A definite fan favourite, often coming high in fan polls. The song samples the Human League's 'Sound Of The Crowd' (its pulsating backbeat - it's not a small borrowing, it's impossible not to listen to 'Sound Of The Crowd' as a Gorillaz fan and not exclaim 'but that's Ghost Train!', hence the joint songwriting credit). However the song succeeds on its own merits as a singalong rocker. Dr.Wurzel (invention of the Gorillaz creators who had 'his own' website) said it was 'the first Gorillaz recording' - there may be some truth in this, and perhaps Ghost Train dates from the first Gorillaz sessions. The lyrics are actually fairly interesting (quite rare for a Gorillaz track) although some are so incomprehensible they defied fan lyric transcribers for years.

Official song credits

Written by Gorillaz / Phillip Oakley / Ian Burden
Perfomed by Gorillaz 'featuring Phillip Oakley and Ian Burden'
Additional information: contains portions of 'Sound Of The Crowd' written by Phillip Oakley / Ian Burden
Produced by Gorillaz
Co-produced by Tom Girling and Jason Cox
Engineered by Tom Girling and Jason Cox
Pro-Tools by Tom Girling

Versions & availibility(Click links for exact discographical details)

Ghost Train [3:54] - available on certain formats of the Rock The House single, and also on all versions of G-Sides

Live

Never performed live.