Albums That Changed My Life Part 1: The Misfits - Evilive

The Misfits Evilive, what can I say? This would be my introduction to one of the greatest bands ever, yeah I said it, EVER! Where to begin...

So there I am sitting at lunch in 7th grade, just enjoying my nachos. My friend walks up and tells me that his older brother has some music for me, and produces a2 cassette tapes (this was 20ish years ago). I say thanks and shove them in my bag and promising that I will listen to them once I arrive home. 6 Or so hours later and I take the two tapes out and give them the once over. Corrosion Of Conformity... I like the skulls on the cover so I pop it in my tape deck. Eye For An Eye doesn't really impress me all that much (it still doesn't). Next up is the misfits. I really like the art work on this one, it has skulls and people in coffins, very evil looking. Side note... when I was younger (like 7) my family went on vacation and there were these 2 older kids at the same place, they wore Misfits shirts everyday. Where was I? Oh yeah, skulls, evil... So I put this tape in and press play and am amazed by what I hear!. This band has everything that a 12 year old with some issues is looking for... imagery that will annoy my parents, swearing that will annoy my parents, screaming that will annoy my parents, it is the perfect album for a 12 year old! I listened to this tape for a month straight, until I finally returned it. I can barely listen to this album anymore (not that big into live albums), but will often listen to their studio stuff. It was a few more years until I got a 15th generation copy of Walk Among Us. That would of been the 1st album that would change my life, except I heard Evilive first, oh well. So that is it for the first installment...