SATURDAY SONG TO GET JACK O’LANTERNED TO: THE MISFITS – “NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD”
Saturday, November 1st, 2008 at 3:34pm by Kip WingerschmidtMuch like The Misfits, I’ll keep this short and sweet: if you haven’t carved that pumpkin yet, today prolly
oughta be the day…
This is the title track from The Misfits’ 3rd EP, and it was released on Halloween Eve, 1979, at NYC’s (now-corporate-owned-The-Fillmore-at-) Irving Plaza, where Vince and I triumphantly caught Protest the Hero play the other night with chugga-chugga-breakdownsters Unearth. In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that while PtH was onstage expertly slaying their intricate melo-tallic proggery, I did notice Vince in a dark corner pleasuring himself.
Happy November, y’all — bundle up, storms a comin…
THE MISFITS - “Night of the Living Dead”, from Night of the Living Dead (1979)
-KW
I’ve been on a Misfits kick all week. Thanks for posting this!
That show was amazing Thursday night. How fucking stoned was PTH’s bassist?
You could have posted so many other songs too like Halloween, Saturday Night, Braineaters, etc.
How about one of those Sunday Birthday songs eh? Eh?
im so pissed i couldn’t make it to the PtH show. but i’ll be there next time they come to nyc.