5-16-08 I Turned into a Martian

My brother was the Misfits (MySpace here) fan of the family, in the sense that he actually listened to them. There was a time when the boys from Lodi were too scary for me. But I’ve let a few miles roll under me, been beat up by life a few times, and now I gotta say… I like them.

I Turned into a Martian,  off 1982’s Walk Among Us, got me thinking about them. I heard them yesterday on Diane’s Kamikaze Fun Machine, on (you guessed it) WFMU. Never has horrific bodily transmutation sounded so good.

Video courtesy of backporchvideos.

Ah, for the days when you could actually get away with wearing outfits like that…

And here, from benabus, we have actual documentary evidence (as opposed to that fake documentary evidence that they pawn off on you at the flea market) of a human being being turned into a martian! Or possibly Spiderman! It’s a bit hard to tell. Video by the Poonheads.

From the odd to the just as odd… here’s I Turned into a Martian reggae-style, with one-half of a band called Paradox and one-half of a band called False Rhythms. Not bad.

Courtesy of pipp187.

And from odd to the truly bizarre, here’s a horror punk classic… unplugged! Courtesy of Hunter Singleton at huntersingletonmusic, and I have to admit, once I got past the urge to stick this in a “What the FUCK” post, It’s pretty good. Who knew the Misfits could sound so soulful and sad?

 

And from the truly bizarre into Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth territory, here’s the latin version of I Turned into a Martian. It’s Me Convierto en Marciano by Mexico City’s Molotov (MySpace here) and, though it’s in another language, it’s undeniably I Turned into a Martian.

Courtesy of xKingBeanerx.