Gorillaz - Cracker Island (February 24, 2023) Album • Page 5

This is easily my favorite since Plastic Beach

 

Mc bin laden, huh. Not sure about that name...

 

Meet Brazil's MC Bin Laden, the "Crazy Ass Kid" Who Just Wants to Come to America

I was curious, so I Googled it, and apparently his first or one of his first singles translates to "Bin Laden Is Not Dead", which he said was meant as a joke, and the popularity of the song led his record label's owner to suggest the name MC Bin Laden, which stuck.

Honestly, I think instead of continuing to apply for visas and get rejected in the hopes that one day he'll get in, he should just change his name and stop being a dummy, but what do I know, I'm not a musician.

 

tomorrow

 

I have them already haha

 

If anyone wants the Google drive of them I can send it to you in a PM

The Del track is very weird

 

Hyped

 

Tier 1:
Demon Days
Plastic Beach
Song Machine

Tier 2:
Gorillaz
The Now Now
Cracker Island

Tier 3:
Humanz
The Fall

 

Swap Humanz and The Now Now and that’d be my ranking.

Humanz is an amazing 10 track album trapped in a 20 song track list.

 

Technically it's only 14 songs.

 

I don't think I could rank them yet. I'd need to put more distance on Cracker Island, but I definitely like it more as a whole than The Now Now

 

The front half, hell first 3 quarters, of Humanz contains some of their all time best

 

Humanz is great, it always has been. Andromeda, Busted and Blue, She's My Collar, The Apprentice and Ticker Tape are absolute Gorillaz classics

 

ah just relooked at the track list. I’m considering the bonus tracks as part of it.

 

Honestly, most Gorillaz albums take time to grow on me.

I only mildly enjoyed Plastic Beach when it came out, but after watching many of the songs performed live on YouTube, I grew to really appreciate the album as a whole. "Empire Ants", "Glitter Freeze", and "To Binge" are three songs that I barely gave the time of day originally, but now I love them just as much as anything else.

Same thing with Humanz, I think because it felt very removed from even Plastic Beach in terms of sound. A lot less Damon, a lot less of the sound I was familiar with as being Gorillaz. But over time the album has gotten more solid to me, especially the front and back half. Toward the back middle the album starts fading a bit for me, maybe, but it picks up.

I dunno, I think it's because Gorillaz are so varied in their approach that it's hard to know what to expect from an album until you hear it, and it isn't until you accept that this is the album you're listening to that you're able to sit back and actually listen to it on its own merits.

Sometimes this doesn't work. I still haven't been able to get into The Fall, for example. I honestly don't consider it a real Gorillaz album, frankly.

This new one, I've only heard half of it so far, and the only complaint I might have is that it seems to wallow in slower songs, but they're beautiful songs. This might be the most I've liked a Gorillaz album upon first listen since Demon Days.

 

I think I'm slowly starting to like this lol, there's still stuff that I can't stand but it's definitely better than my first impression of it was

as for the bonus tracks, I like the De la Soul cut but the other two are nothing special unfortunately, can see why they're bonuses

 

You didn't like the MC Bin Laden one? I thought that one was great.

 

can't say I did. it's nice to hear that energy that got us wild songs like Sweepstakes isn't gone, I do miss that era, but I don't think it's a great song

 

Sweepstakes is probably my least favorite song on that album haha, so annoying

 

It's funny because I do love these songs, but you didn't even list the biggest standouts to me, Ascension and Let Me Out.

 

Also side note, it's still insane that the mega deluxe of Humanz is 34 tracks long

 

And the Deluxe version is up.

 

I have a inkling that the next album which they already have planned is going to be pretty different and I'm kind of hoping it's just completely out of left field.

 

Gorillaz death metal album.

 

Pleasantly surprised with how accessible this one was for me tbh. It took no time at all for me to fully vibe with almost all of these songs (still can't get into the Bad Bunny song unfortunately). I honestly don't know if I spent much time at all with Humanz, but seeing all the positivity for it in here, maybe I should revisit