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|Length = 50:40 |Label = Parlophone |Producer = |Last album = ''Laika Come Home'' (2002) |Chronology = Gorillaz album |This album = ''Demon Days'' (2005) |Next album = ''D-Sides'' (2007) |Misc = }} ''Demon Days'' is the second studio album by British rock virtual band Gorillaz, released in May 2005. The album features contributions from De La Soul, Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Ike Turner, Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde, Shaun Ryder, Dennis Hopper, the London Community Gospel Choir, and the Children's Choir of San Fernandez. Albarn brought in Danger Mouse as producer. ''Demon Days'' entered the UK charts at #1 and the U.S. charts at #6,〔(【引用サイトリンク】Gorillaz – Demon Days – Music Charts )〕 outperforming the band's 2001 debut, ''Gorillaz''. The album has sold eight million copies worldwide.〔http://www.vblurpage.com/info/chartography/sales_albums.htm〕 The album features the singles "Feel Good Inc.", "DARE", "Dirty Harry" and "Kids with Guns"/"El Mañana" Much like 2001's ''Gorillaz'', the release of ''Demon Days'' and its respective tour were accompanied by various multimedia. These included interactive features on the ''Gorillaz'' website, a total of four animated music videos, virtual interview sessions with the band and animatics for each song. Almost all of the visuals associated with the album were designed by Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett as his design company, Zombie Flesh Eaters. Complex included it on their list of 100 best albums of the complex decade placing it at number 43. Nme placed it 98th on their list of 100 greatest albums of the decade. Uncut ranked it at 75 on their list of top 150 albums of the decade. Glide listed it at 46 on their list of top 50 albums of the 2000`s. Spin included it in their list "The 300 best albums of the past 30 years (1985-2014)". Acclaimed Music ranks ''Demon Days'' at number 673 on its current list of greatest albums of all time. ==Background== While Jamie Hewlett was working with his team on a script for a possible Gorillaz movie, Damon Albarn was still recording ''Think Tank'' with Blur. By the time Albarn was ready to start writing and recording material for the Gorillaz movie, the whole idea had already been scrapped, although ideas from the movie's script were still used, including the themes of being driven by ego and the world being trapped in an endless night. Despite this, the album's main source of inspiration actually came about as a result of Albarn's train journey from Beijing to Mongolia where he, his partner and six-year-old daughter spent a day travelling through what Albarn describes as a "weird, unspoken, forgotten part of China. It was basically dead trees as far as the eye can see," Albarn recalls. "Dust bowls, loose earth rapidly turning into desert. There are little satellite towns in the middle of these semi deserts that are absolutely on their knees. And it's the size of Europe this area. And then you wake up in the morning with this nightmare in your head and it's blue sky and beautiful sand, which looks fantastic now but was probably something else millions of years ago. And that will happen to us in our lifetime." Hewlett was excited by the prospect of a second Gorillaz album, saying, "Let's repeat the same process, but do it better. Because everyone thought it was a gimmick. If you do it again, it's no longer a gimmick, and if it works then we've proved a point. And instantly, all of us got excited".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Demon Days」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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