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** Of course, Bobby Womack's performance can't be discredited either, especially the live version. The Detroit performance was a very noisy and excitable crowd -- and, at the show, "Cloud of Unknowing" was the first encore. The crowd, which had been screaming for Feel Good Inc. as the encore, was brought to a complete and thoughtful silence as soon as Womack started singing. The beauty and almost desperate, questioning hopefulness of his voice live is more powerful than the studio version. The video accompanying it only made it more powerful.

** "Cloud of Unknowing" is so powerful, it's even a [[Tear Jerker]] for Murdoc. '''Murdoc.'''

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaJE-c2L82o Sound Check (Gravity)]". One of the lyrics' interpretations would have to be about a person who lives behind a barrier -- rejecting the outside world, it's misery, dullness and sorrow. How gravity is the only thing keeping this person down-to-earth, physically -- and, as much as they hate being psychically dragged down from their Eden, there still is something that causes them to. [[Completely Missing the Point|They blame that thing/person for it.]]

* While the studio version of "To Binge" sounds like it has some hope in it, the live version is heartbreakingly depressing... the way Damon sings "just rolling in and caught again..." can be enough to make someone tear up. It does fit the song more (being hopelessly in love with an emotionless drug addict) -- but GOD, is it sad...

** Possible allegory for those cute critters dying out across the world?

** Which makes the song "Superfast Jellyfish" [[Nightmare Fuel|High Octane Nightmare Fuel]].

* One can't help but feel really bad for {{spoiler|what happens to that poor cop}} in the "Stylo" music video -- especially when he was desperately crawling along the ground after his doughnuts. And the fact that we don't really know what exactly the Boogieman did with him doesn't really help things.

** {{spoiler|A blog on the Gorillaz website pretty much stated that SMS is actually a demon, and Murdoc claimed that part of his deal was to grant the Boogieman access to the "souls of inoccent kids and stuff". Ence...}}.