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