Gorillaz C90 Compilation Tape
Mojo, September 2001
Side One
Iggy Pop: Mask.
Murdoc: This is a great new Iggy track in fact a great track full stop. It’s great to hear a man in his dotage returning to the stripped down, raw, direct naked simplicity of his earlier tourette laden work like Cock in My Pocket” from Metalik KO.
Sly Stone: I Wanna Take You Higher.
Russel: Black funk, white rock all wrapped up in a free jazz sonic experiment that would make Radioheads National Anthem look like a half baked bum wrap and they can hold my salami!
2D: Is that like Chris Rea’s song “Cheek to Cheek?”
Robert Palmer: Johnny and Mary.
Murdoc: Although this track isn’t off of my favourite of the guv’nors albums which is ‘”Some People Can Do What They Like” which touches a particular note with me. Mr big stuff exeled himself with this classic tune. I originally wanted to name our band Robert Palmer but we ran into legal problems. Robert Palmer UK for a while but finally plumped for Gorillaz.
Gary Moore: Parisian Walk Way.
Murdoc: Gary, need I say Moore?
Elton John and Kiki Dee: Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.
Murdoc; With it’s classic Woo Hoo chorus, often imitated never bettered, stand up Mr Albarn your card is marked! Song two’s about right because they were there before you mate!
Carole Beyer Sega: You’re Moving Out Today.
Murdoc; If I had a pound for every time I’d been thrown out of a girl’s house to this song I’d of had enough money to get the train home.
Yellow Dog: Could I Stay?
Murdoc: But I always managed to wangle my way back in with this classic.
Tammy Winette: D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
Ottowa: D.I.S.C.O.
Freeze: A.E.I.O.U.
Russel: We’re using these alphabetical classics to help Noodle with her English.
Side Two
LL Cool J: Muma Said Knock You Out.
Russel: Despite what the man says, do call it a comeback.
Ice Cube: Steady Mobbin.
Russel; This is for all of you "motherfuckers that's known to break 'em off somethin'."
Dr Alimantado: I Shot the Barber.
Noodle (Translated from Japanese); I love “Best Dressed Chicken in Town.” Winston Thompson “The Ital Surgeon” hit Zen perfection with this. He managed to pitch each and every word so perfectly out of tune that he created a new heavenly harmony all of his own.
Galt McDermot: Down in the Southern Ocean.
2D; Galt is the secret Californian, Welsh, Cornish yokel godfather of contemporary Hip-Hop and a huge influence on my keyboard playing. Both Busta Rhymes and Portis Head owe this man big time. Check out “Fergus McRoy at the Home Stead” best played very, very early in the morning.
Errol Dunkley: OK Fred Now You’re a Yugga Yugga.
Murdoc: As far as I’m concerned this when Reggae entered it’s golden period.
Russel: That’s because you’re a goddamn cracker ass!
Nico (Live): Janitor of Lunacy.
2D: I’ve always wondered if she was live when she recorded this because it sounds like the painful wailing of the undead!
Murdoc: The Velvet Underground were great band but this sounds like fourty years of dirty ashtrays from beyond the grave.
Kiss: I Was Made For Loving You.
Murdoc: This is what I love! You wanted the best…you got the best! Not only were these tousled, glam, rock giants made for love they were made to make disco relevant. You can’t argue with the power of a track like this.
Russel: I can argue with that and I will! Disco at best was just another appropriation of my people’s music by male, white, corporate oppressors but this track and these sad pervert losers had to be the worst.
Murdoc: Gene Symonds is not a pervert! Night after night he stood bare chested in sports stadiums rammed to capacity with pubescent boys, invoking the devil in full make up while coughing up theatrical blood all in the name of Rock ‘n Roll and good time. And what is pervy about that?
Russel: Rob Halford.
Little Richard: She’s Got It.
2D: He sang “Mekka lekka hi mekkah heni ho” on Pee Wee’s Play House.
Murdoc: That’s because he, like you, is a microcephalic pinhead. He has the vocabulary of a grown man and the reasoning powers of a child giving the appearance of a well-educated mad man-boy.
Russel: In the countries most revered periodicals on the history of music you’ve chosen to call one of Rock and Roll’s great pioneers a pinhead. I’m lost for words.
Murdoc: Well at least I didn’t call Rob Halford a perv.
2D: No, Microphilia is the love of tiny people. I love tiny people they’ve got big hearts.
Roberta Flack: The First time That Ever I Saw Your Face.
2D: I love this song because Murdoc told me that this song went through his mind the first time he saw me.
Murdoc: No that was the first time I told you to shut your face.
M.A.R.R.S: Pump up the Volume.
Russel: I wasn’t into this song until I got trapped in my mate’s bedroom, accidentally when they were all “ getting out of it”. Then the world of sampling suddenly clicked and I ditched all my Four Freshmen vocal quartet records. I also ditched all my preppy clothes at the same time and got decked out in something more human.
Murdoc: Cool, that’s about the best compilation tape you could possibly hope for.
Russel: Yo! Where’s my man Dave Lee Roth at? Me and him you know just like livin’ in paradise. Believe.
Murdoc: True Russ you can’t leave out the Lee.
2D: Yep, there’s two types of Lee that kids can’t do without Dave and Dairy.
Iggy Pop: Mask.
Murdoc: This is a great new Iggy track in fact a great track full stop. It’s great to hear a man in his dotage returning to the stripped down, raw, direct naked simplicity of his earlier tourette laden work like Cock in My Pocket” from Metalik KO.
Sly Stone: I Wanna Take You Higher.
Russel: Black funk, white rock all wrapped up in a free jazz sonic experiment that would make Radioheads National Anthem look like a half baked bum wrap and they can hold my salami!
2D: Is that like Chris Rea’s song “Cheek to Cheek?”
Robert Palmer: Johnny and Mary.
Murdoc: Although this track isn’t off of my favourite of the guv’nors albums which is ‘”Some People Can Do What They Like” which touches a particular note with me. Mr big stuff exeled himself with this classic tune. I originally wanted to name our band Robert Palmer but we ran into legal problems. Robert Palmer UK for a while but finally plumped for Gorillaz.
Gary Moore: Parisian Walk Way.
Murdoc: Gary, need I say Moore?
Elton John and Kiki Dee: Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.
Murdoc; With it’s classic Woo Hoo chorus, often imitated never bettered, stand up Mr Albarn your card is marked! Song two’s about right because they were there before you mate!
Carole Beyer Sega: You’re Moving Out Today.
Murdoc; If I had a pound for every time I’d been thrown out of a girl’s house to this song I’d of had enough money to get the train home.
Yellow Dog: Could I Stay?
Murdoc: But I always managed to wangle my way back in with this classic.
Tammy Winette: D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
Ottowa: D.I.S.C.O.
Freeze: A.E.I.O.U.
Russel: We’re using these alphabetical classics to help Noodle with her English.
Side Two
LL Cool J: Muma Said Knock You Out.
Russel: Despite what the man says, do call it a comeback.
Ice Cube: Steady Mobbin.
Russel; This is for all of you "motherfuckers that's known to break 'em off somethin'."
Dr Alimantado: I Shot the Barber.
Noodle (Translated from Japanese); I love “Best Dressed Chicken in Town.” Winston Thompson “The Ital Surgeon” hit Zen perfection with this. He managed to pitch each and every word so perfectly out of tune that he created a new heavenly harmony all of his own.
Galt McDermot: Down in the Southern Ocean.
2D; Galt is the secret Californian, Welsh, Cornish yokel godfather of contemporary Hip-Hop and a huge influence on my keyboard playing. Both Busta Rhymes and Portis Head owe this man big time. Check out “Fergus McRoy at the Home Stead” best played very, very early in the morning.
Errol Dunkley: OK Fred Now You’re a Yugga Yugga.
Murdoc: As far as I’m concerned this when Reggae entered it’s golden period.
Russel: That’s because you’re a goddamn cracker ass!
Nico (Live): Janitor of Lunacy.
2D: I’ve always wondered if she was live when she recorded this because it sounds like the painful wailing of the undead!
Murdoc: The Velvet Underground were great band but this sounds like fourty years of dirty ashtrays from beyond the grave.
Kiss: I Was Made For Loving You.
Murdoc: This is what I love! You wanted the best…you got the best! Not only were these tousled, glam, rock giants made for love they were made to make disco relevant. You can’t argue with the power of a track like this.
Russel: I can argue with that and I will! Disco at best was just another appropriation of my people’s music by male, white, corporate oppressors but this track and these sad pervert losers had to be the worst.
Murdoc: Gene Symonds is not a pervert! Night after night he stood bare chested in sports stadiums rammed to capacity with pubescent boys, invoking the devil in full make up while coughing up theatrical blood all in the name of Rock ‘n Roll and good time. And what is pervy about that?
Russel: Rob Halford.
Little Richard: She’s Got It.
2D: He sang “Mekka lekka hi mekkah heni ho” on Pee Wee’s Play House.
Murdoc: That’s because he, like you, is a microcephalic pinhead. He has the vocabulary of a grown man and the reasoning powers of a child giving the appearance of a well-educated mad man-boy.
Russel: In the countries most revered periodicals on the history of music you’ve chosen to call one of Rock and Roll’s great pioneers a pinhead. I’m lost for words.
Murdoc: Well at least I didn’t call Rob Halford a perv.
2D: No, Microphilia is the love of tiny people. I love tiny people they’ve got big hearts.
Roberta Flack: The First time That Ever I Saw Your Face.
2D: I love this song because Murdoc told me that this song went through his mind the first time he saw me.
Murdoc: No that was the first time I told you to shut your face.
M.A.R.R.S: Pump up the Volume.
Russel: I wasn’t into this song until I got trapped in my mate’s bedroom, accidentally when they were all “ getting out of it”. Then the world of sampling suddenly clicked and I ditched all my Four Freshmen vocal quartet records. I also ditched all my preppy clothes at the same time and got decked out in something more human.
Murdoc: Cool, that’s about the best compilation tape you could possibly hope for.
Russel: Yo! Where’s my man Dave Lee Roth at? Me and him you know just like livin’ in paradise. Believe.
Murdoc: True Russ you can’t leave out the Lee.
2D: Yep, there’s two types of Lee that kids can’t do without Dave and Dairy.