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* The fact that this is a world in which Murdoc Niccals not only has yet to be safely locked away from society, but was in fact forced to care for a coma patient, was allowed to keep joint custody of a small child, and is now "legally entitled to experiment on monkeys" should be Nightmare Fuel enough.
** Not to mention all the UnfortunateImplications of [[DudeShesLikeInAComa what might have happened]] when he was looking after said coma patient.

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* The fact that this is a world in which Murdoc Niccals not only has yet to be safely locked away from society, society but was in fact forced to care for a coma patient, was allowed to keep joint custody of a small child, and is now "legally entitled to experiment on monkeys" should be Nightmare Fuel enough.
** Not to mention all the UnfortunateImplications of [[DudeShesLikeInAComa what might have happened]] when he was looking after said coma patient.
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*** Worst of all, Murdoc had the time of his life slapping and knocking around the comatose 2D while he was "caring" for him. He outright says that it was, in his own words, "like looking after a bag of cement." One can only hope that 2D wasn't [[AndIMustScream conscious]] during his coma.
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* Murdoc's father, Sebastian Jacob Niccals (or Jacob Sebastian Nicclas depending on who's asking), was an absolute bastard "whose collection of dubious vices would put [[Literature/OliverTwist Bill Sikes]] to shame" that based his life around avoiding work, [[WouldHurtAChild using poor Murdoc]] as his weapon of choice in his unending quest for a cheap buck. The worst way in which he did this, which incidentally inspired Murdoc to found Gorillaz in the first place, was when he forced the poor kid into a Pinocchio costume and make him sing "I've Got No Strings" in front of his drinking buddies at the pub for a talent contest. The prize? ''Two pounds fifty and the chance for further humiliation in the bi-annual county finals and on national television.'' Looking back, Murdoc remarks that if eBay existed back then, his father would have sold him there ''more than once.''

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* Murdoc's father, Sebastian Jacob Niccals (or Jacob Sebastian Nicclas Niccals depending on who's asking), was an absolute bastard "whose collection of dubious vices would put [[Literature/OliverTwist Bill Sikes]] to shame" that based his life around avoiding work, [[WouldHurtAChild using poor Murdoc]] as his weapon of choice in his unending quest for a cheap buck. The worst way in which he did this, which incidentally inspired Murdoc to found Gorillaz in the first place, was when he forced the poor kid into a Pinocchio costume and make him sing "I've Got No Strings" in front of his drinking buddies at the pub for a talent contest. The prize? ''Two pounds fifty and the chance for further humiliation in the bi-annual county finals and on national television.'' Looking back, Murdoc remarks that if eBay existed back then, his father would have sold him there ''more than once.''
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* ''Film Music'': A ''very'' experimental song that can be best described as a violent Frankenstein's monster of a track that cuts between Lo-Fi, synthesized western music and jarring, grungy electronic noise music.
* ''Don Quixote's Christmas Bonanza'': Arguably the most obscure Gorillaz song out there, this oddly-titled single is a trudging, plodding, jingling track with no other vocals but 2D's ghostly wails of "happy radio." It feels like you're trudging through a cold winter night on the way back from the tavern. That's really the only way to describe it.
** The song itself was rushed for a Christmas release after being commissioned by KROQ radio for the lewdly-titled compilation album, "Swallow My Eggnog." As of the end of 2022, the song has never been publicly discussed by either Hewlett or Albarn. It's a song that just ''exists.''
* ''Exhumation'': The a capella version of ''Left Hand Suzuki Method'' with the song itself playing in the background, muffled. Its chunky quality, combined with the song's morbid title, makes it feel like the track was never meant to be found at all.

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** Kids With Guns. If not for the semi-cryptic lyrics about youth violence, then its dreadfully heavy bass and the way it devolves into chaos towards the end.

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** Kids With Guns. If not for the semi-cryptic lyrics about youth violence, then for its dreadfully heavy bass and the way it devolves into chaos towards the end.
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** Kids With Guns. If not for the semi-cryptic lyrics about youth violence, then its dreadfully heavy bass and the way it devolves into chaos towards the end.

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** If you listen closely to "Tomorrow Comes Today", you'll hear ghostly moaning in the background. In ''Rise of the Ogre'', it's revealed that it's EVP of Kong Studios' original founder Sir Emerick Khong, who was cursed to haunt the grounds with a perpetual hangover. If you listen ''especially'' closely, you can hear him asking for a drink of water.



* A massive studio building with a long-running history of death, hauntings, occult meddling and other disturbing shenanigans built atop a gigantic landfill in a cemetery is guaranteed to be full of nightmare fuel. And Murdoc bought it for ''free.'' The owners were looking for an off-season caretaker to look after the building during the winter, but when Murdoc arrived, the owners threw the keys at him and ran away screaming, never to be seen again.
** Hell, the location itself has a dark history. It was once a burial ground for Black Plague victims, and the mansion that would become the studio building was a place of demonic worship. But none of that compared to what happened to a biker gang who used the building to host a party. Bad wiring started a fire and somebody locked the door before they could escape.

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* A massive studio building with a long-running history of death, hauntings, occult meddling and other disturbing shenanigans built atop a gigantic landfill in a cemetery is guaranteed to be full of nightmare fuel. And Murdoc bought it for ''free.'' The owners were owner was looking for an off-season caretaker to look after the building during the winter, but when Murdoc arrived, the owners owner threw the keys at him and ran away screaming, never to be seen again.
** The studio gets its name from the original owner, Sir Emerick Khong: a dedicated hedonist and founder of the "King Khong Club" where they would sit around and have incredibly boring conversations after they finished their nightly "depravities." Whatever "depravities" they performed in that mansion [[NothingIsScarier have never been revealed.]]
** Hell, the location itself has a dark history. It was built on a place of [[EldritchLocation "sinister leylines"]], it was once a burial ground for Black Plague victims, and the mansion that would become the studio building was a place of demonic worship. But none of that compared to what happened to a biker gang who used the building to host a party. Bad wiring started a fire fire, and somebody locked the door before they could escape.
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--> ''It's all good news now, because we left the taps running for a hundred years...''

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--> ---> ''It's all good news now, because we left the taps running for a hundred years...''
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** The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6zPvkP5uVI Superfast Jellyfish]]" video is terrifying. The [[LetsMeetTheMeat jellyfish]] are way too happy for things that have just been microwaved and are in the process of being eaten. Their movements are pure UncannyValley as well; somehow the flopping is reminiscent of hanging victims.

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** The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6zPvkP5uVI Superfast Jellyfish]]" video is terrifying. The [[LetsMeetTheMeat jellyfish]] are way too happy for things that have just been microwaved and are in the process of being eaten. Their movements are pure UncannyValley creepy as well; somehow the flopping is reminiscent of hanging victims.



** 2-D's eyes [[UncannyValley turning into the Pac-Man characters in "Pac-Man".]]

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** 2-D's eyes [[UncannyValley turning into the Pac-Man characters in "Pac-Man".]]

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** The entire video for "Clint Eastwood" is spooky, what with the zombie gorillas and Del the rapping ghost, but the creepiest part is right at the beginning when Murdoc gives a really [[EvilLaugh evil sounding laugh]] and fading to a close up of his face wearing a sinister expression.
*** The introduction text, lifted straight from ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'' is a heads up that Gorillaz are ''not'' your average band, animated or otherwise:
---->''Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills. The people it kills get up and kill.''



** The entire video for "Clint Eastwood" is spooky, what with the zombie gorillas and Del the rapping ghost, but the creepiest part is right at the beginning when Murdoc gives a really [[EvilLaugh evil sounding laugh]] and fading to a close up of his face wearing a sinister expression.
*** The introduction text, lifted straight from ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'' is a heads up that Gorillaz are ''not'' your average band, animated or otherwise:
---->''Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills. The people it kills get up and kill.''



* The explanation of how Russel got those milky white eyes and became the host of Del, the ghost who appears in the Clint Eastwood and Rock The House videos. His friends, including Del, were all shot by gangsters and their spirits got sucked into his body. Perhaps worst of all was him noticing that one of the gangbangers [[TheGrimReaper wore a black hood with no visible face]]. Russel also mentions that he had a paranormal experience prior to the shooting. He was possessed by a very large demon and went on a rampage in school. He was then exorcised but was put into a coma and didn't come out of it until four years later. He didn't believe any of it until he saw the picture of the "Russel wuz here!" graffiti written in blood on the school walls in his ''handwriting.''
* The utter disaster that was the concert in Mexico. Some of the highlights included a kid getting crushed by one of the inflatable gorillas from the Rock The House video, someone throwing a horse lung onto the stage and an [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext exchange of insults between a biker and one of Siegfried and Roy's tigers.]]

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* The explanation of how Russel got those milky white eyes and became the host of Del, the ghost who appears in the Clint Eastwood videos of "Clint Eastwood" and Rock The House videos."Rock the House". His friends, including Del, were all shot by gangsters and their spirits got sucked into his body. Perhaps worst of all was him noticing that one of the gangbangers [[TheGrimReaper wore a black hood with no visible face]]. Russel also mentions that he had a paranormal experience prior to the shooting. He was possessed by a very large demon and went on a rampage in school. He was then exorcised but was put into a coma and didn't come out of it until four years later. He didn't believe any of it until he saw the picture of the "Russel wuz here!" graffiti written in blood on the school walls in his ''handwriting.''his handwriting.''
* The utter disaster that was the concert in Mexico. Some of the highlights included a kid getting crushed by one of the inflatable gorillas from the Rock The House "Rock the House" video, someone throwing a horse lung onto the stage and an [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext exchange of insults between a biker and one of Siegfried and Roy's tigers.]]

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** Hip Albatross. Just... ''Hip Albatross.'' Trippy, dream-like acoustic guitars and flutey keyboard notes beneath grungy audio clips of dialogue and zombie sounds from ''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 Dawn]]'' and ''[[Film/DayOfTheDead1985 Day of the Dead]]'', layered over with the spaced-out echoes of 2D singing. The final stretch of the song after the crescendo is just [[NothingIsScarier instrumental]], as if humanity had finally been extinguished by the rampaging hordes of the undead.
--> ''I was born a zombie''
--> ''From Mercury''
--> ''I just sleep...''
** Faust. Creepy, hauntingly melodic synthesizers like someone descending deeper and deeper into an old castle. The icing on the creepy cake are the vocals of Noodle and 2D reciting a haiku in Japanese and English respectively.

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** Hip Albatross."Hip Albatross". Just... ''Hip Albatross.''"Hip Albatross".'' Trippy, dream-like acoustic guitars and flutey keyboard notes beneath grungy audio clips of dialogue and zombie sounds from ''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 Dawn]]'' and ''[[Film/DayOfTheDead1985 Day of the Dead]]'', layered over with the spaced-out echoes of 2D singing. The final stretch of the song after the crescendo is just [[NothingIsScarier instrumental]], as if humanity had finally been extinguished by the rampaging hordes of the undead.
--> ''I --->''I was born a zombie''
--> ''From --->''From Mercury''
--> ''I --->''I just sleep...''
** Faust."Faust". Creepy, hauntingly melodic synthesizers like someone descending deeper and deeper into an old castle. The icing on the creepy cake are the vocals of Noodle and 2D reciting a haiku in Japanese and English respectively.



** "Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head." The freakishly emotionless Creator/VincentPrice-esque narration. The ominously droning BackgroundMusic. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nxMrRXHqpo The twisted storybook-style music video/animation]]. But without question, the crown jewel of everything spooky this song brings to the table is the last bit of narration.
--->"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."
*** The narration is done by Creator/DennisHopper, and he sounds ''a lot'' like [[Film/BlueVelvet Frank Booth]] at points.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dngk8GHyJDs Some have noted]] how perfectly the song matches up with the eerie trailer for ''Series/StrangerThings'', both thematically and sonically.
** And one last thing. The intro for ''Demon Days''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzcpK9uWqs Oh god.]]
---> "YOU ARE NOW ENTERING... THE HARMONIC REALM..."
*** The melody is also sampled from ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVcWaGa7iCI The original,]] makes you feel like you are on the edge of insanity.



** "El Manana", its music video consists entirely of two helicopters shooting at Noodle's floating island while ''she's on it''! Then the video ends with the island falling down into a gorge with Noodle inside, screaming; and then one of the helicopters drop a bomb at it...
** [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOR6ib95kQ DARE]]'s music video can be kind of unsettling, what with Shawn Ryder's head being the only thing shown and the unfaded copies of Noodle. Also, [[CreepyMonotone that]] '''''[[CreepyMonotone VOICE!]]'''''

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** "El Manana", Mañana", its music video consists entirely of two helicopters shooting at Noodle's floating island while ''she's on it''! Then the video ends with the island falling down into a gorge with Noodle inside, screaming; and then one of the helicopters drop a bomb at it...
** [[https://m."[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOR6ib95kQ DARE]]'s DARE]]"'s music video can be kind of unsettling, what with Shawn Ryder's head being the only thing shown and the unfaded copies of Noodle. Also, [[CreepyMonotone that]] '''''[[CreepyMonotone VOICE!]]'''''VOICE!]]'''''
** "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head." The freakishly emotionless Creator/VincentPrice-esque narration, the ominously droning BackgroundMusic, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nxMrRXHqpo The twisted storybook-style music video/animation]]... But without question, the crown jewel of everything spooky this song brings to the table is the last bit of narration.
--->"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."
*** The narration is done by Creator/DennisHopper, and he sounds ''a lot'' like [[Film/BlueVelvet Frank Booth]] at points.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dngk8GHyJDs Some have noted]] how perfectly the song matches up with the eerie trailer for ''Series/StrangerThings'', both thematically and sonically.
** And one last thing. The intro for ''Demon Days''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzcpK9uWqs Oh god.]]
---> "YOU ARE NOW ENTERING... THE HARMONIC REALM..."
*** The melody is also sampled from ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVcWaGa7iCI The original,]] makes you feel like you are on the edge of insanity.
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For several decades, western animation has portrayed cartoon bands as wild and wacky, with names like WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits, WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats and [[WesternAnimation/{{Jabberjaw}} the Neptunes]] traveling around the world and solving mysteries, imprinting on popular culture the idea that an animated band would be a family-friendly affair. That all ended with Gorillaz. Instead of giving us talking animal sidekicks and hilarious chase sequences, they gave us zombies, kidnappings, severe head injuries, demonic shenanigans, preteen superweapons, haunted landfills, undead apes, vehicular homicide, giant whales, Dickensian stepfathers, violent foodfights, DIY taxidermy and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking painkillers.]]

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For several decades, western animation WesternAnimation has portrayed cartoon bands as wild and wacky, with names like WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits, WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats and [[WesternAnimation/{{Jabberjaw}} the Neptunes]] traveling around the world and solving mysteries, imprinting on popular culture the idea that an animated band would be a family-friendly affair. That all ended with Gorillaz. Music/{{Gorillaz}}. Instead of giving us talking animal sidekicks and hilarious chase sequences, they gave us zombies, kidnappings, severe head injuries, demonic shenanigans, preteen superweapons, haunted landfills, undead apes, vehicular homicide, giant whales, Dickensian stepfathers, violent foodfights, DIY taxidermy and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking painkillers.]]
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** The last fifty or so seconds of "Rock the House" aren't particularly pleasant, either. {{Squick}}.

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** "Double Bass", for all its jazzy sounds and vibes, has a rather disquieting vibe to it, like you're descending deeper and deeper into someplace unknown. Then the music stops for a brief moment for Damon Albarn to say what's probably on the mind of the people listening:
--->''All of which makes me anxious. At times, unbearably so.''
** The last fifty or so seconds of "Rock the House" aren't particularly pleasant, either.pleasant. {{Squick}}.



** Double Bass, for all its jazzy sounds and vibes, has a rather disquieting vibe to it, like you're descending deeper and deeper into someplace unknown. Then the music stops for a brief moment for Damon Albarn to say what's probably on the mind of the people listening:
-->''All of which makes me anxious. At times, unbearably so.''



-->''Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills. The people it kills get up and kill.''

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** Faust. (No, not [[Creator/LaurenFaust that Faust.]]) Creepy, hauntingly melodic synthesizers like someone descending deeper and deeper into an old castle. The icing on the creepy cake are the vocals of Noodle and 2D reciting a haiku in Japanese and English respectively.

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** Faust. (No, not [[Creator/LaurenFaust that Faust.]]) Creepy, hauntingly melodic synthesizers like someone descending deeper and deeper into an old castle. The icing on the creepy cake are the vocals of Noodle and 2D reciting a haiku in Japanese and English respectively.
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** Double Bass, for all its jazzy sounds and vibes, has a rather disquieting vibe to it, like you're descending deeper and deeper into someplace unknown. Then the music stops for a brief moment for Damon Albarn to say what's probably on the mind of the people listening:
-->''All of which makes me anxious. At times, unbearably so.''


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*** The introduction text, lifted straight from ''Film/DawnOfTheDead'' is a heads up that Gorillaz are ''not'' your average band, animated or otherwise:
-->''Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills. The people it kills get up and kill.''

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Josie and the Pussycats they are ''not.''


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Josie and the Pussycats they are ''not.''

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