The story is ludicrous, stupid, jarringly psychedelic, incredibly unusual, but so much fun to read. If you search for the back story of the virtual band, you will get amazed.
The virtual band Gorillaz is composed by 2D, a guy who went catatonic by a car accident and decided to get to music after the coma, on the vocals, Murdoc, a hooligan that ram his car into a wall and hurt 2D, on the bass, Russell, a guy that have easy spirit-channeling abilities, on the drums, and last but not least, Noodle, a Japanese guitarist in a box that didn’t speak much English on the beginning. I mean, what’s the problem of having fictional members? If they can rock, they are rockers. So, all the rumors that were circulating that the band really existed and it was really four guys, well, those went down the sink, which doesn’t mean that the “band” sucks. Who is the single person who takes control over the music? It is Damon Albarn, from Blur, which I guess got tired of the constant bickering with Oasis and wanted to start a new band. For those who do not know (there actually are people in the world that don’t know this by now), the band is only one person with diverse support acts. There has been some new material, downloadable on the website, and there has been news about the new album, known as “Reject False Icons” at the time, that proved to be just a really cool marketing kind of cultural thingy. In this year, the virtual band known as Gorillaz was completing four years without a new album.
#RUSSEL HOBBS GORILLAZ DEMON DAYS ALBUM COVER MOVIE#
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the highest grossing movie (I dunno how that happen), Elton John get married with his long life partner and the only competition to the Nintendo Wii, the Microsoft X-Box 360, is released. Well, as again, a little background is required (I think). Looking at the tracks, it really doesn’t look as a concept album.
I spent a good one hour looking at it, and I remembered how I didn’t like it when I first bought it in late 2005 and how I was vastly more impressed by the debut album… But, again… Maybe it is? My craze for concept albums started in the last three years, so I may have overlooked the album a little bit. So, as a open my drawer of CDs, the blackish coverart of the Demon Days pop up in vision, right between the debut album and Guns and Roses’ “Chinese Democracy” (you will have tour turn, probably). I forget, sometimes, that there were good albums in the compact disc format. Of course, I ran to my chest to get my copy only to remember it wasn’t on LP. Demon Days? Really? It’s not bad, at all, but… it is a concept album? But, in fourth, there was that thing staring at me: “Demon Days” by Gorillaz. My top ten list would probably ignore every last album this guy put in so much regard (except for the number one, which was American Idiot, that I would probably mention it as a runner-up). He didn’t include any albums from the sixties, the seventies and eighties, which impressed me a whole lot, since I can’t count ten concept albums of the last two decade. The list, of course, was in terrible grammar, and it make me notice that this guy don’t have any experience in music whatsoever. It was then that I found this “Top 10 Best Concept Albums of All Time” and, of course, stopped to read as I was looking for that. I have been always in the search for new and greater albums, and as a dive into the deeps to discover more concept albums and better ones, I stumble upon those cute little top 10 thingies that quite everyone does and possibly me after a while, if I ran out of source material. I’m a rocker by birth and grew listening to rock discs and long plays by the dozen.
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