History Music / DemonDaysAlbum

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It was a considerable NewSoundAlbum with more emphasis on pop music, which resulted in more hit singles than their previous album.Dare", "Feel Good Inc." and "Dirty Harry". The art style and packaging were also upgraded, with Noodle being re-modeled as an older teenager with a less stereotypically Asian caricatured face.

''Demon Days'' is the second album by the virtual rock band Music/{{Gorillaz}}, released in 2005. It was a considerable NewSoundAlbum with more emphasis on pop music, which resulted in more hit singles than their previous album: "Dare", "Feel Good Inc." and "Dirty Harry". The art style and packaging were also upgraded, with Noodle being re-modeled as an older teenager with a less stereotypically Asian caricatured face.

It has been featured on several lists of the best albums of the 2000s.

''Demon Days'' is the second album by the virtual rock band Music/{{Gorillaz}}, released in 2004. It was a considerable NewSoundAlbum with more emphasis on pop music, which resulted in more hit singles than their previous album: "Dare", "Feel Good Inc." and "Dirty Harry". The art style and packaging were also upgraded, with Noodle being re-modeled as an older teenager with a less stereotypically Asian caricatured face.

** The album cover is a homage to the one on Music/TheBeatles' ''Music/LetItBe''. Inside the booklet the song ''Every planet we reach is dead'' has another shout-out in which the band members strike poses that mimic the album cover of ''Music/{{Help}}''.

'''''Demon Days''''' is the second album by the virtual rock band Music/{{Gorillaz}}, released in 2004. It was a considerable NewSoundAlbum with more emphasis on pop music, which resulted in more hit singles than their previous album: "Dare", "Feel Good Inc." and "Dirty Harry". The art style and packaging were also upgraded, with Noodle being re-modeled as an older teenager with a less stereotypically Asian caricatured face.

It's generally seen as their MagnumOpus up to this point, and has been featured on several lists of the best albums of the 2000s.

--> 2D: ''The palace we built has become a prison... That's what the song's about.''
--> Murdoc: ''[[CompletelyMissingThePoint Looks like a good party to me.]]''

'''Demon Days''' is the second album by the virtual rock band Music/{{Gorillaz}}, released in 2004. It was a considerable NewSoundAlbum with more emphasis on pop music, which resulted in more hit singles than their previous album: "Dare", "Feel Good Inc." and "Dirty Harry". The art style and packaging were also upgraded, with Noodle being re-modeled as an older teenager with a less stereotypically Asian caricatured face.

It's generally seen as their MagnumOpus up to this point.

* RuleOfFour: The four band members are seen in four separate cubicles on the album cover.

'''Demon Days''' is the second album by the virtual rock band Music/{{Gorillaz}}, released in 2004. It was a considerable NewSoundAlbum with more emphasis on pop music, which resulted in more hit singles than their previous album: "Dare", "Feel Good Inc." and "Dirty Harry". The art style and packaging were also upgraded, with Noodle being remodelled as an older teenager with a less stereotypically Asian caricatured face.

#"Kids With Guns" (3:47)

#"Every Planet We Reach Is Dead" (4:53)

It's generally seen as their MagnumOpus up to this point.

!! Tropes Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head"
--> ''Now everybody's dancing dance of the dead, the dance of the dead''
* AfterTheEnd: "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head".
--> ''And then came a sound. Distant at first, it grew into castrophany so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams. There was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken. There was only fire. And then...nothing.''

* BlindingBangs: Noodle was redesigned for this album with her hair hanging in front of her eyes most of the time.
* BrainInAJar: Shaun Ryder's head in the music video of "Dare".
* CallBack: "Fire Coming out of the Monkey's Head" gets name-dropped in the next track, "Don't Get Lost in Heaven".

''and fire coming out of the monkey's head''

* CelebrityIsOverrated: "Feel Good Inc" where the band's success has taken a toll on them.
* ContinuityNod: A school choir sings the refrain of "Dirty Harry": ''I need a gun/to keep myself from harm.'', which is similar to "Kids With Guns"' theme.
* CreepyChild: "Kids With Guns" about gun violence among children and teenagers.
* CrossingTheDesert: The music video of "Dirty Harry" is set in the desert where 2D and some children sing a song while a rescue mission is on the way to come and get them out of there.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness:
** "Dirty Harry"

** "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head"
--> ''Everybody is doing the dance of the dead, the dance of the dead''
* DarkerAndEdgier: This album sounded more dark and edgy than their debut album, with lyrics about death, despair and gun violence among children. Even the album cover illustrates this.

* DeathMountain: The mountain Monkey in "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head".
* DespairEventHorizon:
** "Kids With Guns" is sang in a monotone voice, but when it gets to the chorus emotion and hopelessness start to get in the voice.

** "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead".
* DownerEnding: "Fire Coming out of the Monkey's Head" ends with [[spoiler:the Strangefolk having {{dug too deep}} into the mountain Monkey (mining for jewels) and causing the Happyfolk to face TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]] Creator/DennisHopper's narration makes it extra chilling.
* DreamWithinADream: "Dare"'s music video shows that the entire thing was a dream of the head in a jar, who is sleeping safely next to Murdoc. Then Murdoc wakes up frightened.

* EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys: Except when you call a mountain that way, like in "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head".

* FluffyTheTerrible: A mountain called "Monkey" sounds cute, right? Not when you listen to "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head".

* GreenEyes: Noodle in the music video of "El Mañana".

-->''lost my mind''

* KidsRock: A school choir sings the refrain of "Dirty Harry": "''I need a gun/to keep myself from harm.''" The kids seen in the "Dirty Harry" video are apparently based on the children from that choir.

* MonsterShapedMountain: "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head".

** The illustration to "Fire Coming Out Of A Monkey's Head" in the album booklet.
* NonAppearingTitle: "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead", "Dirty Harry", "Fire Coming Out A Monkey's Head".

* OminousMultipleScreens: Seen in the music video of "Feel Good Inc."

* PeaceAndLoveIncorporated: "Feel Good Inc." The NightmareFuel-filled video depicts the male band members apparently trapped in one of these. It's not clear what Feel Good Inc actually does, if anything, but the building is a tall tower set in a [[CrapsackWorld dystopian wasteland]], with creepy red lighting in the tower and TV screens showing film of people laughing insanely.

* PerfectlyCromulentWord: In "Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head", [[TheCameo Dennis Hopper]] describes the eruption of The Mountain Called Monkey as "a castrophany". Presumably, this is a {{portmanteau}} of "Cacophony" and "Catastrophe".

* RecursiveReality: Though it's not explained further, "DARE" has the entirety of the video taking place as a nightmare of Shaun Ryder in a nightmare of Murdoc.

* ShoutOut:

** "Kids With Guns" quotes from "Push It" by Salt 'N' Pepa.

** The music video of "Dare" shows the statue of Pazuzu, a reference to ''Film/TheExorcist''. Ryder's head being kept alive is a shout-out to ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'' and Russel's newspaper has the line "Cannibal Massakren", the Danish title of ''Film/CannibalHolocaust''. The zoom on Noodle's eye is a reference to ''Film/{{Ringu}}''.
* ShirtlessScene: 2D in the "Dirty Harry" video. Murdoc is seen without a shirt more often than with one.

* SmokingIsCool: The illustration for "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head" shows a monkey smoking a cigarette.

** Creator/DennisHopper reads the story during "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head".

** Neneh Cherry has guest vocals during "Kids With Guns".
* SpokenWordInMusic:
** The introduction welcomes the listener.
** "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head" is read by Creator/DennisHopper.

* WarIsHell: "Dirty Harry" is set in a desert with Bootie Brown appearing dressed as a soldier. At the time the war in Iraq was a hot topic and it's difficult not to interpret the song being about this, especially seeing the band previously criticized UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush's invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. A direct reference to Bush's televised speech in 2003 in a flight suit after Iraq had been conquered and UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein driven away, when the president declared his ''mission accomplished''.
--> ''The war is over/so said the speaker/with the flight suit on''

* YoungGun: "Kids With Guns" about the danger of young people walking around with guns.

--> ''Everybody is doing the dance of the dead, the dance of the dead''

* AlbumTitleDrop: "Demon Days"

* KickTheDog: Murdoch slaps one of the children in the music video of "Dirty Harry".

* DreamWithinADream: "Dare"'s music video shows that the entire thing was a dream of the head in a jar, who is sleeping safely next to Murdoch. Then Murdoch wakes up frightened.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
** "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head"

* CallToAgriculture: "O Green World".
* CelebrityIsOverrated: "Feel Good Inc."
* ContinuityNod: A school choir sings the refrain of "Dirty Harry": "''I need a gun/to keep myself from harm.''", which is similar to "Kids With Guns"' theme.

--> "All I wanna do is dance!"

--> "Everybody is doing the dance of the dead, the dance of the dead"

* DreamWithinADream: "Dare"'s music video.

--> 2D: "The palace we built has become a prison... That's what the song's about."
--> Murdoc: [[CompletelyMissingThePoint "Looks like a good party to me."]]

--> "The war is over/so said the speaker/with the flight suit on"

* YoungGun: "Kids With Guns".

* PeaceAndLoveIncorporated: "Feel Good Inc."

* CrossingTheDesert: The music video of "Dirty Harry" is set in the desert where Murdoc and some children sing a song while a rescue mission is on the way to come and get them out of there.

* ADayInTheLimelight: "DARE" and "El Mañana" feature Noodle, and Noodle only. The other three made cameos in "DARE"; Murdoc is the only one with lines and speaks only a sentence. Noodle says in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnBEZ2QvMwY an interview]] that the reason 2D and Russel were [=WTFing=] during the video is because she didn't warn any of them that she was going to record the clip.

** "Feel Good Inc.", in which everyone is locked up and Murdoc appears desperate to get out in the music video.

* KillTheCutie: Almost literally happens with Noodle in the music video of "El Mañana" where she enjoys the tranquility of her floating island until [[spoiler: helicopters destroy it and her own fate remains unknown at the end]].

* LyricalDissonance: Murdoc doesn't look or sound particularly happy while singing "Feel Good Inc." in the music video.
* {{Mondegreen}}: How "DARE" came about. The lyric was originally supposed to be "It's there", but Shaun Ryder kept pronouncing it like "It's dare", so they decided to make that the name of the song instead.

* AllPartOfTheShow: [[spoiler:Nobody noticed that the helicopters in "El Mañana" were genuinely trying to kill Noodle until after the filming was finished]].

--> Everybody is doing the dance of the dead, the dance of the dead

* GriefSong: "El Mañana" is probably the saddest song they've written.

** The song's music video encapsulates its sorrow perfectly, where we get to see [[spoiler:Noodle's floating island being destroyed and [[KillTheCutie Noodle presumably being killed.]]]]

* NonAppearingTitle: "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead", "Don't Get Lost In Heaven", "Dirty Harry", "Fire Coming Out A Monkey's Head".

* PerfectlyCromulentWord: "Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head", [[TheCameo Dennis Hopper]] describes the eruption of The Mountain Called Monkey as "a castrophany". Presumably, this is a {{portmanteau}} of "Cacophony" and "Catastrophe".

* PunBasedTitle: "Dare" has the opening line: "It's "Dare"!", which sounds like "It's there!" too.

** The album cover is a homage to the one on Music/TheBeatles' ''Music/LetItBe''. Inside the booklet the song ''Every planet we reach is dead'' has another shout-out in which the band members strike poses that mimick the album cover of ''Music/{{Help}}''.

** The music video of "Dare" shows the statue of Pazuzu, a reference to ''Film/TheExorcist''. Ryder's head being kept alive is a shout-out to ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'' and Russel's newspaperhas the line "Cannibal Massakren", the Danish title of ''Film/CannibalHolocaust''. The zoom on Noodle's eye is a reference to ''Film/{{Ringu}}''.

* SpecialGuest: Creator/DennisHopper reads the story during "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head", Shaun Ryder (The Happy Mondays) sings "Dare" and appears as the head in the music video, Bootie Brown (Music/ThePharcyde) has a cameo during "Dirty Harry". Neneh Cherry has guest vocals during "Kids With Guns".

--> The war is over/ so said the speaker/with the flight suit on

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** The illustration to "Monkey Coming Out Of The Devil's Head" in the album booklet.

* DespareEventHorizon:

* RhetoricQuestion: "Are We The Last Living Souls?"