I know a lot of people consider Demon Days to be Gorillaz' peak but for me it's easily Plastic Beach. All the features on this album are insane: Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Little Dragon, Lou Reed, etc. "Empire Ants" is one of my favorite songs of all time
Agreed. It might just be which album came out when you were most impressionable. I was 18 when this came out and is the gold standard for albums to me.
I really don't see what's so special about it. 'But, maybe that's because I've been listening to electronic music since the mid 90s and have been listening to allot more "detailed" tracks with lots of elements in them. Gorillaz' music still sounds like it was made in the late 90s, but maybe that's what they are going for, with analogue synth sound
14:13 and that ladies and gents is when Dad first heard Little Dragon... ahhhh I wish I could go back and hear her angelic vocals match a synth for the first time!! 'Ritual Union' so damn good, and their 'New Me, Same Us' 2020 album is a BANGER project
Every album of little dragon has at least 2 or 3 incredible songs. Definitely worth digging into. The last 3 songs on machine dreams are some of my favorite
Blinking pigs, come home, fortune, ritual union, crystalfim, twice, no love, constant surprises, place to belong, scribble paper, klapp klapp, and a lot of the new album are songs that stood out to me at a look through. Enjoy
There weren’t too many albums that I would just listen to like every song on repeat when I was younger like this one. Broken, On Melancholy Hill, Empire Ants, Superfast Jellyfish, To Binge, Rhinestone Eyes and White Flag I would play in middle school just over and over and over
i saw gorillaz live back in august. out of all the setlist rhinestone eyes , on melancholy hill and empire ants got the best crowd response. crowd was pretty lit the whole show tho. one of the best concert experiences i’ve ever had.
Man this album just IMPRESSES they really went for a 10/10 with this one. Empire Antz just makes me ascend. Also your dad smiling at every amazing synth made me so happy
Albarn’s opus and a conceptual masterwork. The subject matter, the crafting of the world, the production. Superfast into Empire is a stroke of absolute genius. The hopelessness of the subject matter, while you’re caressed by the beauty of the sound invokes the exact feeling it’s aiming to produce via the words and turns it into a feeling. Unapologetically pulls you into acknowledging the reality of the world. Album is incredibly cinematic too, so easy to picture the Gorillaz washing up on plastic beach, defeated and withdrawn. Making use of the technology of the island to create songs to express those feelings. Rhinestone, Superfast, Empire, Melancholy Hill, Nature, Sweepstakes. The conceptual through-line of this album is almost unparalleled.
I highly recommend checking out the live version of broken from the plastic beach tour, the brass adds an entire layer to the song and moves me to tears every time. I wish they had included it in the actual song!
God, I love Gorillaz so much. I was at their London gig and managed to get right at the front, and during Tranz, Damon climbed onto the railing right in front of me and kept holding my hand during the song.
Ever since you guys covered Demon Days, I've been anticipating to see this one. Revisited Plastic Beach at the start of the summer, hit me in a totally different way to when it did years ago. Seriously, going from White Flag to Empire Ants alone is one of the best tracklists of all time.
For anyone wondering if the Patreon is worth it, this video uncut is 2.5 hours. It's really awesome to listen to the songs in full and hear more random discussion between these two.
Plastic Beach is one album I've listened to countless times and it never gets old. I've been listening to it endlessly for the past 10+ years and I'll continue listening to it. I hear something new with every listen.
There are so many great tracks on this album that it is hard for me to choose a favorite, but I always come back to Cloud of Unknowing for some reason. The mood of the song hits me in just the right way. It feels especially ethereal and mysterious after Bobby's passing, much in the same way that Black Star does to me.
Yes the instruments in the background are just perfectly placed and leave room for Bobby's amazing voice while also evoking the right emotion at the right time
I love this album soooo much! I was lucky enough to go to a festival this summer and gorillaz was playing. I got to dance a little with Damon one of the many times he went into the crowd. Love that man
My memory with Empire Ants is last year spring break in Palm Springs, the sun was setting behind the mountain, I was in the pool, some random guys were playing this and it felt surreal
I wish I could get the same reaction to Gorillaz out of my family and friends as you do with your dad. I’m a huge music lover, but this band has a very special place in my heart.
That's not a bongo, it's a "Derbake" or Darbuka. I think it's the Syrian or Lebanese Orchestra that recorded the album with Damon Albarn. Watching Gorillaz in Byblos, Lebanon, was one of the highlights of my life.
I love the whole album, but Melancholy Hill has a special place in my heart. When I was in elementary school, I had to sleep out in our living room for months. I liked to sleep with the TV on, but living in Florida you'd get a ton of ads for retirement facilities and luxury resort hotels, especially at night when the adults were awake and kids asleep. For so many of those nights, there was a commercial for beach resort that used Melancholy Hill as a backing track. Dozing off to that song matched with the visuals of a serine beach with the feeling that it's a weekend night sparks some neuron patterns in my brain that just makes me feel so cozy. It's probably my favorite song of all time.
Would love to see yous dive into more british grime. Dave specifically would be crazy good. Especially to how i met my ex, i could see ur dad loving that
Plastic Beach is easily my favorite Gorillaz album, fell in love with it in high scholl when my best friend showed me Empire Ants. Also, I am here once again to ask you guys to listen to The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails, it would be so cool
i loved this, seeing ur dad react to this album for the first time made me so happy. wish i can listen to the entirety of this album for the first time. you guys should listen to julian casablancas’ the voidz tyranny album next.
Your videos have always popped up on my page and this was the first one i knew I had to actually watch this was and is still my favorite album the amount of times I revisit it to get me out of a funk is insane will definitely start watching a lot more
I remember listening to welcome to the world of plastic beach, but for some reason i didn't listen to the whole album, and let me tell you as an arabe if say to Arabs themselfs that someone tried to mix Arabe orchestral music with rap/hip-hop they will laugh at the idea some will call it absurd but there you have it gorillaz doing what they do best always experimenting with sounds and making such wonders.
The gorillas are just so cool! It’s crazy how they can make such interesting and beautiful music really though Empire ants was incredible and rhinestone eyes was really cool to that one’s popular
Bruh, I feel like I should've expected it after Demon Days but this still shocked me. I love Plastic Beach and I hope you guys continue with more Gorillaz, prob my fav band.
When he said the synth line in Rhinestone Eyes gave him a boner, a very slow Grinch-like grin crept across my face knowing that Empire Ants was 3 tracks away
Love this album review and would love to hear more of your thoughts on 80s themed synthpop, Gunship are an amazing example of a band for being modern but giving you that feeling of the 80s! 😊
Yall should react to yall favorite track the art is absolutely amazing that's what makes gorillaz amazing the visuals go with the music like peanut butter and jelly
The top 3 favorite albums i own are queens of the stone age: songs for the deaf, hidria spacefolk: symbiosis and this one, plastic beach. Definitely give hidria spacefolk: symbiosis a listen though, its one of life's most underrated masterpieces. The percussion, the synths... its nuts
I remember reading that Bobby went so hard on his part in Stylo that he basically passed out and when he came to the first thing he saw was Damon offering him a banana. RIP Bobby Womack
Empire Ants is seriously one of the best songs ever made
Easily
Always
YES
You're wrong.
It IS the best song ever made.
my favorite song of all time
ngl, i get high and just jam out to music with u and ur dad all the time
Literally what im doing rn
@@letsgobaby4757 human solidarity🤞🏼
group sesh with the boys
Haha that’s me right now…I went straight to Rhinestone eyes to see his reaction. Love these guys
Sameee
I know a lot of people consider Demon Days to be Gorillaz' peak but for me it's easily Plastic Beach. All the features on this album are insane: Snoop Dogg, Mos Def, Little Dragon, Lou Reed, etc. "Empire Ants" is one of my favorite songs of all time
Agreed. It might just be which album came out when you were most impressionable. I was 18 when this came out and is the gold standard for albums to me.
Demon days will always be their prime. So many better features especially MF DOOM
its more fun but demon days was definitively the best album of that decade
I’m very split on demon days vs plastic beach they’re both so good
I really don't see what's so special about it. 'But, maybe that's because I've been listening to electronic music since the mid 90s and have been listening to allot more "detailed" tracks with lots of elements in them. Gorillaz' music still sounds like it was made in the late 90s, but maybe that's what they are going for, with analogue synth sound
14:13 and that ladies and gents is when Dad first heard Little Dragon... ahhhh I wish I could go back and hear her angelic vocals match a synth for the first time!! 'Ritual Union' so damn good, and their 'New Me, Same Us' 2020 album is a BANGER project
Every album of little dragon has at least 2 or 3 incredible songs. Definitely worth digging into. The last 3 songs on machine dreams are some of my favorite
I wanna start getting into Little Dragon, where should I start?
Blinking pigs, come home, fortune, ritual union, crystalfim, twice, no love, constant surprises, place to belong, scribble paper, klapp klapp, and a lot of the new album are songs that stood out to me at a look through.
Enjoy
Oh and cat rider
Was SBTRKT for me.
Great album although would be better with the inclusion of "Fire coming out of the monkeys ass"
my favorite song
I loved the NAV and Tones and I features!
@@zacharywoloszynski4258 wait, where do they feature?
It was a joke, he said a fake song so I included some fake features
@@suorfrio7321 Stylo
I have to say, Plastic Beach is the best album Gorillaz have ever made.
It's the best album anyone's ever made
@@jensmartin3266 lets not go crazy, its in the top 100 albums of all time
There's this thing called opinions...
@@jensmartin3266 and its crazy that you managed to say a wrong one
Demon Days is better
There weren’t too many albums that I would just listen to like every song on repeat when I was younger like this one. Broken, On Melancholy Hill, Empire Ants, Superfast Jellyfish, To Binge, Rhinestone Eyes and White Flag I would play in middle school just over and over and over
As snoop once said “welcome to the world of the plastic beach”
Iconic song and album
i saw gorillaz live back in august. out of all the setlist rhinestone eyes , on melancholy hill and empire ants got the best crowd response. crowd was pretty lit the whole show tho. one of the best concert experiences i’ve ever had.
Man this album just IMPRESSES they really went for a 10/10 with this one. Empire Antz just makes me ascend.
Also your dad smiling at every amazing synth made me so happy
This album is so great, Empire Ants is def my #1 gorillaz song. Great video!
Albarn’s opus and a conceptual masterwork. The subject matter, the crafting of the world, the production. Superfast into Empire is a stroke of absolute genius. The hopelessness of the subject matter, while you’re caressed by the beauty of the sound invokes the exact feeling it’s aiming to produce via the words and turns it into a feeling. Unapologetically pulls you into acknowledging the reality of the world.
Album is incredibly cinematic too, so easy to picture the Gorillaz washing up on plastic beach, defeated and withdrawn. Making use of the technology of the island to create songs to express those feelings. Rhinestone, Superfast, Empire, Melancholy Hill, Nature, Sweepstakes. The conceptual through-line of this album is almost unparalleled.
Love this comment ❤️
Empire Ants and Broken are top Gorillaz song that along with all of the whole album, makes Plastic Beach, one of their best works to date. Soo iconic.
I highly recommend checking out the live version of broken from the plastic beach tour, the brass adds an entire layer to the song and moves me to tears every time. I wish they had included it in the actual song!
God, I love Gorillaz so much. I was at their London gig and managed to get right at the front, and during Tranz, Damon climbed onto the railing right in front of me and kept holding my hand during the song.
Ever since you guys covered Demon Days, I've been anticipating to see this one. Revisited Plastic Beach at the start of the summer, hit me in a totally different way to when it did years ago. Seriously, going from White Flag to Empire Ants alone is one of the best tracklists of all time.
I do really hope we see the rest of Gorillaz's discography on the channel! Keep it up 👍
Seeing rhinestone eyes live is probably one of my favourite live performances i've ever experienced
For anyone wondering if the Patreon is worth it, this video uncut is 2.5 hours. It's really awesome to listen to the songs in full and hear more random discussion between these two.
Excited for this one. My personal favorite Gorillaz album!
Some kind of nature is such a fun weird little song. Lou reed nailed it
empire ants and some kinda of nature some songs of all time.
Also the bass on these songs are so good, empire ants one of my favorite songs to play on bass.
Plastic Beach is one album I've listened to countless times and it never gets old. I've been listening to it endlessly for the past 10+ years and I'll continue listening to it. I hear something new with every listen.
There are so many great tracks on this album that it is hard for me to choose a favorite, but I always come back to Cloud of Unknowing for some reason. The mood of the song hits me in just the right way. It feels especially ethereal and mysterious after Bobby's passing, much in the same way that Black Star does to me.
Yes the instruments in the background are just perfectly placed and leave room for Bobby's amazing voice while also evoking the right emotion at the right time
My favorite album of all time. Absolutely legendary vivid music
I love Plastic Beach, the album and the SONG
This is my favorite Gorillaz album, thank you for this
i wish i could listen to plastic beach for the first time again, really cool to see someone experience it with fresh eyes
Groups like Gorillaz, and Daft Punk will be things your dad is listening to even when he's by himself, they just groove
I really miss this Gorillaz, for sure
oh to go back and hear all these songs for the first time again
Omg you guys, thank you so much this is a great reaction
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Omg what the friggin heck are you doing in my car
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I love this album soooo much! I was lucky enough to go to a festival this summer and gorillaz was playing. I got to dance a little with Damon one of the many times he went into the crowd. Love that man
Gorillaz is that thing that no matter how many years go by, the level never drops. Damon Albarn is such a creative dude.
You should show your dad the Broken "Live visual 2010" that is live music the orchestra in that is unbelievably good
Melancholy Hill is so ‘The Good, The Bad and The Queen’ in tone, seriously guys, that band is Damon’s hidden gem.
My memory with Empire Ants is last year spring break in Palm Springs, the sun was setting behind the mountain, I was in the pool, some random guys were playing this and it felt surreal
I wish I could get the same reaction to Gorillaz out of my family and friends as you do with your dad. I’m a huge music lover, but this band has a very special place in my heart.
That's not a bongo, it's a "Derbake" or Darbuka. I think it's the Syrian or Lebanese Orchestra that recorded the album with Damon Albarn. Watching Gorillaz in Byblos, Lebanon, was one of the highlights of my life.
Oh, and having Paul Simonon from The Clash on bass live in front of us was crazy too.
You really have to do all the Daft Punk albums leading up to Alive 2007. ...Homework,Discovery,Human After All, Alive 2007. It's a no-brainer
Rhinestone Eyes is a top 5 Gorillaz song all time imo.
Rarely gets the credit it deserves.
every time he says something about doing whatever with his mother seems like a friend joke but later i remember he is his dad 😭😭
I love the whole album, but Melancholy Hill has a special place in my heart. When I was in elementary school, I had to sleep out in our living room for months. I liked to sleep with the TV on, but living in Florida you'd get a ton of ads for retirement facilities and luxury resort hotels, especially at night when the adults were awake and kids asleep. For so many of those nights, there was a commercial for beach resort that used Melancholy Hill as a backing track.
Dozing off to that song matched with the visuals of a serine beach with the feeling that it's a weekend night sparks some neuron patterns in my brain that just makes me feel so cozy. It's probably my favorite song of all time.
On Melancholy Hill is my favorite track off this album. Great video, can’t wait for the next Gorillaz album you guys listen to.
Your dad has to hear hellfire by black midi. Challenging but you have the vinyl....it would be so cool !
Would love to see yous dive into more british grime. Dave specifically would be crazy good. Especially to how i met my ex, i could see ur dad loving that
I really want them to react to Psychodrama, I think they'd both be blown away
Saw Gorillaz in Melbourne in july and it was honestly the best fucking concert ive been too
I was so excited to see you guys do this album
Pirate Jet to me is the happy ending to the album, it feels so triumphant!
Y’all have to keep doing Gorillaz, this was one of my fav vids by you guys and it seemed really fun to make too!
Saw them live twice in Australia in July. Two of the greatest moments of my life with a life affirming experience
21:26 we all felt like that in our first real listen
This album blew my mind. That snoop intro was the cherry on top of a masterpiece
Never realized how much glitter freeze like muse uprising
Pls react to Blur 13!!!!! It's so good
Man, I love your dad
Still my all time favourite album that wasn’t made by a certain band from Liverpool. It’s genuinely perfect from start to finish
this is my "Perfect" album, should have him react to Cracker Island when it comes out in February
I agree this album is beautiful! Song Machine then Cracker Island :)
Please do another album! This is great to see someone so excited to jump into the Gorillaz!
Can I maybe look forward to seeing an Arcade Fire Funeral reaction in the future???
Empire Ant's could be my favorite song of all time.
I love watching videos with your dad about gorillaz
You should check out Little Dragon. They're great!
Like your dads energy he’s really passionate about music I am to enjoy this cuz I felt like this when I listen to plastic beach
Plastic Beach is easily my favorite Gorillaz album, fell in love with it in high scholl when my best friend showed me Empire Ants. Also, I am here once again to ask you guys to listen to The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails, it would be so cool
is it possible to react to eminem's first 3 albums ? would be a great video and total change in genres of what your dad is used to
Some Kind of Nature with Lou Reed always get me.. There is something that really resonnates with me. I love this album !
i love that album so much
i loved this, seeing ur dad react to this album for the first time made me so happy. wish i can listen to the entirety of this album for the first time. you guys should listen to julian casablancas’ the voidz tyranny album next.
Rhinestone eyes is one of the best fifa 11 songs
He’d love midnight vultures by beck. It’s not my favorite Beck but it’s certainly the one I’d love to see a reaction to the most
lmao I'm pretty sure I was in the Arctic Monkeys crowd that Kevin was talking about at the end of Rhinestone Eyes
Your videos have always popped up on my page and this was the first one i knew I had to actually watch this was and is still my favorite album the amount of times I revisit it to get me out of a funk is insane will definitely start watching a lot more
So glad he loved it! Humanz next please.
I remember listening to welcome to the world of plastic beach, but for some reason i didn't listen to the whole album, and let me tell you as an arabe if say to Arabs themselfs that someone tried to mix Arabe orchestral music with rap/hip-hop they will laugh at the idea some will call it absurd but there you have it gorillaz doing what they do best always experimenting with sounds and making such wonders.
The gorillas are just so cool! It’s crazy how they can make such interesting and beautiful music really though Empire ants was incredible and rhinestone eyes was really cool to that one’s popular
Great vid and reaction. One of my favorites. Are we going to see any Cage the Elephant at all?
Bruh, I feel like I should've expected it after Demon Days but this still shocked me. I love Plastic Beach and I hope you guys continue with more Gorillaz, prob my fav band.
Oh man I was hoping to see this after demon days!!! Can't wait for a banger video 😈
Unexpected but most welcome lol one of my favourite albums growing up.
When he said the synth line in Rhinestone Eyes gave him a boner, a very slow Grinch-like grin crept across my face knowing that Empire Ants was 3 tracks away
lol... Empire Ants gave me the most incredible shivers at the concert.. Thankfully no synth boners :)
Love this album review and would love to hear more of your thoughts on 80s themed synthpop, Gunship are an amazing example of a band for being modern but giving you that feeling of the 80s! 😊
I would love to see you guys react to An Awesome Wave by Alt-J. It’s one of the greatest works of art I’ve ever experienced
You gotta do LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening...
Yoooo I see Hellfire on the wall back there, are we getting a video on it? Nothing would make me more stoked!
Aight, now have your pops listen to some of Talk Talk's stuff like "Colour of Spring" and "Spirit of Eden".
Stylo is the greatest song of all time and there is no argument
😭😭😭 I can’t find Humanz, Now Now, or Song Machine in your library! 💔
This album is sooooo good
I feel like Kevin would love song machine
Yall should react to yall favorite track the art is absolutely amazing that's what makes gorillaz amazing the visuals go with the music like peanut butter and jelly
the way superfast jellyfish flows into empire ants is class
You paused at the SuperFast Jelly Fish/Empire Ants transition 😭😭😭
Saw Gorillaz in London two weeks ago, they were unreal
you gotta do is this it by the strokes with how much your dad like the new abnormal
Damn you guys went to work tapping your knees in this vid lol.
Please do big thief dragon new warm mountain or helplessness blues fleet foxes next
9:44
'OOOOOOOAAAAOOHHHHHHHHHH'
'HOLY MAN!'
I love the On Melancholly Hill song is my favorite, but I also enjoy To Binge a lot; I still like very much all the album
The top 3 favorite albums i own are queens of the stone age: songs for the deaf, hidria spacefolk: symbiosis and this one, plastic beach.
Definitely give hidria spacefolk: symbiosis a listen though, its one of life's most underrated masterpieces. The percussion, the synths... its nuts
I remember reading that Bobby went so hard on his part in Stylo that he basically passed out and when he came to the first thing he saw was Damon offering him a banana.
RIP Bobby Womack
Damon tells him afterwards: you’re my hero man
Bobby: then dont kill your hero!
The Gorillaz name makes a lot more sense now
I’ve been a hardcore fan for a while and I never knew this but I’m so happy I do now that’s hilarious lmao
Yeah I heard that story too. They didn’t know Womack was diabetic.
I find it so funny that of all things, he's giving him a banana lol