I’m getting out of show business now, as you may have heard. Oh no, you can’t: it’s 2011 and the music industry’s on the skids. We sold nearly 12 million Clint Eastwood singles JUST IN THE UK! Imagine that. My be wrong because I was quite monged when we laid this down, just to get into the vibe…īut yeah, Clint Eastwood, this is where things really kicked off for Gorillaz.
Great video! And I think the scratching’s done by Kid Koala. Zombie apes, undead rappers, Noodle’s fung-ku kick,…some horrific hand shoots out of the ground at one point and grabs me right by my plums. Del just busts out of Russel and lays down this whole rubbery rap over the dub. You see him in the video, ( again one of the best 4 minutes of celluloid you’re ever likely to see, by the way). He was the spirit of our drummer Russel’s dead friend, who ended up kind of possessing Russel…um…don’t ask. This was the first track we released that featured Del, the Ghost Rapper, a part of our original crew. Just kind of stomped its way out the speakers and smashed its way right across the world, ripping up cities and eating them whole. The song that changed the WHOLE game for us. M: Four cymbal smashes that changed the world! Wow! This was the big one really. That was our first single and a fantastic introduction, if I do say so myself. “I’ll pay with tomorrow….”? Yeah? It’s kinda deep….Anyway. 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. you think you’ll ignore tomorrow and have your fun today. Sorry, where was I? Right, this song is sort of about the idea that…. Don’t know what happened to him after that….he kind of disappeared off the map. Which I thought was a bit rich…, y’know…you will go and leave your, er…‘art’ lying round in public. I think we almost got sued for using it though. Kind of summed up how I felt about our band. I thought it was a good piece of imagery to stick in. 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. 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’s a ray of dark sunshine this one, West London in a jar. 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. Year zero for Gorillaz, but it’s already all in there. Murdoc Niccals: This is was where it all began our opening intro and Gorillaz calling card. 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.
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