So we're here at Amoeba today and we're talking with Johnny Marr
and we're gonna take a look at what's in your bag.
Ok. I've been working on some movie soundtracks, so I've gone back into listening to a lot of Morricone.
Sort of mid-60s, stuff that he was doing in Italy.
And I've been looking for some stuff and just coming across a lot of lounge collections, which I don't like.
So anyway, the guy over here, I've forgotten his name
he very kindly showed me to some of this kind of more tripped out stuff.
So this one is 'Crime and Dissonance'
which I think is going to be really good. I mean, it's a good title.
And there's another Morricone. Ennio Morricone 'Happening'
which I'm told is, again, like a lot of the more kind of darker
moodier, dramatic stuff that he did.
So anyway this is Bernard Herrmann, some more soundtrack-y stuff.
It's a documentary about him, y'know.
Bernard Herrmann wrote music for a long list of famous movies.
Did nearly all the Hitchcock movies and 'Taxi Driver' too, so...
This weird documentary about Ralph Waldo Emerson.
But I'm hoping that I find out more about the transcendentalists. Fascinating subject.
I like the people, I like the times.
The turn of the last century a lot of kind of cultural and philosophical and literary
sort of things that were going on at that time. I like when it's D. H. Lawrence or
Aldous Huxley or Madame Blavatsky.
So I really built this up now. It's probably not that good, not as good as I sort of imagine it.
Emerson attained prominence after his bold decision to leave his ministry in 1832 to become a writer.
I like philosophy and I like theology.
Can't stand, obviously can't stand New Age.
This is an electronic record. When I like electronic music, I really like it.
Bonobo, 'Black Sands.' So I wanted to buy it and
like most people who come into record shops, I blanked out the minute I went through the door
and about ten minutes after being in here it came on. I recognized the sound of it.
So that was pretty cool. Very good to the staff there.
Oh yeah, it's the work of Sally Mann, right. Visual artist about her life and her marriage and her family.
I have to say, it's unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend on some technical error.
It's not something I do to the negatives
but on the other hand, it's not a negative that I toss in the trash bin either.
Y'know, it might be a bit of a surprise, and I might learn something I don't already know.
I've got this vinyl record, John McLaughlin, 'My Goals Beyond'
which might surprise some people.
I'm not too knocked out with this sleeve, I've got to say, I think the original sleeve was a lot better.
It's not like kind of soft jazz or anything like that.
It's an acoustic record, his first acoustic record from the early 70s.
I've had it on CD for ages and I just like the idea of hearing it sounding slightly different
because obviously vinyl's got a good sound if it's a good pressing.
I just got this documentary called 'Huxley on Huxley.'
I have no idea how it's been made or where the footage has come from but
I'm gonna really like it no matter what it is.
Humphry Osmond, who was a great chemist
told Huxley about the powers of mescaline
and gave him some and then the experience was reported
in Aldous' book 'The Doors of Perception.'
Sort of period in Los Angeles, from the early fifties onwards is really fascinating to me.
So, again, a really good documentary for me to watch.
Couple of Wire records, CDs.
First time I heard Wire, was when I was in school, I heard 'Outdoor Miner,' the single.
I like that they put out quite a lot of stuff and you never really quite know what you're going to get.
It's not always great, y'know, because of where the group was at at a particular time
and sometimes things don't always date very well. But I find that really interesting.
It's great that bands aren't always like classic every time, y'know.
I don't know, I like that kind of surprise element, really.
I always had a lot of respect for Colin Newman for that.
For me, the idea of sticking with the one sound for 20 odd years is lazy, y'know.
Another documentary called 'A Bigger Splash,' which I'm really excited about
because it's just a classic movie about David Hockney in the late 60s I think, early 70s.
A Bigger Splash.
David Hockney, painter, comic, genius.
When he's just growing around at different houses in London, y'know, if you just pause it
you to see all the streets are completely empty
and the cars and the houses look kind of different.
And you're looking at them through these passages of time.
Very evocative and kind of inspiring too, because I like the work.
So I really like David Hockney, y'know.
I think I better run, really, or else I'll be back to being very poor.
Awesome thank you so much, we really appreciate it.
Glad to do it, yeah.