Hi I'm Andy Hull, I play in the band Manchester Orchestra.
I'm Robert McDowell from Manchester Orchestra. We're at Amoeba and this is 'What's in My Bag.'
I'll start with my hipster badge of 'OK Computer,' the reissue.
Never heard of it.
It's a really good album. I've read a ton about this record recently.
I love kind of going deep into how bands make records and how it all comes together
and it's awesome that now it's been out long enough that they're starting to kind of share the secrets
of where and how they made it and all that stuff
so I'm really looking forward to see what tracks didn't make the album as well.
Yeah this is a pretty obvious pick for me.
I'm also gonna go with a reissue.
Growing up, I was allowed to listen to Christian music or oldies
and The Ramones snuck in as an oldie.
We met and I was wearing a pink Ramones shirt underneath our private Christian school uniform.
Yeah, I knew he was cool.
And so they've always been a staple band.
What's amazing about this record is that it has 150 songs and it's only 21 minutes long.
I think there's cool parts of it, with the oldies side of it.
It forced us to listen to truly great music, rather than...
Yeah, you had that benefit, I didn't have that benefit. My dad really liked the soundtrack to 'The Firm.'
Which I got him on deluxe vinyl last year for Christmas.
Was he stoked?
Oh he was so pumped. Such a great soundtrack. The piano.
My next choice was a pretty obvious one. Outkast, 'Aquemini.'
I have not seen this on vinyl before. This is a big record for everybody who lives in Atlanta.
It was sort of the beginning of when the Dungeon Family
and everybody associated with Outkast and Organized Noize as well
were just doing kind of crazy, next-level stuff.
And this record, to this day... it was made in '97 and came out '98. I mean, to this day it holds up.
The amount of songs here that have influenced hip hop since then is pretty unbelievable.
Caveman.
So their self-titled record was kind of like the soundtrack of my head for awhile.
And this happens, and I always feel horrible, where I just totally miss someone's release
and so our manager mentioned that they had a new record two days ago, and so this was...
You're a really loyal fan.
Two days, I'm already here so I've got it, listening to it on the flight today but
I wanted to add this to collection as well.
I love that record cover too.
Yeah.
These two you can sort of put together but 'Time Fades Away' and 'On The Beach' by Neil Young.
This is a super influential record for me and
it's so short. I think it's eight songs and the two halves are really distinct as well.
Pretty much every single moment of this album is incredible.
You can tell... I think I read that they were on some sort of concoction of this weed honey.
You can hear it on the album for sure.
The guitar solos are so raw and not played correctly, but that's what makes them so incredible.
And then this was just a really hard-to-find album for a really long time.
One of the most bootlegged records as well.
So yeah this is sort of a no-brainer for me.
This is the soundtrack to my house.
So pretty much anytime someone comes over
we just put this on repeat, and no one has ever complained.
It starts over again, people are happy about it.
This has six versions of it that I can put on repeat.
So people will be a lot happier.
This is one of my favorite records of all time, Bonnie Prince Billy, 'Ease Down The Road.'
Just another timeless sounding album. The lyrics are some of my favorites.
It's similar with 'On The Beach,' you can tell it's guys standing in the room together
and sort of using these very small amounts of music to make this sort of really...
it's not big, it sounds like you're in the room listening to them play.
and his voice is really incredible on this record.
This is the new ELO record and I'd say Jeff Lynne is my musical crush.
All of his records I would kind of listen to and pick apart and try and figure out
how a rock band could have those elements
and the great thing about this record, brand new
it sounds like it's lifted straight from that era.
The dedication to the sonics and the vintage and analog.
I think he played everything on it.
Yeah, including drums and stuff.
And a really cool picture of him on the back.
Like I said, my musical crush.
This is just...
It's just a good album.
Yeah. I didn't have it, and I wanted it.
The song 'Cigarette' on this record is one of my favorite songs.
It just tells a very simple story of this guy's wife who's crazy
and he's afraid she's gonna burn the house down with a cigarette.
I think I heard him one time described that song as a run-on sentence that the news would
would say about someone's house burning down, which I really love that idea.
Good choice.
We're done.
Awesome, thanks guys.
Yeah, absolutely.
Thank you.