I'm making a desert/psych/stoner rock playlist and j definitely want to include some Gizz. Which songs go well alongside Colour Haze, Brant Bjork, Kyuss, Yawning Man, Truckfighters etc?

I'm thinking Magma and Rattlesnake for sure, which others would you add? Looking for one or two more tracks

  • Greenhouse heat death

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  • all of Flying Microtonal Banana feels very desert rock to me

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  • Superbug, KGLW, Hungry Wolf of Fate, and Great Chain of Being

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    Thanks! Initially I wrote off ITRN entirely as it seems a little too hard and thrashy for my list but Superbug might work out. I like your suggestion for Hungry Wolf the most

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    Happy to help my dude. Tbh just because no one has said it, I’d also include Mars for the Rich off ITRN because of the Sabbath vibes too.

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    I agree especially on chain.

    As a huge qotsa fan, i could see Great chain fitting just a bit into sftd. which that album and gravity x are my personal definitions for desert rock be it proper or not.

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    Where the hell do you get desert vibes from Superbug?

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  • Searching…

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    Hadn't considered that one, but might work! Thanks

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    personally, i think it has incredible vibes but gets overlooked because they’ve never played it live. it’s one of my absolute favorites

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    Oooo good pick!

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  • Flying microtonal banana, sleep drifter and nuclear fusion sound pretty deserty to me

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    I didn't want to include too many from FMB, but yeah good picks. I might reconsider

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  • Dripping tap, deserted dunes welcome weary feet?

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  • Automation always felt pretty "desert-y" to me

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    Ooh, I can see that. Thanks

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  • If you're including Magma as desert rock you've already lost me.

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    Gotcha, maybe a little too swinging? it just feels like it fits the vibe really well for me, but maybe it's not quite desert

    Edit: I listened to it after a few others of the playlist and it does stick out, thanks for the feedback. Dropped it

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    Check out some live versions.

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    I think that's maybe why I added it in the first place. I listen almost exclusively to bootleg gizzard lately. The album version is way bubblier

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    Hey, look man.

    At the end of the day, cool music is cool music. Genres don't really matter.

    But, having said that, sometimes I don't want to just listen to cool music. Sometimes I feel like a particular genre.

    And if stoner/desert rock is what I'm after, NOTHING from "The mushroom album" fits that bill.

    It's in my top 3 Gizz albums, but stoner/desert it ain't.

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    I’m gonna be honest this is one of the first songs that came to mind for me, i get that it isn’t classically desert rock but there is absolutely something about Magma that invokes a feeling of some sort of fever dream in the heat. 

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    Magma absolutely fits

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    No. No it doesn't.

    Go do some research.

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  • Sam Cherry's Last Shot

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  • May not go as well with the examples you've listed but I'm surprised I haven't seen Eyes Like The Sky commented more. Definitely more 'desert' than 'rock', but still

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  • I prefer their dessert rock selections, personally:

    Eyes Like the Pie

    The Dripping Crepe

    Creams

    If Not Now, Then When Is Cake?

    (Just to name a few favorites)

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    Lava Cakes

    Time=Cake

    Flying Microtonal Banana split

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  • O.N.E. has exquisite desert vibes.

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    Came here to say Pleura, but tbh the whole album

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  • Gumboot soup

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    Which songs specifically? It's a bit all over the place but I had been thinking about something like Great Chain.

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    I consider the whole album a desert album. But barefoot desert, muddy water, last oasis are pretty directly desert themed.

    To fit the vibe it seems you’re going for I’d say muddy water, great chain of being, all is known

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    Ooh, Last Oasis is underrated. Good call

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    All is Known and Deserted Dunes Welcome Weary Feet would probably vibe along side Kyuss and Saint Vitus pretty well

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  • Dunno but make sure you put something from the Re-Stoned classic album Stories of the astral lizard.. what a masterpiece

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    Thanks, giving those a listen right now

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    Easily my wife's favourite album.. it's her chill out, wind down and relax album everytime

    Something from Mt mountain would definately fit your list too... Check out the song Diablo from the fantastic album cosmos terros

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    I'm loving it so far. Maybe a little too chill for my current playlist, but I can see it fitting a more laid back one for long road trips or stoner nights. Reminds me of Electric Octopus, check out This Is Our Culture if you don't know it already.

    I'll check Mt Mountain too, thanks!

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    Yeah it is the most chill of the stoner/psych stuff that I can think of I think.. mainly because it's the entire album rather than a track or 2 like space cadet on Kyuss' sky valley...

    Part 3 of the astral lizard is far more upbeat, it came out this year and might be more what you're looking for...

    I've heard electric octopus but totally forgot about them, I'll give them another listen tonight ! Thanks for the reminder 😊

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  • Honestly alot of polygondwanaland and nonagon have the desert vibe. Also parts of mind fuzz and fmb.

    Imo i would do Crumbling Castle, Loyalty, Tetrachromacy -> Searching... -> The Fourth Colour, Big Fig Wasp -> Gamma Knife, Hot Water -> Am I In Heaven ?, Satan Speeds Up, Rattlesnake, Open Water, Anoxia, The Land Before Timeland, Hypertension,

    And as for non kglw, try artists like Fuzz, Blue Cheer, Kyuss, King Buffalo, Elder, Elephant Tree, etc

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    Thanks! Kyuss, King Buffalo and Elder are in it already. I'll check out the rest

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  • Sleep drifter is desert vibes to me, specifically kexp version

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  • Greenhouse Heat Death, Searching, Flying Microtonal Banana (title track), Doom City, Predator X

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  • Eyes Like The Sky, Rattlesnake, Melting, Sleep Drifter, Billabong Valley, Polygondwanaland > The Castle In The Air > Deserted Dunes Welcome Weary Feet, Greenhouse Heat Death, Barefoot Desert, Muddy Water, Intrasport, Oddlife, Static Electricity, East West Link, Magma, The Land Before Timeland, Motor Spirit, Set, Gilgamesh (not rock for those last 2, but works)

    All these songs give me desert vibes. Probably some I missed, too

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    Thanks! Going through most of these to see which fit my intended vibe the most. Definitely some that hadn't occurred to me

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  • PDA sounds like it should be the soundtrack to a Mad Max movie.

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    PDA is too thrashy

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    Love PDA, and I feature two songs of it in my prog metal list, but I think it's a little too rough for a desert/stoner list

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    I know, but desert rock is more a mood and genre than where the band comes from. PDA to me sounds more like a mix between prog metal and thrash.

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  • Not Gizz but there is a band called the Green Door that scratched that itch for me.

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    Thanks, will check it out!

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  • Make sure you put glass beams on that Playlist.

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    Thanks, I'll check em out!

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    Their music sounds like you're lost in the middle of the desert in ancient Egypt. Lol.

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  • Static Electricity. The song sounds like being lost in the desert during a building sandstorm.

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  • You should go check out Glass Beams, they have a really good set on KEXP and it sounds like they're exactly the vibe you're looking for

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    Thanks, they're on my list of bands to check!

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  • Desert rock like palm beach? Or desert rock like Africa?

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    Like Colorado

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  • I just realized today how similar Magma is to No One Knows, which is in a step lower, but with the same rhythm and scale. Could be mashed up live effortlessly. Not really the question you're asking, but weird that this came up today.

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    Wow yeah, now that you mention it..

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    Is this a joke?  You're comparing one of the greatest hard rock songs of all time to Magma?  Other than both songs being 4/4, I fail to see any meaningful connection between them. 

    The studio version of Magma is one of the least dynamic songs in the gizz repertoire.  The drums mostly just live in that boring syncopated groove, the vocals are literally one single note for the vast majority of the track, and the ideas for the guitar improvisations offer very little in terms of variety during the course of the 9 minutes they somehow decided to dedicate to this song.  It takes about 15 seconds to get what they're going for, and that's enough for me.

    In contrast, No One Knows has incredible dynamics that evolve over the runtime, huge bombastic drums, killer guitars with a great solo, and a classic vocal performance from Homme.  There are more good ideas here in a song that's half the length of Magma, I'll admit I'm something of an Ice Death hater but as both a huge fan of both QOTSA and Gizz this comparison is wild

    *If someone who disagrees can actually put into words why they feel that way, I'd love to hear it

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    I’m baffled by your level of distaste for Magma. That song has dug me out of so many dark places mentally on all day long bike rides where I’m ready to tap out.

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    It's decent live, it's incredibly boring on the record.  Glad you can connect with it though

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    Okay!

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    Also, I don't even think about the studio version. It's just the blueprint.

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    How do you see those songs being similar? I'm genuinely confused

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    I get what you mean, thanks for explaining. I just think that so much of the instrumentation in Magma is pretty meandering and half baked throughout the entirety of the song, while that riff in No One Knows is absolutely fundamental to the song. As a guitarist myself, I honestly struggle to even think of that phrasing from Magma as a proper riff, it's just one of the many ideas that gets thrown in there early on but gets lost in the sea of noodling throughout the runtime.

    Maybe you can tell but for the most part I'm really not into jam bands, King Gizzard just snuck onto my radar before they embraced that side of their music

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    I agree the album version is actually pretty boring, but it just keeps getting better live. Never really considered myself a man band person either, but I love King Gizzard's version of it. It's like each album they learn a new skill and just keep adding them together in ways they weren't even planning.

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    Yeah the show I went to in Barcelona this summer was definitely my favorite yet, love their evolution

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  • All of Petrodragonic apocalypse. Maybe a little more thrashy than your examples but still has that gritty aesthetic

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