Beat Around The Bush - Cha Cha Hula (1990)

 It's been over a decade since I've done a podcast but I recently (about half a year ago) was inspired to do a new podcast. My old podcast focused on well-known bands doing the one off ska or reggae song. The novelty of it ruined the quality. I listened to my old podcast and it was horrible. 

 

With the new podcastI decided to forget the popular bands playing terrible ska songs and focus on the unknown bands playing great ska songs. I put together an episode and this was the first song. It's by a California band who put out a ska/reggae demo tape in 1990 before they faded away. This is the best song on that tape.  

I'm never actually going to finish the podcast so I'm going to post the one-off songs that would have been on the podcast.

This is the first one: "Cha Cha Hula" by Beat Around The Bush.

toneandwave · 01 Beat Around The Bush - Cha Cha Hula (1990)

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The Nicks - Say Something More (2005)

 1 Say Something More

2 Murder on My Mind

3 I Suck

4 Ȁppelwoi

5 Boom Boom

6 Ghostride

7 Bad Times

8 Have a Drink

9 Hey Hey

10 Hazy Day

11 Gonzo's Dinner

12 Sunday Stripper

 

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Second Twelve - Demo CD (2002)

 

This CD-R demo is probably the only thing this talented 3rd wave Canadian band ever released. Very rare. 

1 Final Relief

 2nd 12

3 Second Chance

4 Wrongful People

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Nu-Clear Energy - Ground Zero (1982)

Is this ska? No.

Is this punk? No.

Is this reggae? No

Is this new wave? No.

It is all of the above combined without being any of the above. 

 

1 Dare Devils of the Red Circle

2 Money

3 Kings and Queens of Ska

4 Right Time

5 Jah Music

6 Jah Jah's Army

7 Babylon

8 African Herbman

9 Storybook Tellers

 

 

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The Slapstickers - Demotape (1995)

 1 Holiday in USA

2 Hey German

3 Trip to Barcelona

4 Ska Invasion

5 Holiday in USA (slow)

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(Horrible sound quality. "Hey German" is unique to this tape but the other songs were later re-recorded for later releases.)

Sneaky Pierre - Another String to My Bow 7'' (1981)

 

 This is a British band that only ever had this one release. Lead singer Alistair Gordon had a few other projects he was in. HERE's his site.

A - Another String to My Bow

B - Doing the Best I Can

Hear - Another String to My Bow

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Cold Snacks

 Cold Snacks was a third wave ska punk band from Florida. They had a female singer and were aiming for more pop than punk. They never released anything officially in their years of playing but they did record a 7" EP that never saw the light of day as well as this CD-R demo CD. 

 The primary band members eventually realized how hard it is to maintain a horn section so they formed a new punk band called Damsel In This Dress who also didn't release anything (or did they? I don't know. Prove me wrong.)

Cold Snacks - 1998 Demo CD

1 Summer of '97 (Bunk)

2 Second Wind

3 Up on Stage

4 Starting all Over

5 Meaningless Day

6 Wishing Your Life Away

Cold Snacks - Unreleased 7" (1998)

A - Bunk Summer

B - Middle Child

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Joe & The Originals - Bad Boys 12'' (1988)

 All I know about this band is that they are from Italy and this is probably the only thing they ever released. I had a copy of this record for many many years and I never posted it because my copy sounded terrible. I eventually got another copy and this new one sounds even worse. I thought the first one was compressed (when you stack records on top of each other in a pile instead of side by side) but I'm thinking that this record just wasn't produced/mixed right and that's just how it sounds. 

This is a ska/reggae band and, like a lot of bands from Europe in this era, the vocals are hard to get used to. As an ignorant Yank I appreciate that all the lyrics are in English (The language of The U.S.A! - God's language!)  but I still can't quite grasp them. 

Ironically my favorite song on this record is "Forty Minutes of Fire" which is the least ska/reggae but it's a great song. I included on an episode of the Tone and Wave Podcast that I never actually released. 

Today I re-ripped this record and even though the vinyl looks beautiful and unblemished in any way it sounds atrocious. I am frustrated and I don't care so I'm posting my latest rip. It sucks but at least you can hear these rare ska songs in shit quality. 

The only good thing about this new record is the cover. My other copy didn't have the hand-made picture sleeve. 

 

A - Bad Boys

B1 - Forty Minutes of Fire

B2 - And God Created the Woman

 

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The Freakin' Cads

 

The Freakin' Cads - Into the Pink (1997)

1 Priority 1

2 DeNile

3 Wrecking Ball

4 Teenage Werewolf

5 Jumpin'

6 Everyone

7 Likely Stories

8 Policeman

9 Dinosaur

10 P.O. Guns

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The Freakin' Cads - Escape from Philly (2000)

1 Flow

2 Foolish

3 White Collar Crime Lord

4 Guerilla Pimps

5 Drain

6 Roide

7 Itty Bitty White Lie

8 Me Llamo es Scrapple

9 Goodtime

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Schmutz - Gigi 7'' (1981)

 

 

This is a re-post. It was originally posted in 2013 but the link didn't last long. Here's another chance to get this rare ska gem.

A - Gigi

B - Can Can

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Ms. B. Haven - Get It 7" (1981)

 This was a female-fronted new wave band from California. This might be the only thing they ever released. The keyboard player Sue Palmer put out some other music but I don't think anything else was recorded with this band. I'll be happy to be proven wrong.

The A-side is a new wave song. The B-side is a reggae song that sounds very similar to Judith Ann-Marie. 

I should add that my copy doesn't have the sleeve so I respectfully stole all of the images from Discogs. My copy is very very crackly and I spent a lot of time trying to edit out the pops and crackles. You wouldn't know it by listening to it. I probably could have done better if I spent more time on it but oh well. There's only so much time in a day.

A - Get It

B - Sexuality/Normality

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Ivy and the Rebels - Ska 7"

 

This is a re-post. I posted this many years ago and there's a chance that the band name "Ivy and the Rebels" is incorrect but that's the name that was used when I bought the record in a previous decade.

As I mentioned the first song just cuts off abruptly. I didn't do that. That's how it ends on the record. 

A - Love You

B - Do It

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Stained Glass Alice

 

I'm confused by this band. They are a ska-punk band from Nuneaton, U.K. and they have one 9-song release that they put out in the early 2000s but, before that, they released this on 3-track demo CD. 

Here's why I'm confused. The songs on the CD are not the songs listed on the CD. The track list on the back cover says there are three songs:

*Juice Hair

*Last in the Class

*Red Handled Brush

...but on the CD itself there are these three songs:

1 Feel so Good

2 Good State

3 Tipsy

I'm thinking this is another band that recycled their demos to include a different demo. I searched the internet for the three songs listed and I found the song "Juice Hair" but I did not find the other two. I did find a few more and I included Juice Hair and the other ones in this download.

 

The missing songs listed on the back of their demo are not on the 9-track CD they released.

 HERE's a link to that one. 

Where are the songs Last in Class and Red-Handled Brush?

Here's what I have by them:

Feel So Good

Good State

Tipsy

Juice Hair

Mr. Scientist

(radio intro) Problems

Rag and Bone

Rubicon Passion

These are the seven songs in this download.

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The Ammonites

This is a re-post deluxe. I am re-posting the 7" which is the only thing this band ever released and I posted on the blog many many years ago but I'm calling it a re-post deluxe because I'm including a lot of other things this band recorded but never released.

The band had a site that they posted these recordings on many years ago and I probably never would have known about it if Marco On The Bass didn't do a post about it. As far as I can tell the site is long gone.

The Ammonites - Dressed to Kill 7" (1981)

A - Big Eater

B - Dressed to Kill

 

The Ammonites - demo tape (1980)

1 Tighten Up

2 Big Eaters

3 Fatty Fatty

4 Greedy Girl

5 Dressed to Kill

6 Rude Boy Ska

7 Move ya Mule

8 Everything Crash

9 Secret Lives

10 Reggae in ya Jeggae

11 Hong Kong Flu

 Unreleased tracks

*Blue Lagoon

*Indian Tiger

*Where's the Action?

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The Funpark Five [Helsingborg, Sweden]

 

The Funpark Five - Glen (cassette 1998)

1 Temptation

2 Harry the Hitman

3 Dreamboy

4 Squaw

5 Spaßpark Fünf

The Funpark Five - Glen Again (CD-R 1999)

1 Saturday Night

2 Tribute

3 Books are Piling Up

4 Cup of Tea

5 Show's Over

 

toneandwave · Temptation

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Chowder Boy - The Soup is Off (2003)

 This is probably the worst cover I have ever seen for a ska album. This band is from the UK and they are heavily inspired by Sam Raimi films - Evil Dead in particular - but rest assured that this is a ska album. This isn't even "horror-ska" it's more along the lines of Less Than Jake. There are 8 tracks on this CD and 6 of them are ska-punk. None are punk/heavy metal. The cover is very misleading.

I think they were a great band but I think they screwed themselves with this CD cover. Ska fans would not have bought this if they saw this CD in a local record shop and any heavy metal fans who did buy this CD based on the cover would have been severely disappointed to hear ska music. 

1 Lesta Specs

2 Rock Mullet

3 Mike Kell's Sideburns

4 Bruce Campbell Sez

5 Kiss My Face

6 Kylie on Ice

7 Perfect to Begin

8 Uglee

9 (hidden track that plays after track 8) Chowder Boy

toneandwave · Lesta Specs

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Angrybeans

Angrybeans (Angry Beans on the first tape, Angrybeans almost everywhere else) was a punk band from Italy who played lots of ska. Their first release was mostly punk with just a couple of ska songs but their second release was seven ska songs and three punk songs. Unfortunately my copy of the first tape came out really good but my copy of the second one is pretty poor quality. The tapes are a bit weird. On the first one the shell is printed with the band name and track listing along with other standard lettering but you can tell there was something else printed on the shell which was later scraped off. It said "Fabrizio Giagoni" under the band name and above the track listing. The second tape is exactly the same but the track list has also been scraped off but it's easy to make out that it's the same track list from the first tape.

So these guys recorded over their first tape for their second tape. Sadly, though the sound quality of the second tape suffers because of it. And it looks like they had an alternate cover for it at some point.

By the time they recorded their album they reverted back to playing punk with just a couple ska songs and the lyrics are primarily in Italian. 

They do have one other release which is an EP but all of the songs on the EP are on the album. The song "Baraonda Town" was on the second Italian Ska Invasion comp from 2002. 

 

 Angry Beans - Angry Beans cassette (1998)

1 HT 675

2 Unlucky!

3 The Great Angry Time

4 Class '78 (Some of Us)

5 Playin' Hooky

6 I Can't do Anything

7 Not so Responsible

8 The Day I Decided to...Kill You

9 My Dog

10 Brown Haired Girl

11 Campin' Alone

12 The Hottest Dog

 

 

 Angrybeans - The New Thing (2000)

1 No Scheme

2 Tritones

3 Baraonda Town

4 Game's Pawns

5 Float the Boat

6 Alien Skin

7 Tango

8 My Riddle

9 Honey-Full

10 Skyscraper

 

 

 Angrybeans - Crisi Stabile (2005)

1 Nobody's Perfect

2 Tango

3 Moskova

4 Insonnia

5 Contro Di Me

6 Dan & Debbie

7 Game's Pawn

8 Crisi

9 Stabile

10 Scream at the Queen

11 Flowers on Ice

12 Last Call

13 Malibu

14 Introspecttacolo

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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

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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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Beanstalk - What You Gonna do When the Reggae Breaks Your Heart 7'' (1982)

Beanstalk was a new wave/reggae/ska band from South Africa who probably never released anything besides this one record. 

The B-side is a self-written pop song with a reggae influence but the A-side is a 2 Tone style rendering of the Johnny Average Band's song from 1980. 

 Very rare and awesome record. I have to thank Rude Rich for telling me about this record. I might have never known about it if it wasn't for him. 

A - What You Gonna do When the Reggae Breaks Your Heart

B - Metal Streets 

toneandwave · Beanstalk - What You Gonna Do When the Reggae Breaks Your Heart? (1982)

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Space Ate Mafia - In the Good Name...of Bad Taste (1998)

Space Ate Mafia was a ska punk band from New York / New Jersey area. I'm not entirely sure. I think they had more than this one release but, again, I'm not entirely sure.
At one point they changed their name to Space 8. They could have released some more music under that name but I'm not entirely sure.

This is a CDR with a computer printed sticker label and an early computer printer style inlay card. The CD and packaging are beautiful. It's nice to find one this age that hasn't degraded or rotted yet.

There are four up-tempo ska tunes with a reminder that they were recorded in the ska-punk era but I wouldn't call anything on here 'punk' despite that punk/metal intro on the first song.
The last track is a mellow one with beautiful horn and jazz-guitar harmonies. 

1 Wait for the Sun

2 In the Park

3 Espionage

4 Moonglow

5 Kleinfeltersville

 

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2 Tonic

2 Tonic was a British ska band that was active for the better part of a decade. You probably never heard of them because they were not out for world domination. They played locally and they released three studio albums and two live albums that were released on CDRs with photocopy covers that were basically only sold at their shows. 

Being from California I would have, most likely, never heard of them in my lifetime if it were not for the awesome power of Myspace. 

Over the years I have been looking for their releases and I was fortunate enough to find three out of the five. As it turns out, I found the three studio releases and neither of the two live CDs. C'est la vie. 

2 Tonic - Welcome to My World (2001)

1 Welcome to My World

2 My Girl Lollipop

3 Here Come da Hurricane

4 Big Shot

5 Porkies

6 Dave & Mary

7 Boys

8 Death & Glory

9 Same Old Song

10 Who's Sorry?

11 Asta la Vista

 

2 Tonic - Factory Yarns (2003)

1 Who's Sorry Now

2 Sleepless

3 Gotta Get Away

4 Hurricane

5 No Way

6 48 Hours

7 Replay

8 Just Messin'

9 Hasta la Vista

10 Secret Lover

11 Big Shot

12 Porkies

 

 2 Tonic - Beneath the Desert Sun (2006)

1 Desert Sun

2 Blus Suited Revenge

3 English Boy

4 Dead End Job

5 The Boys are Back in Town

6 Secret Lover

7 Who's Sorry Now (JC Mix)

8 Bankrobba

9 Shine a Light (live)

10 Xmas Medley

11 Dead End Job (Baritone Mix)

 

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Unity - Tell-a-Star 7" (1980)

Believe it or not there was a large community of Jamaican citizens in Toronto, Canada in the 70s and 80s. They brought their music aptitude with them. 

One guy that you probably never heard of named Jay Douglas put a band together called The Cougars and recorded a single in 1969 that became legendary. They recorded an experimental reggae (ska) version of the Temptations "I Wish It Would Rain". I'm not certain but I think there were less than 100 copies of this record pressed (one website I found said it was less than 10 but I have my doubts).

Luckily for us (me) a record label called Light in the Attic put out a compilation that included the A and B side of The Cougar's record. I don't know how they tracked down the recordings but they have a Bandcamp page that has a lot of their releases and there is at least one other artist on that page that was included in their Jamaica/Toronto series. 

HERE's THEIR BANDCAMP PAGE

Jay Douglas played around Toronto in other bands over the years but there are very few recordings. I have this one little record by him and, as it seems, the few people in the world who have this record don't have the sleeve. I have a copy of the record in a tatty sleeve but, with my amazing talents in Windows Paint, I was able to restore the cover to it's proper standards. There is no other rendition to be found online.
 

Both sides are the same song - a cover of Edwin Starr's 1977 tune "Tell-A-Star". The A-side with vocals. The B-side has the instrumental version.   

A Tell-A-Star

B Tell-A-Star (Instrumental)

This download includes the 1980 Unity single and the 1969 Cougars single.

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Bamboo!!! - Je Suis Bamboo 7'' (1985)

 The A-side is a really good song but it isn't exactly ska. That B-side though...

 

A - Je Suis Bamboo

B - Time Bomb

 

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toneandwave · B - Time Bomb

Housewife's Choice - Housewife's Choice 7" (1999)

This is a ska band from the 90s that focused on covering old tunes in a 2 Tone style. They were from Finland and all four tracks on this record are cover songs. I don't know that they ever recorded anything else.
 

A1 -  Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Frankie Valli - 1966)

A2 - What a World (Busty & Cool - 1962)

B1 - Fire (Bruce Springsteen - 1985)

B2 - It's Raining (Three Tops - 1967)

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