[HN Gopher] Making the video that made Gorillaz
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Making the video that made Gorillaz
Author : darekkay
Score : 113 points
Date : 2025-01-29 20:50 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| CodeCompost wrote:
| I know they were a hugely popular band, but I the only song I
| know is the one from the video.
| zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
| You're missing out! Gorillaz, Demon Days, and Plastic Beach are
| all great albums. Their other albums are ok. Blur is a great
| band too, pretty sure I like all of their albums.
|
| Also, if you like that rap verse, check out Del the Funky
| Homosapien/Deltron
| mars009 wrote:
| Yeah Gorillaz is my favorite band and this video was the
| beginning of the journey. Remember watching it and being
| blown away by the music and the video itself
| muziq wrote:
| Deltron 3030 is one of the most amazing things ever!
| 9283409232 wrote:
| Gorillaz are still massive and were Grammy nominated last year.
| seneca wrote:
| I think they're bigger in the UK. Super creative band, I wish
| they got more recognition, even though I don't really listen to
| them myself.
| lbotos wrote:
| Demon days 4 eva
|
| Gorillaz were an excellent exercise in reminding me as a youth
| that it was okay to build this sort of fantasy world and make it
| real. It was more than okay, it was _cool_.
|
| If anyone has the Japanese minidisc kids with guns and they wanna
| part with it https://www.discogs.com/release/16025872-Gorillaz-
| Kids-With-...
|
| my email is in my profile!
| chikenf00t wrote:
| I remember as a kid putting that cd in my computer and driving
| the car from the "19-2000" music video around. The physics were
| so mind-boggling to me at the time. I loved it. This article is
| bringing back those memories.
|
| Actually, I'm not sure if that demo/game came from the CD or from
| a promo website. It's been so long I don't remember.
| Lammy wrote:
| It was both. The game was called "Final Drive" or "GEEP
| Simulator" due to the name of the car and the original URL:
| http://web.archive.org/web/20011213230145/http://www.gorilla...
|
| Here's a widescreen ver:
| https://archive.org/details/final_drive
|
| It was a cool demo of the new-at-the-time 3D features in
| Macromedia Shockwave 8.5 (Director; _not_ Shockwave Flash)
| chikenf00t wrote:
| Woah... I can't even describe what it feels like seeing this
| again! Thank you!
| _gnad_ wrote:
| Gorillaz are timeless. My teenage kids love them
| morkalork wrote:
| I saw both Gorillaz and Offspring a couple months apart at the
| same arena venue and I want to say they're all in their 50s and
| the difference in audience was wild. Damon Albarn has been very
| successful at staying relevant to the younger crowd.
| Anon4Now wrote:
| I loved that song and never saw the video. I don't think a video
| made any band famous since the MTV era.
| hiccuphippo wrote:
| Was Ok Go's Here it goes again after the MTV era?
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| >I don't think a video made any band famous since the MTV era.
|
| Gangnam Style?
| tines wrote:
| Damon Albarn is a genius, plain and simple.
| wrfrmers wrote:
| >Guitar Hero 2 "Woman" Ad
|
| >The Beatles: Rock Band Trailer/Opening Movie
|
| >Motorcity
|
| >Tron: Uprising
|
| >Love, Death, and Robots: Ice
|
| I always forget if it was Candeland or the other guy who was
| prominent in early Gorillaz productions, but suffice it to say,
| those videos spawned quite the rad pedigree.
|
| EDIT: Forgot to add that, since this is a Gorillaz-related
| comment section, I'm obligated to state my personal esoteric
| theory that DD/PB/HZ constitute Albarn's attempt to reboot
| Dante's Divine Comedy. (Among all the other fantastic things
| those albums are.) (Think about it.)
| ultimoo wrote:
| Feel Good Inc.
| NKosmatos wrote:
| Ahh... nostalgia. Gorillaz, one of my favorite bands and listened
| to Gorillaz, Demon Days and Plastic Beach many times.
|
| "I'm useless, but not for long
|
| The future is coming on"
| ZeroGravitas wrote:
| Coincidentally Gorillaz just posted a new clip video to their
| YouTube titled Nostalgiaz:
|
| https://youtu.be/KQBlt1sfUhY?si=2WeBcrrQ1zDxZPi0
| zichy wrote:
| Three more facts about the song Clint Eastwood:
|
| 1. The drum beat is just the Rock 1 preset of the Suzuki
| Omnichord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDX6l9_58RA
|
| 2. Del tha Funkee Homosapien wrote the full lyrics in 30 minutes
| with the help of the book "How to Write a Hit Song":
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq2qSq6NpNY#t=373
|
| 3. The first version of the song didn't feature Del, but the
| British group Phi Life Cypher:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM-DK3b5yuo
| autoexec wrote:
| > The drum beat is just the Rock 1 preset of the Suzuki
| Omnichord
|
| I wonder if you need to pay royalties or get permission for
| that kind of thing... or is license to use it commercially
| included in the price of the instrument?
| Lammy wrote:
| Thanks for posting this. I 'member seeing this video originally
| on MTV at like 3AM. Instantly captivated. I'm a huge fan to this
| day, but there's something uniquely special about all the Phase 1
| stuff: the album, the B-sides (or "G" Sides lol), the explorable
| Flash Kong Studios site, the DVD, Jamie Hewlett's art+, the fact
| that the eponymous album as originally released is 55:55 (iykyk)
|
| There's also a track on Deltron 3030 (an album I liked a lot more
| when it was new than I do now) which I have tagged as "feat. 2-D"
| instead of "feat. Damon Albarn" because come on :p
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxd_eDTbBMQ
|
| It's also kinda funny that 2D's entire existence is just a stupid
| pun on Robert Del (lol) Naja a.k.a. "3D" (a.k.a. Banksy?) from
| Massive Attack, although the later Gorillaz albums strayed from
| the trip-hop thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unTP4rn0nc4
|
| And RIP Gorillaz-Unofficial
| https://web.archive.org/web/20071222221958/http://www.gorill...
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| + https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13ub5EfL6YHel5_Gn36v4...
|
| edit: and the art Jamie Hewlett is editing in the article's photo
| was part of the 19/2000 single:
| https://www.discogs.com/release/66714-Gorillaz-192000/image/...
| kennyadam wrote:
| What does 55:55 mean? I know ifkyk but idk and would like to k.
| nsbk wrote:
| Such cool videos. I listened to Gorillaz a lot when they first
| came out. Incidentally I've been listening to them lately as I'm
| learning to play the bass and the "Feel good inc." riff is super
| cool yet beginner friendly. By listening to it I got back into
| the band again
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