Slow Country

Slow Country is the fourteenth track on Gorillaz' 2001 debut album, Gorillaz.

Recording and Information
This track was one of the first songs from the debut album finished, and had originally more chill reggae aspects to it, in place of the more melancholic tone of the final version. According to 2-D on the Rise of the Ogre book, his humming at the end of the song was just him singing along to the melody when he didn’t know the mic was on.

Slow Country was originally one of the three Gorillaz songs considered to be singles during the early stages of the band, alongside "Clint Eastwood" and "Tomorrow Comes Today". To help promote the songs, a remix of each one was made, the Ed Case Refix of "Clint Eastwood" by Ed Case featuring Sweetie Irie, the Middle Row Remix of "Tomorrow Comes Today" by Carl Humphrey and Curtis Lynch Jr.'s remix of Slow Country featuring Spragga Benz. They were made both as a way of increasing the populatiry of the songs, getting them airplay in clubs and dancehall places all over England and to work out which singles got the most plays, so that they could then be moved to a much more public release. "Clint Eastwood", however, got much more popular through its refix, after the Tomorrow Comes Today EP had already been released, leading the band to release that song as a single, and not Slow Country. undefined

Trivia

 * The track samples "Ghost Town" by The Specials.
 * It is one of the few tracks, alongside "Starshine" and "5/4", to have different lyrics on their live versions.
 * This is listed as the first track on the un-mastered version of the Gorillaz album.
 * This is also one of the tracks on that album that remained unchanged prior to its final release.
 * The Spacemonkeyz Remix is called Strictly Rubbadub