The music channel that's constantly on in my gym is, for my sins, 'MTV Hits', whose programme directors seem to have a direct link into my brain in order for them the choose those videos that are least appealing to me, personally.
"Okay, so we've played the vacuous carbon-copy girl band, who's next?"
"It seems he really hates soulless cloned boy bands, let's roll one of them up."
"Great, can we play some slow jams later?"
"Yeah! Chuck me that Lemar disc."
Somehow, a beautiful cooling oasis amidst an ocean of festering garbage, the new Gorillaz single, 'Feel Good Inc', has somehow got onto high rotate, and when it plays, my heart soars and I have a temporary, glorious respite from the waves of pure shite they play at every other moment. My RPMs go from 80 to 96 without even thinking about it.
I have a feeling this could be an early contender be the 'song of the summer'- which is not to say it will be the best song, just the one I come to associate most with summer `05 ('Clint Eastwood' being the winner for summer `01, appropriately)- I can just as easily imagine chilling out to this song on the Heath as I can leaping up and down to it on the dancefloor.
The bassline kicks ass (and is also kind of sinister, which is great), the beat is the best non-remixed beat Gorillaz have put out to date, and the lyrics are sad but uplifting at the same time. It's excellent. However Gorillaz are one of those bands where the video is just as important as the music, and they don't let down on that score. The video is a fantastic combination of CGI, traditional cel-animation and filmed-model-footage, which creates an effect I haven't really seen before, and it looks fucking great.
I highly recommend you download it and check it out in high res, as it's very detailed.
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Like, that link don't work or something. Y'know.
Fixed! (it was a simple space)
Gorillaz themselves have actually done a really bad job of hosting the vid (although their site is cool), I had to go to someone else who'd scanned it. A video is an ad for the song, surely? So they should distribute it freely. Unless, Gorillaz (and modern music) being what they are, the video has become more important than the song, a short film almost, and now they want us to pay for the privilege of watching it.
Heard this last week, it's ace. Looks like another CD to purchase (he said in reference to the most recent post...)
I was just saying to sev this morning, I never really saw 'Gorillaz' as an albums-kind-of-band. I thought the whole idea behind them (sort of a parody of manufacturd music, in that they actually are manufactured) lended itself to singles, which I bought and enjoyed.
Was the first album any good?
First album was great, but...get this...has anyone else (apart from me) seen them live? They totally rock.