Feel Good, Inc
Looks like I’m pulling another late night in the office. Oh well, think I’m to talk music and life for a bit.
So I’ve been listening to a lot of the Gorillaz, recently. I’ve always liked the group, but I just suddenly got back into their stuff. I’m not sure how I returned to the group, but all I know is that I suddenly found myself really wanting to hear them. Which, now that I think about it, is a good sign for me.
Here, let me explain that.
When I first started listening to the Gorillaz, it was the summer of 2002 and my life was, to put it bluntly, an f’n mess. I was generally unhappy with…well…life. Deaths in the family; trouble at school; and a bit of heartbreak had me in a rather sizable funk. As things started to get better, and I found myself regaining control, my friend Tiffany let me borrow the first album, Gorillaz. I remember listening to the album over and over again. It was never something I would listen to while driving, but when I was in my dorm room by myself.
I think it was the combination of lyrics that weren’t overly trite, nor were they always deep, heavy and brooding. I felt like the album kind of went with me on the ups and downs of my moods. I’d always feel good when 19-2000 came on, and I’d always feel much more introspective when listening to “Tomorrow Comes Today” or “Clint Eastwood.” Ultimately, though, I’d end the album feeling generally better as the final chords of “Clint Eastwood (Ed Case/Sweetie Irie Remix) would play. Looking back, the album was one of the ones that not only got me through those times, but was a soundtrack to my betterment as I listened to more of the upbeat songs and merely reflected on the more meloncholy.
So fast forward to now. Change the album to Demon Days. Like me, the album is more mature. It has the ups, and the downs, but I seem less effected by the “downs”. I’m finding myself listening and finding myself feeling happy. I can listen to it at work and kind of lose myself in my own little world. And I can feel myself getting better.
I guess it’s a good sign that I was humming “Dare” while waiting for my friends on the corner below my friends apartment last night. I was just happy. And Gorillaz was the only appropriate soundtrack.
Windmill windmill for the land
Turn forever hand in hand
Take it all it on your stride
It is ticking falling down
Love forever love is free
Let’s turn forever you and me
windmill windmill for the land
Is everybody in?
