Talk:King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

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Section sizes

Section size for King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard (24 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	4,569	4,569
History	12	64,976
2010–2012: Formation, early releases, and 12 Bar Bruise	3,946	3,946
2013–2014: Eyes Like the Sky, Float Along – Fill Your Lungs, Oddments, and I'm in Your Mind Fuzz	5,987	5,987
2015–2016: Quarters!, Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, Gizzfest, and Nonagon Infinity	6,545	6,545
2017: Five albums in one year	10,901	10,901
2018–2019: Fishing for Fishies, Infest the Rats' Nest, and reissues	6,247	6,247
2020: Chunky Shrapnel, K.G., L.W. and Eric Moore's departure	11,043	11,043
2021–2022: Butterfly 3000, Omnium Gatherum, and Gizztober	8,698	8,698
2023: PetroDragonic Apocalypse and The Silver Cord	5,430	5,430
2024–present: p(doom), Flight b741, and Phantom Island	6,167	6,167
Musical styles and the "Gizzverse"	9,337	14,900
The Gizzverse	5,563	5,563
Band members	825	4,602
Timeline	3,777	3,777
Discography	1,362	1,362
Labels	11	4,884
Flightless	2,674	2,674
KGLW	558	558
p(doom)	1,641	1,641
Awards and nominations	20,873	20,873
See also	80	80
References	28	28
External links	1,451	1,451
Total	117,725	117,725

Sketches of Bunswick East

who edited this page to add the album name "Sketches of Brunswick East"? the account was an IP address that had never edited before. a hint from the BAND ? https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Special:Contributions/130.64.28.8 https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=King_Gizzard_%26_the_Lizard_Wizard&diff=prev&oldid=774938749 Hori.horizontal (talk) 04:20, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Discography?

Should content from the discography section be forked to King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard discography? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 21:42, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it should. I've wikified the albums listing into an appropriate wikitable. I have not included any external territory's charting. I'll leave that for you or other interested editors. Likewise a table of similar format would be required for Extended plays, Singles and Music videos. Then move them to the forked article. Have fun.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 06:57, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've made a new table for the Albums and included all the relevant world wide charts, I don't have time today to finish tables for the singles, eps and music videos but I will do them this week at some point. Well on the way to getting the discography sorted EL Foz87 (talk) 12:44, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discography has now been moved into the new discography article, the article still needs some major improvements such as the music video table with directors and references. I'll get on that soon unless someone wants to have a go at it EL Foz87 (talk) 10:20, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be appropriate to mention the labels that released official physical editions of the live bootleg albums? At the moment it only mentions "Formats: Digital (Bandcamp)", which is misinformative as most are available on CD, Vinyl and Cassette. Simdude1990 (talk) 11:22, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling

The band's website has the name spelt as 'King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard' with 'zz' in 'Lizzard' and 'Wizzard'. Would change this, but don't know the protocol for confirming a change. 81.82.207.95 (talk) 12:52, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

http://kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/ no it's not. Vintage Tea (talk) 13:56, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with Vintage. Only argument seems to be over and vs & : I'm slightly in favour of keeping current title so I wouldn't change it.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 06:57, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

Do you think it would be best to describe Gizz as just 'rock', ala how the The Beatles are described so on their page? The style on each of their albums seems to vary a lot apart from it's psychedelic elements. If not, maybe just psychedelic rock or indie rock would do? ToQ100gou! ToQ100gou! Shupatsu Shinkou! (the chitter-chatter) 10:49, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

K.G. / L.W. section merge

Would it be a good idea to merge the sections covering K.G. and L.W. considering that they're essentially the same quasi-double album project, written and recorded simultaneously as one piece? It feels a little jarring to place a section split between the two releases. Moonwater21 (talk) 15:58, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm alright with how it is now. Even if you merged the sections, there is still 2 paragraphs between K.G. and L.W. Also the 2020 section is so lengthy that I think a new section is warranted for 2021's releases. Exciteabletom (talk) 08:36, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Class

Psychedelic rock, garage rock, acid rock, progressive rock, psychedelic pop, heavy metal? Listening to the album 12 Bar Bruise I would describe them as punk first and foremost and indie/acid rock maybe. Not hearing anything psychedelic, progressive or heavy about them..† Encyclopædius 10:43, 11 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if you're joking or what but I'd suggest listening to just about any of their other albums and you'll see why they're described with those labels, they go through genres a ton (I'd also recommend listening to their other albums because they're good lol). Specifically see the albums Float Along – Fill Your Lungs for an example of psychedelic, Polygondwanaland for progressive, and Infest the Rats' Nest for heavy. IOnlyKnowFiveWords (talk) 21:55, 14 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Editing this page for a media literacy class

Hello all!

I am a new Wiki Editor as part of a course I am taking on media literacy as a content creator I have been assigned to edit an article of my choice. As a Gizzhead, I had to choose this one! To share what I have edited: - I added a note about Gizz being named one of the hardest working bands in the world according to [2019 study.] -I added a part that describes the band's announcement of Gizzfest being indefinitely canceled with support from [link.] -I added a bit with updates on the three-hour marathon sets in Berkley, California, and Morrison, Colorado that will finally take place in October 2022 with an additional show in Colorado on November 2. -Lastly, I added The Bush to the band's associated acts because Kenny-Smith's sister and Walker's girlfriend, Edith Kenny-Smith, is their bassist and their album was mastered by Walker, as shown on their [page.]

Thank you all for your contributions! This was a lot of fun to read and contribute to!

ClaireBraggs (talk) 00:21, 28 April 2022 (UTC)ClaireBraggs[reply]

Membership timeline

Since some editors disagree with my removal of the timeline in the band members section, allow me to get more detailed about my intent. The best place to start is to point to this discussion where you can see editors (including myself) disagreeing with the need for a timeline when lineup changes are even less minimal than the one here (such as those for Trenches, Twenty One Pilots, and Chevelle). There's already established policy such as MOS:USEPROSE and consensus on this similar discussion that establish the general notion that if something can be easily explained in text then there's no need for big showy templates displaying simple amounts of information. The only majorly prevalent information this one teaches is that one member left a couple years ago (which is also stated directly above) and when their albums released (also stated directly below). I just don't see the point in taking up all that space to reexplain things that are already made clear (arguably more clear; I've never been a huge fan of how those timelines display information, find them much more difficult to read) elsewhere. Now if the membership timeline were as complex as, say, Black Flag's, then I'd certainly understand how it compresses a huge amount of information into a convenient space, but this band's looks nothing like that.

And I do want to emphasise how this one in particular is hard to read as well. With each member playing what appears to be a minimum of three instruments, the layers of color on each bar become difficult to separate. Being able to tell which color is where is hard enough for me and I'm not even colorblind (so to say this could be a potential WP:ACCESS violation). The amount of releases listed can be troublesome as well, especially when they're all crammed together in the 2020-present period (though removing the live albums would help that tremendously). One of WP's key goals is legibility (note that WP:Legible redirects to ACCESS), and this just isn't that, at least not to my eyes.

Pinging @TelevisionStatic and @Dotoilage since they both reverted my edit and may have counterarguments to share (other than WP:ILIKEIT as mentioned before). QuietHere (talk) 13:31, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see where you're coming from... it does appear to be hard to read and difficult to understand, specially with the amount of releases the band has and the layers of color bands each member has in their respective timeline. Do you think that there's other ways to visualize the data of the members' instruments/positions more easily? Or should the timeline just be scrapped from the article altogether? I apologize for my misunderstanding of your intent and I hope that we can reach an agreement on this soon (and maybe, with other editors if you're feeling like it). Thank you! TelevisionStatic (talk) 00:39, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Personally I think the written list of instruments for each member works fine right now. The only changes in instruments that I can see are Eric Moore's but they don't appear to be so significant as to need to be displayed. And as I said, aside from that it's redundant so I think it's plenty scrappable. QuietHere (talk) 00:58, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Minimum Brain Size/Christchurch mosque shootings

I checked citation 148 and it says that "Minimum Brain Size" from K.G. was written following the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, not inspired by. Can we fix that? Minemaster1337 (talk) 00:05, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

yeah it clearly wasnt based off it, i dont know who got that idea. my best opinion on it is that its about conservatives but ive got nothin to back it up Draymynah (talk) 23:27, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Photo replacement

The photo should probably be replaced on the article, as it's from 2019 and Eric has left the band Foxboy716 (talk) 16:41, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

fixing the discography section

Some of the albums and the link to their discography where linked in red meaning that those article don't exist when they do. i have fixed it so that they do link to these pages. if there is a problem with this though then please comment below. Communistsam23 (talk) 02:43, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]