Evilive

About

The Misfits capture everything that was raw and powerful about punk rock. In truth, the members were less-than-accomplished musicians, often under-rehearsed and flat-out sloppy. Their leader, Glenn Danzig, started off as more of a bellower than a singer, and the sound quality on many of their records is sub-fidelity. Yet even with all that against them, The Misfits' music captures a magic that's partly due to these haphazard conditions. Other punk bands have come after them and done much the same style, with carefully crafted performances, but not come close to The Misfits' magic. <i>Evillive</i>, recorded from shows in November and December 1981 at New York's Ritz Theatre and San Francisco's On Broadway, was first pressed as a seven-song EP; it was later expanded to 12 tracks as a 1987 full-length album. Henry Rollins of Black Flag joins The Misfits for a chaotic "We Are 138," while Danzig pushes the group to the finish line at maximum (but never hardcore) speed. Classic tunes like "20 Eyes," "Night of the Living Dead," "Astro Zombies," "Hate Breeders," and "All Hell Breaks Loose" became cornerstones of the band's catalog.

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