Ooooh! I liked that one Magic! We may be on different wavelengths on the Gorillaz as I'm liking these new tracks and I like the debut better than Demon Days. Then again I dabbled in the Gorillaz and enjoy a track or two here and ther rather than a band that I listen to the albums repeatedly!
Atrium introduced me to them about a year or so ago. At first I went...
but wanted to be fair to a band he liked, so I listened to them casually more and more. They are a bit experimental and inconsistent for my tastes, but there are gems to be found on all 3 of their albums.
I've recently started listening to Gorillaz, I've given Demon Days, Plastic Beach and their self-titled albums a listen, these were a few of the highlights:
And the classic:
I've seen their new music video too, looking forward to the next album release!
I prefer blur.
I remember when The Gorillaz debuted with "Clint Eastwood", it was one of the worst songs i'd heard in my life.
Gorillaz is kind of a meting pot project and i love a few of the tracks on each album, i don't like their hip hop side becuase i don't like the genre but rapping is tolerabe if it's in small pieces like Stylo as it complements the other parts of the song.
I'd rank their albums
Gorillaz - 7
Demon Days - 9
Plastic Beach - 8
I've been a blur fan since the mid 90's but only bought The Gorillaz albums about a year ago, i was pleasently surprised.
Top 5 blur albums:
1. Parklife (best tracks: End of a century, Parklife, Tracy Jacks)
2. The Great Escape (Stereotypes, The universal, charmless man)
3. blur (Song 2, Beetlebum, Look inside America)
4. Modern life is rubbish (Chemical world, Coping)
5. 13 (Coffee+TV, Tender, No distance left to run)
They're easily better than The Gorillaz imo, they're a straight up British rock band lyrically similar to The Kinks.
"blur" is probably their most Americanised alt-rock style album.
I would easily rank blur alongside the best 90's bands like Oasis, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam etc.
There is a track off the "blur" album called "On your own" which is probably the closest blur got to sounding like The Gorillaz.
Hope you like blur, they may be considered a polarizing band.
It seems on the contrary to the consensus here, but I love The Fall! It's my favourite album of theirs so far, the mix of electronic synthy rythyms and acoustic melancholic themes is very pleasing to my ears. These tracks in particular are out of this world!
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