Hey this is Corin Tucker from Filthy Friends.
Hi I'm Peter Buck of Filthy Friends.
I'm Scott McCaughey.
I'm Kurt Bloch, and we're playing What's in My Bag.
I'll go first. I got the new Solange record 'A Seat At The Table.'
She actually started her tour in Portland.
It was great. I didn't know what to expect. I hadn't listened to her other record.
The presentation was really spare in a way that I really appreciated.
Rowan was dressed almost primly, conservatively in a monotone.
The lights were just one orange color.
It was really unified in this way that made the music come out really strongly
and what she had to say was front and center.
Really interesting, really thought-provoking and really moving at the same time.
.Well, ok
You've got a lot of stuff there.
I know, and I'm gonna make you carry it on the plane.
Ok.
So Gal Costa, she's Brazilian Tropicalia movement.
This is with Caetano Veloso. I don't know how to say it.
So all the stuff is being reissued because people are starting to
I think kind of tune into the fact that there was a revolution that occurred
that was similar but way different to psychedelic music in South America when it was
y'know, they might throw you in jail in America for smoking pot
but they'd kill you down there for breaking the cultural norms.
So this is exciting stuff for me.
Also it's in Portuguese, and my wife speaks Portuguese. So she can translate it.
Good to be back at Amoeba.
This is what I've been listening to just non-stop
for this whole last year, basically.
He went and just recorded songs from his entire career just by himself on piano.
There's four volumes of it and this is the whole box set.
Just hearing him do them by himself and realizing what an amazing piano player he is
and you just really focus on the song.
Because y'know, some of the records he made in the 80s and 90s and stuff
the production gets a little bit... maybe a little too modern sometimes and stuff
Intrusive.
Yeah, exactly. And to hear the songs just stripped down like he wrote them, it's just phenomenal.
I mean I don't know if there's a greater songwriter who's ever lived.
Heartily recommended.
Melvins.
Maybe not their new record but probably the one from before that.
I remember listening to the Melvins in the Young Fresh Fellows van driv ing to LA actually
Was it after we did that show in Santa Barbara? Wow.
Yeah, I think there was some tripping going on.
I woke up in our friend's garden the next morning
with my head on a stone, broken beer bottles all over the place
and totally drawn-on in felt pens.
I blame it on The Melvins.
I also grabbed 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' on vinyl.
The 'Doo Wop' song where she's got that chorus, y'know, it's just such a great song.
'Everything is Everything' is also a really great one too.
It's a cool record. I think I'm the only person on earth who likes the unplugged record.
It's really raw and it's really scary.
I mean, it's so emotionally intense, you can't really listen to it all the way through
but, man, whatever's going on with her is real y'know?
And she hasn't really done anything since, so she should get back into it if she so desires.
Freddy King, 'Texas Oil.' Freddy King's a great guitar player. I saw him play back in the 70s
He seemed to be about 8 feet tall, but maybe that's because his hair was kind of sticking up.
He was a big guy.
This is his early singles on Federal which I've never even seen any of them.
He was kind of influential on all the surf guys. He has a song called 'San Jose'
that pretty much every white kid with a Pendelton shirt in California started playing.
The surf music is like, ok, Dick Dale, he's Armenian or something
so he's got all those scales, and the white kids pick that up and they don't know what they're doing.
And then they think Freddy King is a surf artist so they start doing Freddy King riffs
which is super cool.
Ok, well this is a band called La Luz.
It's really kind of surfy, a lot of instrumental stuff
but then all four of them sing and so all the sudden they'll do stuff that's almost like a girl group y'know
They're just a really incredible band, great musicians, great singers
and really cool, cool music.
Spirit. Album I've never owned.
Really? That surprises me.
Strangely enough.
Great album title, 'Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus.'
'Mr. Skin.' Killer. Great.
The Last Poets. I love these guys.
A friend of mine was the sound guy for Herbie Hancock in 1976 and Gil Scott-Heron opened up.
Gil Scott-Heron blew my mind, y'know, he's a poet but he had a backing band, and I was like, wow, what is that?
I mean, y'know, it was proto rap. He was talking, rapping, more singing than these guys.
And I kind of went and bought a couple of his records
and someone said you might like these Last Poet guys. And The Last Poets are radical.
It's a lot of really super strong, straightforward political stuff, chanting, yelling...
This is kind of like the guy on the bus leaning into your ear and telling you what the shit is.
And this is really it. So these guys...
There should be statues to these guys everywhere. Unbelievable group.
Speaking of poets that made records, I got this Leonard Cohen 'New Skin for the Old Ceremony.'
It's got 'Chelsea Hotel #2' on it.
It's just really magical the way that he put things together.
His songs unfold differently each time I listen to them.
The words he used were just really searing, y'know. They have a lot of different meanings.
So I'm excited for this one.
I live in Portland now and this is kind of the legendary band from Portland, along with The Wipers.
I absolutely love Dead Moon. They're phenomenal.
I had never heard of this record. This is recorded live at the X-Ray Cafe
which was an all-ages place in Portland in the late-80s and early-90s.
It says it's from the original 8-track recording so it might sound really good
which is never a guarantee with a Dead Moon record
but y'know, they sound great in their way, but I'm really looking forward to hearing what this sounds like.
This is a compilation of Bowie singles.
Need to have these and have them in the house and make sure the kids hear them.
Incredible songwriter and we'll miss him terribly.
This is the only current record I'm purchasing: Chicano Batman. I hear they did an in-store here.
Somebody recommended these guys or just mentioned them.
That's such a good name. Chicano Batman? I mean...
So I went on YouTube and they have these unbelievable videos. It's kind of... how would you describe it?
Like funk with surf music? I don't know what you describe it as.
I just like the fact that they're doing something really kind of cool and weird.
Y'know I'm sure these guys could probably have a career as more pop songwriters who go real hip-hop
or get a remix by a famous remix artist or collaborate with a... you know how that crap works.
And instead they're doing what they're doing, and it's pretty cool.
Alright I've only got one more here. Oh this is a new record called Kacy & Clayton.
I'd seen them live before but just as a duo, and this has a rhythm section.
She's an incredible singer and he's an amazing guitar player.
It also harkens back to sort of Fairport Convention kind of thing
but it's a little more stripped-down and spooky. It's phenomenal.
That's all that I have in my trick bag.
What record excursion would be complete without a GBV record?
Another one I don't have. Probably not too many people have all the GBV records
but name a bad one. No? I'll kill you.
The double album was the hundredth, right?
I think that was supposed to be the one hundredth, yeah. So 101 is freshly out.
Thought I'd take a step back a few years.
So this was a dollar and it's A) got a great cover
but the the Paul Mauriat version of 'Love is Blue' is unbelievably great.
And it's been sampled I think, by a bunch of hip-hop guys.
This is the kind of crap my parents listened to.
At the time, y'know, I was like, man it isn't the Beatles and it isn't Led Zeppelin or whatever. This is crap.
But as you get older you realize how great the arrangements are y'know.
No one's writing songs, it's just all taking top 40 singles and trying to put a really interesting spin on them
This'll go really well on the wall too, y'know if you put the cover up.
I was gonna put it back but then Corin goes, it's a dollar. Yeah, what the hell.
So she's gonna carry it for me.
Like this on the airplane.