Sugar & Spice - Rock into the Party 7" (1991)

 

Is this The Deltones?

I said in a recent post that I am not one to start rumors but I think this is The Deltones using a different name. The color scheme is the same that the Deltones used on all of their records and this one was released a few years after their final release. The picture on the cover shows an all-female band and listen to it...they sound exactly like The Deltones.

This record was recorded in Germany but it doesn't say anything about who was in the band. If there was an all-girl ska band in Germany in the early 90s wouldn't somebody have heard of them? 

I'm pretty sure this is The Deltones. I'm totally okay with somebody proving me wrong. 

A - Rock into the Party (Part 1)

B - Rock into the Party (Part 2)

 

toneandwave · Sugar & Spice - Rock into the Party (Part 1)

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va This is Ska (2003)

 

1 Skarface - Beautiful Kung Fu

2 Ventilators - Sun is Back

3 Die Tornados - Beautiful Paradise

4 Spitfire - Dream

5 Malarians - Up and Down the Coalmine

6 New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble - Nasty by Nature

7 The Calamities - You Don't Leave Me

8 The Hotknives - Something's Come Over You

9 Pridigarji - Kto Koga Uboga

10 Hiccups - Mr. Fox

11 The Mood - Sometimes

12 Mark Foggo - What a Lovely Day

13 Tremende - Non ti Fermare

14 Sheep's E-Band - Wanna Wanna

15 Dr. Ring Ding & the Senior All-Stars - Moscow Nights

16 The Amphetameanies - Driving Home

17 Podworkowi Chuligani - Podworkowi Chuligani

18 Dr. Woggle & the Radio - Put on Your Shoes

19 Special Guests - Blue Flashing Lights

20 Rude Rich and the High Notes - I am What I am 

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Caribbean Allstars - Paths to Greatness (1992)

 This was a reggae band from the Frisco Bay. I like some mellow reggae on occasion but this is a little too "adult contemporary" for my taste. The word "reggae" denotes ragga or rags. Poor folk music. Hearing reggae played with the most high-end instruments in a million dollar studio and over-the-top production takes something away. 

The tunes here are well-written. I like the songs themselves. But the production quality is just overkill. 

So who do we blame? Carlos Santana, that's who. Santana produced this album and he played on half the tracks. I didn't know this when I first listened to the album and I thought "that guitar sounds just like Santana" and sure as hell, it was. 

I grew up in L.A. in the late 70s/early 80s and Santana was not yet a god but he was a prophet and we are to say nothing bad about Santana or we could get la chancla. So I take back everything I said about the production. It's a great album. I love it and you will too. Oye como va... 

1 Paths to greatness

2 Sette Messgana

3 Caught in the Middle

4 Oh What a Situation

5 Ras Clatt Ridd'm

6 Keep a Good Man Down

7 Commercialization 

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Lama - Island of Madness (2003) -&- It's Showtime (2006)

 

 Lama was a ska band from Switzerland who released these two albums before disbanding. 

 The song "This is My Family" on the second album is a re-recording of the first song "F.T.V." on the first album and I'm not one to start rumors but I think it's safe to conclude that this song inspired the song "Family" by The Interrupters with Tim Armstrong. 

Lama - Island of Madness (2003)

1 F.T.V.

2 Same to Me

3 Reggae is What I Want

4 Satan's Queue

5 Big Tree

6 Gently

7 Use My Own Two Feet

8 The Dance

9 Free Time

10 All in My Head

11 Crazy World

Lama - It's Showtime (2006)

1 Showtime

2 Reservoir Dogs

3 Reggae Soul

4 Sloppy Sunday Morning

5 M.S. (Martin Schmutz)

6 Triple Trophy

7 It Goes

8 What I'm Supposed to Do

9 Bush

10 Rude Boy

11 No Weed

12 This is My Family

13 Chicken Run

14 I Go Slow

15 For Christine

16 Alright

17 Beer Did Take My Life Away

18 I've Got You Baby

19 Happy and Free

20 Beauty Spot

toneandwave · Lama - Chicken Run

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Ye Wiles vs. Muttley's Dastardly Scam (2002)

Ye Wiles are probably best known for the song "Cry Wolf" which was on a couple of their releases but it's difficult to find anything by Muttley's Dastardly Scam. I know they have other recordings (as evident by Last FM) but I have never found anything else they recorded. Just these three tracks here.

There is a cover for this release which I stole from Discogs.
 

 But I have a promo version without the cover, just this sticker:

01 Ye Wiles - Microwave Meals: An Ideal?

2 MDS - Something Happened

3 Ye Wiles - Shuffle No. 2

4 MDS - Sleepwalking

5 Ye Wiles - 15 Years

6 MDS - Flick Knife

toneandwave · Flick Knife

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The Varicoasters [Eugene, Oregon]

 

This was a ska-punk band who only ever released this one album which is very rare.

They had a couple songs on compilations that weren't on the album which were included with a couple of other songs on a MP3 -only release called 4 songs that came out shortly after the album was released.

This download includes the album and the "4-Songs" EP so I think this is everything this band ever released.

The Varicoasters - She Loves Me Not (1998)

1 Sked St.

2 Lucky Penny

3 All Alone

4 Eugene Or

5 It's All Right

6 Fugitive

7 Beautiful Girl

8 Rhubarb Hubbub

9 Wicked Touch

10 Whisper

11 Me & Mr. Hammerface

12 Sundays

13 Tornado

14 (untitled)

 

 

Varicoasters - 4 Songs EP (1998)

1 Anyway She Can

2 Marco Polo

3 Oh Christine

4 Mary's Face

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No Sports - The Tour de France Concerts (1987)

 

This is probably No Sports' very first release. I would assume that it's a demo tape but the production quality is incredible. I think they may have had a demo tape before this and this is their first studio release. I can't say for sure. It's called the Tour de France Concerts but it is not a live recording. It was recorded in a studio in Germany. 

I have a copy of the tape. The front cover is a sticker and the inlay card is hand-made written by an old type writer.

 I mentioned before that my scanner is dying (at this time it's completely dead*) so these images are respectfully stolen from Discogs. The images from Discogs for this release are really well done so I tip my hat to the uploader and on my copy the sticker is trimmed off on the left side so I appreciate that the images on Discogs are not trimmed and they show the full sticker.

No Sports - The Tour de France Concerts (1987)

1 Lack of Time

2 Television

3 Tour de France

4 Rattlesnake

5 Delta Men

6 Rudy (Rude)

 

This download also includes the rare bootleg EP from 1995. It's an unofficial release but the sound quality is  really good. 

No Sports - Live EP (1995)

1 Mandigo (Untouchables cover)

2 Summer

3 The Way of the Dragon

4 Stay Rude, Stay Rebel

5 Turn It On

6 Girlie Girlie (Sophia George cover)

 

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*Our friend Rikard mailed me some physical copies of some old skazines and I intend to scan each and every page from each and every 'zine but my scanner just wasn't in the mood.

 Scanners were made with one purpose in life and that purpose is to scan things. But if you ask your scanner to scan things they get an attitude. I'm like "Hey scanner, can you scan this CD cover??" and my scanner is all "Umm..I dunno...I suppose I can try...maybe...like, can we just do this later?"

 Anyhoo I just bought a new expensive scanner that I'm hooking up this weekend. I bought it for the sole purpose of scanning Rikard's 'zines. Let's see how it goes. 

Soda Pop Fuck You

 This is a short-lived California band that only existed for just over 2 years. They were incredible but they get no attention in the worldwide ska arena. 

I'll put it like this: Imagine if Operation Ivy kept playing into the late 90s but they got a female singer.

 This band was from the same general geographic playground as OPIV and I'm pretty sure that the singer Christina Armijo was in a punk band prior to being in this band. I don't remember the name of this band and neither Google nor Discogs are of any help. I'm pretty sure they had a couple of releases with her on vocals. Anybody know what the hell I'm talking about?

From what I've heard she left her punk persona behind a long time ago and she earned an MD and is now a practicing pediatrician.

Soda Pop Fuck You had a total of three releases. They had 5 songs on compilations but all 5 are on these three releases:   

Soda Pop Fuck You - Soda Popium Fuckum Youium 7" (1997)

1 Ma Ma Age

2 Communication Breakdown

3 Terrance Stomp

4 Sweaty Palms

 

Soda Pop Fuck You - Soda Pop Fuck You (1997)

 

1 Bullshit

2 Nightmares

3 Song #1

4 Fuck You

5 Spanish Song

6 Theme Song

7 Nothing

8 American Dream Whore

Soda Pop Fuck You - Timing is Everything (1998)

 

1 Oi Song

2 Communication Breakdown

3 The Tail of Billy B.

4 Timing is Everything

5 I.D. Please

6 Purple Cow Haze

7 Not Quite

8 Thank God

9 Sweaty Palms

10 Rockabilly Breakdown

11 Suicide

12 Mama-Age

13 Blues and Badge

14 Psycho Duck Clown

 

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Blister - Agent Spencer in the Land of Brass and Beat (1999)

 

This is a German ska band that released three albums. This is their first. I posted their second HERE. I don't have their third one yet. 

1 Nightblind

2 Spencer's Demented

3 Andy's

4 Phlebology Girl

5 Trip to the City

6 Arabian Nights

7 Hey Jack

8 E & A Went Away

9 I Know It

10 Can't Explain

11 Impressed Without a Mess

12 Biko Psycho 

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The Neighbors - Nuclear Family 7'' (1979)

 

This is a rare example of the ska influence in California in the late 70s. The A-side is a great female-fronted new wave/punk tune. The B-side is a ska-punk song that was way ahead of its time. Third wave ska punk from 1979? Awesome.

A - Nuclear Family

B - Punk in Paradise

toneandwave · Punks In Paradise

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Four Flush - 2000 Flushes (1998)

This is a punk-with-horns band from southern California who recorded this one and only album in the 3rd wave era. There are a few actual ska songs but mostly it's an amateur pop-punk album.

I'm posting it for the rarity factor in conjunction with the couple/few ska tunes. 

1 Destiny

2 Worst Day

3 Poser Boy

4 4-Line Ska

5 She's an Angel

6 Breaking Things

7 Johnny Bravo

8 Every Time U Come Ova'

9 Walk Away

10 Grocery Store

11 Just Another Day

12 A Kiss is All I'm Worth

13 Spanish Whipping Boy

14 Laurel Song

15 Ska-Core Show

16 Jaime's Song 

toneandwave · 4-Line Ska

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