19-2000

"19-2000"
Single by Gorillaz
from the album Gorillaz
B-side	"Left Hand Suzuki Method" "Hip Albatross"
Released	25 June 2001 (UK) 17 July 2001 (US)
Format	CD, 12", MC
Recorded	2000
Genre	Britpop, dub
Length	3:27
Label	Parlophone
Writer(s)	2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle, Isaac Willis
Producer	Gorillaz, Dan the Automator
Gorillaz singles chronology
"Clint Eastwood" (2001) "19-2000" (2001) "Rock the House" (2001)

"19-2000", sometimes written "19/2000", is a song from the Gorillaz' self-titled debut album, Gorillaz. It was also the second single from the album, released in June 2001.

Music video

The video, directed by Jamie Hewlett and Pete Candeland, is animated, both in 2-D and 3-D. It features the foursome riding in their jeep Dune Buggy along a twisted highway, encountering roller coaster style loops, a killer UFO, when Murdoc decides not to take an exit leading toward a church, and a giant elk. Murdoc tries to blow up the elk with a pair of missiles, but the elk sneezes right before impact, sending them back to the car, which explodes and skids along the highway on fire. The members of Gorillaz appear to have black ash all over them from the blast. A stylized duck head, an Easter egg in early Gorillaz videos, can be found on the heads of the missiles right before they are sneezed away by the moose. In between these various encounters the Gorillaz pass and perform things in time with the rhythm—such as a field of oil rigs, or the light posts passing them at the beginning, and a couple of sections where the buggy does several versions of the wheelie and even appears to break the sound barrier. There are two versions of this video, one to fit the original mix and one to fit the soulchild remix. Both videos are almost identical, except for a few minor changes in order for the two songs to sync up with the video. On the motorway, there are signs to the Overlook Hotel, a reference to The Shining, and Camp Crystal Lake, a reference to Friday the 13th. It was shown in the MTV Cribs tour of Kong Studios that the buggy actually survived the blast, and now sits in the Kong Studio's parking lot where, upon passing it, Murdoc commented that it "costs more than a space shuttle".

Track listing

CD single

1. "19-2000" – 3:27
2. "19-2000" (Soulchild Remix) – 3:30
3. "Left Hand Suzuki Method" – 3:10
4. "19-2000" (video) – 3:56

12-inch vinyl

1. "19/2000" – 3:27
2. "Left Hand Suzuki Method" – 3:10
3. "19/2000" (The Wiseguys House of Wisdom Remix) – 7:14

Cassette single

1. "19/2000" – 3:27
2. "19/2000" (Soulchild Remix) – 3:30
3. "Hip Albatross" – 2:44

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