I’m 48, and discovered these guys in high school and never stopped listening to them. This song is one of many absolute gems. They are the musical equivalent of a washed out T-shirt you can never stop wearing to a run down amusement park haunted house by the sea.
I saw an interview once where Danzig was discussing this song. Apparently he had just watched the first alien movie and that spawned the " r*pe your face" part of the song and is where the hybrid reference came from. I love the misfits but am partial to the Danzig era especially. Static age is one of my all time favorite albums.
Static Age is definitely peak Danzig era Misfits. Every song on that album is a banger and their sound is insanely unique. They lost a bit of that rockabilly magic as they tried fitting in more with the hardcore punks with Walk Among Us and Earth AD which was still good stuff but no where near the magic of those early songs from Static Age. I still get Return of the Fly stuck in my head every time I see a fly 😂.
@@CarlWheathers-ch5xs Definitely!! Yeah they definitely changed a bit but I can't fault them for trying to get in with the more hardcore punk bands of the era and I think while the rest of the band was perfectly fine with maintaining their own niche, Danzig didn't want to be painted into a corner and felt the need to expand a bit and I can understand that to a degree. I enjoy most of their catalog, but yeah, static age is just one of those albums that no matter how many times I play it through, I never grow sick of it.
One of my all time favorite songs... "Ooh baby when you cry, your face is momentary, you hide your looks behind these scars" has always been such a cool lyric to my mind.
I like how you comment on how unique the chord structure is and them not following music theory. In reality I'd imagine it has something to do with inexperienced teenagers making music. When there's no rules to follow, something called creativity is born. Hope you can continue to explore the unique and taboo, at least musically. Enjoy yourself!
I agree with the inexperienced teenager concept. One of the first riffs I ever wrote was in mixed meter, so when I tried to write a second guitar part for it, I got pissed off about how it didn’t work. Thought I was doing something wrong and shelved it. About 3 or 4 years later, I realized I have a natural tendency to write time signature changes, but I just didn’t have the music theory knowledge at the time. Teenagers creating freely can be a powerful thing! Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
@@MidnightNotionI can assure you these guys still know SFA musical theory. Doyle in a recent interview says he has to be told how to play the songs and he walks around his yard every day with an acoustic just inventing riffs. And Jerry chose to play bass because he figured it took the least effort to play in a band.
Bro this song is just so amazing to me ive listened to it hundreds and hundreds of times and it never gets dry or boring to me its so short yet so awesome.
The entire Glenn Danzig saga is their best. It's my favorite punk band of all time. My opinion obviously is that they are the GOAT punk band. They took what everyone else was doing and went darker, faster, with more attitude and inventive style. They influenced a subgenre for fucks sake. Hard-core punk. Black Flag wouldn't exist if it wasn't for them and so many others that went to influence my all-time favorite band Pantera. The Misfits were the essence of my rebellious spirit in my formative years. A part of who I will always be.
I didn't get into the Misfits until 2001 and Saturday Night was the tune that drew me in and when I went through their library I was hooked. Hybrid Moments, Astro Zombies and Brain Eaters have always been top tracks when I used to burn CD's lol oh yeah liked and subbed. Cheers
Would love to hear more old Misfits song reactions by you! Also another project they did was Samhain (in the 80s). They have some great songs as well! Keep rocking!
something else i’ve noticed from listening to the Static Age album for nearly 25 years is that Glenn’s voice never sounded better during thier original run. as time went on they played faster and kind of lost that 50’s crooning effect that is so essential to that early batch of songs. not that it’s a bad thing, just a little different.
It change all the time when you listen more to it. I remembered when I was in highschool, my teacher ask us to talk about that we are listening and misfits was the I was into. So I played the song with lyrics and the rest is history
I’ll clue you in on something. None of the Misfits songs were recorded with a click or even anybody to tell them hey you went out of time. It’s just how they played it that time
I don’t think music theory is going to gel well with 80’s punk rock and hardcore. Most of these guys were high school age when they wrote their best stuff. Hybrid moments by the misfits is one of the best punk rock songs EVER and a bunch of kids wrote it which is the amazing point here. Misfits music is timeless
I’m not a huge fan of Tool, but The Pot is one of my top favorites from them. I think Vicarious takes the win, though. Big fan of the rhythms in both songs.
I'd suggest checking out Theme For a Jackal from the same album. It's one of the very rare occasions they use a keyboard and it's not a well known song, but I like it because it's a bit different from the others.
Don't really need lyrics. With Glenn Danzig's superb vocals you can hear every word, he's exceptionally clear. The Misfits have a unique thing with Glenn's ballad vocal style that makes them timeless and will always be listened too and that band really had a blue collar thing going down they worked their butts off. Danzig could have chosen any style and been a pop music smash but he stayed true to himself and we got the Misfits. It couldn't have worked out better.
The legacy of brutality is Glenn playing all instruments and vocals. Mixed the other guys out and paid them no royalties. As the Brutality album was released post Misfits.
I work in a supermarket. Today I read out the entire ingredients to a quart of yogurt for a customer. And that was much more exciting than your video. The reason was, the customer didn't interrupt me every half a minute while I was explaining.
@@MidnightNotion to be fair Please listen to The Damned! Some people say they play their instruments too well to be Punk. I recommend their songs New Rose, Anti Pope*, Smash It Up (1 and 2), Neat Neat Neat, Love Song and others.
1977 over hear close enough. Glenn was already involved a couple of years before founding the Misfits. They also brought the punk movement to America's heart land and inspired a whole generation here.
Bro please do a reaction to ”The New Song” by Metallica. I know that you have heard that song before but it would be cool if you could break it down. Like no one other has ever done before. With a 20 point result like you did before just for the fun:)
@@MidnightNotion Well, yes. But it has other new stuff like the main riff. And extremely much double bass through out the song. They just added certain parts from death magnetic into that song.
Everything misfits with danzig is golden. If you want a really good one from the misfits Michael Graves era i recommend 'dr phibes rises again' or 'scream' My favorite from Danzig (glen's band when he left the misfits) is 'How the gods kill'
you dont need to tell us what the song is about. Its about violence, right fiends XD ps, punk in itself, especially pop pung, or those very melodic punk bands are catchy tunes, but early misfits, yea, i dont know ANY band that has THAT much of a catchyness, simple, from the start it just hooks you, upbeat sing along stunes
