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Rating: The Misfits left the scene at the end of 1983, after troubled years with few practical satisfactions. Despite this, they managed to make their mark on music history with a hardcore shard that would be a cornerstone for every aficionado of this rock subgenre.
The cover of this LP (released on vinyl in 1982) demonstrates a reality seemingly at odds with the grim appearance of the band members. The opening is entrusted to “20 Eyes”, which in about 2 minutes manages to convey to every listener what kind of album they are facing. “All Hell Breaks Loose" is the first masterpiece of the album where an endless chorus makes the track irresistible. “Vampira” is a composition that starts off furiously and finishes the run leaving the listener bewildered, who with “Nike A Go Go” and “Hate Breeders”, in my opinion the best track on the album, will not be able to resist moshing even with their pet.
“Mommy, Can I Go Out & Kill Tonight” is preceded by Arthur Googy's historic one-two-three-four and is taken from an equally historic concert held by the band where Glenn Danzig demonstrates through a grating and dark vocal tone what he was capable of around twenty years ago.
The umpteenth masterpiece arrives with “Skulls” where the Misfits, accompanied by a noisy background, demonstrate their ability to write captivating and obsessive melodies, but at the same time infused with often theatrical and naive self-irony, which nevertheless would deeply influence the hardcore genre.
”Devils Whorehouse” starts a bit subdued but then turns out to be splendid, traversed by endless melodic cues rhythmically underlined throughout the piece by a metronome reinforced by the legendary bass of Jerry Only. The final two tracks drop in tone, although in the case of “Astro Zombies” attention must be paid to the theme tackled by the band: the zombie, which through this piece enters the collective consciousness. "Braineaters” is a barely one-minute-long ditty that develops through a song and melody that are downright obnoxious.
The album, at just 25 minutes, sounds dated, unfortunately like the other LPs and EPs of the band, but it serves as a source of inspiration and imitation for numerous bands in the following years. In short, the best album of a band that was rediscovered during the '80s and became a cult for every expert of contaminated and non-contaminated Hardcore-Punk.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 20 Eyes (01:47)
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same,
they're all the same
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same,
they're all the same
When you're seeing 20 things at a time
You just can't slow things down,
baby When you're seeing 20 things in your mind
Just can't slow things down
Then all those eyes
They're just crowding up your human face
Then all those eyes Take an overload
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same,
they're all the same
When you're seeing 20 things at a time
You just can't slow things down,
baby When you're seeing 20 things in your mind
Just can't slow things down
Then all those eyes
They're just crowding up your human face
Then all those eyes
Take an overload
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same
20 eyes in my head
They're all the same
20 eyes in my head
They're all the same
02 I Turned Into a Martian (01:42)
possession of the mind is a terrible thing
it's a transformation with an urge to kill
not the body of a man from earth
not the face of the one you love, 'cause
well, i turned into a martian woah oh oh
i can't even recall my name woah oh oh
times i never hardly sleep at night woah oh oh
well, i turned into a martian today
i walk down city streets on an unsuspecting human world
inhuman in your midst
this world is mine to own, 'cause
well, i turned into a martian woah oh oh
well, i can't even recall my name woah oh oh
times i never hardly sleep at night woah oh oh
well, i turned into a martian today (go,go)
well, i turned into a martian woah oh oh
well, i can't even recall my name woah oh oh
times i never hardly sleep at night woah oh oh
turned into a martian woah oh oh
can't even recall my name oh,
won't you tell me what the fuck is my name, martian
woah oh oh woah oh oh
03 All Hell Breaks Loose (01:48)
Walls start closing in around you
My twins of evil
They shake you by the collarbone
Then snap your ribcage
And broken bodies in a death rock dance hall
Please be my partner
Eyeballs pop, accelerated blood beat
Veins 'a' shaking
And all hell breaks loose
Yea, evil is as evil does and who
Yea, who but me could write this book of cruel
I send my murdergram
To all these monster kids
It comes right back to me and it's
Signed in their parents' blood
And all hell breaks loose
Yea, my heart is a-breaking loose
Yea, my whole world's breaking loose
Yea, and evil is as does and who
Yea, but who but me could write this book of cruel
I send my murdergram
To all these monster kids
It comes right back to me and it's
Signed in their parents' blood
And broken bodies in a death rock dance hall
Please be my partner
And eyeballs pop, accelerated blood beat
Veins a-shaking
And all hell breaks loose
Yea, my heart is a-breaking loose
Yea, my whole world's breaking loose
Yea, evil is as evil does and who
Yea, but who but me could write this book of cruel
I said my whole world's breaking loose
Yea, my whole world's breaking loose
Yea, my whole world's breaking loose
Yea, my whole world's breaking
All hell breaks loose
04 Vampira (01:27)
Hey
Black dress moves in a blue movie
Graverobbes from out space
Well your pulmonary trembles in your outstreched arm
Trembles so wicked
Two inch nails
Micro waist
With a pale white feline face
Inclination eyebrows to there
Mistress to the horror kid
Cemetery of the white love ghoul
Take off your shabby dress
Come and lay beside me
Come a little bit closer
Come a little bit closer
Come a little bit closer
Come a little but closer to me
Vampira, Vampira, Vampira
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
06 Hatebreeders (03:07)
whoa oh oh no whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh brain invasion goin' on in everyone you feel the things that make your world turn angry red because the next time you can't take it next thought murderlation and hate is all you wanna know whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh murder one inborn into your every cell it's in your blood and you can't shake it because you were bred to take it next stop annihilation they bred the hate right in your bones whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh because you were bred to take it next stop annihilation they bred the hate right in your fuckin' bones whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh hate is your mistress and you shall not want you shall not want because your breed is strong because when they try to break you new world desolation and strength is all you gotta know whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh whoa oh oh hate breeders whoa oh oh and all you know hatebreeders whoa oh oh and all you know hatebreeders whoa oh oh
08 Night of the Living Dead (01:59)
A fortress in the sky
What's left of life it holds
We live on borrowed time
Along a glowing moonlit pier
Their armies still advance
From the murky depths, they rise
From their rotting bones
Their souls, they scream
For the flesh they need
Tonight, zombies walk
Upon the earth
Land of the dead
Massive flames arise
They burn out of control
In the slums, it's genocide
Evolved, they find a way inside
Those who could escape
Have no chance to survive
From their rotting bones
Their souls, they scream
For the flesh they need
Tonight, zombies walk
Upon the earth
Land of the dead
09 Skulls (02:01)
The corpes all hanging headless and limp,
Bodies with no surprises,
The blood drains down like the devil's rain,
We'll bathe tonight.
I want your skulls,
I need your skulls,
I want your skulls,
I need your skulls.
Demon I am and face I peel,
See your skin turned inside out,
'Cause I've gotta have you on my wall,
Gotta have you on my wall, 'cause,
I want your skulls,
I need your skulls,
I want your skulls,
I need your skulls.
Collect the heads of little girls and,
Put 'em on my wall.
Hack the heads off little girls and,
Put 'em on my wall.
Whoa
Whoa
I want your skulls,
I need your skulls,
I want your skulls,
I need your skulls.
10 Violent World (01:47)
Pregnant mothers in Mexico
Give birth to still-born monster babies
Hideous deformed two-headed monsters
Vivisected for your magazine essay
C'mon C'mon
C'mon to the violent world with me
C'mon C'mon
C'mon to the violent world with me!
Nazi demons, Nazi youth
Wolverines in dark brown suits
They shove you in an oven and you start to cook
Blame it all on Nazi youth
C'mon C'mon
C'mon to the violent world with me
C'mon C'mon
C'mon to the violent world with me!
Any opportunity comes
Can't afford to rot, so you move on
Any opportunity comes
Can't afford the right to move on
C'mon C'mon C'mon
Violent world (x7)
12 Astro Zombies (02:15)
oh, all i want to know all i want
with just a touch of my burning hand
i send my astro zombies to rape the land
prime directive, exterminate the whole human race
and your face drops in a pile of flesh
and then your heart, heart pounds till it pumps in death
prime directive, exterminate whatever stands left
all i wanted to say and all i gotta do
who'd i do this for hey, me or you
and all i wanted to say and all i gotta do
who'd i do this for hey, me or you
oh, all i want to know all i want
with just a touch of my burning hand
i'm gonna live my life to destroy your world
prime directive, exterminate the whole fuckin' race
then your face drops in a pile of flesh
and then your heart, heart pounds and it pumps in death
prime directive, exterminate this whole fuckin' place
well all i wanted to say and all i gotta do
who'd i do this for hey, me or you
and all i wanted to say and all i gotta do
who'd i do this for hey, me or you
oh, all i want to know all i want to know
all i want to know all i want oh oh
13 Braineaters (00:57)
BRAINEATERS
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Hey hey hey
Brains for dinner
Brains for lunch
Brains for breakfast
Brains for brunch
Brains at every single meal
Why can't we have some guts
Hey hey hey
Brains are all we ever get
In this rotten fuckin' place, hey hey
Brains are all we ever get
Why can't we have a change of pace
Brains for dinner
Brains for lunch
Brains for breakfast
Brains for brunch
Brains at every single meal
Why can't we have some guts, hey hey
Why can't we have some guts, hey hey
Why can't we have some fuckin' rotten guts
Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
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