Blur’s Parklife album reached 36 in Channel 4’s Top 100 Greatest Albums. The list was voted for by visitors to Channel 4’s website.

Below is the full list of the top 100 albums.

1. RADIOHEAD – OK Computer
2. U2 – The Joshua Tree
3. NIRVANA – Nevermind
4. MICHAEL JACKSON – Thriller
5. PINK FLOYD – Dark Side of the Moon
6. OASIS – Definitely Maybe
7. THE BEATLES – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
8. MADONNA – Like a Prayer
9. GUNS N’ ROSES – Appetite For Destruction
10. THE BEATLES – Revolver
11. R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
12. THE BEATLES – The White Album
13. QUEEN – A Night at the Opera
14. COLDPLAY – Parachutes
15. OASIS – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
16. ALANIS MORISSETTE – Jagged Little Pill
17. LED ZEPPELIN – Led Zeppelin IV
18. THE VERVE – Urban Hymns
19. JIMI HENDRIX – Are you Experienced
20. THE SMITHS – The Queen Is Dead
21. JOHN LENNON – Imagine
22. RADIOHEAD – The Bends
23. BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS – Exodus
24. THE STONE ROSES – The Stone Roses
25. SIMON AND GARFUNKEL – Bridge Over Troubled Water
26. BJORK – Debut
27. THE DOORS – The Doors
28. ABBA – Arrival
29. MICHAEL JACKSON – Off the Wall
30. DURAN DURAN – Rio
31. SEX PISTOLS – Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols
32. DAVID BOWIE – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
33. THE BEACH BOYS – Pet Sounds
34. JOY DIVISION – Closer
35. THE ROLLING STONES – Let It Bleed
36. BLUR – Parklife
37. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Born to Run
38. BILLIE HOLIDAY – Lady Sings the Blues
39. THE WHITE STRIPES – Elephant
40. BLACK SABBATH – Paranoid
41. THE SPECIALS – Specials
42. THE ROLLING STONES – Exile on Main Street
43. FRANK SINATRA – Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!
44. THE CLASH – London Calling
45. THE PRODIGY – The Fat of the Land
46. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – The Velvet Underground and Nico
47. DIRE STRAITS – Brothers in Arms
48. PIXIES – Doolittle
49. ARETHA FRANKLIN – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
50. THE LIBERTINES – The Libertines
51. HAPPY MONDAYS – Pills ‘N’ Thrills and Bellyaches
52. PATTI SMITH – Horses
53. THE WHO – Tommy
54. LOU REED – Transformer
55. BOB DYLAN – Blood on the Tracks
56. PRINCE – Sign ‘o’ the Times
57. DIDO – No Angel
58. AIR – Moon Safari
59. ELTON JOHN – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
60. THE JAM – All Mod Cons
61. JEFF BUCKLEY – Grace
62. FLEETWOOD MAC – Rumours
63. MOBY – Play
64. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
65. THE POLICE – Synchronicity
66. JONI MITCHELL – Blue
67. CURTIS MAYFIELD – Superfly
68. ELVIS PRESLEY – The Sun Sessions
69. OUTKAST – Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
70. PULP – Different Class
71. KRAFTWERK – Trans-Europe Express
72. MASSIVE ATTACK – Blue Lines
73. BECK – Odelay
74. STEVIE WONDER – Songs in the Key of Life
75. KATE BUSH – Hounds of Love
76. TALKING HEADS – Fear of Music
77. EMINEM – The Marshall Mathers LP
78. MARVIN GAYE – What’s Going On
79. GEORGE MICHAEL – Faith
80. SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER – The Original Movie Soundtrack
81. PRIMAL SCREAM – Screamadelica
82. JOHN COLTRANE – A Love Supreme
83. LOVE – Forever Changes
84. PAUL SIMON – Graceland
85. NICK DRAKE – Five Leaves Left
86. MEAT LOAF – Bat Out of Hell
87. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – Dusty in Memphis
88. DE LA SOUL – 3 Feet High and Rising
89. THE STROKES – Is this It
90. MADNESS – One Step Beyond…
91. ROBBIE WILLIAMS – I’ve Been Expecting You
92. NEIL YOUNG – After the Gold Rush
93. PUBLIC ENEMY – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
94. BLONDIE – Parallel Lines
95. THE EAGLES – Hotel California
96. JAMES BROWN – Sex Machine
97. THE STREETS – A Grand Don’t Come for Free
98. DEXY’S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS – Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
99. ROD STEWART – Every Picture Tells a Story
100. The HUMAN LEAGUE – Dare!

Channel 4

Gorillaz brand new single, FEEL GOOD INC, is now taking over the airwaves as well as your TV. Did you know you can already download it from our Gorillaz store? It’s already marching up the download charts across the globe.

Download Feel Good Inc. from the Gorillaz Official Download Store or from iTunes if you’re an iPod user.

Gorillaz

Damon Albarn, he of Blur, Gorillaz fame, has confirmed he will be lending his quite considerable support to the forthcoming Dax Pierson benefit show at the Scala. He joins a line-up already that already boasts Super Furry Animals, Mogwai and Hot Chip.

The benefit, taking place on May 9 at Kings Cross’ Scala in London, will raise funds for Pierson [of the groups Subtle, 13+god and Themselves] who last February was badly injured in a road accident.

Although Dax is now in a stable condition he’s been left with a long period of rehab in front of him and an estimated $80,000 to overhaul his lifestyle. The organisers are hoping the gig could raise $15,000 towards his cause.

Already confirmed are live appearances by Hot Chip, Hood and Helena Costas and a set of very special DJ sets from the likes Chris Cunningham, Four Tet, Trevor Jackson, Richard X and a special Super Furry Animals DJs vs. Mogwai DJs event. It should be assumed Mogwai will be leaving their “Blur: Are Shit” T-shirts at home that night in aid of charity�

This is one of a series of shows that are being held across the globe for Pierson. Munich, Berlin, Zurich, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Vancouver will also host similar events. For more information on Dax, the accident he was injured in, and his progress, visit www.daxpierson.com.

Tickets are £10 and available from TicketWeb or from Rough Trade shop, Covent Garden, WC2 (0207 240 0105). Doors open at 19.30 and the night runs until midnight. The full line up for the show is:

Lex Records presents a “Fun Raisin” event starring:
Damon Albarn [DJ set]
Trevor Jackson [DJ set]
Richard X [DJ set]
Four Tet [DJ set]
Chris Cunningham [soundtracks DJ set]
Super Furry Animals DJs v Mogwai DJs
Hood [live]
Hot Chip [live]
Helena Costas [live]

Xfm

Below is the official press release for the new Gorillaz single, “Feel Good Inc.”
In addition to the formats listed below, there is also a UK 1 track promo CD – CDRDJ6663. The Japanese version of the single (TOCP61100) will contain four tracks – 1. Feel Good Inc (single edit); 2. Spitting Out The Demons ; 3. Bill Murray 4. Murdoc Is God

GORILLAZ: FEEL GOOD INC.
0 Feel Good Inc., the first single to be taken from Gorillaz’ second album Demon Days, will be released by Parlophone on 9th May.

The ideal introduction to Demon Days, Feel Good Inc. is a typically irrepressible Gorillaz cut, built on an ominous bassline and an infectious vocal hook and matched by a nitrous oxide-fuelled rap from guests De La Soul.

The video opens at the end of another big night at the Feel Good Inc. tower in an anonymous grey city. The tower is awash with casualties from the party, all sleeping off the effects of the night before. 2D is the last one standing. As he gazes out of the window he sees Noodle pass by on a floating island, topped by a huge windmill. Her world is one of green grass, dappled sunshine and butterflies – in stark contrast to the grimy and debauched world of the tower.

Noodle: “The windmill is a representation of a note of optimism, a memory of a simpler time. A snapshot picture of an older world, a note of simplicity and a little remembrance of a more innocent moment, pre-struggle.”

Directed by Jamie Hewlett and Passion Picture’s Pete Candeland – the award-winning directors behind all of Gorillaz ground-breaking promos – the video uses a mixture of drawn and computer animation and painted backgrounds. All the animation was done in house at Passion Pictures and post was done at Rushes.

Feel Good Inc. is available on CD, DVD and as a special 7″ picture disc. B-sides include Bill Murray, featuring the Isle of Wight’s finest export, The Bees.

Formats are as follows:
CD single
1. Feel Good Inc. (single version)
2. Spitting Out The Demons

7″ picture disc
A. Feel Good Inc. (single version)
B. 68 State

DVD single
1. Feel Good Inc. (video)
2. Spitting Out The Demons
3. Bill Murray

Blur FC

The brand new video for ‘Feel Good Inc’ is here now for you to see. The band have been very busy making it – 2D and Murdoc speak out for the first time about excess and hedonism, exactly what the video’s about and what really happened on the shoot…

2D: I think Gorillaz built a tower around themselves that they couldn’t get out of. Of excess and hedonism. The video is based on this feeling. For a while it was great to be on the inside, but the party’s got out of hand. It’ s become like the Last days of Pompeii….a…er…Sodding Gommorah. The Feelgood Inc Tower represents this. The palace we built has become a prison. In the video I’m just waking up from this year-long hedonists dream, and I realise that maybe… the fruits of success have turned sour.

Noodle is outside of the Tower, in the pale morning-after light, sitting on the edge of this floating island. And you can see she knows what’s happening. But people have to wake up to it themselves. So that’s what the video is about; being trapped by the things you make, and realising everyone else is caught up in it. Using it. Just…they need their party to continue, to keep this thing afloat. The Tower of Babel.

Murdoc: Apart from the obvious thing, which is my gyrating hips, the coolest thing about the video would be the the hydraulics on this gig. Just for the windmill section alone cost about 3.5 million pounds. That’s sterling. We had to buy a small island, make a mold of it and then scrape out all the insides. When that was done we filled the whole thing full of helium. Using the motor from the windmill we managed to get the thing to float, but it was an absolute bugger.

Please use the links below to view the new video

Win Media Player Hi Low

Real Player Hi Low

Demon Days will be released on 23rd May (11th may Japan, 24th May in the US), and will be preceeded by the single Feel Good Inc, released 9th May.

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