28 July 2009

GNARLS BARKLEY


Now, I'm pretty sure I don't need to tell you this, but here goes.

Gnarls Barkley is a Hip Hop duo comprised of vocalist Cee-Lo Green and musician / producer Danger Mouse. Cee-Lo was previously best known from his work in the nineties with Goodie Mob. Danger Mouse was best known for having produced the most famous, completely illegal album of all time, The Grey Album (a mash up of The Beatles White Album, and Jay-Z's Black Album).

These days, they're best known as the team behind the absolutely massive hit "Crazy".

A while back, I caught a re-airing of one of their sessions on Live from Abbey Road. They only showed three songs, all of which are from the dabut album, St. Elsewhere, but the version of "Transformer" they performed was so different from the album version that I wanted to put it up for all to enjoy. While I'm at it, I may as well put up the other two songs, too.

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Gnarls Barkley - "Smiley Faces" (live)
Gnarls Barkley - "Transformer" (live)
Gnarls Barkley - "Gone Daddy Gone" (live Violent Femmes cover)

And one extra, that was been all over the blogs a few months back:
Gnarls Barkley - "Reckoner" (live Radiohead cover)

Buy some Gnarls:
St. Elsewhere, 2006 (buy)
The Odd Couple, 2008 (buy)

Buy some Cee-Lo:
Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections, 2002 (buy)
Cee-Lo Green is The Soul Machine, 2004 (buy)

Get some Danger Mouse:
The Grey Album, 2004 (download)
Dark Night of the Soul, 2009 (listen) (with Sparklehorse, and many others)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

THANKS FOR THE LIVE COVER OF GONE DADDY GONE. TAKE IT EZ, PAT

P@ndora said...

Any chance of upping the live version of Crazy that they did at the Grammys a few years back?

Cheers, P@ndora

DeadBilly said...

I have a fairly low quality audio rip of the Grammy performance. I'll put it up in a requests post next week.