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. 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". Another early title was reported to be Reject False Icons, which is also the title of Gorillaz' culture jamming project. In an article for Q magazine in February 2005 it was reported that the album was to be titled We Are Happy Landfill. Initially, a March or April 2005 release date was announced, but this date was later pushed back. And instantly, all of us got excited.ĭemon Days was first mentioned in articles detailing the reopening of Gorillaz' website in early December 2004. If you do it again, it's no longer a gimmick, and if it works then we've proved a point. Because everyone thought it was a gimmick. Hewlett was excited by the prospect of a second Gorillaz album, saying, "Let's repeat the same process, but do it better. It's like bad plastic surgery, eventually it collapses."
Surely there is a reason why they had all of this in. The album also has many lyrical themes centred around the destruction humans are causing worldwide, speaking about the track "Fire Coming out of the Monkey's Head", Albarn explained, "That came from a very naive idea, which is: what is going to happen when they've taken all of the oil out of the earth? Aren't there going to be these vast holes? Surely those holes shouldn't be empty. And that will happen to us in our lifetime." Damon has said that, as a whole, the album is meant to be a depiction of a journey through the night in which each track represents a confrontation with a personal 'demon'. And then you wake up in the morning with this nightmare in your head and it's blue sky and beautiful sand, which looks fantastic now but was probably something else millions of years ago. There are little satelite towns in the middle of these semi deserts that are absolutely on their knees. "Dust bowls, loose earth rapidly turning into desert. It was basically dead trees as far as the eye can see," Albarn recalls. Despite this, the album's main source of inspiration actually came about as a result of Albarn's train journey from Beijing to Mongolia where he, his partner and (at the time) six year old daughter spent a day travelling though what Albarn describes as a "weird, unspoken, forgotten part of China. By the time Albarn was ready to start writing and recording material for the Gorillaz movie, the whole idea had already been scrapped, although an ideas from the movie's script were still used, including the themes of being driven-by-ego thing and the world being trapped in an endless night. While Jamie Hewlett was working with his team on a script for a possible Gorillaz movie, Damon Albarn was still recording Think Tank with Blur.
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