i miss the old gorillaz
i miss the old gorillaz
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i miss the old gorillaz
Falling into your wing while paragliding is called 'gift wrapping' and turns you into a dirt torpedo pic.twitter.com/oQFKsVISkI
— Mental Videos (@MentalVids) March 15, 2023
Same. They were actually quirky and it was music you could see cartoon characters feasibly making and performing, especially tracks like Clint Eastwood that reference the characters themselves. Now it's just generic Spotify playlist filler synthpop.
scomin op
scomin op
scomin op
THEY TAUGHT THEMSELVES TO BE OCCULT
IT'S DERE
We ALL do
this album cover is actual horseshit how did it get approved
I know right? With the assets I could probably make this album cover in photoshop in like 2 minutes.
Music on it horseshit as well so no surprises
I miss the sweepstakes gorillaz
You’re a winna
IT DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH
The quality seems to fluctuate with each release.
Humanz and The Now Now were a bit forgettable, but Song Machine slaps
Also, Plastic Beach was their best album. I'm objectively right.
I constantly switch between preferring Demon Days and Plastic Beach but I listened to both a couple of weeks ago just before Cracker Island dropped and prefer Demon Days as of right now.
Yeah, nothing can replace that classic early 2000s sound for me. Kids with Guns, Dirty Harry, I find Fire...really good, too. What was your favorite song?
What I loved about Plastic Beach when it came out was the mix of different genres throughout and style changes within songs like Empire Antz, White Flag. It just sounded like OG Gorillaz to me, which is what I thought they were going back to after Song Machine.
Cracker, Humanz, and The Now Now were just a bit too pop and repetitive for my tastes.
SM>ST>PB>DD>TNN>Humanz
refuse to rank CI without doing a few more relistens but I'd probably put it between PB and DD if things stay how they are now in my mind
I think they're all great except Humanz mind you
This fucking soulless slop is not better than demon days you cretin
pb > dd > st > hz> tnn > sm > ci
the fall doesnt count
Song Machine as your best album is insane. What's your top 3 tracks from it?
NEVR DID NO ARRGHM
It’s clear Damon doesn’t care about the project anymore and is just using it to release whatever solo shit he’s working on. Also the revamped character designs have been horrible.
What’s cracker island story anyway?
murdoc starting a meme cult and finding out his neighbors have a real cult or something like that
They relocated to LA because their house is blown up and Murdoc lost his Winnebago again, Murdoc starts a cult because he wants attention/is psycho/listened to Russel who is also psycho, 2D went to the next door neighbor's cult, Murdoc got pissed off and goes to fuck the woman cult leader, she tries to kill 2D, Murdoc saves him, Noodle does nothing, Russel does & says nothing.
What the fuck is Murdoc’s problem
A LOT of drugs
Getting old Gorillaz would entail releasing a trip-hop record in the 2020s, which would be unfathomably based but it's also probably not happening.
>A fake luxury. A horrible lump of plastic that's been painted pink. A warning, that maybe we shouldn't turn our world into a spray painted skit
From an old interview with Murdoc & 2D from Plastic Beach.
The shitty marketing of Cracker Island with over 10(?) vinyl versions and loads of expensive tie-ins, shit merch and soulless art, failure of the new writing crew, as well as this boring album with half unfinished songs encapsulates this well. Even down to the pink color, funnily enough.
I'm a skinny little, skinny little, skinny little, skinny little
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape
This chorus is do bad it fucking hurts
this is how I felt the entirety of song machine, albarn's losing his touch
>Gorillaz
>2001-2010
>Goyrillaz
>2017-2023
>2d is even doing the soiface on the cover
THEY TAUGHT THEMSELVES TO BE OCCULT
THEY DIDN'T KNOW ITS MANY STRATEGIES
On Cracker Island it was mid
The album's barely worth a quid
Damon needs to take a break
This new direction's a mistake
Where the truth was auto-tuned (FOR-EV-ER BORED)
But it's sadness I consumed (FOR-EV-ER BORED)
I wish a single song was great (FOR-EV-ER BORED)
In the end, I had to pay (what world is this?)
In the end, I had to pay (Merch never shipped)
In the end I had to pay (I dropped the band)
Nothing more to say (Jamie's a hack)
Albarn needs to stop the synthpop shtick. He needs to bring back the dub and the eclecticism of blur
I know there's a dub song in there and the album is kind of eclectic but I feel he should try to step out of the poppy stuff
At the very least, make a downtempo album.
I saw this vinyl at Walmart this morning.
>wallycore
ST - PB was definitely the peak but I do think SM is very close to them.
ST>DD>PB>SM>TNN>G-Sides>Humanz>D-Sides>The Fall
I haven't heard Cracker Island enough yet but right now it feels more like a worse TNN.
Cracker Island isn't good but it's definitely better than The Now Now. I've listened to The Now Now 5 or 6 times and at gun point I still couldn't tell you the names or melodies of half of the tracks. I can at least do that with Cracker Island.
Cracker Island isn't a cohesive album, it may have better tracks than The Now Now but Cracker Island feels unfinished as fuck. They even tossed Del (you know, from Clint Eastwood) onto a deluxe track, they don't care anymore. At least The Now Now picked a theme and stuck to it.
Not him but without having heard Now Now in quite some time I can readily recall Humility, Tranz, Fire Flies, Sorcererz, One Second, Idaho and Souk Eye. There is no way in hell anything on Cracker Island that isn't the title track, Silent Running, New Gold or Skinny Ape is sticking in my mind a month from now.
>One Second
Meant One Percent.
I can only recall Humility, Tranz, Magic City, Souk Eye, Hollywood and Fireflies off the top of my head. I don't even think there's a song called One Second, I think it's One Percent. I haven't a clue what it sounds like though and I only just last listened to this album 2 days ago.
>Skinny Ape
>not Oil
Arguably the best song on the album, next to the piano version of Silent
IT
DEH
baste deh poster
Baby Queen, Oil, and Tarantula could have made The Now Now 2. I don't see how they fit with the cult theme.
Damon said this album was spur of the moment since he and Hewlett were stuck in LA after Netflix canned their movie idea. I feel like getting a movie done now with this current writing team would be the nail in the coffin from how bad the story is. They've all become flanderized. Murdoc is a pussy and 2D is practically a woman. Noodle & Russel may as well
not exist. And we've seen Hewlett be unable to finish a story, like with Plastic Beach almost going to "Murdoc is an immortal entity".
The consensus back then was that most of the music videos were filmed in-universe but El Mañana fucked it up. Plastic Beach is a great album but that is where the writing first suffered to me.
isn't the plastic beach story unfinished anyway
Plastic Beach got retconned thats how much of a hack Jamie is. The boogieman is actually Murdoc or something. Do Ya Thang is not real. 2D now doesn't remember the island. Etc.
The plastic beach story is inconsistent but it didn’t matter because the music that came with it was really good. Now we have nonsense stories backed up with mediocre music and a generic, lifeless artstyle. Gorillaz seems like a zombie franchise now.
Gorillaz has had 4 bad albums in the past 13 years... but it had one really good album. You can call it a fluke, but it's still undeniable proof that Albarn is capable of hitting a home run.
hold on what the fuck they have a writing team?
There is a metric shit-ton of interviews with the Gorillaz members (the cartoons), promos, there's a whole book. Of course there's a writing team. Hewlett took a backseat to it at one point and only works on consultation of music videos, hence all the recent cringe. Damon was never a part of the writing team, he just exists with them. He had no idea/gave no shits about the Gorillaz AR concert in New York.
did humanz hate really make damon stop hiphop
I've never actually listened to Song Machine and listening to it now almost directly after Humanz and Cracker Island is like night and day, although I can see some value Humanz
Demon Days is my favorite because of the drama/orchestral influences. It feels like a dark album. Self Titled and Plastic Beach are also great, but nothing beats the Demon Days vibe
Demon Days is a bleak album that was a direct product of early-mid 2000s malaise that was gripping the world following the 90s screeching to a halt and the world basically going to shit overnight. It's the same reason that so much music around that time was pessimistic, but Demon Days took it in a more artsy direction than a lot of other artists were going for at that time. Up until the final two tracks the whole album has a sort of creeping sense of negativity to it, even Dare has fairly dark instrumentation if you can look past the beat. It really stands out in the context of the rest of their discography.
Yeah, the songs themselves are so good that I feel like a lot of listeners overlook just how thoroughly laden with post-9/11 social commentary Demon Days is. It's like an artsy alt rock version of American Idiot, lyrically speaking.
Hit the nail on the head, it's kind of a direct attack on the way the world was going at the time. Some songs are more obvious than others, like Dirty Harry has some pretty clearly pointed takes on the War on Terror, but the entire album is basically commentary on one thing or another that was happening in the post-9/11 world. Some of it's environmental, some of it's political, some of it's social. The final titular track is even pretty bleak when you think about it, it's reinforcing that the album was made when people were living through "Demon Days" where you can't trust anything at all and the world's gone to shit.
>60 posts without a racist comment
impressive restraint by the /misc/tards
Russel is one of the good ones.
There's been about 20 Gorillaz threads in the last week or so and the only racial thing that's been mentioned is cracka island.
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>Humanz release year
>My car at the time didn't have bluetooth
>Actually bought the CD
>Did a single listen through
>Literally tossed the CD out the window
Fuck you Damon
you tossed the CD out even if andromeda was on it?
I almost did the same thing, but I knew a record store I could pawn it off to
The Now Now was forgettable but Humanz was legitimately bad. Should have been released as a separate project.
The way i see it: Damon and Jamie still have but they just don't seem to care. Damon is just writing surrealism above surrealism about screen and internet, over and over, forever. I like his solo, but if hes going to repeat it, at least it should have some concept instead of just bad cgi and live action actors. It feels like they just gave up taking themselves seriously and sometimes this is good, but right now i don't think its working. I can't produce like Damon or draw like Jamie, but if they are going to use their skills to do half of what they seem able to do, why do it? For the money? So its sad, yes. They turned out to be the thing they criticized the most.
>They turned out to be the thing they criticized the most
Shit like this was one of the main criticisms addressed in Plastic Beach. There isn't a single album on earth that deserves this sort of marketing, let alone a lower tier Gorillaz album.
>all of them have the same shitty cover art
Just why?
No clue. After hearing there's a bunch of Cracker Island art that hasn't been released in time for the cover like pic rel which would have worked, I'm blaming Warner. Everything about the release of this album has been trash
Modern Gorillaz suck, it's a clear cut case of flanderization and the fake the band is heralded by cartoon characters just makes it even more ironic, even then I loved Controllah, Bin Laden alone saved that track.
My issue with it is that they aren't heralded by the cartoon characters anymore. When was the last time Noodle talked about producing music
they sampled bin laden?
MC Bin Laden
no idea who that is but he sounds like a fag
gorillaz stopped being good at whatever album had stylo and 90% of the people ITT didn't listen to demon days or
at release
Well if they did they'd be too old to be on this shithole
I was a preteen when Demon Days came out and listened to it around release.
You've got that backwards. If you're not in your 30s, you're too young to be on LULZ right now.
i was in high school when ST came out
clint eastwood was on MTV2 a lot
But the MC Bin Laden collab sounded like shit that would have been closer to S/T which literally has that spanish track.
>But the MC Bin Laden collab sounded like shit
True
I listened to DD a year after its release in middle school and I still like some of the music that came afterwards. TNN is a good album and I'll stand by it.
Gorillaz used to be one my favorite groups but I couldn’t be bothered to finish this. First 3 albums are still great
Damon was at his peak (early 30s) when Gorillaz started
Now he's an old 54 year old man, that's really all that has to be explained
Time gets us all. The examples of any artist peaking beyond their 30s is extremely rare (Gira of Swans, perhaps)
Tom Waits.
I agree, Tom Waits is another rare example.
(Though you can argue his true peak was Rain Dogs at age 36)
David Bowie.
Bowie and Nick Cave are both examples of strong late careers (though Bowie definitely had a cold streak) but both still peaked pre-40s
Captain Beefheart.
My dad.
The most important thing everyone's missing here is he was a heroin addict and composed a lot of S/T while smoking weed
He stopped it and is mellowed out hence all the love song pop-y tunes. Notice how many of the earlier albums are just about drugs and death.
nick cave
Genuinely don't see how anyone could think Plastic Beach is even in the same neighbourhood as Demon Days, let alone better than it. Plastic Beach has some good stuff, but also some forgettable stuff while Demon Days is a 10/10 start to finish no skips, no dips, masterpiece.
You're right. As a whole piece, Demon Days is definitely better. Plastic Beach stumbles a bit towards the end in my opinion whereas Don't Get Lost In Heaven into Demon Days is a fantastic closer.
To me, the strongest individual tracks on Plastic Beach are better than the strongest tracks on Demon Days, though, so I get the preference.
the bad bunny song was such zoomer bait. HISAPNIC zoomer bait no less.
this band is gone. shits for the birds.
The band has always been zoomer bait
they're fucking cartoons
I wish I could fuck a cartoon
I wanna fuck noodle
She hasnt looked hot in years
wrong
?t=3
The only respectable post in this ocean of piss called thread
I wanna get fucked by Murdoc.
At least you're less gay than current Gorillaz lore.
The absolutely oldest Zoomers were only 4 years old when ST came out.
and? the website was for kids.
Yes but kids =/= zoomers retard. The kids who were fans of Gorillaz back then are adult millenials now.
Boy, sure is reddit down here
I miss the old Kanye
Straight to the soul Kanye
Chop up the soul kanye
>ALL MOY LOYF
You mean Blür?
The synythpop stuff they've hard-pivoted to is making me re-evaluate Humanz, at least the songs sounded different from one another.
For me it's slow country
CAN'T STAND THE LOOOOLINESS
The e-boiness of phase 1 Noodle is pretty hard to stand, I suppose.
its all just so ugly. the visuals and the music both give the impression that they just don't care that much anymore. it's especially clear on this album cus the way they released it was so fucking confusing im still not sure it's even finished
Damon needs some dosh mate
DD > S/T > PB > SM > NN >>> TF >= CI >>>>> H
The older I get, the more based S/T gets.
Retarded question: why does everyone call their first album ST? What does it stand for?
Plastic Beach was the Gorillaz last good album tbh. Everything after that is trash imo
this
i was fuckin hype when i heard gorillaz was coming back, but now i realize should've just stayed dead after plastic beach
I can tell the artist is a footfag, based
>if an image includes 3 pixels of bare feet, the artist must be a footfag
He is one. This is in the official artbook.
I wouldn't mind those junkie feet smothering me unconscious.