yoooooo innercell > loyalty > horology is one of this band's best combo of songs, and that's saying a lot because they have A LOT of banger 3 song runs on albums
In my opinion, the KEXP version is the best one. Still, any version of Crumbling Castle is the embodiment of the band itself. It perfectly captures their love for polymeters, mood changes, weirdness, unordinary style, and impressive musical skills.
This era of king gizz almost always has intentionally lofi sounding drums. It's one thing that I'm glad they started to make sound better on their newer records. Definitely one of those things gizzard has gotten a lot better at is their mixing and mastering
I recommend reacting to the full KEXP video that includes "Crumbling Castle" in it. Every song in that performance is amazing live. One of the reasons the live version is shorter is because they remove the last section and instead transition it right into another song.
Good job Rockda I really enjoyed that. Im hanging out for your videos at the moment from over in Australia. How youre breaking them up sounds perfect so looking forward to the next one.
I would suggest you listen to the whole studio album and then listen to the whole KEXP session where they play four songs from this album + two from Gumboat Soup at the end. Their live transitions between the songs are incredible and IMO it's their best KEXP session as a whole.
So cool to see you tripping on Poly. You're in for a treat! One thing to keep in Mind is that this album is literally free! From wiki ""The release date and cover art were publicized by the band, who stated, "This album is FREE. Free as in, free," encouraging fans to make their own copies and bootlegs of the album. The band said that they would not be selling the album in any shape or form, even going so far as to put the master tapes online (including a vinyl master) for free use. Not only is that an incredible feat, but also removes any worries about YT copyright issues.
Funny thing about Crumbling Castle, is I think based on the post-it notes in the background of their behind the scenes footage for Murder of the Universe, Crumbling Castle was at one point a part of Murder of the Universe, though its unknown to what extent and what state it was in as a song / suite. Regardless, both were released the same year, along with three other albums. Polygon is tied in with Mind Fuzz, Nonagon and Murder, but not as strongly as those three albums are tied with each other, as all three of those albums essentially use the same basis for their album covers and have some overt elements carrying between them.
Yo just here to say that i would not be against the longer reactions to more than 1 song. Love hearing the thoughts throughout the songs since ive already heard the songs themselves so many times.
I’m sure other fans will disagree, but I think you should save the KEXP sessions for separate reactions and listen to the album(s) first. Also, this record was released with an open source / fair use license, so you shouldn’t be getting dinged for copyright on these videos. The album was released for free and the band encourage fans and record labels to press up their own vinyl/ cd/cassette/8track/whatever variants for this record. There’s like 300 different versions of this record on discogs.
You made the right choice, the KEXP version misses the beginning and the end of the song. I think you can appreciate the live version much more if you listened to the studio one first.
So stoked to see you get to this record. The whole record is structured around polymeters, so I would suggest going back to each song and focusing on the drums and bass and how they weave in and around the melody.
Each section of polygondwanaland that you mentioned each roughly come out to about 10-12 minutes per section so im hoping that wont be an issue when it comes to the full sections. Plus if im being honest your reactions could be an hour and a half long full album listens and id watch the whole thing. Love seeing king gizz through other peoples eyes for the first time again. Keep it up man! P.S. the sound you're talking about that stu does is done by turning the delay pedal up to full and sliding up the high end of the neck
you'd want to listen to the album versions of the songs to hear them entirely, the KEXP versions are amazing but sadly they're too short! so keen for you to check out the rest of the album either way though, awesome video my dude
This is going to be a long ass post, so please excuse me as I desperately try to summarize my thoughts: 1. Polygondwanaland’s main concept was playing with polyrhythms and polymeter (i.e. multiple time signatures running at the same time) so as you get into the album, and especially the Inner Cell trilogy, listen for that. 2. I’d recommend pulling up lyrics for this album as its the most story focused beside Murder of the Universe. 3. The albums tying into each other really kicked off after Nonagon, with 4 of the 5 albums from 2017 (Murder, Flying Microtonal Banana, Sketches of Brunswick East and Poly) all tying into each other to create what fans have dubbed “The Gizzverse.” Most of the albums after that are not as tightly connected but most have some thematic or character connection to the gizzverse in at least one of their tracks. You don’t need to worry about it too much, but if you want to learn more there’s a wealth of resources of people offering their interpretations of the story. 4. This is imo the best Gizz song. Other songs I personally like more, but this song (and the rest of the album) is perhaps Gizz’s best work with having an instrumentally cohesive album, it’s amazingly composed. Let me know how you like the live version!
The Gizzverse is one of the most interesting and coolest things about this band besides their amazing music, that only keeps getting better and better. Like they haven't even reached their peak yet and they're 24 albums in. Incredible.
I'm stoked that you love this one so much. I heard the title song, Polygondwanaland, album track, played on KEXP during prime time radio and I was captured 😂 Hope you feel the same. Talk all u want but I do hope you do the rest of the album in thirds.
As others have said, i feel it was such a shame to go from PDA to Murder. I didnt like murder til i saw it live. This song was one of the first few that I would play on repeat getting into Gizz. Loved putting nonagon on repeat too, as well as FMB. Rats nest was crazy for me because I never liked metal/thrash yet it became one of my favourite albums of all time. PDA took its place though. Anyway, rant over, love the content, it makes me nostalgic.
Good call on reacting to the album version first! The KEXP performance is amazing, but it cuts out the heavy doom-sounding part at the end, and it would have been a shame if you missed that!
I agree with many others, listening to the suites of 3 songs each is a much better experience. I think if you don't, you might be annoyed by the reuse of motifs and melodies
This is such a tune. I can't wait until you get to flying microtonal banana. In my opinion it's their perfect album as it has no bad songs but top three are anoxia, sleep drifter and nuclear fusion
As good as the KEXP versions of the Poly songs are, all of those versions are a bit shorter than the album versions so you’d be missing a lot of what’s on the album
Hey, have you thought of starting a Patreon? That way you can get some cash flow since I’m sure TH-cam is restricting monetizination. I’ll join and I’m sure others will too.
So I do have memberships available here on YT, also if you go to my link tree I have cash app and alot of merch…but I do the metalhead envies series because I love music, some artists share revenue and some dont
So it seems like if your trying to join thru the app on the phone, that feature isnt available just yet…but using a computer and goin to my membership tab, the join button should be there
I feel like you were disillusioned by MOTU, i don’t know why people recommended you that album after Petrodragonic. Im a huge fan of theirs and MOTU is one I listen to least.
Don't get too hung up on people's criticisms, you do you.
I'm enjoying watching you have fun listening to new stuff.
yoooooo innercell > loyalty > horology is one of this band's best combo of songs, and that's saying a lot because they have A LOT of banger 3 song runs on albums
In my opinion, the KEXP version is the best one. Still, any version of Crumbling Castle is the embodiment of the band itself.
It perfectly captures their love for polymeters, mood changes, weirdness, unordinary style, and impressive musical skills.
This era of king gizz almost always has intentionally lofi sounding drums. It's one thing that I'm glad they started to make sound better on their newer records. Definitely one of those things gizzard has gotten a lot better at is their mixing and mastering
I wouldn't say it's better or worse, it's just style dependant. I love the drums on their earlier stuff.
Joey has credits for vocals with Stu on CC.
Ambrose however has credits for vox on tracks 8 & 10.
I recommend reacting to the full KEXP video that includes "Crumbling Castle" in it. Every song in that performance is amazing live. One of the reasons the live version is shorter is because they remove the last section and instead transition it right into another song.
Good job Rockda I really enjoyed that. Im hanging out for your videos at the moment from over in Australia. How youre breaking them up sounds perfect so looking forward to the next one.
YES
They use graphics like this visualizer at their live show. Along with the other lighting, it was definitely very cool!
I personally wouldn't mind longer videos at all! But do what you think will be best for your channel.
I would suggest you listen to the whole studio album and then listen to the whole KEXP session where they play four songs from this album + two from Gumboat Soup at the end. Their live transitions between the songs are incredible and IMO it's their best KEXP session as a whole.
bro asking too much
So cool to see you tripping on Poly. You're in for a treat!
One thing to keep in Mind is that this album is literally free! From wiki ""The release date and cover art were publicized by the band, who stated, "This album is FREE. Free as in, free," encouraging fans to make their own copies and bootlegs of the album. The band said that they would not be selling the album in any shape or form, even going so far as to put the master tapes online (including a vinyl master) for free use. Not only is that an incredible feat, but also removes any worries about YT copyright issues.
Well they are monetizing it for sure, put a copyright claim on it as soon as I uploaded it
@@rockdariff could be that the video still has copyright or just youtube broken ass copyright
@@rockdariffthose claims aren’t coming from the guys in the band or anyone affiliated with them
All their KEXP performances are great to watch.
Funny thing about Crumbling Castle, is I think based on the post-it notes in the background of their behind the scenes footage for Murder of the Universe, Crumbling Castle was at one point a part of Murder of the Universe, though its unknown to what extent and what state it was in as a song / suite. Regardless, both were released the same year, along with three other albums. Polygon is tied in with Mind Fuzz, Nonagon and Murder, but not as strongly as those three albums are tied with each other, as all three of those albums essentially use the same basis for their album covers and have some overt elements carrying between them.
Yo just here to say that i would not be against the longer reactions to more than 1 song. Love hearing the thoughts throughout the songs since ive already heard the songs themselves so many times.
Do your thing man. Also don't worry about playing it in parts if you plan on listening to it as a whole on your own.
Crazy how they put all that work into making this amazing album then release it 100% to the public domain to do whatever they want with it.
They still have this album monetized,
@@rockdariff I don't know the full story, just what I've read a while back and never heard other musicians do that sort of thing.
Yeah people have done it I remember Radiohead did it with In Rainbows.
I’m sure other fans will disagree, but I think you should save the KEXP sessions for separate reactions and listen to the album(s) first.
Also, this record was released with an open source / fair use license, so you shouldn’t be getting dinged for copyright on these videos. The album was released for free and the band encourage fans and record labels to press up their own vinyl/ cd/cassette/8track/whatever variants for this record. There’s like 300 different versions of this record on discogs.
You made the right choice, the KEXP version misses the beginning and the end of the song. I think you can appreciate the live version much more if you listened to the studio one first.
The end is one of my favorite parts tbh, I'm glad he watches the studio one first
Man so cool to see you explore my favorite band! Look forward to these every day!
Love the series!
Nonagon, Polygon, Murder of the Universe (and Flying Microtonal Banana and Gumboot Soup) were all released in 2017. Insane output.
Gumboot Soup is such a great intro sampler. I've captured many a new fan w Beginner's Luck although they wished the vocals mixed higher.
Nonagon wasn’t released in 2017, it was in 2016. Sketches of Brunswick East was the 5th 2017 album
@@Jordi775 Very true, somehow I had that wrong in my head for years.
So stoked to see you get to this record. The whole record is structured around polymeters, so I would suggest going back to each song and focusing on the drums and bass and how they weave in and around the melody.
Each section of polygondwanaland that you mentioned each roughly come out to about 10-12 minutes per section so im hoping that wont be an issue when it comes to the full sections. Plus if im being honest your reactions could be an hour and a half long full album listens and id watch the whole thing. Love seeing king gizz through other peoples eyes for the first time again. Keep it up man!
P.S. the sound you're talking about that stu does is done by turning the delay pedal up to full and sliding up the high end of the neck
If you do the KEXP version, consider doing the whole session.
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Yessss! The studio version is much better IMO. Love this album, cant wait to see you react to it!
Yeah imo poly is gizz’s only album where the studio is superior to the live performances
you'd want to listen to the album versions of the songs to hear them entirely, the KEXP versions are amazing but sadly they're too short! so keen for you to check out the rest of the album either way though, awesome video my dude
In my experience, they normally don't play the heavy outro in the live versions. Which I always find a bummer, cause I think it's so sick lol
This is going to be a long ass post, so please excuse me as I desperately try to summarize my thoughts:
1. Polygondwanaland’s main concept was playing with polyrhythms and polymeter (i.e. multiple time signatures running at the same time) so as you get into the album, and especially the Inner Cell trilogy, listen for that.
2. I’d recommend pulling up lyrics for this album as its the most story focused beside Murder of the Universe.
3. The albums tying into each other really kicked off after Nonagon, with 4 of the 5 albums from 2017 (Murder, Flying Microtonal Banana, Sketches of Brunswick East and Poly) all tying into each other to create what fans have dubbed “The Gizzverse.” Most of the albums after that are not as tightly connected but most have some thematic or character connection to the gizzverse in at least one of their tracks. You don’t need to worry about it too much, but if you want to learn more there’s a wealth of resources of people offering their interpretations of the story.
4. This is imo the best Gizz song. Other songs I personally like more, but this song (and the rest of the album) is perhaps Gizz’s best work with having an instrumentally cohesive album, it’s amazingly composed. Let me know how you like the live version!
Couldn’t agree more w/ 2 and 4.
Maybe not necessarily the best lyrics but definitely lyrics that tell a great story throughout the entire album.
The Gizzverse is one of the most interesting and coolest things about this band besides their amazing music, that only keeps getting better and better. Like they haven't even reached their peak yet and they're 24 albums in. Incredible.
I'm stoked that you love this one so much. I heard the title song, Polygondwanaland, album track, played on KEXP during prime time radio and I was captured 😂 Hope you feel the same. Talk all u want but I do hope you do the rest of the album in thirds.
As others have said, i feel it was such a shame to go from PDA to Murder. I didnt like murder til i saw it live.
This song was one of the first few that I would play on repeat getting into Gizz. Loved putting nonagon on repeat too, as well as FMB. Rats nest was crazy for me because I never liked metal/thrash yet it became one of my favourite albums of all time. PDA took its place though.
Anyway, rant over, love the content, it makes me nostalgic.
Good call on reacting to the album version first! The KEXP performance is amazing, but it cuts out the heavy doom-sounding part at the end, and it would have been a shame if you missed that!
I agree with many others, listening to the suites of 3 songs each is a much better experience. I think if you don't, you might be annoyed by the reuse of motifs and melodies
This is such a tune. I can't wait until you get to flying microtonal banana. In my opinion it's their perfect album as it has no bad songs but top three are anoxia, sleep drifter and nuclear fusion
As good as the KEXP versions of the Poly songs are, all of those versions are a bit shorter than the album versions so you’d be missing a lot of what’s on the album
Hey, have you thought of starting a Patreon? That way you can get some cash flow since I’m sure TH-cam is restricting monetizination. I’ll join and I’m sure others will too.
So I do have memberships available here on YT, also if you go to my link tree I have cash app and alot of merch…but I do the metalhead envies series because I love music, some artists share revenue and some dont
Quick question, how do I join a TH-cam membership. I can’t seem to find a Join button anywhere haha
So it seems like if your trying to join thru the app on the phone, that feature isnt available just yet…but using a computer and goin to my membership tab, the join button should be there
@@rockdariff ah how strange. Okay! Thanks for letting me know
I think no one's correcting you because it's funny how you mispronounce Polygondwanaland, but it's "Poly- th-cam.com/video/Voh8Okc1SHE/w-d-xo.html"
I feel like you were disillusioned by MOTU, i don’t know why people recommended you that album after Petrodragonic. Im a huge fan of theirs and MOTU is one I listen to least.
Agreed, it's lowest on my charts, along w 12Bar.