BenjaminBirdie
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FLEABttn said:
Luckily the bonus tracks are terrible and out of place on the album.
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Gorillaz - Plastic Beach [2010]
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Luckily the bonus tracks are terrible and out of place on the album.
Fantastical
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Is it just me or does Some Kind of Nature sound like a song that would be on an iPod commercial or something? I can definitely see it in the first 30 seconds or so.
Continuing to love the album today. Rhinestone Eyes is growing on me.
Continuing to love the album today. Rhinestone Eyes is growing on me.
Crazypanda_85
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Most (if not all) of the album has grown on me but my favorite song is still Empire Ant. I was wondering who Little Dragon was and after looking them up, I ended up finding a new group to add to my favorite bands.
Everyone, please check out Little Dragon's other albums, Little Dragon and Machine Dream. They are such a talented group and they are currently on a US tour!!!
Everyone, please check out Little Dragon's other albums, Little Dragon and Machine Dream. They are such a talented group and they are currently on a US tour!!!
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Sweepstakes is a fantastic song, it gives my a really uneasy feeling and it kind of fleshes out the commentary that peeks it's head out on the previous tracks.
Even the happy song, superfast jellyfish, sounds cynical to me :lol Maybe that's just me though.
Even the happy song, superfast jellyfish, sounds cynical to me :lol Maybe that's just me though.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
I've also gotta say, meloncholy hill is probably my least favorite gorillaz song ever. The first thing I think of when I hear it is that YouTube clip about how every song has that same chord progression. And it's just a boring song.
KingGondo said:
After diggin on Demon Days I bought 3 Feet High and Rising.
Two days later, I'd listened to it at least 10 times.
Almost everything they've released has something to recommend about it. Their first three albums are easily their strongest, but they're just awesome. It's through them that I found out about A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, too.
On-topic, I'm really liking this new album. Surprised that everybody's complaining about it being too hip-hop when this easily feels like the poppiest Gorillaz disc.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
And pirate radio sounds like some long-lost blur song, love it!
brianjones
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as is Stakes Is High and De La Soul Is Dead
3 Feet High & Rising is probably the hardest album of theirs to get into I think.
3 Feet High & Rising is probably the hardest album of theirs to get into I think.
The Interrobanger
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KingGondo said:
I like both AOI albums best, but 99% of others would disagree.
OptimoPeach
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De La Soul Is Dead is probably my favoriteKingDirk said:
brianjones
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KingDirk said:
eh.. 3 ft high is a bit too dated for my tastes. it's still a fun album but they have other albums that hold up more.
people champion it because its like written in scripture.. but i wonder how many people really listened to their discography extensively.
brianjones said:
Speaking as someone with all their albums, it's either my favorite or tied with Dead. I like the way they pushed themselves stylistically, though I do wish we could have received at least one more album with its vibe.
Just can't imagine recommending a newcomer the bitter pill that is their second album when the super-awesome-love-rainbow-cultural-touchstone is also an option.
Back to Beach, though, did anybody read the P4K review? Only reason I ask is because I hadn't heard that this being a Gorillaz album was a late-stage development.
BenjaminBirdie
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The Interrobanger said:
They are amazing, but Stakes Is High and The Grind Date are my tops supremo.
Fox the Sly
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Stakes Is High is my favorite.
Corwood Rep
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After a few listens, the tracks that I keep coming back to are Rhinestone Eyes, Empire Ants, Stylo, and Plastic Beach. The rest is intermittently forgettable. Although I like the song with Mark E. Smith.
polyh3dron
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Yep they performed last year at a Halloween shindig I went to in LA. They're dope!Crazypanda_85 said:Most (if not all) of the album has grown on me but my favorite song is still Empire Ant. I was wondering who Little Dragon was and after looking them up, I ended up finding a new group to add to my favorite bands.
Everyone, please check out Little Dragon's other albums, Little Dragon and Machine Dream. They are such a talented group and they are currently on a US tour!!!
polyh3dron
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Buhloone Mindstate too.brianjones said:
BenjaminBirdie
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Finally picked up my Expanded Edition (or whatever) and, man, that documentary is really amazing. Every album should have one. Or, at least, every project as brilliant and fascinating as this one.
brianjones
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maybe.. but in general I don't find 80s hip hop to have aged that well.
brianjones said:
O it hasn't. I don't listen to the debut album by ATCQ either. Both were sorta playful albums that reveled in their differences from the typical rap of the time. There is a difference with listening to the songs with a fresh ear, and hearing them and all of their contemporaries when the album came out though. Stakes is High is my favorite modern album of theirs. It along with the first Lyricist Lounge double disc was the first time I heard Mos Def.
BenjaminBirdie
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Oh man I love that disc(s). Punch and Wordsworth. 88 keys. Epic stuff.see5harp said:
I just listened to Buhloone Mindstate. That's also a great album. It definitely served as the blueprint for many other up and comers on the west coast in the 90's. If you listen to the first Blackalicious album, one of the same sample is used to build an entire song. Sorta derailing this entire thread with the rap talk, which is pretty awesome to me.
Screw you youngins...."I was there at the first Can show in Cologne....I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988."
Screw you youngins...."I was there at the first Can show in Cologne....I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988."
Maklershed
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Can anyone recommend other artists that produce music similar to White Flag?
zombieshavebrains
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So i'm listening to this album for the first time and at Empire Ants so far...not feeling it like the others. Lots of "Ft. <insert artist>" and not enough straight up Gorillaz shit.
Fox1304 said:
Man if the collaborations maintained 'the original artist's feeling' for Gorillaz we would have never got Demon Days.:lol Give it a few more spins, though? My first listen was kinda lukewarm, but I got pretty hooked on the second or third listen and have been discovering new wrinkles each subsequent instance.
(P.S., the songs that are the furthest from previous Gorillaz are the non-collabs!)
red shoe paul
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Rlan said:
A a big Lou Reed fan, I love it also.
KingDirk said:
I've tried to like this album. Listened to it a lot.
But except 2/3 songs that are really nice (SuperFast Jellyfish, Cloud of Unknowing, On Melancholy Hill, even if that's not the kind of songs that suit Gorillaz style for me, are all really nice), I think that it's very disapointing (for my taste). And for me Demon Days IS Gorillaz
red shoe paul said:A a big Lou Reed fan, I love it also.
It's a great song. It'll probably stay an album cut, which is kinda nuts; any other band would probably cut off a member's arm to have a single that good.
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I've tried to like this album. Listened to it a lot.
But except 2/3 songs that are really nice, I think that it's very disapointing (for my taste). And for me Demon Days IS Gorillaz
Sorry to hear you're not diggin' it. One of the reasons I love Damon Albarn as much as I do (which I've come to find out with this new album is a ton of a lot) is his kinda Bowie-like willingness to just make the music he wants to hear. Sure, with Gorillaz he adds the filter of the whole cartoon band, but we're looking at a guy who started out with Britpop, moved into grunge then experimental territory, released a solid hip-hop album, collaborated with a bunch of African musicians, writing a Chinese opera etc, etc. Where his tastes seem to lie on this album corresponded pretty significantly with where my tastes are right now.
And Demon Days is a freaking great album, but it was an album that saw the other half of the band from the first album replaced, it was a pretty big shift. The sound of Gorillaz is fairly malleable--for me, it's great because it gives Albarn carte blanche ability to try out any new toys he's interested in.
Yo man I just started listening to this album and have been non-stop these last few days because it is fucking AMAZING WOW!! its been a long time since ive listened to an album this good
Seeriously Rhinestone eyes, empire ants, and on melancoly hill are some of the best songs i've ever heard, period :/
Seeriously Rhinestone eyes, empire ants, and on melancoly hill are some of the best songs i've ever heard, period :/
Fox the Sly
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Crazypanda_85 said:Most (if not all) of the album has grown on me but my favorite song is still Empire Ant. I was wondering who Little Dragon was and after looking them up, I ended up finding a new group to add to my favorite bands.
Everyone, please check out Little Dragon's other albums, Little Dragon and Machine Dream. They are such a talented group and they are currently on a US tour!!!
That chick sounds like Erykah Badu. :lol
The Friendly Monster
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Anyone else see them in Cambridge tonight? Pretty class.
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