Damon Albarn is one of the greatest musicisans in our time. Every Project he starts is just pure art. Gorillaz, Rocket Juice & the moon, of course blur, the good, the bad & the queen, solo... this dude is just incredible
@10:29, As introduced by Jason Bentley, Metropolis, Takes me back, great memories. And @ 13:10, 'KCRW, Metropolis,'...So good!!! Afterwards, I headed to Amoeba Records in Hollywood to buy the CD. Still have it to the day, 2023.
Up late listening to this, dreaming of new dreams, when every day is new chance to chase a new tomorrow, with all the worries that can block the mind of free thought, can let go, at least for just tonight.
I still come back to this #13:29...My Time Machine...Great Music can transport us to those times and you feel that presence of time that never aged...Man!!!
Good point; it's because of the importance of Paul Simonon as the ideal example of the punk rocker. He's the real deal. I think Damon likes working with the bassist from The Clash. Good on him for that.
robbiek77 There Are Too Many Of Us was a pretty good track. Didn't feel like Blur as much as the other songs but it was pretty good. I preferred My Terracotta Heart over that one. Both songs were great, but There Are Too Many Of Us seems more like a song that is about thinking deeply about things than a song about feeling melancholy.
Damon Albarn.. solo cuando pude ver a este señoron en el CC14 en el D.F supe la magnitud y lo polifacético que es, más versátil que Noel o Liam de Oasis para mí
I bought this LP because Tony Allen is on it and come to find that he doesn't really have so big a presence on this album (he's not even on several tracks). Even the tracks without TA are great in my book though... Really thoughtful, soulful music all around and a truly great LP start to finish.
Okay, obviously it's full of the clash and blur... But it's also something magical and unique in its own right... A pint glass of Thames water, dancey, haunting, and swirling with history, personal recollection and a profound sense of future disappointment and loss.. an instant classic that just gets better with age...
Throughout the years this is one of the finest works of art. I like all Damon's various projects. Blur's return with that Japanese stuff was awesome. Every album Blur did was superb, the Oasis thing was a sensationlised story that turned out to unfairly affect the perception of Blur. It wasn't a war which Oasis won. They were different, from seperate artistic and social backgrounds. Some of it must've been tiresome for Graham, Alex, Damon, & that drummer on the laptop. Constant promting about a group of working class northern lads that made it big and upped sticks for the big smoke almost immediately. The public were force fed this rubbish about Oasis winning the war. Quite frankly, how is art, war? When Damon's Gorillaz did that ditty with Noel recently it was an epic, euphoric, & seminal moment. Imagine if it'd happened 20 years ago. I don’t think the bands would’ve been worse off. The brothers have been atypical of this in the past, council estate, ‘spit on our rivals’ spirit about them mellowed now This is the finest piece of work Damon’s ever produced and that is saying something considering his remarkable back catalogue. The instrumentation, atmosphere and lyrical genie are a perfect storm! The name of the band is so downright British, Morrissey would disagree but hey this is all about the musicianship on this particular record. And I reiterate that is a perfect storm, title, artwork, vocals, lyrics, I could go on forever listing attributes, I’ll just leave you to listen up!
Echo Lokkas' comments. Simply sublime in places. Still has the decency to play many of these live. You couldn't normally afford to leave these out, but this is Damon Albarn, after all.
Man, when I heard this album back in the day, and Paul comes in on the first song, it blew my friggin balls off. It was so booming and exactly what I need
Oh man, I have been waiting for this upload since 2 years ago....YES!! 2 years ago. Thank you mate. I hope I can buy the cd in Mexico but it´s kind of impossible. I will end up paying more than the cost of the cd due to taxes^^
Had never heard of this album until about 20 minutes ago after doing a bit of random Damon albarn stalking lol was never really a fan but this music is 🔥🔥🔥 respect!
while Noel Gallagher was trying to remake the Magical Mystery Tour, and Thom Yorke was busy making Can with calculators, Damon Albarn snuck onto the throne of greatest British songwriter alive.
Not to belittle any of them. I love Oasis and Radiohead, some of their stuff I like more than Blur's even, but as songwriters on their own, I think Albarn achieves that originality that Noel sometimes lacks, while avoiding a sameness that Yorke is very often guilty of.
Well, I certainly can't agree with that. In fact, I can't think of ANY UK album except maybe The Bends that has topped Parklife. That is a pop masterpiece worthy of XTC, and (after The Bends) probably the best British album since the 80s.
Also try 'Rocket juice and the moon', which is another band of Damons - well it is the same band as Good Bad Queen but with Flea (from the red hot chillies) on bass instead of Paul Simonon. It was released in 2012 but had very little radio play or media coverage. It is great though - Damon is a great song writer.
I'm so stupid. I know blur and Damon already a long time but I never listened to The Good The Bad And The Queen. Big mistake! They're so fucking good :0
I love the stylings of this album, but it's too short! I could've easily listened to History Song, Nature Springs, Three Changes, and the Good the Bad and the Queen for longer.
Surprised no-one is mentioning Danger Mouse's work on this, which I considder just as vital as what Dan the Automator meant for the first Gorillaz record. Damon is an absolute genious, but part of his genious -which is akin in the way mr. David Bowie made his art- is to gather the creme de la creme together in a way that actually works. Surely one of the best records of the noughties.
I've read comments that said this gives like an english feeling, idk but for me it gives me a western feeling (maybe because of the name) Also: The good, T H E B A T H and The Queen
![The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Stories from England [B-Sides Collection]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4mZyzVYsjXM/mqdefault.jpg)
Damon Albarn is one of the greatest musicisans in our time. Every Project he starts is just pure art. Gorillaz, Rocket Juice & the moon, of course blur, the good, the bad & the queen, solo... this dude is just incredible
that's when you know that someone has passion for what he does... passion for music. Mr. Albarn has it.
Never heard of rocket juice and i started listening to blur in 96. This makes me happy.
A genious of our times
@10:29, As introduced by Jason Bentley, Metropolis, Takes me back, great memories. And @ 13:10, 'KCRW, Metropolis,'...So good!!! Afterwards, I headed to Amoeba Records in Hollywood to buy the CD. Still have it to the day, 2023.
I was introduced to Tony Allen´s music thanks to this album. What a genius...
R.I.P to a low-key legend
One of the most underrated album in the history of music
👍 agreed
yeh
Beautiful album...
Up late listening to this, dreaming of new dreams, when every day is new chance to chase a new tomorrow, with all the worries that can block the mind of free thought, can let go, at least for just tonight.
reggae-y basses, afrobeat minimalistic beats, gorillazy guitars, and chill melodies.
nice.
Nelson Fundamento finally, a fundamented youtube comment!
I would've said Gorillaz-y synths more than guitars.
Ill be the 100th like, thank you very much. Also this is just as much danger mouse's sound as anybody's.
WHY can't all art be as good as this? Thank you for sharing this masterpiece!
this album never ever gets old. still can't get enough of it.
truly
Same thing here
One of my favourite albums of all time, Soldier’s Tale a standout IMO. I let Paul’s bass knock my pictures off the wall.
Soldiers Tale has some of the most beautiful lyrics iv ever heard
I just love how heavy the bass is on some of these otherwise tranquil songs
One of my favourite albums EVER!! I can't get enough of this wonderful album.
Green Fields is pure gold, unbelievable, it takes me to another world
We don't deserve Damon. He's too good for us.
Tom Charlesworth he is , he is indeed
Tom Charlesworth we need him
I think ive been listening to gorillaz since i was like 4 or 5,blur too,my dad told me about it, but damon made it,who's the hero here?
Theres no one here called tom charelsworth,soooo,?
Link is a man of culture, I see
I still come back to this #13:29...My Time Machine...Great Music can transport us to those times and you feel that presence of time that never aged...Man!!!
I just love how unnecessarily loud the bass is on some of these songs
Gotta make sure Paul Simonon earns that paycheque.
Good point; it's because of the importance of Paul Simonon as the ideal example of the punk rocker. He's the real deal. I think Damon likes working with the bassist from The Clash. Good on him for that.
What do you mean "unnecessarily"?
When you have the bassist from The Clash, you give him the volume he deserves!!!
Paul Simonon is everything world needs
This very last track is something else. It's haunting .
This is one of my most amazing discoveries.
This is my absolute favorite album of all time.
I love every track so much. I listen to the entire album almost every day...
+Watchman5 same daily listening :)
robbiek77
i love anything Damon Albarn! ;)
robbiek77
hmm u and me think alike :)
robbiek77 There Are Too Many Of Us was a pretty good track. Didn't feel like Blur as much as the other songs but it was pretty good. I preferred My Terracotta Heart over that one. Both songs were great, but There Are Too Many Of Us seems more like a song that is about thinking deeply about things than a song about feeling melancholy.
Love the eery violins, magic guitars, Damon's wonderful voice and the overall splendure of this album!
Damon is an artistic blessing
One of the best albums this century!
13:11 definitely the best, i've really grown to love all of damons work over the years
Rest In Peace Tony Allen
You know Damon, we've got to give you credit as a musician. You've been making some great stuff.
The drum of Herculean is really amazing. This song too! And the voice of Damon is great and peaceful
The best Albarn realese, one of the most important albums of my life
Damon Albarn.. solo cuando pude ver a este señoron en el CC14 en el D.F supe la magnitud y lo polifacético que es, más versátil que Noel o Liam de Oasis para mí
tome su like buen hombre
Wow. Mismo.
hasta la comparacion es un insulto no le llegan a la entrada de manchester
Correcto
Would love to see another album from these guys. Still one of my favorites of the last decade.
heard a new album will be coming soon and its being produced by the guy who produced most of David Bowies albums. going to be sick
The new The Good The Bad and The Queen album will be released in november. It's going to be called Merrie Land!
They just released a new single, and they're gonna drop a new album in November 16th!
one of the rare supergroups that worked
THIS ALBUM IS SOOOO GOOD I CAN'T OMG i'm melting in Damon's voice ://
+Karolina R. Same
hello, little me. cringe.
fuck
grahamkakerel HAHAHHAAAA
Caitlin HK do not laugh at me
one of my fave albums - heard it loads of times now.
thanks for uploading :)
I loved this album, I used to listen to it over and over. Northern Whale my favourite forever
Everyone listen to this one. ❤️
This is amazing, its like discovering Gorillaz all over again.
+Lewis Wright It basically is Gorillaz. It's Damon Albarn, Simon Tong, Paul Simonon and Danger Mouse who are all in Gorillaz.
I just imagine the new album will sound like this :3
TasteeTaco Nah, this album is kinda downtempo rock. Damon says the new album will be upbeat, kinda like Plastic Beach.
+Vin Ellis even better
TasteeTaco Personally I was hoping for something more melancholy like this or Demon Days :) Maybe the album after this one.
Started listening to this over and over, so many beautiful songs, thanks for the upload.
I bought this LP because Tony Allen is on it and come to find that he doesn't really have so big a presence on this album (he's not even on several tracks). Even the tracks without TA are great in my book though... Really thoughtful, soulful music all around and a truly great LP start to finish.
He's much more present on the follow-up, Merrie Land
Albarn and Danger Mouse are such a damn dream team. I hope they work together more in the future. Three Changes gave me chills.
one of the best albums in music history imho
This album still holds up after all these years. This was a huge inspiration for my own music.
Ladies and Gentleman's this is absolutely amazing
Thank you for all Damon
hppppppppppppppppppphjphhp
I only found this album like an hour ago and I'm in love with it already
Discazo. lo habre oido cientos de veces. Genial!
Blur, Gorillaz ou peu importe le nom, Damon est vraiment sublime. 27 ans que cela dure et ce n'est pas fini.
When after years come back and find the whole album and not a playlist...u undetstand that its a lot of time ago u finded this gem.
someone showed me this in 2007 and ive been looking for it since
Aww beautiful song i love 💕 you damon your voice wow 🎹
This is an insanely awesome album, another vynil/CD album to find!
This is essentially a Gorillaz album. Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Simon Tong, Danger Mouse, and Tony Allen have all been in Gorillaz.
New album incoming!!! Im so fucking excited
YEAH
2016 HYPE
HYPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
you are so fucking excited because new album is incoming !!!
***** yep
Me, too!
Clandesta Jones where you guys heard that?
first time ive listened to this album all the way thru and it was great.
i wish there was more musical masterpieces like this whole album...
so many good memories with this album
This album gives me so much bliss and peace of mind
Okay, obviously it's full of the clash and blur... But it's also something magical and unique in its own right... A pint glass of Thames water, dancey, haunting, and swirling with history, personal recollection and a profound sense of future disappointment and loss.. an instant classic that just gets better with age...
chill out album...finally something great to listen to:)
Throughout the years this is one of the finest works of art. I like all Damon's various projects. Blur's return with that Japanese stuff was awesome. Every album Blur did was superb, the Oasis thing was a sensationlised story that turned out to unfairly affect the perception of Blur. It wasn't a war which Oasis won. They were different, from seperate artistic and social backgrounds. Some of it must've been tiresome for Graham, Alex, Damon, & that drummer on the laptop. Constant promting about a group of working class northern lads that made it big and upped sticks for the big smoke almost immediately. The public were force fed this rubbish about Oasis winning the war. Quite frankly, how is art, war? When Damon's Gorillaz did that ditty with Noel recently it was an epic, euphoric, & seminal moment. Imagine if it'd happened 20 years ago. I don’t think the bands would’ve been worse off. The brothers have been atypical of this in the past, council estate, ‘spit on our rivals’ spirit about them mellowed now This is the finest piece of work Damon’s ever produced and that is saying something considering his remarkable back catalogue. The instrumentation, atmosphere and lyrical genie are a perfect storm! The name of the band is so downright British, Morrissey would disagree but hey this is all about the musicianship on this particular record. And I reiterate that is a perfect storm, title, artwork, vocals, lyrics, I could go on forever listing attributes, I’ll just leave you to listen up!
Well said
jesus fucking christ all these guys are genius.
Noel could only dream of making a record with one one thousandth of the soul and beauty as this piece of wonder.
Out of this world brilliance.
Nice - enjoy anything with Damon singing
Dat bass
Echo Lokkas' comments. Simply sublime in places. Still has the decency to play many of these live. You couldn't normally afford to leave these out, but this is Damon Albarn, after all.
Man, when I heard this album back in the day, and Paul comes in on the first song, it blew my friggin balls off. It was so booming and exactly what I need
Oh man, I have been waiting for this upload since 2 years ago....YES!! 2 years ago. Thank you mate. I hope I can buy the cd in Mexico but it´s kind of impossible. I will end up paying more than the cost of the cd due to taxes^^
Such an amazing piece of music
Had never heard of this album until about 20 minutes ago after doing a bit of random Damon albarn stalking lol was never really a fan but this music is 🔥🔥🔥 respect!
The best album ever!!!!
Thanks Vinny. Can't believe I missed this :D
"This song is The Good, The Bad, [and] The Queen by The Good, The Bad, [and] The Queen off the album The Good, The Bad and The Queen."
This really makes me feel high
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH IM SO HAPPY
Some of my good memories for 2007, thanks for this great álbum.
while Noel Gallagher was trying to remake the Magical Mystery Tour, and Thom Yorke was busy making Can with calculators, Damon Albarn snuck onto the throne of greatest British songwriter alive.
i would say you can't really put one of that trio in the throne, but maybe they share it
Not to belittle any of them. I love Oasis and Radiohead, some of their stuff I like more than Blur's even, but as songwriters on their own, I think Albarn achieves that originality that Noel sometimes lacks, while avoiding a sameness that Yorke is very often guilty of.
And Richard Ashcroft's in that list too, btw. I just felt that should be acknowledged.
gdyectdt
That's one helluva throne
Honestly, this might be better than any Blur album since 1997.
Any Blur album at all, iMHO
Well, I certainly can't agree with that. In fact, I can't think of ANY UK album except maybe The Bends that has topped Parklife. That is a pop masterpiece worthy of XTC, and (after The Bends) probably the best British album since the 80s.
This really is Damon's best work. Bravo man, bravo
Also try 'Rocket juice and the moon', which is another band of Damons - well it is the same band as Good Bad Queen but with Flea (from the red hot chillies) on bass instead of Paul Simonon. It was released in 2012 but had very little radio play or media coverage. It is great though - Damon is a great song writer.
Honestly i kinda love your profile pic,nice choice my dude
suits being played in the evening or night ; definitely a chill-out album.
classic album!
I'm so stupid. I know blur and Damon already a long time but I never listened to The Good The Bad And The Queen. Big mistake! They're so fucking good :0
Thanks for the upload!
This is just amazing, I have no words......!
merci pour ce partage, j'adore.
+sandanouk p quien no, ya sabes?
thanks for sharin!
Si me fuera a una isla desierta y tuviese que llevar un disco, sería éste. Cada vez que lo escucho lo reafirmo🖤
why did i just figure out about this?
BROBOTTLE you just figured this out? Dude I'm three years later than you. 😂
and im three weeks later than you
Kneemo im 5 months later than you
why did I JUST figure out about this??
How did I just figure out about this? Oh yeah, the comment sections of the NOW NOW concert, bless em.
I love the stylings of this album, but it's too short! I could've easily listened to History Song, Nature Springs, Three Changes, and the Good the Bad and the Queen for longer.
That a good choice .
Thanks You Tube for share
Oh, and also Paul Simonon(bassist on Plastic Beach)
kinda postmodern Parklife. A masterpiece
Yah bro
Gracias Fede por compartir !
wow this is so good! love the floatiness !
RIP Tony Allen
this is an awesome album
This is good.
i love this album, fucking awesome tunes dude thanks for the upload!!
interesting music¡ Thanks for sharing with us¡¡¡
ta for the upload :3
this shit is so radical
Surprised no-one is mentioning Danger Mouse's work on this, which I considder just as vital as what Dan the Automator meant for the first Gorillaz record. Damon is an absolute genious, but part of his genious -which is akin in the way mr. David Bowie made his art- is to gather the creme de la creme together in a way that actually works. Surely one of the best records of the noughties.
Albarn's best group yet. Tony Allen was the best part.
He might be one of the best drummers of all time
Why is this so good? It's awesome!
I've read comments that said this gives like an english feeling, idk but for me it gives me a western feeling (maybe because of the name)
Also:
The good, T H E B A T H and The Queen
Damon must really like Clint Eastwood and his films.
It’s supposed to be about London, I initially thought it was about the war (I and II)