Chords for Stephen Malkmus - What's In My Bag?

Hi, I'm Steve [G] Malekness from
Music World and I'm at Amoeba and this is what [E] was in my arms
_ Because I didn't use the bag
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[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] First [B] of all, I found this
_ [Eb] _ _ _
It's called Luis [Bb] Perez
Or he [B] is I don't know much about Mexican experimental music from 1981
Fusing traditional and electronic _ [A] instruments the labels called.
Mr.
Bongo, which is that doesn't necessarily
Engender trust in me that name [Ab] because bongos I tend to think it was kind of absurd
And it also sounds a little like mr.
Bungle which
_ Might be a good group, but I you know that name scares me _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Abm] There's a lot of places you could put this record in this store and it looks kind of cool
[N] I mean, I like the graphics.
I like the kind of DIY aesthetic but curate [Abm] like made nice
You know, that's kind of what the world's like today
whether it be hamburgers or private presses I
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ Went to the world music zone and that's what I picked up and then I went over to the hardcore area
[Cm] _ _
_ _ _ [C] these are
Birds in a row [Cm] they're French and they're on a label [A] called death wish this is from the [Bb] punk
Region of your store and it had a me the recommendation on it.
[C] I do tend to trust
_ Recommendations and bookstores and record [Bb] stores it maybe even here more, you know at [Fm] bookstores.
Usually there's a
[Ab] Employee that's you know, really into [Cm] literature still
[F] I'm assuming in the hardcore section of amoeba
There's some connoisseurs there because I don't really know what's going on in hardcore music
[Fm] 2019 [Ab] I played in front of people in
1981 [F] in the first wave of
American hardcore bands in the shadow of the Sex Pistols and things like that and I would like to hear what
People are doing this this [A] looks a bit like it's gonna have a modern production value
[C] Which I might not like, you know as much [Eb] as playing a wild
[Gb] DIY
Hardcore that [F] I'm more used to but I'll also be able to appreciate the [G] value of it
It's well done just might not be in my lane
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] Okay.
Now I know this is in my lane.
This is a bill or cut
this will not be produced in a high-tech manner because it says that he recorded it in the main stairwell of
An elementary school in Miami, Florida and bill is was the guitarist and hairy pussy
[Ab] _ Hairy pussy was a [Gb] group active in the 90s primarily that I know you're all familiar with but if you're [Db] not
They were a noise band with a really _
_ _ [E] Awesome performance element, [C] you know _
_ _ [G] Their lead singer and drummer
[F] She was this incredible and bill was the guitarist and they [F] played some of the best [G] concerts
I saw in the 90s _ _ _ and he has gone on to play deconstructed acoustic guitar with a [Fm] couple strings missing
I also used to play with only five strings when I was a younger person.
So I relate to that
I relate to the way he plays guitar and I think he's one of the best guitarists in the world
So I'm sure this is gonna be good. _ _ _ _ _
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_ If you look closely you can see that it looks like the [F] a strings missing
I don't know how he tunes it, but obviously it's gonna make a different
[B] _
_ [F] Patterns and
New problems that answer when you're playing on his [Gb] records.
I don't notice the strings missing, you know
I just hear an [F] original phrasing and tone and like a cool dude
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
_ Then [E] here we got
Opal [G] Opal was a [A] band that formed in
[B] the ashes of two LA or at least
[Bm] Westcoast [A] bands one was the dream syndicate the lead singer.
Her [B] name is Kendra Smith
She [G] was the bass player in dream syndicate.
The guitarist is Dave Roback
_ [Eb] Amoeba [Dm] mainstay with a [Bm] nazi star but first in the rain parade
[B] _
_ After the rain parade [A] and dream syndicate _
disintegrated
Or dream syndicate kept going without her.
They formed a group and
This [E] is their first EP [G] I believe later they made an album [Db] called happy nightmare, baby
Which is [A] on SST and it's I thought it was just [Gb] [B] amazing
record of its time had [A] kind of a mark [Db] Bolin _
Chugal mixed with doomsday doors sound and kind of goth
I consider Kendra to be sort of a proto [Bm] Joanna Newsome at least in her [Dbm] witchy vibes and
[A] The guitarist is really good, you know, [B] he's tasteful doesn't overplay
There's one [E] show of them playing on YouTube.
They're playing it
Like UC San Diego or something and _ it's a little grim, you know, like [Gb] the student section
[E] But there's not much to find of them on the internet, which is good and bad.
I mean they sound okay
They're just kind of getting started you can tell [G] and it's still still like Paisley [Db] underground era
It's also in the time of early REM and
_ College rock of that _ time.
I guess they fit in that but they're trippier and they're underrated group _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Db] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
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This one is Carl Orff
[N] He's a German composer from the 20th century always liked [Bb] his music
Specifically [A] some of [D] his music for children.
He was
quite involved in developing a philosophy for [C] teaching
children in schools [Ab] music theory [G] and it's really
interesting that music he makes when you hear
_ German [E] children from the 1930s and 40s [Eb] and 20s singing you have these
Associations with National Socialism or something which is
_ [D] _
Unfortunate because I don't think Carl Orff has any
It's just [G] you know, what we have in our minds as Americans from that time when you hear German [Gb] kids
It's makes you think of the boys of Brazil [E] or something kind of [Eb] dark, you know, you have it
_ _ Exactly [F] like me I do do that but I still get over it this is an [Ebm] opera he made called Dermond it's
Supposedly based on some [F] grim folk tales.
It has a very [Eb] cool album cover
I think and [Ebm] and I like I said, I had read that he used some of the theories
from his kinder music in
Composing this opera [Abm]
and it's in mono too.
I like mono
_ Monophonic records.
I don't know [A] about you
_ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _
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_ _ _ [G] Onwards last one.
This is Prince Thomas is his name.
He's from Norway
He's an electronic music producer known for a variety of to me _
Relatively
_ _ palatable and approachable
original tunes in dance music [E] realm
_ _ _ From what I've read he did it [Em] kind of quick.
He did it in a very Quick and
_ Not overthinking things and just going [F] back to the things he really loves
That's the narrative of the record and I [Gb] heard one of the songs called [F] feel the love and it was positive
_ Party music [C]
something you hear in a club with your [Bm] friends.
It's like maybe a bit [D] housey
_ I'll find out it's [Gb] called
ambitions
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] I
Think it's new.
Well, I found that song on the internet feel the [D] love and it seemed like it just come out but he's _
[C] Legit, I mean he's got a [Bm] publisher.
He's [C] published by Sony
[D] _ _ So he must be a big [C] star _
_ _ Sony [Gb] seems I don't know the big [D] acts these days [Gb] like vampire weekend and
[Gb] _
arcade fire and
[N] _ _ _ LCD sound systems _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [E] _ There's a [B] mainstream media guy that says like boom [A] he's like a right of box guy.
All right
_ [E] Thank you, _ _ _ thanks for having me
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