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Static Age
Static Age cover
Studio album by The Misfits
Released July 15 1997
Recorded January-February 1978
Genre Horror punk, hardcore punk, punk rock, deathrock
Label Caroline
Producer Tom Bejgrowicz and Dave Achelis
Professional reviews
The Misfits chronology
American Psycho
(1997)		 Static Age
(1997)		 Evilive II
(1998)
This article is about the album by The Misfits. For the band, see The Static Age.

Static Age is an album by the American horror punk band The Misfits. It was recorded in 1978 but was not released in its entirety until 1997.

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[edit] History

In August of 1977, The Misfits released their debut single "Cough/Cool". It was released on their own Blank Records, and limited to a small pressing of 500 copies.

A short time later, Mercury Records issued a Pere Ubu record on their new label Blank Records, unaware that the Misfits already had legal right to the name. To prevent a lawsuit, the Misfits were given 30 hours of studio time in return for surrendering rights to the Blank name. Although they were very limited in terms of time, The Misfits were extremely efficient, recording 17 songs and mixing 14 for release on a proposed LP to be titled "Static Age."

Due to lack of money and major label interest, the album was shelved. Instead, the band opted to release another 7". Bullet, released in June of 1978, featured four tracks culled from the sessions: "Bullet", "We Are 138", "Attitude" and "Hollywood Babylon."

Franché Coma and drummer Mr. Jim left The Misfits at the end of 1978, to be replaced by Bobby Steele and Joey Image. This change in line-up, combined with the ever-prolific Danzig's focus on new material, insured that the Static Age tracks would be left to gather dust. With two exceptions, none of the remaining songs from this album would see release in the band's lifetime.

"Teenagers From Mars" would be re-recorded by the new band and released on the Horror Business EP in June of 1979.

"Last Caress" was remixed and released on the Beware 12" (a compilation of the Bullet and Horror Business EP's, with "Last Caress" replacing "Children In Heat") in January of 1980. One of their most well-known songs, it would be made famous by Metallica when they released their cover of it on The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited in 1987. According to ex-guitarist Bobby Steele, Danzig didn't even care much for the song by this time and had to be talked into releasing it.

In 1985, two years after The Misfits had disbanded, vocalist Glenn Danzig released the compilation LP Legacy Of Brutality which featured several of the remaining tracks remixed with overdubbed guitar and bass tracks recorded by the singer himself. These are "Static Age", "TV Casualty", "Hybrid Moments", "Come Back", "Some Kinda Hate", "Theme for a Jackal", "Angelfuck", "Spinal Remains" and "She."

The following year, Danzig released Misfits, or Collection I. It featured "Bullet" and "Hollywood Babylon" from the Bullet EP, and "She" with its Legacy Of Brutality mix.

The flow of posthumous Misfits releases trickled to a halt until Collection II was finally released in 1995. It featured the remaining two tracks from the Bullet EP, "We Are 138" and "Attitude", as well as "Last Caress" from Beware. Also included was another song from the sessions which had previously only been available via bootlegs, "Return of the Fly."

The next year The Misfits Box Set was released. Every Misfits release except Walk Among Us was compiled within, along with many unreleased alternate versions. Disc 4 presented for the first time the unreleased Static Age album in its original mix and running order.

In 1997 Static Age was released as its own album, and contained a priceless incentive for fans who already owned the Box Set: a previously unheard, unknown Misfits song. Unlike other Static Age songs, "In The Doorway" had never been bootlegged, because it remained on the unmixed 2-inch reel. The other bonus tracks, "She" and "Spinal Remains", were also mixed especially for this release. As an additional treat, a lengthy collage of studio banter was included as a hidden track, comprised of unused/alternate takes and a longer sound clip of the random television chatter used for the "TV Casualty" outro.

With this final CD release, the nineteen-year odyssey of Static Age from recording to eventual release came to an end.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Static Age" – 1:46
  2. "TV Casualty" – 2:23
  3. "Some Kinda Hate" – 2:00
  4. "Last Caress" – 1:55
  5. "Return of the Fly" – 1:34
  6. "Hybrid Moments" – 1:40
  7. "We Are 138" – 1:40
  8. "Teenagers From Mars" – 2:48
  9. "Come Back" – 4:57
  10. "Angelfuck" – 1:36
  11. "Hollywood Babylon" – 2:17
  12. "Attitude" – 1:28
  13. "Bullet" – 1:36
  14. "Theme for a Jackal" – 2:35
  15. "She" – 1:22
  16. "Spinal Remains" – 1:24
  17. "In the Doorway" – 1:24

[edit] Box Set version

  1. "Static Intro" – 0:06
  2. "Static Age" – 1:47
  3. "T.V. Casualty" – 2:23
  4. "Some Kinda Hate" – 2:01
  5. "Last Caress" – 1:57
  6. "Return of the Fly" – 1:36
  7. "Hybrid Moments" – 1:42
  8. "We Are 138" – 1:41
  9. "Teenagers From Mars" – 2:50
  10. "Come Back" – 4:59
  11. "Angelfuck" – 1:37
  12. "Hollywood Babylon" – 2:20
  13. "Attitude" – 1:30
  14. "Bullet" – 1:37
  15. "Theme for a Jackal" – 2:35
  16. "Static Outro" – 0:08

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