My name is Christopher Mansfield, I'm the singer of Fences.
I'm Elliott, I'm the drummer of Fences.
I'm Ben Greenspan, I'm the guitarist.
I'm Lindsey Starr and I play bass.
We'll start with Lana. I picked 'Ultraviolence.'
I think I'm just sort of on a quest to work with her. Her aesthetic, her lyrics
all these things are very... I feel, like-minded.
Like if I was a woman I'd hope to be her.
Just look at her, though. She's an angel.
This band is called Portal. It's Australian. No one knows if it's black metal or death metal
but it is apocalyptic and mathy and very frightening. I love it.
Lee Hazlewood, 'The LHI Years.' He's right here.
He's really, really amazing. I remember the first time I heard 'Requiem for an Almost Lady'
which a lot of that record is on here.
I felt like I knew every word to every song after hearing it once.
It gets inside of your head and it stays with you.
The new Ryan Adams record. I've actually been trying to get this hair for a really long time.
I've never quite accomplished it. This record is absolutely incredible.
'Gimme Something Good' is earth-shattering.
I think we'll go to 'Master and Everyone' by Bonnie Prince Billy.
I've got 3 Bonnie Prince Billy lyric tattoos on my body.
I first heard him in college. I went to Berklee for jazz composition.
My roommate showed me this record and it sort of destroyed me.
I can't tell if it ruined my life or made it.
This is my favorite metal record of all time. You can tell.
It's Ulver, 'Nattens Madrigal.' They said it was recorded in the woods but that's not true.
Now they've gone on to do ambient stuff as some of those bands have done.
But I like this more than that.
I picked the record 'SF Sorrow' by The Pretty Things.
This record came out in the same year as 'Sgt. Pepper's'
and it didn't really get the attention that it deserved.
It is one of the best psychedelic records ever made, in my opinion.
Listening to this record and just getting stoned is the coolest thing that ever happened.
Fleetwood Mac, 'Rumors.' I grew up listening to Fleetwood Mac.
For some reason we had this Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits CD that just played in the house everyday.
This record Ben and I actually listened to a lot together
because he is also obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
Marc Maron. This guy's like my dad but he doesn't know it.
In my mind, if I don't prepare and I pull this off I'm a fucking genius. I'm a genius.
Right? And if I don't pull it off, I didn't prepare.
If I would've set my mind to it, I would have nailed that shit.
But no, I didn't prepare, 'cause I like to roll the dice, man.
Feel alive. What's gonna happen? I don't know, I might fail. Alright, fuck them.
That would be you.
I asked him to be on his podcast through a direct message on Twitter
and he sort of yelled at me.
So spitefully I wrote 'Boomer Lives' on my shirt
and wore it on The Tonight Show about a week ago, which is his cat who died.
But then I got a bunch of things on Facebook
because I think everyone who knew a Boomer who died thought that it was for them, selfishly
but it was for Marc Maron's cat.
This is my favorite band ever. It's rollerskating and it's wistful and beautiful. Very Norse.
You should show the back.
This is a collection of the band The Sound.
This is three albums: 'Jeopardy,' 'From the Lion's Mouth,' and 'All Fall Down.'
They were an amazing British band in the early 80s, but they're criminally underrated.
They have the similar sort of desperation that Joy Division had but a little bit more punk.
And they just got continually screwed over by their label
and then the singer ended up committing suicide before they really became popular again.
This band means a lot to me.
Joan Jett and Blackhearts.
I started playing guitar when I was about 12 or 13 and
like every other angsty teenage girl, I think, out there that plays rock n' roll guitar
you're gonna kind of idolize Joan Jett.
And we actually went to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame while we were on tour
and I saw this jacket and I started crying, actually
because she's just legendary.
She looks like such a badass.
She is a badass, and this is another haircut I tried to pull off for a really long time.
I think I pulled this one off much better than the Ryan Adams one.
This is an up-and-coming artist named Patti Smith.
This record's insane. This was our walk-on song
The opening y'know to 'Horses,' the spiel about Johnny and the locker and all that.
It's very powerful.
I don't even think of her as a musician.
You watch videos of her early stuff, and she's just like yelling in a room.
I think she's more of a poet and a writer but she's so empowering
to women and anyone who wants to make artwork.
Even looking at the cover I feel more excited about being alive.
This is like the grossest band of all time.
But it's sexy and gross, and they're singing to 16 year old girls, which is not necessarily cool.
But I love it.
Do you like Kiss?
No.
They're my least favorite band.
Well...
Japandroids, 'Celebration Rock.' This is a band from Canada
and I actually saw them at a small rock venue in Boston called Great Scott.
And I did not know who they were, and their lighting was just so epic
and their hair was blowing in the wind. They had these fans going.
It was just two people and it sounded like five people.
It was absolutely mind-blowing and I just stood there in awe the whole time.
Ben and I realized that we both thought that they were awesome
and said that at some point, man, we gotta start a band like this.
Just like a side project, play only basement shows and just get wasted and rage.
LCD Soundsystem, 'Sound of Silver.'
It's hard to really say enough about this band.
They make me feel like I'm 18 again
and going out to party, but also that I'm too old to be doing it.
While we were recording our most recent record, I watched the documentary on them.
the night before we went into the studio with Chris Walla, and I cried the entire time.
I don't really know why they affect me quite as hard as they do but
Their influences are very in line with mine, and the way they put it together I just find amazing.
Cool thanks guys.
Thank you.