Hi I'm Steve Queralt.
Hi I'm Andy Bell from Ride and this is What's in My Bag from Amoeba.
I'll start.
Wanker.
I've gone for Sharon Van Etten, because I was in love.
This is the only Sharon Van Etten album I haven't got yet, so it complete s my collection.
I'm a massive fan, she's got such an incredible voice, writes beautiful songs.
Now I'm happy that I've got everything.
Good choice Steve.
Thank you Andy.
Tasteful and cool.
Give it an eight out of ten, on a cool scale.
Let's see what you've got in your bag, Andy.
This is 'Watchmen' by Alan Moore. It's a graphic novel that I read about in the KLF book I just read.
The story of the KLF and how they burnt a million pounds.
They're apparently really huge fans of this book, I think. Unless I got the wrong book.
Would be embarrassing.
But anyway, Watchmen, y'know, I looked at the back and it says it's one of Time Magazine's 100 best
English-language novels since 1923.
That's the words of Time Magazine, Steve.
You can't argue with that, can you Andy. Ok...
That's actually the best one of the day.
I'm going to go for this as well, purely for the track 'Eagle.'
Now everyone kind of laughs at ABBA, but
we all grew up with ABBA when we were kids. That's what my mom was playing all the time.
So it's difficult to not like ABBA.
We were recently recording with Erol Alkan doing our album, probably a year ago now.
And at the end of every session, Erol would suddenly put on bizarre music.
It could be kind of Turkish hip-hop or whatever, but it completely blew our minds.
But one evening, he decided to play 'Eagle' by ABBA
and cranked up the volume and it just made you realize just how great ABBA are.
So I saw it and couldn't resist.
I'm going to convince these guys to do a cover of it.
I don't know a problem with that.
This is Mac DeMarco, 'This Old Dog,' the new album, I think, the latest one.
I got the single already, which is called 'On the Level.'
Which I absolutely love, so cool
and I bought the last few albums he's done, so this is just carrying on the habit.
Not much more to say, I'm a big fan of Mac DeMarco
I've not seen him live yet though. I want to see him live.
Next up for me is an album by... I'm not sure how you pronounce her name but is it Myrkur? Myrkur.
I got the last album and thought it was amazing and, for me, she was doing true shoegaze music now.
It's supposed to be kind of death metal but it really isn't.
She's got a huge voice, I mean, it is very dark, but quite ethereal as well.
So I'm going to take a punt on this. If it's anywhere near as good as the last album, I'll be happy.
Next one, the first album by DIIV, Brooklyn band I'm a huge fan of.
Is that the album with the track we were listening to the other day?
Yeah, 'How Long Have You Known.'
It's on one of our mixtapes that we use at gigs.
They kind of rotate and sometimes you get a bit of DIIV on there.
I think I just downloaded it before so it's just like having a nice beautiful thing to look at.
I've got this already as well, but it's a really tattered, battered up copy that I had.
Well it says it's a 1979 album. I think I got it probably about 30 years ago.
But the reason I've chosen it today is because it features Robbie Shakespeare
It's his birthday, isn't it?
Yeah, from Sly & Robbie fame. And I found out on Twitter today that it's his birthday.
And it just reminded me that
Robbie Shakespeare's probably one of the reasons I picked up bass guitar in the first place.
Such a great kind of precision bass player. Always so in time.
Along with Sly Dunbar as well, who's such a great drum and bass team.
I'm so pleased I found a good copy of this.
These two goes together, Derrick Carter, two used records I picked up.
And this one's got a song on it called 'Birthday Song (for Andy)' which is a nice thing
because it was recently my birthday.
It's also got the 'Boompty Boomp Theme' which is a really good Derek Carter tune
where he kind of talks for ages, like a little monologue with a house beat.
It's like an intro. It's his warm-up for a DJ set. It's great.
I picked up this, the new album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
I love this band. I love the fact it's all instrumental. Massive sound.
Nice, drone-y. Each song goes on for ages.
I think there's a little bit of what we try and do in here as well.
Definitely pleased to find that.
My next one is 'Violator' by Depeche Mode on vinyl. The remastered new version.
Recently, Alan Moulder, who mixed our album
told us that he thought that was the best mixed record ever made.
It was mixed by François Kevorkian, I think.
I'm not the biggest Depeche Mode fan, but I thought that could be a good way to start.
'Another Green World' by Brian Eno.
It's a good album but I bought it especially for the track 'The Big Ship'
which was featured in a film and I was trying to remember the name of the film
and I can't, so it's kind of a bit of a waste of time.
'Titanic?'
No.
They've all been re-released as well, so it would be good to start a Brian Eno vinyl collection as well.
And those are cut at 45 rpm.
That's good, I can do that.
There'll be a lot of confused kids out there.
Yes.
Yeah. I actually... when I used to work in a record shop
it was a big thing to be able to play your music in the store.
You couldn't do that on your first day, you had to earn the right to get onto the turntable.
And one of my debuts on the decks was 'Victorialand' by Cocteau Twins.
Now I didn't know the Cocteau Twins too well at that point but I put it on.
I played it at 33, as you would an album. But it was actually cut at 45.
But I was just oblivious while the rest of the staff were like, who is this idiot?
But I do maintain it works just as well at both speeds.
I've picked out Thee Oh Sees, 'Singles Vol. 1 & 2' and I don't know any of these songs
but I know that I've heard Thee Oh Sees a couple of times and loved them.
Sort of like a Billy Childish, kind of rock n' roll
fifties, punky, I don't know, just a really cool psychedelic jamming band.
That's a really bad description isn't it. But, I mean, I don't really know what they do.
I just know what I like about them.
I think streaming is fantastic from a consumer point of view
and I use Spotify all the time, to kind of test run new releases.
But I always, always buy what I like
and I think Kendrick's album will be in my top ten for this year, especially the track 'DNA.'
So it's only my duty that I've absolutely rinsed it dry on Spotify that I should buy it.
And my final choice is Psychic TV, 'Allegory & Self'
which is the album that 'Godstar' comes from, which is a single that I remember buying in the eighties.
The Brian Jones tribute single.
I haven't heard the album and so I'm gonna check it out when I get home.
Nice.
Awesome, thank you guys.
Thank you.