release date: Mar. 2002
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,22]
producer: Dan the Automator, Gorillaz
label: EMI, Brazil - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "19-2000 (Soulchild Remix)" - 5. "Faust" - 6. "Clint Eastwood (Phi Life Cypher version)" (feat. Phi Life Cypher) - 9. "12D3" - 11. "Rock the House (Radio Edit)" (feat. Del tha Funkee Homosapien) - 12. "Left Hand Suzuki Method"
Compilation album by Gorillaz originally released exclusively for the Japanese market Dec. 2001 - later issued in Europe, Brazil and North America in slightly different editions. The material here are compositions recorded from 2000-2001, which are in new remix versions. Actually, only three tracks from the debut appear on this compilation, although, several others may be found on enhanced versions of the debut. Most of the remaining tracks are remixes taken from the ep Tomorrow Comes Today from 2000 and then from various single releases and their B-sides. G-sides thus referring to "Gorillaz' sides" - a bit of all kinds of releases so far.
Despite the many new versions one will find on this, the album doesn't add a lot of great tracks to the band's repertoire but it does help building a more sophisticated image to the project. All in all, it seems like an idea of handing something to the fans, and not being really a huge one, for me it's a bit superfluous but yet... 'interesting'.
[ allmusic.com 3 / 5, NME 3,5 / 5, Uncut 2,5 / 5 stars ]
