“Crying” is the oldest song to appear on the album. According to Stu in the liner notes from the 2018 reissue of Oddments, “Cooky wrote ‘Crying’ when he was 16 and the two of us used to play it in our old band.” That band was Revolver & Sun, a rock band composed of Stu Mackenzie, Cook Craig, Fraser A. Gorman and Monty Hartnett, which took inspiration from the Beatles and the 13th Floor Elevators. While a majority of the band’s songs are now long gone, a demo for “Crying” uploaded on May 15th, 2009 was found on their Triple J Unearthed page. This version has a faster pace but contains the structure and lyrics of the Gizzard rendition. This demo was also added to Pipe-Eye’s MySpace page at some point. While the song wouldn’t be released until Oddments, its title was put on the back of an early DIY shirt from the band in 2012. The person modeling it is Monty Hartnett, who would reprise his role on drums for the Oddments recording of “Crying” as one of the very few people outside the band to play on a King Gizzard track. An early version of the track list shows the song at a total of four minutes and eighteen seconds. While this version may include “Pipe-Dream” as part of it, adding the track lengths only gets us to three minutes and fifty seven seconds. It’s unclear what the remaining seconds are. “Crying” was released on March 7th, 2014.

As of writing “Crying” has only had one confirmed appearance, that being on 2014-06-14 at Warsaw in Brooklyn while opening for The Dead Milkmen. This performance would appear in the documentary BOOTLEG HOLIDAY FROM HELL. There have been two other reported appearances, but no supporting documentation.