Track breakdown of Gorillaz' album, by Murdoc!
We've got the Irish exclusive...
The Hot Press Newsdesk, 24 Nov 2011
Ahead of its Irish release tomorrow (Friday) Gorillaz man Murdoc has kindly done up an exclusive and detailed track-by-track breakdown of The Singles 2001 - 2011. Read on...
'Tomorrow Comes Today'
Murdoc Niccals: This is was where it all began; our opening intro and Gorillaz calling card. Year zero for Gorillaz , but it’s already all in there. You can hear it. The ‘Augustus Pablo’-esqe melodicas, subsonic dubby basslines, a beat-broken drum line, and some knackered monks chanting ominously in the background.….over this 2D intones his sweet, sonorous vocal. It’s a ray of dark sunshine this one, West London in a jar.
It’s funny…if you look at the video for this – us racing through the nocturnal imagery of London – we focused in on a little piece of graffiti by a then unknown artist called Banksy. It was a spray painted image we found daubed on a wall, a bit of graffiti of a monkey wearing the statement “Laugh Now But One Day We’ll Be In Charge”, as a kind of placard-cum-apron. I thought it was a good piece of imagery to stick in. Kind of summed up how I felt about our band. I think we almost got sued for using it though. Which I thought was a bit rich…, y’know…you will go and leave your, er…‘art’ lying round in public. Anyway, it rung true didn’t it. Well. For us it did. Don’t know what happened to him after that….he kind of disappeared off the map.
Sorry, where was I? Right, this song is sort of about the idea that…. you think you’ll ignore tomorrow and have your fun today. Take it all up front, y’know? Which sounds like a great idea until you realize that you’re writing off today by taking tomorrow now. “I’ll pay with tomorrow….”? Yeah? It’s kinda deep….Anyway. That was our first single and a fantastic introduction, if I do say so myself.
Right, NEXT!
'Clint Eastwood'
M: Four cymbal smashes that changed the world! Wow! This was the big one really. The song that changed the WHOLE game for us. It’s like Godzilla this one. Just kind of stomped its way out the speakers and smashed its way right across the world, ripping up cities and eating them whole.
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