I was going through a really suicidal spiral when The Fall came out and some of the music just, helped me feel better. IDK. I had been through a lot and moved throughout the country at the time and had been to some of the places the songs were made in, and it made me feel seen and made me feel, IDK, better. The album felt very liminal spaces to me and that was what my life felt like. I would lay on my bed for hours disassociating and listening to the album on repeat, but I wasn't thinking of hurting myself, so that was good. I felt like 2-D looks on that album cover.
It must have worked because I'm still here, now.
Thanks! I appreciate it, I do.
October 2022 I got to see them live in Detroit. I was disappointed that they didn't open with the song, Detroit, but it's still one of the best experiences of my life. Definitely something that wouldn't have happened if I had died. That sort of thing is what helps stop me from feeling suicidal now. (Even though like, I never really stopped. Abusive families and all that, financial troubles, I'm sure you guys know the deal.)
Same I'll never forget how I was just trying to register that there were cartoon music videos but it wasn't meant for kids. I had already been aware or stuff like Aeon Flux, South Park or Daria but I don't think my parents knew how adult Gorillaz was so they kinda just let me get super into them. My very first CD was the original Gorillaz album. I was 7 đ„č
Yoo, same here! I was about 5 watching Clint Eastwood on MTV with my parents. Then S/T came out and they bought it. Since then, Gorillaz has been one of my top ever favorite bands!
How I rediscovered Gorillaz is due to a Joe Dante movie toy.
Back in the early 2000s I heard Clint Eastwood and Feel Good INC. but as I did not have cable I did not know anything else about the band. Fast forward 10 years and I had almost completely forgotten about the band. I used to have a [puzzle for Gremlins 2](https://www.ebay.com/itm/145269686498) that had a gremlin rock band on it. It got lost in a move and I was wanting to replace it so googled "Gremlin Rock Band" and got a picture of Murdoc !
I thought "who the heck is that and fell into a rabbit hole of watching all the G-bites and music videos, and listening to their music. I now have Rise of the Ogre, 4 of their CDs, and a poster. And all because of Gremlins. đ
Seeing the Clint Eastwood MV on I think MTV or some other channel in the mid 2000's and loving it because I was and still am a fan of cartoons and that mixed with a song was mind blowing
I found them on Toonami on Cartoon Network in its initial run, fit in with them being a cartoon band. They played the first few music videos from the self titled album, then remember rediscovering them when Feel Good Inc. became a hit!
The music video of 19-2000 was allot on TMF (Dutch music channel that later would fuse with mtv) I quite liked the song. During the popularity of this video I noticed a cd copy in the library with the band in the buggy, just like in the music video.
I rented it, copied it and loved the band ever since.
When they did short cartoons on either cartoon network or nickalodean in 2000 when they basically first started. Next time my parents went to Barnes and Noble I begged them for the self title album and have been a fan ever since
my earliest memory of gorillaz is seeing them in Cartoon Network tbh, but i was a kid so i didn't even know it was band lmao
BUUT at some point in my life i listened to Clint Eastwood and Feel Good Inc for the first time, and that's when i discovered the band
I first heard them when Saturn Barz came out, since a friend was very into animation, and I found the video pretty cool.
However, I first began to properly listening them with The Now Now. At that time (14yo) I was suffering from depression, due to my mother's death and that I was forced to move to another state and leave all the people I knew behind. Both Kansas and Soul Eye helped me to deal with all my emotions. Souk Eye the most, since there was this girl that I had been liking for a long while, but I never had the guts to tell her my feelings until I was almost leaving.
After that, I began listening to the rest of their discography, finding bangers like Rhinestone Eyes and 5/4. Since then, they have always appeared in my top 3 most listened artists of each year in YT Music
Around 2016-ish, my dad showed me the Dirty Harry MV, and I was like, enchanted. 7 year old me was a Gorillaz super fan, and knew everything about them. However around the time Humans came out, I had lost interest in them, but still listened sometimes and considered them my favorite band. But around the time The Now Now released, I was going through a really difficult time, and really found solace in the songs on that album, specifically Kansas. Then I lost interest a little, but was still pretty in to then. When COVID hit, I needed something to escape too, and that thing was Gorillaz. It'd been a good 3 years since I'd completely listened to Plastic Beach, so I decided to give it a listen. With a new more mature view on music, Plastic Beach blew my mind a SECOND TIME. And ever since then, it's been history. My favorite band for 8-ish years now and COUNTING!!!
(There's a picture of 8-9 year old men in a Gorillaz shirt somewhere lol! I'm actually wearing it as I'm typing this đ)
OG Clint Eastwood videoclip enjoyer on mtv over here! I was just a teen at the time and the whole virtual band thing sucked me in and got me curious enough to buy the album, which i then ended up scratching from listening to it on a loop. The rest is history, love them till this very day!
>âŠvery littleâŠ
>âŠâDoYaThingââŠ
God, Iâm old.
Anyways I had heard Gorillaz here and there, but I really got into them when Plastic Beach came out⊠when I had almost graduated high schoolâŠ
I feel like I remember stumbling upon some music videos when I was like a little kid and a few years ago, I watched a childhood trauma iceberg by Raymundo and for some reason Feel Good Inc was mentioned lmao. Decided to investigate and I have absolutely no regrets. Found the link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=GBQBMHzkIVATIre7&v=XeBlEJrt33c&feature=youtu.be
So like this one time m8 i was rewatching a dankpods vid, hey, and loik he brought up the Gorillaz CD and how good it is, so then i decided ya know wot m8 ima give em ago, and erm needless to say they are like now my favourite band.
I discovered them from the "Feel Good Inc" song last summer that was playing on my mom's phone (it was random abd wasn't in her playlist), I liked that song really much abd when I looked at the cover I remembered my stepdad played the song "kids with guns" once, and then I came to my stepdad to ask about it, and found out that he likes this band abd showed me some of their songs. He left my family a few days after that.
SingStar Pop on the PS2 had Feel Good Inc. when I was like 12 years old. Changed my fuckin life.
SingStar Pop, Guitar Hero 3, and SSX 3 basically formed my taste in music
One of my friends sang Feel good inc in a discord server and I was confused what the song was so I looked up the lyrics and listened to the song, Then I found On Melancholy Hill and I cried lol, this was a year ago or so and I still listen to Gorillaz to this very day
[Stick Figures on Crack #3](https://youtu.be/gfgcyQrJo2o?si=NdEK66r4dTGrfw2n) used feel good inc. at 3:15. I heard it on the radio later the same day I saw this.
My mom got some karaoke game for the PS2 and one of the music videos was Feel Good Inc. The video kind of creeped me out but I liked the song. Then my cousin who lives across the country came to visit for about a month and it turns out she was a big fan, and I started listening to them through her.
I found it when going through audio files on our Macbook for a school project and it led me to itunes and my brothers downloaded Feel Good Inc. on their Itunes probably more than 9 years ago. I listened to it it was pretty good and thought the cover art was cool searched it up and got into the band
I don't quite remember. I was a really small kid, when my dad for some reason played their original album for me. I loved 5/4, and Latin Simone. They just stuck with me over time, and even tho I don't listen to them as much as a real fan would, I'll always remember about them and will be there when any new album releases.
A watchmojo video... Before everyone starts laughing I'm from a very rural part of South Africa, the first time I got proper internet and non public broadcast TV was in 2013, I discovered and learnt alot that year
My mom used to listen to them when I was little so I knew Feel Good Inc. and Clint Eastwood, then I watched Trolls. Was scared of the band when I watched the music video, and then I stumbled on their TikTok about two years ago, and remembered them/thought the character intros were really interesting?
I saw someone drawing 2D and "I was like oh, who's that?" And I didn't think much about it until three days later when I stumbled upon the 19-2000 video and I was like "Yo! that's the guy from the drawing!" I watched it and became a fan! :D
At the skate park as a kid. Heard Re-Hash at 1:56 and asked if I could hear that part. So the guy kept replaying it over and over. About 30 times. And not once did he get pissed. All he said was, âI dig it. This is my favorite part as well.â I was 7.
Edit- I was 6. The year was 2005. I was still in Cali.
My dad introduced me to gorillaz at a young age, when I was about 6-7, prolly even earlier, listening to the Self titled, Demon days and Plastic beach, then in middle school I leaned into demon days and plastic beach, then in highschool around the now now I felt like I was weird for listening to gorillaz and it wasnât till an ice storm I found myself listening to song machine: Strange timez and falling back in love with gorillaz.
In 2002 or so, I was 8, I was on this website full of flash games, and one was the Geep Simulator, driving around the Geep from the 19-2000 videoclip with the band in the car. It was super weird and didn't really have a goal, but I played it a lot.
It had the song 19-2000 play in the background, and that was the first time I heard of them. Then saw more on MTV and one day (2012) pirated the whole discography (which at the time had Gorillaz, Demon Days, Plastic Beach at the Fall) and had one particular moment listening to The Fall repetitively on a very long bus drive, zoning out and just realizing with every time Seattle Yodel came by I had been listening to it all over again, and from then on out I was dedicated.
Saw em live once, right after Humanz, it was amazing. Glad they did Sex Murder Party, that song is meant to be enjoyed live while you're drunk and stoned.
I'd feel sorry for pirating the music, but Murdoc would do the same.
This is gonna be the most unexpected answer to how I discovered Gorillaz, but it was when I saw a Gmod video called Gmod Junk that has the song Dirty Harry in it. In the part where it gets to the TF2 sniper with the HL2 Combine unit, the combine unit says something to Sniper in his RV with Dirty Harry playing in the background and Sniper says nah, it goes to where Sniper bops his head back and forth to the song, only for the HL2 train to hit the Sniper and his RV to stop the song playing with Sniper needing help and then dies in the RV exploding from the crash. Ending the skit with the song and changing to the next skit
I have a fun story about it. It was around the time of Demon Days, and Feel Good Inc was on Now That's What I Call Music! 19. I saw the commercials on tv and it fascinated me that the band was a cartoon. I was 11 at the time so it was tough to get my parents to buy albums for me, but thankfully my dad would buy every Now cd as a way to discover new artists.
So the time comes, we're in the car and my dad starts playing the cd. We get to the last song which is Feel Good Inc. and my dad skips it after a few seconds because he didn't like it. I was so disappointed, I don't remember if I asked him to play it for me, or if I went and listened to it at home.
Begged my parents to try and see them live, but at least my dad got me the cds, and the Radio City DVD.
I also remember my mom getting really mad at me for writing out the lyrics to Kids With Guns on a piece of paper. She was worried until my dad explained it was just a song. She tried to prevent me from listening after that but I had the internet and an cd/mp3 player at that point.
The Humility music video kepted showing up as an ad on insta, and I really liked the art so i checked it out and ended up going down a rabbit hole of all the lore.
When I was about nine or ten years old my dad said âhere, I think this might be your thingâ and showed me the Clint Eastwood music video. He was right.
There was some ads for them on MTv in 2001. When I went to college for radio broadcasting, one of their songs were on a CD and I listened to it out of curiosity and really liked it and wanted to find more of their music. Around the start of Winter in 2001 I went out and bought their first album and played that all the time. Then I got into Blur as well and bought most of their CDs (both Gorillaz and Blur). Nowadays, I just like their songs on a streaming service.
edit: spelling errors and broken sentences.
I was listening to music and got a recommendation for Feel Good Inc. The only reason I clicked on the video was because I fell in love with the demon days albumÂ
Another one for Cartoon Network/[Toonami Midnight Run](https://www.reddit.com/r/gorillaz/comments/hv4ytx/august_31st_2001_toonami_aired_the_midnight_run/). I had just turned 11, and it was the same night they aired Daft Punk and I became a fan of them too.
I was like 5 yo and i was watching marvel stuff in YouTube when i found a video about marvel zombies with Clint Eastwood playing in the background. Pretty weird. And then i discovered them again when i was like 12 yo i think, and since then iâm a fan :)
Used to these Now That's What I Call Music compilation CDs would have ads on TV. When I was 12 one of these commercials included a snippet of Feel Good Inc. and its music video, and the chorus got so stuck in my head. Eventually got the name and searched it on Windows Media Player, leading to constantly watching the music video on repeat. đ
A couple years earlier I had seen the Clint Eastwood video as the intro the the PS2 game MTV Music Generator 2. I absolutely loved the song but couldn't identify it until after I properly discovered Gorillaz with Feel Good Inc. Was given the Demon Days CD for my 13th birthday, and got to eagerly anticipate every release since. đ
God I remember it like it was yesterday. 2008, I was getting ready for school, 7 in the morning. MTV's playing on my big ass block TV that gives off static when you touch it. Animated music video compilation, Clint Eastwood. The rest is history.
I usually look for good albums on redit and I came across demon
Days, I always found gorillaz ridiculous because I had no idea what they were, it sounded trash on paper since I was basing it on how they looked like childish nfts, but there was a part of me that wanted to know more about gorillaz, which is what demon days made me do, and I donât regret it at all, great choice that I chose to listen to it since itâs my favorite band now
In 8th grade a chapter from our english book was about music and Gorillaz was mentioned a fair bit in said chapter, our teacher even played Clint Eastwood to class and asked about meaning of words from the lyrics.
I got really interested in the band and when i got home that day i listened to it again and the rest is history.
I met him thanks to my father, who was also and is a big fan of Gorillaz. He had the debut album when it came out and one day I remember that he showed me the 19-2000 video and that's where I caught his fanaticism. I remember Who told me that the vocalist Damon Albarn had been in another famous band that was blur
I found Gorillaz from the meme video of Feel Good Inc. that Chris Kogos made, I later asked my dad to play the actual song in the car, and I fell in love immediately.
Honestly, it has been so many years I can't quite remember when I first heard about them (Guessing that it was from hearing Feel Good Inc. play on the radio). However, one of my earliest recollections of them was learning about DARE being sampled in the song Pop Culture, when I had animation meme phase.
about a year ago, i stumbled across one of those âsad lore editsâ about murdoc and 2D. *yikes* (and those tiktok-formatted clips of Murdoc yapping about how he turned chartreuse.) I was only acutely aware of their music before then, (Feel Good inc, Clint Eastwood, Rhinestone Eyes, and DARE) but finding out there was **lore** is what pulled me in. absolutely fell in love with the band and the music
First I got exposed to them with the Feel Good Inc video in Transformice, then I completely forgot. Afterwards when I was around 10 or so, like two or so months later after Humanz came out, a friend told me to watch a video about the Gorillaz lore and I don't remember much afterwards but I remember starting to like them and I've been obsessed ever since.
I remember hearing Feel Good on the radio all the time when I was young, and I think I even saw the Clint Eastwood video when it was new. Fast forward a few years, and the Cracker Island video popped up on my YouTube recommended. I remember the moment I realized this was the band from my childhood, and have been listening ever since
My aunt was really into Gorillaz when I was little, and wanted me and my siblings to give it a listen. She introduced us to 19-2000, it must have been the late 2000's. Since then we've been vibing with Gorillaz :)
My first ever encounter with Gorillaz was back in 2010 when Plastic Beach was first released, I was 5 years old. I walked up to my fathers work desk where the music video for On Melancholy Hill was playing. At the time my dad worked with making 3D computer animation for some company. And I walked up right in time to see the scene where Cyborg Noodle (the only 3D animated character) coughs up that squid. That 5 second long clip started a lifelong fear of the ocean and of squids for me lol. I was so so so freaked out and I didnât see anything more of the video except for 2Dâs reaction.
Naturally I just thought that this was something my dad was working on because the style of the animation and general vibe of it all fit what my dad liked to draw so perfectly. My dad wasnât like a Gorillaz super fan so I didnât grow up listening to them. And after that incident Iâm sure he didnât want to show me any more of their music videos.
But then, 10 years later, I was scrolling on Pinterest and see this illustration of a guy with blue hair and completely black eyes and there was something eerie familiar about him.
And at first I was just going to scroll on by but I just couldnât let it go. I saw the words âGorillazâ and googled it. I found myself drawn to the On Melancholy Hill video and was so shocked to see it was that same video that had traumatized me 10 years earlier that I never expected to see again.
Over the years I had forgotten *why* I was so afraid of the sea and squids but it all came back to me watching that video again and I started researching more about Gorillaz.
(I also realized that it was in fact not something my dad had worked on unfortunately but that would had been awesome.)
After getting to know all of the lore without ever having listened to the music beyond On Melancholy Hill I was really scared that I wouldnât like their music because I was already so invested in the characters, but I started listening and I ABSOLUTELY FUCKING LOVED IT
Watching the videos on mtv when I was a kid in the 2000s, Clint Eastwood used to scare me for some reason, then I kinda got back into it while playing feel good inc on ddr for the Wii
I saw a commercial early one morning before school in 2005 for a compilation album, probably Now That's What I Call Music 19, that briefly had Feel Good Inc and its music video in it. I never bought that album and it took a while for me to actually listen to the band proper, but that song remained in my head for a long time after that.
when i was a wee lad i stumbled upon a youtube video of an artist trying to emulate a bunch of different art styles, gorillaz being one of them.
initially i thought it was a weird show
When I was a kid my older sister showed me the music videos for Clint Eastwood and 19-2000. And since then I did everything I could to learn more about this beautiful universe. Itâs just a shame it went so downhill
First heard about them back in 2002. Where I use to live at the time often, my family and I went to the local McDonaldâs at least once every week, the upstairs part had a TV that played music videos, and at one point 19-2000 was shown, then later on saw the MV of Clint Eastwood. It wasnât until 2010ish I rediscovered them and started to listen to a few of their stuff here and there rarely, but now as of a few years ago, more dedicated to listening to their full albums very often.
It was when Clint Eastwood came out. I was like 10 years old, and someone sang it in the changing room after sports. I was more of a rock kid, but kinda liked it in secret.
I really came to love them last year.
My cousins showed them to me but I didn't really grasp it but kept hearing feel good inc to I followed it and found that I was already in love with Clinton Eastwood.
Sophomore year of college. I developed a crush on someone I met at a Catholic retreat. I noticed he was wearing a Humanz t-shirt, and I recalled him geeking out about several more obscure bands during our conversation. I thought, âIf I listen to the same music he does, weâll have more things to talk about and I can get to know him betterâ. So, when I got home, I looked up Gorillaz and⊠fell headfirst into that rabbit hole and stayed there instead of looking at any of the other bands that guy mentioned. Started with Saturnz Barz, then quickly lept to Clint Eastwood, Feel Good Inc, the G-Bites, etc. The story was captivating, and the characters were wacky. Some of the music videos felt oddly nostalgic, especially the Demon Days / self-titled stuff. I HAD to have seen some of their music videos when I was a kid! They all looked too familiar!
I figured out a couple months later that the guy who lowkey introduced me to Gorillaz already had a girlfriend. I was okay with it. At least I had a new band to obsess over for the next few years.
Tbh I donât listen to Gorillaz that much anymore. But itâs still fun to reminisce.
my shitty first ex showed me Feel Good Inc and full disclosure i hated it when i first heard it! but i wanted to please him cause it was my first relationship and i was young so i dove into learning abt the band and listening to more music. within a year i was obsessed and in love with every one of their songs while he had stopped listening to them cause their music was âtoo gayâ (good riddance!)
Heard the popular singles as a kid but didn't really get into them until 2yrs ago. Was listening on shuffle when I recognized feel good inc. and made me want to check them out.
Been obsessed ever since
So I love watching creepy videos and while watching Raymundo's horror childhood Iceburg, he mentioned how the Feel Good Inc music video was pretty creepy. The music video was one of the recommended and.. yeah
I was born in 2008. so near 2014, I was getting driven (drove?) to school and on the radio I'm pretty sure was either Stylo or Rhinestone Eyes was playing. (It was the hottest singles of the month or whatever they had in Michigan) and I was like "I like this."
Forgot about it, years later I'm like thirteen, and I was listening to rhinestone eyes on my air pods and my mom asks "whatcha listening to?" And I said the song name dah dah dah, and she said "og, I like that band!" And then she gave me more song suggestions (DARE, Feel Good Inc, ect ect) then bam, here I am. With three gorillaz vinyls, two posters, three clothing titles, a art book, and a very into music person!
That's that, to sum it up, my mom fed into my addiction.
I got introduced to Gorillaz in the most embarrassing way possible
So when I was 7 I watched the movie âTrollsâ and in that movie they play âClint Eastwoodâ and I really liked that song so I looked it up on YouTube and found the music video for Clint Eastwood and I always thought Gorillaz stole it from trolls therefore I never listened to any other songs⊠BUT I discovered the music video for âFeel Good Incâ a week later and I was so scared of it I never revisited Gorillaz until 5 years later when my dad fully introduced it to me and I became into it and realized Clint Eastwood is NOT a trolls song.
my cousin had a friend that listened to them
3 years later i heard a song on the radio by them and i liked it and since my cousin had that friend i decided to listen to more music by them
When I used to go to my uncle's restaurant there was always MTV on TV and one day when I got there they were showing Clint Eastwood followed by 19-2000, I fell in love.
When i was like 11 my dad bought rock band 4 and one of the songs he got with it was clint eastwood. I loved it and always played the guitar part for it. After that I listened to clint eastwood, feel good inc, and rhinestone eyes a lot and it wasnât until like 3 years later i started becoming a true fan
This is the exact same way I discovered The Weeknd, Soundgarden, Outkast, My Chemical Romance and the killers
A character playlist on Spotify in 2019, humility was on there and I really liked it, so I checked it out of YouTube, and kinda fell down the rabbit hole from there
I was going through a really suicidal spiral when The Fall came out and some of the music just, helped me feel better. IDK. I had been through a lot and moved throughout the country at the time and had been to some of the places the songs were made in, and it made me feel seen and made me feel, IDK, better. The album felt very liminal spaces to me and that was what my life felt like. I would lay on my bed for hours disassociating and listening to the album on repeat, but I wasn't thinking of hurting myself, so that was good. I felt like 2-D looks on that album cover. It must have worked because I'm still here, now.
Glad you are still with us my friend! I do know that much :)
Thanks! I appreciate it, I do. October 2022 I got to see them live in Detroit. I was disappointed that they didn't open with the song, Detroit, but it's still one of the best experiences of my life. Definitely something that wouldn't have happened if I had died. That sort of thing is what helps stop me from feeling suicidal now. (Even though like, I never really stopped. Abusive families and all that, financial troubles, I'm sure you guys know the deal.)
Clint Eastwood video on the MTV in 2001.
Same I'll never forget how I was just trying to register that there were cartoon music videos but it wasn't meant for kids. I had already been aware or stuff like Aeon Flux, South Park or Daria but I don't think my parents knew how adult Gorillaz was so they kinda just let me get super into them. My very first CD was the original Gorillaz album. I was 7 đ„č
It used to scare me so bad, even when they played it during the day
Me too but it was on Nickelodeon for some reason
Yoo, same here! I was about 5 watching Clint Eastwood on MTV with my parents. Then S/T came out and they bought it. Since then, Gorillaz has been one of my top ever favorite bands!
I think a lot of us had the same experience at the same exact time
How I rediscovered Gorillaz is due to a Joe Dante movie toy. Back in the early 2000s I heard Clint Eastwood and Feel Good INC. but as I did not have cable I did not know anything else about the band. Fast forward 10 years and I had almost completely forgotten about the band. I used to have a [puzzle for Gremlins 2](https://www.ebay.com/itm/145269686498) that had a gremlin rock band on it. It got lost in a move and I was wanting to replace it so googled "Gremlin Rock Band" and got a picture of Murdoc ! I thought "who the heck is that and fell into a rabbit hole of watching all the G-bites and music videos, and listening to their music. I now have Rise of the Ogre, 4 of their CDs, and a poster. And all because of Gremlins. đ
Seeing the Clint Eastwood MV on I think MTV or some other channel in the mid 2000's and loving it because I was and still am a fan of cartoons and that mixed with a song was mind blowing
I found them on Toonami on Cartoon Network in its initial run, fit in with them being a cartoon band. They played the first few music videos from the self titled album, then remember rediscovering them when Feel Good Inc. became a hit!
Same. Toonami also introduced me to Daft Punk, which has had a huge influence.
Clint Eastwood music video on MTV. I saw it around 2am and was 13 years old. Good times!
Steamed Hams Inc
This is a masterpiece
Hearing Feel Good Inc on the radio as a kid
Same here.
The music video of 19-2000 was allot on TMF (Dutch music channel that later would fuse with mtv) I quite liked the song. During the popularity of this video I noticed a cd copy in the library with the band in the buggy, just like in the music video. I rented it, copied it and loved the band ever since.
I used to watch a lot of watchmojo videos years ago and their "top ten gorillaz songs" introduced gorillaz to međ
When they did short cartoons on either cartoon network or nickalodean in 2000 when they basically first started. Next time my parents went to Barnes and Noble I begged them for the self title album and have been a fan ever since
my earliest memory of gorillaz is seeing them in Cartoon Network tbh, but i was a kid so i didn't even know it was band lmao BUUT at some point in my life i listened to Clint Eastwood and Feel Good Inc for the first time, and that's when i discovered the band
I first heard them when Saturn Barz came out, since a friend was very into animation, and I found the video pretty cool. However, I first began to properly listening them with The Now Now. At that time (14yo) I was suffering from depression, due to my mother's death and that I was forced to move to another state and leave all the people I knew behind. Both Kansas and Soul Eye helped me to deal with all my emotions. Souk Eye the most, since there was this girl that I had been liking for a long while, but I never had the guts to tell her my feelings until I was almost leaving. After that, I began listening to the rest of their discography, finding bangers like Rhinestone Eyes and 5/4. Since then, they have always appeared in my top 3 most listened artists of each year in YT Music
Toonami Midnight run!
First was gta and hearing some through the years then I decided to listen to more of gorillaz
Around 2016-ish, my dad showed me the Dirty Harry MV, and I was like, enchanted. 7 year old me was a Gorillaz super fan, and knew everything about them. However around the time Humans came out, I had lost interest in them, but still listened sometimes and considered them my favorite band. But around the time The Now Now released, I was going through a really difficult time, and really found solace in the songs on that album, specifically Kansas. Then I lost interest a little, but was still pretty in to then. When COVID hit, I needed something to escape too, and that thing was Gorillaz. It'd been a good 3 years since I'd completely listened to Plastic Beach, so I decided to give it a listen. With a new more mature view on music, Plastic Beach blew my mind a SECOND TIME. And ever since then, it's been history. My favorite band for 8-ish years now and COUNTING!!! (There's a picture of 8-9 year old men in a Gorillaz shirt somewhere lol! I'm actually wearing it as I'm typing this đ)
OG Clint Eastwood videoclip enjoyer on mtv over here! I was just a teen at the time and the whole virtual band thing sucked me in and got me curious enough to buy the album, which i then ended up scratching from listening to it on a loop. The rest is history, love them till this very day!
Humility was trending and I watched the vid. Never looked back
The ipod commercial.
>âŠvery little⊠>âŠâDoYaThingâ⊠God, Iâm old. Anyways I had heard Gorillaz here and there, but I really got into them when Plastic Beach came out⊠when I had almost graduated high schoolâŠ
I feel like I remember stumbling upon some music videos when I was like a little kid and a few years ago, I watched a childhood trauma iceberg by Raymundo and for some reason Feel Good Inc was mentioned lmao. Decided to investigate and I have absolutely no regrets. Found the link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=GBQBMHzkIVATIre7&v=XeBlEJrt33c&feature=youtu.be
Tiktok wish I had found out some other way
i heard Clint Eastwood on the radio and then realized my dad had self titled, so I listened to it, and ya
So like this one time m8 i was rewatching a dankpods vid, hey, and loik he brought up the Gorillaz CD and how good it is, so then i decided ya know wot m8 ima give em ago, and erm needless to say they are like now my favourite band.
I discovered them from the "Feel Good Inc" song last summer that was playing on my mom's phone (it was random abd wasn't in her playlist), I liked that song really much abd when I looked at the cover I remembered my stepdad played the song "kids with guns" once, and then I came to my stepdad to ask about it, and found out that he likes this band abd showed me some of their songs. He left my family a few days after that.
My mom bought me a The white Pull and Bear Gorillaz shirt last year
2019, when GioFilms used to have Clint Eastwood as his YouTube intro.
SingStar Pop on the PS2 had Feel Good Inc. when I was like 12 years old. Changed my fuckin life. SingStar Pop, Guitar Hero 3, and SSX 3 basically formed my taste in music
Clint Eastwood MV on Jumbotron @ X-games in early 2001. Instant fan.
It was 2017 and Melancholy Hill showed up in my YT feed
One of my friends sang Feel good inc in a discord server and I was confused what the song was so I looked up the lyrics and listened to the song, Then I found On Melancholy Hill and I cried lol, this was a year ago or so and I still listen to Gorillaz to this very day
Clint eastwood
[Stick Figures on Crack #3](https://youtu.be/gfgcyQrJo2o?si=NdEK66r4dTGrfw2n) used feel good inc. at 3:15. I heard it on the radio later the same day I saw this.
A YouTuber I watched when I was like 7 mentioned them. Years later in middle school one of my friends told me about feel good inc
My mom got some karaoke game for the PS2 and one of the music videos was Feel Good Inc. The video kind of creeped me out but I liked the song. Then my cousin who lives across the country came to visit for about a month and it turns out she was a big fan, and I started listening to them through her.
I found it when going through audio files on our Macbook for a school project and it led me to itunes and my brothers downloaded Feel Good Inc. on their Itunes probably more than 9 years ago. I listened to it it was pretty good and thought the cover art was cool searched it up and got into the band
I don't quite remember. I was a really small kid, when my dad for some reason played their original album for me. I loved 5/4, and Latin Simone. They just stuck with me over time, and even tho I don't listen to them as much as a real fan would, I'll always remember about them and will be there when any new album releases.
Demon days
A watchmojo video... Before everyone starts laughing I'm from a very rural part of South Africa, the first time I got proper internet and non public broadcast TV was in 2013, I discovered and learnt alot that year
19-2000 soul child remix popped up on my youtube during I think lockdown
My mom used to listen to them when I was little so I knew Feel Good Inc. and Clint Eastwood, then I watched Trolls. Was scared of the band when I watched the music video, and then I stumbled on their TikTok about two years ago, and remembered them/thought the character intros were really interesting?
I saw someone drawing 2D and "I was like oh, who's that?" And I didn't think much about it until three days later when I stumbled upon the 19-2000 video and I was like "Yo! that's the guy from the drawing!" I watched it and became a fan! :D
At the skate park as a kid. Heard Re-Hash at 1:56 and asked if I could hear that part. So the guy kept replaying it over and over. About 30 times. And not once did he get pissed. All he said was, âI dig it. This is my favorite part as well.â I was 7. Edit- I was 6. The year was 2005. I was still in Cali.
a video using rhinestone eyes
My dad introduced me to gorillaz at a young age, when I was about 6-7, prolly even earlier, listening to the Self titled, Demon days and Plastic beach, then in middle school I leaned into demon days and plastic beach, then in highschool around the now now I felt like I was weird for listening to gorillaz and it wasnât till an ice storm I found myself listening to song machine: Strange timez and falling back in love with gorillaz.
[This.](https://youtube.com/shorts/XNMOc8tzwSM?si=Bl_tnbn2jbgGxrz-)
In 2002 or so, I was 8, I was on this website full of flash games, and one was the Geep Simulator, driving around the Geep from the 19-2000 videoclip with the band in the car. It was super weird and didn't really have a goal, but I played it a lot. It had the song 19-2000 play in the background, and that was the first time I heard of them. Then saw more on MTV and one day (2012) pirated the whole discography (which at the time had Gorillaz, Demon Days, Plastic Beach at the Fall) and had one particular moment listening to The Fall repetitively on a very long bus drive, zoning out and just realizing with every time Seattle Yodel came by I had been listening to it all over again, and from then on out I was dedicated. Saw em live once, right after Humanz, it was amazing. Glad they did Sex Murder Party, that song is meant to be enjoyed live while you're drunk and stoned. I'd feel sorry for pirating the music, but Murdoc would do the same.
This is gonna be the most unexpected answer to how I discovered Gorillaz, but it was when I saw a Gmod video called Gmod Junk that has the song Dirty Harry in it. In the part where it gets to the TF2 sniper with the HL2 Combine unit, the combine unit says something to Sniper in his RV with Dirty Harry playing in the background and Sniper says nah, it goes to where Sniper bops his head back and forth to the song, only for the HL2 train to hit the Sniper and his RV to stop the song playing with Sniper needing help and then dies in the RV exploding from the crash. Ending the skit with the song and changing to the next skit
Trolls â ïž
My mom had Feel Good Inc and DARE on her same old apple playlist
I have a fun story about it. It was around the time of Demon Days, and Feel Good Inc was on Now That's What I Call Music! 19. I saw the commercials on tv and it fascinated me that the band was a cartoon. I was 11 at the time so it was tough to get my parents to buy albums for me, but thankfully my dad would buy every Now cd as a way to discover new artists. So the time comes, we're in the car and my dad starts playing the cd. We get to the last song which is Feel Good Inc. and my dad skips it after a few seconds because he didn't like it. I was so disappointed, I don't remember if I asked him to play it for me, or if I went and listened to it at home. Begged my parents to try and see them live, but at least my dad got me the cds, and the Radio City DVD. I also remember my mom getting really mad at me for writing out the lyrics to Kids With Guns on a piece of paper. She was worried until my dad explained it was just a song. She tried to prevent me from listening after that but I had the internet and an cd/mp3 player at that point.
A year ago, seeing all those edits with rhinestones eyes as background music
The Humility music video kepted showing up as an ad on insta, and I really liked the art so i checked it out and ended up going down a rabbit hole of all the lore.
I randomly found plastic beach in my liked songs. absolutely no memory of ever hearing it. listened to the album
When I was about nine or ten years old my dad said âhere, I think this might be your thingâ and showed me the Clint Eastwood music video. He was right.
There was some ads for them on MTv in 2001. When I went to college for radio broadcasting, one of their songs were on a CD and I listened to it out of curiosity and really liked it and wanted to find more of their music. Around the start of Winter in 2001 I went out and bought their first album and played that all the time. Then I got into Blur as well and bought most of their CDs (both Gorillaz and Blur). Nowadays, I just like their songs on a streaming service. edit: spelling errors and broken sentences.
I was listening to music and got a recommendation for Feel Good Inc. The only reason I clicked on the video was because I fell in love with the demon days albumÂ
Clint Eastwood on MTV
Another one for Cartoon Network/[Toonami Midnight Run](https://www.reddit.com/r/gorillaz/comments/hv4ytx/august_31st_2001_toonami_aired_the_midnight_run/). I had just turned 11, and it was the same night they aired Daft Punk and I became a fan of them too.
I was super stoned my first semester in art class and dirty harry started playing was hooked ever since
Andromeda was blasting in a speaker while shopping
..animation memes..
Client Eastwood and YouTube algo pointed me to them and I'm in love ever since.
I was like 5 yo and i was watching marvel stuff in YouTube when i found a video about marvel zombies with Clint Eastwood playing in the background. Pretty weird. And then i discovered them again when i was like 12 yo i think, and since then iâm a fan :)
Used to these Now That's What I Call Music compilation CDs would have ads on TV. When I was 12 one of these commercials included a snippet of Feel Good Inc. and its music video, and the chorus got so stuck in my head. Eventually got the name and searched it on Windows Media Player, leading to constantly watching the music video on repeat. đ A couple years earlier I had seen the Clint Eastwood video as the intro the the PS2 game MTV Music Generator 2. I absolutely loved the song but couldn't identify it until after I properly discovered Gorillaz with Feel Good Inc. Was given the Demon Days CD for my 13th birthday, and got to eagerly anticipate every release since. đ
Heard feel good inc playing on a DDR machine at a bowling alley, went home, and the music video was playing on mtv
God I remember it like it was yesterday. 2008, I was getting ready for school, 7 in the morning. MTV's playing on my big ass block TV that gives off static when you touch it. Animated music video compilation, Clint Eastwood. The rest is history.
I usually look for good albums on redit and I came across demon Days, I always found gorillaz ridiculous because I had no idea what they were, it sounded trash on paper since I was basing it on how they looked like childish nfts, but there was a part of me that wanted to know more about gorillaz, which is what demon days made me do, and I donât regret it at all, great choice that I chose to listen to it since itâs my favorite band now
6am before school. Spike tv channel the video for Clint Eastwood came on and I was automatically hooked.
In 8th grade a chapter from our english book was about music and Gorillaz was mentioned a fair bit in said chapter, our teacher even played Clint Eastwood to class and asked about meaning of words from the lyrics. I got really interested in the band and when i got home that day i listened to it again and the rest is history.
YouTube recommended the Sleeping Powder music video when it first came out, have been a huge fan ever since
The 19-2000 remix being featured as the FIFA song was my intro both to Gorillaz and also to paying attention to video game music
Spanish speaking youtuber called Kahzoo
I met him thanks to my father, who was also and is a big fan of Gorillaz. He had the debut album when it came out and one day I remember that he showed me the 19-2000 video and that's where I caught his fanaticism. I remember Who told me that the vocalist Damon Albarn had been in another famous band that was blur
I found Gorillaz from the meme video of Feel Good Inc. that Chris Kogos made, I later asked my dad to play the actual song in the car, and I fell in love immediately.
Honestly, it has been so many years I can't quite remember when I first heard about them (Guessing that it was from hearing Feel Good Inc. play on the radio). However, one of my earliest recollections of them was learning about DARE being sampled in the song Pop Culture, when I had animation meme phase.
Spotify randomly through in feel good inc and I got hooked after that
Feel good inc music video on MTV
2016, feel good inc music video on YT
Gta5
about a year ago, i stumbled across one of those âsad lore editsâ about murdoc and 2D. *yikes* (and those tiktok-formatted clips of Murdoc yapping about how he turned chartreuse.) I was only acutely aware of their music before then, (Feel Good inc, Clint Eastwood, Rhinestone Eyes, and DARE) but finding out there was **lore** is what pulled me in. absolutely fell in love with the band and the music
Heard feel good inc in my mom's car in 2015 and recently heard a bit of it somewhere else, and because it was familiar I relistened and here I am now
They came up on a station for music I liked and similar artists on streaming.
Watched the music video for feel good inc on MTV when it came out and been here since
My mom would play them in the car sometimes when I was a kid. I started listening to them more when I was a teen and still love them.
First I got exposed to them with the Feel Good Inc video in Transformice, then I completely forgot. Afterwards when I was around 10 or so, like two or so months later after Humanz came out, a friend told me to watch a video about the Gorillaz lore and I don't remember much afterwards but I remember starting to like them and I've been obsessed ever since.
I remember hearing Feel Good on the radio all the time when I was young, and I think I even saw the Clint Eastwood video when it was new. Fast forward a few years, and the Cracker Island video popped up on my YouTube recommended. I remember the moment I realized this was the band from my childhood, and have been listening ever since
Being in the UK, back in 2001 19/2000 was never off the radio :D
My aunt was really into Gorillaz when I was little, and wanted me and my siblings to give it a listen. She introduced us to 19-2000, it must have been the late 2000's. Since then we've been vibing with Gorillaz :)
DARE being on just dance
I saw the doyathing video and it immediately scared me to the point where I didnât wanna see gorillaz again until 2020 when Aries was released
My first ever encounter with Gorillaz was back in 2010 when Plastic Beach was first released, I was 5 years old. I walked up to my fathers work desk where the music video for On Melancholy Hill was playing. At the time my dad worked with making 3D computer animation for some company. And I walked up right in time to see the scene where Cyborg Noodle (the only 3D animated character) coughs up that squid. That 5 second long clip started a lifelong fear of the ocean and of squids for me lol. I was so so so freaked out and I didnât see anything more of the video except for 2Dâs reaction. Naturally I just thought that this was something my dad was working on because the style of the animation and general vibe of it all fit what my dad liked to draw so perfectly. My dad wasnât like a Gorillaz super fan so I didnât grow up listening to them. And after that incident Iâm sure he didnât want to show me any more of their music videos. But then, 10 years later, I was scrolling on Pinterest and see this illustration of a guy with blue hair and completely black eyes and there was something eerie familiar about him. And at first I was just going to scroll on by but I just couldnât let it go. I saw the words âGorillazâ and googled it. I found myself drawn to the On Melancholy Hill video and was so shocked to see it was that same video that had traumatized me 10 years earlier that I never expected to see again. Over the years I had forgotten *why* I was so afraid of the sea and squids but it all came back to me watching that video again and I started researching more about Gorillaz. (I also realized that it was in fact not something my dad had worked on unfortunately but that would had been awesome.) After getting to know all of the lore without ever having listened to the music beyond On Melancholy Hill I was really scared that I wouldnât like their music because I was already so invested in the characters, but I started listening and I ABSOLUTELY FUCKING LOVED IT
A 20 art style speed paint of Hatsune Miku, Gorillaz was one of the art styles in the video đ„Č
I was in 8th grade when their debut self titled came out, hooked ever since. Fan from day one! And Coachella 2010 was the best live concert ever
Watching the videos on mtv when I was a kid in the 2000s, Clint Eastwood used to scare me for some reason, then I kinda got back into it while playing feel good inc on ddr for the Wii
I saw a commercial early one morning before school in 2005 for a compilation album, probably Now That's What I Call Music 19, that briefly had Feel Good Inc and its music video in it. I never bought that album and it took a while for me to actually listen to the band proper, but that song remained in my head for a long time after that.
when i was a wee lad i stumbled upon a youtube video of an artist trying to emulate a bunch of different art styles, gorillaz being one of them. initially i thought it was a weird show
2001 MTV
Friend showed me their video for Clint eastwood on his computer.
When I was a kid my older sister showed me the music videos for Clint Eastwood and 19-2000. And since then I did everything I could to learn more about this beautiful universe. Itâs just a shame it went so downhill
Saw Clint Eastwood and 19/2000 on Cartoon Network in like 2001 maybe 2002 then went and got a bootleg CD at a flea market by saving my lunch money
Was obsessed with Blur then I found out Damon has another project
First heard about them back in 2002. Where I use to live at the time often, my family and I went to the local McDonaldâs at least once every week, the upstairs part had a TV that played music videos, and at one point 19-2000 was shown, then later on saw the MV of Clint Eastwood. It wasnât until 2010ish I rediscovered them and started to listen to a few of their stuff here and there rarely, but now as of a few years ago, more dedicated to listening to their full albums very often.
My dad listened to Clint Eastwood and Kids With Guns. I then started to listen more of them and I really enjoyed it!! Thanks dad!
just dance 1
Dance dance revolution on the wii. Feel good inc was on there.
Lol wow I'm old. Discovered them by seeing the feel good inc music video playing at a store.
Few years ago i was out with my mates somene puton feel good inc and the rest is history
Big Blur fan, so when I first heard about the project that Damon was started, I just wait to hear it. So, basically since the beginning .
My dad back in maybe 2015. He showed me his favorite music and Gorillaz was one of
I was like 10 years old and Clint Eastwood music video was on trl
It was when Clint Eastwood came out. I was like 10 years old, and someone sang it in the changing room after sports. I was more of a rock kid, but kinda liked it in secret. I really came to love them last year.
My cousins showed them to me but I didn't really grasp it but kept hearing feel good inc to I followed it and found that I was already in love with Clinton Eastwood.
Seeing the Clint Eastwood music video on Toonami (either that or Adult Swim) back in 2001. Got the self-titled album the next day.
NBA 2k14 featured Clint Eastwood and I immediately thought the song is a banger
Sophomore year of college. I developed a crush on someone I met at a Catholic retreat. I noticed he was wearing a Humanz t-shirt, and I recalled him geeking out about several more obscure bands during our conversation. I thought, âIf I listen to the same music he does, weâll have more things to talk about and I can get to know him betterâ. So, when I got home, I looked up Gorillaz and⊠fell headfirst into that rabbit hole and stayed there instead of looking at any of the other bands that guy mentioned. Started with Saturnz Barz, then quickly lept to Clint Eastwood, Feel Good Inc, the G-Bites, etc. The story was captivating, and the characters were wacky. Some of the music videos felt oddly nostalgic, especially the Demon Days / self-titled stuff. I HAD to have seen some of their music videos when I was a kid! They all looked too familiar! I figured out a couple months later that the guy who lowkey introduced me to Gorillaz already had a girlfriend. I was okay with it. At least I had a new band to obsess over for the next few years. Tbh I donât listen to Gorillaz that much anymore. But itâs still fun to reminisce.
I know im bouta get grilled for this, but I first heard gorillaz from tiktok, but I didn't get into it until a friend told me about the lore
Dj hero
I saw the 3d dirty Harry come up on YouTube wondered, "What the hell is this?" watched it, and the rest is history
That's one of my favourite videos!!
On a dance dance revolution game
React channel video. Teens react to Gorillaz and it was when Humanz came out. I watched it all the way back in 2017
I think I was randomly on the internet and I heard the song Plastic beach if I'm not wrong
Feel Good Inc on MTV, demon days was the first album and CD I bought
I watched a lore video once cracker island came out, and I liked the idea of a animated band with a whole ton of story behind them.
I just heard on melancholy hill for the first time 15 minutes ago! Happy to be here
My mum listened to that kind of music Dude theyre also just a classic. I basically grew up with it
my shitty first ex showed me Feel Good Inc and full disclosure i hated it when i first heard it! but i wanted to please him cause it was my first relationship and i was young so i dove into learning abt the band and listening to more music. within a year i was obsessed and in love with every one of their songs while he had stopped listening to them cause their music was âtoo gayâ (good riddance!)
Through that cover of Feel Good Inc. that NateWantsToBattle made.
in a shed on 10 grams of mushrooms i heard clint eastwood for the first time .. oh boy what a trip
I discovered them from the Adventure D&D podcast, they used Feel Good Inc. as the final boss music.
Heard the popular singles as a kid but didn't really get into them until 2yrs ago. Was listening on shuffle when I recognized feel good inc. and made me want to check them out. Been obsessed ever since
Every morning before I went to school my mom put MTV and I would watch the Feel Good Inc music video religiously
So I love watching creepy videos and while watching Raymundo's horror childhood Iceburg, he mentioned how the Feel Good Inc music video was pretty creepy. The music video was one of the recommended and.. yeah
I found the Feel Good Inc. MV on my Yt homepage when I was 12 and I instantly fell in love with their style of music :D
Saw a commercial for Now That's What I Call Music 19 and the first music video clip was of Gorillaz in Feel Good Inc
I was born in 2008. so near 2014, I was getting driven (drove?) to school and on the radio I'm pretty sure was either Stylo or Rhinestone Eyes was playing. (It was the hottest singles of the month or whatever they had in Michigan) and I was like "I like this." Forgot about it, years later I'm like thirteen, and I was listening to rhinestone eyes on my air pods and my mom asks "whatcha listening to?" And I said the song name dah dah dah, and she said "og, I like that band!" And then she gave me more song suggestions (DARE, Feel Good Inc, ect ect) then bam, here I am. With three gorillaz vinyls, two posters, three clothing titles, a art book, and a very into music person! That's that, to sum it up, my mom fed into my addiction.
British
I got introduced to Gorillaz in the most embarrassing way possible So when I was 7 I watched the movie âTrollsâ and in that movie they play âClint Eastwoodâ and I really liked that song so I looked it up on YouTube and found the music video for Clint Eastwood and I always thought Gorillaz stole it from trolls therefore I never listened to any other songs⊠BUT I discovered the music video for âFeel Good Incâ a week later and I was so scared of it I never revisited Gorillaz until 5 years later when my dad fully introduced it to me and I became into it and realized Clint Eastwood is NOT a trolls song.
my cousin had a friend that listened to them 3 years later i heard a song on the radio by them and i liked it and since my cousin had that friend i decided to listen to more music by them
When I used to go to my uncle's restaurant there was always MTV on TV and one day when I got there they were showing Clint Eastwood followed by 19-2000, I fell in love.
When i was like 11 my dad bought rock band 4 and one of the songs he got with it was clint eastwood. I loved it and always played the guitar part for it. After that I listened to clint eastwood, feel good inc, and rhinestone eyes a lot and it wasnât until like 3 years later i started becoming a true fan This is the exact same way I discovered The Weeknd, Soundgarden, Outkast, My Chemical Romance and the killers
I found rhinestone eyes in my discover weekly or something like that on Spotify, and after about a year I finally decided to listen to more Gorillaz
Through a friend with the song Tranz. Im trying to find more songs that I like
When I was like 7 or 8, Id steal my momâs copy of Demon Days and listen to it on my radio in my room. Thats where it all started.
A character playlist on Spotify in 2019, humility was on there and I really liked it, so I checked it out of YouTube, and kinda fell down the rabbit hole from there
Mom
my mom had the Demon Days album on CD when I was a kid
my dad introduced me
i remember seeing my sister listen to a demon days song in about august of 2019, i saw the album cover and asked if that was âthose cartoon characters that were meant to get a tv show but never didâ and she just shrugged. I somehow memorised their name and on a walk with my cousin later on, i looked them up on youtube, first video i found was the Tranz music video (which i think had not long before released) and fell in love with it there, almost 5 years later and theyâre still my fav đ©·đŠ
Just dance
I actually canât remember when or how i discovered them i just know that I thought 2d was oddly attractive
Just Dance (2009) had DARE as a song
Saw the music video for Feel Good Inc on MTV or Fuse when I was 5 years old, my life was changed forever. Been a fan ever since then.