"Hail Santa"
"Don Quixote's Christmas Bonanza" is a track commissioned for a compilation made by a radio station to be rushed out for Christmas. Damon and crew recorded this during their break between the European and North American tours, when "911" was also recorded (EDIT: a terrible song that I have since removed mention of from this blog). You can tell it was rushed to be put together as the only lyrics are Damon singing "Happy Radio" in falsetto. The radio station's full name was "Happy Christmas KROQ Radio", so it's obvious that it didn't take long for Damon to come up with that for the song's only lyric.
Even when the Phase 1 Gorillaz band aren't trying, it still manages to sound cool. Junior Dan delivers a smooth dub bass line while Damon delivers some smooth piano lines, chilled out mystical synthesizers and a reverb and echo soaked guitar. However what brings the song down is the lack of effort from the crew. A drummer (either Jason Cox or Cass Browne) only plays sleigh bells and various lo fi sounding percussion in order to give this particularly non-christmas track a forced christmas feel. If Cox and/or Browne had used a drum set, the track could have had a nice Gorillaz style experimental post-punk dub reggae type thing going on. Instead the track feels as if it was made against their wills, yet somehow it still ends up being kinda good.
One thing that's worthy of noting is that on this compilation there is a parody of "Clint Eastwood" made by the Radio DJs under the name "Chillaz" to be about Frosty The Snowman. It's not good at all (in fact it's really fucking awful), but it's worth noting that this track is technically officially endorsed by the band as they are on the compilation as well. "Don Quixote's Christmas Bonanza" is a track that could have been great, but is instead forcefully re-routed into being something it's not.
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