Yea man we’re definitely on the same page. I get that I ruffled some feathers but even the people disagreeing are hardly willing to confront any points I’m raising. They’ve become this catchall band you can’t escape from, I seen them bombarded in so many music subs.

They have albums dominated by power chords. You literally just used some buzz words without explaining your claim of them being this complex band. Once again didn’t bring up qotsa, do I consider qotsa complex? Ehh not the first thing that comes to mind, definitely more inventive than king gizzard for the reasons I’ve already mentioned. Back to the microtonal dumbing down and boxing the microtonal guitars into a very western context is by no means complicated. Like saying including a theremin on a song makes it inherently complex. Where’s the complex chord progressions? Time signatures are overblown so many bands have played around with odd time signatures, the real prize is having a song breach the mainstream as an odd time signature which they of course don’t have.

Dude king gizzard are not complex and I didn’t bring up qotsa who aren’t all that complex but definitely leagues more complicated than king gizzard when the song calls for it. His perversion of the microtonal guitar isn’t complex… it’s literally the opposite have you heard Turkish music and the guitarists that have been playing micro tonal instruments for years? It’s not even close to the same… so what kinda complex music are you talking about exactly? They aren’t doing any virtuoso musical impressions ala a mahavishnu orchestra or Zappa? Where’s their complex chord progressions? They’re no Elliot smith, no grizzly bear, hell queens keep fresh with his octave pinky trick listen to bandoliers by tcv wanna hear “complex” chord voicings. King gizzard is power chords, wtf do they do complicated harmonies nope, so ya nice try bud

The two biggest bands in rock music arctic monkeys and tame impala are admitted huge fans and also admittedly takes huge influence from queens. Just by that their influence would continue to be diffused through others. The first couple sentences say I don’t think they are bad, so you’re not just musically illiterate you’re actually unable to read??

Yea if you’re a great songwriter you’re kinda known for the songs not cheap gimmicks like releasing a ton of albums in styles you can’t master. What are the Grateful Dead famous for? Their touring hahaha the most celebrated versions of their songs are extended live jams. No one gives a shit about their song writing, do they even have an album that went multi platinum? Pretty hilarious considering their heyday was when people actually bought records

Hahaha there’s an entire ecosystem of bands that ape qotsa. Dude talking about bubbles get the fat outta your ears and try listening. https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/queens-of-the-stone-age:-greatest-rock-band-alive/8734806 took me all of one minute to discover your saviors are fans wow

Pretty apparent they are influenced by qotsa as essentially any band doing hard rock alt whatever or anything adjacent to that in modern times are. You don’t have to like them, but you’re showing your ass and proving my point about lacking historical contexts and just being musically illiterate.

Yea I wasn’t clear my b, I didn’t mean musically at all. I think the Grateful Dead similar to king gizzard have very little to offer. No seminal albums, not great song writers, but with the caveat I can accept that the Grateful Dead are very technically proficient especially in a rock context.

“Aren’t afraid to change directions” what they do is what every other fast food company did with Wendy’s 4 for four, they simply copied and mimicked them they’re a cheap gimmick, hacks

Alright so let’s have it buddy. Point me to any seminal albums from king gizzard please? Any songs that have lasted and will continue to endure in many peoples consciousness? I could cut off three of Josh hommes fingers and he’d still come up with better riffs than them… do you really want me to compare Voices🤣🤣 dude king gizzard doesn’t hold a candle to any of his bands let alone qotsa

That’s completely fair, my main problem is they don’t lurk and learn they just want to jump right into the conversation not having done the required level of listening

This post really brought out reddits best and brightest. Par for the course for king gizzard fans get back to me when they get a lead singer who doesn’t look and sound like his mom was sipping a 40 the whole term of her pregnancy