I am Raleigh Ritchie, I'm at Amoeba and this is What's in My Bag.
'Cherry Bomb.'
Why is it called 'Cherry Bomb?'
That word looks sick.
Cherry Bomb
I did that on purpose because this is the weirdest mixed album.
It's one of my favorite albums in the last few years.
We need this guy right now.
He is taking risks in ways that other people aren't.
Thurnis Haley at this honky-ass golf club, about to play some fuckin' golf.
He has something to say.
He's got endless energy.
This dude is talent personified.
Let's get started. First off, you... oh my god, can you let me do what I need to do?
But this album, the way this album is mixed, it's horrible.
It's really badly mixed, but on purpose. And it's great.
When I first listened to this song, I was like, this is what it must...
and I kind of get a similar vibe from Death Grips as well
like this is what it must have felt like to listen to punk for the first time.
This is a punk album, and it's incredible.
Tyler the Creator is a hero, a hero of our time.
Slum Village, 'Fantastic Vol. 2'
So when I first started writing songs, like writing lyrics...
don't do this, I was young and stupid
I used to download instrumentals from LimeWire
and I downloaded a lot of Dilla instrumentals
specifically instrumentals from this album
and I used to write songs to the instrumentals
and weirdly, I listened to this album after I'd written songs to some of the beats
and I was like, this doesn't sound right, this doesn't sound like me
I probably wrote about four songs to the climax beat. It's incredible.
Dilla rest in peace. Slum Village come back soon. We love you.
My name is C.C. Baxter. C for Calvin, C for Clifford. However most people call me Bud.
I've been with Consolidated for three years and ten months, and my take-home pay is $94.70 a week.
'The Apartment' is my favorite film of all time.
I have a few versions of it, I've got a VHS version, I've got 2 DVD copies, and a poster
but I've never seen this cover for it.
That is not the film.
It looks like a 90s rom-com, which is obviously why they've done it but
this is Billy Wilder, this film has everything
it has everything, it's one of the funniest films you'll watch
Do you realize if this ever leaked out
It won't.
It will make you cry.
You were always such a good sport, such fun to be with.
That's me.
It is about mental illness and
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine
might as well shout out Fred McMurray, because he's on this cover
'The Apartment'
Where do we go, my place or yours?
Might as well go to mine. Everybody else does.
Ok, The Smiths, 'Louder Than Bombs'
This is full of bangers. This is just like banger on banger on banger.
The Smiths were a band that my dad told me about a lot when I was a kid
and I was like, this guy's got such a weird voice, I'm just not really into it.
and then it wasn't until I was a teenager that I started listening to The Smiths
and I started to listen to his lyrics. That was around the time when I started to listen to lyrics
and I was like, this guy is miserable, but he's so novelistic, the way he writes
and it was a big inspiration for how I like to write songs
I like to look up words, so yeah, 'Louder Than Bombs'
And his voice doesn't bother you anymore?
No I love his voice now.
Morrissey's voice is one of the sweetest sounds ever, now.
Colin Blunstone, 'One Year.' Colin Blunstone of The Zombies.
I've loved The Zombies for a long time.
I think I loved them when I was little, I just didn't really know what they were exactly.
I love this album because I'm an arrangement geek
and I like the idea of making music feel cinematic or visual
and I think strings really add to that.
The arrangements on this album are amazing
in fact I want to shout out... all arrangements by Chris Gunning
Chris Gunning you're a G. Colin Blunstone, also a G.
Anybody would love this album.
It's amazing.
Death Grips, 'Bottomless Pit.'
When I'm in public, when I'm finding the day quite difficult
but I can't take out my anger
in an outward way, in front of other human beings
I put Death Grips on and turn it right up in my head
and it feels like I'm getting all of that stuff out.
It's the most therapeutic music to listen to if you're angry
but also, they're amazing musicians, they're a really good band.
At first listen, it sounds kind of incoherent and
it sounds like rage in the best possible way.
I was walking through the airport listening to Death Grips the other day
getting off of a plane, I was in a bit of a bad mood
and I just walked a little bit more badass because of it
This album as well, is a staple of my life.
There's plenty to piss me off living in London. Love London though.
No Doubt, 'Tragic Kingdom'
My dad used to play this album in the car all the time, he had a tape of it
me and my sisters could probably listen to this now
having not listened to it for a year or a few years
and probably know every word to every song.
This has a very deep place in my heart.
It reminds me of car journeys with my dad.
He'd take the long way so we could listen to No Doubt.
'I'm just a girl... little old me'
That's awesome. I love that song.
Gwen Stefani is a really good role model, guys of the world. Guys and girls of the world.
I've never really looked at this artwork before. It's really odd.
Look at that stance. That stance is ill.
I'm doing that on my next album.
Picked up this one. I've no idea what it is.
I just really like the cover.
All I know is there is a song called 'SOS'
and a song called UFO, and I'm really, really looking forward to listening to this.
Again, check out the stance.
That's not easy to achieve, that arm thing.
If I was a spaceman, this is what I'd wear. This would be my ensemble, just this.
I don't know if the album's called Pink Lady or if the group's Pink Lady. I'll find out.
Labi Siffre.
Labi Siffre is the most gorgeous man, the most gorgeous human being.
I'm not saying that because I've ever met him
but to listen to his music is to feel happiness and love
and just general good natured feelings.
Me and my girlfriend listen to this album in particular.
We'd just be in the kitchen, just doing whatever and then all of a sudden one of us will go
'aww' just listening to one of his lyrics.
He's got this beautiful song called 'Come On Michael'
I think Michael's maybe depressed, and he said like, come on, everything's going to be alright.
It's just lovely. It's just really lovely music. And he's a brilliant musician as well.
I might actually have to give this to my girlfriend as a gift.
We recently had our six year anniversary.
Chet Baker. I've been listening to a lot of Chet Baker recently, this album, specifically.
I actually listen to this to help me sleep.
but I've been listening to a lot of jazz for my second album
also Chet Baker just has one of the greatest singing voices ever
it's just like... it's like listening to smoke.
That's the way that I would describe Chet Baker, it's like listening to smoke
and he does a song on this album, 'I've Never Been in Love Before'
which is from the 'Guys and Dolls' soundtrack and it's just lit
he makes it sound so beautiful. 'My Funny Valentine' is on here as well.
Also beautiful. And look how cool he is. Cool dude.
This is my one life mission, is to try and find a first edition of this on vinyl.
Donny Hathaway 'Extension of a Man.' Says everything about what you hear.
This is like listening to a person in album form.
Donny Hathaway is my favorite. Probably one of my favorite artists
definitely my favorite singer of all time, because you believe every single word he says
He didn't even write all of it. Not that that really matters but
but he feels it, and it's
in equal parts painful and beautiful to listen to.
I could listen to this at any time of the day, anywhere.
I got a Steven Universe comic.
I've only just started reading this comic
and I need number two, so I've got this
The Steven Universe TV show as well is...
it's the only cartoon TV show that I cry watching on regular intervals.
It's just the most beautiful story about
family and about love and acceptance and just being awesome and magic.
Steven Universe is my heart right now.
This is another one that I listen to if I'm in a kind of a weird mood.
This is not angry music, this is music to scare yourself.
but if you live in a really busy place
you'll feel isolated within seconds listening to this, the 'Under the Skin' soundtrack
by Mica Levi, or Mica Levi, I don't know how you pronounce it.
It's really atmospheric and it kind of attacks you every now and then
you'll be listening to it, and it's got that rumble
and then these strings come in and they're like...
and it's really good if you're in a busy place, because you suddenly feel like you're on your own
then you get jolted back into reality and then back down again.
The movie is amazing but this gives you a different experience to the movie
that's why I like this as just a soundtrack on its own.
Oh yeah, I picked this up because I just wanted to... because it's coming back soon, I just wanted to go
'Diane, the coffee is splendid.'
That's not a direct quote. Twin Peaks is...
I recently rewatched it in preparation for the new season
I didn't realize how funny it was first time I watched it.
I think this is something that happens actually quite a lot with Twin Peaks
is people watch it thinking that it takes itself seriously.
If you watch it kind of knowing that it's a really well thought-out dark comedy
you will have the best time with Twin Peaks.
My log saw something that night.
Really. What did it see?
Ask it.
Diane
Kyle MacLachlan deserves retroactive Oscars
I've been very hyperbolic today but that's because I've picked up things that I really love
so I mean it. Kyle MacLachlan
give him the first ever TV performance Oscar
for Twin Peaks in the 90s.
And the Oscar goes to...
I love you, Amoeba. Thank you for having me.
This has been one of the best days of my life
one of the best things that I've ever done.