuned rapping.
Looking at Cracker Island's singles...
Cracker Island - Not rap, funky beat, mix of live instrument and electronic, big recommend to any Stylo fan
New Gold - The rapper from Dirty Harry off of Demon Days, Tame Impala playing backup
Baby Queen - Not rap, pseudo-love song with interesting lyrics, sounds like the 2018 album (which also only had one rap song) or like parts of Plastic Beach
Skinny Ape - Not rap, genuinely one of their weirder songs, maybe Hillbilly Man is the closest Gorillaz song to compare it to but it has a lot more going on then that song
Silent Running, Not rap, city lights at night kind of melancholy pop song
On the regular edition of the album, New Gold is the only rap song across 11 tracks. The deluxe album adds a whopping 4 rap songs to the list but they are:
1. A remix of New Gold with the same verses
2. A song with the rapper from Clint Eastwood
3. A song with the rappers from Feel Good Inc.
4. A song in another language certainly not made for radio in my country
The world was still in shock due to 9/11. Demon Days wasn't only about Bush being le evil republican, it was about the impact the war has in all of us. In contrast, Humanz really feels like Albarn throwing a fit to people voting and electing Trump as president just because.
1 month ago
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>just because
you just don't get it do you
1 month ago
Anonymous
What evil deeds Trump did before pandemic? Saying mean shit on interviews and twitter?
1 month ago
Anonymous
NTA but what you need to understand is that Trump getting elected has less to do with the man himself and more to do with for many liberal, and farther left people in the west being woken up from a dream.
That dream being the belief since Obama was elected that the world was becoming progressively more liberal and that those loud conservatives were just a minority of geriatric boomers who would die out in a few years.
The other big thing that was broken was the sense of decorum, the illusion that both sides of the isle could reach across and hash things out West Wing style.
The online flag burner types were already aware by GG that there was a modern right wing movement, but it took till Trump for the general population to see that anger and unwillingness to be steamrolled over for a Rainbow Colored Condo and it shocked them to their cores.
Suddenly the nice and shiny world with only a few "bad ones" became a place filled with The Other who would try and kill them if given the chance. And there was the Orange Man as the symbol of it all.
And a bunch of them hoped that by electing Biden it would make things go back to how they were. But it didn't work because the modern political discourse has awakened and there is no stopping it without conflict, leading to eventual integration and synthesis, and/or eradication or one element.
So its stuck ever since, an Orange Specter in liberal minds.
1 month ago
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>Trump was the end of decorum
You missed the entire Bush era >modern political discourse
This kind of shitflinging pales in comparison to the parties a century ago
1 month ago
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I kind of get it since I am not american.
>Trump was the end of decorum
You missed the entire Bush era >modern political discourse
This kind of shitflinging pales in comparison to the parties a century ago
Difference is, we all had certain disdain for Bush back then.
"Woke" doesn't just mean "political", there's a particular sort of persecution/victim/savior/shame complex to it all, often with a heavy dose of paranoia and hypocrisy. But I don't follow this shit, so I don't know if it's "woke" or not.
Jamie's lost any sense of love he had for the project when PB got canceled.
Damon hasn't cared since PB either and seems to dislike the cartoon aspect lately (See Skinny Ape) and only uses Gorillaz to collaborate with artists his children think are cool. He only makes albums that feature him crying about how shitty LA is
Humanz had potential, sadly they went full moron mode since the, I tried to watch Song Machine and is probably one of the worst pieces of shit that I've heard in my whole life, the designs suck too, sadly zoomer Gorillaz fans loved that shit and here we are
it was so fricking easy to make a cartoon alongside Plastic Beach and turn Gorillaz into a proper franchise, the boys fricked up hard with the hiatus
>hiatus after PB
Question cause I stopped bothering to keep up with them with the release of plastic shit. Did they do another 'will they won't they' "break up" scare during that time? It was like god damn clockwork every minute with them both.
>Did they do another 'will they won't they' "break up" scare during that time?
After Plastic Beach? yeah they did that shit a lot for years, both are hacks >YEAH U KNOW WE LOVE GORILLAZ BUT WHO KNOWS MAYBE ONE DAY, MAYBE NOT, WHO KNOWS!
frick Damon and frick Jamie
I really liked Song Machine and The Now Now but Cracker Island was really forgettable except for the singles. I do wish they'd do other genres more often.
Humanz is way too bloated with filler, and its singles don't beat the singles off the stronger Gorillaz albums. A lot of the guest appearances like D.R.A.M just feel underutilized and wasted but don't leave enough room for Gorillaz to shine through ether.
Saturn Barz is probably the closest you get to something featuring the guest and Gorillaz well on that Album. I just can't stand whoever the black guy is at the start you can't fricking understand him at all. The accented way he sings ads to the song but even when you understand the lyrics its black rap shit that feels opposite to the Gorillaz part of the song.
I wanted to like Humanz so bad but it was really shitty at times.
Humanz is way too bloated with filler, and its singles don't beat the singles off the stronger Gorillaz albums. A lot of the guest appearances like D.R.A.M just feel underutilized and wasted but don't leave enough room for Gorillaz to shine through ether.
it really feels like there was a timelines shift and the Gorillaz suck in this one
Damon only cares about Blur, but they’re not the main moneymakers in the 21st century so he has to lazily shit out a bunch of collabed Gorillaz tracks to fund his lifestyle and give him room to make Blur records that will only chart in like Ireland and Scotland kek
Contest between Phases 2 and 3.
She just had so much cool factor back then. Thicc 4 Noodle was also great before she barreled into the wall like a crash test dummy.
I think it's crazy that Noodle lost all sense of aesthetic once she became an adult
Well yeah, it's adult Noodle with her Phase 2 hairstyle.
Best of both worlds.
like just give her the bangs that cover her eyes back and I think it'd solve half the problems with her adult design. She's almost a whole other character without'em
>She's almost a whole other character without'em
I think that's the point, she's all grown up and everything's changing
same with all the other characters except for maybe Murdoc
I genuinely don't know what Russels changes would be other than not having ghosts living inside him anymore
They don't bother doing anything interesitng with him very often, Del leaving the band was the worst thing to happen to him
She's 33 now and has lived a rock and roll lifestyle for the last 23 years with additional demon, ghost and magic bullshit going on around her
She's forgiven for getting a couple of lines on her face
1 month ago
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>Noodle is older than me
I feel weird
1 month ago
Anonymous
the gorillaz band actually "age" now?
Obviously Noodle grew from a child to an adult, but what about the rest of the band?
1 month ago
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They always did. It's just not as obvious with the others because they were already all sleep-deprived adults. Russel was bald so no hair to lose, 2D always looked like a crack addict twink and his eye sockets were always fricked from the start. It's only recently that they both started to show lines of ageing themselves.
Murdoc is the weird exception because he is the oldest of the group but doesn't seem to age like the rest of them. Theories are that he made a deal with the devil so he's immortal, but his body is green because his body is still rotting like a zombie despite his immortality.
1 month ago
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Fricking souless art
1 month ago
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Man, this art unironically looks like that sort of weird DeviantART shit you find with anime characters in fashionista outfits or thug outfits. It's so goddamn awkward looking and doesn't even have the appeal of 'ha ha funni goku drip' going for it. The art for this shit used to be so good but every time I see the 2020s era art for Gorillaz I'm just dumbfounded at how far it's fallen. Is Hewlett still the one doing the art for these? Because if so that's a hell of a decline.
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Only one I like is the center left where they're smoking, since it actually looks like they're all standing with eachother for a candid photo rather than copy pasted into a lineup. Throw a brick wall in the backdrop and it'll look more like a scene.
1 month ago
Anonymous
they've made it pretty obvious that 2D is aging
Murdoc is basically a demon so not really
Russel was always the token black character so not really
1 month ago
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black don't crack
1 month ago
Anonymous
dont look at morgan freeman bro
1 month ago
Anonymous
the gorillaz band actually "age" now?
Obviously Noodle grew from a child to an adult, but what about the rest of the band?
>She's 33 now and
If they were doing le accurate aging for the characters the rest of the band would look like nursing home escapees.
>murdoc made a deal with the devil to be immortal >russel's black and blacks age gracefully >murdoc's deal also extends to 2D since he's the face of the band and draws in the money >asians are known for hitting the wall like a fright train, exacerbated by the hard and fast lifestyle of a musician raised by murdoc
She's 33 now and has lived a rock and roll lifestyle for the last 23 years with additional demon, ghost and magic bullshit going on around her
She's forgiven for getting a couple of lines on her face
>Noodle is older than me
I feel weird
the gorillaz band actually "age" now?
Obviously Noodle grew from a child to an adult, but what about the rest of the band?
Whatever team responsible for drawing Noodle, draws her very different each phase.
Her looks wildly fluctuates even in the songs in the same album/phase.
Sometime she looks like a teen, other times a 20 year old, and other times a 30 year old.
The rest of the band hardly ever is drawn that differently and is mostly consistent with each phase.
I can't speak for this lot, but I've always had a thing for Asian girls and tomboys, so there's that. I just wish they knew what to do with her these days.
>"You sure this guy Murdoc is not real? I knew a lad like him in the 70's." >You are telling me none of them are real, that they are a virtual band? What's this travesty?"
>"You sure this guy Murdoc is not real? I knew a lad like him in the 70's." >You are telling me none of them are real, that they are a virtual band? What's this travesty?"
I feel like I'm not equipped to comment on this since I was the exact demographic for it when it was new. Their self-titled album was a high I've been chasing ever since and I'm still bummed they didn't collab more with Del.
All the rest of it is worth a listen but the first was the one I actually liked.
Gorillaz and Demon Days were great because Damon had Del and Dan as support. With Plastic Beach he has all this artists collaborating with him but none has the soul Gorillaz needed.
not unusual for artists to only have soul when they're young and hungry. Then you're a proven hit, established, wealthy with a family and kids and then wtf do you make your art about anymore? I think a lot of art takes yearning and once you've nothing to yearn for then what?
I think this is why I still like Radiohead, because they decided early on that they never wanted to become complacent just making the same kind of thing over and over again, so they decided every album was going to be wildly different from the last
there are some of their albums that I'm not a huge fan of, but I can appreciate the effort they put in to not be generic and predictable
and even with every album being wildly different, I still think they held up better than Gorillaz, where I just fell off after Plastic Beach when every album became "how many mumble rappers can we get as guests?"; I still remember hearing "The Apprentice" and really enjoying the first part of the song, then some talentless mumble rappers comes in and starts lazily rapping about race shit and repeating the same words and phrases OVER AND OVER again (because writing lyrics is clearly not the strong suit of someone like that) and I knew that if they frick up a perfectly good song with that shit then the whole album is probably going to be like that
>Lore
cringe >Music
became cringe with Humanz that shit is Damon trying to be pop right after he finally hit the Gorillaz sound on Plastic Island but you can also see the problems arising from the I read a lot of feats with different artists in PB it was natural but from Humanz it started to get forced >Art
Still great one of the best western animations
Then he has no one to blame but himself for his own idea. If you wanna move on from projects and do your own thing then do it gracefully. If Paul McCartney and John Lennon could pull it off then so could he.
Albarn isn't either of those two. He's a hack who's coasted off of the coattails of Gorillaz. Blur fricking sucks and Gallagher before he joined him was right when he called him fraud and a pretentious pos.
Gorillaz woulda been better if Del was a regular feature
Agreed 1000%. Captain Chicken was proof since it was one of few good songs that never made it on the main album
>He's a hack who's coasted off of the coattails of Gorillaz
I hate this fricking place, man.
I meant that he coasted off the fame of the cartoon characters and the concept of the band kek oops. Without the idea or characters, he wouldn't be successful
1 month ago
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>isn't even aware of Blur
1 month ago
Anonymous
blur are shite
1 month ago
Anonymous
You mean JOBBlur? The band that jobbed HARD to CHADasis??
I think it was the moment he stopped having the characters play forefront in the live shows while he and the actual musicians played behind the screens like a decade ago.
They had all these stupid ideas that never really panned out. All they had to do was make well-produced music videos of Gorillaz playing their instruments and being a band. This is why Dethklok is more consistent than they are in that regard.
Yeah I suppose they tried too hard to be experimental than consistent. But in a way, its part of the charm. They seemed so ambitious and full of ideas and it made you wanna see where it all went. Sadly we've reached the point where it's evidently reached nowhere we wanted or expected. It was a lot of fun at the very least. I hope at the very least they retire the band with something that doesn't get cut short before it reaches fruition.
People who claim Demon Days as the best Gorillaz album and only like that, are the same as people who claim that Hybrid Theory is the best Linkin Park album and only like that.
Nah you’re just a moronic zoomer. Linkin Park had Hybrid Theory, Meteora and Reanimation. Gorillaz had Self titled, Demon Days and G-Sides. Fall Out Boy had Take This To Your Grave and From Under The Cork Tree.
All three bands, like many other examples, are best when only listening to those efforts.
Plastic Beach was great and anyone saying otherwise is a hipster contrarian. >stylo >meloncholy hill >empire ants >to binge >that intro >that second intro lol
It's fricking solid and arguably their best
Shift away from the "zombie hip-hop" sound that was a mixture of blues, alternative, pop, and rap, to their modern electronic pop sound. I haven't cared for anything from The Fall to Humanz, and I only really liked Tranz off of The Now Now. Aries was the only song from Song Machine I liked. Still haven't bothered to listen to the new album.
Desole is amazing, it had that ethereal early 00s vibe
im really upset that the "step right up" intro from the live shows didnt make it into the album version of sweepstakes. plastic beach as a whole is somehow simultaneously the greatest thing ever and the poster child for Missed Potential
Rhinestone Eyes and Broken are also fricking great.
>Superfast Jellyfish never makes the list
I know it's goofy, but I really love that song.
Plastic Beach is at least listenable all the way through. I didn't like a single song off Humanz well enough to listen to it more than once or twice. Song Machine's only good song is Pac Man, and really only the first half of it. I don't want to talk about Cracker Island.
Shift away from the "zombie hip-hop" sound that was a mixture of blues, alternative, pop, and rap, to their modern electronic pop sound. I haven't cared for anything from The Fall to Humanz, and I only really liked Tranz off of The Now Now. Aries was the only song from Song Machine I liked. Still haven't bothered to listen to the new album.
None of Damon's other solo ventures outside of Blur went anywhere (The Good, The Bad, and The Queen, Rocket Juice & The Moon, and his solo album Everyday Robots), so he turned Gorillaz into his personal project. The appeal of the band for the first two phases was that the members were meant to be real, that every live concert you went to in that era was them playing behind a screen. Damon and the other real band members were never seen. Then in Phase 3 he said frick it and made it all about himself, shit canning the carnival theme of the album that carried over from the failed Carousel project and turning the entire thing into a half assed environmental message. I'd even argue that the only person keeping the project together was Cass Browne, but he jumped ship after PB, and that's when it becomes painfully obvious how shit the writing became
Nothing. They’ve had a few misses but Song Machine showed that they could still do it. They honestly started pumping out too much music. They need to lay low for a bit and cultivate a new album.
I think in terms of music they are still doing pretty damn great. Cracker island seams to be an amazing album and I can’t wait until it drops. But in terms of story and lore, there hasn’t been too much big happening.
That's what I meant. In order to produce product, album money was sunk into tours, and vice versa. The animation/art/story lore was secondary to Albarn and the "band" stuff, like getting celebrities to feature on tracks. Also, I think Hewlitt just kind of burnt out on the art demand side, so they hired people to emulate his style for future projects.
>Gorillaz
Re-Hash, 5/4, Tomorrow Comes Today, New Genious (Brother), Clint Eastwood, Man Research (Clapper), Punk, Rock the House, 19-2000(original and Soulchild remix), Starshine, Slow Country, Dracula, Left Hand Suzuki Method >G-Sides
The Sounder, Faust, Ghost Train, Hip Albatross, 12D3 >Demon Days
Last Living Souls, O Green World, Feel Good Inc, El Mañana, Every Planet We Reach Is Dead, Dare, Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head, Don't Get Lost in Heaven, Demon Days >D-Sides
We Are Happy Landfill >Plastic Beach
Glitter Freeze, Some Kind of Nature, On Melancholy Hill >The Fall
. >Humanz
. >The Now Now
Tranz >Song Machine
Aries
I thought The Fall was pretty good, even if the whole thing was made on an ipad while Damon was on tour. Personal favorite would be either "Parish of Space Dust" or "Snake in Dallas", but the best on the album is "Bobby in Phoenix".
Humanz was probably their worst album, but I liked Sleeping Powder.
The illustrations are cooler than the boring-ass music. I’d love to see the characters in a show but know that any incarnation of them would include albarn’s crappy songs.
I first listed to Gorillaz on September 2, 2001, according to the date on the receipt I bought the first album. So being a fan from the beginning I would say they changed A LOT after Plastic Beach. But I still enjoy some of their songs post-Plastic Beach. I listen to Humility from time to time (The one where Jack Black and Ace from PPG make a cameo in the music video.) But their newish songs just don't do it for me. Like it's good at first then I forget about it two weeks later.
The people b***hing about rap in their songs in moronic though lmao, something that's been present since the humble beginning of this band.
>The people b***hing about rap in their songs in moronic though lmao
Gorillaz used to be primarily alternative rock/pop. There was some rap, but it was actually good rap. Now it's whatever hip-hop they can throw in to fill time on the album.
>tfw i listened to Tomorrow comes today on loop on September 12, 2001 - a day after the attacks at the age of 14
Shit and I was in Philadelphia at the time and I remember my school was closed that day and my grandpa didn't want me to return the whole week. What a surreal time to be alive.
I don't I listened to them until like 2002, when the music videos used to air on mtv, I was about 6 then, I'm not american but I have very vague memories of my parents watching the news when it happened
Was my favorite group as a kid, because I thought my classmates would think I'm cool for being into rap and cartoons that smoke cigs.
In fact I did not get any street cred for my efforts.
I'm too old for them now. Their music is primarily for children. But I still like a lot of tracks. I think On Melancholy Hill is overall the best track they ever did, though I enjoy Tomorrow Comes Today and various other obscure pieces like Faust and whatever. But the obscure tracks aren't like things you want to play often, they're just a bit strange really.
I mean this with no malicious intent but how old are you? Legitimately curious because I remember this being everywhere over a decade ago
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I am not american.
1 month ago
Anonymous
Oh, fair enough.
I think BLM really started erupting worldwide around 2020, it was kind of a recurring thing that people would talk about and then forget about every few weeks of a two-year period
1 month ago
Anonymous
NTA, but I basically live in a bubble that ignores most media.
If it's on something like twitter or tiktok or even the radio there's like a 90% chance I won't know it exists unless someone mentions it in a thread I'm browsing.
The Gorillaz were always pulling from what was big in experimental circles, but since the project became what it initial "stood against", it's become white noise you'd hear in an Old Navy.
Celebrity Harvest was such BS, especially when soon after the project initially went bust, they were basically mainstream. It's Damon getting angry that his OCs, and more importantly himself, aren't as big as the beatles
Tomorrow Comes Today - 8/10 "Started all that 2D fanboy vocal shit"
New Genius (Brother) - 7/10 "The record skip towards the end bumps it up"
Clint Eastwood - 10/10 "Radio Friendly introduction that got ppl hooked on Gorillaz"
Man Research (Clapper) - 7/10
Punk - 7/10
Sound Check (Gravity) - 10/10
Double Bass - 9/10
Rock the House - 10/10 "Del makes songs"
19-2000 - 8/10
Latin Simone - 10/10
Starshine - 9/10
Slow Country - 10/10
M1 A1- 10/10
Dracula - 5/10
Left Hand Suzuki Method - 10/10
Demon Days
Intro - 5/10 " it's an intro"
Last Living Souls - 8/10
Kids with Guns - 8/10
O Green World - 10/10
Dirty Harry - 8/10
Feel Good Inc - 10/10 "Clint Eastwood pt.2 also an amazing fricking instrumental"
El Manana - 8/10
Every Planet We Reach is Dead - 6/10
November Has Come - 10/10
All Alone - 8/10
White Light - 6/10
Dare - 10/10
Fire Coming Out of Monkeys Head - 11/10 " One of Gorillaz greatest musical achievements"
Don't Get Lost in Heaven - 9/10
Demon Days - 7/10
The Fall "songs on this album I fricking hated growing up but the melodies came back to me at some point and I appreciated them more "
Phoner to Arizona - 4/10
Revolving Door - 8/10
Hillbilly Man - 8/10 "definitely grew on me"
Detroit - 10/10 "Sounds like some Animal Crossing shit"
Shy-Town - 7/10
Little Pink Plastic Bags - 4/10
The Joplin Spider - 8/10
The Parish of Space Dust - 2/10
The Snake in Dallas - 8/10
Armarillo- 6/10
The Speak it Mountains - 4/10 "OKAY palate cleanser but that's it."
Ascension - 4/10 "I use to like it but it's pretty lame and the "drop that ass" lyric just feels like it doesn't fit Gorillaz's quirkiness before this"
Strobelite - 1/10
Saturnz Barz - 9/10 "thankfully this track is on here, really felt like something old gorillaz would release but with a new Sound"
Momentz- 7/10
Interlude:Nonconformist Oath - 1/10 "Lame Monty Python type skit also references a song specifically so can't be a palate cleanser even"
Submission - 7/10 "Dammy Brown raps like a crackhead"
Charger - 10/10
Interlude:Elevator going up - 10/10 "I would put this in a Playlist as a palate cleanser in-between songs"
Andromeda - 6/10 "As much as I dislike it, it grew on me"
Busted and Blue - 3/10 "as bleak and neat as it is, pretty lame and fauxfeelings. Also too long of a song for what it is."
Interlude:Talk Radio - 2/10
Carnival - 0/10 "so fricking boring"
Let me Out - 8/10
Interlude:Penthouse - 2/10
Sex Murder Party - 0/10 "One of the worst if not the absolute worst gorillaz track there is, I've listened to this trash maybe sub 30 times and most of that is autoplay. Yuck"
She's my Collar - 9/10
Interlude:The Elephant - 1/10 "Muh Trump paranoia seeping into my art "
Hallelujah Money - 9/10 "this song man and music video is great"
We got the power - 4/10 "Lame and boring for as ecstatic it is"
Interlude:New World - 3/10
The Apprentice - 6/10 "Pretty good but lyrically cringe at some points, but if it's to contribute to muh bleak Trump reality and African American oppression..it's *okay* but yeesh."
Halfway to the Halfway House - 2/10 "No."
Out of Body - 8/10 "This is a good song"
Ticker Tape - 2/10 "More boring garbage"
Circle of Friends- 0/10 "Another boring "song" that I've listened to barely a handful of songs because it's boring or repetitive and just lacks life. Frick this shit I'd rather shoot myself in the head than sit through this EVER."
The Now Now "Somehow a bigger let down than Humanz, just like mediocre in comparison to past works. I know artists can try new things, shit in the same vein for forever can be boring...but this... this ain't it dog."
Humility - 9/10 " Surprisingly sonic opening with such a spacious sound. Pretty okay song for what this album brings.
Tranz - 9/10 "another good one, heavy chugging bass"
Hollywood - 4/10 "Snoopdog saves this song and the Jamie guy ruins it."
Kansas - 3/10 "Shoot me"
Sorcererz - 5/10 "mediocre but neat for what it's companion tracks do"
Idaho - 0/10 "Kansas but even more boring, shoot me twice."
Lake Zurich - 7/10 "Not a bad track, pretty groovy "
Magic City - 2/10 "Nope, more boring singing from Damon because idiots cried "please give us more 2D" on Humanz."
Fire Flies - 4/10 "better but boring"
One Percent - 1/10 "Skip"
Souk Eye - 7/10 "More boring 2D singing but this has a tropical vibe that gives life to the track.
Sleeping Powder - 9/10 "was after Humanz I know but this is 2D vocals done with old gorillaz quirkiness, this is done right. This is what Gorillaz sound should be, not the African American plight or Slow boring ballads. You can do either of those too, but do it with the quirkiness sound in some capacity because that's what sells them well"
. Also the track was pulled out of Damon's ass after people whined over Humanz."
>Fire Coming Out of Monkeys Head - 11/10 " One of Gorillaz greatest musical achievements"
I always liked this one but didn't realize a lot of people REALLY like it. Is it the Dennis Hopper storytime? It's a real shame this didn't get an animated music video. I always loved how the last three songs on DD seemed to flow into one another.
This track is a cornerstone of the early Gorillaz discography for me.
Wasn't BLM four years after Humanz?
I believe they were already doing BLM and black shit during 2016 because that's the year Le trump got elected.
Remember they address BLM only showing up in election years?
I wish I did a review of Song Machine and Cracker Island.
I honestly forgot Cracker Island existed.
Aries is a great track and I believe they completely and dropped the fricking ball on the Robert Smith feature.
Damon should've sang the chorus with Robert on verses.
It's so boring and a general nothing burger unfortunately.
Song Machine Part 1
Strange Timez - 6/10 "Listenable but the Robert Smith feature was botched. It's not a bad track perse but Robert should've been on the verses with Damon doing the chorus. It's like the ONLY SONG where Damon should've taken a back seat like Gorillaz usually does with artist collabs.
Imagine having such a powerful, eerie vocalist like Robert FRICKING Smith and screwing it up THAT BAD. Damon's doing his best Smith impression but it ain't it."
The Valley of The Pagans - 6/10 " I don't mind the track, Beck is pretty okay. The part at 2:05 breathes new life into the track."
The Lost Chord - 4/10 "The Synth line is okay, other than that it's dead air."
Pac-Man - 9/10 "One of the rap features by Gorillaz worth a damn. Better than most of the Humanzslop. Also sonically its just HUGE 1:30, it's done quite well. That rap verses are good, first feature of homie on a Gorillaz track.
Chalk Tablet Towers - 5/10 "Not-so-boring filler
Pink Phantom - 7/10 "Great song, Great attempt at a clashing sound, boring and bad rapper that just fits the energy."
Aries - 10/10 "New Order via Gorillaz"
Friday 13th - 2/10 "No"
Dead Butterflies - 2/10 "I don't even remember this song but man it's boring and probably for women."
Desole - 6/10 "A song with a groove that you might want it to go on forever but I find it has diminishing returns after 3 mins."
Momentary Bliss - 7/10 "English rap that works for once, pretty Gorillaz sounding track."
Opium - 4/10 "Meh"
Simplicity - 4/10 "Falling asleep here"
Severed Head - 3/10 "Filler the song"
With Love to An Ex - 1/10 "2nd song I know of that says homie"
MLS - 5/10 "Not super memorable"
How Far? - 6/10 "Carried by creepy black guy vocals."
>Strange Timez - 6/10 "Listenable but the Robert Smith feature was botched. It's not a bad track perse but Robert should've been on the verses with Damon doing the chorus. It's like the ONLY SONG where Damon should've taken a back seat like Gorillaz usually does with artist collabs.
That collab with Morrissey is going to never happen.
Orchestral Intro - 7/10 "pretty good intro for what's to come
Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach - 10/10 " this shit is killer"
White Flag - 10/10
Rhinestone Eyes - 9/10
Stylo- 10/10
Superfast Jellyfish - 7/10
Empire Ants - 10/10
Glitter Freeze - 6/10
Some Kind of Nature - 9/10
On Melancholy Hill - 10/10 " I mean really"
Broken - 11/10 "that fricking synth line is KILLER"
Sweepstakes - 0/10 " fricking lame, don't bother playing it"
Plastic Beach - 6/10
To Binge - 10/10
On the Cloud of Unknowing - 8/10
Pirate Jet - 8/10
Humanz "One real big let down"
Intro I switched my Robot off -
2/10
Ascension - 4/10 "I use to like it but it's pretty lame and the "drop that ass" lyric just feels like it doesn't fit Gorillaz's quirkiness before this"
Strobelite - 1/10
Saturnz Barz - 9/10 "thankfully this track is on here, really felt like something old gorillaz would release but with a new Sound"
Momentz- 7/10
Interlude:Nonconformist Oath - 1/10 "Lame Monty Python type skit also references a song specifically so can't be a palate cleanser even"
Submission - 7/10 "Dammy Brown raps like a crackhead"
Charger - 10/10
Interlude:Elevator going up - 10/10 "I would put this in a Playlist as a palate cleanser in-between songs"
Andromeda - 6/10 "As much as I dislike it, it grew on me"
Busted and Blue - 3/10 "as bleak and neat as it is, pretty lame and fauxfeelings. Also too long of a song for what it is."
Interlude:Talk Radio - 2/10
Carnival - 0/10 "so fricking boring"
Let me Out - 8/10
Interlude:Penthouse - 2/10
Sex Murder Party - 0/10 "One of the worst if not the absolute worst gorillaz track there is, I've listened to this trash maybe sub 30 times and most of that is autoplay. Yuck"
She's my Collar - 9/10
Interlude:The Elephant - 1/10 "Muh Trump paranoia seeping into my art "
Hallelujah Money - 9/10 "this song man and music video is great"
We got the power - 4/10 "Lame and boring for as ecstatic it is"
Interlude:New World - 3/10
The Apprentice - 6/10 "Pretty good but lyrically cringe at some points, but if it's to contribute to muh bleak Trump reality and African American oppression..it's *okay* but yeesh."
Halfway to the Halfway House - 2/10 "No."
Out of Body - 8/10 "This is a good song"
Ticker Tape - 2/10 "More boring garbage"
Circle of Friends- 0/10 "Another boring "song" that I've listened to barely a handful of songs because it's boring or repetitive and just lacks life. Frick this shit I'd rather shoot myself in the head than sit through this EVER."
The Now Now "Somehow a bigger let down than Humanz, just like mediocre in comparison to past works. I know artists can try new things, shit in the same vein for forever can be boring...but this... this ain't it dog."
Humility - 9/10 " Surprisingly sonic opening with such a spacious sound. Pretty okay song for what this album brings.
Tranz - 9/10 "another good one, heavy chugging bass"
Hollywood - 4/10 "Snoopdog saves this song and the Jamie guy ruins it."
Kansas - 3/10 "Shoot me"
Sorcererz - 5/10 "mediocre but neat for what it's companion tracks do"
Idaho - 0/10 "Kansas but even more boring, shoot me twice."
Lake Zurich - 7/10 "Not a bad track, pretty groovy "
Magic City - 2/10 "Nope, more boring singing from Damon because idiots cried "please give us more 2D" on Humanz."
Fire Flies - 4/10 "better but boring"
One Percent - 1/10 "Skip"
Souk Eye - 7/10 "More boring 2D singing but this has a tropical vibe that gives life to the track.
Sleeping Powder - 9/10 "was after Humanz I know but this is 2D vocals done with old gorillaz quirkiness, this is done right. This is what Gorillaz sound should be, not the African American plight or Slow boring ballads. You can do either of those too, but do it with the quirkiness sound in some capacity because that's what sells them well"
. Also the track was pulled out of Damon's ass after people whined over Humanz."
>double space between individual songs >single space between different albums
How could you make such an ass-backwards decision and stick to it for four whole posts without ever once noticing how bad it is to read?
>Fire Coming Out of Monkeys Head - 11/10 " One of Gorillaz greatest musical achievements"
I always liked this one but didn't realize a lot of people REALLY like it. Is it the Dennis Hopper storytime? It's a real shame this didn't get an animated music video. I always loved how the last three songs on DD seemed to flow into one another.
Last album I bought was Plastic Beach and even up to that point the style and music wasnt really something I was super excited about. Wish they could back to doing early on, character designs and all.
He consistently had black eyes until Phase 3 outside of a few pieces of art and Rockit in Phase 2.
Phase 3 is when he started having white eyes more often and it only grew from there to where now his white eyes are the norm.
she moonlights as the Pornstar Marice Hase, who regularly fricks black men and tells them that she's a wiener addicted prostitute in japanese while they nut in her.
Yoo wtf is jazz? Every song sounds exactly the same. There are exactly two expressions jazz is capable of: generic loud uptempo, and generic softer downtempo. That's it. Every jazz performance expresses the exact same thing and exact same vibe over and over again?
With such a limited range of expression, what's the point of listening to this stuff anyway? It's all so repetitive
Demon Days and Plastic Beach are top albums, peak vibes and songs
Humanz was a bitter pill to swallow. It was their first full on "Album full of trash hip hop nogs with a few Gorillaz lyrics sprinkled in" and that theyve done since
Even song Machine was like this unfortunately aside from the standouts that were singles. The rest of the album was filled the brim with lackluster garbage.
>Album full of trash hip hop nogs with a few Gorillaz lyrics sprinkled in
To be honest, Plastic Beach had a lot of that too
Demon Days was the absolute peak
You grew up. But unironically, Gorillaz felt like w a weird unserious playground for Damon to mix in with artists who would've never fit into his Modern Mod schtick with Blur. As time goes on those artists he wants to mix with will probably mostly be burgeoning zoomer genres that you can't stomach.
And on the animation side, Damon seems like he's stuck in a place where he quickly grows bored or their bankrollers can't afford/won't support his ideas so he's just kind of halfassing it a lot of the time.
Also for a lot of oldgays they're chasing that dragon of a full movie/show which is never going to happen.
>Also for a lot of oldgays they're chasing that dragon of a full movie/show which is never going to happen.
That's one of the weirdest and earliest memories I have. Some weird Gorillaz puppet show where they talk about this.
And yeah it would have been cool.
In my humble opinion, there's never been a truly bad Gorillaz album. I consider Humanz to be the weakest of the bunch yet it has tracks like "Saturnz Barz" and "We Got the Power" which I really like.
I just wish they'd go back to albums with stronger concepts. The cult thing that Cracker Island had was interesting but they didn't do much with it outside of some weak commentary about celebrity worship and social media influencers, and it all seemed to tie back into the theme of "living in Los Angeles sucks" which they've been stuck on since The Now Now.
The slight titty jiggle gets me every time. They knew what they were doing when they animated her in that video.
I don't care what you guys think, I want Adult Noodle to dom me.
Adult Noodle radiates a lot of mommy GF/big sister energy, or maybe that's just the horny part of my brain talking. Even the newer art for Cracker Island which makes her look like someone's granny is starting the grow on me.
they wasted the 2010s resurgence with no plot, could have done anything like tie the music videos and keep people engaged outside the music like they did in the 00s with plastic beach.
i think they just lazy too feed the fans who give you free exposure
something about him being happy
not a real explanation, but I remember the explicitly stated his eyes change to white when he's really happy
in that video with Jack Black you can see they're white the whole time, until he bumps into Murdock (or whoever it was) and they turn black again
>in that video with Jack Black you can see they're white the whole time, until he bumps into Murdock (or whoever it was) and they turn black again
Oh, that's what it was? I thought he was being possessed like Russel. Then when he's tripped and his eyes go dark he can't rollerskate properly anymore, so I took it as he could only do it when the spirit is possessing him.
I like the possession theory better now, please disregard my previous post because this sounds cooler
Nah Tranz was Damon being a covert gender critical. "Do you look like me, do you feel like me, Do you turn into your effigy?" It's about trans people being vain sexists and skinwalking as the people they're obsessed with.
Another one is Momentary Bliss. "All you need to change your face. You're getting sold, you're such a waste." That ones a punk song calling out all the trans posers pretending to be punk while buying cosmetic surgery and buying the "right" clothes
>in that video with Jack Black you can see they're white the whole time, until he bumps into Murdock (or whoever it was) and they turn black again
Oh, that's what it was? I thought he was being possessed like Russel. Then when he's tripped and his eyes go dark he can't rollerskate properly anymore, so I took it as he could only do it when the spirit is possessing him.
the whole Tranz imagery alludes to a possession since they are identical to russel, but this plot when nowhere
>in that video with Jack Black you can see they're white the whole time, until he bumps into Murdock (or whoever it was) and they turn black again
Oh, that's what it was? I thought he was being possessed like Russel. Then when he's tripped and his eyes go dark he can't rollerskate properly anymore, so I took it as he could only do it when the spirit is possessing him.
I thought the current explanation is that he can just change his eyes whenever he wants or something.
Thought, honestly, I haven't been keep up with Gorillaz lore that closely since they seemed to stop caring a long time ago.
He didn't get them until Murdoc went to jail, so the black eyes had something to do with him, something he hasn't done since getting out of jail since 2D still has white eyes today.
They may have gotten pulled back due to the running over budget with plastic beach (rhinestone eyes animatic never making it into a music video and the interactive website getting left to rot.)
There was a seven year gap between The Fall and Humanz. In that time, pop and hip hop music has become so fricking bad that its had a permanent effect on the project due to Albarn's trend chasing.
I thought they were pretty great up through plastic Beach. After that though they became a bit too flanderized. It felt like they were all parodies of themselves. I don't blame murdoc for leaving the band.
>In November 2021, Albarn announced that an animated film based on the band was in the works at Netflix, but by February 2023, it had been cancelled.
How many times is Jamie Hewlett going to do this fricking dance? Either make a film/series, or don't. And I do put this on Hewlett's feet, since he seems to be the main guy in regards to their fictional portrayal.
True, but they were just being super conservative with their spending at that time. A Gorillaz movie is, more or less, a sure thing, so I doubt they were the ones who pushed it to be cancelled - especially given the pattern so far of Hewlett failing to deliver on this front. What else is he even doing? He doesn't make comics anymore. He doesn't make anything outside of Gorillaz...
Work. On. That. Fricking. Animated. Film. Or. Series. You. Hack.
Jamie's life is a complete enigma, when he's not directly working on gorillaz he just disappears, probably the success was that big that he doesn't really need to work on other things anymore or at all, or well I can't help but feel like he probably gets more and more overworked and burnt out with each new album, he doesn't just do artwork, he directs and storyboards the music videos
True, but they were just being super conservative with their spending at that time. A Gorillaz movie is, more or less, a sure thing, so I doubt they were the ones who pushed it to be cancelled - especially given the pattern so far of Hewlett failing to deliver on this front. What else is he even doing? He doesn't make comics anymore. He doesn't make anything outside of Gorillaz...
Work. On. That. Fricking. Animated. Film. Or. Series. You. Hack.
And I say that as a big fan of his art.
Jamie should just draw more Tank Girl already.
The one and only time I've seen anything about Jamie, it was him showing people how to flip a cigarette with his mouth, and everyone started clapping
They were all British and missing teeth, it was great
Idk man, I love the first album. It's a masterpiece, but I feel like they kept pulling away from what that was with each album. It's crazy to me because The Fall is almost just as good as the original in having that Gorillaz feel and then after that it's just straight shit I haven't even cared to get into. Every single song having a 'feat. xxxx' is the biggest issue as well.
I never knew anything about Gorillaz past their first album (Love "Latin Simone").
I can't bully judge based on images only... but how much of a bawd has Noodle become?
Also, it is true Ace (of the Gangreen Gang) is an honorary member?
Unlike Murdoc and 2D they've never stated how much Noodle gets around, but she's got a level head on her shoulders so probably not that much despite how risqué her later outfits get.
Ace was just a temporary replacement for Murdoc who was in jail at the time.
Then Murdoc came back and Ace left with like no fanfare.
Didn't even really get to do anything.
>Collab with PPG >Their character Ace shows up and is in the band as Murdocs replacement >Do next to nothing with him outside of a music video >Once Murdoc comes back Ace just disappears like he was never there
I know it was likely something to do with CN being Dorks but why have an out-there collab and then not go all the way with it?
Their songs have always been spotlighting the guest artists. The keyboard loop and his backup vocals really inject 2D's whole thematic vibe into the song and there's the whole music video to it in. Why wouldn't you call it a Gorillaz song?
It got massive pushback from the community after the Rhinestone Eyes Cliffhanger because most fans were to young or out of the loop to understand what was going on behind the scenes and saw it as a waste of a music slot.
Dan the Automator was the reason they were good. Everything released after the first album is increasingly trash and nobody gives a shit about the gay lore.
They kinda just stopped focusing on a real plot and random shit just kinda happens now, like yeah ace being in the band was a cool little "haha the guy from other show!!!" thing but besides that was moronic. Besides that they mostly make kinda eh music, they'll have like one or two song that I really like on an album but past plastic beach its all really "passable"
TLDR: The funniest part about the band was lost years ago thanks to a bunch of bs
While it's clear they're still trying, I feel like they got sort of complacent in the post-Humanz era.
The music is still of decently high quality but too much of it is indistinguishable from stuff like the Weeknd and other modern electropop.
Their best recent songs to me have been the Elton John one and the Beck one. Gorillaz has started to feel more like a legacy act rather than a provocative constantly evolving project in recent years. They're still somewhat provocative but sort of in the risk-zone of starting to feel washed-up because they hardly produce any heavy hitters anymore. It's just "oh cool new gorillaz came out i'll listen to it when i have the time" The first album is my favorite
Half their music was just those background prerecorded keyboard midi tracks, they've always been soulless music dressed up in animation to be palpable to a broad audience.
they should have stopped aging noodle around phase 3 and just stuck with a look. and no, asian women are famous for aging well until their 50's, so that's not a good excuse. I also feel like they should have just stuck with a small core of rotating rappers and toned down on the experimentation, but in the end it really just feels like albarn trying his best to stay relevant.
Yeah, she was good for humanz and even TNN but recently they have been drawing her as if she's 10 years older than she is.
Ageing her up each album was a cool idea but now she's fully an adult she should remain mid to late 20-something. Not only can she be good coombait, her role as the 'youngster' is consistent and believable. Gorillaz is almost 25 so unless they are going to start drawing murdoc like a pensioner they can't keep doing it.
used to be experimental and flowing in and out of different genres but settled on being rap hop songs that would be on the top 40 for a week then go radio quiet for another few years.
>I like Gorillaz but I hate hip hop
This has never made any sense to me. Do you just like Dare or what
Not him, but my favorite Gorillaz songs are
>19-2000
>Melancholy Hill
>Dare
>Stylo
I don't have a problem with their their songs which have hiphop sections, but my favorites of theirs don't have them.
theres a difference between hip hop as a legit good music genre and Black person babble gangbanging CIA israelite MKultra mindfrickery that is rap music.
Not either of the insane people that replied to you, but I love hip hop and love Gorillaz, but the new stuff is really crappy pop rap and a lot of Damon Albarn songs with barely any real Gorillaz flair. There's no grit to any of it anymore. Too much live action crap too
I dislike Dare.
My favorite Gorillaz songs are
>Every Planet we reach is dead
>Kids with Guns
>Empire Ants
>On Melancholy Hill
>Pirate Jet
>That intro part in Hillbilly Man
>Little Pink Plastic Bag
None of them contain any of the moronic Oogabooga Rap
Gorillaz and Demon Days stuck with (on average) one guest artist per song. Plastic Peach was initially received mixed for the same reasons Humanz is. But Plastic Beach's songs are tonally consistent. A prime example are songs like Pink Phantom, where Damon and Elton John's voices are clearly working together pretty well before being interrupted by fricking uneven autotuned rapping.
Looking at Cracker Island's singles...
Cracker Island - Not rap, funky beat, mix of live instrument and electronic, big recommend to any Stylo fan
New Gold - The rapper from Dirty Harry off of Demon Days, Tame Impala playing backup
Baby Queen - Not rap, pseudo-love song with interesting lyrics, sounds like the 2018 album (which also only had one rap song) or like parts of Plastic Beach
Skinny Ape - Not rap, genuinely one of their weirder songs, maybe Hillbilly Man is the closest Gorillaz song to compare it to but it has a lot more going on then that song
Silent Running, Not rap, city lights at night kind of melancholy pop song
On the regular edition of the album, New Gold is the only rap song across 11 tracks. The deluxe album adds a whopping 4 rap songs to the list but they are:
1. A remix of New Gold with the same verses
2. A song with the rapper from Clint Eastwood
3. A song with the rappers from Feel Good Inc.
4. A song in another language certainly not made for radio in my country
They went woke
They went woke, before it was even a thing
Hate the focus on rap, makes it fricking gay
>source: I have seen them live 3 times
>hate the focus on rap
Can't blame them when their most important song is hip hop
>They went woke
Yeah, I wish they'd go back to producing apolitical songs like Kid's with guns, Dirty Harry, and Fire Coming out of The Monkeys Head.
It was different then.
Do you mind explaining how?
The world was still in shock due to 9/11. Demon Days wasn't only about Bush being le evil republican, it was about the impact the war has in all of us. In contrast, Humanz really feels like Albarn throwing a fit to people voting and electing Trump as president just because.
>just because
you just don't get it do you
What evil deeds Trump did before pandemic? Saying mean shit on interviews and twitter?
NTA but what you need to understand is that Trump getting elected has less to do with the man himself and more to do with for many liberal, and farther left people in the west being woken up from a dream.
That dream being the belief since Obama was elected that the world was becoming progressively more liberal and that those loud conservatives were just a minority of geriatric boomers who would die out in a few years.
The other big thing that was broken was the sense of decorum, the illusion that both sides of the isle could reach across and hash things out West Wing style.
The online flag burner types were already aware by GG that there was a modern right wing movement, but it took till Trump for the general population to see that anger and unwillingness to be steamrolled over for a Rainbow Colored Condo and it shocked them to their cores.
Suddenly the nice and shiny world with only a few "bad ones" became a place filled with The Other who would try and kill them if given the chance. And there was the Orange Man as the symbol of it all.
And a bunch of them hoped that by electing Biden it would make things go back to how they were. But it didn't work because the modern political discourse has awakened and there is no stopping it without conflict, leading to eventual integration and synthesis, and/or eradication or one element.
So its stuck ever since, an Orange Specter in liberal minds.
>Trump was the end of decorum
You missed the entire Bush era
>modern political discourse
This kind of shitflinging pales in comparison to the parties a century ago
I kind of get it since I am not american.
Difference is, we all had certain disdain for Bush back then.
fewer violent blacks involved
"war is bad" = good
"f-frick whitey!!" = you're a moron, like literally moronic, and it's okay to hate you
"Woke" doesn't just mean "political", there's a particular sort of persecution/victim/savior/shame complex to it all, often with a heavy dose of paranoia and hypocrisy. But I don't follow this shit, so I don't know if it's "woke" or not.
Jamie's lost any sense of love he had for the project when PB got canceled.
Damon hasn't cared since PB either and seems to dislike the cartoon aspect lately (See Skinny Ape) and only uses Gorillaz to collaborate with artists his children think are cool. He only makes albums that feature him crying about how shitty LA is
Humanz had potential, sadly they went full moron mode since the, I tried to watch Song Machine and is probably one of the worst pieces of shit that I've heard in my whole life, the designs suck too, sadly zoomer Gorillaz fans loved that shit and here we are
it was so fricking easy to make a cartoon alongside Plastic Beach and turn Gorillaz into a proper franchise, the boys fricked up hard with the hiatus
>hiatus after PB
Question cause I stopped bothering to keep up with them with the release of plastic shit. Did they do another 'will they won't they' "break up" scare during that time? It was like god damn clockwork every minute with them both.
After Humanz no.
Phase 1 and 2. Phase 3 is cyborg Noodle focused so it doesn't count and after Phase 4 Noodle is just plain ugly.
>Did they do another 'will they won't they' "break up" scare during that time?
After Plastic Beach? yeah they did that shit a lot for years, both are hacks
>YEAH U KNOW WE LOVE GORILLAZ BUT WHO KNOWS MAYBE ONE DAY, MAYBE NOT, WHO KNOWS!
frick Damon and frick Jamie
Jamie had actual reasons to be angry.
I wanted to like Humanz so bad but it was really shitty at times.
I really liked Song Machine and The Now Now but Cracker Island was really forgettable except for the singles. I do wish they'd do other genres more often.
Humanz is way too bloated with filler, and its singles don't beat the singles off the stronger Gorillaz albums. A lot of the guest appearances like D.R.A.M just feel underutilized and wasted but don't leave enough room for Gorillaz to shine through ether.
Saturn Barz is probably the closest you get to something featuring the guest and Gorillaz well on that Album. I just can't stand whoever the black guy is at the start you can't fricking understand him at all. The accented way he sings ads to the song but even when you understand the lyrics its black rap shit that feels opposite to the Gorillaz part of the song.
it really feels like there was a timelines shift and the Gorillaz suck in this one
>sadly zoomer Gorillaz fans loved
homie you like Humanz, that shit was a Trump obsessed shitpost
Everything that came after that was way better
Damon only cares about Blur, but they’re not the main moneymakers in the 21st century so he has to lazily shit out a bunch of collabed Gorillaz tracks to fund his lifestyle and give him room to make Blur records that will only chart in like Ireland and Scotland kek
I see that opinion often and it always feels really funny to me given how phoned in and hollow plastic beach was.
Damon Albarn has never cared about anything but fricking heroin bro
El mañana. It's the song where Damon started to go full into batshit lore that didn't add anything.
What's the best version of Noodle?
Plastic Beach Noodle was a perfect balance between original design and coom waifubait material
i dont give a frick if shes not the real noodle shes so damn cool
Contest between Phases 2 and 3.
She just had so much cool factor back then.
Thicc 4 Noodle was also great before she barreled into the wall like a crash test dummy.
I forgot she looke like that. What the hell happened to her?
Rockstar lifestyle with Murdoc for a dad and also Jamie decided to make her a hag with fricked up hair.
Noodle at her prime, same with the Strobelite design, they dropped the ball so hard
Best noodle, next to Desolé one
Well yeah, it's adult Noodle with her Phase 2 hairstyle.
Best of both worlds.
I think it's crazy that Noodle lost all sense of aesthetic once she became an adult
like just give her the bangs that cover her eyes back and I think it'd solve half the problems with her adult design. She's almost a whole other character without'em
>She's almost a whole other character without'em
I think that's the point, she's all grown up and everything's changing
same with all the other characters except for maybe Murdoc
I genuinely don't know what Russels changes would be other than not having ghosts living inside him anymore
They don't bother doing anything interesitng with him very often, Del leaving the band was the worst thing to happen to him
For the coomer part of my monkey brain, Phase 5
As an actual iconic character design, Phase 2
>As an actual iconic character design, Phase 2
So this is considered peak Noodle eh?
I will die on this hill
For me thats the second choice
cute cat monkey
Pardon me while I AWOOGA.
Tranz Noodle makes my noodle hard, even if The Now Now was very mediocre
>Tranz Noodle
Her looks and outfits are a reference to Debbie Harry from Blondie
I like the few examples of hyperactive drummer girl so I'll say when she was a kid with the big helmet
oh right she's not the drummer. Still.
Dare noodle.
You can see her pubes poking out.
Evidence?
Whichever one taste better.
Phase 3.
The one that makes me coom the hardest.
They obviously aged her to do more lewd stuff and I also like the new design better.
first one was the peak of character design
next two were alright, after that she just looks like a deranged crack addict
>after that she just looks like a deranged crack addict
I find beauty is achieved through imperfections
She looks like she's gonna obliterate my pelvis.
The last album was really good. I get the rap hop criticism but this was like an introspective beautiful Damon solo album.
Lorewise, Cracker Island was wasted potential. Also that song with Bad Bunny was awful.
imagine calling this reddit ass crap good
>Noodle
WHY?
It's mainly down to a shit haircut and awful make-up. The most recent drawing of her has her hair growing it back out again.
>When the wall hits a woman
She's 33 now and has lived a rock and roll lifestyle for the last 23 years with additional demon, ghost and magic bullshit going on around her
She's forgiven for getting a couple of lines on her face
>Noodle is older than me
I feel weird
the gorillaz band actually "age" now?
Obviously Noodle grew from a child to an adult, but what about the rest of the band?
They always did. It's just not as obvious with the others because they were already all sleep-deprived adults. Russel was bald so no hair to lose, 2D always looked like a crack addict twink and his eye sockets were always fricked from the start. It's only recently that they both started to show lines of ageing themselves.
Murdoc is the weird exception because he is the oldest of the group but doesn't seem to age like the rest of them. Theories are that he made a deal with the devil so he's immortal, but his body is green because his body is still rotting like a zombie despite his immortality.
Fricking souless art
Man, this art unironically looks like that sort of weird DeviantART shit you find with anime characters in fashionista outfits or thug outfits. It's so goddamn awkward looking and doesn't even have the appeal of 'ha ha funni goku drip' going for it. The art for this shit used to be so good but every time I see the 2020s era art for Gorillaz I'm just dumbfounded at how far it's fallen. Is Hewlett still the one doing the art for these? Because if so that's a hell of a decline.
Only one I like is the center left where they're smoking, since it actually looks like they're all standing with eachother for a candid photo rather than copy pasted into a lineup. Throw a brick wall in the backdrop and it'll look more like a scene.
they've made it pretty obvious that 2D is aging
Murdoc is basically a demon so not really
Russel was always the token black character so not really
black don't crack
dont look at morgan freeman bro
>She's 33 now and
If they were doing le accurate aging for the characters the rest of the band would look like nursing home escapees.
Why does Noodle look older then all of them?
Why does Noodle look older then all of them combined?
>murdoc made a deal with the devil to be immortal
>russel's black and blacks age gracefully
>murdoc's deal also extends to 2D since he's the face of the band and draws in the money
>asians are known for hitting the wall like a fright train, exacerbated by the hard and fast lifestyle of a musician raised by murdoc
Whatever team responsible for drawing Noodle, draws her very different each phase.
Her looks wildly fluctuates even in the songs in the same album/phase.
Sometime she looks like a teen, other times a 20 year old, and other times a 30 year old.
The rest of the band hardly ever is drawn that differently and is mostly consistent with each phase.
It was 50/50 good. I personally liked all of the album but I've heard so many people not like the album.
I hate Cracker Island so much. None of the characters had any real development and 2D was more moronic than usual.
they've been raping 2d since Humanz, 2d isn't a brain damaged autistic patient but it seems that they want to turn him into a mascot
>it seems that they want to turn 2D into a mascot
It should be Noodle
Isn't 2d like the Nathan explosion of the band. It's his band
It's Murdoc band actually.
2D's the face.
Murdoc's the leader and the one who founded the band.
Frick you I enjoyed it.
>inb4 WAAAA I CAN'T MOLEST ADULT NOODLE
Be honest with yourselves ffs.
I have always found weird that you guys find Noodle attractive.
I can't speak for this lot, but I've always had a thing for Asian girls and tomboys, so there's that. I just wish they knew what to do with her these days.
I thought asians age slow usually, why did Noodle hit the wall so early?
Asian MEN age slow, asian women are the ones that age like milk.
Asian women still age better than their white counterparts, they usually hit the wall in their mid 40's.
Im gunna go with a life of drugs partying and Murdoc
Might be because Jamie drew her that way, but I'm not sure.
That's what happens when your dad is Murdoc Niccals.
Plastic Beach was the last hurrah
It's a shame they never collaborated with Morrissey.
Morrissey would make fun of the whole animated/virtual band and then piss off Albarn flor good. He would like Murdoc for some reason.
>"You sure this guy Murdoc is not real? I knew a lad like him in the 70's."
>You are telling me none of them are real, that they are a virtual band? What's this travesty?"
>''Which Gallagher brother are you anyway?''
how the FRICK do you go from this
to FRICKING THIS
it's like if Disturbed made a collab with a K-POP band
>Disturbed's most popular song by far no contest is a Simon and Garfunkle cover
I don't know what he meant by this
Simon and Garfunkel are not overly pop musicians.
are you moronic
>Wan piss
Seems like you are
Plastic beach was too expensive and didn't immediately bring in a morbillion dollars for the studio
Shrimple ass
IIRC Carousel was even more expensive
Yes but it never even went into pre-production or as more than just ideas, PB actually got made
Plastic beach was so fricking cool, man.
We're never getting something like that ever again.
>the characters age in real time
do you think they'll ever do something with the characters when they're geriatric?
Murdoc is geriatric
tbd Murdoc has been perpetually geriatric
Nothing, just doomgays like OP complaining
I feel like I'm not equipped to comment on this since I was the exact demographic for it when it was new. Their self-titled album was a high I've been chasing ever since and I'm still bummed they didn't collab more with Del.
All the rest of it is worth a listen but the first was the one I actually liked.
Gorillaz and Demon Days were great because Damon had Del and Dan as support. With Plastic Beach he has all this artists collaborating with him but none has the soul Gorillaz needed.
Ah well we'll always have Deltron.
not unusual for artists to only have soul when they're young and hungry. Then you're a proven hit, established, wealthy with a family and kids and then wtf do you make your art about anymore? I think a lot of art takes yearning and once you've nothing to yearn for then what?
I think this is why I still like Radiohead, because they decided early on that they never wanted to become complacent just making the same kind of thing over and over again, so they decided every album was going to be wildly different from the last
there are some of their albums that I'm not a huge fan of, but I can appreciate the effort they put in to not be generic and predictable
and even with every album being wildly different, I still think they held up better than Gorillaz, where I just fell off after Plastic Beach when every album became "how many mumble rappers can we get as guests?"; I still remember hearing "The Apprentice" and really enjoying the first part of the song, then some talentless mumble rappers comes in and starts lazily rapping about race shit and repeating the same words and phrases OVER AND OVER again (because writing lyrics is clearly not the strong suit of someone like that) and I knew that if they frick up a perfectly good song with that shit then the whole album is probably going to be like that
After the Plastic Beach fallout both Damon and Jamie started phoning it in.
They went from doing like a bajillion different genres to doing mostly electronic pop shit.
>Lore
cringe
>Music
became cringe with Humanz that shit is Damon trying to be pop right after he finally hit the Gorillaz sound on Plastic Island but you can also see the problems arising from the I read a lot of feats with different artists in PB it was natural but from Humanz it started to get forced
>Art
Still great one of the best western animations
They always seem to run out of money to really let the animation side shine
How many times have they said a cartoon series was coming
>How many times have they said a cartoon series was coming,?
Or a movie
A Gorillaz movie/cartoon getting announce then shitcanned is tradition at this point.
they never got to make celebrity harvest
Damon got old and lost his passion for the project
They insisted upon themselves
Damon got jealous that the cartoons were getting more attention than him.
This.
Skinny Ape was the writing on the wall that this gay hated that the cartoon characters got the attention
Then he has no one to blame but himself for his own idea. If you wanna move on from projects and do your own thing then do it gracefully. If Paul McCartney and John Lennon could pull it off then so could he.
Albarn would have been long time dead without gorillaz.
No sympathy from me. Work on building something else or mind your shit if you wanted to move on.
Albarn isn't either of those two. He's a hack who's coasted off of the coattails of Gorillaz. Blur fricking sucks and Gallagher before he joined him was right when he called him fraud and a pretentious pos.
Agreed 1000%. Captain Chicken was proof since it was one of few good songs that never made it on the main album
Stupid fricks don't know that if they want something they have to do something. Frickheads just want to snap fingers and get what they want.
>coasted off of the coattails of his own music
zzzamn
I meant that he coasted off the fame of the cartoon characters and the concept of the band kek oops. Without the idea or characters, he wouldn't be successful
>isn't even aware of Blur
blur are shite
You mean JOBBlur? The band that jobbed HARD to CHADasis??
>He's a hack who's coasted off of the coattails of Gorillaz
I hate this fricking place, man.
Anon you can’t possibly think he’s comparable to Lennon or McCartney
I know he's being redundant but I understand what he means.
The lost chord was a "frick you" to plastic beach.
I think it was the moment he stopped having the characters play forefront in the live shows while he and the actual musicians played behind the screens like a decade ago.
The better fictional band won.
Their first album is still their best album
It all went downhill after Demon Days
They had all these stupid ideas that never really panned out. All they had to do was make well-produced music videos of Gorillaz playing their instruments and being a band. This is why Dethklok is more consistent than they are in that regard.
Yeah I suppose they tried too hard to be experimental than consistent. But in a way, its part of the charm. They seemed so ambitious and full of ideas and it made you wanna see where it all went. Sadly we've reached the point where it's evidently reached nowhere we wanted or expected. It was a lot of fun at the very least. I hope at the very least they retire the band with something that doesn't get cut short before it reaches fruition.
>They had all these stupid ideas that never really panned out.
Such as?
Everything after Demon Days isn't canon. Classic Gorillaz ends at G-Sides.
People who claim Demon Days as the best Gorillaz album and only like that, are the same as people who claim that Hybrid Theory is the best Linkin Park album and only like that.
I like Meteora.
>people who think Demon Days is the first Gorillaz album
And they are frickin correct
Nah you’re just a moronic zoomer. Linkin Park had Hybrid Theory, Meteora and Reanimation. Gorillaz had Self titled, Demon Days and G-Sides. Fall Out Boy had Take This To Your Grave and From Under The Cork Tree.
All three bands, like many other examples, are best when only listening to those efforts.
Millennial here. You are just a contrarian.
collision course > hybrid theory
Plastic Beach was great and anyone saying otherwise is a hipster contrarian.
>stylo
>meloncholy hill
>empire ants
>to binge
>that intro
>that second intro lol
It's fricking solid and arguably their best
Sweepstakes really grows on you
Desole is amazing, it had that ethereal early 00s vibe
im really upset that the "step right up" intro from the live shows didnt make it into the album version of sweepstakes. plastic beach as a whole is somehow simultaneously the greatest thing ever and the poster child for Missed Potential
The building chaos in the background is so good, love that track. Never got the hate.
Desole has the sound, but it's just kind of a dull song that is longer than it needs to be.
Desolé's probably one of my tracks they've done in recent times.
Feels like it'd fit in with something like Plastic Beach.
Rhinestone Eyes and Broken are also fricking great.
Melancholy hill is the only good one listed. Stylo in particular is fricking horrible.
oh no it's moronic
It's good but it feels incomplete.
>Superfast Jellyfish never makes the list
I know it's goofy, but I really love that song.
Plastic Beach is at least listenable all the way through. I didn't like a single song off Humanz well enough to listen to it more than once or twice. Song Machine's only good song is Pac Man, and really only the first half of it. I don't want to talk about Cracker Island.
I really loved Desole and the music video that went with it
Everything else I saw was meh
Some critical fans figured out that the Satanism wasn't ironic.
Oh, you find that funny?
Well wait till you see this.
Shift away from the "zombie hip-hop" sound that was a mixture of blues, alternative, pop, and rap, to their modern electronic pop sound. I haven't cared for anything from The Fall to Humanz, and I only really liked Tranz off of The Now Now. Aries was the only song from Song Machine I liked. Still haven't bothered to listen to the new album.
They went from fun stoner music to taking themselves too seriously.
it was never good.
nah its pretty damn good you're just a miserable Cinemaphilegay who will never be happy
but enough about your life
Gorillaz woulda been better if Del was a regular feature
>
Plastic Beach is better
For me, it's Rhinestone Eyes
noodle went from a cute dancing e-girl to a washed up 40 years old.
None of Damon's other solo ventures outside of Blur went anywhere (The Good, The Bad, and The Queen, Rocket Juice & The Moon, and his solo album Everyday Robots), so he turned Gorillaz into his personal project. The appeal of the band for the first two phases was that the members were meant to be real, that every live concert you went to in that era was them playing behind a screen. Damon and the other real band members were never seen. Then in Phase 3 he said frick it and made it all about himself, shit canning the carnival theme of the album that carried over from the failed Carousel project and turning the entire thing into a half assed environmental message. I'd even argue that the only person keeping the project together was Cass Browne, but he jumped ship after PB, and that's when it becomes painfully obvious how shit the writing became
What about his Dr. Dee Opera?
I listened to Everyday Robots when it first came out and it made me depressed.
I recommend this fan made reimagining of the song, it's very good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKu5gjzRRew
Gorillaz peaked with this video, both musically and in terms of animated content
Nothing. They’ve had a few misses but Song Machine showed that they could still do it. They honestly started pumping out too much music. They need to lay low for a bit and cultivate a new album.
Humanz and Cracker Island weren't a few
I hated like half of Humanz and Cracker Island put me to sleep.
>Murdoc
Heavy Metal
>2D
New Wave
>Noodle
J-rock
>Russell
Hip-Hop
I think in terms of music they are still doing pretty damn great. Cracker island seams to be an amazing album and I can’t wait until it drops. But in terms of story and lore, there hasn’t been too much big happening.
>I can’t wait until it drops
Cracker Island is pretty forgettable outside of a few tracks.
Lack of funds to produce animations. Sink most revenue into tours for wider audience/market.
>Sink most revenue into tours for wider audience/market.
That’s not how tours work moron. They generate more money than albums.
That's what I meant. In order to produce product, album money was sunk into tours, and vice versa. The animation/art/story lore was secondary to Albarn and the "band" stuff, like getting celebrities to feature on tracks. Also, I think Hewlitt just kind of burnt out on the art demand side, so they hired people to emulate his style for future projects.
>Gorillaz
Re-Hash, 5/4, Tomorrow Comes Today, New Genious (Brother), Clint Eastwood, Man Research (Clapper), Punk, Rock the House, 19-2000(original and Soulchild remix), Starshine, Slow Country, Dracula, Left Hand Suzuki Method
>G-Sides
The Sounder, Faust, Ghost Train, Hip Albatross, 12D3
>Demon Days
Last Living Souls, O Green World, Feel Good Inc, El Mañana, Every Planet We Reach Is Dead, Dare, Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head, Don't Get Lost in Heaven, Demon Days
>D-Sides
We Are Happy Landfill
>Plastic Beach
Glitter Freeze, Some Kind of Nature, On Melancholy Hill
>The Fall
.
>Humanz
.
>The Now Now
Tranz
>Song Machine
Aries
>Humanz
I like We have the power
>not mentioning Broken and Empire Ants for Plastic Beach
homie
>no stop the dams or hong kong
I thought The Fall was pretty good, even if the whole thing was made on an ipad while Damon was on tour. Personal favorite would be either "Parish of Space Dust" or "Snake in Dallas", but the best on the album is "Bobby in Phoenix".
Humanz was probably their worst album, but I liked Sleeping Powder.
Damons star power over shadowed Jamies art and Jamie bent the knee.
>Damon's star power
Which starpower?
Orange man derangement syndrome
>Orange man derangement syndrome
>Their best album was Bush derangement syndrome
No that came out before I became politically aware so it's not woke
The illustrations are cooler than the boring-ass music. I’d love to see the characters in a show but know that any incarnation of them would include albarn’s crappy songs.
I first listed to Gorillaz on September 2, 2001, according to the date on the receipt I bought the first album. So being a fan from the beginning I would say they changed A LOT after Plastic Beach. But I still enjoy some of their songs post-Plastic Beach. I listen to Humility from time to time (The one where Jack Black and Ace from PPG make a cameo in the music video.) But their newish songs just don't do it for me. Like it's good at first then I forget about it two weeks later.
The people b***hing about rap in their songs in moronic though lmao, something that's been present since the humble beginning of this band.
>The people b***hing about rap in their songs in moronic though lmao
Gorillaz used to be primarily alternative rock/pop. There was some rap, but it was actually good rap. Now it's whatever hip-hop they can throw in to fill time on the album.
>do a collab with elton john
>ruin it by including some shitty soundcloud rapper
i will never not be fricking mad
>rapper trashes the song so hard that even the empty-feeling rapless versions sound better
What an achievement lol.
>tfw i listened to Tomorrow comes today on loop on September 12, 2001 - a day after the attacks at the age of 14
Shit and I was in Philadelphia at the time and I remember my school was closed that day and my grandpa didn't want me to return the whole week. What a surreal time to be alive.
I don't I listened to them until like 2002, when the music videos used to air on mtv, I was about 6 then, I'm not american but I have very vague memories of my parents watching the news when it happened
I remember parts of my 1st birthday, but not 9/11 when I was 9 years old.
post noods
God damn, I wanna frick Noodle and make you all watch.
Jaguar Noodle is so hot it's unreal.
God I love how heavy Tranz Noodle's breasts look
Theres not enough of noodle doing suggestive things
If I didn't already beat my dick this probably would have done it for me.
How is this even a thing? That's a very specific interest.
SPH is a hell of a fetish with the right characters
post moar if available k thx
adult noodle gives anal on the first date vibes (and that's a good thing)
Was my favorite group as a kid, because I thought my classmates would think I'm cool for being into rap and cartoons that smoke cigs.
In fact I did not get any street cred for my efforts.
I'm too old for them now. Their music is primarily for children. But I still like a lot of tracks. I think On Melancholy Hill is overall the best track they ever did, though I enjoy Tomorrow Comes Today and various other obscure pieces like Faust and whatever. But the obscure tracks aren't like things you want to play often, they're just a bit strange really.
Phases aren't as definitive/focused now as 1/2/3. Forgot what the Humanz phase was even about.
>Humanz
It was a reaction to the political shitstorm of 2016, or a 'party at the end of the world'
2016 really was a mistake in every regard.
Humanz at least had a distinct feel to it.
Everything past that feels like one big blur. Not that one.
are Gorillaz still doing phases/albums?
I thought they switched to releasing singles in a steady stream now.
It was a black BLM pander party and an anti Trump record.
A waste of vinyl aside from a Grave Jones track
Charger and Hallelujah Money are good.
Wasn't BLM four years after Humanz?
>He doesn't remember trayvon martin and the inability to flim flam the zim zam
I don't actually.
I mean this with no malicious intent but how old are you? Legitimately curious because I remember this being everywhere over a decade ago
I am not american.
Oh, fair enough.
I think BLM really started erupting worldwide around 2020, it was kind of a recurring thing that people would talk about and then forget about every few weeks of a two-year period
NTA, but I basically live in a bubble that ignores most media.
If it's on something like twitter or tiktok or even the radio there's like a 90% chance I won't know it exists unless someone mentions it in a thread I'm browsing.
BLM is a bit older than
>HE NEEDS SOME MILK
Absolutely nothing Cracker Island is amazing. Like 2 bad songs on the whole album
>nothing will ever have the vibe of Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head ever again
I miss that grungy edge Gorillaz used to have, both in the music AND in the illustrations.
I remember thinking 2D was the coolest looking because he used to be shown with a cig and an aerosol can. Now he just looks like a dope
yeah 2D just looks like an aging metrosexual lesbian now
it's kind of stupid
The Gorillaz were always pulling from what was big in experimental circles, but since the project became what it initial "stood against", it's become white noise you'd hear in an Old Navy.
Celebrity Harvest was such BS, especially when soon after the project initially went bust, they were basically mainstream. It's Damon getting angry that his OCs, and more importantly himself, aren't as big as the beatles
Fireflies is my favourite new gorillaz song
What ever went right? That stupid windmill song is kinda catchy in a nostalgic way but other than that overhyped crap
Someone decided to balance the catchy tunes with ugly character art. Ugly tends NOT to sell.
Gorillaz
Rehash - 6/10 "Literally Song 2 by Blur"
5/4 - 6/10
Tomorrow Comes Today - 8/10 "Started all that 2D fanboy vocal shit"
New Genius (Brother) - 7/10 "The record skip towards the end bumps it up"
Clint Eastwood - 10/10 "Radio Friendly introduction that got ppl hooked on Gorillaz"
Man Research (Clapper) - 7/10
Punk - 7/10
Sound Check (Gravity) - 10/10
Double Bass - 9/10
Rock the House - 10/10 "Del makes songs"
19-2000 - 8/10
Latin Simone - 10/10
Starshine - 9/10
Slow Country - 10/10
M1 A1- 10/10
Dracula - 5/10
Left Hand Suzuki Method - 10/10
Demon Days
Intro - 5/10 " it's an intro"
Last Living Souls - 8/10
Kids with Guns - 8/10
O Green World - 10/10
Dirty Harry - 8/10
Feel Good Inc - 10/10 "Clint Eastwood pt.2 also an amazing fricking instrumental"
El Manana - 8/10
Every Planet We Reach is Dead - 6/10
November Has Come - 10/10
All Alone - 8/10
White Light - 6/10
Dare - 10/10
Fire Coming Out of Monkeys Head - 11/10 " One of Gorillaz greatest musical achievements"
Don't Get Lost in Heaven - 9/10
Demon Days - 7/10
The Fall "songs on this album I fricking hated growing up but the melodies came back to me at some point and I appreciated them more "
Phoner to Arizona - 4/10
Revolving Door - 8/10
Hillbilly Man - 8/10 "definitely grew on me"
Detroit - 10/10 "Sounds like some Animal Crossing shit"
Shy-Town - 7/10
Little Pink Plastic Bags - 4/10
The Joplin Spider - 8/10
The Parish of Space Dust - 2/10
The Snake in Dallas - 8/10
Armarillo- 6/10
The Speak it Mountains - 4/10 "OKAY palate cleanser but that's it."
Aspen Forest - 2/10
Bobby in Phoenix - 2/10
California and the Slipping of the Sun - 1/10
Seattle Yodel - 6/10
Plastic Beach
Orchestral Intro - 7/10 "pretty good intro for what's to come
Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach - 10/10 " this shit is killer"
White Flag - 10/10
Rhinestone Eyes - 9/10
Stylo- 10/10
Superfast Jellyfish - 7/10
Empire Ants - 10/10
Glitter Freeze - 6/10
Some Kind of Nature - 9/10
On Melancholy Hill - 10/10 " I mean really"
Broken - 11/10 "that fricking synth line is KILLER"
Sweepstakes - 0/10 " fricking lame, don't bother playing it"
Plastic Beach - 6/10
To Binge - 10/10
On the Cloud of Unknowing - 8/10
Pirate Jet - 8/10
Humanz "One real big let down"
Intro I switched my Robot off -
2/10
Ascension - 4/10 "I use to like it but it's pretty lame and the "drop that ass" lyric just feels like it doesn't fit Gorillaz's quirkiness before this"
Strobelite - 1/10
Saturnz Barz - 9/10 "thankfully this track is on here, really felt like something old gorillaz would release but with a new Sound"
Momentz- 7/10
Interlude:Nonconformist Oath - 1/10 "Lame Monty Python type skit also references a song specifically so can't be a palate cleanser even"
Submission - 7/10 "Dammy Brown raps like a crackhead"
Charger - 10/10
Interlude:Elevator going up - 10/10 "I would put this in a Playlist as a palate cleanser in-between songs"
Andromeda - 6/10 "As much as I dislike it, it grew on me"
Busted and Blue - 3/10 "as bleak and neat as it is, pretty lame and fauxfeelings. Also too long of a song for what it is."
Interlude:Talk Radio - 2/10
Carnival - 0/10 "so fricking boring"
Let me Out - 8/10
Interlude:Penthouse - 2/10
Sex Murder Party - 0/10 "One of the worst if not the absolute worst gorillaz track there is, I've listened to this trash maybe sub 30 times and most of that is autoplay. Yuck"
She's my Collar - 9/10
Interlude:The Elephant - 1/10 "Muh Trump paranoia seeping into my art "
Hallelujah Money - 9/10 "this song man and music video is great"
We got the power - 4/10 "Lame and boring for as ecstatic it is"
Interlude:New World - 3/10
The Apprentice - 6/10 "Pretty good but lyrically cringe at some points, but if it's to contribute to muh bleak Trump reality and African American oppression..it's *okay* but yeesh."
Halfway to the Halfway House - 2/10 "No."
Out of Body - 8/10 "This is a good song"
Ticker Tape - 2/10 "More boring garbage"
Circle of Friends- 0/10 "Another boring "song" that I've listened to barely a handful of songs because it's boring or repetitive and just lacks life. Frick this shit I'd rather shoot myself in the head than sit through this EVER."
The Now Now "Somehow a bigger let down than Humanz, just like mediocre in comparison to past works. I know artists can try new things, shit in the same vein for forever can be boring...but this... this ain't it dog."
Humility - 9/10 " Surprisingly sonic opening with such a spacious sound. Pretty okay song for what this album brings.
Tranz - 9/10 "another good one, heavy chugging bass"
Hollywood - 4/10 "Snoopdog saves this song and the Jamie guy ruins it."
Kansas - 3/10 "Shoot me"
Sorcererz - 5/10 "mediocre but neat for what it's companion tracks do"
Idaho - 0/10 "Kansas but even more boring, shoot me twice."
Lake Zurich - 7/10 "Not a bad track, pretty groovy "
Magic City - 2/10 "Nope, more boring singing from Damon because idiots cried "please give us more 2D" on Humanz."
Fire Flies - 4/10 "better but boring"
One Percent - 1/10 "Skip"
Souk Eye - 7/10 "More boring 2D singing but this has a tropical vibe that gives life to the track.
Sleeping Powder - 9/10 "was after Humanz I know but this is 2D vocals done with old gorillaz quirkiness, this is done right. This is what Gorillaz sound should be, not the African American plight or Slow boring ballads. You can do either of those too, but do it with the quirkiness sound in some capacity because that's what sells them well"
. Also the track was pulled out of Damon's ass after people whined over Humanz."
>I switched my Robot off
More like I switched the album off LOL.
True lmao
This track is a cornerstone of the early Gorillaz discography for me.
I believe they were already doing BLM and black shit during 2016 because that's the year Le trump got elected.
Remember they address BLM only showing up in election years?
I wish I did a review of Song Machine and Cracker Island.
I honestly forgot Cracker Island existed.
Aries is a great track and I believe they completely and dropped the fricking ball on the Robert Smith feature.
Damon should've sang the chorus with Robert on verses.
The Elton John song was botched too.
Trump really did a number on libs. Why do they hate him again? He wasn't really that bad except for 2021.
I actually hate Some kind of natural. Old Lou Reed is such a pain to hear.
Yeah old Lou Reed is rank
I really don't understand the hate for Sweepstakes.
It's so boring and a general nothing burger unfortunately.
Song Machine Part 1
Strange Timez - 6/10 "Listenable but the Robert Smith feature was botched. It's not a bad track perse but Robert should've been on the verses with Damon doing the chorus. It's like the ONLY SONG where Damon should've taken a back seat like Gorillaz usually does with artist collabs.
Imagine having such a powerful, eerie vocalist like Robert FRICKING Smith and screwing it up THAT BAD. Damon's doing his best Smith impression but it ain't it."
The Valley of The Pagans - 6/10 " I don't mind the track, Beck is pretty okay. The part at 2:05 breathes new life into the track."
The Lost Chord - 4/10 "The Synth line is okay, other than that it's dead air."
Pac-Man - 9/10 "One of the rap features by Gorillaz worth a damn. Better than most of the Humanzslop. Also sonically its just HUGE 1:30, it's done quite well. That rap verses are good, first feature of homie on a Gorillaz track.
Chalk Tablet Towers - 5/10 "Not-so-boring filler
Pink Phantom - 7/10 "Great song, Great attempt at a clashing sound, boring and bad rapper that just fits the energy."
Aries - 10/10 "New Order via Gorillaz"
Friday 13th - 2/10 "No"
Dead Butterflies - 2/10 "I don't even remember this song but man it's boring and probably for women."
Desole - 6/10 "A song with a groove that you might want it to go on forever but I find it has diminishing returns after 3 mins."
Momentary Bliss - 7/10 "English rap that works for once, pretty Gorillaz sounding track."
Opium - 4/10 "Meh"
Simplicity - 4/10 "Falling asleep here"
Severed Head - 3/10 "Filler the song"
With Love to An Ex - 1/10 "2nd song I know of that says homie"
MLS - 5/10 "Not super memorable"
How Far? - 6/10 "Carried by creepy black guy vocals."
>Damon doing his best Smith impression in a collab with Robert Smith
Was that on purpose or is he that moronic?
>Strange Timez - 6/10 "Listenable but the Robert Smith feature was botched. It's not a bad track perse but Robert should've been on the verses with Damon doing the chorus. It's like the ONLY SONG where Damon should've taken a back seat like Gorillaz usually does with artist collabs.
That collab with Morrissey is going to never happen.
>double space between individual songs
>single space between different albums
How could you make such an ass-backwards decision and stick to it for four whole posts without ever once noticing how bad it is to read?
Cram it, Reddit.
Funny how you call someone reddit when you unironically type like someone from there.
>Fire Coming Out of Monkeys Head - 11/10 " One of Gorillaz greatest musical achievements"
I always liked this one but didn't realize a lot of people REALLY like it. Is it the Dennis Hopper storytime? It's a real shame this didn't get an animated music video. I always loved how the last three songs on DD seemed to flow into one another.
>bobby in phoenix that low
Them's fightin' words!
>Every Planet we reach is dead
>Only a 6
Everything else is on point, but that one's a big miss.
Last album I bought was Plastic Beach and even up to that point the style and music wasnt really something I was super excited about. Wish they could back to doing early on, character designs and all.
I will be forevrially pissed that 2D doesn't have black eyes anymore.
I don't think he ever CONSISTENTLY had black eyes? I feel like half the artwork gave him eyes and it was weird.
He consistently had black eyes until Phase 3 outside of a few pieces of art and Rockit in Phase 2.
Phase 3 is when he started having white eyes more often and it only grew from there to where now his white eyes are the norm.
noodle sex
I'm still reeling over Hewlett being a footgay.
legitimately crazy news, I had no idea
Do you think Noodle is a good lay or is she just one of those girls who lies there and moans?
Murdoc told her all the things guys would try to her, then she flipped it around and did it to them instead.
Adult noodle gives me heavy freak vibes, I think she'd be a fun lay
she moonlights as the Pornstar Marice Hase, who regularly fricks black men and tells them that she's a wiener addicted prostitute in japanese while they nut in her.
Yoo wtf is jazz? Every song sounds exactly the same. There are exactly two expressions jazz is capable of: generic loud uptempo, and generic softer downtempo. That's it. Every jazz performance expresses the exact same thing and exact same vibe over and over again?
With such a limited range of expression, what's the point of listening to this stuff anyway? It's all so repetitive
>“Clint Eastwood” (2001 song)
Demon Days and Plastic Beach are top albums, peak vibes and songs
Humanz was a bitter pill to swallow. It was their first full on "Album full of trash hip hop nogs with a few Gorillaz lyrics sprinkled in" and that theyve done since
Even song Machine was like this unfortunately aside from the standouts that were singles. The rest of the album was filled the brim with lackluster garbage.
>Album full of trash hip hop nogs with a few Gorillaz lyrics sprinkled in
To be honest, Plastic Beach had a lot of that too
Demon Days was the absolute peak
You grew up.
But unironically, Gorillaz felt like w a weird unserious playground for Damon to mix in with artists who would've never fit into his Modern Mod schtick with Blur. As time goes on those artists he wants to mix with will probably mostly be burgeoning zoomer genres that you can't stomach.
And on the animation side, Damon seems like he's stuck in a place where he quickly grows bored or their bankrollers can't afford/won't support his ideas so he's just kind of halfassing it a lot of the time.
Also for a lot of oldgays they're chasing that dragon of a full movie/show which is never going to happen.
>Also for a lot of oldgays they're chasing that dragon of a full movie/show which is never going to happen.
That's one of the weirdest and earliest memories I have. Some weird Gorillaz puppet show where they talk about this.
And yeah it would have been cool.
In my humble opinion, there's never been a truly bad Gorillaz album. I consider Humanz to be the weakest of the bunch yet it has tracks like "Saturnz Barz" and "We Got the Power" which I really like.
I just wish they'd go back to albums with stronger concepts. The cult thing that Cracker Island had was interesting but they didn't do much with it outside of some weak commentary about celebrity worship and social media influencers, and it all seemed to tie back into the theme of "living in Los Angeles sucks" which they've been stuck on since The Now Now.
The slight titty jiggle gets me every time. They knew what they were doing when they animated her in that video.
Adult Noodle radiates a lot of mommy GF/big sister energy, or maybe that's just the horny part of my brain talking. Even the newer art for Cracker Island which makes her look like someone's granny is starting the grow on me.
I don't care what you guys think, I want Adult Noodle to dom me.
they wasted the 2010s resurgence with no plot, could have done anything like tie the music videos and keep people engaged outside the music like they did in the 00s with plastic beach.
i think they just lazy too feed the fans who give you free exposure
oh and we still dont know why 2d have white eyes
something about him being happy
not a real explanation, but I remember the explicitly stated his eyes change to white when he's really happy
in that video with Jack Black you can see they're white the whole time, until he bumps into Murdock (or whoever it was) and they turn black again
i dont belive it
the whole Tranz imagery alludes to a possession since they are identical to russel, but this plot when nowhere
I like the possession theory better now, please disregard my previous post because this sounds cooler
Nah Tranz was Damon being a covert gender critical. "Do you look like me, do you feel like me, Do you turn into your effigy?" It's about trans people being vain sexists and skinwalking as the people they're obsessed with.
Another one is Momentary Bliss. "All you need to change your face. You're getting sold, you're such a waste." That ones a punk song calling out all the trans posers pretending to be punk while buying cosmetic surgery and buying the "right" clothes
Very implausible. They wouldn't dare.
>in that video with Jack Black you can see they're white the whole time, until he bumps into Murdock (or whoever it was) and they turn black again
Oh, that's what it was? I thought he was being possessed like Russel. Then when he's tripped and his eyes go dark he can't rollerskate properly anymore, so I took it as he could only do it when the spirit is possessing him.
I thought the current explanation is that he can just change his eyes whenever he wants or something.
Thought, honestly, I haven't been keep up with Gorillaz lore that closely since they seemed to stop caring a long time ago.
He didn't get them until Murdoc went to jail, so the black eyes had something to do with him, something he hasn't done since getting out of jail since 2D still has white eyes today.
They may have gotten pulled back due to the running over budget with plastic beach (rhinestone eyes animatic never making it into a music video and the interactive website getting left to rot.)
The now now was whatever.
They reach the peak with Plastic Beach.
Change my mind.
The Fall is their best album, and you can't change my mind.
How can you change something that clearly don't have?
2/10 got me to reply
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Cute Tusspot
The Now Now is underappreciated. Humanz is awful though. I haven't listened to anything beyond those albums.
They may as well only release singles at this point with how abysmal Humanz and Cracker Island were.
There's been a few diamonds in the rough since, but as time goes on Do Ya Thing should've been the end of the project.
The Now Now is solid but nothing really stands out. Just a 6 or 7/10 of an album
Now Now is eh.
I like Humility a lot, but most of the other tracks are completely middle of the road.
New Gold was a banger tho
Problem was they practically released the whole album as singles.
There was a seven year gap between The Fall and Humanz. In that time, pop and hip hop music has become so fricking bad that its had a permanent effect on the project due to Albarn's trend chasing.
I thought they were pretty great up through plastic Beach. After that though they became a bit too flanderized. It felt like they were all parodies of themselves. I don't blame murdoc for leaving the band.
Why did he do it?
What happened with the boogueyman?
To secure his band's success.
I want her back
>In November 2021, Albarn announced that an animated film based on the band was in the works at Netflix, but by February 2023, it had been cancelled.
How many times is Jamie Hewlett going to do this fricking dance? Either make a film/series, or don't. And I do put this on Hewlett's feet, since he seems to be the main guy in regards to their fictional portrayal.
Netflix was canning all their animation projects around that time.
True, but they were just being super conservative with their spending at that time. A Gorillaz movie is, more or less, a sure thing, so I doubt they were the ones who pushed it to be cancelled - especially given the pattern so far of Hewlett failing to deliver on this front. What else is he even doing? He doesn't make comics anymore. He doesn't make anything outside of Gorillaz...
Work. On. That. Fricking. Animated. Film. Or. Series. You. Hack.
And I say that as a big fan of his art.
Jamie's life is a complete enigma, when he's not directly working on gorillaz he just disappears, probably the success was that big that he doesn't really need to work on other things anymore or at all, or well I can't help but feel like he probably gets more and more overworked and burnt out with each new album, he doesn't just do artwork, he directs and storyboards the music videos
Jamie should just draw more Tank Girl already.
I remember reading Tank Girl and it was ass.
The one and only time I've seen anything about Jamie, it was him showing people how to flip a cigarette with his mouth, and everyone started clapping
They were all British and missing teeth, it was great
Still can't believe this was made
Dedication that's what
Idk man, I love the first album. It's a masterpiece, but I feel like they kept pulling away from what that was with each album. It's crazy to me because The Fall is almost just as good as the original in having that Gorillaz feel and then after that it's just straight shit I haven't even cared to get into. Every single song having a 'feat. xxxx' is the biggest issue as well.
Why the frick hasn't the art book been posted anywhere online it's been years
Go woke
Go broke
I never knew anything about Gorillaz past their first album (Love "Latin Simone").
I can't bully judge based on images only... but how much of a bawd has Noodle become?
Also, it is true Ace (of the Gangreen Gang) is an honorary member?
Unlike Murdoc and 2D they've never stated how much Noodle gets around, but she's got a level head on her shoulders so probably not that much despite how risqué her later outfits get.
Ace was just a temporary replacement for Murdoc who was in jail at the time.
Then Murdoc came back and Ace left with like no fanfare.
Didn't even really get to do anything.
>Collab with PPG
>Their character Ace shows up and is in the band as Murdocs replacement
>Do next to nothing with him outside of a music video
>Once Murdoc comes back Ace just disappears like he was never there
I know it was likely something to do with CN being Dorks but why have an out-there collab and then not go all the way with it?
Demon Days was peak Gorillaz.
Albums or singles post Plastic Beach?
How about Plastic Beach adjacent. No one ever mentions this track. I never knew it existed for a long ass time and its great.
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Because it's not really a Gorillaz song.
Their songs have always been spotlighting the guest artists. The keyboard loop and his backup vocals really inject 2D's whole thematic vibe into the song and there's the whole music video to it in. Why wouldn't you call it a Gorillaz song?
It wasn't part of Plastic Beach and didn't fit with the concept of the album to say it was a sea side.
It got massive pushback from the community after the Rhinestone Eyes Cliffhanger because most fans were to young or out of the loop to understand what was going on behind the scenes and saw it as a waste of a music slot.
Very spread out releases of sparse content.
If you are going to make a cartoon band, they need more of a story.
Dan the Automator was the reason they were good. Everything released after the first album is increasingly trash and nobody gives a shit about the gay lore.
The story went to shit when Casse Brown left.
How long is the story?
What? The lore? Kind of long and full of shit.
As soon as he left all of the characters got flanderized and the story went to shit
>what the frick went so wrong?
When they started making the actual music the backdrop for their ebin lore instead of the other way around.
Why did Noodle jump from being 13 to being 35?
Because I jumped from 13 to 35.
Also the 3D look is AIDS.
They kinda just stopped focusing on a real plot and random shit just kinda happens now, like yeah ace being in the band was a cool little "haha the guy from other show!!!" thing but besides that was moronic. Besides that they mostly make kinda eh music, they'll have like one or two song that I really like on an album but past plastic beach its all really "passable"
TLDR: The funniest part about the band was lost years ago thanks to a bunch of bs
Nothing. You have shit taste.
While it's clear they're still trying, I feel like they got sort of complacent in the post-Humanz era.
The music is still of decently high quality but too much of it is indistinguishable from stuff like the Weeknd and other modern electropop.
Their best recent songs to me have been the Elton John one and the Beck one. Gorillaz has started to feel more like a legacy act rather than a provocative constantly evolving project in recent years. They're still somewhat provocative but sort of in the risk-zone of starting to feel washed-up because they hardly produce any heavy hitters anymore. It's just "oh cool new gorillaz came out i'll listen to it when i have the time"
The first album is my favorite
Why didn't he save her?
It was a soulless tool and stand in sadly
I disagree with the first one
Half their music was just those background prerecorded keyboard midi tracks, they've always been soulless music dressed up in animation to be palpable to a broad audience.
Reminder that according to Gorillaz lore, Daley died long time ago on Plastic Beach.
Well his career certainly did
He is no longer making music?
He hasn't for a couple of years, but his career peaked during that time
Flimsy Steve
sex with phase 2 Noodle
You mean phase 4 right?
I think he means Cyborg Noodle.
>promised sexo adult noodle
>got 1 crappy 3d video
I'm still mad, frick
Here's a commercial
As I said, still mad.
Murdoc and Ace should make their own band
ITT: anon realizes its not 2000 anymore
>Grotesque Black person clown destroys the symbol of the last time Gorillaz was ever good
The Lost Chord is just plain satanic.
Satanic imagery? In MY virtual band?! I'm clutching my pearls as I type.
Dumb shit-eater.
You've got me pegged.
Seriously, have a nice day.
That would be very un-Christian, and I'm a devout Catholic. It's why I resonate so strongly with Gorillaz.
It's already embarrassing to defend to post-PB Gorillaz but the passive-aggressive Colbert style snark makes you an enormous homosexual.
Good thing we're anonymous, then.
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Platinum mad.
It's kino stay mad tastelet
It's garbage
They have been around 20 fricking years. And they were made up of members of a band that is ten years older than that.
They got old, that's what happened.
They've yet to experience this band's version of Thinktank
Thinktank is what basically killed Blur for 10 years
How?
Plastic Beach almost killed Gorillaz.
they should have stopped aging noodle around phase 3 and just stuck with a look. and no, asian women are famous for aging well until their 50's, so that's not a good excuse. I also feel like they should have just stuck with a small core of rotating rappers and toned down on the experimentation, but in the end it really just feels like albarn trying his best to stay relevant.
She seemed around phase 3 when humanz started, then it seemed Jamie just rapidly aged her
Yeah, she was good for humanz and even TNN but recently they have been drawing her as if she's 10 years older than she is.
Ageing her up each album was a cool idea but now she's fully an adult she should remain mid to late 20-something. Not only can she be good coombait, her role as the 'youngster' is consistent and believable. Gorillaz is almost 25 so unless they are going to start drawing murdoc like a pensioner they can't keep doing it.
cute monke
I miss when the Gorillaz actually looked a bit more ape-like.
They fired their writer, and the brand never recovered.