Coordinates | 37°54′57″N122°18′42″N |
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name | Gnarls Barkley |
landscape | yes |
background | group_or_band |
origin | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
genre | Alternative rock, alternative hip-hop, soul |
years active | 2004–present |
label | Downtown, Atlantic |
website | |
current members | Danger MouseCee Lo Green }} |
Gnarls Barkley is a United States alternative hip hop duo comprising Danger Mouse and Cee Lo Green. Their first studio album ''St. Elsewhere'' was released in 2006; along with its first single "Crazy". Both single and album were a major commercial success and have been noted for their large sales by download. The duo released their second album ''The Odd Couple'' in March 2008.
Danger Mouse has produced albums for a number of hip hop and rock artists, including Gorillaz' ''Demon Days''. He received international attention for his mash-up ''The Grey Album'', which blended the acapella edition of Jay-Z's ''The Black Album'' with samples from The Beatles' ''White Album''.
The two men first met while Cee Lo 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 the ''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.
According to a Billboard article: "Burton and Cee Lo 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''.
About Gnarls Barkley, Cee Lo 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".
The track is based on an Italian song named ''Nel cimitero di Tucson'' (''In Tucson's cemetery'') by composer Gianfranco Reverberi and is part of the soundtrack of spaghetti western ''Preparati la bara!'' (1968), starring Terence Hill.
"Crazy" is 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. 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 15 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".
"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.
The group released their debut album, ''St. Elsewhere'', on April 24, 2006, in the UK and on May 9, 2006, in the U.S. 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. 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 U.S. 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 performances.
From January until March 2007, they toured with the Red Hot Chili Peppers through the U.S.
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.
The song "Go-Go Gadget Gospel" appears in the show ''The Boondocks''. It was sung by Rev. Rollo Goodlove, who was voiced by Cee-Lo.
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.
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Category:American electronic music groups Category:Electronic music duos Category:American soul musical groups Category:Neo soul singers Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Musical groups established in 2003 Category:Atlantic Records artists Category:Alternative rock groups from Georgia (U.S. state)
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