Creating a Concept Discography┃A King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Video Essay - Gizzverse Theory

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Today I talk about one of my favourite bands King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. I talk through their discography and posit the idea of a concept discography and explore the theory of the Gizzverse. I hope you like the new video essay sort of format and strap in for almost 30 minutes of King Gizz rambling. Sadly I don’t talk about LW, Butterfly 3000 or Timeland because I made the video before they came out! Maybe another video in the future.
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Intro - 0:00
Chapter 1 The Rundown - 2:15
Chapter 2 Concept Albums - 8:05
Chapter 3 The Gizzverse - 16:25
Chapter 4 Concept Discography - 18:37
Conclusion - 27:18
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8 июл 2024

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@noyou6004 3 года назад

I too wixard the king lizard gixard gixard gixard igiazard

@sirpigeon4184 3 года назад

I paused a gizz album to be here

@HAZARDOUS88 3 года назад

Yep, I just put off starting one to watch.

@travisthornton1792 2 года назад

Literal same

@mylo9753 2 года назад

Same

@mymoviesbetter8466 Год назад

Which one?

@_LeafEdits 3 года назад

I do want to see the 6 hour nonagon analysis

@nathanss28 3 года назад

I feel like they're doing something similar to what Zappa did with his discography. He was also very prolific and utilized an idea that he called "conceptual continuity", in which he would re-interpret melodies into new songs, reference lyrics from other songs in new songs, etc..

@brig.badger2896 3 года назад

Any Zappa albums you can recommend? I always wanted to check him out.

@sanaddaoud6541 3 года назад

@@brig.badger2896 I think it just depends on your taste

@Dom213 3 года назад

@@brig.badger2896 We're Only in it for the Money-Mothers of Invention, Hot Rats- Frank Zappa

@claycraigo1358 2 года назад

You’ll love it. It’s a way of life. It sounds just like a Telefunkin U-47

@HaniJIsmail Год назад

@@brig.badger2896 Hot Rats definitely

@dawsonsouza8833 7 месяцев назад

I like how this video is only 2 years old and they’ve released 9 albums and 1 ep

@loganstrait7503 6 месяцев назад

It's not just about themes though it's also so that the songs can bleed together. At Desert Daze '18 they played an 80-minute set that only had like 3 pauses for applause. That set had a perfect use of this concept because it opened with Mind Fuzz > Balrog and the last sequence of the set was River > Nonagon > Lord of Lightning > Cellophane > Altered Beast, all seamless transitions. They basically sliced Mind Fuzz and Lord of Lightning open and surgically implanted their entire discography inside. Idk this sort of things makes a lot of sense when you're high.

@benmeier5199 10 месяцев назад

This is wild only 2 years later with them having released 9 albums since this video came out.

@cb6619 Год назад

It's a little under two years since this video came out and it's already 7 albums out of date 😂

@shaetteb1272 3 года назад

nah the gizzverse isn't a set universe its a bit more like a mythos with allusions to other things as well as it's self like Lovecraft

@brig.badger2896 3 года назад

I’ve listened to every album and am slowly buying them all on vinyl. Their music is great and very inspirational.

@alexliedtka4736 3 года назад

When you say that nonagon infinity is 40 minutes? That's not true it never ends???

@AvanToor 3 года назад

A video about conceptual continuity without using the words "Frank" or "Zappa." Nice!

@MackLochridge 3 года назад

I will never not click on a video of someone gushing about Gizz

@Axolotl42 3 года назад

So cool to see a channel I subscribed to for unrelated stuff talking about my favorite band!

@denniswoolleyjr3282 Год назад

Some context is just that: some context of the chronology of the gizzverse, using the riff at the END of people vultures to tell you, that this portion of nonagon infinity will also connect to The Lord of Lightning vs the Balrog. Nonagon is an infinite loop but I’m convinced it can loop into other albums and people vultures into the lord of lightning is the most obvious.

@quartzofcourse 3 года назад

I still wish they put some 9/8 in nonagon

@lucanavarrete7234 3 года назад

yeah they did plenty of it in murder of the universe tho

@YoMothar 2 года назад

they did in "big fig wasp"

@bambogini 3 года назад

I have just returned from a live King Gizz gig, how perfect, love this.

@cromax9855 3 года назад

I remember when I first found out about king gizz, I spent the next year listening to all of their albums

@jackprezo 3 года назад

17:07 they also share a lot of the same musical nuances (also the flute riff from 'trapdoor' from pmdb appears on the end of 'the balrog') and the three album covers are based on each other too. Also your comments on poly fitting in here too, crumbling castle was actually originally a part of motu i believe but they cut it. There's a behind the scenes vid somewhere showing that tune on the list with the others. Great vid by the way, appreciate your efforts. Keep at it mate!

@j.r.huffnstuff3549 2 года назад

Also, people like to consider the robot in Fishing for Fishies to be Han-tyumi. They also used the voice of Han-tyumi in Sketches and refer to it as a God. Also with Crumbling Castle, the thick, green water could easily be Han-tyumi's vomit. There's lots of references and overt connections but I agree that it's all loose on purpose. The Gizzverse itself is basically their albums but instead of planning the whole thing, they try to link things together as they go and make it feel connected while letting everything be abstract and malleable. I wouldn't consider the gizzverse a true narrative, it's basically just a name for their like 7 or 8 albums in their discography.

@tobyhootch7346 Год назад

I'm so glad you've uploaded this, I have been thinking about this for weeks thank you for raising more awareness of it!!

@abbydanielsen9117 3 года назад

i love king gizz and know close to nothing about music theory and you talked about all of this in SUCH an accessible and comprehensible way!!!! really really great job i love this video

@lizzietoons 3 года назад

This video is so filled with talent bro wow

@alexkelley906 3 года назад

absolutely great job man. love this so much!

@troylau2683 3 года назад

Never... never have I seen someone as passionate about this band... thank you

@ThatOneDuran 3 года назад

Yooo this is my favorite band great video

@HAZARDOUS88 3 года назад

Absolutely incredible work, mate!

@Zlatovlas 3 года назад

Thank you for covering this awesome band! Good job!

@connorperry1467 Год назад

really well edited vid!!

@thebloke4664 2 года назад

good shit man, fantastic essay

@aquaartistcat5835 3 года назад

Great video, glad I found it! I'm just getting into gizz rn and this was a great help

@kylesmith5893 Год назад

loved this

@stevemcqueen7 3 года назад

Erang is another artist who has created an entire universe throughout his discography. I highly recommend checking him out, it's great stuff.

@paultaylor6873 2 года назад

Awesome job!

@cookiepuss6296 3 года назад

what a banger, great video fam

@KaneMidge 3 года назад

Thanks cookiepuss 👍

@TheSwordster123 3 года назад

great video mate

@cameron338 Год назад

This is beautiful

@motioninart 3 года назад

Great video Kane. Keep it up :)

@KaneMidge 3 года назад

Thanks man!

@ChristianUrea 3 года назад

I cannot tell you how much I love the Gizz

@noahpparentreason1581 3 года назад

Big fan!

@atticusbelota8625 3 года назад

I only subscribe to you after the whole Jackfilms shout out.... but content like this I’ll stay for!

@quartzofcourse 3 года назад

Fantastic band. Hype for L.W.

@wgb01001 3 года назад

Not pretentious at all. A really lovely video. I agree with your conclusion 100%.

@maciejwroblewski6432 3 года назад

Good video, though I want to clarify one thing. You stated that the band started to experiment with odd time signatures with "Quarters!" (14:15). Although it's one of the most audible examples, their first attempts at odd signatures trace back as early as in 2013. The title track from "Float Along..." is, in fact, in 5/8. So I think it's safe to assume that they started to experiment with rhythm shortly after garage psych phase.

@jarmyvicious Год назад

Salut, This helped a lot, as I only bumped into The Gizz just last week. I met with the epic, "Rattlesnake".... my very first track.I wandered in lost and hungry, but almost immediately, I had become skeptical of the power this shiny beast held; a thus unheard monstrous band, composed of untold layers of complexity. What I spied and subsequently encountered was well beyond me, so I sought for a roadmap before furthering the immersion; and here we are.... This is the point where I shall offer my special Thanks! Cheers!

@dikydankedude 2 месяца назад

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is my favorite jam band 🐒

@QuervoJones Год назад

I’m becoming addicted to this band. Goddamnit

@RADZIO895 Год назад

You'd think 6th february of 2021 wasn't that long ago and this video would be up to date, but guess what, they released 4 albums since then. (Songs like shanghai would be a great addition to the section about time signatures lol)

@PursonMusic Год назад

Now 8 haha

@Tubbaflubba 3 года назад

How did I miss this?!?!?!

@yetanotheryoutuber4271 3 года назад

love king gizz

@knew_man Год назад

Stu's pupils are always huge. He definitely sees the fourth colour.

@brabbit7815 Год назад

Ya had me till you said their music was average lmao, fantastic video!

@fishyfish836 3 года назад

23:23 2014? Great vid btw!

@AtomicGT55 7 месяцев назад

Can anyone tell me which track is playing at the very start of this song?

@saul6001 Год назад

Murder of the universe has such weird lyrics that are creepy. The first and last stories play with mental illness and the music sounds awesome too

@quartzofcourse 3 года назад

Eggs

@keranssdecontrol 3 года назад

EGGS

@moviesfilmsandmotionpictur8364 2 года назад

vegemite,,, chese, uh, uuuuuhh,,,,

@GermanJumpman Год назад

What is the song playing at the intro

@ice6erg76 Год назад

lets bot forget about 3 albums in 3 weeks

@Not_So_Slim_Shady 7 месяцев назад

There are too many coincidences in the lyrics for the Gizzverse to not be involved somehow. We straight up see characters and events across different songs and videos.

@soupand2sticks921 3 года назад

Love King Gizz B)

@eleudejr 10 месяцев назад

You need to update this ;D

@ulisesmanzo2558 3 года назад

What song is playing during Chapter 1?

@KaneMidge 3 года назад

It’s not a King Gizz song, it’s from the RU-vid audio library. It’s called Buckeye Bonzai by Vans in Japan! Hope this helped.

@KingBoner Год назад

Why are Thee Oh Sees way less popular than King Gizz? Their predecessor.

@alvinwe8396 3 года назад

People always say "when is the next album?" but they never ask "how is the next album?"

@ClayCampbell 3 года назад

But.... what is a gamma knife...?

@AvanToor 3 года назад

A certain type of surgery laser.

@HoldMeForever 6 месяцев назад

What song did they play at 0:15?

@dothebomb5557 5 месяцев назад

I believe it's the beginning of "this thing" from fishing for fishies just at a faster tempo than the studio recording

@zakkaryjenkins2763 3 года назад

Teenage Gizzard isn't on Spotify. I believe it was only released on Bandcamp and the bootleg club. They Recently Added Eyes Like the Sky and Quarters to Spotify.

@KaneMidge 3 года назад

Teenage Gizzard was on Spotify for about a month and then the band took it down. They haven’t said why but I think it was because the songs were pretty bad quality, like it was ripped straight off RU-vid or something. Also, King Gizz’s releases on Spotify are a bit different from country to country, licensing issues probably.

@rhythmjones 3 года назад

You can just say "Gizz."

@tennenyt5311 3 года назад

gizzard gizzard gizzard gizzard?

@iEatBass 3 года назад

Cool. Why did you pitched up this thing? Just Curious

@tennenyt5311 3 года назад

Pretty sure they also said they knew what the first and last album was going to be and they knew what every album was going to be before starting

@cookiepuss6296 3 года назад

im sure that was more or less a throw away comment made for fun, kind of mocking some people who read wayyy too into it. im pretty sure the band is coming up with these ideas and concepts simply as they're going, nothing planned far in advance