There are a couple of songs off of this album that have leaked about a month ago. I have three. I initially found the songs off of stereogum then. I love this new shit. In my opinion, it's the best thing that Danger Mouse has ever even thought of doing. I've been a fan of Cee Lo since I first heard Goodie Mob's Soul Food, and I also think this is the best project that he is worked on. You can go to the official website and join the mailing list, which I recomend, http://www.gnarlsbarkley.com . Prediction; this shit is going to be huge when it comes out. Here is a Cee Lo interview from ALLHipHop.com, http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=4335 , The songs that I have are called Untitled 1, Untitled 2, and Crazy. If you know of any others let me know. And I'm STILL trying to find You In Reverse!!!!



Update!!! I just found 2 new songs! On limewire I found a song called "Track 7" and also, now this is REALLY random, Gnarls Barkley covers The Violent Femmes' (One of the greatest bands on the face of the dirt) "Gone Daddy Gone" , of course the original is better. I'm still looking to stream these. If you have heard these songs, let me know what you think!!! I'm Lurking!

That was a very boarderline street team post. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and ask for a ysi right now, please.

Second that. I'm not joining another mailing list.

Found them here:

http://djmonstermo.blogspot.com/2006/01/ne...ls-barkley.html

'crazy' is good.

yeah, that was a pretty much street teamer post, sans the "i'm lurking" at the end. that for some reason made me giggle.

Just in case someone doesn't read Pitchfork

Cee-Lo & Danger Mouse Ready Gnarls Barkley Debut

Matt Amis reports:
It's the round mound of soul sound: Gnarls Barkley! One of the most tantalizing combinations since Mr. Pibb and Red Vines, DJ/producer Danger Mouse and crooner/rapper Cee-Lo Green have been brewing up their highly anticipated Gnarls Barkley project for the better part of a year. They've even produced one of Pitchfork's favorite jams already: the not-even-white-label leak "Crazy", which placed at number 36 on our Top 50 Singles of 2005 list. Now, details are finally emerging about the full-length album.

St. Elsewhere, is the name and May 2 is the date. Write this down. It will come to us via Downtown Records/Atlantic, and will be preceded by a proper release of "Crazy" on April 10. While the album is not sequenced yet, other songs confirmed to have made the St. Elsewhere cut include "Go-Go Gadget Gospel", "Feng Shui", and "Necromancing". We also heard a Gnarls Barkley cover of the Violent Femmes' "Gone Daddy Gone" that's been floating around the internet, but the less said about that the better.

Just two days prior to St. Elsewhere's release, on April 30, Gnarls Barkley will play its inaugural live performance alongside Tool, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Damien 'Jr. Gong' Marley, Franz Ferdinand, and many, many more, at Coachella. As of this exact moment, no additional tour dates are ready to announce. But stay tuned: if they're anything like Sir Charles, they won't be able to stay out of the spotlight for too long.

Cee-Lo is also working on a project with superproducer Jazze Pha entitled Happy Hour. So far, only one song, "Happy Hour", has been released by the duo, but a full album is in the works. Ciara, the Pussycat Dolls, Mannie Fresh, Aaron Hall, Keith Sweat, and Nate

Dogg.

I have 7 leaked tracks, I'll YSI them later tonight

Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces

^^^^^^
That shit is just ridiculous.

^^ best promotional photo EVER!!

^ that's awesome

Waiting for a full album, but Atlantic just sent me a five song sampler that I have to find some time to listen to. I'm really behind on my album listening these days. Too much of my time is spent listening to Sirius, quite frankly.

If the CD booklet is full of pics like that, I may just have to buy it.
That said...leak, motherfucker, leak!!

man, i absolutely love these guys, and i second that request for an immediate leak. i can wait no longer!

^^ guess who?

Danger Mouse is my hero....but i think i get more excited when he works with (MF) Doom more then Cee Lo. I'll still buy the album though.

if the album is as great as the 2 different 8 track promos going around, it's gonna easily be in my top 20 at the end of the year imo...

predicting a possible SOMB top 10-15 too

If the rest of the album is anywhere near the quality of 'Crazy' and 'Smiley Faces', I will have a crazy smile on my own face when the album drops.

*cough*

I'm not a huge hip-hop fan but I was alittle dissapointed by the Danger Doom album. It was good but "Madvillany" I think was much better and Danger's work with the Gorillaz was more impressive as well.

Agreed. In terms of Doom from that time, I definitely prefer stuff like Mmm Food!, Viktor Vaughan Vaudeville Villain and Madvillainy. In fact, I probably prefer DM's album with Gemini. OVERLOOKED!

I'm not so sure its been overlooked as much as forgotten. It seemed to get a decent amount of talk when it came out, but fell off really quickly after a bit. It's a great album though and I was shocked to find the vinyl in Virgin's bargain bin for 50 cents a couple months ago. That was a sweet find.

For anyone who knows me, this will come as no surprise, but I'm far more looking forward to DangerMouse's work on the upcoming Damon Albarn solo album. Though I like the sounds on Gnarls, Cee Lo's voice is too one-dimentional.

To date:

Demon Days > DM & Gemini > DangerDoom > Gnarls

Anyone else find it amusing that with it being released in two Mondays time in the UK and it hasn't leaked mainly as the promo's are watermarked.

all you need to know about gnarls barkley

http://xxlmag.com/online/?p=1212

I wish some people would open up a fucking dictionary and start using this word properly.

"Crazy" may well be my favorite song of the year. I love everything about Cee-Lo.

everyone please read deej's linked article. grammatical ticks aside, the commentary on the phenomenon of gnarls barkley-- and "experimental hip hop"-- is all spot-on.

ps too perfect that hickman loves "crazy."

I love Crazy and the whole album is pretty good as well, lots of fun. I liked DM & Jemini, Danger Doom, and his work with Gorillaz too... heck Danger Mouse is awesome.

that article is bullshit. phoniness shmoniness, who the fuck cares?

"Crazy" is still a great song.

Explain?

the article talks too much about the whole trend. regardless of the people who buy it and for whatever reasons they do it, it's still a very bad album. and that's the thing.

i personally don't care how they're getting their audience or whether they've got a #1 single. if the music is good, i'll buy it. otherwise, i won't.

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wooooah good article excecpt:

1. Nothing "experimental" about snap music, at least not in a laudatory sense

2. The Violent Femmes had at least four good songs

Dude yr retarded hatred of snap music has got to go. Do you like doo wop? This is like the rap equivelent. And is definitely a NEW SOUND.

The real problem w it is that the first NERD album is totally dope.

i thought it was the worst song on the album according to you??

what the fuck do Doo-Wop and Snap music have in common?

It is a NEW SOUND perhaps, but I see no merit in it whatsoever. It is dull, lifeless, and utterly moronic. It's like the rap equivalent of bands like Panic at the Disco and Coheed and Cambria, except it goes in the complete opposite direction. It's despicable.

Admittedly I'm only going on the songs that have been hits so far, and I do hope a new single or rapper comes out that proves me the fuck wrong. But at the moment it seems like an utter low point for 00s pop music.

Doo Wop and snap = minimal small ensembles coming from an afro-american music tradition that create incredibly simple yet very popular music?

I don't understand why it deserves that much bile.

The thing about snap music is its fun summery singalong disposable pop, and for a dude with a largely popist outlook its weird to me how worked up it gets you.

I said this on IM w you dr. bill, but I'm really in the middle about snap music. I enjoy it, but writing about it is either hokey and overwrought or overly dismissive, and I think its just some cool dance music that people so mad about the guns n gangstas rap music should really be all over.

Doo-wop was all sugary and innocent and hooky though. I don't see any of that in snap. I don't see it as partciularly summery or singalongy either. The only even slightly memorable hook Snap has yet produced is the "Laffy Taffy" chorus and even that's so simple and dumb it barely even registers. I don't even think it qualifies as dance music--I feel absolutely NO rhythmic propulsion from the music. And don't get me started with that retarded fucking snap "lean wit it, rock wit it" move that's supposed to qualify as a dance.

Dude its absurdly easy to dance to.

And on what planet is "Laffy Taffy" not SUGARY.

it's deadening music. Sugary is The Ohio Express's "Yummy Yummy Yummy," The Four Seasons' "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)," Boy Meets Girl's "Waiting for a Star to Fall," DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince's "Summertime," Modjo's "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)"

"Laffy Taffy" is miserable and lifeless. It is not sugary.

haha yeah I'm late on this and it comes right at the end of a snap music debate (not a fan of snap music, perhaps it is like abstract art, it gets better when you know it's history but it is incredibly easy to make, just steal fruty loops and use it for about 3 days)

But I'm liking this Gnarls Barkley disc. I wish a few of these songs would go a bit longer. they seem to end very quickly but I like it. I even like go go gadgets beat. its got a ton of energy.

also, who ever wrote that article sounds more pissed at seventeen year old boys for liking napolian dynamite than gnarls barkley.

Snap Music >>>>>>> Gnarls Barkley

jesus.

haha yeah. almost

I'm digging this album, but I'm not quite loving it.

Wait a minute now. You're actually trying to make a case for snap being the new doo-wop? Am I getting that right? I think there are a couple great songs to come out of it, but its got a hell of a long way to go to reach that kind of status.

I wouldn't say its the 'new doo wop,' but it has a similar aesthetic appeal.

Frankly I think, were I arguing that 'new doo wop' point, it would be way more feasable than 'gnarls barkley is genius'

Ok ok, I kinda scanned through those posts at first, now I get what you are saying. I've not heard anything beyond "Crazy" yet, so I can't speak on how genius it is.

I dont recal anyone saying genius. you realize that adding words to someone else is a way to compensate for your own over-reactions? anyway, I said I like it, it has energy, and to add I think these two work together alot better than Doom and Mouse or a few other "different" mix ups.

and though I don't wanna bring back a whole nother debate I was not part of 30 minutes before I leave for work, snap music is bland. it has no life. it might be a new form of music but it doesnt make it worth while.

"I want that laffy laffy" does not = good. snap music in general is simple. it is honstly about a 20 minute process with fruity loops to make a song similar to the majority of songs already out there. I can see why you might get the doo wop comparison but it doesnt mean it is right.

doo wop is simple, 'simplicity' =/ quality.

And for all its 'simplicity,' most snap music I've heard is 10x less boring than "Crazy." And frankly "Crazy" isn't exactly tipping the scales on the prog-meter either.

Agreed.

The opening gambit of that article - 'It’s not a rap record' - said all I needed to read. Of course it's not a rap record. So what? DM described it as 'psychedelic soul', and while I don't think it's particularly psychedelic, that description is far more fitting than 'rap'.

Why should it be a rap album? Because Ceelo used to rap years ago? Because DM is ostensibly a HipHop producer? Nonsense. It's a great pop album, nothing more. And that's fine by me, because it doesn't have to be anything more.

The main problem with that article is that the author wants to be the first to backlash against Gnarls, and because there's nothing to lash out on it about, he created something.