Bañana Baby is a remix and dub rework made by the Spacemonkeyz of the song Tomorrow Come Today by Gorillaz, featured as the third track from the remix album Laika Come Home, the Spacemonkeyz' dub rework of Gorillaz' debut album. It features guest vocals by reggae singer Earl Sixteen (credited as "Earl 16").
An earlier and very slightly different mix of this song was initially released as a B-side track on all commercial formats of the Tomorrow Comes Today single, where it was titled Tomorrow Dub.
Tomorrow Dub is a remix and dub rework made by the Spacemonkeyz of the song Tomorrow Come Today by Gorillaz, featured as the first B-side on all commercial formats of the Tomorrow Comes Today single. It features uncredited guest vocals by reggae singer Earl Sixteen.
A slightly adjusted mix was later featured as the third track on the remix album Laika Come Home, the Spacemonkeyz' dub rework of Gorillaz' debut album, where it was renamed to Bañana Baby.
Background[]
Bañana Baby was the first dub rework to be produced for what later became the Spacemonkeyz. The song was remixed by Darren Galea, one of the members of the Gorillaz Live Band, at some point between the Forum concert and the North American leg of the Gorillaz LIVE tour. The remix was very well received by Damon Albarn, who then requested him to do so for the entire debut album. For that, Galea assembled the Spacemonkeyz with his former JamiroquaiW bandmates Gavin Dodds, Richie Stevens and Stuart Zender (the latter of which did not become an "official" member of the Spacemonkeyz, but still went on to work alongside them), whose work resulted in the remix album Laika Come Home.
The name 'Bañana Baby' is a play on word 'mañana', which means 'tomorrow' in Spanish (referencing part of the title of the original song) and which also sounds similar to 'banana', a fruit commonly associated with monkeys.[1]
Visualiser[]
TBA
Lyrics[]
[Intro: Earl 16]
(Space... mon... keyz...)
[Verse 1: 2-D]
Everybody's here with me (Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah...)
The digital won't let me go...
(Yeah, yeah, yeah...)
[Bridge: Earl 16]
Oooh, yeah!
[Verse 2: 2-D]
This world...
Don't think I'm all in this world...
[Outro: Earl 16]
(Space... mon... keyz...)
Availability[]
Song[]
- Tomorrow Comes Today single (all formats) (Tomorrow Dub)
- Lil' Dub Chefin' 10" promo & 12" test pressing promo single (SMVG 004) (Bañana Baby)
- Laika Come Home (all formats) (Bañana Baby)
Visualiser[]
- Tomorrow Comes Today DVD single (7243 4900889 2 / DVDR 6573) (Tomorrow Dub)
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Trivia[]
- Despite providing additional vocals for the track, Earl Sixteen is not credited for doing so on any format of the Tomorrow Comes Today single. The same applies to the other guest musicians from the remix, which includes Mike Smith, Stuart Zender, Phil Soul and others.