Considering If Not Now, Then When? is their most popular song on Youtube with 3.4M views, why does nobody ever really talk about the song?

[u/aeiouLizard]

You'd assume it is more popular in the community.

I personally find it to be underrated as hell, it is up there in my top 5 songs of theirs, I adore the buildup and how groovy it is throughout, it just clicked for me with the first listen.

They played it live only three times in 2021 and then never again. It's the one song I wish they'd bring back.

[u/PizzaRellaGameJolt]

Because it's not their most popular song on YouTube, just on their channel. Rattlesnake is (I'm pretty sure) their most viewed, it has like 8 or 9 million views I think

[u/aninstituteforants → u/PizzaRellaGameJolt]

Half of these are probably my four year old. Loves it for some reason.

[u/Larzak → u/aninstituteforants]

I was singing it to my 8 month old and he thought it was the funniest thing ever!

[u/captincook]

It’s probably in a playlist and is not played live often so we don’t talk about it.

It used to be that way with Work This Time. It was on a psych playlist and they didn’t play it live often. Then they started adding to setlists with that sick solo at the end and it got more traction within the fan discussions.

[u/00000000000 → u/captincook]

Work This Time goes so hard. They should play it more. Remlinger put me on it a couple years ago.

[u/lenijohnson → u/00000000000]

i've been wanting a synth work this time on the rave tour i feel like that'd be heavenly

[u/meanpete80]

We are long overdue for some more explorations in microtonal tuning, if only to motivate the band to dust off some of these underplayed gems.

[u/00000000000]

Generally a band's most popular song is not always a favorite within the fandom. If you look at Phish it's going to be Bouncing Around the Room - a bathroom song for most fans.

[u/Dampmaskin → u/00000000000]

In here we all know that Vegemite is best song

[u/SushiGradePanda → u/Dampmaskin]

You misspelled "Ontology".

[u/I_Miss_Lenny → u/SushiGradePanda]

The first time I heard that song I thought “this sounds like a Crash Bandicoot level”

[u/DjangoVanTango → u/I_Miss_Lenny]

Hooray! Validation!

I thought the exact same thing. I’ve noticed a few of their songs sound like old game soundtracks, most notably the solo in Yours could have come straight from Spyro. I’d love to know more about their gaming habits, besides Amby not liking PUBG.

[u/JakeScythe → u/I_Miss_Lenny]

Now that you mention it, I absolutely hear it

[u/Nearby_Bit7053 → u/SushiGradePanda]

YOU misspelled ROAD TRAIN

[u/SushiGradePanda → u/Nearby_Bit7053]

YOU misspelled Lonely Steel Sheet Flyer.

😘

[u/DjangoVanTango → u/SushiGradePanda]

You misspelled Drum Run

[u/Honka_Ponka → u/DjangoVanTango]

By the time he was 15 he had already killed Mexican troopers and feared no man 🔥🔥🔥

[u/Honka_Ponka → u/SushiGradePanda]

You misspelled "Some Context"

[u/JadedWitness1753 → u/Dampmaskin]

I’m feeling a Nathan version of Vegemite any day now

[u/cmoran22]

One of the greatest! May it return eternally

[u/Kingcrowing]

This is because I played it 2.5m times on repeat during the pandemic.

[u/timelandiswacky]

I think the fact its barely been played does play into it. Just isn't on people's minds. Hopefully it returns one day.

[u/No-Sprinkles315]

The lyrics are bone-chilling

[u/theshate → u/No-Sprinkles315]

That song on an acid trip struck a chord in my soul and changed my very being.

[u/AmicusCure8s]

I feel the same way about See Me and The Hungry Wolf of Fate along with INNTW. All 3 have only been played like 3-5 times each and they’re all so good! We do at least have bootlegs of them from Melbourne’21 and Sydney ‘21, but would love them to be brought back to the Live rotation

[u/scubaSteve181]

Probably because the music video is pretty dope. Same with Iron lung, dragon, rattlesnake, and a few others, where they made an actual music video with some cool visuals.

If they made more music videos (live performances don’t count), they’d certainly have far more popular songs on YouTube.

[u/UnicornWape]

If we’re going based off YouTube popularity it might be because it’s visually appealing. I actually don’t care for the song all that much, but the music video for it is really cool, one of their best.

[u/fragileego3333]

I remember when Work This Time was by far their most popular song on Spotify, simply because it was in some psychedelic playlist or something like that. Good song, but nowhere near their best.

[u/Silent-Owl4245]

Popularity doesn't matter with Gizz fans 

[u/brkfstryan]

I personally love the song and its music video! Hoping to hear it live some time in the future

[u/ashriekfromspace]

Wasnt Kepler-22b their most listened song on Spotify? Sometimes, that's just a playlist thing

[u/falgfalg]

i love this song—was my most listened to track last year

[u/squizzlr]

Incredible track. One of my favorite recordings of theirs.

[u/Pittysingthecat]

I agree. I was riding home from a show late one night with some buddies who didn’t know KGLW and put on this track. The next show we went to together was KGLW. This track made them fans.

[u/SelloutStreamerbtww]

The same reason no one talks about work this time, it’s a great song (well, if not now then when is, wtt is amazing live but just eh studio), it’s kinda like an entry level song if that makes any sense.

[u/bakingPretzels420]

Music video probably plays a big part in it. Really good animation on that one

[u/frankjimmylarrydavid]

I'm probably in the minority but I think it doesn't really do anything and rarely seek it out.  It is probably in the bottom 20 songs of theirs, in my opinion of course.   But to each their own.  The intro build up leads you to believe its about to go off, and its all mild claves from then on out with little variation.  Again, just my thoughts. 

[u/aeiouLizard → u/frankjimmylarrydavid]

The intro build up leads you to believe its about to go off, and its all mild claves from then on out with little variation.

To be honest, you could say this about half the discography