Are The Misfits Really That Influential?

**Janszoon** · 01-04-2010, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I'd say it happened before that. Loads of thrash metal bands were wearing Misfits shirts long before Danzig released anything as a solo artist.

That's certainly how I became aware of them.

Do you agree about how weird the huge increase in popularity over the years has been though?

Urban Hat€monger ? · 01-04-2010, 04:12 PM

Yes & No really

I think it's more down to having a distinctive image that's sell-able rather than being about the actual music. A bit like the Motorhead skull or the Led Zeppelin angel or Iron Maiden's Eddie.

I've seen all 4 in being sold in high street clothing stores, and i'm not talking about the ones that sell band shirts either.

duga · 01-04-2010, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

Yes & No really

I think it's more down to having a distinctive image that's sell-able rather than being about the actual music. A bit like the Motorhead skull or the Led Zeppelin angel or Iron Maiden's Eddie.

I've seen all 4 in being sold in high street clothing stores, and i'm not talking about the ones that sell band shirts either.

yep...makes me feel bad to have a shirt by any of those bands...

Arya Stark · 01-04-2010, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

Yes & No really

I think it's more down to having a distinctive image that's sell-able rather than being about the actual music. A bit like the Motorhead skull or the Led Zeppelin angel or Iron Maiden's Eddie.

I've seen all 4 in being sold in high street clothing stores, and i'm not talking about the ones that sell band shirts either.

I see the Misfits skull around way more often than any of the three images you mentioned. When I was introduces to Iron Maiden's Eddie, it was after I knew of the band. I saw the Misfits skull on various occasions well before I knew the band.

The other two you mentioned aren't familiar to me at all, really.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 01-04-2010, 04:45 PM

Those

Arya Stark · 01-04-2010, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

Those

The first one, I know now.
But you didn't reply to anything else I said. xD

Urban Hat€monger ? · 01-04-2010, 04:49 PM

Well I was aware of those images long before I heard any music by any of those bands which is why I mentioned them.

Plus all the others are British bands so that maybe why you see more Misfits designs than those. I'd say here it's about equal.

Arya Stark · 01-04-2010, 04:50 PM

Hm. But those two bands are still really popular here, do you know what I mean?
I hear about those bands more often than Misfits, but I see the Misfits image more often than the rest.

sidewinder · 01-04-2010, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Graves was just a hired gun who was recruited when Jerry Only and Doyle reformed the band and is no longer a member so you can't blame him too much. It's really all on Jerry Only and to a lesser extent Doyle. They should never have resurrected the band.

Well I'm no expert on the post-Danzig era, I only threw out names because he asked.

Engine · 01-04-2010, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

Well I was aware of those images long before I heard any music by any of those bands which is why I mentioned them.

Plus all the others are British bands so that maybe why you see more Misfits designs than those. I'd say here it's about equal.

I haven't seen any of those images in expensive retail shops but I've definitely seen the Misfits thing in the young American mall culture for the past 15 years or so. Until this thread, I had no idea that those kids don't even know the original Misfits albums(?!) - for shame - I thought kids knew better..
When I was, um, mall age I used to see the Zeppelin angel, Eddie, and Motorhead thing everywhere - but this was not so much a hipster thing as there were just lots of metalheads everywhere and they were into those bands. God, I saw the Zeppelin thing on probably hundreds of jackets, t-shirts and bumper stickers when I was a kid. In fact it was years before I knew Zeppelin and Motorhead were not American.

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Yes & No really I think it's more down to having a distinctive image that's sell-able rather than being about the actual music. A bit like the Motorhead skull or the Led Zeppelin angel or Iron Maiden's Eddie. I've seen all 4 in being sold in high street clothing stores, and i'm not talking about the ones that sell band shirts either. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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01-04-2010, 04:49 PM	#47 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Well I was aware of those images long before I heard any music by any of those bands which is why I mentioned them. Plus all the others are British bands so that maybe why you see more Misfits designs than those. I'd say here it's about equal. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.