Within a Sky Full of Earth

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE QUEEN

Moving uptown
But I know it's the place I should be
The streets are all quiet
And no one saying nothing at all

Then the sun came out of he clouds
And charged up the satellites
We all got our energy back and started talking again

It's the blessed routine
For The Good, The Bad And The Queen
Just moving out of dreams with no physical wounds at all

Don't kick the crack heads of the green
They are a political party
And the kids are never going to be tired
Cos everything is so slightly
Everything is so slightly
Come
Everything is so slightly
Come

The Good, the Bad and the Queen is a song by an unnamed alternative rock band fronted by Damon Albarn, the one from Blur and Gorillaz, and is the title song and final track on their 2007 debut album The Good, the Bad and the Queen. A live version of the song recorded at The Tabernacle was also released as a B-side on the band's second single "Kingdom of Doom".
When the album was previewed by Uncut in November 2006, the magazine called the song "a surreal knees-up round a knackered old joanna that celebrates how the same sun cheers both Queen and crackheads - before building up to a psychotic guitar wig-out."
Damon Albarn told NME in January 2007 that the song "had to be last" referring to the position in the album because "where do you go after that noisy bit at the end?"
Noel Gallagher, Albarn's old rival from the Britpop days of the 1990s said in a March 2007 interview, ""I love the bit at the end of their song 'The Good, The Bad and The Queen' when it goes crazy". It was the first time Gallagher had ever spoken favourably of Albarn's music.

In May 2007, the band posted an official video linked from YouTube for the song on their MySpace blog. Picked up by BLOOM TV, here it is now:

• THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE QUEEN - (LIVE VERSION)
• THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE QUEEN - SUFI VIDEO (by STEPHEN POOK)
[click the links above]

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