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Gorillaz - The Fall

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Album Review

Release date: 18 April 2011

Gorillaz - The Fall

Album Review: Gorillaz - The Fall (Parlophone)

Damon ditches the celeb mates and takes up the iPad for his best cartoon hip-hop album to date

Anyone who has been following the career of Damon Albarn ’s second biggest group over the last 13 years will be well aware that post-punk legend Mark E Smith added his inimitable phrasing to ‘ Glitter Freeze ’ last year. The glam-acid squelch of that ‘ Plastic Beach ’ album track saw him become the latest in a long line of unlikely vocalists to sing over the skewed pop-dance that...

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Blur and Gorillaz frontman says project could exist without Murdoc cartoon

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Gorillaz - The Fall: Wikipedia Album Entry

Recorded during Gorillaz's Fall 2010 tour of North America on Damon Albarn's iPad.

Features 15 new songs, representing a "sonic journal" of the tour. Released on Christmas Day 2010.

Phoner To Arizona 4:15
Revolving Doors 3:26
Hillbilly Man 3:50
Detroit 2:03
Shy-Town 2:55
Little Pink Plastic Bags 3:10
The Joplin Spider 3:22
The Parish Of Space Dust 2:26
The Snake In Dallas 2:11
Amarillo 3:25
The Speak It Mountains 2:15
Aspen Forest 2:50
Bobby in Phoenix 3:17
California And The Slipping Of The Sun 3:24
Seattle Yodel 0:39


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Gorillaz - The Fall Lyrics

Gorillaz - Revolving Doors Lyrics

Revolving doors, what have I done?
Someone on the TV, a tepid loss
Revolving doors, what will I become?
A redneck song

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Gorillaz - Hillbilly Man Lyrics

Drive away,
As in lonesome south,
like a real straight shooter,
three lanes full,

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Gorillaz - Shy-town Lyrics

Friday
She found out

The pride needs to cool little rain didn't do it

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Gorillaz - Little Pink Plastic Bags Lyrics

They're just little pink plastic bags
Blowing on a highway alone
They don't know where they'll go
They just gonna float out, ho, ho, ho

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Gorillaz - The Joplin Spider Lyrics

Colorful sailors washed up on the shore
Caught up on bad times
Spider in the ditch, she saw it all
Went to train, ride to dance

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Gorillaz - The Parish Of Space Dust Lyrics

Texas can you hear me?
Speed up on the dawn
To the pains and blues of Houston
In the sun

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Gorillaz - Amarillo Lyrics

The mountains are waiting
Full moon has come

I got lost on highways

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Gorillaz - Bobby In Phoenix Lyrics

Let's talk about Phoenix
It's got a way
Of helping you to breathe
A little better

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Gorillaz - California And The Slipping Of The Sun Lyrics

If you have any checked bags
They will be brought to the front of the station
To get to the front, walk
Down to the south end of the platform

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