What's In My Bag?
Records I've Scored Recently
I go digging. I don’t spend hours and hours in the stacks because I’m not producing music, but I AM an enormous fan. As such, I keep my weather eye open and my Spidey Sense on full. I’m drawn to places through intuition, happenstance, and sheer coincidence. This also happens to describe my mother’s sense of religion. Shit! I guess crate digging is my religion. This is about records I’ve found recently that I needed for my personal stacks.
I’m not going to post any Record Store Day finds because they’re EXACTLY like everyone else’s RSD finds. I’ve got something cooler than that anyway.
White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000 - Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head, 1995, blue vinyl, first pressing
Zombie's "Astro-Creep: 2000" was palpable, casting a weight of expectation upon the band like never before. White Zombie remained steadfast in their signature white-trash-on-acid metal aesthetic. While their style teetered on the edge of campiness, there was a genuine love for the trash they embraced, aligning them with the legacy of tongue-in-cheek heavy metal acts from Alice Cooper to KISS. If I ever had to ride into battle with Tank Girl, More Human Than Human would be first on the playlist.
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician, 1987, first pressing
I hadn’t seen a first pressing of this or Astro Creep in the wild ever before, so my eyes bugged out of my head when I saw this. This is either a nightmare of an acid trip or the Butthole Surfer’s best album, depending on your perspective. We’re past the psychedelic exploration of Rembrandt Pussyhorse and heavy into the gutter. A schizophrenic mess, this either covers all your tastebuds or absolutely none.
The Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie, 1957, 45 rpm w/ original sleeve
As perfect a pop song as has ever been recorded, The Everly Brothers record reached No. 1 on the Billboard Pop chart despite having been banned from Boston radio stations for lyrics that, at the time, were considered suggestive. Wake Up Little Susie also spent seven weeks atop the Billboard Country chart and got to No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart.
