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When the song was released on Collection and Box Set it retained the drum track of the original Misfits version, but Danzig overdubbed guitar and drum machine tracks and new vocals. The song originally had no guitar at all, and was recorded when the Misfits were a three-piece of keyboards, bass and drums. Crawling Eye Famous Monsters (1999)
"We Are 138" was written by Glenn Danzig and recorded at C.I. Studios in New York by the Misfits in January–February 1978 for their proposed debut album Static Age. [2] The song was first released on the B-side of the band's single "Bullet" in 1978, and would also be included as the opening track on their 1980 EP Beware, which combined tracks from the previously released "Bullet" and "Horror ...
Being unfamiliar with the band, Emanuel listened to Collection I on a walkman to learn the lyrics and melodies while working his job as a greenskeeper. He impressed the band with his audition and was accepted as the new lead singer under the pseudonym Michale Graves, while Doyle adopted the new stage full name Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein.
The song's narrator addresses a misfit teenager, expressing sympathy for his being "misunderstood". In it, Church "says some encouraging words about the good things that will happen one day when people will appreciate him — especially the ladies." The song features no chorus, but rather a series of verses that all end in the title phrase.
"Attitude" is a song by the American punk rock band Misfits. Written by frontman and vocalist Glenn Danzig, the song was recorded and first released in 1978 on the B-side of the band's single "Bullet". It was also included on the Misfits' 1980 EP Beware, as well as on the 1995 compilation album Collection II.
It also served as the title track of an EP named "The Kinks Misfit Record". "Misfits" has been often praised as one of the best songs on the album of the same name. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called the track "a classic outsider rallying cry" and labelled it as one of the two "touchstones" of the album. [2]
as being "one of the most well-known lyrics in punk rock history [... and] man, is it fun to sing." [ 1 ] Aaron Lariviere of Stereogum ranked the song #5 on his list of the 10 best Misfits songs, writing that "there's no question the song is gold, to the point where the phrase 'goddamn son of a bitch' has become indelibly linked with the band."
Project 1950 is the sixth studio album by the American horror punk band the Misfits, released in 2003.It consists of cover versions of rock and roll songs from the 1950s and 60's and marks bassist Jerry Only's debut as the Misfits' lead singer.