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The Good, The Bad & The Queen – "The Good, The Bad & The Queen" (2007)

2010/03/03

As I said in a comment the other day…

I've been listening to "The Good, The Bad & The Queen" the past few days. It didn't rock my world when it came out, the way Gorillaz's "Demon Days" did, but re-listening to it today something clicked for me. Perhaps "The Good, The Bad & The Queen" is better with age? Maybe I'm just hungry for more Albarn creations now and because the new Gorillaz is not out just yet, I'll take what I can get!?

Is it lame to quote yourself? Probably. Well whatever. Listen to the song already!

By the way, this "band" made up of Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon (of The Clash), Simon Tong (of The Verve) and world renowned drummer Tony Allen, is not actually named anything at all, but they might as well be "The Good, The Bad & The Queen". I wonder if they'll make another one?

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Gorillaz – "Stylo (feat. Mos Def and Bobby Womack)" (2010)

2010/03/02

Gorillaz is an argument for serious collaboration between artists from different areas of music. With Damon Albarn (of Blur fame), the musical creator, and Jamie Hewlett (of Tank Girl fame) the visual, acting as the glue, it has the cohesiveness of a band, and yet many contributors are only involved in a piece of Gorillaz, and sometimes only a single song. The quality is so much greater than the typical remix or duo single. It is no surprise this virtual band has a following, myself included! I've been waiting for their next album, "Plastic Beach", forever it seems. It comes out tomorrow March 3rd (in Japan), but next week in the UK and USA (March 8th and 9th respectively).

*drools a little*

I can't wait.

PS: How cool that they got Bruce Willis for the video too!

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Gorillaz – "Feel Good Inc." (2005)

2009/05/02

Gorillaz was like a musical revolution to me. On this album in particular each song is so different, pulling from all sorts of influences, and yet there is a tone to the album in its lyrics casting off ideas about what a band is, or what genre they might be. (That is how they get classified as both "Brit Pop" and "Alternative Hip Hop" at the same time). I really thought this sort of collaborative music and group might spawn others, but I have yet to see any lasting or substantial evidence of that. I'm still hopeful it will and I'm hopeful it will not be too long before we see another album from Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's creation.

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