Demon Days
Studio album by Gorillaz
Released	May 23, 2005
Recorded	2004 at Kong Studios (virtual) ; Studio 13 (real)
Genre	Alternative rock Electronica Alternative hip hop Trip hop Britpop
Length	50:44
Label	Parlophone, Virgin
Producer	Gorillaz, Danger Mouse, Jason Cox, James Dring
Professional reviews
The Observer link Q [Jun 2005, p.104] All Music Guide link BBC (Favorable) link PopMatters (9/10) link Entertainment.ie link The Guardian 5/13/2005 musicOMH.com (Favorable) link NME (8/10) link Pitchfork (6.9) link HipHopDX.com link Rolling Stone 6/2/2005
Gorillaz chronology
Laika Come Home (2002) Demon Days (2005) D-Sides (2007)

Demon Days is the second studio album and a concept album^[1] by Gorillaz, released on May 23, 2005 in the United Kingdom and on May 24 in the United States. Demon Days entered the UK charts at #1 and the U.S. charts at #6, outperforming the band's 2001 debut, Gorillaz. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A studio album is a collection of studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... For the Gorillazs self-titled debut album, see Gorillaz (album). ... is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Alternative music redirects here. ... Electronica refers to a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; but unlike electronic dance music, is not specifically focused on the dance floor. ... Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap) is a genre that is defined in greatly varying ways. ... Trip hop (also known as the Bristol sound) is a term coined by United Kingdom dance magazine Mixmag, to describe a musical trend in the mid-1990s; trip hop is downtempo electronic music that grew out of Englands hip hop and house scenes. ... Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. ... In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Parlophone is a record label, founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company. ... Virgin Records was a British recording label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... This article is about the music producer. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... Q is a music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, with a circulation of 140,282 and a readership of 731,000. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 4. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... PopMatters is an international magazine of cultural criticism. ... Entertainment. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... For other uses, see Guardian. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... musicOMH.com is a UK based webzine formed of music features, interviews and reviews of albums, singles, gigs, festivals, opera, theatre, music DVDs and films. ... For other uses, see NME (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Pitchfork (disambiguation). ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Image File history File links 3_stars. ... For the Gorillazs self-titled debut album, see Gorillaz (album). ... Laika Come Home is a Gorillaz remix album released in July 2002 (see 2002 in music). ... D-Sides is a 2007 compilation album by Gorillaz. ... A studio album is a collection of studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... In popular music, a concept album is an album which is unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical (Shuker 2002, p. ... For the Gorillazs self-titled debut album, see Gorillaz (album). ... is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 144th day of the year (145th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Gorillaz is the eponymous debut album by Gorillaz, released in March 2001. ...

Album information and history

Demon Days lead single "Feel Good Inc." became Gorillaz' biggest hit (UK #2, US #14, US-Modern Rock #1) at the time. The album's second single, "Dare" featuring Shaun Ryder, became a big hit as well, giving the band their first #1 single in the UK. Since its release, Demon Days has been certified double platinum in the U.S. and 5 times platinum in the UK. Feel Good Inc. ... DARE (挑戦 (DARE) on the single packaging) is a song by Gorillaz and is featured on their 2005 album Demon Days. ... Shaun Ryder (aka X) (born Shaun William Ryder on August 23, 1962, in Little Hulton, near Salford, Lancashire) is an English singer and songwriter and an ex postman who became famous in the Madchester era band Happy Mondays. ... In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. ... The description Gold Album is applied to recorded music albums that have sold a minimum number of copies (in the US, currently 500,000 sales). ...

The album features contributions from De La Soul, Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Ike Turner, Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde, Shaun Ryder, Dennis Hopper, the London Community Gospel Choir and the Children's Choir of San Fernandez. De La Soul is a Grammy-award winning hip hop group from Long Island, New York. ... Neneh Cherry performing live in Vienna (ca. ... Martina Topley-Bird is a British vocalist, who worked with trip hop pioneer Tricky on several albums, from Maxinquaye up through Angels with Dirty Faces. ... Roots Manuva (born Rodney Smith, 1972) is a rapper from Stockwell, South London. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Ike Turner (born Ike Wister Turner, November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007) was an two-time Grammy Award-winning American musician, bandleader, talent scout, and record producer, best known for his work with his then wife Tina Turner as one half of the Ike & Tina Turner duo. ... Bootie Brown (real name Romye Robinson) is a West Coast Rapper who was one of the founding members of the innovative rap group, The Pharcyde. ... The Pharcyde is a rap group from the West coast of the United States. ... Shaun Ryder (aka X) (born Shaun William Ryder on August 23, 1962, in Little Hulton, near Salford, Lancashire) is an English singer and songwriter and an ex postman who became famous in the Madchester era band Happy Mondays. ... Dennis Lee Hopper (born May 17, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and film-maker. ... The London Community Gospel Choir is a gospel choir who performed with the Childrens Choir of San Fernandez for the Gorillaz hit Dirty Harry. They recorded a version of the OutKast hit Hey Ya! with Razorlight, the b-side to their single Vice. They have also performed with Madonna... Dirty Harry is the third single from Gorillaz second album Demon Days, released November 21, 2005. ...

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Demon Days was first mentioned in articles detailing the reopening of Gorillaz' website in early December 2004. Initially, a March or April 2005 release date was announced, but it was later pushed back. In an article for Q magazine in February 2005 it was reported that the album was to be titled We Are Happy Landfill. Another early title was reported to be Reject False Icons, which is also the title of Gorillaz' culture jamming project. Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Q is a music and entertainment magazinepublished monthly in the United Kingdom. ... Culture jamming is a resistance movement to cultural hegemony and the homogenous nature of popular culture, executed by means of guerrilla communication. ...

In January 2005 a promo for the song "Dirty Harry" was released as a white label 12" and an exclusive video was released online entitled "Rock It". It was later reported that the track would not appear on the album, although it later appeared on D-Sides, a collection of remixes, rare songs and B-sides released in November 2007. Dirty Harry is a song from Gorillaz second album Demon Days. ... A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ... Rock It is a song that was made by Gorillaz. ... D-Sides is a 2007 compilation album by Gorillaz. ...

Gorillaz on Demon Days

In the interview tape We Are the Dury, the band answered questions about the record's details and their opinions on the musical theory of the new album: We Are The Dury CD cover We Are The Dury is the second promotional interview CD sent to members of the press to promote the release of Gorillaz second debut album Demon Days. ...

• Noodle - "It was the procedure of recording this that became the education; the final outcome is the document, but the journey was the destination."

• Russel Hobbs - "As a body of work, Demon Days is more focused and considered than the first album, and maybe it has a greater gravity to it than the first record...The music has a stricter discipline to it, with an undercurrent of dark optimism."

• 2D - "Like someone's taken the first album and colored it in."

• Murdoc Niccals - "Yeah, well, it came out pretty well like I told her to make it in the first place."

Reception

Professional reviews:

• Spin (p.64) - Ranked #4 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2005" - "[A] vivid, spastic concept album about the last primates to survive the apocalypse" - Spin (p.105) - "Albarn still has great taste in other people's music. His new accomplice, copyright pirate Danger Mouse, fills in suggestively dubby spaces with choirs, staggering synths, and MCs ranging from De La Soul to Roots Manuva to MF Doom." - Grade: B

• Entertainment Weekly (No. 821/822, p.136) - "[This] follow-up is spookier, blippier, and more on edge." - Grade: B

• Uncut (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Dazzlingly clever - great beats, brilliant production, top tunes and some of Albarn's best singing."

• CMJ (No. 914, p.4) - "...an immensely absorbable experience with plenty of rhymes and funked-out marching beats to bite into."

• Vibe (p.143) - "[A]s original - and just as much fun - as the first."

• Mojo (p.18) - Ranked #18 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2005" - "[A] genre-busting, contemporary pop milestone."

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Singles

• "Feel Good Inc." was the first single released from the album. It was released as an EP in Japan on 27 April 2005 and as a single in the UK and Australia on 9 May 2005.
• "Dare" was the second single released from the album. It was released 29 August 2005 in the UK, and 7 September 2005 in Japan as an EP.
• "Dirty Harry" was the third single released from the album. It was released 21 November 2005 in the UK, and 7 December 2005 in Japan as an EP.
• "Kids with Guns" / "El Mañana" was the fourth and final single released from the album. It was released 10 April 2006 in the UK, and 19 April 2006 in Japan as an EP (see 2006 in British music). The winners for the Search for a Star competition collaborated with Gorillaz in various ways on this single.

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Limited edition

A limited edition of the album was released in a special digipak gatefold, allowing the owner to choose which band member is on the cover. It also contains an exclusive booklet, with lyrics and illustrations for each song, a DVD containing the video (with audio commentary), an animatic for the music video "Feel Good Inc.", short animated films featuring the band, an exclusive audio track titled "The Swagga" and online access to exclusive sections of the band's website, with various wallpapers and screensavers, as well as a crowbar, facilitating the opening of a locked cupboard in the kitchen on Gorillaz.com in order to download the song "Happy Landfill". Image File history File links Photo of the limited edition of Gorillaz album Demon Days File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Reefer Madness was issued in a Special Addiction as a reference to the cult films ironic appeal. ... A compact disc in Digipak-style packaging; seen here: Boards of Canadas 1998 release Music Has the Right to Children Digipak is a patented style of compact disc or DVD packaging, and is a registered trademark of MeadWestvaco, Inc. ... A gatefold cover or gatefold LP is a form of packaging for LP records which was popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... On a DVD (or laserdisc), an audio commentary is a bonus track consisting of a lecture or comments by one or more speakers, who talk about the movie as it progresses. ... An animatic is created to test dramatic timing. ...

Track listing

All songs were written by Gorillaz, except where noted. 1 "Intro" (Gorillaz, Don Harper) – 1:03 For the Australian composer, see Don Harper. ...

2 "Last Living Souls" – 3:11

3 "Kids with Guns" – 3:45 Demon Days track listing Intro Last Living Souls Kids With Guns O Green World Dirty Harry Feel Good Inc. ...

4 "O Green World" – 4:31

5 "Dirty Harry" (Gorillaz, Romye Robinson) – 3:43 Dirty Harry is a song from Gorillaz second album Demon Days. ... Bootie Brown (real name Romye Robinson) is a West Coast Rapper who was one of the founding members of the innovative rap group, The Pharcyde. ...

• featuring Bootie Brown

6 "Feel Good Inc." (Gorillaz, David Jolicoeur) – 3:41 Bootie Brown (real name Romye Robinson) is a West Coast Rapper who was one of the founding members of the innovative rap group, The Pharcyde. ... Feel Good Inc. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

• featuring De La Soul

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8 "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead" – 4:54

9 "November Has Come" (Gorillaz, Daniel Dumile) – 2:41 Daniel Dumile (IPA: duːmÉ™hːlayɪ) (born January 9, 1971) is an American hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career - originally Zen Love X, most famously MF DOOM, and in side projects such as King Geedorah, Metal Fingers, Viktor Vaughn, and collaboration projects...

• featuring MF DOOM

10 "All Alone" (Gorillaz, Rodney Smith, Simon Tong) – 3:30 Daniel Dumile (IPA: duːmÉ™hːlayɪ) (born January 9, 1971) is an American hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career - originally Zen Love X, most famously MF DOOM, and in side projects such as King Geedorah, Metal Fingers, Viktor Vaughn, and collaboration projects... Roots Manuva (born Rodney Smith, 1972) is a rapper from Stockwell, South London. ... Simon Tong a British a musican, a school friend of Richard Ashcroft, Simon Jones and Peter Salisbury played with the The Verve on Urban Hymns and replaced Nick McCabe. ...

• featuring Roots Manuva with backing vocals by Martina Topley-Bird

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12 "Dare" – 4:04 DARE (挑戦 (DARE) on the single packaging) is a song by Gorillaz and is featured on their 2005 album Demon Days. ...

• featuring Shaun Ryder

13 "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" – 3:16 Shaun Ryder (aka X) (born Shaun William Ryder on August 23, 1962, in Little Hulton, near Salford, Lancashire) is an English singer and songwriter and an ex postman who became famous in the Madchester era band Happy Mondays. ...

• featuring Dennis Hopper

14 "Don't Get Lost in Heaven" – 2:00 15 "Demon Days" – 4:29 Dennis Lee Hopper (born May 17, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and film-maker. ...

Bonus tracks

1. "68 State" – 4:44
   • first Japan release; B-side on British 7" single for "Feel Good Inc."
2. "People" – 3:26
   • second Japan release; B-side on British DVD single for "Dare"
3. "Hong Kong" – 7:14
   • live at Manchester Opera House (Grammy Edition USA and Japan release)
4. "Hong Kong" - 6:39
   • live at Manchester Opera House (shortened) (limited European 2006 reissue)
5. "Happy Landfill" – 3:42
   • available only on the limited edition DVD
6. "The Swagga" – 4:57
   • DVD-Audio track, available only on the limited edition DVD

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Personnel

According to the album liner notes, the contributors were as follows:

Additional musicians

• Neneh Cherry – vocals
• Amanda Drummond – viola
• Isabelle Dunn – cello
• Dennis Hopper – spoken word
• Sally Jackson – violin
• Al Mobbs – double bass
• Prabjote Osahn – violin
• Stella Page – viola
• Antonia Pagulatos – violin
• Emma Smith – double bass
• Simon Tong – guitar
• Martina Topley-Bird – vocals
• Ike Turner – piano
• Rosie Wilson – backing vocals
• London Community Gospel Choir – choir
• San Fernandez Youth Chorus – children's choir
• MF DOOM - vocals

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Production

• Danger Mouse – production, mixing
• Gorillaz – production, mixing
• Jason Cox – production, engineering, mixing
• James Dring – production
• Steve Sedgwick – mixing assistant
• Howie Weinberg – mastering
• Jamie Hewlett and Zombie Flesh Eaters – design, artwork

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Release details

The album was released in various countries:

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References