- rock
- 56 min
- 14 tracks
- E1 Entertainment
Misfits is the seventeenth studio album by the English rock band the Kinks, released in 1978. Following the minor success of Sleepwalker in the United States, Misfits featured a more rock-oriented style than many other Kinks records of the 1970s.
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Character
Spare, classical in form, grave and cool.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Blender3/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideB
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Misfits4:44
- 2Hay Fever3:34
- 3Black Messiah4:10
- 4A Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy5:02
- 5In a Foreign Land3:04
- 6Permanent Waves3:50
- 7Live Life (UK album version)4:49
- 8Out of the Wardrobe3:39
- 9Trust Your Heart4:13
- 10Get Up3:23
- 11Black Messiah (single remix)3:38
- 12Father Christmas3:42
- 13A Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy (US single edit)4:01
- 14Live Life (US single mix)3:48
14 tracks, 56 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Kinks
- Label
- E1 Entertainment
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- US
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