Septic Tank Disasters - You've Got STDs (2004)

 

1 Ghost Track

2 Boredom

3 Skambo #5

4 Trouble in Paradise

5 South America

6 Million Dollar Idea

7 Fraud

8 Evil Son

9 Hometown

10 Message in a Bottle

toneandwave · Septic Tank Disasters - Evil Son (2004)

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The Ventilators - Live Demo Tape (1992)

 

This is another tape that I do not own because nobody owns this one. It was never released. Thankfully a YouTube channel posted it and I respectfully stole it to share it with you. They also have the other Ventilators demo tape called"Ska" that I previously posted HERE and it has the correct titles. There were no titles listed on the tape or card so I had to guess and I got a couple wrong. I've been meaning to update the tracks on Discogs. That channel is called Radio Skamachine and they also have some other rare Ventilators live recordings.

 

1 Saddle Up

2 Take Me Away

3 Jean's Theme 1

4 Cha War

5 Jean's Theme 2 (Flying Saucer)

6 Rude Boys

7 Remembrance

8 Meteors

9 Johnny be Good

10 Brand New Lover

11 Matt's Theme

12 Political

13 You're Wondering Now

 

 

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The Skandals - Alive with Pleasure (1996)

 This band was from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and this is probably the only thing they ever released. This is (I'm guessing) a demo tape but it was professionally made with a printed shell and the quality of the music is a superior product for a demo tape. 

I like a lot of these old ska and ska/punk tapes for the novelty factor of me having actually been there and knowing what these bands sound like live but I know it doesn't translate very well to people these days who weren't there and have nothing but a hissy tape to prove these bands existed, but this one stands out above most of the others to me.

With that in mind I want you to compare any of those other old ska demo tapes with this one. Can you agree that this band was a little more advanced than most of the others? The songwriting? The lyrics? The musicianship? 

They have their flaws, I'm not going to lie, but I really wish they had done more.

I'm impressed.

1 Minute Woe Milk*

2 Sport Bowl 39

3 Assembly Line**

4 Amnesia

5 Morning

6 Face the Music

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*The title on the tape is Minute Woe Milk but Cullen James, who was in the band, posted this song on his YouTube channel*** with the title Minute Lube Milk. I can't imagine what the real title is. 

**The song Assembly Line appeared on the 1998 compilation "American Skathic 4".

***His YouTube channel is where I respectfully stole all of these songs from. I don't have my own copy of this tape.

Beat Fetish - Is It Time? (1992)

 This was a ska/rock band from Albuquerque who released this cassette-only mini album in 1992. The first side, in fact, the first five songs are ska or ska-inspired. The last two songs are a little too "Hootie and the Blowfish" for my taste. 

I'm not really a big fan of hippie music - especially pop-hippie music (but I do have my favorites - I can listen to Jimi but I can't hear Jimi - I get it) so I don't really waste too many seconds of my life listening to Steve Miller's song "The Joker". I know a lot of people like it and they are entitled to their own weird opinion. The only popular song from this era that I dislike more than The Joker is American Pie. "I drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry"?? Who wrote this? A drunk toddler? 

Anyway, I'm saying this because this tape has a cover of The Joker that I actually like. I'm a hard sell for this kind of thing but I give it my approval. I'll allow it. 

At least it's not Woolly Bully.

 Again. 

Ska bands need to leave Woolly Bully alone and, at least once, I'd like to hear a ska band cover another Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs song like "VooDoo Doll"

 

But I digress. 

 

1 It Is Time

2 Feed the War

3 I'm at Home

4 The Joker

5 Just One Thing

6 Round & Round

7 Isolation Man

toneandwave · Beat Fetish - Feed the War (1992)

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Skaramouche - Never Ever Touch (2004)

 This is a band from Switzerland who only released this one album.

1 The Continuing Story of C.

2 Space Invaders

3 Dance the Night Away

4 Senseless

5 Don't Tell Me

6 Twenty

7 What's Come to be

8 Bungertwies

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Eleventh Hour Band

 This is one of those punk bands that played a lot of ska in their reportoire. They released two CDs that I know of but they probably have a demo tape out there somewhere. 

The Eleventh Hour Band - Flying Taco (1997)

1 Derevaun Seraun

2 Deep Pockets

3 Myself

4 Erin

5 Crazy People

6 We're all Freaks

7 Fall by the Wayside

8 Leave

9 Goat Milk

10 Yipee Dal Doo, Hootie Dah Dae

11 Nine Times Out of Ten

 

 Eleventh Hour Band - The Eleventh Hour Band (1999)

1 Unfriendly

2 Another Day

3 Better than Them

4 Come Alive

5 Superstar

6 D.U.I.

7 In My Dreams

 8 Piece of My Soul

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Jack's Reference Band - We're Troppo 7" (1986)

 This is a British mod band that I can't find any information about. This might be their only release. The B-side is a sax-laden mod tune that they say is a tribute to Booker T. and the MGs. I don't know too much about Booker T. (nor the MGs for that matter) so it's possible this is a cover song. If so, I have never heard the original version and I don't want to. I like this version just fine. 

The A-side is a ska song that will have you singing along "We are trouble" if you're not paying attention. 

A - We're Troppo

B - The Face

toneandwave · Jack's Reference Band - We're Troppo (1986)

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The Fashionable Male - An Upscale Ska Band on the Second Floor

 I think this band was from Canada. I don't know what year this CD is from. It's a CD in a glossy cardboard sleeve that is not glued together but there are faint traces of glue that used to be there. That means it's a least a decade or two old. I dunno.

1 Crop Rotation

2 Talk to Me

3 Que Sera

4 Salt & Lime

5 Little Whity Panty Fun

6 Once a Month

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The Vicars - The Vicars (2005)

 Third wave ska punk from Philadelphia. More ska than punk. I don't know if they released anything besides this album.

1 Twilight of the Gods

2 This City

3 2 Fisted Justice

4 Lottery

5 Rivers of Babylon

6 Crash of the Titan

7 Extinction

8 Sad Song

9 Streak

10 Agents of Change

11 Old Man Witherspoon's Haunted Amusement Park

12 Winter Solstice

13 Every Word You Said

 

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