Jam-worthy CDs
Misfits – ‘Static Age’ “Static Age,” which is the recorded output of one of the earliest Misfits lineups, was released in 1978. For years this album was only a rumor, but here it’s finally presented in the form the band originally intended. Many of the songs will be familiar to those acquainted with the Misfits through releases such as Metallica’s version of “Last Caress” and Guns N’ Roses’ cover of “Attitude,” but the originals pack an altogether more gruesome blow than those covers.
Misfits – ‘Static Age’
“Static Age,” which is the recorded output of one of the earliest Misfits lineups, was released in 1978. For years this album was only a rumor, but here it’s finally presented in the form the band originally intended.
Many of the songs will be familiar to those acquainted with the Misfits through releases such as Metallica’s version of “Last Caress” and Guns N’ Roses’ cover of “Attitude,” but the originals pack an altogether more gruesome blow than those covers.
“Static Age” also includes the original versions of “We Are 138,” “Hollywood Babylon” and “TV Casualty,” which alone make this record a must-have.
Reccomended if you like Black Flag, Dead Kennedys and Minor Threat.
Rawkus Records – ‘Best of Decade I’
Rawkus Records “Best of Decade I” is for some a nostalgic look back on some of the best underground hip-hop songs of the late ’90s and for others a first look into the label that inspired Quannum Projects, Groove Attack Productions and Roc-A-Fella Records.
Mos Def and Talib Kweli appear on 11 of the album’s 15 tracks, making their presence a little excessive. To call this compilation “Best of Decade I” is a bit deceptive.
Although it features Talib Kweli’s “Get By” and Pharoahe Monch’s “The Life,” this album is a collection of the best of Talib and Mos Def, not the label as a whole.
Recommended if you like Mos Def, De La Soul and Blackalicious.
