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.
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
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.
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!
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
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.
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 have always thought the lyrics were: "When new creature rips your face". But then i looked at the lyrics after he said that he wouldn't say the word. And then i realised. Classic Misfits🖤
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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
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.
This is probably my favorite song ever
It's an earworm for sure. It gets in my head for days sometimes
My favorite punk song for sure.
This or Some Kinda Love
Check out "Less than Zero" Danzig wrote it for Roy Orbison to sing, but he ended up singing it himself with a different band.
@@maximumrelaxation4770isn’t it Some Kinda Hate?
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 IMHO is the best punk album ever produced. When I want a flashback to my liberty spiked mohawk days, this is the album I play.
@@DarthRaider520 Will be a classic for eternity man.
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.
If you want misfits lyrics just do what Cliff did
Call Glen Danzig in the middle of the night and annoy him until he gives you the lyrics 🤣
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.
They weren't copying anyone
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
It’s basically perfect
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.
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!
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
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.
What are you talking about?!?! Black Flag was formed in 1976, the Misfits formed in 1977.
They also influenced my favorite band mcr. It’s rlly cool that they can inspire so many bands that are so different from each other
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
According to Glenn, he says " it's about violence " as with most of his explanations... Glenn Danzig is a living legend...🤘😎😎
It's so original because it was recorded in 78
The first time I really understood the lyrics I wanted to call the FBI
I have always thought the lyrics were: "When new creature rips your face". But then i looked at the lyrics after he said that he wouldn't say the word. And then i realised. Classic Misfits🖤
Reminder: Doyle only played down strokes! Based off the playing style of Johnny Ramone...
Doyle didn't play on this song, it was Franche Coma.
@@briansmith1633 You are right, I was under the influence that Doyle played on static age! Thanks for the correction though.
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.
I really loved your enthusiasm here man.
Great video
Thank you! Music is just fun.
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
Bare bones punk music. Back when everything sounded like actual people are playeing the instruments.
Great breakdown of the track. I'd love to see your breakdown reaction of TOOL the Pot.
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.
You should do “I turned into a Martian “next
Dude a man after my own heart!
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.
I tend to gravitate towards songs that are “a bit different from the others,” so I’ll have to check it out!
Theme for a jackal is oddly one of the songs by the misfits that’s genuinely a little bit eerie
Not bad man at all for listening once and figuring out how to play them lol. This shit took me a minute to learn.
The bass carries the whole song
omg i luve this
La estructura de esta canción es simplemente increíble. Saludos.
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.
Danzig has one of the greatest voices in rock history.
What is it about youtubers that causes them to break so easily?
Probably because we’re just teeny tiny little weaklings who have emotions or whatever.
@@MidnightNotion This response BROKE me
😱🤯☠️🪦
They are not Gen X
This song 🩸🩸🩸🩸
I listen to this song twice a day. Once I wake up. Before I go to sleep
I listened to it 5 times on my way to work today
Beethoven, bach , Mozart all left behind by the misfits
New to the Misfits... you've been missing out.
Really? It's just two triplets in each measure (2) and a full note at the end (D) decreasing bpm ad libitum
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.
Search “short music for short people” a compilation of 30 second punk, ska, and hardcore mostly.
Good song good band thank you sir
The ending is in half time triplets
Go ahead and deconstruct The Cramps, maybe Bikini Girls…
Or maybe Violent Femmes “Kiss Off” or “Add It Up”
Me and my fiend's shirt vs life
you should react to some kinda hate, another fucking great song of 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.
If you think that's short on lyrics, listen to "we are 138"
🤫 it’s about his makeup artist?
Mike drop
Fuck yeah!
Theres no solos in any misfits songs really.
They were so good they didn’t need em lol
Love how he's breaking down a Punk song lmao
Some punks are really good songwriters. 🤷♂️ 😆
@@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.
There are some incredible punk songs worth breaking down. They’re just not by The Misfits.
@@somerotter
I know that for sure.
Can you do haggus gore gore gore and more 2018
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:)
Isn’t it basically just “End of the Line” with a couple of other riffs?
@@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.
"All the way back to the origins of punk"? Dude - you're about a decade late for the "origins of punk" if you're using The Misfits.
I hope you didn’t expect an improvised reaction to be 100% factual. 😆
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.
Downpick....PLEEEZ! Get that alternate mess outta here. Good try though.
First time hearing it knowing nothing about the band, learning it by ear, and your takeaway is my picking style? 😆
That's my ringtone
He's saying rip, not rape. He does a gesture of ripping off his face when he performs live.
Not the best intro to the misfits. Hollywood Babylon and teenagers from mars are better songs to listen to as an introduction
Too bad you didn’t say this 7 months ago. 😆
@@MidnightNotion I just caught it
Sorry 🤷♂️
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
Listen "she"
The version from legacy of brutality is better than static age