Yo what's up, my name's Todd, I play in Nails.
I'm here at Amoeba Records in Los Angeles
and this is What's in My Bag.
Voivod 'Killing Technology'
BMG is re-releasing all these noise records. I think they're starting with Voivod.
I never got this on vinyl and I believe it is my favorite Voivod record.
So I am stoked to hold a vinyl copy of this and to see this artwork so big and beautiful.
Voivod is so fucking sick, these guys are so left-of-center.
Some of their stuff is way too heady for me, a lot of their stuff I don't like
but there's a couple things that just hit the fucking spot
and 'Killing Technology' is one of those for me.
Ok, Incendiary 'Thousand Mile Stare,' this is their new album.
Incendiary is a hardcore band from New York State
I'm not a fan of the type of music that Incendiary is influenced by but
they kind of transcend their genre.
There's a lot of character in their music and what they do is just really excellent.
The label that this came out on, Closed Casket Activities
we did a split 7-inch with a band called Full of Hell and
I don't know I'm really fond of that record label and I'm stoked to listen to this more.
Me and That Man. I am pretty avid about keeping on the up and up
and for some reason I haven't checked out Me and That Man but
I am a fan of Nergal, I am a fan of Behemoth like straight up so
I'm gonna give it a shot. I got an open mind.
I'm probably not gonna like this
but fuck it, I bet I will, man. Nergal's a really creative guy.
So fuck it, you know what I mean, I'll fucking buy this
fuckin support Nergal, support Behemoth. Fuck it.
Boom baby, new Pallbearer.
Pallbearer is a band I haven't really been a fan of
however I was hanging out with my buddies Mike and Ron the other day and this record was on
y'know we were chatting and I had to stop, and I'm like, who is this? And they're like, this is the new Pallbearer
and then 20 minutes later I hear some other part and I'm like, I gotta get this fucking album.
So I think that I am a Pallbearer fan now
I actually haven't gone back and listened to the record yet, I was hoping to buy it today
and you guys had it. I am stoked to check this out.
Ok, here we go
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers.
So when I was getting into punk rock I wanted to hear Minor Threat and I wanted to hear Youth of Today
and I wanted to hear y'know the first Adolescents record and Black Flag 'My War'
but in my 20s I got the first New York Dolls record
and I listened to it a lot, but for whatever reason
I didn't have the thought to go back and check out the rest of their catalogue
the first Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers record, I guess it was titled under just the Heartbreakers
but that record, oh my god it's so catchy
so psyched to check this out, it's a live record from the Village Gate
It's probably gonna sound rad.
Big Star 'Radio City'
I've kind of started diving into a little bit of power pop stuff
so I'm gonna buy this record. I'm a newb to that stuff.
The Nails bassist, John, he always talks about Big Star
so I'm gonna buy a Big Star record and check it out.
Some of the diehards seem to think this record is the best one so I'm gonna start here
I'm psyched, I like music like this, it's easy to listen to and shit like that
and it's not so poppy it's corny.
They're taking Beatles to kind of a more... maybe more narrow sound, a narrow rock sound.
Portishead 'Dummy'
Sometimes my wife and I will just kind of hang out.
I have I guess what we would call a 'man cave' at my house.
I try to find records that her and I can just y'know listen to and relate with
She turned me on to the Smiths and Morrissey and stuff like that.
Y'know I didn't really like that stuff but I grew to like it and I really do like it now.
Portishead is one of the things her and I definitely see common ground on
so this is a record for her and I to share
Sexy time music.
Oh wow.
Sleigh Bells 'Reign of Terror'
I was driving home one night
late at night they play some more eclectic stuff on the radio
but I heard this song and it was really fucking wild
the guitars were so loud and the drums were so loud, but the drums...
it wasn't just your standard kick or your standard snare
it was like people stomping their feet like in a gymnasium.
It has a female singer and she has this really phenomenal voice
then you have this music that's like... it's almost like that Andrew WK shit.
Remember when that shit was popular? Where it was like the wall of sound
I think that's kind of the same approach these people took but
the music is super poppy, not like in a popular sense, it's just happy music
and the chorus came on and it was like, oh my god this is so overwhelming
like sensory overload.
It was like I was in a nightmare. I heard this woman's voice
and she had a very nice voice, and then that's crazy hard music
y'know, when I started Nails and I said this
and you always hear people say dumbass shit like this
I want to play music that makes people feel uncomfortable after they hear it
and that's what I felt about this.
This sounds like people who are playing a joke on somebody
I kept coming back to it, I kept listening to it and that's when I realized I think I like Sleigh Bells
and it's like the most fucking obnoxious music
like this might be more extreme than most of the extreme metal shit I listen to
not in like a tonality way, it doesn't have blast beats and shit but
just as far as like the spirit of being in your face
but I like it and I fuck with Sleigh Bells.
Last and certainly not least I am very stoked you had this. Exit Order.
This is a punk band from the Massachusetts area.
The fucking singer on this record's phenomenal
I think that's really what sticks.
Her voice sounds fucking great and she knows how to write a hook.
It's just super fucking memorable, memorable choruses
the music is hard but it's also melodic
and it's recorded in a way that sounds sort of psychedelic
and my more pretentious friends have said that they're great live so
Exit Order. Check this shit out 'cause it's dope.
Yeah cool man. Fuckin' bad-ass.