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Kids with Guns

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Released
  
10 April 2006

Recorded
  
2004

Label
  
Parlophone

Format
  
7", CD, DVD

Length
  
3:47

Genre
  
Alternative rock, dream pop

"Kids with Guns" is a song from the Gorillaz' second album, Demon Days. It was released on 10 April 2006 in the United Kingdom, as a double A-side as the fourth and final singles from the album. "Kids with Guns" and its other A-side "El Mañana" reached #27 upon its release in the United Kingdom, a significantly lower position than its predecessors.

Contents

"Kids with Guns" features Neneh Cherry on guest vocals. A remix by Hot Chip was included on the release of The Inbetweeners Soundtrack in 2009.

Overview

"Kids with Guns" was inspired by a child in Damon Albarn's daughter's school who had shown up to school with a knife. Albarn said, "A nice boy just decided to pick up a knife and show it to his friends at lunchtime. It's a very real problem, but I'm not treating it as a problem. It's part of the brutalization of a generation that's going on at the moment."

Music video

Although "Kids with Guns" does not have an official promo video, live visuals were shown during the Demon Days Live show at Manchester Opera House in November 2005. The visuals are a slideshow of guns, appearing in red, white and black. Sometimes a "23 mm" sign or a slide of the guns is positioned to make a windmill, representing Noodle's floating island.

On The Singles Collection DVD, the video used for the song was the live performance from Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House.

Track listing

UK CD Single
  1. "Kids with Guns" – 3:47
  2. "El Mañana" – 3:50
  3. "Stop the Dams" – 5:39
UK DVD Single
  1. "El Mañana" (Video) – 3:54
  2. "Kids with Guns" (Video) – 3:47
  3. "Don't Get Lost in Heaven" (Demo version) – 2:29
  4. "El Mañana" (Animatic) – 3:54
UK 7-inch Single
  1. "Kids with Guns" – 3:47
  2. "El Mañana" – 3:50
European CD Single
  1. "Kids with Guns" – 3:47
  2. "El Mañana" – 3:50
  3. "Stop the Dams" – 5:39
  4. "El Mañana" (Video) – 3:54
Japanese CD Single
  1. "El Mañana" – 3:50
  2. "Kids with Guns" – 3:47
  3. "Stop the Dams" – 5:39
  4. "Don't Get Lost in Heaven" (Demo Version) – 2:29
  5. "El Mañana" (Video) – 3:54
U.K. Digital single
  1. "Kids with Guns" (Hot Chip remix) – 7:07
U.S. Digital Single
  1. "El Mañana" – 3:50
  2. "Hong Kong" (Live In Manchester) – 6:38
U.S. Digital E.P.
  1. "El Mañana" – 3:50
  2. "Stop the Dams" – 5:39
  3. "Hong Kong" (Live In Manchester) – 6:38
  4. "Kids with Guns" (Video) – 3:47
  5. "El Mañana" (Live In Harlem - Video) – 3:55

References

Kids with Guns Wikipedia
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