Hello everybody, I'm Beth Ditto. You're watching What's in My Bag, and you're at Amoeba.
So I'm going to show you the first thing I picked up. I don't know... oh it was this.
My wife and I have records at home but mostly she has records
and I was listening, I was looking for the Bee Gees records
I was like, how is it that we don't have a single Bee Gees record?
And so I picked this bad boy up and I can't wait to hear it
because they're the best songwriters of all time. Really excited about it.
Also one of my dad's favorite bands ever. Ever, ever, ever.
He also loved Kool and the Gang and The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
So odd. So there's that.
Look at this bad boy that I scored today.
I think I have really dollar bin taste
which is both great and horrible, because the dollar bin is never in order
by genre or anything, so you just have to dig and dig and dig.
She's a radical and an activist.
I think right now it sounds really nice to have it. A beautiful songwriter too.
Aww, so good.
Oh this is Freddie Jackson, it's obvious, hello.
Just take a risk, get the hit. If it's got a hit that you know on it...
"If You Don't Know Me By Now," on this record
so I'm gonna listen to side two a lot.
Dollar bin taste, dollar bin taste.
Oh it has the DJ radio thing on it, which I love. Let's see what was going on.
'You and I,' 'Special Lady,' these were jams that people were really into, so...
Oh Judee Sill, 'Heart Food.' Serious jams, sad story.
She was really adored by all of those Laurel Canyon people I think
and was from the Bay Area and I don't think... she kind of just didn't make it out.
She had a really religious upbringing, but she's a songwriting genius. Judee Sill.
I was turned on to them by Sonic Youth actually, of all people
So, this is my jam. Really excited about that.
Gram Parsons, speaks for itself. I don't have to say anything.
Supposedly his friends stole his body because his dad wanted him to be buried
and he wanted to be cremated, so his friends took his body and burned it in the desert.
They're Christian I think. Definitely from Alabama. I relate to Gram Parsons in this weird way.
I relate to that feeling of being the weirdo that's around
but you kind of also look like you belong there
so I just really relate to him as a weird southerner I think.
He's also just a creative genius. I really relate on that level, just really deep. Just kidding.
The new Tribe Called Quest record. It's amazing
and it should win tons of Grammys forever and ever, and the beats are incredible. It's just so good.
This is Angel Olsen, who Logan who works at Amoeba told me to get.
I don't know who this is, and I'm really excited to hear it, because I love it when people tell you to get records.
I love, also, that she's got natural brown hair
It might not be her natural color, but it's a naturally existing color
and most girls that have pale skin and dyed black hair, you know it's not their color.
Prescilla Presley didn't even have that hair color.
I'm excited about it. I don't want to talk about her hair too much, how weird is that.
I hope it's an incredible record, I hear it is. Looking forward to it, Angel, if that is your real name.
So that's all I have, and I got this shirt
and I kind of ripped it off from my friend Andrew, who found it first.
But I looked at all the David Bowie shirts, and they were all kind of ones that I'd seen before
but I've never seen this one before, so...
Oh, and I got this tote. This is my favorite color, and look how good that looks.
I'm gonna wear this to the salon tonight, to get my hair done.
Did you hear the toilet flush? Classy place you got here.
Thanks for having me, Amoeba. I love it.