Tame Impala - What's In My Bag?

Hey, how's it going? I'm Kevin from Tamman Parlor and I'm at Amoeba Records today doing what's in my bag in the dark [music]

from the sun. [music]

>> [music] >> Where do we stop? Actually, this is going to be in no particular order, but first thing I got, I had to get this one. Silver chair freak show. [music]

one. Silver chair freak show. [music]

I'm afraid [music] Silver Chair, like an Australian grunge band from the '90s. One of the first albums I ever bought. Might be

responsible for like me wanting to be in a rock band at all. Was obsessed with Silver Chair. Absolutely fogged this

Silver Chair. Absolutely fogged this album. I was like 10, 11 years old. And

album. I was like 10, 11 years old. And

they would have been like 16, 17 when they made this. I know every song back to front. Whether it was like just being

to front. Whether it was like just being in my room playing Lego, playing PlayStation, I would just have this on.

[music] Won't you be a soldier?

[music] Won't you be a slave?

>> First track of any album is always like it's the one that gets you cuz it's like the one that comes on first like as far as nostalgia goes. But then the closing like you know the last song you know I

can't name just one. [music]

[music] Next one is Todd Rungren, a Wizard of Truth stars.

>> Any like tame fan that's like, you know, listened to me waffle a lot about music before has probably heard me talk about A Wizard, a true star. We brought this album home from like Japan, like a tour

in Japan once and it blew all our minds.

It really switched us on to like crazy psychedelic '7s pop. It's sort of a pop album, but it's totally expansive and epic. The first track uh especially

epic. The first track uh especially international feel [music] [music] >> coming into lonerism making like lonerism sounds a little bit the way it

does because of this album. I can pretty confidently say just like the idea of just that maximalist fizzy explosive pop.

>> [music] >> just [music] we're on [singing] our way.

[music] >> Next one. Coldplay Rush of Blood to the Head. I actually don't know what people

Head. I actually don't know what people think about this album, but this was like kind of a soundtrack to my late high school. It got my heart broken to

high school. It got my heart broken to this album. So now I listen to it, I'm

this album. So now I listen to it, I'm like, you know, but it's a beautiful, beautiful album.

[music] [music] >> Every song is really beautiful, especially the first track, Politic.

>> [music] [music] >> I was all about this album when I was like 16, 17 and then sort of like getting into the world of like alternative psych rock like you know

indie music. I kind of sort of like left

indie music. I kind of sort of like left Coldplay behind in my memory because I was like oh no I'm into alternative music now you know and Coldplay obviously became one of the biggest bands in the world. So, I forgot about this album for a long time and then I

revisited it 10 years later or whatever and it just was like a it's like a like an avalanche of emotion on sleep on Rush Blood to the Dead.

[music] [music] >> Orital, the Brown album. I don't know all the songs of this album, but I've always loved Orbital. They're sort of like one of those um like the benchmark

of like ' 90s trippy experimental house music. [music]

music. [music] >> Housey on and on is obviously a classic.

Seeing this album in the flesh, it kind of makes me want to get into more of it.

Like I know a few of these songs, but not all of them. But for me, it's an important sort of like milestone in dance music.

Defton, White Pony. Um, also kind of a soundtrack to my a lot of this is like nostalgia is like me taking a trip down memory lane. That's what I've used today

memory lane. That's what I've used today for.

>> [music] >> I never actually had the real CD because my friend burnt me a copy of this, I have to say. I'm sorry, which was like real taboo back in the day if you're a fan of music, but was obsessed with this

album. I had been into a lot of new

album. I had been into a lot of new metal and stuff from like when I was a kid. Deaf Tones was the one that like

kid. Deaf Tones was the one that like carried through into like teenage years and stuff. It's another album I listen I

and stuff. It's another album I listen I hear songs from now and I'm like it almost hurts to listen to it. Just takes

me right back there to being such a fragile human. SO

fragile human. SO [music] RIGHT BACK TO SCHOOL.

>> I never remember back to school being track one. I think they may have changed

track one. I think they may have changed it for me. Hey, I put on this album and faticiera is the first thing like you know you know like you know like the first sound that comes on an album like

that's the one that gets you for me that's track one and they've got they've got they've changed it they seem to have revised history maybe I just had maybe my burnt copy was um not the right

one but it's vital that the first track has all the right things about it it's has to announce the album it's like the it's like the flag bearer of the album once you've got that one in the rest the album can kind of just it sort of makes

itself a big responsibility. your first

track. Definitely. [snorts]

[music] >> This is the first thing I saw. Can

t-shirt.

[music] >> Can are a seminal uh German 70s kout rock experimental band. These guys kind of like taught me that band music can

feel like electronic music. To me, these guys were like electronic music before electronic music started. It was like just super repetitive, super hypnotic, free form kind of music. For me, it was

always like part of making music that sort of fused organic band music with like electronic music. Can were part of that. [music]

that. [music] If you want to listen to like chill out music, but you still want to be listening to like quality intellectual music, future days.

>> Lastly, Rated R by Queens of Stone Age.

Again, very nostalgic, very important album for my musical upbringing. [music]

>> Thrashed this album. Thrashed the hell out of it in my my car. When I got my license, I had a CD of it in my car.

Just full volume driving around my home town. These songs made me feel like I

town. These songs made me feel like I was on drugs before I even took drugs.

It's so kind of like psychedelic but so hard rock at the same time. Like Better

Living Through Chemistry is an example of that. Takes you on a journey.

of that. Takes you on a journey.

[music and singing] [music] This album taught me that rock music can be like hard but also totally like sexy, you know, like like a machine. Queens of

Stone Age sound for like this album and the album before it, Songs for the Deaf, is totally unique. It has that sort of like disciplined motoric sound to it.

[music] [music] >> The guitar I play now is tuned down like because of this album. Like it's still I still haven't tuned up to standard tuning. Queens of Stone Age definitely

tuning. Queens of Stone Age definitely changed the way I play guitar. went from

being like just trying to be as angry and and angsty as possible to just like being really controlled and likeun, you know what I mean? [music]

[singing] [music] >> And that is it. I got no more.

>> Thank you so much for coming in today.

>> Thank you. That was that was good. That

was fun. Good for me.

>> Good. It was good for us, too.

>> Yeah. [laughter]

[music and singing] >> Again.

[music] Back into my old ways [singing] again.