This Week Ted Leo And The Pharmacists cover Tears For Fears

Artist Misfits

Misfits stuck to their own path during their ’80s heyday, playing horrific yet catchy punk rock heavy on the B-movie references and face paint. With the Misfits’ original leader, Glenn Danzig, long out of the picture due to a lawsuit, remaining members Jerry Only and Robo—along with guitarist Dez Cadena, who played with Robo in Black Flag—have not-so-effectively zombified the band’s corpse. With Only taking over lead vocal duties, the absence of a compelling, Danzig-like frontman is palpable, but it’s almost worth enduring just to hear Cadena lead the band through an obligatory handful of Flag classics.

Updated 07/29/2009

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