Amoeba Music: The Greatest Thing in LA

BeBop · July 24, 2008

I like Amoeba fine, though it's Berkeley, not LA. But to think it's the best thing in Los Angeles... How long has it been there? Maybe eight or ten years? Perhaps it just strikes me as a rather shallow choice; I try not to think of Los Angelenos as shallow. I subscribe to Los Angeles magazine (among 80 or so I subscribe to and read cover-to-cover each month), but haven't ever lived in Southern California. I voted against Amoeba about half the time.

http://www.losangelesmagazine.com/LAtoZ/article.aspx?id=1618

http://www.amoeba.com/content/64.html

Edited to note: Amoeba arrived in LA six years ago.

Edited July 24, 2008 by BeBop

7/4 · July 24, 2008

I was there a couple of times, but I just wasn't in a buying mood. I think I was more interested in raga at the time and they had pretty much the same stuff that Tower, NYC had at the time.

It sure was a big store!

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BruceH · July 24, 2008

I like the one here on Haight Street.

...And the one in Berkeley is pretty damn great, though I haven't been there in a while.

BeBop · July 24, 2008

On average, I probably visit each of the Amoebas twice a year (though I'd bet its been five years since I bought anything there; it's mainly a time-kill and "let's see what's new" on a US travel layover.) No doubt, the LA store is impressive, bigger even than SF, by my reckoning. But I still see Amoeba as a Bay Area, specifically Berkeley, thing.

So I guess Angelenos love their adopted child more?

AllenLowe · July 24, 2008

was in SF in January and picked up a rare CD used, for $20, that is probable worth about $100 - I like Amoeba - also, they gave Devilin Tune a nice review in their book, so they must be intelligent and discerning music lovers -

Noj · July 24, 2008

My favorite was Aron's, which was in the same part of Hollywood and went out of business a few years after Amoeba arrived. Amoeba is such a zoo I tend to avoid it, but I can't knock their selection.

BeBop · July 24, 2008

But fergawdsakes, better than Topanga Canyon? The Weather? Getty Center? 99 cent Stores? In-N-Out? The Hollywood Sign? Sunset Blvd? Taco Trucks? Disneyland?!

:wacko:

7/4 · July 24, 2008

The transvestites on Santa Monica Blvd? The 10? Rt. 66? The list goes on and on...

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BeBop · July 24, 2008

The 405 at rush hour? LAX Security Screening? Burbank Architecture? Blondes in Corvettes? Bald buys with 'trophy' dates in Ferraris? Cougars? (None actually poll choices, of course)

The Central Library?

It's quite a nice library.

catesta · July 24, 2008

I like Amoeba fine, though it's Berkeley, not LA. But to think it's the best thing in Los Angeles... How long has it been there? Maybe eight or ten years? Perhaps it just strikes me as a rather shallow choice; I try not to think of Los Angelenos as shallow. I subscribe to Los Angeles magazine (among 80 or so I subscribe to and read cover-to-cover each month), but haven't ever lived in Southern California. I voted against Amoeba about half the time.

http://www.losangelesmagazine.com/LAtoZ/article.aspx?id=1618
http://www.amoeba.com/content/64.html

Edited to note: Amoeba arrived in LA six years ago.

I see plenty of shallowness on the list, so it fits.

BERIGAN · July 24, 2008

...I try not to think of Los Angelenos as shallow......

Ok.... :blink: I try to not think of Alaska as cold, or Bill Gates as rich!

AllenLowe · July 24, 2008

or Republicans as.....

compassionate, intelligent, perceptive, eloquent.....

thank God for the 12 step program - I'm a new man -

...though constantly hallucinating....

Edited July 24, 2008 by AllenLowe

catesta · July 25, 2008

or Republicans as.....

compassionate, intelligent, perceptive, eloquent.....

thank God for the 12 step program - I'm a new man -

...though constantly hallucinating....

Fuck dude, can you make it through one thread without something about politics?

Noj · July 25, 2008

Native Los Angelenos such as myself know all the shallow people are transplants from other states.

Free For All · July 25, 2008

Native Los Angelenos such as myself know all the shallow people are transplants from other states.

You can't even have a basement here. Now that's shallow. :mellow:

AllenLowe · July 25, 2008