*To everyone questioning how he hasn’t heard this song before, you can hear music without ever really listening to it. There’s a difference. Now he listened.*
Bf asked yesterday why I like reaction videos for songs I know well. It's the only way I can kind of hear them again for the first time, through someone else.
it makes me so fcking happy to see people be open to rock and absorb it. There's SO much to offer and each new fan is another person hearing their message
@@skandalousbytch Dude thank you. I have been on a binge watching reaction videos of music I love and you just described perfectly why I enjoy it. It takes me back to showing my friends music I had discovered and enjoyed.
Gorillaz characters are literal characters. They're not drawings of a person that exists in real life, they have their own personalities and backgrounds. The vocalist is nicknamed 2-D because his eyes are pitch black, looking like 2 dots. The bassist is Murdoc, the satanist brit who started the Band and the one responsible for the accident that made blood fill 2Ds eyes, turning them black. All these characters are living a fiction story of a Crazy ass Band that defies all genres and the industry with style! These are only two of many. The Gorillaz are very much alive and GOD DAMN, please do react to more of them!
This was a project put together by uncredited studio musicians using animated characters as front characters, with guest rappers for the break on each song. This utterly dominated the charts in the early 2000s.
Yeah, this is complete bullshit sorry. They absolutely were credited at the time. On the liner notes of their first record, Damon Albarn was credited. Literally anyone who was listening to music in the 90s would recognise Albarns voice on 19/2000. By Demon Days it was well established that it was Damon Albarn's band.
why, i know a lot of people that dont listen to certain music types so they dont know it, even when it is really famous. I know a few that the first time they listened to this particular song was when i put it playing when we were at a party at a friends house.
So glad you loved this one! I got to see this performed live in 2010, with all the real people on stage and animation on the big screen behind them - ABSOLUTELY WILD! You would love a lot of their songs - you've heard Clint Eastwood I hope? They put out a new album this year called Song Machine (I love Desolé personally!), and they'll be doing a livestream concert in just over a week, if you wanna see how they perform! I think they'll have some surprises, they always push the medium~ Gorillaz is said to be "the world's biggest band" - likely because of all the artists they've collaborated with! They're fantastic!
This channel is like taking a nostalgia shot with each video. I remember listening to most of these bands/artists in the early 2000's back in highschool... good times.
Does anyone else feel old when the reacters are like I've never seen this and you jamming to this in highschool. I'm 32 I'm feeling pretty old right now 😂😂😂😂😭😭
I remember this song was so insanely popular when it was released that it was being played in like.. football stadiums and on every single radio station and MTV had it on loop for months. man, this is a different world we live in isn't it?
Gorillaz aren't exactly "rock" music, they are pretty diverse and genre-bending, but a lot of their earlier stuff had a punk rock/old school hip hop feel. they were created by Damon Albarn (frontman for the English band Blur) and Jamie Hewlett (artist and co-creator of Tank Girl comics). Damon and Jamie are the only two permanent members of Gorillaz, with Damon handling the music side of things and Jamie handling all the art and character design. They created a virtual band to comment on the lack of substance of the bands on TV and the radio at the time. Damon is pretty much a musical fucking genius, and has done everything from punk rock/hip hop to classical/orchestral, avant-garde and even an opera. He is the voice behind 2D and produces most of the Gorillaz catalogue, playing guitar, bass, keyboards/pads, and a wide range of other instruments, however he loves to collaborate and work with a huge pool of other artists and close friends, so while they have a sizeable catalogue of their own songs, a lot of Gorillaz music has guest artists making appearances (this is most apparent on one of their latest albums "Humanz"). but remember, "Gorillaz" is only technically Damon and Jamie. a few frequent collaborators are Del the Funky Homosapien (who voices Russell the drummer) and is featured on a couple of their old top tracks from the first album, and De La Soul who rap in this song and are featured in multiple albums across the Gorillaz timeline. you should definitely check out more of them, because the Gorillaz are fucking legendary, and like I said, Damon is a god damn genius. they often have very legendary and respectable guest artists as well. Their first two albums (Gorillaz and Demon Days) are very punk-rock and 90s hip-hopish feeling, but Damon starts to really open up the range once you get to Plastic Beach and The Fall. Whenever Gorillaz tours, it's usually just Damon up on stage on his piano with the live band and chorus, which is usually different each tour and has changed over the years, and whatever guest artists are in the set. The virtual band usually plays on a screen in the background or is incorporated somehow. if you haven't been able to tell by now, Gorillaz are my favourite "band" and Damon is probably my biggest influence in music and in just life, really. they have a song and sound for every mood imaginable, and they've been going strong for a long time. Damon has huge respect in the music industry for being consistently experimental and for producing high quality music, I promise you you will not be disappointed by going through their catalogue. EDIT; Gorillaz can be seen as more of a "collective" than actual band.
Thank you for being a great role model to everyone around the world. I love the fact that you have such a broad music interest. I love rock and metal myself. The fact that you have such a healthy reaction to all kinds of music makes me happy. Greeting from Norway.
I saw them in concert, it was amazing! The set up was they had projection screens across the stage, they showed the cartoon images on the screens. The real musicians were behind the screens so you could see their silhouettes but they never came out from behind it. They sounded amazing, it was a total experience!
@@cozmospaceghost2318 i am going to assume you don't understand the trio known as de la soul has nothing to do with this song Trugoy who is doing the rap in this song just so happens to be a member of de la soul this has nothing to do with whether or not de la soul deserves respect because it isn't even about them to begin with and i simply pointed that out
loved Gorillaz forever now. Some interesting facts about the group. Since its a cartoon group they can switch out band members and regularly do. In fact the only original members left are the singer/voice of 2D (the blue haired guy with black eyes singing "feel good") and the main cartoonist I believe. However the cartoon characters have always remained the same except for "Noodle" the guitarist (the young one on the windmill island) she has over the years gotten older and is now a grown woman. Because of the cartoon nature of the characters they frequently feature a ton of guest artists and imo lesser known talents and get them exposure. Over the years their albums have covered a WIDE genre, from the early demon days that featured more rap to the now more recent songs which are more pop in nature, for a little bit there they were pretty experimental even. However throughout all of this they have remained an excellent band and continue to be one of my all time greats. Some songs I would recommend would be, clint eastwood, demon days, dirty harry, on melancholy hill, DARE, Saturnz Barz, Stylo, Rock the House and 19-2000. I could go on further but these are some of their best imo. Dont sleep on the Gorillaz man, they are amazing
Its not so much switching out band members. Its just different bands for each tour or recording. I think the touring band Damon has right now has been the longest he’s had a touring band. Maybe 4 years?
Lowkey this song still hits hard after years of listening to it. Been listening since I was 7 years old and now as a 20 year old man this is still so damn good!!!
Are a group still thankfully, saw them with my then 16 year old kid last summer and she was stoked. So they will live on I think. And in part to the clever animations so they never grow old on line. Thanks for showing different types of music and appreciation for them. Best type of content on the interwebs for sure. :)
The song is actually about the commercialization and mass-producing of music. Big-name music isnt about the soul of the music anymore, it is just a factory line of "feel good" music created by big record labels to make money. Gorrilaz don't fit into any pre-designated genres, they don't have a constant sound because the members are always changing and adding their own spin to the sound of Gorillaz, and the idea that there needs to be actual people so they can do concerts and stuff is what drove the creators of Gorrilaz to make them cartoons, to prove that you dont need all that extra to just make good music.
I haven't heard this song in soooo damn long! Thank you for this 💚💜🖤 The singer for The Gorillaz used to be the singer for the 90s band Blur. You should check out Song 2 by Blur 👌
Gorrilaz doesn't come up that often, but their fans (myself included) are loyal AF. Gorrilaz played this song live on Colbert and Stephen did the rap part live. He did a good job
This was nostalgic af... I remember when I was about 5 and we were driving around Vancouver in the summer along the sea while listening to it on the radio. Best memories with this song.
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2023 still rocking this shit I love this group and what they do. 80's,90's and the earlier 2000's had some of the best rock and metal ever just a thought
Recently found your channel and I just wanted to say that I know a lot of people that feel like they can't like rock music because they like rap or vice versa and I love your channel because you're just a guy that likes good music and I really appreciate that. Awesome!
I've seen one of them! Back in the 90s the lead vocalist (Damon Albarn) was in a band called Blur. A good place to start with them would be Charmless Man, Beetlebum, Parklife or Tender. Blur are a rabbit hole themselves lol.
This band is incredibly unique. They’re a UK group but its actually run by 2 people, Damon Albarn (also known as the singer from the UK post-grunge band Blur) who sings all the main parts, writes the instrumentation and lyrics And Jamie Hewlett an illustrator who created the characters, writes the stories that becomes the music videos and co-writes the lyrics. Then they do a lot of guest features on their songs like Trugoy the dove the rapper on this song. Then with live shows they have a giant screen with visuals of the Animated characters playing with Jamie running the visuals and Damon singing along with a live band that plays all the other parts.
I’m in to the hip hop / grime scene but if u hear this band especially in the car Im telling u now u already breaking the speed limit (bloc party) (banquet)
early bloc party is THE shit. Honestly one of the most underrated indie rock bands of the mid 2000s. The dance influence and groove on Banquet would have anyone go over the speed limit
