Kid Congo Powers Discography
by Maurice Maes and Andy Sztehlo
a.sztehlo@agora.stm.it
Latest update: 11-3-2001
Congo Norvell -
Kid Congo Powers Solo -
Knoxville Girls
The Cramps -
Fur Bible -
The Gun Club -
Die Haut -
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -
Other Collaborations
Many thanks to: Kid Congo Powers, Leo Meijer, Henk Vaessen, London May,
Evert Nijkamp, Matt Fredrick,
Dana Wachs, Heini Gustafsson
Congo Norvell
1992 - now
10" 1992 "Lullabies"
CDs Lullabies
Moonlight
Song
Angel (Crime and the City Solution cover)
Fuiasco, FSCO 106
CD 1994 "Music To Remember Him By"
Golden Gates
Drift Away
The Chosen One
Mercy Mine
Rock My Child
My Midnight
Long Time Woman (Nancy Sinatra cover)
Shelter
Lola
Dried Flowers
Love
Lonesome Valley
BASURA!/PRIORITY 53934/2 (USA)
Virgin/Priority 7243 8 40124 2 7 CDPTY105
7" 1995 "Live In The Mission", recorded live at the Noe Valley Ministry,
San Francisco 01/04/95. Clear yellow vinyl plus insert.
Wailing Woman
Lonesome Valley
Lullabye [sic - same song as Lullabies]
TRIPLE X, 51208/7 (USA)
CD 1995 "It Came From Beneath L.A.", various artists. Includes two
songs from the Live In The Mission single:
Lullabye
Wailing Woman
TRIPLE X, 51213/2 (USA)
CD 1996 "The Dope, The Lies, The Vaseline", PROMO ONLY; WITHDRAWN
Husbands
You Can Lay With Dogs
Wailing Woman
The Girl Who Would Be King
Summer Nights
November (The Ballad Of Mark And Travis)
Thief
Goodbye Song
Cruel
Murder
L'Amour
Lullabye
BASURA!/PRIORITY RECORDS 50550 (USA)
CD 1998 "Abnormals Anonymous", includes Mark Eitzel.
She's Like Heroin To Me (The Gun Club cover)
Brother Jack
The Blue Sky
Dark Eyes
Johnny In The Boudoir
Candy
Body And Soul (JLP Tribute)
Warm Tonight
The Last Word
Jacks Back
Good/Zhivago's Lament.
JETSET RECORDS TWA08CD 1997 (USA)
Kid Congo Powers
2LP 1984 "Neighborhood Rhythms", spoken word album also featuring Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Freeway/Rhino
12" 1989 "In The Heat Of The Night", features Barry Adamson and others.
In The Heat Of The Night
La Historia De Un Amour
Cat Tabu (Cat House)
Nightshift NISHI 208T (UK)
video 1991 "Snub TV Vol 2", includes promo video to
La Historia De Un Amour
Virgin Music Video VVD837 (UK)
CD 2000 "New Coat Of Paint: The Songs Of Tom Waits" tribute album
expected in May with one Kid Congo Powers contribution:
Virgina Avenue
Manifesto Records
Knoxville Girls
1999
Kid - Bob Bert - Jerry Teel - Jack Martin - Barry London
LP/CD 1999 "Knoxville Girls"
Sixty-Five Days Ago
I Feel Better All Over
Soda Pop Girl
Have You Ever
Two Time Girl
Kung Pow Chicken Scratch
NYC Briefcase Blues
Warm And Tender Love
I Had A Dream
He Stopped Loving Her Today
One Sided Love
Armadillo Roadkill Blues
ruck Drivin' Man
Low Cut Apron/Sugar Fix
In The Red Records ITR 062
LP/CD 2000 "In The Woodshed", live album
Armadillo Roadkill Blues
I Feel Better All Over
Warm And Tender Love
Sixty-Five Days Ago
Soda Pop Girl
Drop Dead Gorgeous
My New Dinner
I Had A Dream
Have You Ever
NYC Briefcase Blues
Sophisticated Boom Boom
Counting Song (One More Thing)
Kung Pow Chicken Scratch
Truck Drivin' Man
Low Cut Apron/Sugar Fix
In The Red Records ITR 070
CD 2000 "New Coat Of Paint - Songs Of Tom Waits", various artists,
has Knoxville Girls doing "Virgina Avenue", and has
Botanica thanking Kid in the liner notes.
Manifesto Records (MFO 42101-2)
Kid Congo Powers with The Cramps
winter 1980 - early fall 1983
This info comes from Ian Johnston's book "The Wild Wild World Of The Cramps" from 1990.
Leo Meijer typed it all in. What I'd like to have is a good pointer
to an online complete Cramps discography, including for instance
also bootlegs (we do not intend to go into that detail here).
LP/CD 1981 "Psychedelic Jungle"
CA Green Fuz
Goo Goo Muck
Rockin' Bones
Voodoo Idol
Primitive
Caveman
The Crusher
Don't Eat The Stuff Off The Sidewalk
Can't Find My Mind
Jungle Hop
The Natives Are Restless
Under The Wires
Beautiful Gardens
Green Door
IRS SP 70016 (LP)
IRS CD 70058 (CD)
A&M 70016
IRS 44797-0016-4
7" 1981 "Goo Goo Muck/She Said", (yellow vinyl)
IRS PFP 1003 (UK)
12" 1981 "The Crusher/Save It/New Kind Of Kick"
IRS PFSX 1008 (UK)
LP/CD 1983 "Off The Bone", Kid Congo Powers on the songs marked *.
CA Human Fly
The Way I Walk
Domino
Surfin'Bird
Lonesome Town
Garbageman
Fever
Drug Train
Love Me
I Can't Hardly Stand It
Goo Goo Muck *
She Said *
The Crusher *
Save It *
New Kind Of Kick *
Uranium Rock (bonus track on CD and picture disc)
You Got Good Taste * (live bonus track on CD)
Illegal ILP 012
ILPIC 012 (picture disc)
ILPC 012 (CA)
ILPCD (CD)
EP/CD 1983 "Smell Of Female", live at the Peppermint Lounge 25&26/2/83.
CA The Most Exalted Potentate Of Love
You Got Good Taste
Call Of The Wighat
Faster Pussycat
I Ain't Nuthin' But A Gorehound
Psychotic Reaction
Weekend On Mars (bonus track on Enigma cassette)
Big Beat NED 6 (limited UK release in red vinyl)
Big Beat NEDP 6 (picture disc)
Enigma EC 0021 (CA) (USA)
New Rose NEW 25 (EP/CD) (France)
7" 1984 "Faster Pussycat/You Got Good Taste"
New Rose NEW 28 (France)
New Rose NEW 28P (France, picture disc)
7" 1984 "I Ain't Nuthin' But A Gorehound/Weekend On Mars", available on
black,clear,brown,green,orange,blue or maroon vinyl.
New Rose NEW 33 (France)
4x7" 1984 "Smell Of Female Special Limited Edition Spring Tour '84"
1. Faster Pussycat/You Got Good Taste (IVY 1, white vinyl)
2. Call Of The Wighat/The Most Exalted Potentate Of Love (LUX 1, black vinyl)
3. I Ain't Nuthin' But A Gorehound/Weekend On Mars (NICK 1, blue vinyl)
4. Psychotic Reaction (CONGO 1, orange or green vinyl)
New Rose CRAMPS 1
LP/CD 1984 "Bad Music For Bad People", Kid Congo on *.
CA Garbageman
New Kind Of Kick *
Love Me
I Can't Hardly Stand It
She Said *
Goo Goo Muck (single mix) *
Save It *
Human Fly
Drug Train
TV Set
Uranium Rock
IRS SP 44797-0042 (Canada)
A&M 70042 (Canada)
CD 1990 "Smell Of Female" all songs listed above plus:
Beautiful Gardens (from P. Lounge with Kid)
She Said (from P. Lounge with Kid)
Surfin' Dead (from Return of Living Dead soundtrack, minus Kid).
Enigma 7 73578/2 (USA)
The Fur Bible
Kid Congo Powers, Patricia Morrison, Murray Mitchell, Desperate
12" 1985 "Plunder The Tombs/Headbolt/Fumble Fist"
NEW ROSE NEW61 France
7" 1985 "Plunder The Tombs/Fumble Fist", clear vinyl.
NEW ROSE NEW63 France
Kid Congo Powers with Die Haut
LP/CD 1988 "Headless Body In Topless Bar", Kid Congo Powers sings on:
You Seen Angel Jesus?
My Gift To You
WSFA, SF 83 (Germany)
LP/CD 1992 "Head On", Kid Congo Powers sings on:
CA Excited
Parts Unknown
WSFA, SF 122 (Germany)
Triple X, 51148 (USA, only CD)
LP/CD 1993 "Sweat", live album,
Berlin, Metropol, 24/08/92, and Apeldoorn 8/92. Kid Congo Powers sings on
In The Heat Of The Night
Angel Jesus
Golden Gate
Parts Unknown
Excited
WSFA, SF 140 (Germany)
Triple X, 51184-2 (USA CD)
video 1993 "Sweat", live video directed by Rolf S. Wolkenstein.
Filmed at Tempodrom, Berlin, August 1992, 66 minutes. Kid Congo Powers sings on
(You Seen) Angel Jesus?
In The Heat Of The Night
Little Doll
WSFA, 140 V (Germany)
Triple X, 51184-3 (USA)
Kid Congo Powers with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
fall 1986 - spring 1990
This is just a compact listing of the releases that Kid has been
involved with. For a detailed discography, go to
the complete Bad Seeds discography.
LP/CD 1988 "Tender Prey",
CA Up Jumped The Devil
Deanna
Mercy
City Of Refuge
Sugar Sugar Sugar
Mute Records, STUMM 52 (UK)
12" 1988 "Deanna", b-side: "Girl At The Bottom Of My Glass"
CDs First copies with poster and postcard. A German 3" CD exists.
Mute Records, 12 MUTE 86 (UK)
LP/CD 1988 "Wings Of Desire", soundtrack to the film by Wim Wenders
CA in which "From Her To Eternity" and "The Carny" are performed
film live. (German title of the film: "Der Himmel Uber Berlin").
From Her To Eternity (live version)
Mute Records, IONIC 2 (UK)
video 1989 "Kings Of Independence", contains also songs from Crime and
the City Solution, and The Swans. Hamburg, 15 August 87.
Saint Huck
Stranger Than Kindness
STUD!O K7-001 (Germany)
LP/CD 1989 "The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young", various artists.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds do
Helpless
Caroline, Carol CD 1347
Caroline, Carlp 5
LP/CD 1990 "The Good Son", Japanese version has "The Train Song" as
CA extra track.
Foi Na Cruz
The Good Son
Sorrow's Child
The Weeping Song
The Ship Song
The Hammer Song
Lament
The Witness Song
Lucy
Mute Records, STUMM 76 (UK)
7"12" 1990 "The Ship Song"/"The Train Song". A promo exists as well.
CDs Mute Records, 7 Mute 108 and 12 Mute 108
P 12 Mute 108 (promo 12") (UK)
CDs 1990 "The Weeping Song", b-side: "Helpless", "Cocks'n'Asses",
Mute Records, Mute 118 (UK)
video 1991 "The Road To God Knows Where". Moments from the US tour,
Feb. and March 1989. Scenes from on the road, backstage,
interviews and such.
Mutefilm, 790475 (UK)
Atavistic, ATV33 (USA)
Kid Congo Powers - Other Collaborations
LP/CD 1984 "Time Stands Still", by Chris D. And The Divine Horseman, Kid plays guitar on
CA Hell's Belle
Enigma E1130 LP/Cass (USA)
New Rose Rose 46 LP (France)
Dogmeat Dog 045CD (Australia) 1993
7"/ 1985 "Indian Wallpaper", by the Dutch band Claw Boys Claw
12" Kid Congo produced:
Dirty Dog
Foul Play
Hipcat records HIP 6789
12" 1988 "Hard For You", by The Butcher Shop (Tex Perkins et al), with Kid playing guitar on
Hard For You
Control Yourself
Wasteland
Black Eye EP1, Australia (also on red vinyl)
LP/CD 1989 "Moss Side Story", by Barry Adamson, Kid does backing vocals on
Suck On The Honey Of Love
Free At Last
Mute STUMM 53
Mute 71420
LP/CD 1994 "Blossom, Bone And Still Alone" by Sheppard Pratt. Produced by Kid Congo Powers,
who also plays lead guitar on:
My Sad Friend
TIM/KERR RECORDS, TKR 86 (USA)
7" 1996 "Jupiter Now!" by Danny Frankel, Kid plays on
This Is What They Wore
The Black Mimi
Jupiter Now!
Voodoo Shuffle
W.I.N. Records, USA (amber vinyl)
CD 1997 "Lucky Pierre" by Travis John Alford Band
Tumbleweed
Sweetie
Glory Hole
It May Be Evil But It's True
Make It Last
The Devil Kings Of Sodom
Warm Tonight
Querelle
Lucky Pierre
Weep Below The Waist
Dry Heave Lover
WORLD DOMINATION ????? USA 1997
CD 1997 "Wolf Songs For Lambs" by Jonathan Fire Eater features
Kid playing percussion.
When The Curtain Calls For You
The Shape Of Things That Never Came
This Is My Room
No Love Like That
Bipolar Summer
I've Changed Hotels
Everybody Plays The Mime
These Little Monkeys
Station Coffee
A Night In The Nursery
Inpatient Talent Show
Uni/Dream Works Records; ASIN: B000005AMA
LP/CD 1998 "Caught In A Trap And I Can't Back Out 'Cause I Love You Too Much, Baby"
by Mark Eitzel, Kid plays guitar on
If I Had A Gun
Goodbye
Cold Light Of Day
MATADOR OLE 179/2 USA/UK
LP/CD 1998 "Smoky Ends Of A Burnt Out Day" by The Factory Press
is produced by Kid. Guests include Liz Corcoran and Sally Norvell.
ND records NoD CD01
CD/ 1998 "We're Gonna Stomp Mr. Henry Lee" by Speedball Baby has
10" Kid Congo Powers on the cover.
Sympathy for the Record Industry
video 1998 "Blue Is Beautiful" by Make-Up is a 30 minute
film by James Schneider featuring Kid on maracas.
Dischord 114
7" 1999 "Hot For Preacher"/"(I'm Gonna Waste) Your Train" by
The Starlight Desperation is produced by Kid.
Gold Standard Labratories numbered GSL20
CD 1999 "Malediction" by Botanica, which is the new group
with Congo Norvell member Paul Wallfisch. Kid plays on:
Beauty
Checkered Past Records CPR 106
CD 1999 "Tonic Benefit" by Angels Of Light
limited (web-site release) live album with Kid on guitar and vocals.
Low Life Form
God Damn The Sun
My Dead Son
My True Body
Home
Untitled Love Song
All Lined Up
Beautiful One
New City In The Future
My Suicide
Waiting Beside Viragio
Forever Yours
CD 2000 "The Vanity Set" by Jim Sclavunos' The Vanity Set features Kid on guitar
on two tracks (and Sally Norvell on two others)
Don't Be Afraid
Flame
Naked Spur Productions, nsp00CD
CD 2001 New album by Khan, released in May, will have Kid
singing on two tracks.
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is here.
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