Gorillaz - Demon Days ALBUM REVIEW
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GORILLAZ - DEMON DAYS / 2005 / PARLOPHONE / TRIP HOP, ALT ROCK
CLASSIC/10
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
This is like the perfect first intro to any kind of alternative music, just a little bit of everything mixed so perfectly
Absolutely. This album got me into hip-hop, world music, and ambient music
Yeah It introduced me into punk music
@@friedporchetta this album got me into japanese harsh noise what a inspirational album
Literally. Plastic Beach is my fav gorillaz album but Demon Days was my introduction and it expanded my view of the world of music.
It's what got me into MF DOOM and I can tell you that
Easily top 5 of the 2000's for me, massively opened up my world for music as a kid. Dancey, funky, fun, beautiful, and everything in between. 10/10 album
Did you have the box set special edition? I preordered it at Circuit City to get it the day it came out. It was such a cool piece of packaging. And yes definitely too 5-10 of that decade for me. And probably a top 15 of all time.
I've still got Celebrity Takedown and Slowboat to Hades that my Dad (unknowingly) purchased for me. Yes Dad I swear those board shorts were $80!
This really is the Gorillaz album that stands the test of time for me. Love Plastic Beach but this is the album that solidified me as a Gorillaz fan.
It's their Thriller.
Too bad this and Plastic Beach are their only consistently great albums. Gorillaz and Drake are similar to me in that they could be so amazing but so mid at the same time.
@@Zeldamarie1482 The Drake comparison feels disrespectful
@@Zeldamarie1482Uhh Sound Machine has no misses unless you include the deluxe tracks
@@Zeldamarie1482strange comparison
this album is more beautiful than people give it credit for. sure its really dancy most of the time but demon days has got to be one of the most glorious closers of the 2000s for sure
Demon Days makes me shed a tear every time. Such a powerful closer for the album.
I LOVE THAT ITS DANCEY
What’s wrong with being dancy lol
Everyone gives it credit. It gets credit for beauty
This album gets a shitton of credit tho
I remember "fire coming out of a monkeys head" being like witnessing god when i found out you could narrate a story over instrumental. Plus it wasnt until a decade later that i figured it was MF DOOM on "November has come". I was driving and nearly swerved because i used to sing along not knowing who the rapper was at the time. Love Demon Days. I can see why plastic beach gets more love but demon days came out at a better time for me
Yeah I had no idea who DOOM was until several years later.
Yeah realizing that was DOOM on November has come was when a lot of things clicked for me
I had the same realization about doom a couple years ago when I finally listened to madvillainy for the first time. I wasn't even halfway through his first verse on that album before I was like "wait shit was this the guy on demon days?"
"Nah, fo'real-a, the Villain on a Gorilla jawn?" hits so different now that we know. Leave it to the villain to hit again without even knowing.
You should listen to Lecithin’s Tale of a DNA Experiment by of Montreal, freaky but it totally locked me onto the album
I feel like them doing such a wide variety of genres was pretty influential for 2010s artist who grew up listening to them.
Exactly! Listening to Plastic Beach, Demon Days and tracks off The Fall and D Sides really expanded my tastes when I was young.
You're right. Grew up listening to Gorillaz, now I make all sorts of music.
It's just one dude, damon albarn
@@maegnificant It's awesome Damon carried two of the most influential bands in his back.
This album is literally my early teen years alongside Radiohead and LCD Soundsystem. I love every single track off of this
This list plus daft punk
Always nice to see there's someone out there with an identical music taste
Even White Light?
🫡🍻
@@morse8026 white light is a banger
This comment section
Blur has some great songs
Hands down one of my favorite albums of all time. The title track gets me every single time.
to the sun!
to the sun 🌅
i get chills as soon as i hear the strings at the beginning. so much nostalgia comes with this album
Yeah it's beautiful. I'll never forget my first listen of this album. It really takes you on a journey. You never know what to expect but are always pleasantly surprised. Each stop is both kind of its own thing yet somehow cohesive. I'm glad to see the title track getting recognition. I guess I assumed on an album full of bangers it'd be a little overlooked with its sort of slower build-up, almost starting to delve into prog rock territory. The incorporation of The Gospel Choir was incredible. I can't say I've heard anyone blend these genres quite as effectively. It's just a one-of-a-kind experience in every sense.
The song still brings me to tears
If this album was called "Gorillaz - Demon Dice" then you would have given it a smiley ball
underrated comment
LUKAS GRHAMMMMMMM
@@JvwoomyI LOST MY WAYYYY AGAAAAAAAAAIN
THE 🍫 🌟 🐟!
nah, red headphones
**thunk** _DOGSHIT_
One thing I like about this album is how coherent it is. The transitions are done really well
Yeah I'm glad I'm not the only one but I've called it the most thematically coherent album I've ever listened to
yeah the way it all flows makes it feel more like a sort of theatrical production
My family was always into music, but what i listened to was my dad's classic rock or mom's funk. When i heard this album, though, my mind was blown. It was the first album that I considered MY music
Wow I totally feel the same way
Same! This was the first music I ever bought with my own money
same but it was my brothers lol
i remember much the same i loved gwen stefani and no doubt cuz of my sister but i remember getting this cd and on the way home playing it, when kids with guns came on i remember my mom looking at me like OMG and i just smiled thinking mhm this is *mine*. and then the day my dad told me they were on mtv cribs bc he knew i loved them and the first thing i saw was murdoc pissing on the ceiling. ahhh what a time to grow up.
@@MidnightEkaki means not the same
Thanks Anthony for giving Danger Mouse his flowers and props! Quite possibly my favorite producer- from this album, to Gnarls Barkley- St Elsewhere and Odd Couple, Broken Bells with James Mercer of the Shins, A$AP Rocky- At Long Last A$AP, Cheat Codes with Black Thought, working with the Black Keys, just one of the best producers with such a distinct production sound and style!
Edit: DANGER MOUSE IS ALSO HELPING PRODUCE THE NEW MGMT ALBUM….HOLY SHIT!! MY FAVORITE BAND WITH MY FAVORITE PRODUCER, AND DAVE FRIDMANN, AND ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER!! MY GOD!
danger mouse x mgmt is a really exciting proposal!
St Elsewhere is one of the most underrated albums of the 2000s
He likes good things and hates good things equally. such a weird dude.
Dont forget his team with with MF DOOM in dangerDOOM
Don't forget Dark Night Of The Soul, the collaborative album between Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse. Absolutely fantastic record
DARE is one of the best dance tracks this century. I just love it.
Me and my younger siblings were utterly obsessed with the film clip growing up, the giant real head was so wild.
It's -DARE!
I still remember how I found out about this song for the first time: it was in my uncle's assorted music collection in his mp3 player. I might have listened to 19-2000 or Clint Eastwood earlier in my life on MTV but the moment I stumbled upon DARE in that playlist was when I became a Gorillaz fan.
YES YES YES!!
I'm so glad Fantano gave this a classic review, been waiting for this ever since i found this channel.
No other media project has impacted me as much as Gorillaz -particularly because of this album-. Some of my favourite memories are related to this album, like learning to draw by imitating, and failing, to copy Jamie's art style, staying up late with a friend listening to this album, telling "Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head" in fron of my 7th grade class when we were told to narrate our favourite story.
Beyond the nostalgia, it's a genuinely ambitious, immersive and atmospheric record while still being multifaceted and, somehow still relevant to this day. Some of the songs still sound ahead of its time, too.
Incredibly record, probably my favourite album of all time.
I notice people share a common experience with Demon Days. A lot of people expanded their interest in different genres after hearing this album. It has a lot of good stuff from different musical spaces. Electronic, hiphop, rock. It transcends genres for sure.
Your note about the album coming out during the tail end of the MTV era is so spot on. First time I ever heard Feel Good Inc. was on MTV and I was hooked ever since then.
this album and gorillaz in general (the first 3 albums specifically) literally changed my life it was the first album i REALLYYY sat down and listened to when i was 14 and it completely blew my mind and introduced me to listening to albums ive been obsessed with listening to albums and just music in general ever since and its all thanks to this one :)
Same bro.
I had the exact same experience!!
The first time I ever heard Feel Good Inc it was 2005 on an extremely stormy night. It was midnight and everyone in the living room was asleep except for me, it was myself and a couple of my older brothers. No lights were on, the only light was the flashing of lightning and the music video on the TV. It was the perfect night and backdrop for hearing that song for the first time. I will never forget that, I was 8 years old, and it’s still my favorite music video ever.
Many people I know, including myself, look to this album as the album that got them "into music" and was the starting point for the development of their taste, and I will always love and appreciate it for that even if I don't listen to it as much as I used to
for sure this album defined my tastes in a way no other could at the time, generational timeless album
Me
Iirc one of the members of Blur Damon had beef with described Gorillaz as “music for children”. Damon’s response was something along the lines of “well if I’ve introduced kids to all these different sounds, I’ve done something right”
Yep, me too. Came out when I was 13, and was the third or fourth CD I bought. Of the music I bought at that age, its the only one I still listen to
I didn’t even give a shit about music until I had a taste of plastic beach back in 2011 when I got my first iPod
Love the intro. I know a lot of people that are super into Gorillaz but don't know about Blur at all when to me that's a big part of Gorillaz's history so I'm happy you shed light onto how the project started and just how much happened to get here.
Demon Days will always be special to me. Gorillaz in general I have a lot to owe for informing a lot of my preferences in rock and alt music
This album is almost a perfect 10 for me, but I don't know how much nostalgia plays into that. This was one of the first albums I ever bought as like a 9 year old - and it has shaped so much of my musical interests tot his day. What a classic
Same, I think I was around that age too, maybe a bit older at like 11 or 12. My teenage years became a lot of prog rock, hip hop, electronic, and classical music. Funny enough, I finally got into MF DOOM recently within the past couple of years and it took until this video to realize that he was on the album.
Gorillaz lowkey made me a hip hop head. Moreso Plastic Beach but this album ended up having some of my favorite underground rappers (De La Soul, DOOM, 1/4 of the Pharcyde) in retrospect. Both albums acted as a great bridge from my alternative sensibilities into hip hop when i was in 7th grade.
Gorillaz ARE the most underrated Hip-Hop act. Crossover or not, Feel Good Inc. is one of the most popular Rap songs of all time, Clint Eastwood is huge too, they made tons of very strong and popular tracks with tons of mainstream and Indie rappers and have pushed boundaries into all directions, many of which having become mainstream since then and particularly due to them.
I remember as a 10 year old being really annoyed by how "weird" the rest of the album sounded compared to feel good Inc and dare. But over time got into every single track on this album and consider it one of my favourite albums of all time, maybe even my favourite.
Really appreciate it opening my little mind to so many diverse music styles, and appreciate so much more sounds than I should've without it
I can relate to this
One of the earliest musical loves of my life. I could probably sing All Alone in my sleep. Weirdly enough, the first CD I ever bought with my own money wasn't this but D-Sides. Still think that first disc outclasses some of their proper albums.
I got demon days as a present from my "girlfriend" in 7th grade lol
I already bought the CD yesterday
@@dicksmiggie1137the rizzler
It was great hearing some more background knowledge to one of my favorite albums. I have listened to this since it came out, one of my first albums ever. This is one of those albums that gets better and better the more you listen to it and over the years. It really becomes yours in this process, where you connect it with the experiences of your life. People try to tell you, which song is the best song on this album, but you know full and well, that it is a complete masterpiece, and which of its songs really touch you. For me one of the greatest moments is, when oh green world turns from these at first dissonant and difficult chaotic sounds into pure beauty, as if you entered another space with the song, that envelopes you in harmony.
Honestly, gorillaz has 3 classics minimum. IMO their self titled is amazing, this album is god tier, and so is Plastic Beach.
November has Come has to be my favorite song on here. DOOM's verses just go so hard over this weird yet somehow extremely catchy beat. God I love gorillaz
November has Come single handedly got me into hip hop as a 9 year old
They really were such a great all-around group.
The villain on a Gorilla jawn
I would nominate Song Machine to the classic tier. Just non-stop bangers from top to bottom.
@@phothewin6019what do you mean were? Thy literally still put out music
This is why Anthony is such a popular reviewer. I’ve known about Gorillaz for a while but wasn’t familiar with them yet I was also interested in them and desired to learn more. Anthony also gives a great eduction along with giving impressive descriptions of what he thinks of the actual tracks.
Hot Take: November Has Come has MF Doom’s top 3 verse of all time
Not even a hot take, it's probably his best verse ever, it's such a god like level of writting lol
@@BABVSOULEATER2005soul eater and gorillas goes hand in hand
@@zacurrya9485 BIG BIG FACT Gorillaz music It's so good for reading the manga, forever love that 2000s halloween edgy rock somber trip hop kind of style, thank you cool person 🐐🎃
This was one of the first CD's I ever got at like age 12, it absolutely blew my mind and opened up my musical world so much. I've got it on vinyl now, this record will always hold a special place in my heart.
BRO IS ON A ROLLLLL
YO ITS THE GUY FROM THE ROTATING CAST OF HIVEMIND CHARACTERS
LUKAS GRAAAAAAHAAAAAAM
DJ KHALED
I LOST MY WAY AGAIN
In Australia, we've got this program called rage. Remember getting up, Saturday morning at 6:30am to watch the Top 50, and the music videos of Feel Good Inc. and DARE just stood out from the rest. Been honestly hooked ever since.
Thank you Anthony, this classic review made my day ❤
This album (and Gorillaz in general) helped me start listening to more artists outside of what's played on the radio and appreciate more artists and genres.
While Plastic Beach is better, I still go back to Demon Days more because of how much I love that record.
From November Has Come, El Mañana, Dirty Days and of course Feel Good inc. it's such a great album.
Can't believe this album will be 20 next year.
At 12 years old, I took my birthday/xmas money and bought my first 3 CDs from a Barnes & Noble. Demon Days was one of them, and it completely blew my mind. I’ll never forget turning my CD player all the way up, closing my eyes, and basically having an out-of-body experience as the music washed over me. I listened to that album all day, every day for that whole summer
That's so awesome. It's great to think of albums that had that kind of impact as a kid, and the "I'm just going to sit here and listen to this" factor. I remember, Opeth's Blackwater Park was one of those for me.
What were the other 2?
@@rootsradical Elephunk by The Black Eyed Peas, and Lost & Found by Will Smith. 2 out of 3 ain’t bad 😂
My favorite Gorillaz album. It boasts a huge nostalgia factor for me, Gorillaz's debut was one of the cultural moments that hit me the hardest.
Me and all the other kids in my neighbourhood were obsessed with it. And Demon Days perfected their sound/vibe, IMO.
Easily a top 10 album of the 00's for me.
Not over exaggerating when I say this album changed the trajectory of my life
I've said it for years, this is definitely a contender for first albums to show someone who's never heard music
To this day, my favorite album of all time. A masterpiece front-to-back, every song has something to say and the production is so unique and gives such a powerful sense of space. Every Planet We Reach is Dead still feels like a spiritual experience every time I listen to it.
Also worth noting, the extras that didn't make the album are all incredible too. D-sides contains some of Albarn's best material he's ever written in "Hong Kong" (just so so so beautiful), super fun tracks like "The Swagga" (woooo!), and immaculate vibes in "Highway" (my unconventional vote for one of the best Gorillaz songs ever).
The first song I heard by the Gorillaz was 19-2000 and it broke my brain. it was the most happy feel good thing I had ever heard. Then Clint Eastwood got huge and I went out and bought the album and its been an obsession since. My favorite might be D-Sides. It bangs from start to finish.
I know Melon prefers Plastic Beach, but this is the greatest album of all time imo
This was the first album in my life that got me into the whole “alternative” music scene. Found it while I was in middle school and got so invested in Gorillaz and the lore, Plastic Beach came out recently during that time too. Still such an incredibly surreal and brooding record all these years later.
its just such an amazing album, the gorillaz are always gonna be in my top 5 favorite artists . i dont listen to their music as much as i used to but just the memories with their self titled, demon days and plastic beach will forever hold a place in mah heart
@@trashorphan same here, I don’t listen to them as much as I’d like to but anytime I hear the self titled, Demon Days or Plastic Beach it brings back so many memories
Was not expecting this for classics week but I’m glad we did
This album is the reason I make music.
It unsarcastically changed my life with its beauty, variety and story telling.
My favorite record ever made.
Ten out of ten smackers
It might not be the best album ever, but it for sure is my personal favourite ever. It's so memorable, every song has such character, and there's such potential to connect personal experience, affects, emotions, and feelings to them. I really love this thing and no one will make me change my mind on this ever.
I pre-ordered this album and (back in the days of albums coming out on a Monday), received it three days early on the Friday, which instantly made it special to me and I had it on loop all weekend. Remains one of my favourite albums of all time - which has always caught a few sideways glances when telling people in the past.
Also want to give a shout-out to the crescendo you're hit with at the end of Kids with Guns. Incredible.
Thank you so much for reviewing this gamechanging album. It was my first musical chock that I rejected at first because It was SO different. And then realised listens after listens how unique and layered this project was. A big impact on a whole generation of creatives still to this day.
I remember when I discovered this album and therefore Gorillaz three years ago. I was in a period when I was obsessed with Hip-Hop and, in particular, with MF DOOM. Back then I only listened to Hip-Hop and The Beatles. When I listened to November Has Come I started digging Gorillaz catalog and it was an eye-opening journey for me. This kind of paved the way for me discovering all kinds of music genres and at the same time I started watching your reviews on albums you regarded highly, despite me thinking the music wasn’t for me. Three years down the road, I’ve become a music nerd who listens to all kinds of stuff with an open mind and my taste has developed a lot. Thank you Gorillaz and Fantano for this 🙌
In a bunch of Demon Days, Fantano is an angel
i saw gorillaz live a couple years back and it was one of the coolest performances i will probably ever see. the whole thing was beautifully put together with albarn being the at the forefront of the show. at the end of the show he pulled out this weird key-tube thing and made the whole place explode with one note... which turned out to be clint eastwood. amazing work and seeing dare and feel good inc live was especially heartwarming considering how much those songs meant to me growing up. great choice for classic week this year anthony!
I honestly don’t know who I would be without this album. I had so many realizations about the world listening to this album growing up. When I saw them tour plastic beach it was the first time I had ever teared up at a show. Can’t say enough good about this record.
Demon Days was probably one of the first albums I owned in full, before that I was very much into the iTunes culture of buying individual songs. It's amazing to see that so many in the comments had similar experiences with this album introducing them to weird, alternative, eclectic music. Heck I'm just happy to see so many top rated comments actually talking about the album, most TND comment sections are just "you would've given this a 10 if _____" and other played-out memes.
This album changed how I felt about electronic music. Easily a top 10 album of all time personally.
Roots Manuva kills his part on All Alone, I love that track
This is my favorite pop album of all time. Such great diversity between songs, hooks, guests and their styles. Also, a rare example of a mixdown that gives all the elements equal care and love so the stuff “in the back” gets as much love as the stuff in the front. Masterpiece.
This was the album of my teens. Its moody, dark, emotional, but energetic chaotic and sometimes upbeat at the same time. Perfect album
my dad introduced me to gorillaz almost 20 years ago with this album. I remember i would play it back to front almost daily for like a year straight. Still have a copy on vinyl and play it sometimes when im feeling down. white light best song btw
this album brought my family together when it came out. it stayed in the car for like a year and it was one of my first musical obsessions.
This was the first album I ever bought at the age of 11, and it has greatly influenced my taste in music since - great album!
I knew I wasnt crazy for replaying this cd everyday when I was 10 years old. It's a fantastic god damn album.
Same
I would put this album on and fall asleep to it every night in middle school. It was the right kind of quirky, especially for a 5th grade outcast.
@@ManCat114 Bro saaaaamee!
0/10 didnt talk about white light
Gorillaz has always been a classic for me, completely opening my mind to new genres and styles. It feels nice to see Demon Days get a classic review because it definitely has changed my life i believe.
This was one of the first cd's I owned. My Christian mother was concerned with the album title but I convinced her nothing was wrong.
De la soul, del tha funky homosapien and MF DOOM all on one album? This waa gonna be a veryified hood classic from the jump!
Del is not on the album. Bootie Brown and Roots Manuva are the remaining rappers on Demon Days. Del is featured on the self-titled, G-Sides and Cracker Island (Deluxe).
I honestly loved their debut album more than Demon Days…it was the first music CD I had bought in my life
it was my first vinyl
I love the dub influence on it, it's such a little bizarre album
He didn't say it was better he said he loved it more. That being said thanks for still inviting my guy to the cookout.@@CyranoForever101
I remember being entranced with the "Tomorrow Comes Today" video, and would watch it constantly on a terrible internet connection.
Demon Days is the Qui Gon Jinn to the first albums Jarjar Binks
This was the first album I fell in love with. I was 10 when I was gifted a copy of it for Christmas. 18 years later I haven't stopped listening to it.
Speaking of Del and Dan the Automator...when's Deltron 3030 getting a classic week review? 🤔
This was arguably the first album that ever played a hand in shaping my early taste. I remember hearing Feel Good Inc on my sister's Now That's What I Call Music CD and thinking that it was the most colourful sounding and cool thing that I had ever heard. I bought the Demon Days CD straight after and played it probably a thousand times on my Walkman. Honestly, such a landmark album, and it has aged so well, I still hold it in as high regard as I did all the way back then.
I simply adore this album. It's one of the very first albums I ever listened to, front to back. I love the crazy mix of collaborators giving the project so much versitillity. It's so diverse in genres and vibes that I could def say that Gorillaz is at the foundation of my music taste.
Also - shout out to the Roots Manuva verse on All Alone - hugely underrated and ahead of his time British MC - his first album - Brand New Second Hand (like the Peter Tosh track) is a real classic.
This is one of my favorite albums of all time, and Dangermouse's production is unparalelled on it
Random fun fact: The "Phi Life Cypher" remix of Clint Eastwood is the actual original version, Del was working with Dan on Deltron 3030, and Dan the Automator asked him to rap over some Gorillaz songs and his version of Clint Eastwood ended up the single
Also, I bought an Italian Pressing of The Gray Album on Vinyl from a record store in Toronto, It was a hard choice between it and KMD's" Bl_ck B_st_rds"
This album dropped my senior year of college, Bush was president, people were still under the 9/11 hangover it was just a weird time yet this record was like some kind of beacon. I love this album and I've been waiting on some kind of classic review for this one, after seeing "Plastic Beach" a while back I kept thinking this album needed to get some love too. Somehow this album managed to capture most of the unease of the time it was released and had a happy ending of sorts. I don't spin this album as much as I used to yet when I do it brings back a flood of memories of that time in my life and not having cares beyond where to go for a beer while the world seems to be collapsing. Thanks Melon, I needed this one.
Gosh every time I listen to this album I think back to those weekends waking up late hearing feel good blasting on our tv, mom cleaning and dad cooking breakfast. I’ve come to love it again for something entirely different each time, especially now as a 20 sum with better understanding of the themes n lyrics in this work🥺❤️
Despite being from the 2000s, Demon Days has aged amazingly well over the years. It used to be one of my favorite albums when I was younger and I think it holds up today.
This is honestly my favorite album of all time, It has a little bit of everything I like in music, fast and slow rhythms, dark and happy themes, and the composition itself is soooo well put together, listening to this album feels like watching a movie, you can follow the plot that develops . Sometimes I think Plastic Beach is better because it has more bangers, but this one as a whole is a better ALBUM
I miss this kind of gorrillaz man 😭, but I'm happy for what it was
This album introduced me to Gorillaz which made me travel like 700km to a festival in Holland where they were playing in 2018. That's still probably the single most defining event to my music taste to this day, most artists I listen to nowadays I either saw there or I got introduced to because I listened to the artists I saw there.
Lowlands 2018 probably one of the best festival lineups ever, for me it was life changing.
My favourite gorillaz album hands down; such a good variety of songs and sounds. The coupled last 2 tracks played together always make me shed a tear or ten, really invokes a lot of beautiful imagery and feelings in me of the break of dawn, the return to planet earth/home and hope for all things
11 years ago, my life was empty and without purpose. When I heard the album (specially Feel Good Inc) for the first time, I fell in love with music and since then I have a life purpose.
Ps: I bursted into tears when this album was included in the list of the 500 greatest albums of all times .
Demon Days was my Gorillaz start and the constant evolution and change for the band is something that I love most about it. Maybe every experiment doesn't work but at least Damon and crew want to do something new and different
My mom just got me a Demon Days shirt for Christmas so this upload is some perfect timing
Yeah this album is the first one that got me into albums as a thing, I dont think i'd appreciated the artistry of making one before it. i was just into the singles on the radio or the greatest hits records my parents played in car journeys
Also Feel Good Inc, that song somehow couldnt actually be overplayed. Damon & Danger mouse managed to make a song it was impossible to get sick of
I just listened to this album for the first time and loved it! This is my first taste of Gorillaz and am extremely excited to explore the rest of this band’s discography. Fantano’s review here was perfectly timed
Anthony always wears blue flannel and black tie when opening vintage Bordeaux.
He wears blue flannel when it's a good album. Red flannel when it's a bad album. I forget what the yellow one means.
special shout out to the last two tracks. For some reason I've heard different versions, but i love the one where Don't Get Lost fades directly into the strings of Demon Days.
to me that moment is the feeling of complete disillusionment, when the saccharine feelings from that 'heaven' quickly fade. with those strings, with the distorted static sounds and ghostly hints of vocal harmonies, it's a return to the world we were avoiding. it feels bleak for just a moment, but the elements of the track gradually make way for this sense of peace and clarity. and when that triumphant chorus comes in it's like seeing the sunrise for the first time in ages. it feels like having the courage to move forward through this reality. lift yourself up, it's a brand new day. turn yourself around to the sun.
every track on the album has so much meaning to me personally and the whole Gorillaz project fascinates me to this day. I will never, ever forget the impact this album had on me and it absolutely deserves the praise
I discussed with a friend one time that if you were to rank the top 10 Gorillaz songs, #2 - #10 have such a long list of great tracks that could possibly have a spot because their catalogue is so quality and varied.
But everyone knows what #1 is.
It's DARE!
seattle yodel of course...
As well as echoing what everyone else is saying about this being their introduction to the concept of "albums" as cohesive projects, I'd also like to add the companion/B sides album has some equally great tracks imo. Stop the Dams, 68 State, The Swagga, Hong Kong. Listening to the two albums together really makes for an even better time.
for sure this album defined my tastes in a way no other could at the time, generational timeless album
when you said back in the day referring to demon days my age caught up to me immediately
I had the CD as a child and would play it over and over on a little CD player and only found out literally last year that the late, great, MF DOOM was on it, and it feelt like my childhood got a little bit better.
Really appreciating these well researched classic reviews. They're different from the kind of contextual information you include in regular reviews and it's well warranted. Great work!❤
Best classics week ever, not close
I’m 2001 baby and this is the only cd my parents could afford in our 1999 Toyota Camry and I can honestly say this shaped my taste in music and introduced me to sounds I’ll never fully appreaciate to the fullest, I find myself in my early teens interested in doom thinking FUCK I love this and heard this before only to realise later to November has come being my taste into hip hop and so fourth, such a good record and love seeing how much effect this had on people even now, so different seeing how a record on people (being such a good record) but also in an era that you have to listen to the whole albumn on cd or vinyl, it’s fucked, it changed my life and I’m so happy you have re-reviewed this fantano, much love from Aus
A certified classic 👌I loved this era of Gorillaz
Demon Days is one of my favorite albums alongside Plastic Beach. I know its corny to say this, but those two albums really did help me thru one of the darkest times of my life, and find something better. Something about his music really resonates with me and feels personal to me. I think this album is truly an artistic masterpiece, even if it isn't everyones cup of tea. It cemeted their place in my top 5 favorite musicians.
My favourite album of all time. Huge gateway to discover diverse music genres, listening to Demon Days in my teens was a milestone. I know you like Plastic Beach a bit more, but I wouldn't be the same person without DD.
Been hoping for a review of this for a long time. Definitely one of my favorite albums of all time
This album is an absolute essential for vinyl collecting
First album I've owned, still my favorite album today. I got some nostalgia glasses on but goddamn was this such an unique experience. The blending on genres and the switchups it has are amazing and keep it feeling fresh. I still listen to it this day (:
man, I remember as a kid being scared by the music video for Feel Good Inc. Good times
I first listened to Demon Days aged 3, and was instantly hooked on the groovy-ness of it all. Many years later and I love it even more for its production quality, level of emotion and the messages it conveys. I feel that very few albums can be as timeless as Demon Days and entertain both a toddler and a grown adult in such a powerful way, which is why it's my favourite of all time!