Gorillaz: Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head

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If you wish for a band with no posers to engage, no egos to tolerate and no blind loyalties to pledge, Gorillaz it is. A virtual band of real people represented outwardly by cartoon caricatures, leaving fans not only with a biographical prank but with an eclectic mix of sounds and stories that partake in hypothetical and sometimes real world scenarios such as Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head where the baritone of Dennis Lee Hopper (1936-2010) the clever story telling of Albarn and noise of Danger Mouse comes together in a carnatic-reggae mix, taken well with lights dimmed and a dose of Algerian hashish.

Hopper’s sobering recital of the disguised little parable draws inference the atrocity of 911 where Oil refers to the Jewels, the Twin Towers point to the Monkey, the Perpetrators of the carnage the Strange Folk and the Ignorant who never expected the atrocity to occur, the Happy Folk. Generally, it is an allegory of social disintegration via greed and infusion of diabolical invaders, suggested perhaps in Daniel Greenfield’s The Way of the Cuckoo.

The placid conclusion is unembellished, but begs to be deciphered.

Words, Videography - Tommy Peters

(The clip was made on a Mac with CoverVersion’s Cuboid and Screenflow)

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