TO BE FAIR-- this song has a good 8 years on magenta mountain. You're still sometimes looking at their discography like it all came out at once, but this album is 10 years old now ;p
awesome hearing your perspective on these guys with ur background. brussels is the the true version of this song forever and always but everything they do rips always. Keep up the passion for music always🫵
Fun fact this is a Joey song. They wanted to make a slow song since all the other music before this was very fast and loud. Got to the part where you realized it was Joey haha. The bonnaroo version is the vibe for sure
Joey’s solos on this song always make me want to rip out a solo as well haha. It’s pretty easy to do if you look the main chords being played during the solo. It’s just Fm Gm A B
ahahaha this is such a funny one! felt the same about the studio version when i first heard it, like huh?? this is their most played song? like it's good but compared to their overall work? but yeah they make it into a killer live song
@meramsey This is the only comment I see any time this song comes up. This song is actually good. It's way more chill and accessible than anything on Rat's Nest or Mind Fuzz which the collective fandom basically sucks off on a daily basis. It's a nice intro to Gizz for the common folk. It's not better than Garden Goblin tho.
I love this song so much. I went into King Gizzard's discography in chronological order, and I'd only heard a couple songs beforehand, Rattlesnake, Magenta Mountain, Mars For The Rich and Crumbling Castle, but that was before I was into metal or prog, so Mars and CC weren't the biggest for me, Rattlesnake was my favorite. Since I had heard so little at the time, I hadn't really heard what they could do, and if I did I didn't really realise yet. So once I got to this song, it was an instant favorite. I thought it was the most beautiful thing, and once I had heard that the live versions blow the studio version out of the water I avoided them like the plague in feat that they would ruin the song for me. Luckily that didn't happen, and I still love the original. I really enjoy lofi music because of the textures it can provide. It can just make things sound completely different from hifi music. That being said, I like noise for the same reason, I just like the textures it brings to the table that I wouldn't hear elsewhere. Next up is ABABCd, an interlude and another Joey song that he wrote for a music webshow of the same name. After that is Sleepwalker, another very nice song. Just a heads-up for that one, the studio version has a small section that might make you think your headphones are broken. And I agree that I'd assume Magenta Mountain would be their most streamed song, if not Rattlesnake since that's (from what I remember) their most viewed on RU-vid.
I'm with you on the studio production but the melody of this song is so good I doesn't mind it that much as with Stressing. In their older songs it's pretty difficult to tell Joey apart from Stu if you don't already know so don't worry.
I would have thought magenta mountain would be most popular also, but this song was released a lot earlier so it had a big head start. Maybe magenta will catch up eventually
i love this song so much but the studio pales in comparison to how they play it live. you should definitely check out when they played it in newport this year on ur own time. it was probably the best live performance imo. joey does a fucking scat solo that just fucking rips, and then they bring the jam straight into iron lung which was also fucking stellar.
In terms of popualr songs, Pop in my step was on an advert here in Australia and its got a feel to it that could make it very popular with the masses as a bop. I would jave Kepler 22b up there personally
For me this wonkiness feels like olden times. Like this was recorded in the 50s 60s. And I think it fits this song so well. It's a bit weird at first but I got used to it.
