Gorillaz - Stylo Music video Animation

By Rawls — Mar 02, 2010, 10:52 am CST

Gorillaz - Stylo Music video

I'm personally a pretty big fan of Gorillaz; animation and music, but after yesterday, sadly I think I've lost a little bit of that love.

I almost didn't post this as I felt it might turn into a rant, but then I thought, 'I don't ever rant on the Hub, what's one time?'  So I apologize ahead of time.

Basically, my feeling is that a lot of music groups when they first come out are brimming with creativity and a certain zealous fire in them.  Gorillaz had that in abundance.  Their first couple of albums were fantastic.  The classical animation was top notch, the character designs and ideas were unique and fresh, and the music likewise.  It was a fantastic team up of a music industry monster and a comic book creator.  Damon and Jamie made a perfect team.

Sadly, I've seen a trend with musicians that after a while and a couple of successful albums, their sound becomes somewhat less desireable.  Somewhere along the way they lose a bit of that fire.  I actually got to hear the album in it's entirety yesterday and honestly, I was not impressed.  Typically there is at least one song on an album that sounds like a smash hit and sticks with you after listening.  To my dismay, I didn't find one of those.

Now don't get me wrong, I know a lot of people will probably love this album, and who knows, maybe I just need to listen to it 10 more times.  But compared to how I first felt the first time I heard that classic Gorillaz twang and saw that amazing animation... This time I felt like a kid who had just excitingly recieved his favourite brand of atomic fireworks only to have it turn out to be one of those wimpy sparkly duds.

You can listen to the album in its etirety here - LINK  and let me and everyone else know what you think!

Also... where is Russell in this video?  And Noodle is a robot?!

Thanks for listening.


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  • jeffsimpsonkh

  • jeffsimpsonkh

    Mar 13, 2010

    after several listenings, I actually reallike like Melancoly hill, Rhinestone eyes and Style.  The rest are still bad, but 3 out of 18 is better than nothing!

  • hadyn

  • hadyn

    Mar 05, 2010

    Imo, everything since the first album has been a little dissapointing. There are a few tracks on Demon Days that were okay, but that first album... man, the whole thing was so different, so unique!

    Since then it really feels like it's just become more and more generic, slowly drifitng away from brilliance and further into the depths of unlistenable bollocks... By which I mean to say it's far less experimental and far more like most hip hop / r & b / crap.

    And I totally agree with Rawls statement that this seems to be the trend a lot of new-ish acts go through. I might not be thinking of the same music as him, but acts like The Killers and Muse come to mind.

    Muse... God, a year ago I thought Matt Bellamy was god. Now the facade has crumbled right the-hell away. He's still damn talented, but far from a genius. Very, very far. Sad days =(

    Last edited by hadyn; 05-03-2010 at 11:17 PM

  • jeffsimpsonkh

  • jeffsimpsonkh

    Mar 04, 2010

    I got to the song about cereal and I just had to shoot myself.  Too much bad rap.  Dissapointing.  And the video?...and 3d instead of 2d? ....brutal.  Atleast that's the only good song on the album *as far as I heard*

  • che-che

  • che-che

    Mar 03, 2010

    cant see the video, but i listened as far as i could on the album.

    it went too synth pop for me.
    no rock instruments, no bass or guitar. didnt really have its little reggae flavor that the others had aswell.

    there is no quirky charm that the other ones had. the strong track (as far as i got) was the one following snoop doggs unnecessary appearance. it was only all right, the orchestral peace kicking in towards the end really had something going for it, thinking okay this is gonna get good. then that was it. it ended didnt really take you anyhere with that.

    the song structures are weird aswell.

    i am with you rawls. i might have to give this another listen maybe on a format where i can skip over to next songs. maybe it will grow on me. maybe.

    thanks for posting.

  • che-che

  • che-che

    Mar 03, 2010

    DEAR GOD!!! i cant skip forward! (listening to album on NPR site.)

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