Tomorrow Comes Today (The Gorillaz Thread)

gaporter said:
While I wouldn't start with this one, 13 is definitely a masterpiece.
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Do you think so? I think it’s best songs are masterpieces but the album decends into a bit of a dirge at points for me. I do remember buying it the day it came out though!

I always felt Think Tank was a much better album than it got credit for. Out of Time, Good Song and Battery In Your Leg are definite blur favourites over here!
 
gaporter said:
Also, on the topic of Blur vs Oasis from an American who grew up at a time when both bands were past their peak in the UK, I can definitely say that Oasis are far more well-known and remembered in the US than Blur (from what I've seen at least). I think it was just easier for Americans to digest the straightforward Beatles-esque rock of the Gallaghers than it was for them to listen to music that was intrinsically tied to British culture from the ground up.
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I say this as a huge oasis fan, they were the band that got me into buying music in the first place, but they were past their best the day after the Knebworth gigs in 1996...
 
Joe Mac said:
Do you think so? I think it’s best songs are masterpieces but the album decends into a bit of a dirge at points for me. I do remember buying it the day it came out though!

I always felt Think Tank was a much better album than it got credit for. Out of Time, Good Song and Battery In Your Leg are definite blur favourites over here!
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There's songs on it I don't think I'd listen to outside of the album, sure, but as a whole it's a really good trippy and melancholy journey imo.

As for Think Tank, I 100% agree. I think the overtly anti-war themes, the lack of Graham and just how all over the place it was musically made it a bit hard to swallow for some fans. But its aged brilliantly and has so many amazing tunes.
 
gaporter said:
There's songs on it I don't think I'd listen to outside of the album, sure, but as a whole it's a really good trippy and melancholy journey imo.

As for Think Tank, I 100% agree. I think the overtly anti-war themes, the lack of Graham and just how all over the place it was musically made it a bit hard to swallow for some fans. But its aged brilliantly and has so many amazing tunes.
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I saw them live for the only time on that tour and I think that Graham’s absence was much bigger live than it was on that record. That said his only contribution, the wailing guitars on Battery In Your Leg, is my favourite part of the album!
 
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ThePakoBuelna said:
That thing is insane, but I kinda want it.
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It's the perfect analogy for the album itself: insanely ambitious, almost to a fault, but you have a weird respect for it.

(Also, I heard that the download code with it actually included the songs exclusive to the Super Deluxe, and upon finding that out I may or may not have attempted to try to find a place to download them *totally legitimately*)
 
Going off the Blur and Oasis convo from the other day, here's a live performance of "Bugman" where Damon appears to imitating/mocking the Gallagher brothers somewhat. Also Graham is going to town on the guitar like nobody's business (but what else is new?)
 
gaporter said:
Going off the Blur and Oasis convo from the other day, here's a live performance of "Bugman" where Damon appears to imitating/mocking the Gallagher brothers somewhat. Also Graham is going to town on the guitar like nobody's business (but what else is new?)
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Wow I'd never seen this. He's definitely "doing" Liam here, I wonder what the headlines in the UK press were that particular week.
 
My favourite album of theirs is still the first, Gorillaz. I listen to Demon Dayz and The Fall every now and then but Gorillaz is the one I go back to the most (it's also the only one I have on vinyl).
 
Aelias said:
My favourite album of theirs is still the first, Gorillaz. I listen to Demon Dayz and The Fall every now and then but Gorillaz is the one I go back to the most (it's also the only one I have on vinyl).
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Their debut probably had the biggest impact on my young music-listening brain than anything else, I remember loving how eclectic and offbeat the music was and the fact that you couldn't really confine that early material to one specific "genre" definitely shaped how I view music as a whole
 
Gorillaz were one of those bands that I fell in love with when I was younger. I remember hearing their debut everywhere. I played that flash game that looped 19-2000 for hours on end.

Demon Days was packed full of bops and insanely good for the time. Dare, November Has Come, Last Living Souls are fantastic. Danger Mouses production was what the band needed to develop the sound further. I am super sad that my VMP copy skips on All Alone and 3 copies in still skipped.

Plastic Beach is my favorite Gorillaz album. It is so cohesive yet each song feels so different. Sweepstakes, Superfast Jellyfish, White Flag are some standouts to me.

I'll be honest and say their output since Plastic Beach is rocky at best. The Fall and Humanz are not my cup of tea. I really tried but they didn't catch my attention.

The Now Now seems to be a return to form but I'm not holding my breath.

I hope you enjoyed my random thoughts on the Gorillaz.
 
For the longest time, I refused to even acknowledge The Fall as an "album" because it felt so distant from the standard they'd set with the first three. Nearly a decade later, I'm a lot softer on it. Once you immerse yourself in the concept and just take it as it's own thing, it becomes a lot easier to get into it.

As for Humanz... I'm not sure what to say. Most people have made up their mind on it and I hope public opinion shifts the other way in the years to come, but I don't know. I think The Now Now was good but I don't want Damon to get the wrong idea from it's relatively warmer reception and just lets the project go in a safer direction.
 
Ok, here's a question for y'all: what, in your opinion, makes Humanz good or bad (or somewhere in between)?
 
gaporter said:
Their debut probably had the biggest impact on my young music-listening brain than anything else, I remember loving how eclectic and offbeat the music was and the fact that you couldn't really confine that early material to one specific "genre" definitely shaped how I view music as a whole
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That's what it was for me too. I had just started looking for music that really appealed to me, found Gorillaz and it was so different from what I had been listening to before. Clint Eastwood, 5/4, and Tomorrow Comes Today were stuck in my head for a while after that first listen.
 
Anyone else gonna catch a screening of the new documentary next month? I wasn't going to bother trying to get tickets until I realized a theater only an hour away from me was playing it, but now I'm hyped!
 
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