| Gorillaz / Plastic Beach |
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| Album: | Plastic Beach | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Gorillaz | Added: | Mar 2010 | |
| Label: | Virgin Records America (Ny) | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2010-03-28 | Pull Date: | 2010-05-30 |
| Week Ending: | May 30 | May 23 | May 16 | May 9 | May 2 | Apr 25 | Apr 18 | Apr 11 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 03, 2023: | KZSU Time Traveler On Melancholy Hill | 4. | Jan 21, 2022: | Everything in Particular To Binge | |
| 2. | Nov 18, 2022: | The Great British Breakfast On Melancholy Hill | 5. | Nov 17, 2021: | KZSU Time Traveler (rebroadcast from Nov 12, 2021) On Melancholy Hill | |
| 3. | Feb 11, 2022: | Everything in Particular Empire Ants | 6. | Nov 12, 2021: | KZSU Time Traveler On Melancholy Hill |
| Album Review |
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| Frank Rodriguez Reviewed 2010-03-28 | ||
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Imaginary animated dub/hip-hip/electronic/Brit-pop band from mind of Blur frontman Damon Albarn. The sounds are pretty sharp on here, I mean more high-pitched, building and layered than other Gorillaz--not as laid-back. Warning: playing an animated band on the radio may be like playing Tv On The Radio on the radio. [Text in brackets taken from anonymous comments on songlyrics.com.] 1. Orchestral intro 2. Theme for the world of Plastic Beach. Snoop's more of a voiceover on here than a rapper. great as a theme, wouldn't hold it up by itself. **3. idyllic flutes and strings. then an electronic beat and some utopian grime lyrics before the strings come back nice esp. if you like grime cause I don't even [I love the fact that gorillaz used other country's instruments in their song.] ****4. funky electro-pop; Albarn solo; most reminds me of the earlier stuff. [I think he is talking to commercialization when he says "im a scary gargoyle on a tower, that you made with plastic power". They promise happiness by simply buying products but it seems unattainable still, hence "your rhinestone eyes are like factories far away".] 5. the single: a little Mos Def, some very deep raspy guest vox, Albarn: "electric is the law", a motif like you just entered the enemy base in an RPG **6. sound bites from commercial; tight De La Soul raps about Neptune, god of the water 7. mellow song that gets busy at the end but only instrumentally. fem vox at the end ***8. nice! drum machine and high-pitched sound made by Allah-knows-what being stretched and kicked in the guts for four minutes 9. features Lou Reed, who, as far as I gather from <noise>, is a big deal. sounds his age, and laid back in a cool way. The song itself is a bit dizzy **10. disco beat with flutes. [I'm in a relationship held together by wistfulness, so it really fits. It just captures the emotion so perfectly.] 11. breakup song... drum machine, casios. references 6. 12. FCC: fuckin' and motherfuckin'. weird staccato raps from Mos Def, Brass Ensemble enter incongruously in middle. [about how special it feels to win, even without mention of a prize. the prize in the end is garbage, winning is what we all want.] ***13. cool 40-sec intro with a buzz and light guitar picking. beat mainly a sparkly set of tones from a synth. chorus: "It's a casio on a plastic beach/it's sorta made o'computer speech/it's a casio" And to end it, a casio solo! [its kinda like nintendo 8bit sound with acid lol] **14. do wop homage: albarn exchanges lyrics with female Little Dragon. Sweet. 15. strings and rising electones. guest vox with easy rhymes **16. cool, brassy synths and basser ones too. nice way to go out. | ||
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