Agony Bag - Rabies Is A Killer (1980)

Wow. I woke up, started drinking my morning coffee, tried watching the news, got bored, then I checked out my recommendations on Spotify. This song came up and it instantly won the battle for song of the day vs every other song ever made. 

I had never heard of Agony Bag (sounds like a 2010s emo band name) so I started doing some research. They were formed in 1976 by members of the 70s occult psych band Black Widow. They're from Leicester, UK. This was their only released single. It doesn't much matter if I explain it here, anyone can look up the info pretty easily. Point being, after a bit of reading I clicked on the video and I'm mesmerized, confused, and just love when I find something old that's new to me.

Influences seem to include Alice Cooper, Kiss, Rocky Horror, general punk aesthetic, uppers, booze, manic energy, moronic joy, and possibly actual rabies. In other words, it's theatrical rock and that's exactly my kinda exquisite shit.

Content Warning [for the sake of the blog]: Yes, there are two topless women at the end of the video for a few seconds but if you watched a man swing from the rafters in full make up, a tux and lingerie I imagine you can handle that content as well. I'm more disturbed that I hear saxophones and they don't even try to pretend like someone is playing one.

Enough already, here's the damn song -  "Rabies is a killer, it's a killer, it's a killer, it's a killer, yeah. Rabies is a killer."