“Feel Good Inc.” by Gorillaz featuring De La Soul

"Feel Good Inc." was the lead single from Demon Days, the second album by the virtual band Gorillaz, released in May 2005 with the American hip-hop group De La Soul along for the ride. Damon Albarn, Brian Burton, Jamie Hewlett and Dave Jolicoeur wrote it, and the production credits go to Jason Cox, Danger Mouse, James Dring and Gorillaz, with Simon Tong adding extra guitar.

It's a strange, woozy beast: a rubbery, sinister bass groove, a melancholy vocal that sounds like it's drifting through a fog, and then De La Soul barreling in with a verse that crackles with manic energy. It's pop from the other side of the looking glass, part hip-hop, part dub-heavy alt-rock, and it sounds like little else on the radio that year.

It spent eight weeks on top of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, reached No. 2 in the UK and No. 14 in the US, and made the top 10 in 16 countries. At the 2006 Grammys it picked up three nominations, Record of the Year among them, and won Best Pop Collaboration. Pitchfork and Rolling Stone both later named it among the best songs of the 2000s.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.