Check out Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, they are who led me to Cardiacs

Same here. I jus read that soad likes them in a comment so decided to give it a listen. Fantastic!

@ArkentMusic The reason is simple. The Cardiacs never existed before 2021. AI developments allowed, in that year, the complete manufacture of a ChatGPT history of the band which was quietly and insidiously incorporated into historical web archives. AI-generated images and audio followed; culminating in a vast library of moving images, such as the video achievement at the top of this page. History itself-and indeed our own personal and collective memories-were changed so that the perception of The Cardiacs' eternal existence was generally accepted and venerated. Within five years, The Cardiacs achieved diety-status, eclipsing the collected wisdom and ideology of all previous religions and philosophies. Within ten years, all human life revolved entirely around The Cardiacs, every thought, word, and deed intrinsically connected to that great The Cardiacs mother-mind until you hate it here. Well, how do you think I feel? I hate it here too. Unto death and the culmination of all entropic disorder: a vast, homogenous plane where each ion is a mirror of its neighbour and a mirror of the one most distant and a mirror of The Cardiacs.

6 months into the brainwashing process...have abandoned all hope.

​@@silencionomus Das crazy bro 🤯

The ones who need to know about them already know... shhhhhh keep it quiet!!!

The ending always gives me goosebumps!

put 300bpm bass drums and it sounds like vital remains

Facsinating how their music moves around and evolves. That outro's about as close to the genr... nah, I'm not even gonna say it. Its nothing like 'Prog'... to me anyway. Something even bigger than that.

Tim wrote this music as naturally as we walk and talk. A true musical genius. Every single thing he wrote was just brilliant....what an imagination.

Very much so. Although I'm a little surprised that Justin didn't mention Dirty Boy

Yeah crazy, right... to think that they were doing shows up and down the UK for over thirty years...!! I've missed seeing many many bands, but this one is right at the top of the ''ahh dammits!🙄'' 😊

@@gravematter1 RIGHT?!

The globalists don´t wan you to have good things.

Same as that I had "Is this the life" on my feed thought I'd check out some other stuff and this track is geniusly eclectic, HTF have I missed them God only knows!

Can't agree enough!!

Its 'Diacs'...🙄😒😉

waves. I was at one of them, but also was at Astoria gigs etc. Fave venue - Bull & Gate..

I've watched this vid like 20 times. I can't get enough. Every part is compelling, and musical. I love all the Garage songs. Stripped down and rocking. Anyone know why they went so "rock" and lean in the 90s? Just curious. They go from having 6-8 members to a mean and lean 4 (with some backing keyboard tracks).

I faakin laaaav it I do😊

I'm a repeat offender too.. though I sadly never attended a truly live performance

I think i was the first one in all florida to buy the first bungle on cassette. Summer of 90

@@ameliavilsaint6758 amazing

thanks to Frank Zappa.

@@in3rcia218 can you show me to where frank zappa mentions cardiacs? i've heard it said that he 'was a fan' but ive never come across a source

@@user-bootlicker what I meant is Zappa create that sound where the the cardiacs and Mr bungle took a lot from him. I was hearing for example uncle meat and could hear that others bands taking elements and sounds.

He's alive, you mean the writer and singer, also a guitarist.

Same. I guess KZfaq's algorithm likes it.

Best band that nobody (in the last couple of decades) ever heard of. These and The Chameleons.

@@damianreid2452 I’ll have to check out The Chameleons.

I discovered them by accident from a random torrent 13 years ago.

@@damianreid2452 Along with Guided by Voices.

You can only assess one of those things on this video.

I know I'm kinda late, but why exactly was Tim angry at Jim?

@@dacoconutnut9503 Probably a bit of an act for the camera.

@@dacoconutnut9503 because his fat and an embarrasment to the band.

@@rafaelfernandeslopesdeoliv1700 he was not the only chubby member in the clip bro

Huge loss to the world. 😥

First band I saw live. St Helens (Shirdley) Show, 1989. They rocked nine different layers of crap out of that tent.

KZfaq needs a “pay for more likes” feature with some proceeds going to the band. I’d be up for that.

Sign me up!

So you get a like for your likt;)

go outside

Hope something mischievous happens to the thumbsdowners

Dev is a fan of Cardiacs? I didn't know that.

Devin played in The Wildhearts for a moment way back in 1994, and Ginger is a massive Cardiacs fan, even creating a Wildhearts song homage to Tim Smith on the 2009 Chutzpah album. Devin probably heard Cardiacs stuff all the time when he toured with WH.

@@tobiasfrehley4568 totally makes sense.

@@fcamiola I think I first heard the cardiacs on one of Devin’s “Ziltoid” radio shows around the time he released Z2. Dog like sparky it was.

@@eightstringibanez I think there is probably a big backstory to this. I read that Ginger hired his bassist back in the day by going to a Cardiacs show together, on acid. I think The Wildhearts recorded an entire album at Tim Smith's recording studio. You can find most of the Wildhearts show with Devin and his large mullet on rythym guitar and backup vocals at the 1994 Reading festival here on youtube.

its also a cardiacs reference in itself :)

praise him!

I see what you did there.

Z A C H I have never, even after many years of lurking through the internet's various comment sections, seen even a single person respond to music they enjoyed with "this is good."

this is good

No way, this is flea final stage, ultimate flea!

Jonny Wonderland he is not flea, he is now FLEAS!

Once you stop doing coke and speed, you usually gain a LOT of weight.

He makes Flea look like a little bitch.

Should’ve seen him before the Atkinson diet….

He didn't :(

@@blacksaltscotland How erudite...

which one

@@owenf2835 the leading riff.

you cannot just "like" them, you must love them like your mommy.

i mean you're right tbh

I usually hate these types of comments, but for cardiacs i'll make an exception. I've yet to hear a legitimately bad cardiacs song. Some are definitely acquired tastes, they all are fucking amazing.

Who IS him?

That's Tim's music in a nutshell. Crazy, super complicated, yet beautiful and meaningful and always always melodic. I consider Cardiacs The "Beatles" of my generation, just crazier and way more fun. But seriously, I think Tim's compositional prowess is absolutely on level with Lennon/McCartney and in many ways surpasses them. Just different but as great. PS...love Coltrane :)

It's 'avin it

Day 2

@@cameronedwards6413you still going or?

the majority of people cannot listen to songs with more than 3 notes riffs, so they aren't famous.

They were ahead of their time, but the world is catching up!

Yes, and a LOT LOT LOT LOT LOT more. :)

Haha ... "fizzod"(???)!

@@damianreid2452 Just got here......'phizzog' is from physiognomy, i.e. facial features