- I do think that without
women like Debbie Harry or Shirley Manson or Karen O,
like it would never have occurred to me,
that you could be in band.
(marimba and clapping)
♪ Ask me no questions I will tell you no lies ♪
♪ Careful what you wish for ♪
- Hi, we are Chvrches,
and we are in Sonic Boom in Toronto for the LP Spree.
I cheated a wee bit because I saw ones on the way in.
I'm looking for...
A Leonard Cohen record.
Like, people use the word "artist" very loosely,
but I feel like he's an actual poet
that sets it to music and.
I don't know, I just love him very much, so.
Okay, I know it's crappy to choose a Greatest Hits,
but because it has like, all those on it.
Suzanne and So Long Marianne are my two, two favorites.
- I'm gonna go with this.
Wonderful piece of work by Mr. Iggy Pop.
This was made I think just before
Bowie made Low, I think.
Iggy and Bowie were hangin' about all the time in Berlin and
causing riots and just being
awesome and artistically out there.
Notably opens with Sister Midnight, which
there's actually another version of that song,
Lodger by David Bowie, it's basically exactly the same
backing track, but he's kinda
reinterpreted the music.
I prefer Iggy's version to David, even though
David is the man, because it's darker and weirder, and
that's always better in my opinion.
- This is a good one.
Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails.
This is another one of like the key records in terms of
making me interested in being in a band and
teaching me what synthesizers were
and how to process guitars.
♪ Talked ourselves to death ♪
♪ Never sayin' what I wanted ♪
- I'm, I'm looking for a Nick Cave record.
Like, he's always been somebody I really
love in terms of
like how he writes songs and how he tells stories, like
there's so much imagery in the way that he writes, but
again I feel like he seems like the kind of person that
he just, he doesn't create things based on
what he thinks people think he should be doing or,
it's more like, you feel like he just
has to make certain things and,
such a multi-talented man.
I love his prose, I love the score work he does.
I love the whole thing.
So, two really uplifting artists so far.
- This is actually the best album ever.
This is the album that made me want to be in a band.
This is the band that made me
want to be interested in music in any way.
- So this one is kind of more of a curve ball,
compared to these last two.
Not a curve ball in general, but.
I love Beyonce, man, I love her.
I don't care what anybody says, I don't care.
Like, I can combat all these arguments, 'cause,
like everything, like the rating,
her performance on it, the imagery that was around it,
what she was talking about,
I think was really important, and there's nobody else,
I don't know, like,
what other artist could have made a statement like that?
- So this is an album called Surfer Rosa by The Pixies.
And I remember driving,
like the ride back from school with the headphones on
hearing this for the first time and you know,
Steve Albini produced and,
just like this raw drum sound.
And I became a massive fan of this band.
- And I know where my final one is,
'cause I saw it on the way in.
This.
Talking about awesome women who've done awesome stuff
and make awesome music,
Debbie Harry, she, I loved her when I was fifteen
and I love her now.
You see all these other boys that were in all these
bands that we listened to when we were growing up, and
I really loved like, Jimmy Eat World and Foo Fighters
and stuff like that, but
we weren't really seeing any women doing that at that level
and that was really inspiring to me,
and I feel like this is my favorite Blondie record.
And one iconic cover, too.
♪ Weren't you trying forgiveness ♪
♪ And weren't you trying to stay? ♪
♪ Weren't you trying to look up ♪
♪ And weren't you trying to pray? ♪
- First record I picked out was Surfer Rosa by The Pixies.
Kinda changed my life as a teenager,
I'd never heard sounds like that before.
Iggy, The Idiot, hanging about with Bowie at the time,
they were working together, they were sharing like
instrumental bits and generally being awesome.
Lots of early sampling on this album by Depeche Mode,
Black Celebration, this,
kind of best of John Peel collection from The Smiths.
It was a great entry point to the band,
like if you've never heard them before.
- This is actually essentials,
called the Downward Spiral, it's by Nine Inch Nails.
Followed up by the undisputed best album of all time,
the reason why I'm in a band, the reason why I'm a musician
is this album, this is like
my most important record ever made.
This is another big like learning album for me.
This is how I learned how to
understand the value of music that appears to be simple
on the surface but is actually really complex and really
esoteric in ways that you can't tell until you've
really listened into it.
Here's my favorite album of last year,
which, these two know I never shut up about.
- Every day, every day he's like,
have you heard the Alvvays album?
Have you heard the Alvvays album?
- I think I must have heard it 50 times?
I'm actually serious.
- Nick Cave, the last Nick Cave record,
obviously is a really harrowing listen but I feel like
they're so amazing, he's such an amazing lyricist,
we all love what he does and
this was a really special work of art.
I know it's a bit tacky to choose a Greatest Hits
but I couldn't decide,
I was standing there being like, which one do I want?
Which record one do I want?
So I was like, just think he,
Leonard Cohen's such an amazing lyricist.
He's a true poet in the real sense of the word, and
I've always, ever since I discovered him I've loved him, so.
Parallel Lines by Blondie.
I love most Blondie stuff, but
this is my favorite one.
And I love that they're playing on the idea that
you know, to be a woman in that position,
she has to be like this badass bone-breaker,
and she's wearing a T dress and,
she is a badass bone-breaker so it's pretty cool.
Finally, the pièce de résistance, Lemonade.
Sorry, eh, Lemonade, which is one of my favorite
records of the last couple years.
I just love Beyonce to the end of the earth,
I think, she's really,
I don't know, I think we'll all look back on this time
and think that this was a really brave,
important piece of art, and
I'm just here for it, I'm here for political Beyonce
all day, all day.
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