"Why aren't that many people listening to this?" Was the 1st question I asked when I discovered king gizz. And this was the 1st album I listened to when it came out in 2017. Blew my fuckin head off and I attached a lizard head afterwards. Forever a Gizzhead. Welcome to the weirdo swarm homie
Ok for KG, the first song (K.G.L.W) is just an intro, so you might like covering that one and Automation in the same video, you'll really love KG and LW, those 2 are reaaally great
When you do automation, the first “real” track from KG… definitely check out the demo they put out for it sometime! Damn near two totally different songs, and I have a feeling you’ll really like the demo!!
In the remlinger farms version Joey got his guitar tech to say nuclear fusion at the beginning in French and it is funny as hell. Can't wait for KG and LW.
This album is great, easily one of my favorites. Nuclear Fusion is for sure a standout song. The instrument Stu plays on some tracks on this album (including the title track) is called a Zurna, it's a Turkish wind instrument, and I love how it sounds. It's also used on Wah Wah from Nonagon Infinity. I know you wanted some heavier songs from this album, and the next 2 microtonal albums both deliver with that, but also have some softer songs like Honey. I listened to both of those albums for the first time when I was super tired, so I didn't appreciate them much, but I've been going back to them and they're just great!
Hey bro, just found your channel while having a glass and cigar tonight. Having fun checking it out around your videos. I like how chill you are and you actually try to listen to the song which I also like. Breakdowns are great in my opinion. Much love from Kentucky! You got yerself a sub!
Anoxia is a banger too, and that live video didn't do it justice. The stereo effect in the drum part you noticed in the KEXP version of Nuclear Fusion is in the studio version as well. I'm curious to hear your thoughts after a complete listen. While King Gizz has amazing live performances, I think it is best when you react to the studio versions of their songs first, as it eliminates the variables of the sound quality of a live recording and the tightness of the band on any particular night. I love the videos you've done where you listen to the studio version first and if you enjoy it you look for a live version, but in the cases like Anoxia where you only listened to the live version, it wasn't given the even playing field of a studio recording.
Nuclear Fusion was my very first King Gizz track, my brother introduced me to this band by playing this song in the car all the way back in 2017. I loved the song but at the time I wasn't sure if I'd actually dig the band as their output at the time was pretty 'balls to the walls' noise rock that I just didn't vibe with (you know, Nonagon Infinity and Murder of the Universe) wasn't until 2019's 'Fishing for Fishies' came out and I realized that they're not the lo-fi garage rock band I initially thought they were, have been my favourite band ever since. keen for your reaction for KG
Glad you liked this one, Nuclear Fusion is my second favorite microtonal song from them. (My favorite being Ontology off of KG.) You'll notice the beginning of KG fades in from the ending of FMB. KG and LW have a different vibe than this album, but I personally like them. I'm excited to see what you think.
So Gizz does a lot of cool transitions. The wind sound of the last track of loops back into Rattlesnake.... BUT also transitions into the KG intro song KGLW
This was what brought me into gizz, more specifically open water and their behind the scenes video, but man I love nuclear fusion. The stereo effect on the drums is that both kits are panned opposite of each other, and Eric and Cavs would choose at certain points to have one playing the upbeat hi-hat and the other playing the downbeat hi-hat, causing it to have this quick trading hi-hat back and forth between them. They did this pretty often, the biggest time I remember them doing it otherwise was on murder of the universe. Its also on the studio version. With the instruments, a harmonica was used that had some microtonal stuff done to it that I don't actually know much of the specifics about, but it also used a Zurna, which other people mention in here. As the album was originally written for Baglama, a Turkish folk instrument, and their guitar tunings were suggested by Tolgahan Cogulu, a Turkish professor working on microtonal instruments, as well as Sleep Drifter being inspired by Kara Toprak, a Turkish folk song, having a Turkish wind instrument is pretty well fitting
You're gonna love both K.G. and L.W. I think as a listener it would be way better to check out Silver Cord after listening to Butterfly 3000 and Changes first, but for the channel probably makes sense to strike while it's hot.
I’m really excited for you to go through KG & LW. The songs are shorter and less zony, so just do a few songs per video. Also that stereo-high-hat-trick: they do it at next records a few times, you will definitely hear it on „honey“.
@@rockdariff I really miss the duo with Cavs and Eric. When they played syncopated it was impressive, but the little flavor they add when they play unsyncopated was so fuckin good lol
I'm the odd duck out in this fandom, but the title track is far and away the best song on this album. It's not just an excellent bookend to an already great penultimate track in Nuclear Fusion (which absolutely rips in a live setting when they let fans come on stage and speak into the distorted mic), but it's also the most technically proficient they got with their mixing in this era. A lot of fans look to Nonagon Infinity + their 2017 albums as the "golden age" of Gizz, and they haven't reached those heights again, but I totally disagree. For as lucrative and exciting as they were, they were still far less experienced than they are today, 6 years later, and these albums really only scratch the surface of what they would become, especially because their purposefully lo-fi recording apparatus of the time absolutely butchers a lot of their best cuts for me looking back. But when Stu decided he would actually learn how to play the zurna and put out a piece to end their very first, but certainly not their last microtonal exploration, the track had to grow up in sound quality to fully capture the tones, and it stands out in this era of Gizz as one of the most sparkly, well-thought-out and put together songs they made. And it leads perfectly into KG, as KG does to LW.
i adore their 2014-2016 era so much, probably because it was my introduction to their stuff, and polygondwanaland is easily my favorite album of theirs period, but even just the stuff from last year is so complex and absolutely incredible. changes is great, and change in particular is maybe one of the best songs theyve ever put out.
I don't know if there's a standalone video of it, but check out the version of Nuclear Fusion from Palp Fest 2023, just skip forward so you don't spolil the songs you've not got to yet haha! The fan who gets to come on stage to do the "NUUUUUUCCLEAAAAAAAAAAAR FUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSIOOOOOOOOOON" does a cracking job! Looking forward to KG!
I dont really like any of the studio mixdowns from pre- Polygonawanaland, lol That being said, they've done so many live studio recordings with clean mixdowns that its hard to complain :p
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"Nuclear billabong rattlesnake" is a horrifying string of words
"Why aren't that many people listening to this?"
Was the 1st question I asked when I discovered king gizz. And this was the 1st album I listened to when it came out in 2017. Blew my fuckin head off and I attached a lizard head afterwards. Forever a Gizzhead. Welcome to the weirdo swarm homie
Eeeeeyup
"That" instrument i think is Stu playing the zurna! Glad you liked Nuclear Fusion man, it's 🔥
Looking forward to you covering KG and LW next!
Ok for KG, the first song (K.G.L.W) is just an intro, so you might like covering that one and Automation in the same video, you'll really love KG and LW, those 2 are reaaally great
Plus the end of Flying Microtonal Banana fades right into the intro of KG, pretty dope too
one of my favorite parts about this are cavs and eric alternating hi hats
When you do automation, the first “real” track from KG… definitely check out the demo they put out for it sometime! Damn near two totally different songs, and I have a feeling you’ll really like the demo!!
The demo is INSANE
Automation was originally supposed to be on Infest the rats nest
In the remlinger farms version Joey got his guitar tech to say nuclear fusion at the beginning in French and it is funny as hell.
Can't wait for KG and LW.
This album is great, easily one of my favorites. Nuclear Fusion is for sure a standout song.
The instrument Stu plays on some tracks on this album (including the title track) is called a Zurna, it's a Turkish wind instrument, and I love how it sounds. It's also used on Wah Wah from Nonagon Infinity.
I know you wanted some heavier songs from this album, and the next 2 microtonal albums both deliver with that, but also have some softer songs like Honey. I listened to both of those albums for the first time when I was super tired, so I didn't appreciate them much, but I've been going back to them and they're just great!
Hey bro, just found your channel while having a glass and cigar tonight. Having fun checking it out around your videos. I like how chill you are and you actually try to listen to the song which I also like. Breakdowns are great in my opinion. Much love from Kentucky! You got yerself a sub!
Anoxia is a banger too, and that live video didn't do it justice. The stereo effect in the drum part you noticed in the KEXP version of Nuclear Fusion is in the studio version as well. I'm curious to hear your thoughts after a complete listen. While King Gizz has amazing live performances, I think it is best when you react to the studio versions of their songs first, as it eliminates the variables of the sound quality of a live recording and the tightness of the band on any particular night. I love the videos you've done where you listen to the studio version first and if you enjoy it you look for a live version, but in the cases like Anoxia where you only listened to the live version, it wasn't given the even playing field of a studio recording.
Nuclear Fusion was my very first King Gizz track, my brother introduced me to this band by playing this song in the car all the way back in 2017. I loved the song but at the time I wasn't sure if I'd actually dig the band as their output at the time was pretty 'balls to the walls' noise rock that I just didn't vibe with (you know, Nonagon Infinity and Murder of the Universe)
wasn't until 2019's 'Fishing for Fishies' came out and I realized that they're not the lo-fi garage rock band I initially thought they were, have been my favourite band ever since. keen for your reaction for KG
Nuclear Fusion is the bomb!
Rattlesnake, Melting, Open Water, Billabong Valley and Nuclear Fusion are all really good songs for me.
What about doom city
@@seanm241 good one but not that memorable for me.
One of favorites. This song jams
Fuck yeah
The studio version has the alternating hi hats too, pretty cool
Ooo whats he gonna do next!!?!?! 😂 There is still so much to listen to haha so crazy.
Why don't you try Laminated Denin? It came out 5 days after Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava and it's only 2 songs.
Love that album.
Notice the wind starts and ends the album and the KG opens up with the same wind
Glad you liked this one, Nuclear Fusion is my second favorite microtonal song from them. (My favorite being Ontology off of KG.) You'll notice the beginning of KG fades in from the ending of FMB. KG and LW have a different vibe than this album, but I personally like them. I'm excited to see what you think.
So Gizz does a lot of cool transitions. The wind sound of the last track of loops back into Rattlesnake.... BUT also transitions into the KG intro song KGLW
Make sure you do those next two songs together since the first is more of an intro to KGLW as an album set. It’s also the outro but that’s way later
NUUUUUUCLEARRRRRRR
FUUUUUUUUSSSSSIIIIIOOOOOONNNNNNNNN
"The ending of the cult meeting" couldn't have said it better lmao
awww wish he did the newer performance
This was what brought me into gizz, more specifically open water and their behind the scenes video, but man I love nuclear fusion. The stereo effect on the drums is that both kits are panned opposite of each other, and Eric and Cavs would choose at certain points to have one playing the upbeat hi-hat and the other playing the downbeat hi-hat, causing it to have this quick trading hi-hat back and forth between them. They did this pretty often, the biggest time I remember them doing it otherwise was on murder of the universe. Its also on the studio version. With the instruments, a harmonica was used that had some microtonal stuff done to it that I don't actually know much of the specifics about, but it also used a Zurna, which other people mention in here. As the album was originally written for Baglama, a Turkish folk instrument, and their guitar tunings were suggested by Tolgahan Cogulu, a Turkish professor working on microtonal instruments, as well as Sleep Drifter being inspired by Kara Toprak, a Turkish folk song, having a Turkish wind instrument is pretty well fitting
You're gonna love both K.G. and L.W. I think as a listener it would be way better to check out Silver Cord after listening to Butterfly 3000 and Changes first, but for the channel probably makes sense to strike while it's hot.
I’m really excited for you to go through KG & LW. The songs are shorter and less zony, so just do a few songs per video. Also that stereo-high-hat-trick: they do it at next records a few times, you will definitely hear it on „honey“.
at the salt shed day 1 they brought out a fan named seb to do the nuclear fusion
PALP Festival too! edit: fan named Lars, not Seb again lol
Fucking love this track. My first favourite of theirs.
The syncopated drums on the kexp version scratch an itch
KG was my intro into Gizz. I'm excited for you check it out. Definitely combine the first two tracks.
That hi-hat cymbal work is in the studio version I think you must've just not picked up on it. It's also in a few other songs like Invisible Face.
Yeaaa…I heard really good on the studio bersion once i listened to it in my cars system…i was like “oh shit it is here”
@@rockdariff I really miss the duo with Cavs and Eric. When they played syncopated it was impressive, but the little flavor they add when they play unsyncopated was so fuckin good lol
I think it helped nuclear fusion stand out even a bit more for sure
@@BlasphemousVerses
eric just wasnt good enough to play unsyncopated much@@BlasphemousVerses
I'm the odd duck out in this fandom, but the title track is far and away the best song on this album. It's not just an excellent bookend to an already great penultimate track in Nuclear Fusion (which absolutely rips in a live setting when they let fans come on stage and speak into the distorted mic), but it's also the most technically proficient they got with their mixing in this era. A lot of fans look to Nonagon Infinity + their 2017 albums as the "golden age" of Gizz, and they haven't reached those heights again, but I totally disagree. For as lucrative and exciting as they were, they were still far less experienced than they are today, 6 years later, and these albums really only scratch the surface of what they would become, especially because their purposefully lo-fi recording apparatus of the time absolutely butchers a lot of their best cuts for me looking back. But when Stu decided he would actually learn how to play the zurna and put out a piece to end their very first, but certainly not their last microtonal exploration, the track had to grow up in sound quality to fully capture the tones, and it stands out in this era of Gizz as one of the most sparkly, well-thought-out and put together songs they made. And it leads perfectly into KG, as KG does to LW.
i adore their 2014-2016 era so much, probably because it was my introduction to their stuff, and polygondwanaland is easily my favorite album of theirs period, but even just the stuff from last year is so complex and absolutely incredible. changes is great, and change in particular is maybe one of the best songs theyve ever put out.
If you wanna line up the new album you should do laminated denim next…
that's actually a great idea, good transition into silver cord without breaking up the flow of K.G.
either that or timeland
His hoodie says LD too haha
try Nuclear Fusion live in Sydney ‘21. Ambrose does the big NUUUUUCLEAR FUUUUSIOOOOON at the beginning and it’s lovely
I don't know if there's a standalone video of it, but check out the version of Nuclear Fusion from Palp Fest 2023, just skip forward so you don't spolil the songs you've not got to yet haha! The fan who gets to come on stage to do the "NUUUUUUCCLEAAAAAAAAAAAR FUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSIOOOOOOOOOON" does a cracking job! Looking forward to KG!
check out the automation demo when you listen to KG, conpletely different song from the album but its heavy as hell and I love it
do Paper Mache Dream Balloon next
KG has some great songs, LW is even better. Their songwriting hits another level.
I dont really like any of the studio mixdowns from pre- Polygonawanaland, lol
That being said, they've done so many live studio recordings with clean mixdowns that its hard to complain :p
Listen Shanghai please
Dude it’s nuclear not nucular
react to paper mache dream balloon you coward!!!11
Thats the album im working on now