10 Good Songs That Were Made AMAZING By Their Music Video

At the dawn of the 2000's, Blur's Damon Albarn had started to compose music far removed from his Britpop band's sound. The mix of dub, hip hop, and trip hop was a new look for Albarn, but the shift in style was too drastic to bring to his namesake band. The solution: make a new one.

Teaming up with his illustrator collaborator Jamie Hewlett, Albarn created the basis for Gorillaz, who exploded onto the scene with "Clint Eastwood." You can definitely hear Albarn's vocals, but the cartoon band makes you leave any preconceived notions at the door. The way that these guys interact with each other in the middle of a graveyard is something truly hypnotic. The addition of a ghost spirit to play the part of Del the Funky Homosapien is where the real drama of the video takes off, as he summons zombified gorillas out of the ground to interact with the band.

Though the track was already bold new territory for Albarn, the video's inclusion of an ominous intro helped set the stage for what fans would get used to as quintessential Gorillaz. When MTV was looked at as just juvenile garbage, here was a video that combined all the colorful imagery of the cartoons we loved as kids with a mature musical approach for a new generation to enjoy.