# 'THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT' w/ Kid Congo Powers Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/the-girl-can-t-help-it-w-kid-congo-powers Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/the-girl-can-t-help-it-w-kid-congo-powers.md Podcast: [REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE](https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757) Published: 2026-02-26T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/revolutionspermovie/episodes/the-girl-cant-help-it-w-kid-congo-powers Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/64de4e5db2838f0011a11fce/e/697c132eebb1ff695f2e5661/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/episodes/the-girl-can-t-help-it-w-kid-congo-powers Duration seconds: 3460 ## Resource This week I am joined by the one and only  Kid Congo Powers  of  The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds , and  Juanita & Juan  (to just scratch the surface of his incredible career), who picked the iconic 1956 rock n' roll comedy classic  The Girl Can't Help It !!! We discuss Kid running the  Ramones  fan club, sleeping outside for tickets, recording and performing as Juanita and Juan with his bandmate  Alice Bag , his first time playing guitar with  Lydia Lunch , faking your way through music,  Jeffrey Lee Pierce  taking acting classes at the Lee Strasberg studio, lying to get The Gun Club's first show with  The Blasters , Kid playing his first show after only a month of having a guitar in his hands, joining The Cramps and recording  Psychedelic Jungle  with them, The Gun Club's  The Las Vegas Story  and unlocking the intro to ' Walking With The Beast' ,  William Burroughs  and cut-up technique, the art of collaboration, making blobs of sound, Kid discovering  The Girl Can’t Help It  with the help of  The Screamers , the  Nuggets  comp, cheapo rock n' roll exploitation films like  Carnival Rock  &  Rock Baby Rock It , the power of Deluxe color used in the film,  John Waters ’ obsessions and tributes to  The Girl Can’t Help It , the mystique, power and performance of  Jayne Mansfield , the newly formed concept of the teenager when this film came out,  Lady In A Cage , director Frank Tashlin and his animation roots,  Julie London ,  Little Richard 's incredible performance (while seeming to stare out into space), the weird lesser-known bands in this film,  The Chu… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/episodes/the-girl-can-t-help-it-w-kid-congo-powers/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/the-girl-can-t-help-it-w-kid-congo-powers.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.