Gone Daddy Gone

For anyone without electricity … well, you’re not reading this anyway, so I’ll move on.

Okay, for anyone else still playing along, chances are that you’ve at least heard of Gnarls Barkley, a “group” essentially comprised of DJ/producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and rapper/singer Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway). They released their first album, St. Elsewhere, in April 2006 and have been pretty-much everywhere ever since. They were nominated for a Grammy, they won Best Song for “Crazy” and the Future Sounds award at MTV’s European Music Awards, and they’re one of the trippiest psychedelic pop, hip-hop, soul, rock “groups” that have come out lately.

In my opinion, they fully acknowledge the ridiculous “carnival-like” nature the music scene has taken on and, as such, don’t seem to take themselves too seriously. To wit, they have a propensity to appear in costume. For each live performance, as well as for photo shoots and interviews, they dress in a different set of themed costumes. When performing live, they often open with a cover suited to their particular costume. For example, when they appeared as chefs in San Francisco, they opened with a cover of Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf.”

Or they could just be a bunch of loonies.

Anyway, although I typically shy away from remakes and covers (especially if they’re of punk icons like the Violent Femmes), this is one of the few I actually like. Mostly because the video is really, REALLY, REEHEAL-LY trippy (and it’s one of the only videos I can remember referencing David Fincher’s classic sex scene from “Fight Club”).

Gone Daddy Gone – Gnarls Barkley