King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Edit: that is assuming too late as in “wish I would have been into this band in high school” and not “half the band has died or they are broken up”
To be fair, late for KGLW can be 12 albums in or 20 albums in. The scale for them is way different. Like they formed after I left highschool and none of them have died. Eric left. Yet their discography is big enough for 5 bands combined.
Yeah, but listening to all of it, you get the sense it’s more 12 albums with 10 fluff pieces around them.
In no timeline am I ever putting Laminated Denim up against IDPLM&L, or Gumboot against Nonagon. Their bar for quality is kinda loopy.
I liked Phantom Island, a good B+ record from them with some of my favorite singles. They’re still an extremely strong band, they sometimes spend 1-3 albums fucking around before making another hit.
That’s the trick though. You will listen to all of Gizzard’s albums. Their highs are so high they get the benefit of the doubt for everything else.
Both.
So hyped to see KGLW at the top
Daft Punk. Discovered them too late to go to an actual concert.
And same with Caravan Palace. Loved the original ensemble and style, the spirit of their concerts. The current getup is nice too, but with different vocalist and a few other band member changes, it’s just not the same…
Same with Daft Punk. I have listened so much to Alive 2007 and it breaks my heart that I could have seen that show live in my city if I had not been a stubborn teen who “only listens to real music” (rock and metal).
I wasn’t yet into music in general when RAM came our but I remember bumping to the song with pharell on the radio all the time in school when I would be driven around places. Then now I’m like damn, I missed an opportunity to experience their music being mainstream. There was the tron music too which was kind of a trigger to get into them more for me. And the new tron Ares music with NIN feels kind of like a spiritual successor in some parts where they reference their sound.
Stevie Ray Vaughan… a week before he died :(
Consider the Following
Big Country - Influenced your favorite band, bagpipe guitars, google it.
They Might be Giants - Not JUST a fun jokey band, just mostly one. Some of their songs are lyrically and musically brilliant tho despite the light tone.
The Menzingers - A lighter hardcore band with a southern rock vibe that puts out really heartfelt and just awesome stuff.
The Menzingers still play well in concert. “America, You’re Freaking Me Out” hits a lot harder now.
I saw them live one time and was blown away. Then I listened to their albums and was kinda underwhelmed.
They have their greatest hits, it is best to stick to those.
+1 for TMBG. But they are still touring (at least as of 2025).
Amy Winehouse.
Musical tastes change over your lifetime too, so what was cool when you were a teenager might become cringe later on in life, and vice versa.
And even later on, the things that became cringe might make a comeback and become cool again.
As a broad category, 70s Disco is a great example of that. The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, ABBA, etc etc. were overplayed, but it was popular music because it was good.
60s and 70s soul samples become the foundations for new rap and dance tracks.
I love Judy Collins, Mary Hopkins, Harry Belafonte and other late 60s and 70s vocalists even though they were big before I was born.
Bear vs. Shark.
By the time I discovered them, they had already broken up. Very short lived band that apparently put on great live shows.
ETA: not sure if this is the kind of answer you were looking for, but it’s the first thing that popped in my head.
This is the kind of answer I’m looking for.
Bear vs Shark is so rad! I’m also bummed I never got the chance to see them live.
Low. Heard Hey What and absolutely loved it, then found out that Mimi had just died. Saw Alan solo a couple years later at a festival, and you could still really feel his grief in his voice.
I live in Duluth where they are from. Mimi’s passing hit this whole community really hard.
SOPHIE. They died like a month after I found their stuff. Hell of a producer.
Oingo Boingo was done and gone like almost a decade before I became a fan. And I started out right, becoming a fan of the “Only a Lad” album before most of the rest. Never did come around to the 1994 album “Boingo,” but to each their own.
Goodbye Goodbye is such a great song 🤘
For sure.
On the Outside and WYSIWYG are two of my favs.
Every time I heard the band name “Daft Punk,” it meant nothing to me. Toward the end of their existence I finally put the name with the music and hot damn that’s good stuff.
Yeah similar to me. I thought they were some no name one hit wonder with “harder, better, faster stronger” and only recently I realized they were very popular in the 90s already and “around the world” is from them, which is like the background music of my childhood memories.
My old roommate sucked. His favorite band was a Canadian thrash metal band called 3 Inches of Blood. I assumed they also sucked. Many years later I actually listened to them and they’re amazing. In the meantime they had broken up.
Happy ending, though. They did a reunion show last year and I was able to go see it!
The herbalizer. Discovered them after they already broke up
At the Drive-In - Literally the hot shit of late 00s and early 10s done in the mid 90s. They were so ahead of their time it’s a shame they kinda get lost being inspiration for what came later. They totally deserved to be the focal point.
Converge - I was always aware of them. They were kind of just another band at the time they were at their best. Then I really got into them this past year. I totally wish I could have fully appreciated them when we were younger. Going to one of their early shows would have been a highlight of my life.
Nine Inch Nails - I just never gave them a proper chance until the past few years. They totally deserve their reputation. Their stuff is awesome.
Since you like At the Drive-in, have you listened to the Mars Volta?
Also, Nine Inch Nails is still on tour.
I’ve heard a song here and there but I haven’t given them a serious listen. I know it’s the same singer and guitarist.
Saving this post to go spelunking after it has amassed some replies. Great question! I love music exploration.
I too love a good spelunk of the aged veins of music.
I also love connecting people with the right resources. So what kind of music are you into? =) (Or if that’s too broad, what kind of music are you seeking to get into?)
Oh god, what don’t I like. I like everything from Thrash/Death and Progressive Metal to classical piano and everything in between. Folk music, music from other cultures, Middle-Eastern, Greek, Spanish, South Asian, East Asian, Caribbean, etc. Good video game music, like the Ori soundtrack, lots of Mario games have good soundtracks, like the Galaxy games. Zelda games. Horizon games.
The list goes on. Ever expanding. 🤯
Oh boy! I’m very similar to you and your music taste then.
Let’s see… We’ll try these out and see what you think of them. A yay or nah is workable, but more info is useful.
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - Step Up (I’m On It) [Southern Rock / Southern Metal]
Equilibrium - Snuffel [Folk Metal / Speed Metal]
Ghost - Kaisarion [Glam Metal / Heavy Metal]
Venjent - Till Death We Do Art [Electronic / Drum and Bass]
Sunlounger - White Sand - Chill Out Edit [Trance / Chillout]
How fun!
I’ll say, Equilibrium was quite similar to some bands I do follow. Good one there.
Sunlounger was pretty chill. Might be something I’ll slap on while working or playing Rocket League.
Venjent… what if I told you I was like one of the top 0.01 % listeners of Venjent on Spotify in 2025, I think. Some kind of small number like that. 😅 He’s truly inspired. Really sick beats. I tend to pair him up with Fox Stevenson for a solid time of straight bangers.
Some early as well as recent favorites of mine:
- HIM
- The Crown/prev. “Crown of Thorns”
- The Haunted
- Dimmu Borgir
- Metallica
- CKY
- Foreign Objects
- Meshuggah
- Mattias “I.A.” Eklundh [my kids love this guy’s music, lol]
- Opeth
- Finntroll
- Children of Bodom
- Sonata Arctica
- Animals as Leaders
- Lamb of God
- Tesseract
- Textures
- The Ocean
- The Omnific
- Dissection
- Amon Amarth
- Linkin Park (the first two albums; basically their first album was the first taste of metal I ever had; thought it sounded so badass; I don’t really open them up nowadays though, there’s just so much better stuff out there)
Bro there are so many good bands, I have about 1700+ bands that I follow on Spotify. (Quite overwhelming at times, actually.) But maybe you get the picture of what kind of weird sounds I’m into. Really liking a lot of syncopation. I want to be intrigued by the music, you know? 🙂
I rarely get new suggestions on Spotify anymore. I’ve like added the entire network of bands that have any kind of relation to one another. 😅
I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed some of the shared songs.
Venjent… what if I told you I was like one of the top 0.01 % listeners of Venjent in 2025, I think.
My goodness dude! Hahaha That’s is some serious dedication! =p
Equilibrium is one of favorite folk metal bands to date. Sunlounger is growing to become my go to artist, when I need to chill out. Venjent is a really interesting artist. I love his ability to utilize sounds from anything and apply them into a music format.
As for your list, HOLY SHIITAKE! You seem to have the metal music corner of music well covered. lol I’ve heard 12 of those listed and know I like, Dimmu Borgir, Metallica, CKY, Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth and (of course) Linkin Park. I’ll check out the rest over the next several days.
Bro there are so many good bands, I have about 1700+ bands that I follow on Spotify. (Quite overwhelming at times, actually.)
ROFL! I can totally understand the overwhelming sense you would get. This is why I only follow a 30 or so bands on Spotify.
If you’re looking for more chill music/song suggestions, I would suggestion:
(Songs)
(Artists)
Really liking a lot of syncopation. I want to be intrigued by the music, you know?
Thanks cool dude. I figure you’ve heard of Math Rock. But if you haven’t… https://www.last.fm/tag/math+rock
What music suggestions would you have for me? Like I mentioned, I’m into just about everything. So what’cha got? =)
I like those artists you posted, very LoFi, very chillable 👌
What music suggestions would you have for me?
Well that long list I posted earlier were some suggestions 😁 Some more:
- 96 Bitter Beings [Deron Miller’s spiritual successor to CKY after they basically broke up; CKY is nothing without Deron]
- Altin Gün
- Antiloop
- Anup Sastry
- Arc De Soleil
- Arch Echo
- Arctic Monkeys
- Blinded Colony
- Caligula’s Horse
- Chastisement
- Chimp Spanner
- Coheed and Cambria
- Cory Wong
- Daft Punk
- Dark Tranquillity
- Dimension Zero
- Doja Cat
- Dua Lipa
- Fallujah
- Faouzia [amazing voice]
- Freak Kitchen [front man Mattias IA Eklundh]
- Glass Beams
- Gojira
- Jacob Collier
- Joe Satriani
- Lumsk [Norwegian band]
- Mehdi Aminian [Iranian folk musician]
- Millencolin
- Mustasch
- Old Man’s Child
- One Man Army and the Undead Quartet
- Orphaned Land
- Panic! At the Disco
- Papa Roach
- Paramore
- Perifery
- Plini
- Polyphia
- Port Noir
- Ravi Shankar
- Sababa 5
- Sithu Aye
- Slayer
- Slipknot
- Soilwork
- Stratovarius
- System of a Down
- Tenacious D
- Thin Lizzy
- Tori Kelly [amazing voice]
- Vader
You might tell that I’m mostly big on metal, math core, and djent, which are my favorite genres, I suppose. 😊 Enjoy!
