Hey I'm Tim from Strand of Oaks and I am at Amoeba Records in San Francisco
and they let me buy records today.
I bought a bunch. I think I went a little crazy. I'm kind of an ADHD dude.
So I did a few cartwheels and then scared some people
maybe just because I pushed them over to find my records.
First I got Peter Gabriel.
It has 'San Jacinto' on it which has the single greatest synth tone I've ever heard in my entire life
at the last chorus.
It's kind of like heaven is opening up and delivering a lightning bolt of joy down.
And then I got Marissa Nadler.
2014 has been a year of wonderful, ethereal women singers for me
Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, Marissa Nadler's 'July' takes the cake.
There's a song in here 'Drive' that just... and 'Dead City Emily.' Such a good record.
These guys blew up this year but this is my favorite record by Future Islands, 'In The Evening Air.'
It has this vibe to it that's so subtle.
I was on my way down to South by Southwest in 2010
and I was doing a nice combination of Budweiser and motion sickness pills
and then if you mix those two together and you put on this record, it's a perfect combination of
just like vibe, pure vibe. This is such a good record.
This is my hero. This is my guidepost for everything I do in my life, Nick Cave.
This is his newest one and he talks about Miley Cyrus floating in a swimming pool.
And only Nick Cave could do that, where it sounds creepy and amazing at the same time
and that's his wife on the cover too so...
I don't think my wife would be down to do that, but way to go Nick.
And then, my tattoo artist in Richmond, Josh Stephens. He does all my tattoos
and he played this record in its entirety when we did this latest tattoo.
And I'd never heard of it. It's Deafheaven.
It's like post-rock, hardcore, blissed-out awesomeness
and the drummer is really amazing in it, so I'm glad you had that.
These are such similar covers.
This is Youth Lagoon, this is their last one.
And I love the first one they put out. It was like super bedroom rock
pretty DIY-made. But this one took it up to a level of production
like it's hazy, woozy pitch... like it's...
I don't do a lot of drugs, but my mind always wants to do drugs
and if I was to do a large amount of drugs it would be to this record.
Especially the song 'Mute.' It's fantastic.
I think this guy's only like 21, so I hate him because he's so talented. So, good job Youth Lagoon.
This is my favorite, it's just Joanna Newsom. I'm just looking at these songs.
'Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie'
This record is really, really hard to find in stores, so thank you Amoeba for having it
'cause I've been looking for this for so long.
I have all of her other ones, but this is the last record I don't have.
I remember when I first heard this and the whole freak folk thing happened.
It was like listening to the future and the past.
Then, since I'm from Philly, Philly rules to make music in.
I don't know this guy, he's pretty cool. My drummer drums with him all the time.
But some dude just totally spray-painted over all this.
This is like Front Street in Philadelphia
and some rando dude came and just white-painted all over all this whole mural so
there was just about a revolution that happened after he did that, but that's the Steve Powers mural
My wife really likes this record. I need to do some nice things for my wife
because I always say, I'll see you in three months. I'm gonna go on tour.
She can listen to this record when I'm home and on Saturday morning with my cats
and I can make French press coffee. Yeah this dude's cool.
I listen to that and I listen to 'Dopesmoker' by Sleep probably once a week.
Then I get in a really cool mood after I do it, because I feel like I'm in a spaceship.
Kind of like your daily meditation?
Yeah, exactly. I hike to 'Dopesmoker' all the time.
So it's fantastic. It's like hour and a half, it's a really solid, fast hike, get some exercise in
go to deep places in your mind.
Do you remember what the first record you picked up was? Or some of your early music?
The first tape I ever got was... I think it's in Rolling Stone's top 100
It's "Weird Al" Yankovic, 'Dare To Be Stupid.' I got it on tape.
I think 'Yoda' was on there. But I got it on tape
with a fluorescent tape player that had velcro on it
with my matching fluorescent watch.
Then the first record that truly moved me was the cassingle of 'We Didn't Start The Fire' by Billy Joel.
Touched me deeply as an eight-year-old.
And then... what was the first... the first CD I ever got
I think it was the same day, I got the 'Wayne's World' soundtrack and Aerosmith's 'Get A Grip.'
But my brother got 'Appetite for Destruction' so that was the one we listened to the most.
That's a classic.
'Wayne's World' kind of passed into the bottom of the pile
but Guns 'n Roses stayed at the top for most of it.
Just the guitar tone on that record.
It's perfect.
Awesome Tim, well thanks for coming in today.
Thanks for letting me shop for records here. It's awesome. Awesome, guys.
Slash's doesn't need a tuner.
He would hate it. I would never want to see Slash with a tuner. It'd be horrible.
I don't want to see him look down and like, "just a second guys"
right before he goes into like 'Sweet Child o' Mine'
and I just gotta (tuning sounds). No thanks.
