Left Hand Suzuki Method

Left Hand Suzuki Method is the ninth track from Gorillaz' Phase One B-sides compilation album, G-Sides. It originally appeared as a B-side track to the single "19-2000", and is sung entirely by Noodle.

The song was also featured as a US and France-exclusive bonus track of the bands debut album, Gorillaz.

Song Credits
Written by 2-D / Murdoc / McKinley Morganfield / Elias McDaniel / Mel London

Performed by: Gorillaz / Miho Hatori

Additonal infomation: contains extracts from "Mannish Boy" written by Morganfield / McDaniel / London contains elements from 'I'm A Man' performed by Muddy Waters Produced by Dan the Automator and Gorillaz

Co-produced by Tom Girling and Jason Cox

Engineered by Tom Girling and Jason Cox

Pro-Tools by Tom Girling

Exhumation
Exhumation is the name of the original version of the song. This version was included on the Gorillaz Un-mastered Tracks and Instrumentals Promo CDs, but was re-named to "Left Hand Suzuki Method" on later releases. It is much longer than the well-known one, with a length of 5:16 instead of 3:12, and without the fade-out in the end. The lyrics remain the same from the short version.

Trivia

 * The drums and bass were sampled from "Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters.
 * The violin instrumental featured in the song is from "Long, Long Ago", written in 1833 by English composer Thomas Haynes Bayly. "Long, Long Ago" is one of the songs featured in the Suzuki Method of violin education and Suzuki book 1 for stringed instruments, hence its presence in this song.
 * In the clean version of the track, the bong sounds were cut.
 * According to the band on the Rise of the Ogre book, the opening sounds for the song were actually Russel blowing bubbles in his milk glass through a straw shoved up his nose. "Freaked out parents would say that he is hitting a bong."
 * The song retained the name "Exhumation" on a short version of the it available on Noodle's Room the Kong Studios website during Phase One, named "Exhumation Vox".
 * Another song featuring main vocals by Noodle in Japanese was also present on the un-mastered and instrumental promos, Faust, which was later released as a B-side to the "Rock the House" single. "Faust" also had its own short version available on Noodle's Room, also titled "Faust Vox".
 * Interestingly, 2-D's backing vocals are not present on this version of the song, only Noodle's.
 * This track was once referred to as "Suzuki Left Hand Method" by the Cafe Cat in the cafeteria during MEL's Kong Studios tour.
 * The was eventually given a music video in 2006 called "Monk's Montage" on the Phase Two: Slowboat To Hades DVD which paired the song with various animations from both the Gorillaz and Demon Days albums.