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Gnarls Barkley is an American soul duo, composed of singer-songwriter CeeLo Green and producer Danger Mouse. They released their debut studio album, St. Elsewhere, in 2006. It contained their hit single 'Crazy', which peaked at number two on the US Hot 100 and topped the UK Singles Chart. It was nominated at the 2007 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, and was platinum certified for shipping over 1,000,000 records.[4]St. Elsewhere also received a nomination for Album of the Year. The Odd Couple, their second studio album, was scheduled for release in April 2008, but due to a leak of their album over the internet, they decided to release it early.[5] The album in its entirety received good reviews, but it did not have as much commercial success as their first album.
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History[edit]
Background[edit]
CeeLo Green first entered the scene as part of the Atlantahip hop group Goodie Mob which had a large hand in the Dirty South movement of the 1990s. Green left the group after their third album in 1999 and started his solo career. That year he sang on 'Do You Like the Way' along with Lauryn Hill on Santana's multi-platinum Supernatural album.
Brian Joseph Burton, better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, has produced albums for a number of hip hop and rock artists, including Gorillaz' Demon Days, and The Black Keys' Attack & Release, El Camino, and Turn Blue. He received international attention for his mash-upThe Grey Album, which blended the a cappella edition of Jay-Z's The Black Album with samples from The Beatles' White Album.
The duo first met while Green was on a tour for which Danger Mouse happened to be the DJ. They became musical partners and worked together on the songs that would become St. Elsewhere; prior to the release of that album they collaborated on the songs 'What You Sittin' On?' for Lex Records in 2004, and 'Benzie Box' from the Danger Doom album The Mouse and the Mask in 2005.
Band name[edit]
In 2006, Sanjiv Bhattacharya interviewed the duo for The Guardian and asked about where their band name came from, to which Green replied: 'You ask me why we're called Gnarls Barkley and I'm asking you 'why not?'...The name Gnarls Barkley isn't anchored down. It's a drifter. A High Plains drifter, I might add'.[6] Danger Mouse said: 'There's no story behind it...The name doesn't have anything to do with anything'.[6] Although many people believe that their name has something to do with former NBA player Charles Barkley; when Sanjiv asked them about it, Danger Mouse replied: 'Nope. It's just like everything else on this record. There was no conscious decision about stuff'.[6]
According to a Billboard article: 'Burton and CeeLo have been cagey about what the name of the act means, and each live performance is an opportunity to play dress-up as tennis players, astronauts and chefs, among many other get-ups. The costuming extends to photo shoots, as Burton and Cee Lo would rather impersonate characters from such films as Back to the Future or Wayne's World. They also have dressed up as characters from films A Clockwork Orange and Napoleon Dynamite.
CeeLo Green said in an interview:
That is that electric industrial Euro soul, that's what I call it... if I can call it anything. It truly is shapeless and formless. My style and my approach is still water, and it runs so deep. So, with that project I got a chance to be a lil' zany, of course a continuation of eccentricity, abstract and vague, and all of those wonderful things that make art exactly what it is. And that's subject to interpretation. As far as the artiste himself, it does cater to and extend the legacy of Cee Lo Green, and showcase the diversity and range and intention of Cee Lo Green. It is a great project that I'm very, very proud of.[7]
St. Elsewhere (2006–2007)[edit]
Downtown/Atlantic in the United States and Warners Bros. Records in the United Kingdom signed the band after several songs, including 'Crazy', were played for them by Danger Mouse's management company Waxploitation.[8] 'Crazy' was released as their first single on April 3, 2006, preceded by its release as digital download and 12' vinyl record single in March 2006. It gained some of its popularity due to its use on primetime BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe's television advert, and it was also made Record of the Week by Ken Bruce of BBC Radio 2, Scott Mills and Jo Whiley of BBC Radio 1 as well as being made 'Weekend Anthem' by DJ Spoony and Sara Cox (also of Radio 1).
In an interview with journalist Stephen Mooallem about their single 'Crazy', Mooallem asked the duo, 'Is it true that Cee-Lo recorded the vocals for 'Crazy' in just one take?' to which Danger Mouse replied, 'Yeah. He had the words written on paper, and what you hear on the album was the first time he ever tried singing it. He went in and gave it a shot, really just to see what it would sound like. We just kept it because it sounded great.'[9] The song was, in addition, considered by the duo to be an 'independent joint venture,' paid for entirely 'out-of-pocket.' Catapulting the two into stardom, the single was primarily responsible for their success, as they 'didn't even have a formal deal in place' until the song hit No. 1.[10]
In the United Kingdom, 'Crazy' became the first ever single to top the UK Singles Chart purely on download sales as it was released online a week before it was released as a CD single.[11] It is also the first single to top the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks consecutively since 1994 when Wet Wet Wet's 'Love Is All Around' was number one for fifteen weeks (the last song to spend exactly nine weeks on top was 'Two Tribes' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood in 1984). It has also equaled the Queen 1975 classic 'Bohemian Rhapsody', which also topped the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks. Gnarls Barkley announced that as the record had spent its ninth week at number one, it was to be deleted as a vinyl/CD listing from May 28, 2006, so people will 'remember the song fondly and not get sick of it'.[12]'Crazy' is also the longest number-one on the UK Official Download Chart with its stay lasting eleven consecutive weeks. In late 2009 the song was voted as the best song of the decade by Rolling Stone magazine.[13]
The group released their debut album, St. Elsewhere, on April 24, 2006, in the United Kingdom and on May 9, 2006, in their native United States. For their American television debut on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, May 24, 2006, the band performed 'Crazy'.
They performed along with Christina Aguilera, AFI, and Wolfmother at the MTV Movie Awards 2006 on June 8, 2006.[14] They were dressed as characters from the film series Star Wars. Rebel Alliance pilots, Imperial officers, Stormtroopers, Chewbacca, Jango Fett, Obi-Wan, with Cee-Lo singing as an unmasked Darth Vader.
In October 2006, Gnarls Barkley recorded a live session for Live from Abbey Road at Abbey Road Studios.
St. Elsewhere has been certified Platinum by the RIAA for selling over 1,000,000 albums in the United States. A limited edition deluxe package of St. Elsewhere was released on November 7, 2006. The CD+DVD package includes a 92-page booklet, four music videos and bonus songs from live performance.[4]
St. Elsewhere was nominated for four Grammy Awards in 2007 including for Record of the Year, and Album of the Year, winning two of them for Best Alternate Music Album, and Best Urban/Alternate Performance for 'Crazy'.[15]
Gnarls Barkley at the Mini V festival in Melbourne, 2007
From January until March 2007, they toured with the Red Hot Chili Peppers through the U.S.[16]
They did a collaborative short film in both the Spring of 2006 and 2007 with the international TV series Kung Faux which airs heavily on Channel V around the world, and they also toured Australia in March and April 2007 as part of the Channel V Festival.[citation needed]
The Odd Couple (2008)[edit]
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In early March 2008, the duo's second album, The Odd Couple, was leaked over the internet prompting the duo to push the release date up from April 8. In an interview with Entertainment Magazine, Danger Mouse said that he 'knew it [the leak] was coming...every day, I expected to get a call saying it leaked, and eventually I got a call saying it leaked.'[17] On March 18, 2008, the album became available via download on the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3. Hard copies of the album were released on March 25.
Prior to its official release, Green spoke to the album's anti-formulaic qualities, noting bluntly that 'there's no formula to it,' and that to expect the same wild success of St. Elsewhere is to neglect the ever-present 'risk factor in any artistic endeavor.' He called it something of an 'act of faith' – a true, earnest attempt to create and disseminate a piece of art to those who would seek out its conception.[18]
They appeared as the musical guest on the April 12, 2008 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. They were supposed to be in a Digital Short parodying amateur music videos according to the scrolled text but only appeared in the singing performances of the live broadcast.
On November 11, 2008, they released an EP, Who's Gonna Save My Soul, featuring four versions of the song which originally appeared on The Odd Couple, along with a live version of 'Neighbors' and a previously unreleased song, 'Mystery Man.' A music video for 'Mystery Man' was directed by Walter Robot and premiered on Yahoo! Music.[19]
Third studio album (2010–present)[edit]
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In 2010, Green announced Gnarls Barkley would start recording their third studio album after he finished work on the latestGoodie Mob album.[20] However, the Gnarls Barkley album did not materialize and the duo was dormant for several years. In 2013, Green stated they will be releasing a third album sometime in the future.[21] In late 2017, Cee Lo stated “We have already started on a new [Gnarls Barkley] album, we’re halfway in and we have some overtures from the other projects that may not have stood the test of time, we don’t know yet.” [22]
Discography[edit]
- St. Elsewhere (2006)
- The Odd Couple (2008)
Awards[edit]
- BET Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2007 | 'Crazy' | Video of the Year | Nominated |
Gnarls Barkley | Best New Artist | Nominated | |
Best Group | Won | ||
2008 | Gnarls Barkley | Best Group | Nominated |
- Brit Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2007 | St. Elsewhere | International Album | Nominated |
Gnarls Barkley | International Breakthrough Act | Nominated | |
International Group | Nominated |
- Grammy Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2007 | St. Elsewhere | Album of the Year | Nominated |
Best Alternative Music Album | Won | ||
'Crazy' | Record of the Year | Nominated | |
Best Urban/Alternative Performance | Won | ||
2008 | 'Gone Daddy Gone' | Best Music Video | Nominated |
2009 | 'Going On' | Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals | Nominated |
'Who's Gonna Save My Soul' | Best Music Video | Nominated | |
The Odd Couple | Best Alternative Music Album | Nominated |
- MTV Europe Music Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2006 | Gnarls Barkley | Future Sound | Won |
'Crazy' | Best Song | Won | |
Best Video | Nominated |
- MTV Video Music Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2006 | 'Crazy' | Best Group Video | Nominated |
Best Direction | Won | ||
Best Editing | Won | ||
2007 | 'Smiley Face' | Best Editing | Won |
2008 | 'Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)' | Best Choreography | Won |
Best Art Direction | Won | ||
2009 | 'Who's Gonna Save My Soul' | Breakthrough Video | Nominated |
Best Visual Effects | Nominated | ||
Best Art Direction | Nominated |
- MTVU Woodie Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2006 | Gnarls Barkley | Left Field Woodie | Won |
'Crazy' | Best Video Woodie - Animated | Nominated | |
2008 | 'Who's Gonna Save My Soul' | Best Video Woodie | Nominated |
- NAACP Image Awards
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Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2007 | Gnarls Barkley | Outstanding Duo or Group | Nominated |
'Crazy' | Outstanding Song | Nominated |
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- Q Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2006 | 'Crazy' | Best Track | Won |
'Smiley Face' | Best Video | Nominated |
- Soul Train Music Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2007 | St. Elsewhere | Best R&B/Soul Album – Group, Band or Duo | Nominated |
'Crazy' | Best R&B/Soul Single – Group, Band or Duo | Won |
- Teen Choice Awards
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2006 | Gnarls Barkley | Choice Music: Male Breakout Artist | Nominated |
'Crazy' | Choice Music: Summer Song | Nominated |
- 2009 Rolling Stone 100 Best Songs of the Decade – No. 1 'Crazy'
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Gnarls Barkley and a Soulful Predecessor'. NPR. April 17, 2008. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
- ^Hermes, Will (March 25, 2008). 'Gnarls Barkley, 'The Odd Couple''. Spin. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
- ^Locker, Melissa (December 23, 2013). 'Gnarls Barkley To Reunite in 2014'. Time. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
- ^ ab'Gnarls Barkley Receives RIAA Platinum Certification – DJBooth'. DJBooth.net. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
- ^'New (Leaked) Music: Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple'. Mother Jones. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
- ^ abcBhattacharya, Sanjiv (April 23, 2006). 'Plain crazy'. The Guardian. ISSN0261-3077. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
- ^'Interviews'. ThickOnline.com. July 31, 2006. Retrieved May 9, 2011.
- ^'Interview – Josh Deutsch, A&R for Gnarls Barkley (No.1 UK) – Sep 04, 2006'. HitQuarters. 2006. Retrieved November 9, 2006.
- ^'Off Campus Access'. web.b.ebscohost.com.mctproxy.mnpals.net. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
- ^'Off Campus Access'. web.a.ebscohost.com.mctproxy.mnpals.net. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^'Crazy song makes musical history'. BBC News. April 2, 2006. Retrieved April 2, 2006.
- ^'Gnarls Go Out On Top'. The Daily Record. Retrieved May 28, 2006.
- ^'100 Best Songs of the Decade'. December 9, 2009.
- ^Carroll, Larry (May 8, 2006). '2007 Movie Awards Story | Justin, Luda To Appear At Movie Awards – Show Story | Headlines'. MTV. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
- ^'GRAMMY Rewind: 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards'. The GRAMMYs. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
- ^'NEWS'. Redhotchilipeppers.com. July 24, 2010. Retrieved May 9, 2011.
- ^'Off Campus Access'. web.b.ebscohost.com.mctproxy.mnpals.net. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
- ^'Off Campus Access'. web.a.ebscohost.com.mctproxy.mnpals.net. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^Cohen, Jonathan (October 22, 2008). 'Gnarls Barkley Bares Its 'Soul' On New EP'. Billboard. Retrieved October 28, 2008.
- ^'I'm a granddad at 35,' Gnarls Barkley star Cee Lo Green celebrates daughter's new baby'. December 3, 2010. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
Cee Lo, who is nominated for record and song of the year at the 2011 Grammys, told Handler he was planning to record a new album with his hip hop group Goodie Mob, and then start on a new record with Gnarls Barkley.
- ^'Cee-Lo Green to Release Three Projects, Announces Goodie Mob's Album Release Date'. Billboard. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
- ^'CeeLo Green is 'Cookin Up' a 'Prequel' to Gnarls Barkley's Brand New Album (Exclusive)'. DJBooth.net.
- ^Todd Leopold CNN (February 12, 2007). 'CNN.com, February 11, 2007'. Edition.cnn.com. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
External links[edit]
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The Odd Couple | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | March 18, 2008 | |||
Recorded | 2007–2008 | |||
Genre | Psychedelic soul[1] | |||
Length | 39:12 | |||
Label | Atlantic-Downtown | |||
Producer | Danger Mouse | |||
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Singles from The Odd Couple | ||||
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Professional ratings | |
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Aggregate scores | |
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 76/100[2] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
Billboard | positive[4] |
DJBooth.net | [5] |
The Guardian | [6] |
NME | 8/10[7] |
The Observer | [8] |
Pitchfork Media | 7.2/10[9] |
PopMatters | 9/10[10] |
RapReviews | 9/10[11] |
Rolling Stone | [12] |
Uncut | [13] |
The Odd Couple is the second studio album by Gnarls Barkley, released digitally on March 18 and in stores March 25, 2008. Due to an early leak of the album over the Internet in early March 2008, the duo decided to push up the release from April 8. The album was released to the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3 on March 18.
As of October 2010 the album has sold 250,000 copies in United States according to Nielsen Soundscan.[14]
Due to the band's inactivity, The Odd Couple would become the group's last album to date as of over a decade later.
Background[edit]
In late January, an assumed leaked track appeared on several music blogs. 'Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)', the previously unknown song, was given positive reviews from most music outlets.[15] 'Run' was released as the album's first single as a digital download in the U.S. on February 5, 2008. Despite 'Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)' being the lead single at the time, 'Going On' was the highest charting album track on iTunes having made it as high as #23 on the Top 100 chart as of March 25, subsequently debuting at #88 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was then released as the second single from the album, and the song's video premiered on March 20, 2008. In March 2008, the album's third single, 'Who's Gonna Save My Soul' was premiered by hip hop band The Roots' drummer Questlove through a video uploaded to YouTube.[16] The album also features Josh Klinghoffer, a touring musician for the band since 2006 and who would a year following the album's release join the Red Hot Chili Peppers as their guitarist.
An early leak of the album over the Internet in early March, 2008, prompted the duo to push the release of the album from April 8. Digital versions of the sophomore effort were released to the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3 on March 18.[17] Physical copies of the album were slated for March 25; however, some copies hit independent record stores on March 18. The album was released in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2008. An instrumental reverse edition of the album, retitled elpuoc ddo eht, was released on April 17, 2008. The entire album is fused into one 38:44 track played completely in reverse, starting with the album's last song and ending with the album's first. This unorthodox edition was released officially by Danger Mouse and is legally available as a second disc on the vinyl edition of the album.
Track listing[edit]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | 'Charity Case' | 3:12 |
2. | 'Who's Gonna Save My Soul' | 3:15 |
3. | 'Going On' | 2:54 |
4. | 'Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)' | 2:44 |
5. | 'Would Be Killer' | 2:22 |
6. | 'Open Book' | 3:20 |
7. | 'Whatever' | 2:18 |
8. | 'Surprise' | 3:50 |
9. | 'No Time Soon' | 2:55 |
10. | 'She Knows' | 2:44 |
11. | 'Blind Mary' | 3:25 |
12. | 'Neighbors' | 3:05 |
13. | 'A Little Better' | 3:07 |
Total length: | 39:12 |
Samples[edit]
- 'Going On' samples 'Folder Man' written by Peter Dunton and performed by Please
- 'Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)' samples 'Junior Jet Set' by Keith Mansfield
- 'Would Be Killer' samples 'Fluid' by Twink
- 'Open Book' incorporates sampled elements from 'Träume' by Françoise Hardy
- 'Whatever' samples 'The Hair On My Chinny Chin Chin' by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
- 'Surprise' contains elements of 'Building with a Steeple' written by Ron Dante, Gene Allen and Bobby Feldman and performed by The Eighth Day
- 'She Knows' samples 'Gentle Flute' performed by Cy Payne
- 'A Little Better' incorporates elements of 'Trying to Be Free' written by Nacabal and Yvon-Goudy and performed by T.N.T.H.
References[edit]
Gnarls Barkley Duo
- ^Hermes, Will (March 25, 2008). 'Gnarls Barkley, 'The Odd Couple''. Spin. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
- ^'The Odd Couple by Gnarls Barkley'.
- ^AllMusic review
- ^'Billboard review'.
- ^'DJBooth.net review'.
- ^Petridis, Alexis (28 March 2008). 'CD: Gnarls Barkley, The Odd Couple'. the Guardian.
- ^'Gnarls Barkley - NME'. NME.
- ^'Reviews 11-25'. the Guardian. 20 April 2008.
- ^'Gnarls Barkley: The Odd Couple Album Review - Pitchfork'. pitchfork.com.
- ^PopMatters review
- ^'Gnarls Barkley :: The Odd Couple :: Atlantic Records'. www.rapreviews.com.
- ^'Rolling Stone review'.
- ^'Uncut review'.
- ^Lipshutz, Jason (2 October 2010). 'There's More to Cee Lo Green's New Album, 'The Lady Killer', Than His Recent Potty-Mouthed Viral Smash'. Billboard. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^'Gnarls Barkley Are The Odd Couple on New LP'. Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2008-02-06.Cite uses deprecated parameter
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(help) - ^'Pitchfork Forkcast: Video: Gnarls Barkley: 'Who's Gonna Save My Soul''.
- ^Entertainment Weekly, 'Life After Crazy' http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,20186641,00.html
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