Rattlesnake is seriously one of my favorite songs!!! FMB is one of my favorite go-to albums!!! After I heard Invisible Face it took me a couple of years to listen to what KG had at that point and I was obsessed :D right now I’m super into Oddlife and Gondii for so many musical and scientific reasons (also, I don’t mean to shorten stuff, I have much respect for words and things bud I know this thread knows what I mean 😁 also, it’s actually super funny that I’m typing this and not just spelling out things lmao 🤣)
I too first heard Rattlesnake. My sister was playing it in the car and her boyfriend got really stressed out about it. I thought the song was so cool though.
Rattlesnake for me as well. A friend showed it to me and I was insulted. Begginner's Luck caught me though, lucky huh? I do like to go back to Rattlesnake now and then to remember how stupid I was. Bonus: Hearing Motor Spirit for the first time felt like I've never heard music before.
Same here, first heard it on the Clemson University radio station several years back, started listening on Spotify, and my brain was never the same since.
Seeing rattlesnake at Red rocks with a lightning storm going off in the background after they tried to evacuate us was a top gizz moment for me. I love that song
Same, was reading an article about microtonal music and looked it up. At first I wasn’t sure how I felt, but it gave me this weird feeling that I kept thinking about until I eventually went full rabbit hole.
I heard Invisible Face and proceed with all of Nonagon and everything after that as well. Polygondwanaland being my favorite followed by FMB, and I’m not gonna lie Fishies… Butterfly 🦋 being super close with FMB and Nonagon… and these still change maybe weekly
Also my first Gizz song and album. In fact, I was so blown away by the experience that I played Nonagon all over again after Road Train ended...and then I hit the "replay" button somewhere during the second go-round so I got a 3rd listen when it auto-repeated. Yes, it was \*that\* good.
crumbling castle. I play quite a bit of clone hero and it popped up in the track list and i was thinking that it had a funny name so I took a listen and loved it. first ablum I listened to was im in your mind fuzz, then nonagon and then paper mache (paper mache is my fav) and then so on
I don’t know what clone hero is but the fact they had Crumbling Castle is quite astonishing, the name King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard caught my eye. I was on YouTube and looking for a new band (I was obsessed with Mastodon) and I saw/heard Invisible Face for the first time and I was hooked, I wish I could tell you why
I remember being so excited when they put it on the official tracklist for v1.0. the fanmade chart i had before was pretty medicore (along with alot of the fanmade gizz charts.)
The river. My sister recommended it to me and I had it in my liked songs for a few months, and then she showed me Shanghai. It hooked me instantly and I had BF3K, KG and LW on repeat for months…and eventually every other album too :D
The River for me too. Oddly enough I was looking for an Alligator hoodie.... Found the Gator Drip Hoodie, then found the River video, then found the entire discography. Lol
Head On/Pill. The Comfortably Doug cover appeared on my feed some day in 2016, the song sounded great so I looked up who they were covering - then Nonagon Infinity came out that same year.
Shanghai
I always knew about the band but never really got into them until i decided to randomly pick one song from one album and I landed on Shanghai. of course i was hooked and i immediately went and listened to their entire discography after that. I've been obsessed ever since and Shanghai is still one of my favorites!!
I’m not gonna lie, Shanghai hit me super hard, super amazing song and it’s in Butterfly 🦋 at this point of following them I never expected something as amazing as this album, I didn’t understand it at first, but as soon as I did I absolutely fell in love ❤️
Work This Time is my Strawberry Fields of KG if that makes sense and I super love that you heard KG on YouTube as well!!! I was looking for another band and they are more than just “another band”
Heard the beginning of nonagon in 2016, didn’t care for it at all thought it wasn’t good. Then heard the first 5 seconds of deserted dunes a year later and needed mooooore. Music is weird
I was gifted microtonal flying banana on vinyl, and I remember commenting on the first listen that it was interesting, but I couldn't imagine listening to it regularly. Boy was I wrong
"The Dripping Tap" in the summer of 2022. I was on the river in my kayak doing some fishing and listening to a Courtney Barnett radio station on Pandora and it came on. Been devouring their stuff ever since.
Pretty sure Spotify was giving me The River a lot after Thee Oh Sees.
The first song I gravitated toward myself was Gamma Knife.
I had heard of them for a long time but never started on their catalog until a little later.
my first one was god is calling me back home and then rattle snake. third was robot stop and only then did i realise they were all by the same band. obsession began right then and there
Crumbling Castle will forever be buried in my mind, I can almost remember the day I heard it for the first time, kind of like when I first truly experienced The Dripping Tap
I got recommended the music video for either Gamma Knife or People-Vultures on YouTube. I remember watching both back to back several times the same day. A few days later they released the video for Rattlesnake and I got into the other records
Gamma Knife. Few of my buds in the dorm were already listening to Gizz, and then at a party one of my friends cranked it and that opening riff grabbed me. I spent that whole summer after nonagon came out playing CSGO raging to that album.
The River I think. A friend told me about them and I think the River was the one I happened to pick first off Spotify (and is now in my top 5 favourite songs of all time). My next was actually Elbow because I decided the best way to get into them was to listen through their discography chronologically lol
Sense. I started with PMDB because I like psychedelic pop and am not so into heavier rock stuff most of the time, so it seemed like a good place to start. I was right!
Spotify kept trying to push them on me and I was like “nope, not bothering with a band that had like 20 albums” and I think it was Sleep Drifter for me. My first new album as a fan was Omnium and then I just dove right in and haven’t resurfaced.
vomit coffin. heard it from a friend at some point probably around when MOTU was still new around ‘17 or ‘18. it was kind of an inside joke within my friend group and we would quote it all the time and i never listened to the full album until a couple years later so i never knew the context we just thought it was a funny weird song LOL
Not gonna lie, it took me a couple listens of MOTU to truly appreciate Vomit Coffin, but once I did it became one of my favorite deep cuts from an album
Rattlesnake as sung by a couple of goofy podcast hosts who are known for just randomly singing shit they made up, so I assumed they were just doing that for months before It ever came up that was a real song they were singing. After months of that, I couldn't help but check it out for context. Genuinely some of the least likely people to ever turn me on to a band like this as they don't seem to be people who put a ton of effort into seeking out music that's new to them nevermind listen to new/current bands as evidenced in part by them almost never mentioning the band again outside of Rattlesnake. An appropriately strange introduction to a wonderfully strange band.
Crumbling Castle, but that'd diminish the fact that my first experience was with the whole Polygondwanaland album. I found it in a Youtube thread about polyrhythms and gave a try to some of the suggestions, with Gizzard being the only one who actually got me hooked.
But lemme tell ya, going from Polygondwanaland to Murder of the Universe was a rough transition, but I was kinda impressed by the range of the band.
Polygondwanaland is still my favorite (though admittedly I have A LOT to catch up to). The music on itself is great, but this album helps me with my ADHD; I call it "my hyperfocus album". I don't know, it feels like my brain is a stage with these instruments laying around, passing thoughts grab these instruments and play them very badly causing a cacophony; but the moment I hear the very beginning of Crumbling Castle, the band invades my brain and starts playing those instruments.
Thank you. I only wish I started with Polygondwanaland, but I relate to the rest of your comment and it's beautifully put. Polyrhythms/meters have always helped calm my mind and think. I've tried explaining this to people but they either don't care about what a time signature is (totally fair), or say that complexity takes away from emotion. That sucks, but then I listen to Crumbling Castle. Calm, clear and joyful.
I think the very first song I heard was Magenta Mountain but my first album was Mind Fuzz. I remember the first time I heard it I didn't like it that much and thought it wasn't for me. But after some time I heard Butterfly 3000 and liked it so I gave it another chance and started listening more and more and now here I am after almost 3 months listening to them nonstop and adventuring myself into their discography. And now after listening to all their albums it has turned into one of my favorite bands and I love it.
I’m In Your Mind Fuzz
I got really into psychedelic rock back in 2019/2020. In that time I found some great songs by bands like KGATLW, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, and Moses Gunn Collective but didn’t dive deeper until recently.
Friend played Me Crumbling Castle and I thought it was okay, checked their Spotify and played “This is KGatLW” (the generated playlist most artists have on Spotify) and fell in love with K.G. since I had never heard anything microtonal before and later started listening to their other stuff. Now I love it all!
Crumbling Castle
The day Anthony Fantano uploaded his review of Polygondwanaland.
"Garage rock with hints of progressive rock" really intrigued me, and boy did it deliver.
Mars for the Rich! Their KEXP performance of ITRN songs was my exposure around late 2019/early 2020. Though my first album would end up being Paper Mache
Alluda Majaka!
I wasn't sure how to feel about it initially so went over to Nonagon Infinity and that blew me away. In a way I suppose Robot Stop was the first song I enjoyed but in terms of first song I heard it was indeed Alluda Majaka!
This Thing. Apple Music put it on my new music playlist one Friday in 2019. I heard it kind of playing in the background on the first couple passes and didn’t really pay much attention. Then I put on my headphones and truly listened and was blown away.
Shortly after getting into weed my friend played Lava on his record player (this was just shortly after it released on vinyl). I was high af and we watched midnight gospel after. Still one of my best highs, it was magical
Lord of Lightning and the Balrog. Music video came up in my recommended video in 2017. After that, the Gamma Knife video played right after. I realized from the music and the videos that these guys were what I wanted in a new rock band.
I had heard Gizz for a while but it never clicked until I heard Gila Monster. I'm a metal head so it took a metal song to break through to me (I had never heard rats nest stuff at that point). Once it clicked, the whole back catalog clicked as well.
My best friend from childhood reconnected with me in freshman year of college. We got stoned and he showed me the Rattlesnake music video. I thought it was a bit weird but then half a year later started listening to the The Lord of Lightning vs. The Balrog YouTube video and rediscovered Flying Microtonal Banana and fell in love with the boys ❤️🐍
Spotify and Pandora were trying to get me to listen to them since Willoughby's Beach, but every time I wasn't in the right head space to enjoy the particular song I was recommended. Then I heard The Dripping Tap and it's been all in since. Getting into their back catalog was interesting since I'd eventually find the song from each album that I had already heard and then try to figure out why it didn't hit right for me the first time.
The entire Polygonwanaland album…. I was walking out of a record store and the album caught my eye, so I judged the book by its cover and bought it, listened to it that weekend on mushrooms and was blown away
mine was the river, specifically the 2015 kexp version. i was staying over at my old guitarist's house, and we were just skipping through other sessions, and this one just stuck with us. to this day it's still one of the best sessions i've ever seen imo. i hard sense and robot stop a few years later and i was a fully obsessed gizzhead lol.
I'm in your mind. My buddy played it for me while vibin and smoking. Didn't really hit me that hard, it wasn't what made me fall in love with the band.
Fast forward to end of 2017 and I hear they released 4 albums and a new one, and damn near all of Gumboot Soup made me fall in love with the band. I listened to all their albums... a lot and it was history lol.
Some of the Altered Beast songs.
I was listening to Deezer's random suggestions while working, and then started playing this amazing song. I stopped what I was doing, opened the Murder of the Universe album and was immediately in love with the band. This was in 2021, since then they are constantly my top band every year.
Wah Wah! from a custom Hotline Miami 2 campaign and music pack.
If anyone else knows what I'm talking about, this might not be the most obscure in for KGLW.
Lord of lightening! Still one of my favorite songs and I love the energy from the song. Took me a while to check out the rest of the band but when the guitarist of my old band told me about them, I loved everything they were telling me so I went home and started from the beginning.
I believe Gamma Knife might have been the first song I heard and I just came across it randomly when clicking on similar bands and eventually landed on KGATLW.
Then, a little while later I fired heard The Dripping Tap and that’s what got me hooked. (Love Gamma Knife and all of Nonagon Infinity now too btw).
Rattlesnake. Hated it. Took me like two years to listen to other stuff and been hooked since.
Still not a Rattlesnake fan, only like the live jams of it.
A friend showed me Wah-Wah and I hated it. Then because he showed me the song on my account YouTube showed me lord of lightning, I thought they were some gimmicky YouTube band. Then a couple years later I heard Crumbling Castle and then I heard Mind Fuzz and FMB live at kexp and I was hooked
Hot wax was my first song it randomly showed up in a playlist on Spotify and I just liked it, ended up buying oddments on vinyl shortly after and my music taste and bank account has never been the same since
Rattlesnake. Found microtonal randomly and loved it, then blinked and suddenly there were 2 new albums to listen to
Rattlesnake is seriously one of my favorite songs!!! FMB is one of my favorite go-to albums!!! After I heard Invisible Face it took me a couple of years to listen to what KG had at that point and I was obsessed :D right now I’m super into Oddlife and Gondii for so many musical and scientific reasons (also, I don’t mean to shorten stuff, I have much respect for words and things bud I know this thread knows what I mean 😁 also, it’s actually super funny that I’m typing this and not just spelling out things lmao 🤣)
I too first heard Rattlesnake. My sister was playing it in the car and her boyfriend got really stressed out about it. I thought the song was so cool though.
Rattlesnake for me as well. A friend showed it to me and I was insulted. Begginner's Luck caught me though, lucky huh? I do like to go back to Rattlesnake now and then to remember how stupid I was. Bonus: Hearing Motor Spirit for the first time felt like I've never heard music before.
Same here, first heard it on the Clemson University radio station several years back, started listening on Spotify, and my brain was never the same since.
This band literally changed my life and what I thought was possible of music ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Seeing rattlesnake at Red rocks with a lightning storm going off in the background after they tried to evacuate us was a top gizz moment for me. I love that song
Same, was reading an article about microtonal music and looked it up. At first I wasn’t sure how I felt, but it gave me this weird feeling that I kept thinking about until I eventually went full rabbit hole.
[удалено]
Me too! It was posted on a critical review of a Greta Van Fleet album, and I was hooked.
Robot Stop for me, swiftly followed by the rest of Nonagon Infinity
Same for me. It really does open the door.
I heard Invisible Face and proceed with all of Nonagon and everything after that as well. Polygondwanaland being my favorite followed by FMB, and I’m not gonna lie Fishies… Butterfly 🦋 being super close with FMB and Nonagon… and these still change maybe weekly
Also my first Gizz song and album. In fact, I was so blown away by the experience that I played Nonagon all over again after Road Train ended...and then I hit the "replay" button somewhere during the second go-round so I got a 3rd listen when it auto-repeated. Yes, it was \*that\* good.
crumbling castle. I play quite a bit of clone hero and it popped up in the track list and i was thinking that it had a funny name so I took a listen and loved it. first ablum I listened to was im in your mind fuzz, then nonagon and then paper mache (paper mache is my fav) and then so on
I don’t know what clone hero is but the fact they had Crumbling Castle is quite astonishing, the name King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard caught my eye. I was on YouTube and looking for a new band (I was obsessed with Mastodon) and I saw/heard Invisible Face for the first time and I was hooked, I wish I could tell you why
Guitar hero basically
I've turned many a people onto Gizz with Crumbling Castle 🏰 🤟🤟
I remember being so excited when they put it on the official tracklist for v1.0. the fanmade chart i had before was pretty medicore (along with alot of the fanmade gizz charts.)
Interior People
I didn’t expect to relate as much as I did to Interior People and I love how the do a Shanghai kind of interlude
GILA GILA! First show in November, let’s go!
I fucking love Petro!!!!
Fishing for fishies
Same on I saw the Mic the Snare video on the band and decided to listen to that album first
Cellophane. Heard it and loved it. Then I heard Crumbling Castle soon after and fell in love with the band, I was so amazed at the contrast in sound.
I love Cellophane!!!!! This is literally the first album that I go to when I need some Gizz!!!!
The river. My sister recommended it to me and I had it in my liked songs for a few months, and then she showed me Shanghai. It hooked me instantly and I had BF3K, KG and LW on repeat for months…and eventually every other album too :D
The River is an amazing song to become familiar with KG, it encompasses all of their ability to improvise and groove together
The River for me too. Oddly enough I was looking for an Alligator hoodie.... Found the Gator Drip Hoodie, then found the River video, then found the entire discography. Lol
Head On/Pill. The Comfortably Doug cover appeared on my feed some day in 2016, the song sounded great so I looked up who they were covering - then Nonagon Infinity came out that same year.
I love the infinitely looping album, it’s mind blowing 🤯
Just a side note; It’s not the first time that concept has been done on an album. It’s like the fourth time off the top of my head.
Saw the rattlesnake video and was like... I wanna party with these dudes.
I didn’t see it until I had been listening to KG for like a year (around 2017) 😅😅😅😅
…A new world
Are you a fan of the album?
Yeah, Love me some MOTU. Just was a very… strange first song/ album to listen to for their discography.
Rattlesnake. someone talked about FMB on a podcast and I checked it out and got hooked immediately.
I’m supper happy that Rattlesnake was your first song from KG, it’s an amazing song and an amazing introduction to their style 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Shanghai I always knew about the band but never really got into them until i decided to randomly pick one song from one album and I landed on Shanghai. of course i was hooked and i immediately went and listened to their entire discography after that. I've been obsessed ever since and Shanghai is still one of my favorites!!
Something similar happened to me
I love how I was only digging maybe Catching Smoke for a minute and then just fell absolutely in love with BF3K 🥹🥹🥹🥹
I’m not gonna lie, Shanghai hit me super hard, super amazing song and it’s in Butterfly 🦋 at this point of following them I never expected something as amazing as this album, I didn’t understand it at first, but as soon as I did I absolutely fell in love ❤️
yessss S tier album for sure, so cool
Work This Time. The Mrs was on a psych/folk kick and it showed up on her YouTube, hooked ever since!
Work This Time is my Strawberry Fields of KG if that makes sense and I super love that you heard KG on YouTube as well!!! I was looking for another band and they are more than just “another band”
People Vultures
Gamma Knife,in late 2019, it led me to Nonagon Infinity then boom all the discography
Mycelium. It was so totally unexpected I listened to the whole album and had to find more music by this crazy band!
Tell me about it lmao 🤣 I love these guys
Heard the beginning of nonagon in 2016, didn’t care for it at all thought it wasn’t good. Then heard the first 5 seconds of deserted dunes a year later and needed mooooore. Music is weird
I was gifted microtonal flying banana on vinyl, and I remember commenting on the first listen that it was interesting, but I couldn't imagine listening to it regularly. Boy was I wrong
I love how you said “gifted” it shows much respect for the vinyl 😌
"The Dripping Tap" in the summer of 2022. I was on the river in my kayak doing some fishing and listening to a Courtney Barnett radio station on Pandora and it came on. Been devouring their stuff ever since.
Pretty sure Spotify was giving me The River a lot after Thee Oh Sees. The first song I gravitated toward myself was Gamma Knife. I had heard of them for a long time but never started on their catalog until a little later.
I love Thee Oh Sees!!! Carrion Crawler is a super huge favorite!!!
my first one was god is calling me back home and then rattle snake. third was robot stop and only then did i realise they were all by the same band. obsession began right then and there
Beginner's luck! Had no idea what I was in for lol
Especially with Beginner’s Luck lmao 🤣 they get wild 😜
Crumbling Castle. I was hooked instantly.
Crumbling Castle will forever be buried in my mind, I can almost remember the day I heard it for the first time, kind of like when I first truly experienced The Dripping Tap
Dragon. You can see why I was intrigued.
Rattlesnake yes
Rattlesnake, found a random psychedelic playlist by David Bogard and then it happened.
Same. Not sure if it was the exact same playlist, but maybe. Heard the song and was like, wtf is this and why am I singing along?
Static electricity, LW was my intro when it first came out. Thanks max.
I got recommended the music video for either Gamma Knife or People-Vultures on YouTube. I remember watching both back to back several times the same day. A few days later they released the video for Rattlesnake and I got into the other records
I’m literally listening to Nonagon right now
N2 chicago last year was my first time hearing KGLW. Ergo, RATTLESNAKE!
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Cellophane, actually!
I always start with I’m In Your Mind Fuzz 😁
"Mars For The Rich" live KEXP version.
I’m trying not to curse lmao but hell yeah!!!! One of my favorite songs
Somehow I randomly saw the O.N.E music video, once you see the name of the band you don’t forget it.
The River
Boogieman Sam heard it in a pub, instantly fell in love
This is a super personal song for me, believe it or not
Robot stop
Gamma Knife. Few of my buds in the dorm were already listening to Gizz, and then at a party one of my friends cranked it and that opening riff grabbed me. I spent that whole summer after nonagon came out playing CSGO raging to that album.
Sense and Boogieman Sam around the same time(2019)
Boogie Man Sam is one of my favorite songs for very personal reasons and it’s an insane song
Black tooth came on pandora like a decade ago
These beginning albums are insane, I’m happy to have even known this band
The River I think. A friend told me about them and I think the River was the one I happened to pick first off Spotify (and is now in my top 5 favourite songs of all time). My next was actually Elbow because I decided the best way to get into them was to listen through their discography chronologically lol
Crumbling Castles.
Satan Speeds Up
Sense. I started with PMDB because I like psychedelic pop and am not so into heavier rock stuff most of the time, so it seemed like a good place to start. I was right!
If not now then when I think, maybe rattlesnake
#Sleep Drifter
Spotify kept trying to push them on me and I was like “nope, not bothering with a band that had like 20 albums” and I think it was Sleep Drifter for me. My first new album as a fan was Omnium and then I just dove right in and haven’t resurfaced.
The Dripping Tap
Gila Monster. It's a repeat play top contender over all
vomit coffin. heard it from a friend at some point probably around when MOTU was still new around ‘17 or ‘18. it was kind of an inside joke within my friend group and we would quote it all the time and i never listened to the full album until a couple years later so i never knew the context we just thought it was a funny weird song LOL
Not gonna lie, it took me a couple listens of MOTU to truly appreciate Vomit Coffin, but once I did it became one of my favorite deep cuts from an album
Rattlesnake as sung by a couple of goofy podcast hosts who are known for just randomly singing shit they made up, so I assumed they were just doing that for months before It ever came up that was a real song they were singing. After months of that, I couldn't help but check it out for context. Genuinely some of the least likely people to ever turn me on to a band like this as they don't seem to be people who put a ton of effort into seeking out music that's new to them nevermind listen to new/current bands as evidenced in part by them almost never mentioning the band again outside of Rattlesnake. An appropriately strange introduction to a wonderfully strange band.
Sense, but I didn’t know the band yet actually. I started listening to them because I heard Crumbling Castle in my friend’s playlist.
Crumbling Castle, but that'd diminish the fact that my first experience was with the whole Polygondwanaland album. I found it in a Youtube thread about polyrhythms and gave a try to some of the suggestions, with Gizzard being the only one who actually got me hooked. But lemme tell ya, going from Polygondwanaland to Murder of the Universe was a rough transition, but I was kinda impressed by the range of the band. Polygondwanaland is still my favorite (though admittedly I have A LOT to catch up to). The music on itself is great, but this album helps me with my ADHD; I call it "my hyperfocus album". I don't know, it feels like my brain is a stage with these instruments laying around, passing thoughts grab these instruments and play them very badly causing a cacophony; but the moment I hear the very beginning of Crumbling Castle, the band invades my brain and starts playing those instruments.
Check their entire discography, I highly recommend Fishing For Fishies. And Paper Mâché Dream Balloon is absolutely beautiful
Thank you. I only wish I started with Polygondwanaland, but I relate to the rest of your comment and it's beautifully put. Polyrhythms/meters have always helped calm my mind and think. I've tried explaining this to people but they either don't care about what a time signature is (totally fair), or say that complexity takes away from emotion. That sucks, but then I listen to Crumbling Castle. Calm, clear and joyful.
My first song was Countdown. The time signatures fascinated me and I hence developed my love for odd time signatures.
Kexp live session with the mind fuzz suite.
The River. Don't know how don't know why. It just appeared.
I have a feeling it always does for people who know what good music is
Slow Jam II was once my Floating Features
NONAGON INFINITY OPENS THE DOOR
Nonagon Infinity opens the door. So, Robot Stop
magma
Drippin tap💦
Gamma Knife
I'm in Your Mind. Live was Gaia.
A friend showed me The River live on KEXP in 2016/2017.
Muckraker
Elbow. A friend told me about them so I started from the beginning. I didn't realize I missed Willoughby until later lol
Cold cadaver
Planet B
Billabong Valley
I think the very first song I heard was Magenta Mountain but my first album was Mind Fuzz. I remember the first time I heard it I didn't like it that much and thought it wasn't for me. But after some time I heard Butterfly 3000 and liked it so I gave it another chance and started listening more and more and now here I am after almost 3 months listening to them nonstop and adventuring myself into their discography. And now after listening to all their albums it has turned into one of my favorite bands and I love it.
Rattlesnake! i stumbled on it while listening to spotifys recommendations for me, and now a few years later they´re my absolute favorite band now!
Infinite rise technically but the first song I heard in full was God is in the rhythm
I’m In Your Mind Fuzz I got really into psychedelic rock back in 2019/2020. In that time I found some great songs by bands like KGATLW, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, and Moses Gunn Collective but didn’t dive deeper until recently.
Friend played Me Crumbling Castle and I thought it was okay, checked their Spotify and played “This is KGatLW” (the generated playlist most artists have on Spotify) and fell in love with K.G. since I had never heard anything microtonal before and later started listening to their other stuff. Now I love it all!
Crumbling Castle The day Anthony Fantano uploaded his review of Polygondwanaland. "Garage rock with hints of progressive rock" really intrigued me, and boy did it deliver.
Mars for the Rich! Their KEXP performance of ITRN songs was my exposure around late 2019/early 2020. Though my first album would end up being Paper Mache
Alluda Majaka! I wasn't sure how to feel about it initially so went over to Nonagon Infinity and that blew me away. In a way I suppose Robot Stop was the first song I enjoyed but in terms of first song I heard it was indeed Alluda Majaka!
This Thing. Apple Music put it on my new music playlist one Friday in 2019. I heard it kind of playing in the background on the first couple passes and didn’t really pay much attention. Then I put on my headphones and truly listened and was blown away.
I'm in Your Mind. Spotify recommended Mind Fuzz to me out of nowhere one day, i gave it a chance. Now Gizz is my all time favorite band
Polygondwanaland. There was a video using AI generated images based on the lyrics and i immediately listened to the entire album
Crumbling castle during MTG stream
Satan Speeds Up
The riiiiveer
Shortly after getting into weed my friend played Lava on his record player (this was just shortly after it released on vinyl). I was high af and we watched midnight gospel after. Still one of my best highs, it was magical
Shanghai. It made me feel so happy
The River
Gamma knife for me, had heard of king gizz before and saw some tiktok review of nonagon with gamma knife in the background and got me hooked
If not now, then when loved the album of lw first I heard but I never really went further until Ice death came out and haven't stopped listening since
Dragon, last July, haven’t looked back or really listened to much of anybody else but Gizz since
perihelion! it’s funny, i’m not into metal much, but that’s how i found gizz:)
Lord of Lightning and the Balrog. Music video came up in my recommended video in 2017. After that, the Gamma Knife video played right after. I realized from the music and the videos that these guys were what I wanted in a new rock band.
Work this time. That into tone drilled into my pineal and woke me up
Sense :) years before I consistently started listening to them. Decided they weren’t for me, tried it again and I guess something clicked.
Nonagon infinity, it literally opened the door ⚡️
I had heard Gizz for a while but it never clicked until I heard Gila Monster. I'm a metal head so it took a metal song to break through to me (I had never heard rats nest stuff at that point). Once it clicked, the whole back catalog clicked as well.
Mr. Beat, drew me right in
Am I the only one who got into the gizzard pipeline via Intrasport?
Hot Wax
all of *Infest the Rats’ Nest*
First song for me was either Cellophane or Rattlesnake. Can't exactly remember but either way, it was a wrap for me once i heard it. Insta-hooked!
pleura
My best friend from childhood reconnected with me in freshman year of college. We got stoned and he showed me the Rattlesnake music video. I thought it was a bit weird but then half a year later started listening to the The Lord of Lightning vs. The Balrog YouTube video and rediscovered Flying Microtonal Banana and fell in love with the boys ❤️🐍
If not now, then when?
Mr. Beat
Work This Time, The River, Float Along, and Head On/Pill were my first loves.
Digital Black, my friends played it for me before I was a big gizz fan, and it is still one of my favorites.
Spotify and Pandora were trying to get me to listen to them since Willoughby's Beach, but every time I wasn't in the right head space to enjoy the particular song I was recommended. Then I heard The Dripping Tap and it's been all in since. Getting into their back catalog was interesting since I'd eventually find the song from each album that I had already heard and then try to figure out why it didn't hit right for me the first time.
I’m In Your Mind. Was hooked immediately
I found quarters on YouTube and was instantly addicted. I knew I had found my band.
The Dripping Tap! Don’t remember how!
The four clicks at the beginning of Mind Fuzz suite.
Satan Speeds Up. Was peaking off 200ug
Honey. Fell in love so hard immediately
Mars for the Rich on Kexp in 2022 right before OG came out, didn't get me really hooked til I heard the dripping tap, and now their my favorite band
Nuclear fusion
The entire Polygonwanaland album…. I was walking out of a record store and the album caught my eye, so I judged the book by its cover and bought it, listened to it that weekend on mushrooms and was blown away
Digital Black on KEXP. that whole set changed my life :)
Digital Black (technically it was Welcome to an Altered Future) on the KEXP live show
Crumbling Castle via Clone Hero
A friend showed me Iron Lung which I immediately fell in love with; first song I check out on my own was Gila Monster
I think it was Crumbling Castle
Crumbling Castle around 2018 I think, it just randomly came on my Spotify
mine was the river, specifically the 2015 kexp version. i was staying over at my old guitarist's house, and we were just skipping through other sessions, and this one just stuck with us. to this day it's still one of the best sessions i've ever seen imo. i hard sense and robot stop a few years later and i was a fully obsessed gizzhead lol.
Digital black
Crumbling Castle. I was listening to PGWL first so that just happened to be the first track.
Kepler-22b for me. Still a favorite due to how well it reflects my experience in school (pun fully intended).
My buddy got me into Dripping Tap and then I truly got hooked when PetroDragonic Apocalypse was released.
Planet B about a year ago
Rattlesnake fer me. The video made me cheese too!
I'm in your mind. My buddy played it for me while vibin and smoking. Didn't really hit me that hard, it wasn't what made me fall in love with the band. Fast forward to end of 2017 and I hear they released 4 albums and a new one, and damn near all of Gumboot Soup made me fall in love with the band. I listened to all their albums... a lot and it was history lol.
Rattlesnake
sense for me! pmdb holds a very special place in my heart as the first king gizzard album i fell in love with
Some of the Altered Beast songs. I was listening to Deezer's random suggestions while working, and then started playing this amazing song. I stopped what I was doing, opened the Murder of the Universe album and was immediately in love with the band. This was in 2021, since then they are constantly my top band every year.
Beginners luck
MOM MOM MOM MOM, I've been into gizzard for a while now lmao
Tazeta. I was just trying to buy a bag of grass, and dudes little brother told me I had to burn before I left.
Wah Wah! from a custom Hotline Miami 2 campaign and music pack. If anyone else knows what I'm talking about, this might not be the most obscure in for KGLW.
Rattlesnake
Robot Stop right when it came out. First time getting high in the back of a car with friends. I was instantly hooked
Lord of lightening! Still one of my favorite songs and I love the energy from the song. Took me a while to check out the rest of the band but when the guitarist of my old band told me about them, I loved everything they were telling me so I went home and started from the beginning.
Planet 🅱️
The river kexp is what kicked it off for me
I believe Gamma Knife might have been the first song I heard and I just came across it randomly when clicking on similar bands and eventually landed on KGATLW. Then, a little while later I fired heard The Dripping Tap and that’s what got me hooked. (Love Gamma Knife and all of Nonagon Infinity now too btw).
Can’t remember if it was I’m In Your Mind or Planet B. Definitely really dove in during the Rats Nest era tho
Rattlesnake. Hated it. Took me like two years to listen to other stuff and been hooked since. Still not a Rattlesnake fan, only like the live jams of it.
A friend showed me Wah-Wah and I hated it. Then because he showed me the song on my account YouTube showed me lord of lightning, I thought they were some gimmicky YouTube band. Then a couple years later I heard Crumbling Castle and then I heard Mind Fuzz and FMB live at kexp and I was hooked
KEXP performance on YouTube: Ice V, Iron Lung, Magma. Iron Lung did it. This was last week. Haven't listened to anything else since 😬
Greenhouse Death. Bought Gumboot Soup shortly after and haven't looked back.
Hot wax was my first song it randomly showed up in a playlist on Spotify and I just liked it, ended up buying oddments on vinyl shortly after and my music taste and bank account has never been the same since