The first album Going Straight is HERE.
1 Going Straight
2 Shame on You
3 She's so Crazy
4 Toe the Line
5 New Girl
6 Down at Marlene's
7 Evelyn
8 Television
9 Take What You Can
10 Another Way Out
11 Living with the Bright Boys
1 Think Twice
2 Funny Boy
3 Ska Ha Ha
4 Reggae in Your Jeggae
The band was made of a few members of another Ohio band called Pressure Drop who put out a 5-song EP in 1996 called Jezebel. Both the Pressure Drop and Monster Island releases have Tokyo Ska Paradise Covers.
Monster Island - Monster Island (1998)
1 Monster Rock
2 Matter of Opinion
3 Can't You Hear Me
4 Fidel Castro
5 Could it be You
6 Brother Dave
7 Don't Turn Around
8 I Love You
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Pressure Drop - Jezebel (1996)
1 Jezebel
2 Many a Night
3 Lonely Road
4 Nighttime in Tokyo
5 Now that She's Gone
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This treasure was provided to us by out friend Stephen who has contributed a few other gems as well that I will be posting. This has been my favorite thing in the world for the last few days. An incredible find.
1 Safe & Sound
2 Can't Hear it Tonight
3 Doing Time
4 Easy Target
5 Money in Hell
The A-side on this single is on one of the albums but the B-side is not. It's only available on this single.
Aside from these two EPs he did one actual album called "Dawning" which I have a copy of but my copy is a bit scuffed up and it skips all over the place. If you want to eventually buy yourself a copy of the album and you want to hear what it sounds like first I might be able to help you, but if you want a download where you can enjoy the songs all the way through, I can't help you with that. I may replace my copy someday but I'm in no hurry to do so. Listen to these two records. The album is just more of the same.
Mr. Amir - Reasons to Live 7" (1983)
A - Reasons to Live
B - Oh No Oppression
1 No Place to Go
2 The Sun
3 The Children
4 All My Love
5 One More Day
6 Still No Place to Go
I had this tape in my wantlist for years and never actually obtained a copy but the gods of ska shined down brightly one day on me - on all of us - when I received an email from somebody offering submissions for the blog. This is one of the things submitted and I will be posting the others at some point.
Huge thanks to our new friend Carmine234 who does an incredible YouTube page chock full of other ska and punk rarities. (And it's also where I respectfully stole the Aquabats demo from.)
1 Fravo Fravo
2 Staph B Infection
3 She's Out the Door
4 Rudy at a Show
5 Matt's Song
1 Salvation
2 Friend
3 When I'm with You
4 Rejoice
1 Ebbie's Bluff (Take Him Again)
2 November Rain
3 Ebbie's Bluff (Queenshead Remix)
4 Most I Hate is You
They were active in playing live shows and had several line-up changes but, sadly, they didn't record much and God only knows if there are any recordings of any live shows.
The only proof we have of their sound are three songs that were recorded in 1985. Two were featured on the compilation "On a Wing and a Prayer" and one extra song that didn't make it onto the compilation or anywhere else and is only now available for us to hear thanks to the magic of the internet.
These three songs make up their entire discography.
Three members of the band started The G-Men so it wouldn't be too crazy to assume that maybe a song or two from the G-Men may have been recycled from The Restrictors. I'm not stating that as a fact, just supposin'.
The graphics in this download are from a sheet that was included in the compilation. Different copies of the record had inserts for different bands. I was lucky enough to get one from The Restrictors in my copy. I scanned it in greyscale and black & white and I can't tell which one looks better so I included both in the download.
1 Peanuts
2 Own Little World
3 Town Life
This was their demo tape that is primarily cover songs
1 Intro (It's titled "Intro" but it's the song "Freedom Sound")
2 Monkey Man
3 Magic Star
4 Rudy, a Message to You!
...and in case you didn't get the 7" when it was first posted I included it in this download.
A - Skamenco
B - The Ugly Bone
A - Johnny Too Bad
B - Lover's Rockin'
1 Patti O.
2 Talk Too Much
3 Okoboji
4 Good Golly
5 Apartheid Can't Win
6 Can't Stand It
7 Lazy Holiday
8 The Piston
9 Factory Beat
10 Openers
11 Change in the Weather
12 Fish Hut
13 Rock Cum Baby
14 Losing Sleep
15 Victim of Love
16 28th Street Girls
17 Herman
18 Lake McConaughy
2 Lost & Found
3 Where Did You Go?
4 Two Lonely People
5 Last Dance
6 Grey Skies
7 Be This Way
8 Likes to Party
Strangely, finding a cover online for the demo tape was much easier than finding a cover for the mass-produced CD.
These sounds were shared by your friend and mine Punk Guy who does that YouTube channel with the never-ending punk and ska rarities.
If you have several hours to get lost in it, his channel is HERE.
Go For Broke - Go For Broke (1997)
1 Intro
2 Go Away
3 Whorlick
4 Who Beat and Robbed Tom Harrison?
5 No Way
6 The Cartoon Song
7 The Dreamer
8 Parking Lot
9 Ska Na Na
10 Friday Night
11 Eric Likes Wool Socks
12 Live at the Masquerade - Saturday December 7th, 1996
Go For Broke - New Music with Old Chords (1998)
1 Whoa! Whoa!
2 Happy, Lookout
3 R U Still Down?
4 May 12th, 1998
5 The Cartoon Song
6 Libido in a Speedo
A2 - Let it Down
B1 - Country Ska
B2 - International Relations
B3 - Smile in the Corridor
This is probably the only thing this Canadian band ever released.
Is it ska? Well, yes. I would say that it is ska.
Is it good? Well, it is rare.