Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The G-Men - The G-Files

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From their Myspace
" The G-men have been through many changes since their humble beginnings back in the late 1980’s. They had rose from the ashes of ska band the Restrictors who had gained mass popularity in the North East of England with their up-beat shows. The G-men played their first gig in January 1990 at the Coatham Hotel in Redcar, it was during this show that the infamous inflatable Newcastle Brown Ale Bottle was first introduced to an unsuspecting audience to coincide with their signature tune “Bottle Of Dog”. After the usual start for most bands playing gigs locally the G-Men started to look further a field gaining support slots with acts such as Bad Manners, The International Beat, The Nutty Boys and the Trojans to name but a few. It was the success of these shows that gave the band well deserved supporting slots with legends of Ska Laurel Aitken, Judge Dread and Bim Ska La Bim. This then helped them secure a place supporting The Selector on their “Out On The Streets” tour. The band went various through line up changes over the years taken them up to the year 2000 when the band finally released their long awaited debut CD album, 'The G-Files’ on Northern Sky records. Their last performance was in April 2002; although this was not meant to be the last gig, things just sort of went their own way after that gig and the band drifted apart. During summer 2007 Dins decided to put together a new band so along with Andy from Last Rough Cause, Laze from Major Accident and ex G-man Dell rehearsals began. Fate then took a slight twist, during one drunken session and at Dell’s insistence the band performed a few G – men songs and so it began. Mark was asked to join the band for the next rehearsal and the G-men were reborn. "

Here they are performing 'Freedom Train'


1 Freedom Train
2 Shout Out
3 Teenage Nightmare
4 Sunshine Boy
5 Victims
6 Valley of the Kings
7 You Go Up
8 Barton Street
9 Stop the Clock
10 The Chosen Few

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Monday, January 19, 2009

Ska Flames 7-inches

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Here are 3 early 7"s from the Japanese band The Ska Flames.

"Tokyo Shot"
A - Tokyo Shot
B - Ray Hyman

"2nd 7""
A - Ghost Rider
B - Reconfirmation

"3rd 7""
A - Old Rocking Chair
B - If You Don't Know Me By Now

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You can find their other releases HERE

Monday, January 12, 2009

The Velvetones

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The Velvetones (aka The Velvetones Hull) (aka Mike Montez and The Velvetones) were a swing band from Hull UK.
Members later formed The Housemartins and The Beautiful South.

You can read more about them and other Hull bands HERE.

You may have seen their video on Youtube for 'Skinhead Girl'


1 Ninja
2 How Can I Lose The Velvetones?
3 Bring Back Tweedledum
4 Human Fly
5 Ice Cold Joe
6 Red Roger
7 Skinhead Girl
8 Swing For You
9 Montez is Dying
10 Beautiful Mams and Handsome Dads

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Thanks to Mike Montez for uploading these songs to esnips and much thanks to Eddie for getting him to do it and keeping me informed!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Ocean 11

EVEN IF YOU ALREADY HAVE THIS PLEASE READ

This is a repost of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" album PLUS all of the extras PLUS the song "Perfidia"
If you got this album and the extras from Tone and Wave you may still need "Perfidia"

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1 Housewive's Choice
2 Confucius
3 Solid as a Rock
4 Freedom Sounds
5 Rules of Life
6 From Russia with Love
7 Rock Steady
8 Let's Start Again
9 Song for My Father
10 Can't Forget About You
11 Rockfort Rock
12 Ska-Go-Mambo
13 Take it Cheazy
14 Night of the Dragon
15 Be Thankful
16 Hong Kong Low Rider
17 Stone Boat
18 Cairo East Pt. II

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Non-album tracks:
*Miss Understanding
*Skagasm
*Stop That Train
*The Best of Love
*Perfidia

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...if you only need "Perfidia" you can get that HERE

There is still one Ocean 11 song that I don't have. The title is in Spanish and it is from a comp. Does anybody know what this song is? What about the name of the comp?

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Daves Big Deluxe - Johnny Too Bad and live show

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Billy K from Daves Big Deluxe writes:

"This is Dave's Big Deluxe's only vinyl 45 release. The A-Side is an edited version of What I Used to Be and the B-Side is a cover of Johnny Too Bad. It's one of the best recordings we ever made, not available anywhere else.

Also included is a soundboard recording of our live set from the University of Arizona's Spring Fling c. 1994 or 95 I think. It was basically the Sounds From the Credenza album live with a couple tunes we never recorded in a studio. Good energy, but pretty rough (we were just figuring a lot of things out).

I have one more live recording from a radio program which I'll up if anyone is interested. It's from around the time of Miss Fortune/Live at University High and is actually pretty good."

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DOWNLOAD WHAT I USED TO BE / JOHNNY TOO BAD single

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Piranhas LP and singles

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This is a re-post of the Piranhas LP plus all of their singles.

Piranhas LP
1 Getting Beaten Up
2 Pleasure
3 Do You?
4 Saxophone
5 Love Game
6 Tom Hark
7 Tension
8 Fiddling While Babylon Burns
9 Green Don't Suit Me
10 Something
11 Coffee
12 I Don't Want My Body
13 Final Straw

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I Don't Want My Body 7"
-I Don't Want My Body
-I'm Gonna Get (Well Away)

Jilly 7"
-Jilly
-Coloured Music

Play Kwela 7"
-Tom Hark
-Getting Beaten Up
-Boyfriend

Yap Yap Yap 7"
-Yap Yap Yap
-Happy Famalies

Space Invaders 7"
-Space Invaders
-Cheap 'N' Nasty

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

The Late Notes - Hallelujah Ska

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The Late Note's 1990 full length from Unicorn Records.

1 Ska Hop
2 Yeah Alright
3 Suzie Sue
4 Hallelujah Ska
5 Bouncing Woman
6 Local Member
7 Confucius
8 Hard Man Fe Dead

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