dare probably. when i first heard it i had no idea it was gorillaz. it sounded so.. different. beejees sounding vocals, synths, idk. always loved it though.
I knows it's the "cliche" answer, but Clint Eastwood still holds that spot for me. I'd love to pick something that isn't the 1st song any random person could name of theirs l, but the song is just too damn good!
Wow, I liked the gorillaz and had their album but honestly never knew majority of this info. Shoot, I thought the cartoons were just animations of the real band members 😳 lmao. When they first came out, you really couldn't just google stuff and find information online so easily so all I knew was what I saw in the music videos. Cool to finally know the story behind the band!
You should've seen how shocked I was when I saw a Gorillaz concert with actual real people performing on stage. I was honestly just expecting a bunch of cartoon characters to show up🤣🤣🤣
Demon Dayz is still my favorite album from them. El Manana, Feel Good Inc, Kids with Guns, Dirty Harry, Title track, Every planet weve reach is Dead, Dare etc. I mean that album is damn near a no skip
@@scvmbagyou wanna try to retype your sentence, or do you just wanna be continuously ignored? Your opinion does nothing but try to bring someone down. Stfu
I'm thirty and one of my greatest childhood memories, was a two week trip to florida where I heard this song at a pizza place in Disney world. It planted the seed for me to look them up countless times throughout the years and my cousins and I loved their songs. It didn't just shape my alternative music taste, it added to my already vivid imagination. Soo glad they never stopped making albums.
I saw them a while ago and the screen was so big it took all your attention. The animated characters were somehow synced to the unlit tiny humans on the stage under the screen. It was very convincing that every drum hit, every string was played by the giant delinquents with bad teeth. 2 or 3 songs into the show we noticed the people but thought they were technicians. They didn't light them until the end. One of the best shows I've been to. San Jose, CA
I was soooo excited when Plastic Beach was announced, because they built an interactive website where you could investigate what was happening to the band by yourself...they always integrated the fans so much!!! ❤
Great work, a really well-put-together story. I've loved Gorillaz since the late 90's, they were super impactful during my teens and I love how you tell their story with such a clean narrative. Thanks. You got my like and sub.
“Success did not want to find these rising artists” Parklife was four times platinum in the UK The Great Escape went triple platinum What you mean is ‘didn’t make it huge in the US’ The USA is not the centre of the world.
Having seen the Gorillaz on their most recent tour for my son's birthday....i was blown away. I've seen everything from Ozzy Osbourne to WuTang live. The Gorillaz is by far in the top 3 shows ive ever seen. Such a diverse grouping of fans. From young kids to people in their later years. Black, white, asian, gay, straight, and everything in between. There was a sense in the crowd that we were all connected thru the music. It was beautiful and honestly life changing.
It took me finding a _Suzuki Omnichord 200m_ in the toys section at a thrift store for $2.99 to find out (by coincidence) that one of my favorite songs was made with the same instrument...
From a 30+ year fan of Gorillaz, thank you for creating this video. I have always wondered what kind of story was behind the characters and its creators. I've had ideas and come up with a few theories of my own. And amazingly enough some of them were true!
Like I get heavy flashback kind of feelings with the Characters that represent such specific types when we were growing up And were really small Plus Our Own Generation's Cultures growing up
This project signifies a great part of my youth, especially the first 2 albums. A good friend of mine died in a coma and he was a huge fan of Gorillaz...which makes those 2 albums even more special. Dames and James, if you ever happen to scroll past this on a bored Sunday or whatever...thanks lads
Dang. Good stuff. Gotta say, loved Blur’s ‘Coffee and TV’, and honestly Deltron 3030’s ‘3030’ was like my soundtrack for a decade. To see this all come together is pretty cool. Thanks!
THANKS FOR THE VID AND INFO!! I AM A HUGE GORILLAZ FAN FOR OVER 20YEARS! and I never knew this stuff.. I knew different artists came and went in the band osrt of but not that it was just features and it was 2 guys.
THANK YOU FOR GIVING DELTRON 3030 ITS SHINE!! I STILL GET CHILLS EVERYTIME I HEAR THAT OPENING "its the year 3030...." that album is so fucking amazing and the production is top tier. It's kind of weird how telling it is for the state of the nation...😊 And thank you for reminding me about "tomorrow comes today" LOVEthatSong!
I hear Damon utter that phrase in my head EVERY time I hear someone use the phrase in real life.... And while I've listened to that album a thousand times, I didn't know it was Damon doing those audios until this video
Fun fact: When I lived in Oakland in the early 90's Del used to eat an eighth of mushrooms before every studio session. We all thought he would eventually lose his mind, but hey, maybe he also learned how to grow a new one...
@@champsammy13and some people find weird things to get bothered by 😂. They were clearly just suggesting it as a next topic... but seems the way they speak isn't ok with you... This quick ability to misunderstand others on snap judgment online just leads to so much nastiness all the time... Maybe you are in need of these "manners" you speak of
THANKS FOR THE VID AND INFO!! I AM A HUGE GORILLAZ FAN FOR OVER 20YEARS! and I never knew this stuff.. I knew different artists came and went in the band osrt of but not that it was just features and it was 2 guys. and also..WHO ever is mad here .. ease up.. I think daft punk info would also be awesome.. if someone didn't say please.. well *shrugs* its all in the spirit of wanting more of this ..
Yeah, it seems difficult to create a character just for one song and video, but tbh, they could at the very least animate them into the video. The song machine is so great
Gorillaz performing on Stephen Colbert with Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, and Bobby Womack and a blue-light stage is my favorite musical performance on a TV show.
For damn sure. They're like Norah Jones the way they mix up genres to the point you don't know where the hell they actually belong. They are one of one.
I am a drummer / bass guitarist / producer with BLÄCK METAL HEART & SOUL from FINLAND and I LOVE GORILLAZ so deeply - truly inspirational zhit that never cease to unfold something curious nuance again and again with any given moment when immersing into listening ❤🧡💙🤎🖤🤍🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Yup.i had an idea a cartoonist was involved and I liked the band blur...but this is mostly new info. ❤the music we LOVED the in edited version..I don't even think I've ever heard it censored
@@dreadlordken3824me too. His style is unlike any other artists, and it drove me crazy that i couldn't confirm my suspicions. What was more annoying is that i was one of those rare American Blur fans and also recognized Damon's voice... Nobody knew what i was talking about when i would ask questions trying to confirm either.
I remember blur, they was dope... That song 2 (woo hoo) was a great song. Would never had guessed that blur lead would become the Gorillaz. So creative
You know who are also 'much calmer when they're stoned (cause I'm married to one?) - ADHD people. Bless them and may they continue to make music as I've been on the journey the whole way (except for the opera project Damon did about dr dee - must look for that).
If you want a more in depth look at the lore of Gorillaz, check out the book Rise of the Ogre. It's an autobiography told by the characters. It's kinda pricey though.
I began as a bass player the way most do… my friends band needed a bass player so i went out and bought a cheap P Bass knock off and sat down to figure out how to make the thing make noise. Feel Good Inc. was the first song I learned.
When i first heard Clint Eastwood, i was like wait a minute, i heard this voice before the one whos singing, but couldnt pinpoint who the fvck is that, later i figured out but before that i thought its one of the oasis, or how that band is called, anyway, great video
So many great songs, played throughout the past 23/24yrs.. i became aware of them as a Pro level, unsponsored skateboarder and surfer back in 2000. Their music has so many great vibes to just jam to. Whether it was a wave or the skatepark (or stairs, ledges, gaps, rails, etc), great music to give you that vibe, that feeling (cuz board sports are 98% feel) to help you find your flow. The artwork was and still is next level awesome! Grimey, pseudo-future dream effect Cyberpunk style. Just wonderful. In every way!
Bloodhound Gang's "A Lapdance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying" uses a pre-set beat from a VERY cheap electronic keyboard (I used to own one that played the EXACT beat LONG before they were even a band)
Finally, some answers. I recognized the voice and art immediately, but for years i could find no answers to who the Gorillaz were to confirm that i was correct.. and nobody ever knew what i was raving on about when i said that this looked just like my favorite artist's work and sounded exactly like damon (Park Life was my fav, definitely had a crush back then). I didn't know of any other Americans who even knew who Blur was, or what Tank Girl was (pre-internet days) and i was a huge fan of both. Mid-90s, i cut my hair reminiscent to tank girl (shaved head with random long bits) and only one person ever recognized that it was in honor of tank girl. I didn't really even intentionally follow/listen to the Gorillaz (because i was so annoyed i couldn't figure out the truth of who they were, granted i recognize every song played here). It's nice to finally have the questions answered.
Just something I feel is important to note about The Fall; the album was actually released a few weeks before the release of Plastic Beach and was only available as a Japanese exclusive, as you mentioned, as a thank you to the fans since they have an incredibly strong following in Japan particularly. The Fall would then be released officially worldwide after leaks proved the albums popularity across the west and was sold exclusively on iTunes a few months after the Plastic Beach success, before physical copies were sold.
Miho Hatori definitely deserved to be mentioned in this video. I was waiting to hear her name at some point - it happened to sound more like bragging about famous rappers instead.
@@eyespy3001 It's also a disappointment for me that Dan Nakamura had little time in the story. He's like a big part of the experimental New York music stage I love so much - and artists like him and Miho make Gorrilaz recognizable, not Snoop Dog.
Just wanted to say the same, way less polite. That just ruined the whole video for me. Miho is awesome and doesn't deserve this. Thanks for saving my face and even more for speaking up for her.
Hearing a Yank say "wankeerrr" 😂 we pronounce it "wanka" not taking the piss it just sounds funny is all. Great content, really high quality stuff hats off!
Gorillaz used 3D graphics from the start. The video for Clint Eastwood was made by Passion Pictures and animated at least in part by Oliver Reid (not the actor!) using LightWave 3D
Bro its crazy how im 39 years old and just finding out they wasnt a real band. I always thought that each characters were depiction of a real life person.
Gorillaz is one of those rare impeccable artists that I can safely say left a positive impact in raising my generation. it's hard not to reminisce on those early days of their music when a gem of a multi faceted band like them hasn't come along yet since.
For me they are a hit and miss band but the hits for me are awesome and love a few select songs, most featured on this. But even there misses (for me) I can respect. Just because they do push the boundaries or blur (😂) the lines.
I have a music produced friend who I used to hang out with in the late 90's, these guys he knew came by a bunch and wanted help picking out a style of animation for thier video. I picked this style for them. I see they did alright, I thought they were just more grunge burnouts from the Seattle scene.
