Your favorite
band’s favorite
band, archived.
1002 episodes of Amoeba’s What’s In My Bag?, 2007 to present, every picker and every record, indexed.
Since 2007, Amoeba has handed guests a bag, let them loose in the store, and filmed them talking through whatever they carried out. Musicians, mostly; also filmmakers, comedians, athletes and writers. The format hasn’t changed.
Every album, cross-referenced.
The complete catalogue of every record anyone has ever pulled out of the bag. Each sleeve links back to the picker who reached for it — and to everyone else who reached for the same record.
Browse 5200+ records →Find the person, see the bag.
Musicians, filmmakers, athletes, comedians, novelists and DJs — 965 of them, each given one bag and forty minutes to talk about the records they pulled off the shelves.
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The records they reach for first.
No editorial, no algorithm. Just a ranked count of which sleeves show up most often when the cameras roll. The shape of the canon is steep — one record well clear of the field, then a long tail the room agrees on but doesn't fight for.
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Episode #954
Daniel Lanois
Legendary producer, songwriter, and GRAMMY-winning musician Daniel Lanois goes record shopping at Amoeba Hollywood in this "What's In My Bag?" episode. He recalls working with The Neville Brothers in his fabled New Orleans studio, shares the greatest lesson he learned from Brian Eno, and reflects on…
The world's largest independent record store.
Amoeba Music opened in 1990 in a converted bowling alley on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Three former Rasputin Music employees wanted a store that took every format seriously: new, used, vinyl, CD, cassette, the bargain bin and the rare-records glass case, all in one room.
The What's In My Bag? series began at the Hollywood store in 2007 and has run ever since. 1002 episodes. This is the archive.
The largest of the three. Where most What's In My Bag? episodes were filmed.
The original. A converted bowling alley two blocks from campus.
Built inside an old bowling alley on Haight Street, west of Ashbury.