Gorillaz

Gorillaz is definitely one of my favorite bands ever. The sound is so unique cause it's a perfect mix of all genres. Kick ass singing and nice beats and keys. Also they brought in some great rappers to supply verses that were also different in deliverance and rhymes. It's just so hard to describe, you have to listen to it. In their songs they basically incorporate any instrument they can in a song and make it sound good. I love it cause its just so different. When you hear it, you know exactly who it is. And I love how they kept their identities secret for so long and as a kid I almost started to believe that the cartoons portrayed were real people.

The band consist of 4 virtual cartoon members 2D, Murdoc, Russell, and Noodle. You could even add in Del The Funky Homosapien because he was a honorable feature on tons of their songs so I feel he should be included. But the real members of this group are Damon Albarn (who is basically in charge of all the music) and Jamie Hewlett (in charge of the fictional characters, their story, and the technology used for them to perform live)

Recently Damon Albarn had revealed the real people behind Gorillaz and it was a lot of famous names. Famous names such as De La Soul, Ike Turner, Redman, D12, Snoop Dogg and more names were involved in this great music. What I don't like is how they decided to perform live with real people instead of the characters which somewhat ruined the factor that made Gorillaz a unique band. Although it's cool to give credit to the people working behind the faces, I liked that factor no one else ever had.

They toured live for a little while, but then they released Plastic Beach which reintroduced the characters we love and they even mentioned the live performing real Gorillaz as people who were copying them in a short film which was pretty fun. Now the album Plastic Beach was actually kind of dissapointing it was good to see them back.

Gorillaz most successfull album to date is Demon Days which features songs we love such as "Feel Good Inc." and more. Demon Days was nominated for 5 Grammys and won 1. It tells a story of how the band is on an island in the sky in a alternate virtual univers and the activities up on their until war breaks out on the island from Hades and planes shoot the island down until it is sinking down to hell where you think it is the end for Noodle (the guitarist) but she comes back to life to fuck shit up for Plastic Beach.

This is the famous Gorillaz song "Feel Good Inc."

This is my favorite Gorillaz song "Clint Eastwood" off of their first album

And just so you know how awesome and amazing it would be to see them live... Here is "Clint Eastwood" live.

And if that doesn't impress you then their performance at the Grammys with a VIRTUAL MADONNA might. Just ignore the Madonna part at the end when its just her cause that part sucks.