| Misfits | |
| Cover: | Cold chisel misfits.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Cold Chisel |
| Album: | Chisel |
| A-Side: | Misfits |
| B-Side: | "Mona and the Preacher" "Four Walls (live)" |
| Released: | 1991 |
| Recorded: | 1980 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Label: | WEA |
| Producer: | Mark Opitz |
| Prev Title: | Flame Trees |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | Hands Out of My Pocket |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
"Misfits" was a 1991 single from Australian rock band Cold Chisel, issued to promote the compilation album Chisel. The single only reached number 61 in the national charts[1] and was later dropped from subsequent Chisel re-issue packages. The song was written by organist Don Walker and was recorded during the sessions for the 1980 album East. "Misfits" was originally used as the B-side for that album's third single "My Baby".
The song was intended for a Health Commission documentary on homeless youth that was never released, due to the film being too "tough". The producer, Pam Scott, had approached the band to write a song about homeless teenagers in Sydney's Western Suburbs.[2] The promotional video has footage of street kids and the band performing in a studio, shot by Peter Levy, who would later do the cover for "Circus Animals".[3]
Andrew McMillan wrote in RAM, that Barnes, "was - as the medium of lyrical communication - voicing a strong identification with the underdog at a time when the species was gathering numbers, losing hope, and bearing its teeth."[4]