Gorillaz | Demon Days (Album) | Plastic Beach | Humanz
- Technology Marches On: At the time, the fact that the album's first CD version gave you access to exclusive content on the band's interactive site was revolutionary. Now, if you play that movie that pops up when you put the disc into your computer all the way through, your browser opens up... to an error message. Indeed, the whole "Enhanced CD" fad was on its last legs around the time the album was released. Compare Demon Days (Album) and Plastic Beach, which feature no such Autoplay content, but merely references in the booklet to sections of the band's website to find lyrics and other content.
- What Could Have Been:
- Del The Funkee Homosapien's appearance on "Clint Eastwood" was a last minute addition, and he almost declined. They originally recorded a version with verses by the group Phi Life Cypher, but Dan The Automator later decided that he wanted Del on the song instead. Because Automator asked him to do it at the end of a long session for the first Deltron 3030 album, Del initially just wanted to call it a day. The Phi Life Cypher version appeared on G-Sides, but the Del version is much better known.
- "5/4" was originally going to be released as a single, but was replaced by "19-2000" at the last minute. An animatic was also made for a corresponding music video
that was left unfinished.
- Write What You Know: "5/4"'s lyric "She turned my dad on" was inspired by Damon Albarn's childhood memory of accidentally finding pornography on his dad's computer, allegedly of pornstar actress Linsey Dawn McKenzie.
