The Alley Cats were a Los Angeles-based punk rock trio featuring Dianne Chai (bass and vocals), Randy Stodola (guitar and vocals), and drummer John McCarthy. They were part of the first-wave L.A. punk rock scene. X’s John Doe described the band as having “made some of the toughest, most nihilistic music on the scene.” (further reading…)
The Alley Cats were a Los Angeles-based punk rock trio featuring Dianne Chai (bass and vocals), Randy Stodola (guitar and vocals), and drummer John McCarthy. They were part of the first-wave L.A. punk rock scene. X’s John Doe described the band as having “made some of the toughest, most nihilistic music on the scene.”
Originally signed to Dangerhouse Records alongside other seminal California-based punk bands including the Bags, Black Randy and the Metro Squad, and X,The Alley Cats released their first single “Nothing Means Nothing Anymore” backed with “Give Me a Little Pain” in March of 1978. At Dangerous they released the album, Nightmare City (1981), while major label MCA released Escape From The Planet Earth (1982). They are among the six bands featured on the 1979 compilation album Yes L.A. and appear in the 1982 film Urgh! A Music War.
The Alley Cats were regular performers at such Los Angeles venues as Club 88, Hong Kong Café, The Masque, and the Whisky a Go Go.
A. Official Releases (7″ vinyl)
1. Alley Cats – Nothing Means Nothing Anymore / Give Me A Little PainLabel: Dangerhouse
Catalog Number: LOM-22
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single
Released: March 1978
Notes: Track B is titled “Give Me A Little Pain” on the sleeve and “Gimme A Little Pain” on the label. The runout etchings and labels indicate “Nothing Means Nothing Anymore” is side “AA” and “Gimme A Little Pain” is side “A”. Picture sleeve is a 14″ sheet folded in half.
Tracklist
A – Nothing Means Nothing Anymore
B – Gimme A Little Pain
2. The Alley Cats – Too Much Junk
Label: Time Coast Records
Catalog Number: TC #22
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single
Released: 1980
Notes: includes two inserts-sleeve with either white or black labels.
Tracklist
A – Too Much Junk
B – Night Along The Blvd.
Online Resources
In November of 1979, Bob Glassley and a few friends piled into his car for a road trip down the West Coast. It was a retired police cruiser from the Dorris California Police Department, an all-white 
Plymouth with a souped-up engine. At the time, Glassley sang for a young punk band from Portland called the Rubbers. They were on a mission that day, to make some alliances in the Los Angeles music scene, and to line up some shows for a touring caravan of Portland bands. “We set out for L.A., and the motor blew somewhere outside of Stockton,” Glassley says. “When we got back on the road we found out it was the day they were taping the Hollywood Christmas parade. All of the freeway exits were closed, so we just kept driving around the city, looking for an off-ramp.”
Eventually they made it into the city and crashed at the Holly-West in Hollywood. The space was a former MGM studio and office building on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western, housing everything from a porno studio and a church led by a gay preacher to rehearsal spaces where musicians lived, practiced and spent most of their time hanging out.
One day, Glassley was listening to a group making noise in a nearby room when a young man with bright blue hair — George Walker — poked his head around the doorway and asked if anyone played bass. “I said I did, although that was a serious stretch,” Glassley says. “I owned a cheap bass back in Portland, so I felt qualified.”
Walker was a gay black man in the late ’70s L.A. punk scene at a time when there were few out gay or black punk musicians.
The two became friends, and after sticking around and playing music for a few days, Glassley was invited to join the group and play bass alongside Walker on guitar with singer Jerry Koskie and drummer Kenneth “Rabit” Bragger. Soon they would come to be known as Cheifs. (further reading…)
In November of 1979, Bob Glassley and a few friends piled into his car for a road trip down the West Coast. It was a retired police cruiser from the Dorris California Police Department, an all-white Plymouth with a souped-up engine. At the time, Glassley sang for a young punk band from Portland called the Rubbers. They were on a mission that day, to make some alliances in the Los Angeles music scene, and to line up some 
shows for a touring caravan of Portland bands. “We set out for L.A., and the motor blew somewhere outside of Stockton,” Glassley says. “When we got back on the road we found out it was the day they were taping the Hollywood Christmas parade. All of the freeway exits were closed, so we just kept driving around the city, looking for an off-ramp.”
Eventually they made it into the city and crashed at the Holly-West in Hollywood. The space was a former MGM studio and office building on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western, housing everything from a porno studio and a church led by a gay preacher to rehearsal spaces where musicians lived, practiced and spent most of their time hanging out.
One day, Glassley was listening to a group making noise in a nearby room when a young man with bright blue hair — George Walker — poked his head around the doorway and asked if anyone played bass. “I said I did, although that was a serious stretch,” Glassley says. “I owned a cheap bass back in Portland, so I felt qualified.”
Walker was a gay black man in the late ’70s L.A. punk scene at a time when there were few out gay or black punk musicians.
The two became friends, and after sticking around and playing music for a few days, Glassley was invited to join the group and play bass alongside Walker on guitar with singer Jerry Koskie and drummer Kenneth “Rabit” Bragger. Soon they would come to be known as Cheifs.
Glassley returned to Portland to play the final shows the Rubbers had booked and was L.A.-bound soon after. The Rubbers’ Bruce Loose went on to sing and play bass with San Francisco’s legendary punk outfit, Flipper. Back in L.A., Glassley experienced a thrilling new beginning, building friendships with the now-legendary denizens of the local punk scene, including Darby Crash and Lorna Doom of the Germs, Keith Morris of Black Flag and the Circle Jerks, and Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L.
A. Official Releases (7″ vinyl)
1a. The Cheifs – The Cheifs
Label: Playgems Records
Catalog Number: PG 001
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1980
Notes: Darby Crash credited on sleeve as “Creative Consultant”; recorded September 1980 in North Hollywood.
Tracklist
A – Blues
B1 – (At The Beach At) Tower 18
B2 – Knocked Out
1b. The Cheifs – The Cheifs
Label: Spontaneous Combustion Records
Catalog Number: SCR-006
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP, Reissue
Released: August 2004
Second pressing reissue
B. Unofficial Releases (7″ vinyl)
1. Cheifs / Black Flag – Career In Bootlegging
Label: Bootleg Institute Of Bakersfield
Catalog Number: BIB – 3001
Format: Vinyl, 2 x 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, EP, Unofficial Release
Released: 1995
Tracks A1 to C2 are April 1982 demo tracks.
Tracks D1 and D2 are 1981 demo tracks.
No track list provided for Cheifs songs on the release itself.
Tracklist
A1 – Cheifs – Cheifin’
A2 – Cheifs – Liberty
B1 – Cheifs – Hollywest Crisis
B2 – Cheifs – Karen Walach
C1 – Cheifs – Drowning
C2 – Cheifs – Eddie’s Revenge
D1 – Black Flag – Spray Paint
D2 – Black Flag – American Waste
Online Resources
Cheifin Out – band history
Once labelled as “California’s The Clash”, The Dils were part of the very first wave of the L.A. punk scene. They formed in Carlsbad in San Diego County before moving first to San Francisco – where bassist Tony Kinman was briefly in The Avengers – then to L.A.
In 1977 What? Records released their debut 7″ I Hate The Rich / You’re Not Blank. Their second release was their critical high-point, issued in 1977 on the Dangerhouse label, in a pressing of 1500 copies, entitled 198 Seconds Of The Dils. The last contemporary release was a three-sided double-7″, Made In Canada. The Dils broke up in 1980.
A. Official Releases (7″ vinyl)
1. The Dils – I Hate The Rich / You’re Not Blank
Label: What Records?
Catalog Number: WHAT 02
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single
Released: September 1977
Notes: First pressing released with a unique sleeve, known as the “Oils” sleeve, as the band name appears to be “THE OILS”, due to the font used in the logo.
Tracklist
A – I Hate The Rich
B – You’re Not Blank (So Baby We’re Through)
2. The Dils – 198 Seconds Of The Dils
Label: Dangerhouse
Catalog Number: SLA-268
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single
Released: December 1977
Notes: Recorded in Los Angeles in the Fall of 1977. Reissued in 2016 and included in the Dangerhouse box set.
Tracklist
A – Class War
B – Mr. Big
3. The Dils – Made In Canada
Label: Rogelletti Records
Catalog Number: RR 001
Format: Vinyl, 2×7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1980
Notes: Recorded November 1979 at Little Mountain Studios in Vancouver, Canada. Side D has a groove but no music on it.
Tracklist
A – Sound Of The Rain
B – Not Worth It
C – Red Rockers
D – [untitled]
Online Resources
Dementlieu Punk Archive – The Dils biography, interviews, discography, shows
The Weirdos are an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. They formed in 1975 and broke up in 1981, were occasionally active in the 1980s, and recorded new material in the 1990s. Critic Mark Deming calls them “quite simply, one of 
the best and brightest American bands of punk’s first wave.”
The band was formed in 1975 by singer John Denney and his guitarist brother Dix, initially using the band names the Barbies and the Luxurious Adults. The Weirdos were originally a 1950s-inspired hard rock and roll band that, like the Ramones in New York City, predated the UK punk scene. While initially trying to distance themselves from the genre name “punk” that was created in New York, ultimately the band, in the words of John Denney, “just kinda became more like this punk ROCK N ROLL type thing and we kinda went with it because the fans wanted it. They wore us down and we just said ‘OK, fine! We’re punk rock, similar to the Ramones. Whatever you say.'”
Show List and Key Dates – This index features show dates, venues, and flyers
Releases – This index features only vinyl and includes official releases
Unofficial Releases – This index features only vinyl and includes unofficial recordings
If-Then-Else – Side project by Dix Denny and John Denny
In a 1990 Flipside interview, John Denney listed the Ramones, New York Dolls and Iggy Pop as fundamental musical inspirations, adding:
“When we saw the Ramones in ’76, we already had short hair and we were already playing fast music like that in late 1975 in small venues and halls mostly, but the Ramones really made us decide to go for it even more. We came before the Sex Pistols and The Damned. They may have been our peers later, but we already had a set of songs in 1975 which were sort of Ramones meets Iggy Pop’s Stooges influenced punk songs. Well before any of the UK bands started cloning America’s punk sound and before any of the UK albums were released. I always felt we were a true garage punk band…”
Denney claimed that the band’s name dated from the early part of the 1970s and referred to his countercultural short hair, at a time when long hair on men was the fashion of the day. “In 1974 according to some left over hippies, I looked like a lobotomy, hippies thought I was weird,” Denney said. “A few months later when we formed, the rest of the band got really short cropped hair too. “We were all weird then, we were considered weirdos”.
By the beginning of 1977, the Weirdos were able to pack clubs (eventually including the Whisky a Go Go, The Roxy and later The Masque) as a headlining band. Known for their zany stage costumes and antics, the band helped shape the vigorous and experimental early Los Angeles punk scene and served as an inspiration to a crop of new bands.
John Denney recalled:
“We [Los Angeles] had our own look, our own sound. It was apart from New York or London…. We were staunchly against safety pins, we tried to parody punk rock at first. We did happy faces onstage as a joke sometimes, which was the exact opposite of what New York was doing. We were just thumbing our noses at everything. Everything was a joke; punk was a joke, we were a joke. Nonetheless, we were still serious about rocking.”
Online Resources
Amoeba Music – The Weirdos biography
Break My Face – The Weirdos biography
Discogs – The Weirdos discography
The Bags were formed by Alicia Armendariz and Patricia Morrison, who had met at an audition for Venus and the Razorblades, Kim Fowley’s next attempt at creating a band after The Runaways had left him. Armandariz and Morrison decided to form their own band and from this the Bags were born. They took the band’s name and their stage names “Alice 
Bag” and “Pat Bag” from a gimmick that the band used during early performances where they performed with grocery bags over their heads (the practice did not last, in part due to an incident where Darby Crash of the Germs ran up on stage and ripped the bag off Alice’s head). Alice Bag was the vocalist and Pat Bag played bass. The band was rounded out by guitar players Craig Lee and Rob Ritter, and Terry Graham on drums.
The Bags played their first concert at The Masque on September 10, 1977. Their concerts were riotous affairs including altercations with celebrities, such as one between singer Tom Waits and drummer Nicky Beat at The Troubadour.
By 1978, they had released their only record during the band’s lifetime, a single called “Survive”, backed with “Babylonian Gorgon”, released by independent record label Dangerhouse Records. “We Don’t Need The English” was included on the Yes L.A. punk compilation album released by the same label.
After this, Pat Bag left the band. In 1980 the group, minus Pat Bag, was filmed by Penelope Spheeris for the seminal documentary film The Decline of Western Civilization, which also featured the Germs, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, X and other prominent L.A. punk bands. However, at the release of the film in 1981 the producers billed the group as “Alice Bag Band” to avoid any conflict with ex-member Pat. By then, however, the band had broken up.
Craig Lee also played with Catholic Discipline, and he and co-member Phranc performed together occasionally when she embarked on her subsequent solo career. However, Lee is best known as a writer and critic for publications such as Flipside fanzine, among many others, and as co-author of the book Hardcore California: A History Of Punk and New Wave. He died, as a result of AIDS in 1991.
Terry Graham went on to play drums for The Gun Club. Pat, now known as Patricia Morrison, also joined The Gun Club soon after. Once she left The Gun Club she joined The Sisters of Mercy and then The Damned, one of the original British punk bands (and the one that was often credited with sparking the L.A. scene), for which she plays bass. She married Dave Vanian, the Damned’s lead singer.
Rob Ritter also joined The Gun Club, and appeared on their first LP Fire Of Love, but left, changing his name to Rob Graves and forming the seminal death rock band 45 Grave, with Dinah Cancer, Don Bolles, previously of the Germs and Nervous Gender, Paul Roessler of The Screamers and Nervous Gender and Paul Cutler. 45 Grave was influential in the creation of goth rock. Graves died in 1990 of a heroin overdose.
Alice Bag joined the deathrock band Castration Squad, which included Phranc and Dinah Cancer among its many members. In the 1990s, she formed Cholita! with punk rock drag queen Vaginal Davis and the band released several videos. After this, she performed with Las Tres and then formed Stay at Home Bomb, her most recent musical project. According to her official website, since the deaths of Lee and Ritter and her estrangement from Morrison, she considers the Bags to be permanently disbanded, and has refused to perform Bags songs in public.
A collection of recordings from the group has been released on Artifix Records as well as a reissue of the original Dangerhouse single.
A. Official Releases (7″ vinyl)
1. Bags – Survive
Label: Dangerhouse
Catalog Number: BAG 199
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single
Released: Dec 1978
Notes: produced by Geza X.
Tracklist
A – Survive
B – Babylonian Gorgon
2. Disco’s Dead
Label: Artifix Records
Catalog Number: SPR018
Format: Vinyl, 7″
Released: 2003
3. All Bagged Up: The Collected Works 1977-1980
Label: Artifix Records
Catalog Number: SPR025
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: 2007
Unofficial Releases
1. No Excess Bagisims
Label: Dangerhouse
Catalog Number: BAG 200
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Unofficial Release
Released: 1990
Online Resources
The Flyboys were a pioneering Californian punk rock band founded in 1975 before the first wave of American punk. The act was prominent in the Los Angeles punk rock scene around 1976 and 1977. The band broke up in 1980.
The Flyboys’s first release was a recording released on the band’s own record label, recorded in June 1976 and released a month later. The record quickly sold through a first pressing of 1,000 copies.
The band recorded another record which would be the very first for a new label, Lisa Fancher’s Frontier Records in early 1980, a seven-song EP titled Flyboys that included proto-type punk tunes such as “I Couldn’t Tell” and “Dear John” as well as their “Theme Song”, a surf inspired rave up that was covered by Jodie Foster’s Army.
Releases
1. Flyboys – Crayon World
Label: Flyguy Records
Catalog Number: FR001
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Blue
Released: 1979
2. Flyboys – Flyboys
Label: Frontier Records
Catalog Number: FLP 1001
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Released: Mar 1980
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This index features only 7″ vinyl and includes material recorded of the original band between 1977 and 1983; this index will not include re-pressings of official releases unless they’re significantly different or contain different tracks. Multiple pressing will be examined if unique…
1a. The Misfits – Max’s Kansas City
Label: none
Catalog Number: CR 002
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 RPM, EP
Released: 1987
First pressing of 75 hand-numbered copies on translucent green vinyl with illustrated black and white center labels with small hole in glossy black and white fold-over picture sleeve with poster.
Tracklist
A1 – All Hell Breaks Loose
A2 – Last Caress
A3 – Hate Breeders
B1 – Teenagers From Mars
B2 – I Turned Into A Martian
B3 – We Are 138
Tracks recorded live at Al’s Bar in Los Angeles, CA on April 17, 1982 and not at Max’s Kansas City as titled. The sleeve incorrectly lists this show as Max’s Kansas City. The Misfits were banned from Max’s in 1979, long before some of the songs, and this recording, were made.
1b. The Misfits – Max’s Kansas City
Label: none
Catalog Number: CR 002
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 RPM, EP
Released: 1987
Second pressing of 1000 copies on black vinyl with illustrated black and white center labels with small hole in black and red fold-over picture sleeve with poster.
2a. The Misfits – Famous Misfits of Filmland
Label: Scatterbrainchild Records
Catalog Number: SR-003
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: March 1987 [1988]
First pressing of 500 hand-numbered copies on multi-color, red or pink vinyl with printed black and yellow center labels with small hole in black and green or black and white fold-over 1.5 picture sleeve.
Tracklist
A1 – Where Eagles Dare
A2 – Vampira
B1 – Skulls
B2 – Ghouls Night Out
Track A1 recorded at C.I Recording in New York, NY in January 1979
Tracks A2, B1-B2 recorded at Master Sound Productions in Franklin Square, NY in August 1980
2b. The Misfits – Famous Misfits of Filmland
Label: Scatterbrainchild Records
Catalog Number: SR-003
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: unknown [1992]
Multiple reissues on black, white, red, grey, and purple vinyl with either blank black or blank white center labels with large hole in black and white fold-over 1.5 picture sleeve.
3a. The Misfits – Evil Is As Evil Does
Label: Plan 9 (unofficial)
Catalog Number: none
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1987
First pressing of 500 copies on black vinyl with blank orange labels with small hole in multi-color fold-over picture sleeve.
Tracklist
A1 – London Dungeon
A2 – Attitude
A3 – Teenagers From Mars
B1 – Night Of The Living Dead
B2 – All Hell Breaks Loose
B3 – Hate Breeders
Tracks recorded live at Hitsville in Passaic, NJ on December 25, 1981.
3b. The Misfits – Evil Is As Evil Does
Label: Plan 9 (unofficial)
Catalog Number: none
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1989
Second pressing on green vinyl with blank yellow center labels with small hole in multi-color fold-over picture sleeve. Additional reissues in the multi-color fold-over picture sleeve with either yellow, white, or orange center labels on black or yellow vinyl.
3c. The Misfits – Evil Is As Evil Does
Label: Plan 9 (unofficial)
Catalog Number: none
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: unknown
Third pressing on black vinyl with blank white center labels with large hole in black and white fold-over picture sleeve.
3d. The Misfits – Evil Is As Evil Does
Label: Plan 69
Catalog Number: none
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 2006
Fourth pressing on black vinyl with blank orange labels with small hole in multi-color fold-over picture sleeve.
3e. Subsequent pressing on yellow vinyl with blank white center labels with large hole in multi-color fold-over picture sleeve.
4a. The Misfits – Return Of The Fly
Label: Monkey Business Records
Catalog Number: none
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1987
First pressing of 500 copies with on black vinyl with blank black center labels with small hole in printed sleeve.
Second pressing of 500 copies with printed sleeve, plain white center labels and small center hole.
Tracklist
A1 – Return Of The Fly
B1 – Cough Cool
B2 – She
Track A1 recorded at C.I Recording in New York, NY in January 1978
Tracks B1-B2 recorded at Rainbow Studio in New York, NY in June 1977
4b. The Misfits – Return Of The Fly
Label: Perverted Productions
Catalog Number: PP 001
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1990
Reissue limited to 500 hand-numbered copies on black vinyl with printed center labels (Misfits skull) with small hole in printed 1.5 fold-over picture sleeve.
4c. The Misfits – Return Of The Fly
Label: none
Catalog Number: none
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1990
Reissue on black vinyl with printed center labels (Misfits skull) with small hole in photocopied 1.5 fold-over picture sleeve.
4d. The Misfits – Return Of The Fly
Label: none
Catalog Number: PL 000
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1991
Reissue limited to of 500 copies on black vinyl with blank white center labels and small center hole in illustrated and printed fold-over picture sleeve. Image of Vincent Price in trench coat taken from “House Of Wax” movie.
5a. Misfits – Live! 79 The Perfect Crime!
Label: none
Catalog Number: BR 007
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1988
First pressing of 1000 copies on black vinyl with blank red center labels and large hole, with a full size sticker with the front cover art on it.
Reissues on green and white vinyl with white center labels.
Tracklist
A1 – Horror Business
B1 – Teenagers From Mars
B2 – Children In Heat
Tracks recorded live at 4th Street Saloon in Bethlehem, PA on September 15, 1979.
5b. Misfits – Horror Business EP
Label: Vic Ledman Records
Catalog Number: none
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1992
includes the same tracks as Live! 79 The Perfect Crime!
6a. The Misfits – Fiend Club
Label: I.F.M.
Catalog Number: IFM-1001
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1988
Black vinyl with printed center label with large hole in photocopied fold-over picture sleeve.
Tracklist
A1 – Return Of The Fly
A2 – Hybrid Moments
B1 – Teenagers From Mars
B1 – I Turned Into A Martian
Tracks A1-A2, B1 recorded at C.I Recording in New York, NY in January 1978
Track B2 recorded at Master Sound Productions in Franklin Square, NY in August 1980
6b. The Misfits – Invasion From Mars
Label: I.F.M.
Catalog Number: IFM-1001
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1988
Black vinyl with printed center label with large hole in photocopied fold-over picture sleeve.
6c. The Misfits – Invasion From Mars
Label: I.F.M.
Catalog Number: IFM-1001
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1988
Black vinyl with printed center label with large hole in black and green or black and white photocopied fold-over picture sleeve.
6d. The Misfits – Invasion From Mars
Label: I.F.M.
Catalog Number: IFM-1001
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1988
Black vinyl with printed center label with large hole in black and yellow photocopied fold-over picture sleeve.
7a. Misfits – Evil-Five
Label: Frisco’s Fav Records
Catalog Number: EF-13
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1988
First pressing limited to 500 numbered copies on translucent blue vinyl with printed blue center label and large hole in fold-over 1.5 picture sleeve.
Tracklist
A1 – Halloween
A2 – We Bite
A3 – Attitude
B1 – Die Die My Darling [Samhain]
B2 – Who Killed Marilyn
Track A1 recorded live at 9:30 Club, Washington, DC on February 28, 1982
Track A2 recorded live at P.U.N.X. #4, Los Angeles, CA on April 8, 1983
Track A3 recorded live at Bookie’s Club 870, Detroit, MI on September 12, 1981
Track B1 recorded live at Jockey Club, Newport, KY on September 16, 1984
Track B2 recorded live at Michigan Union Ballroom, Ann Arbor, MI on April 23, 1983
7b. Misfits – Evil-Five
Label: Perverted Productions – PP 002
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1990
Second pressing limited to 500 numbered copies on black vinyl with illustrated black and white center label and small hole in fold-over 1.5 picture sleeve.
8. Misfits – 4 Hits From Hell
Label: none
Catalog Number: SIN 101
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1988, 1989
a. First pressing on black vinyl with plain white center labels and small hole in multi-color sleeve.
b. Second pressing on black vinyl with plain black center labels and large hole in multi-color sleeve.
c. Third pressing on red vinyl with plain black center labels and large hole in multi-color sleeve.
d. Fourth pressing on black vinyl with plain green center labels and large hole in multi-color sleeve.
Tracklist
A1 – Devils Whorehouse
A2 – Attitude
B1 – Braineaters
B2 – Bullet
Tracks recorded live at 9:30 Club, Washington, DC on February 28, 1982.
9. Misfits – Ghouls Gold E.P.
Label: Braineater Records
Catalog Number: 777
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1988 [Note: released in 1988 and not in 1983 as stated on sleeve.]
First pressing of 500 hand-numbered copies on black vinyl with printed yellow center label with large hole in photocopied double-sided fold-over picture sleeve.
Tracklist
A1 – She
A2 – Cough / Cool
B1 – Ghouls Night Out
B2 – Last Caress
Tracks A1-A2 recorded at Rainbow Studio in New York, NY in June 1977
Track B1 recorded at Master Sound Productions in Franklin Square, NY in August 1980
Track B2 recorded at C.I. Recording, Inc. in New York, NY in September 1979
10. Misfits – Astro Zombies E.P.
Label: Plan 9 (unofficial)
Catalog Number: none
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1988
First pressing of 500 copies on red vinyl with illustrated black and white center labels in printed fold-over picture sleeve with sticker of center label image
Tracklist
A1 – Astro Zombies
A2 – Halloween II
B1 – Return Of The Fly
B2 – Mommy, Can I Go Out & Kill Tonight
Tracks A1-A2 recorded at Master Sound Productions in Franklin Square, NY in August 1980
Track B1 recorded at C.I. Recording, Inc. in New York, NY in January 1978
Track B2 recorded at Fox Studio in Rutherford, NJ in July 1983
11a. Misfits – Rat Fink
Label: Monsters
Catalog Number: none
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1989
First pressing of 250 hand-numbered copies on clear vinyl with blank black center labels and small hole in black and yellow fold-over picture sleeve. Includes green or pink numbered flyer for Wilson Center show.
Tracklist
A1 – Rat Fink
B1 – Spook City U.S.A
B2 – Children In Heat
Track A1 recorded at The Song Shop in New York, NY in June 1979
Track B1 recorded at Mix-O-Lydian Studio in Boonton, NJ in April 1981
Track B2 recorded at C.I. Recording, Inc. in New York, NY in January 1979
11b. Misfits – Rat Fink
Label: Monsters
Catalog Number: none
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1989
Second pressing on black vinyl with illustrated black and white center labels and small hole in black and yellow sleeve.
12a-c. Misfits – Violent World
Label: No Trust
Catalog Number: No Trust 01
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 1/3 RPM, EP
Released: 1989
a. First pressing of 400 copies on grey vinyl (and 30 numbered copies on clear vinyl and 30 numbered copies on pink vinyl) with printed and rubber-stamped center labels with small hole in printed and illustrated sleeve
b. First pressing of 30 numbered copies on clear vinyl with printed and rubber-stamped center labels with small hole in printed and illustrated sleeve
c. First pressing of 30 numbered copies on pink vinyl with printed and rubber-stamped center labels with small hole in printed and illustrated sleeve
Tracklist
A1 – Who Killed Marilyn?
A2 – Astro Zombies
A3 – Where Eagles Dare
B1 – Children In Heat
B2 – Violent World
B3 – I Turned Into A Martian
Tracks A1, B1 recorded at C.I. Recording, Inc. in New York, NY in January 1979
Tracks A2-A3, B2-B3 recorded at Master Sound Productions in Franklin Square, NY in August 1980
12d. Misfits – Hämmërs
Label: No Trust
Catalog Number: No Trust 01
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 1/3 RPM, EP
Released: 1991
Reissue on grey vinyl with printed and rubber-stamped center labels with small hole in photocopied black and green fold-over picture sleeve.
13. Misfits – Horrorbullet
Label: Arche Noire Records
Catalog Number: 027
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: 1989
First pressing of 500 copies of which 470 are regular copies on black vinyl with black and silver printed and illustrated center labels with small hole in illustrated multicolored fold-over picture sleeve; 30 copies issued in a hand-numbered box with sticker and patch inserts.
Tracklist
A1 – Vampira
A2 – Skulls
A3 – All Hell Breaks Loose
B1 – Attitude
B2 – Devils Whorehouse
B3 – Hate Breeders
B4 – We Are 138
Tracks recorded live at Bookie’s Club 870 in Detroit, MI on September 12th, 1981
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This index features only vinyl and includes material released by the original band between 1977 and 1983
1. The Misfits – Cough / Cool
Label: Blank Records
Catalog Number: BLANK 101
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single
Released: August 1977
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2. The Misfits – Bullet
Label: Plan 9
Catalog Number: PL1001
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: June 1978
3. The Misfits – Horror Business
Label: Plan 9
Catalog Number: PL1009
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP, Yellow
Released: August 1979
4. The Misfits – Night Of The Living Dead
Label: Plan 9
Catalog Number: PL1011
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: October 31, 1979
5. The Misfits – Beware
Label: Plan 9
Catalog Number: PLP9
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Compilation
Released: January 1980
6. The Misfits – 3 Hits From Hell
Label: Plan 9
Catalog Number: PL1013
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP
Released: April 1981
7. Misfits – Halloween
Label: Plan 9
Catalog Number: PL1017
Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single
Released:October 30, 1981