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The Ol' Sauseej

Did you know?

Back in the day, some time after Gnarls Barkley, Danger Mouse started a new project, with James Mercer, called Broken Bells. In 2010, they released the album "The Ghost Inside".

CeeLo, being the joker that he is, immediately went on action, to release a parody of the album's single, which he called "The Ol' Sauseej", a fun, mischivous parody, full of double meanings, only to troll his band friend, Danger Mouse!

Crazy , isn't it? 🔥

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The Mouse and the Mask, 2005. Danger Mouse & MF DOOM, in an epic collab, later known as DANGER DOOM. 🔥 Still lit to this day! The project also featured CeeLo's voice in one track, called 'Benzie Box'.

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1 9 9 5 . . .

Debut year, debut album. Dungeon days. 🔥📀 Which is your favourite track on Soul Food?

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𝕱𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖞. The Dungeon Family. The Goodie Mob.

Rest your mind in distant wilderness Take your time and concentrate on it Take a stand and make your hand a fist We got a reason to resist

— Distant Wilderness

Goodie Mob, in some promo pictures, to the album booklet. Probably Still Standing, 1998. The beautiful, wild Atlanta.

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Cheat Codes - Go To Hell (feat. CeeLo Green) (Official Visualizer)

You'd like me to wait around With my heart on a string While you're out with some other man Doing your little thing Well I bet your looking hot tonight But my dinner is getting cold Man this same old story's getting old

Saying oh lord Where did we go wrong Woman What more could you want?

I could bring you a dozen roses I could write a love song or two And I wish you well But you can go to hell 'Cause darling heaven isn't good enough for you

'Cause darling heaven isn't good enough for you

'Cause darling heaven isn't good enough for you

Seasons change just like your mind Thought we were evergreen There's rock and there's a hard place You got me in between But I got you used to you Medusa Turn my hear to stone Just like that old song the thrill is gone

Saying oh lord Where did we go wrong Woman What more could you want?

I could bring you a dozen roses I could write a love song or two And I wish you well But you can go to hell Cause darling heaven isn't good enough for you

I could bring you a dozen roses I could write a love song or two And I wish you well But you can go to hell 'Cause darling heaven isn't good enough for you

'Cause darling heaven isn't good enough for you

'Cause darling heaven isn't good enough for you

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"Cause I'm a punk rocker, yes I am..." Reminiscing the past lives of Gnarls Barkley, our super heroes - CeeLo Green & Danger Mouse.

It's always interesting to see how much the superhero theme and cinema in general influenced CeeLo's carreer. Mouse's is not so far away too. The Odd Couple - a direct refference to cinema, but also the whole heroic plot of "Crazy". Hell, even the single "Mystery Men" is fully inspired in a super hero - full of mundane problems.

Green's passion for cinema and television is also not a secret; his 2015's mixtape - TV on the Radio - expresses it very well. But even his other mixtape, the 2010's "Stray Bullets" dedicates tracks to develop even more CeeLo's multiverse, with "Super Woman Theme Song".

What about "The Lady Killer", 2010? Also a classic Bond soundtrack. CeeLo already clarified: When he makes music, he is thinking of a score, a soundtrack, more than a song in itself.

"Like Luke Skywalker finding out who his father is, Han Solo getting frozen in carbonite, or even Jonah ending up in the belly of the whale, every hero has to be dragged into darkness before he can emerge in triumph. Your very own supernatural hero was no different." Green, CeeLo. Everybody's Brother (p. 155).

Every hero has a theme song - CeeLo starts in the 13th track of Stray Bullets. Truth is, CeeLo is full of theme songs, soundtracks, requiems and beautiful scores. From his humble beginnings, in the Dirty South, to luxury, late days. Oh yes, Goodie Mob has also it's fair pieces of soundtrack, or even theme songs. Still Standing (1998), with the homonym track, but also the late "Father Time", from Age Against the Machine, or "Frontline", from Survival Kit... But i love to think that Goodie Mob alligns more with an antihero character, than a hero group. Our very own Not-so-Goodie-Mob.

But one thing is to pay homage to a hero, another thing is to be one. Gnarls Barkley is an alterego, an out of body experience; someone else. A duo. A hero. Crazy times call for crazy heroes. Glad we had 'em. Hoping for more soon. 🌠🔥

My heroes had the heart To lose their lives out on a limb And all I remember Is thinking, I want to be like them —Gnarls Barkley, “Crazy”

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Cheat Codes - Go To Hell feat. CeeLo Green (Official Music Video)

Cheat Codes just dropped a new album "Future Renaissance" and yours truly is on the track "Go To Hell." 🔥 Let's run this up!

NEW ALBUM "FUTURE RENAISSANCE" OUT NOW: https://lnk.to/futurerenaissance

CeeLo Green is featured in Cheat Codes' brand new album - with a video! It's nice to hear CeeLo Green again, with some pop, to take us back to "The Lady Killer" days, 2010.

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Cee Lo's 'Lady Killer' Inspiration: James Bond and Austin Powers

by Gary Graff, Detroit  |   November 10, 2010 1:15 EST

As he rolls out his third solo album, "The Lady Killer," Cee Lo Green is already eyeballing the future of his other musical concerts. Green tells Billboard.com that there will "absolutely" be a third Gnarls Barkley album, though before that he plans to rejoin his hip-hop troupe Goodie Mob for its first new album since 2004's "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show." "Now that I've got 'The Lady Killer' out of my system, I'm ready to throw on my big jewelry again and do some hip-hop," Green says. "That's what my instincts are telling me, so that's where I'll go, as long as I'm allowed. So Goodie Mob, and then Gnarls Barkley, but I'll probably kind of be recording them concurrent."

Cee Lo Green Shows Off New Sounds on 'The Lady Killer'

"The Lady Killer," however, will also be keeping Green busy for the near future. He says the old school soul-flavored set, preceded by the viral sensation "F*** You," is a deliberate attempt to return to "a lighter side" of his musical makeup after the more serious tones of Gnarls Barkley, with a cinematic model in mind. "I sent some signals out to some producers I worked with and basically started by saying I wanted to sound like a big, black James Bond," Green recalls. "I thought 'The Lady Killer' sounded edgy and elegant at the same time. So I wanted something like James Bond, but like Barry White would do it." French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg was also an influence on the set, Green notes -- but so was Mike Myers' Austin Powers character. "I felt like, high up on the list that almost every woman has for things she wants in a man, a sense of humor is one of the first things,"" he explains. "I kind of referenced Austin Powers, too, a bit of sense of humor to it. Hence the song, 'F*** You.' It's kind of all meant to be tongue-in-cheek and funny and charming." Green says he's "pleasantly surprised" by the ride "F*** You" has had since its online release, and he was particularly flattered by William Shatner's rendition of it on TBS' "Lopez Tonight" earlier this month. "That was awesome," says Green, who also made a clean version of the song called "Forget You." "I mean, they won't even let me say 'f*** you' on TV; now I get the chance to go back with a lot more bargaining power with these next performances I have to do. I would rather say 'f*** you' each and every time.

William Shatner Covers Cee Lo's 'F**k You' on 'Lopez Tonight'

"But to have someone as legendary and iconic as William Shatner do the song...I'm like, come on, man. I was a child when 'Star Trek' came out, so that is so awesome. And for another one of my idols, Billy Idol, to do a cover of 'Crazy'...What can I truly say? I'm totally amazed. What a strange, wonderful life I have." Green has a full slate of appearances slated to promote "The Lady Killer," including "Good Morning America," the 2010 Soul Train Awards, "The Ellen Degeneres Show," BET's "106th and Park, "Chelsea Lately, and Fuse's "The Record" and "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus." Meanwhile, actress Gwyneth Paltrow will perform "Forget You" on the Nov. 16 episode of "Glee."

As for tour plans, Green only promises that "if things keep going the way that they are, I'm probably gonna be in a city near you some time very soon."

https://www.billboard.com/news/cee-lo-s-lady-killer-inspiration-james-bond-1004125996.story

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Throwback to one of these "crazy" moments back in the 2000's; Paul Oakenfold featuring CeeLo Green in a track to the videogame "The Bourne Conspiracy".

The official music video is just special: Oakenfold's moments in the live performance of the "Bourne Sessions", a concert all about soundtrack and Jason Bourne, and CeeLo Green's performance there.

Falling is a 2008 track, meaning CeeLo was still in a very active Gnarls Barkley moment. Falling is very techno, futuristic and has hints of a "Moby way" of making music. It's different, it's good. It's CeeLo Green.

Thanks to Game Helper, MightySavagE and Danny Peña, for saving those amazing moments.

"Two world-class artists, Paul Oakenfold and Cee-Lo Green of Gnarls Barkley, have collaborated to create a music video for Sierra Entertainment's major June 2008 release, The Bourne Conspiracy. The "Falling" music video blends Oakenfold's performance from the "Bourne Sessions" concert event, which featured members of the Florida Classical Symphony along with Cee-Lo, with cinematic footage from the game. As part of the "Bourne Sessions" set, Oakenfold also created a "Bourne Medley" that mashed up songs he composed from the Bourne Conspiracy soundtrack. To produce the performance, Sierra engaged The Den of Thieves, the legendary production company responsible for the MTV Video Music Awards, which resulted in a music event unlike any approach in video game history."

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"Even in darkness / Me and my fam from the dungeon found that light!"

CeeLo Green performs Music to my Soul, live at the X Factor UK.

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"I kinda feel like I did (know him), I kinda feel like I knew Robin. He affected me and so many others in such a profund way." - CeeLo Green, about Robin Williams, his single from Heart Blanche album, 2015.

This day, in 1951, Robin Williams was born. Rest in peace, legend.

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"I'm afraid of not being able to laugh anymore, oh What's life going to become once we don't have anymore heroes?"

CeeLo Green was right: "We don't know what the next man's going through." Today is Robin William's birthday, now, in memoriam. Rest in peace, legend!

A man that inspired us all, and inspired CeeLo to write this beautiful track, in homage to him and many more artists that left us soon.

"Life reminds me of Robin Williams We've got to laugh the pain away."

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Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could'

There aren't many musicians who would consider releasing an expletive-laden viral hit to be selling out in some way. Angus Batey meets the remarkable pop-soulster Cee Lo Green.

Take a good look around you," grins Cee Lo Green as he leans back in his chair, which sits on the patio of a mountain lodge-style house deep in a Georgia forest. Ahead of him is a swimming pool where the water is the coolest blue, set in a clearing among trees bathed in glorious late-summer sunshine. "You think I got anything to complain about?"

Above him, inside the glass-walled living room, Green's new backing band – an all-woman five-piece – are getting ready for this afternoon's rehearsal. The band is part of the concept he's building around his third solo album, The Lady Killer, a set of love songs with a summery 60s vibe that recast the big, bald, heavily tattooed Cee Lo as a special agent of pop-soul heartbreak, ready to trot the globe with his private army of guitar-toting Bond girls.

Green's 007 has his Q to supply him with hi-tech weaponry, too – the singer-songwriter Bruno Mars, with whom he has concocted one of the standout pop moments of the year: the album's first single, Fuck You. The track, in which Green berates an ex who's ditched him for someone with more money, became a viral hit last month, picking up more than 2m YouTube plays in just its first weekend online. It is expected to follow Mars's Just the Way You Are to the top of the charts, and give Green his first solo No 1 in Britain when it's released on Monday.

It's not just the expletive in the title and hook – changed to Forget in the radio version – that have attracted attention. Green's mix of self-deprecating humour and indignation, pitched just the right side of petulance, give the song a breadth of appeal that would have seemed unlikely to anyone who had heard only the title.

"It wouldn't work for just anyone," he says, with a contented smile. "Some people have misconstrued Bruno's contribution as him writing the song for me. If he knew the song was gonna be a big hit, he'd-a wrote it for himself! Nobody else would've got away with it but me. Look at me! I'm not ideal image-wise, I don't think. I get a chance to stand out there and redefine what's doable. I am a fuck you – that's why the song works."

Between the song's infectious, playful effortlessness and his evident self-belief, Green gives an impression of comfortable confidence, but that's a front he has worked hard to cultivate. A divorced father of three (he has a biological son and is the adoptive father of his ex-wife's two daughters), he was born Thomas DeCarlo Burton in Atlanta in 1975, to Baptist preacher parents. His father died when Green was two; he later changed his surname to Callaway, his mother's maiden name. As a teenager with considerable capacity for anger, he became involved in gangs, drugs and violence. "Fortunately, music intervened in my life," he says, "and gave me something to focus on."

At elementary school he'd made friends with a fellow outsider, André Benjamin, and almost became a member when Benjamin and Antwan Patton formed Outkast. By then, they were all part of the extended Dungeon Family, which coalesced around the Atlanta production outfit Organized Noize, and Green joined the band Goodie Mob. Their 1995 debut album, Soul Food, included the track Dirty South, which gave a name to the nascent southern hip-hop scene. After recording but before release, Green's mother died; she had been disabled by a car crash two years earlier and, as Green sees it, let go of life after tiring of immobility.

Though Cee Lo was primarily a rapper, one of the Organized members had heard his distinctive singing voice and asked him to do backing vocals on a session with the Atlanta group TLC in 1994. The song, Waterfalls, became the first No 1 he appeared on. More than a decade later, he made chart history in the UK when Gnarls Barkley, the duo he established with the producer Danger Mouse, were the first group to have a chart-topper on download sales alone: that song, Crazy, was the biggest-selling single in Britain in 2006.

Green calls Gnarls Barkley "a freak occurrence, a total eclipse of the sun: it'll happen, but not every day". His lyrics for the duo's two albums have been his most introspective and confessional – Crazy may have become an anthem, but it's a song about the terror of mental instability; She Knows was him dealing, years after the fact, with his mother's death.

"That song is about possession," he says. "My mother, being a prized possession of mine, and vice versa; and then me being possessed by her spirit. I understood her wanting to move on – not give up, but move on. She could've died immediately in the accident, and I can't say that I would have reacted as positively to that. But to watch her suffer for a few years straight – and watchin' her bein' brave enough to make a sound decision to move on – I now believe that that was merciful on me."

He intends more Gnarls Barkley albums, but making them clearly takes a toll; the Lady Killer is his way of escaping from the emotional intensity. Danger Mouse's lack of a lighter outlet, though – his recent work has included Dark Night of the Soul, with the late Sparklehorse leader Mark Linkous and film director David Lynch – gives Green pause for thought.

"I don't really have an in-depth opinion about anything Danger does outside [Gnarls]," he ponders, "but I feel the mood of things he's done, and it concerns me about a real part of him that I do know. I know he's not pretending – that's truly his mood, and it's very dark and melancholy and bitter and sad and detached and disturbed. But I also know a lighter side of him that he will share with me, but he won't share with the world. Danger Mouse is Danger Mouse 24 hours a day – I couldn't bear the thought of people bein' so utterly convinced that I'm Gnarls Barkley 24 hours a day. I needed a break from it."

Green has had extensive success with collaborations: before Crazy came out, Don't Cha, a song he wrote and produced, was a hit for the Pussycat Dolls. Yet when he makes his own music, fewer people pay attention. His first two solo albums, released between Goodie's dissolution in the early 2000s and the inception of Gnarls Barkley in 2005, were commercial failures. Musically expansive, thematically rich, daring in terms of the vulnerability he revealed and the acuity of his insight into art, life, politics and the human condition, both of them – Cee Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections and Cee Lo Green … Is the Soul Machine – are masterpieces, exquisite records by an artist seemingly oblivious to creative boundaries. Their failure to connect with larger audiences seems to gnaw at him.

He has spent three years on The Lady Killer, recording close to 70 songs, reining in the eccentricities of the two predecessors, swapping the emotional evisceration of his Gnarls Barkley material for love songs. And he has opted to work with his label and management to assemble what they collectively believe is the record that will make him a household name, rather than release another album he might have felt better represented every aspect of his creative self.

"I could've said, 'This is the album, take it or leave it,' but I don't think that's the right attitude to have right now," he admits. "For too long I've been underground and underdog, and I need to be seen as the thing to do: 'This is the direction to go in – follow this man.' I think I'm needed – as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer; as an alternative. So we sat down and weighed up the pros and cons, because you don't seal a deal with one single solitary opinion. Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed."

The record isn't finished yet (Green postponed a London gig last Monday to complete recording). But he has the follow-up to Fuck You ready and waiting. You Don't Shock Me Any More is a breezy slice of retro soul-pop with a 21st-century attitudinal twist; a pastiche of 70s library and gameshow music with a delicious sax solo by Goodie Mob's Khujo and a knowing lyric that's part love song, part attack on celebrity culture. There's only one problem: it didn't make the committee's cut for the album, so Green has released it, for free, on a mixtape called Stray Bullets.

"No one had anything to do with Stray Bullets but me," he says. "I just needed a moment of clarity to have some fun. It's a completely gratifying, exhilarating act of art. With Lady Killer, I had to take all those other things into consideration, because I wanna be a professional, but the growing pains hurt a bit. I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could! So, I know I shouldn't say this, but I've got to: personally, I like Stray Bullets better. But I hope you don't think I'm insulting Lady Killer – I'm not. They're all still pretty great songs."

There aren't many musicians who would consider releasing a single called Fuck You to be selling out in some way. But for Green, this is as safe as it gets. He just hopes he's done enough to reap the rewards he feels he's already earned several times over.

"I'm an artist, and I like the risk – I'm not in it for the sure things. I like the want, the need, the desire to live and die by it – it's that serious for me. But on the other hand, someone like myself should survive. This should not be a kamikaze mission."

Fuck You is released Monday on Elektra; The Lady Killer follows in November.

"I'm needed – as an alternative" . . . Cee-Lo Green. Photograph: Chris Rank/Polaris

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STRAY BULLETS (The Mixtape made of Gold) - CeeLo Green

Before ‘The Lady Killer’, there was a Mixtape made of gold, powered by Greg Street, called “Stray Bullets”. CeeLo brought in a couple of songs that didn’t maje the cut to be in The Lady Killer album, so he released by himselft this “prequel” of an album! 💿🗽

Stray Bulllets is a project from 2010, and includes some great solo songs, like “Little Black Book”, or the Gnarls Barkley’s 'The Last Time’ (St. Elsewhere, 2006) re-invented, here with the title “Super Woman Theme Song”, utilizing the same instrumental that Danger Mouse used.

Here’s the scoop on the tape, by CeeLo Green: “Signatured and Sung the Shit Out Of by Cee Lo Green, aka Sugar Lo Leonard, aka Lothar of the Ill People, aka Mr. Lo Jangles, aka Lo Lucas (African American Gangster), aka Locifer, etc.etc… Executive Produced by “The Mild Mannered, But Murderous” Mike Caren. Recorded and Mixed by Graham Marsh. Mastered by John Horesco IV. Assisted by Juliette Amoroso, Anthony Kronfle & Jesse Johnstone.”

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STRAY BULLETS (The Mixtape made of Gold) - CeeLo Green

Before 'The Lady Killer', there was a Mixtape made of gold, powered by Greg Street, called "Stray Bullets". CeeLo brought in a couple of songs that didn't maje the cut to be in The Lady Killer album, so he released by himselft this "prequel" of an album! 💿🗽

Stray Bulllets is a project from 2010, and includes some great solo songs, like "Little Black Book", or the Gnarls Barkley's 'The Last Time' (St. Elsewhere, 2006) re-invented, here with the title "Super Woman Theme Song", utilizing the same instrumental that Danger Mouse used.

Here's the scoop on the tape, by CeeLo Green: "Signatured and Sung the Shit Out Of by Cee Lo Green, aka Sugar Lo Leonard, aka Lothar of the Ill People, aka Mr. Lo Jangles, aka Lo Lucas (African American Gangster), aka Locifer, etc.etc… Executive Produced by “The Mild Mannered, But Murderous” Mike Caren. Recorded and Mixed by Graham Marsh. Mastered by John Horesco IV. Assisted by Juliette Amoroso, Anthony Kronfle & Jesse Johnstone."

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TV On The Radio - CeeLo Green

TV On The Radio is a kind of 'secret' mixtape released in 2015. 📺📻💿 In this project, CeeLo Green takes you to a trip down memory lane with some of his loved TV shows that he grew watching. 🕹 With 9 songs and famous instrumentals (Peanuts; Taxi; Knight Rider…), CeeLo creates lyrics to those pop culture anthems. Have you heard this gems? 📺

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Music should be soothing the savage beast, not agitating it." - CeeLo Green

TBT of Gnarls Barkley - CeeLo & Danger Mouse on The Source's cover.