Even today, Phase 1-3 Gorillaz remains a benchmark for how virtual artistry, cross-genre collaboration, and animated storytelling can revolutionize popular music. The 6 albums, 14 singles, and 136 tracks are not just a discography – they are a decade-long virtual odyssey that changed music forever.

Massive budget, orchestral, maritime environmental concept. Gorillaz as floating island of trash. Features Bobby Womack, Lou Reed, Snoop. Theme: Paradise lost to plastic & greed .

Fame made them sick. 2-D’s eyes bled milk. Noodle started sleepwalking into traffic. Murdoc, paranoid, moved them to a haunted windmill in Essex. The second album took 18 months to bleed out. “Feel Good Inc.” (Single #5) was a helicopter rotor of paranoia, De La Soul’s verse a knife twisting in the dark. “DARE” (Single #6) featured a drunk Shaun Ryder shouting nonsense into a broken microphone—it became their only #1. “Kids with Guns” (Single #7) and “El Mañana” (Single #8: the ballad of a crashing airship) completed the set. The album’s 15 songs—including the apocalyptic lullaby “Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head”—were less music than a fever dream written in sweat. Total songs: .