My name is Cole from the band Wallows.
I'm Dylan from Wallows.
Hey I'm Braeden and we're at Amoeba in Hollywood doing What's in My Bag.
Here's what's first. This just looked way too exciting to me not to get.
Childish Gambino's 'Awaken My Love' on this super deluxe vinyl
that has a limited edition virtual reality vinyl, exclusive booklet, two heavyweight LPs
virtual reality headset, glow-in-the-dark cover.
Damn.
When he put this out, I think he just completely redefined himself.
I remember when 'Me and Your Mama' came out the first night, not knowing what to expect
and having that bass heavy opening and then going to the 70s funk jam that it is.
I'll never forget listening to that for the first time. Then when 'Redbone' came out, forget about it.
First one I'm gonna bust out of this bag is the new Alvvays album, 'Antisocialites.'
Every song on it's great, flows great, it's an amazing album.
'Dreams Tonite.'
'Dreams Tonite,' 'Not My Baby.' It's just next-level songwriting, production.
Shoutout to John Congleton, who actually produced this and produced our EP, which is cool.
That's great, and the cover art is so beautiful.
That's goals artwork, right there.
Yeah, goals artwork.
My first bag item is this Of Montreal record.
Super good. I feel like this band is grossly underrated
and they have like 20 albums or something.
On our tour was when I first got into Of Montreal because you guys
because you and Kevin and Danny were listening to Of Montreal, and then you got into it.
I just got in to Of Montreal. So good.
Here's what's next. This is 'Aha Shake Heartbreak' by Kings Of Leon.
This actually, when I heard this album, is what made me want to be in a band in the first place.
I remember hearing this and putting on 'Slow Night, So Long' and I was like, I want to do this.
I wanna be in a band and make music like this.
This is also not even the American version. This has to be an import.
This is the British cover with a bonus track, 'Where Nobody Knows,' which is a great song.
The new Hinds record, 'I Don't Run.' I just got into them recently
when 'New For You' and 'The Club,' their new songs dropped.
So catchy, so good. I'm so excited to hear this album.
It's colored vinyl.
It's gonna be so good.
This is The Kinks on CD. I wanted to buy CDs so I can listen to music while I drive.
I feel like everybody knows The Kinks but they're not respected at the level they should be.
I don't know, I just was mind blown by hearing all these songs and they're like from the 60s
along with all those other 60s bands. It's like crazy to me.
Yeah, 'You Really Got Me' is 1964.
Which is insane.
This is good for my car because it's 44 songs.
So I picked up 'Blackstar' by David Bowie. This was obviously his final album.
And to be 68 years old and making this album...
I mean, if I'm making music even close to this when I'm 68 years old, I'm gonna be like, damn.
I think if anybody put this album out right now, even if you're young, old, whatever
it's still completely game-changing and unlike anything I've ever heard, a lot of the music on this.
So I think that David Bowie went out with one of his greatest albums in his entire catalogue.
And 'I Can't Give Everything Away' is a great way to go out too, last song on the album.
Speaking of 'Blackstar,' 'To Pimp a Butterfly,' which Bowie himself said inspired 'Blackstar.'
That's so sick.
I know. The concept of this album's insane, the vibe, everything. Kendrick just nailed it.
'These Walls,' 'Mortal Man,' oh, 'How Much A Dollar Cost.' I think it was on Barack Obama's playlist.
Wow. Honestly, another really good unintentional transition.
This Funkadelic record.
So George Clinton produced this and it's on the first song on the Kendrick record.
I honestly don't really know Parliament Funkadelic that well
but it's like funk, y'know, soul vibe, and it's really good.
Well the first time I heard Funkadelic was in one of my favorite films of all time, Kenan & Kel 'Good Burger.'
Ooh.
And there's a mental hospital scene where they're dancing to 'Knee Deep.'
I picked this, the 'Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies' album.
This is my favorite greatest hits album that I've ever heard.
I feel like greatest hits albums are normally kind of weird or corny.
But this is what got me into Pixies in the first place.
I expect the songs that come after them on this to be what comes after them on the albums
because the flow of this is so great.
So I think, if you haven't listened to Pixies yet and you really want to, the best way to do it is...
I mean, 'Doolittle' and 'Surfer Rosa' are amazing but you can't go wrong with this.
St. Vincent, 'Strange Mercy.'
She is next-level, just like, yeah, full-on John Congleton did this, again.
Just like Alvvays and did our thing, which is crazy.
The fact that we actually got to work with John Congleton now is like a crazy dream come true
because some of the best production I've ever heard my entire life is on 'Strange Mercy.'
Drum sounds, guitar tones, vocal sounds, all of it. It's a masterpiece.
Yeah.
Next up we have a very classic, very formative record, I know, for all of us.
'Is This It' by The Strokes. This is the non-American cover originally, I guess.
So, for the US, after 9/11 happened, they change the tracklist
because there's a song called 'New York City Cops' on it and it was insensitive and they were being good guys.
But I love 'New York City Cops,' I love this album, different cover, vinyl. It's gonna be good.
I wanted to grab this because I feel like it's a perfect album to have on vinyl. 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell.
I remember I heard this album for the first time a couple of years ago and
I mean the whole album but a few of these songs in particular just
blew me away and made me cry my first time listening to them.
'California' and 'River' and, come on, like 'A Case of You,' 'All I Want.'
There's just so many classic songs on here and
there's very few people who have a voice like Joni Mitchell. So soft and so beautiful.
Double vinyl of The Smiths.
I was like, should I get 'Strangeways' or 'Meat Is Murder?' Why not get both?
because I already have 'The Queen is Dead' and I have their debut as well.
So literally the best of both worlds. And it's kind of random because it's the second and fourth album.
Which doesn't make any sense, but it makes perfect amount of sense for me.
Someone knew you were coming in.
Someone knew I was coming. They were like, Braeden doesn't have these two.
I've got 'Last Splash' by The Breeders.
I also don't know this record that well.
More John talk, but this is one of John's favorite albums.
Kim Deal. We talked about Pixies, let's talk about Kim Deal.
The songwriting's great, the production is awesome
and it's on CD, so that I can just really get to know this record in my car.
Yeah, it's just gonna be in there. So there you go.
There we go.
Favorite album of 2017, 'Flower Boy' by Tyler, The Creator.
I think Tyler's always been such an interesting and amazing artist throughout his entire career
and has gotten better with every release that he's done.
I remember when 'Cherry Bomb' came out, which I think is a criminally underrated album
and I think one of my favorite albums I've ever heard.
Then he came out and somehow outdid himself with 'Flower Boy.' I think every song on this is perfection.
The features on it are insane. I mean, Frank Ocean on two songs, and Rex Orange County
and just amazing people all over it.
Awesome, thank you guys.
Yeah, thanks for having us.
Thank you.
That was so long.
No, it was great.