5/4

5/4 is the second track on Gorillaz' 2001 album "Gorillaz". The song is polymetric, the guitar riff being in 5/4 (hence the title), while the other instruments play in the more common 4/4.

It was originally intended to be a single with a corresponding video, but was replaced by "19-2000". However a storyboard version is available for viewing on YouTube.

In 2015 a YouTube user by the name of "Martin M" published a fan animated music video for the song "5/4" based on the storyboard for the song which can be found here

In 2020, a production team called HOOLIGRAMZ made their own version of the storyboard which can be found here

The song description in Rise of the Ogre calls it a "spiky showdown; like Godzilla versus the hulking King Kong, Noodle and 2-D battle it out for centre stage, with the vocals singing of magic, silent heartbeats, cities and suicide."

Background and Recording
Murdoc said that he needed a proper dirty fuzz coming from the bass, so he kicked a big hole in the speaker cabinet and let the torn flappy speaker cone buzz away.

2-D said that it was kind of difficult to sing. "The timing throws me a bit on this. It's like patting your head and rubbing your tummy at the same time. Bit difficult."

Trivia

 * The Spacemonkeyz Remix of the song is P45.