Reception
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 71/100 |
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| Allmusic | |
| Robert Christgau | |
| Muzik | |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.0/10 |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | |
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| Almost Cool | |
| Alternative Press | |
Gorillaz received generally positive reviews from critics, with the exception of Rolling Stone. It was ranked number 6 in Spin's Albums of the Year 2001, ranked number 96 in Slant Magazine's best of the 2000s list, and was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die until the most recent edition.
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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
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—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)