Gorillaz - Demon Days

[beatnick]

From fans.gorillaz.com (http://fans.gorillaz.com):

We can now provide happy confirmation that Gorillaz' second album, Demon Days, will be released through Parlophone on 23rd May (the day after in the US) and will be preceded by the single Feel Good Inc. on 9th May.

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Confirmed tracklist for Demon Days (album artwork here (http://fans.gorillaz.com/images/news/dd250.jpg)):

1. Intro
2. Last Living Souls
3. Kids With Guns (feat Neneh Cherry)
4. O Green World
5. Dirty Harry (feat Bootie Brown)
6. Feel Good Inc. (feat De La Soul)
7. El Mañana
8. Every Planet We Reach Is Dead (feat Dennis Hopper - yes, as in the actor)
9. November Has Come (feat MF Doom)
10. All Alone (feat Roots Manuva)
11. White Light
12. DARE (feat Shaun Ryder)
13. Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head
14. Don't Get Lost In Heaven
15. Demon Days (feat The London Community Gospel Choir)

You can stream Feel Good Inc here (http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/virg001/gorillaz/audio/demon_days/feel_good_00.asx) (windows media)

[J-Syxx]

Hopefully, MF Doom gets a single!

[J-Syxx]

And fuck I didn't know De La is on this album. Anything they've on lately has been bonkers, looking forward to hearing that.

[ASsman]

This ish better be tight.

[SobaViolence]

missing Del.

Metalface and De La better pick up the slack. (i have no doubt (y) )

[beatnick]

The Video for FGI is out....

Windows Media: Hi (http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/virg001/gorillaz/video/demon_days/gorillaz_feel_good_inc_hi.asx?siteid=fansite) | Lo (http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/virg001/gorillaz/video/demon_days/gorillaz_feel_good_inc_lo.asx?siteid=fansite)
RealPlayer: Hi (http://boss.streamos.com/real/virg001/gorillaz/video/demon_days/gorillaz_feel_good_inc_hi.ram?siteid=fansite) | Lo (http://boss.streamos.com/real/virg001/gorillaz/video/demon_days/gorillaz_feel_good_inc_lo.ram?siteid=fansite)

I've been waiting years for quality animation like this (y)

[Kid Presentable]

Danger Mouse is on the beats. (y)

[Teh]

So looking forward to this. Good work Beatnick :D

[Tompz]

Cool.

(y)

[Darko]

I heard 'Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head' is nothing but Dennis Hopper telling a story. And no, I'm not joking.

[Nygel]

if it is then it'll just be like left hand suzuki method... which isnt bad, but not good either.

Did anyone hear rock it? that shit was weird

[Sandinista!]

5. Dirty Harry (feat Bootie Brown)


Idiot new band had to recycle its idea of stealing a movie character's name and using as a song title. Pathetic.

[Teh]

^Why do you feel the need to continuously post in every thread like this, enforcing your motto?

It doesn't add anything to the thread. We would've already guessed that you would've hated this band anyway.

You're just an attention seeking oxymoronical prick. Only post when you can actually add something to a thread, not just for the sake of your little motto to piss everybody off.

You've obviously been hurt and have something against the world. No wonder people can't stand you.

[Parkey]

Have they sampled 'Waterloo Sunset' by The Kinks for that single or is it just similar?

[beatnick]

It doesn't add anything to the thread. We would've already guessed that you would've hated this band anyway.

You're just an attention seeking oxymoronical prick. Only post when you can actually add something to a thread, not just for the sake of your little motto to piss everybody off.
(y)

Have they sampled 'Waterloo Sunset' by The Kinks for that single or is it just similar?
not sure about that.. someone suggested on another forum it samples u2's "staring at the sun" but since I'm not much of a fan of u2 I can't really say....


I just found this site (http://www.lobotomypop.com/demondays/), which is gradually adding 30 second previews of each track.. (y)

[DCisNotDead]

mesa love gorillaz. I love the art by Jamie Hewlitt (however you spell their name) I have every issue of Tank Girl good ol' jamie produced. Their art is fantastic and fits well with their music, I can't wait to gnaw on my new copy. =3

[Parkey]

It got a very favourable review in the Observer Music Monthly this week;
Gorrilaz (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/10bestcds/story/0,12102,1465865,00.html)

Gorillaz, Demon Days

Paul Mardles witnesses Damon Albarn's badly drawn boys (and girl) come to life

If ever a group set out to be teeth-grindingly annoying it is Gorillaz, Damon Albarn's 'other' band. In fact they're less a band than a virtual supergroup comprising four cartoons conceived by the Blur frontman and his one-time flatmate, illustrator Jamie Hewlett. Worse, they labour under names like Noodle and 2D and converse in character when they give interviews, most of which boast little else save knowing doggerel. You couldn't make it up - except, sadly, someone has.
Still, all of it would be just about forgivable had their eponymous debut been magnificent. It was not. Its conceit - that a group of animated characters render our obsession with an artist's age and looks redundant - was marginally more interesting than the actual songs, which notwithstanding the spring-heeled, colourful 'Clint Eastwood' were demos with pretensions. Not so this new album.

Where its predecessor was the work of a core group of musicians, Demon Days is Damon with some help from umpteen friends. Of these the most notable is hip hop's Danger Mouse, the producer whose namesake is a Seventies cartoon and who shares Albarn's disregard for musical apartheid, as evidenced by his highly prized Beatles-based Grey Album.

It, however, pales beside the bulk of Demon Days, which juxtaposes hip hop's youthful brio and invention with an intimacy that evokes Blur's most recent album, Think Tank, and a funky, sad-eyed strain of electronica. Of course such eclecticism is nothing new, but here, in contrast to its skeletal precursor, the songs are fully realised and pregnant with ideas.

Take the impossibly rich 'Dirty Harry', for instance. It is host to the San Fernandez Youth Chorus, rapper Booty Brown from LA crew the Pharcyde, Albarn's increasingly comely delivery and, naturally, some violins. It should be a mess. It rocks. Better still is the nimble liquid pop of 'DARE', on which Shaun Ryder manages to roll back the years, and the crazed 'Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head'.

Improbably, the latter's star is Dennis Hopper, who narrates a psychedelic nursery rhyme for adults that suggests David Lynch, Prince and David Icke have put aside their differences and formed a supergroup. 'There was only fire, and then nothing,' thunders Hopper, serving to underline the album's central message: that mankind's clock is edging ever closer to midnight. A point reinforced, head-spinningly, on 'All Alone', wherein Tricky's ex Martina Topley-Bird supplements Roots Manuva's rap with ghostly sighs.

For all its preoccupation with mortality, however, Demon Days oozes life from first note to last. So impressive is it that you wonder why Albarn still feels the necessity to keep it surreal and hide behind the flimsy, time-worn concept of Gorillaz. This - rather than Think Tank, or Parklife - may prove to be the Blur man's masterwork.

Burn it: 'DARE'; 'Dirty Harry'

[Darko]

Yeah, this album's really, really good. One of the best of the year.

[ASsman]

Idiot new band had to recycle its idea of stealing a movie character's name and using as a song title. Pathetic.
I just finished digging a hole, now die in it.


Well it's already on torrent. I'll decide if I want to buy it or not.