Hey my name is Kid Congo Powers of Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds and this is What's in My Bag.
The first thing I got today, the first thing I went straight to was the Swans section.
The 'Burning World' album. I really remember loving this record a lot.
I think it was their big major label effort
and it has this really amazing Robert Mapplethorpe cover
which I really love as well, of this color lily
and it is the Jarboe, Michael Gira, Norman Westberg era
and that's lovely and I can't wait to play that on vinyl.
And one of my favoritest albums from my teenage years was John Cale's 'Slow Dazzle'
This has the most chilling version of 'Heartbreak Hotel,' the Elvis Presley song.
I was really young when this came out.
That's one of the first times I really realized that artists can completely change the meaning of a song
and make it their own song and turn the whole song upside down
and that's what he does on the version of 'Heartbreak Hotel' on this
and just the whole album is great. This was a great era of Island Records in the 70s
when other great stuff, Eno and Roxy Music and Sparks
and different stuff I loved when I was a teenager.
And another thing I got was this Nikki Sudden and Rowland S. Howard record.
I haven't listened to this since it came out, probably in the early 90s maybe, late 80s even
and sadly Nikki and Rowland are no longer with us
and this was a really beautiful, beautiful album
I know Jeffrey Lee Pierce from The Gun Club who I used to play with collaborated with them
and I was really, really happy to see in reissue.
I found this Bush Tetras first EP on Stiff Records.
I'm so influenced by the guitar playing of Pat Place
she played slide guitar in The Contortions in the No Wave era.
I saw them some years ago, maybe five years ago at one of the last CBGB shows
and they just blew everything away and we're as fresh as...
fresher than any modern band, or more original.
I DJ a lot and I DJ 45s only because carrying around albums is just too heavy.
I usually do a lot of 60s and 50s
so I've been trying to mine a more glam rock into punk
which encapsulates disco music and everything.
So I found a few things these are kind of more modern.
This will be a good one, this is the Revillos.
Scottish band, actually this was an offshoot of the band The Rezillos, who I'm actually on tour with.
They're great because they made an album in the late 70s, '76, '77
and they didn't make an album for 37 years, until this last year
and it's as fresh... they were completely uncorrupted
so their new album is as fresh as a really great pop punk thing and they're amazing.
I got this Buff Medways, which is Billy Childish who I'm a big fan of.
So I don't have any of this band's records, so I thought I'd take a gamble
and he's a great artist artist, non-artist artist y'know
uncompromising and crabby and very pure
and so I'm always excited by whatever he's doing.
A single I'm surprised to find by a band called Knife in the Water who are from Austin, Texas
I'm actually friends with the singer Aaron Blunt
They had some success in the 2000 era, late 90s, kind of alt-country
and he is the most beautiful country-ish, rockabilly, but more country, y'know, voice
and I love it, it's haunting and beautiful and I can't wait to hear this.
I found this, looks like a Record Store Day thing
this is an incredible Profondo Rosso by Goblin.
Mostly known for doing the Dario Argento soundtracks and
they did the Suspiria album which is absolutely incredible
it's a classic, oh and here it is. I would get it but I already have it.
I'm a total a Goblin nerd and I've seen Goblin perform live
and it is so great. It's not the original Goblin but what are you gonna do.
They played the songs and I'm excited to get this on 45.
And then I bought Ricky Nelson because sometimes you just gotta go for the dreamy face.
And I really love Ricky Nelson records
It's just a version of 'Milk Cow Blues' and
who could deny that mug? I'm sorry. Dreamy.
Absolutely dreamy, and sometimes that's enough reason to buy a record.
Last but not least is this Dusty Springfield on Atlantic Records: 'I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore.'
Actually 'The Windmills of Your Mind' is the A-side but
but the version of 'I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore' is a heartbreaking, amazing song.
At the end of the night when I'm DJing, this could be a really good closer out
but this song is all about the heartbreak and the humiliation
of other people knowing about your heartbreak.
Incredible whole album but I'm happy to find this on 45.
That is What's in my Bag.