Sunday, December 31, 2023
The Riffs - demo tape (1989)
2 Spen's Tackle
3 Spud Song
4 Golden Brown
5 Road has Burnt My Mouth
6 Monday Morning
7 Spanish Lady
8 Girl is Mine
9 Spen's Tackle (version 2)
10 Monday Morning (version 2)
11 Spud Song (version 2)
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Rikard's End of the Year Blowout - Part 1
All of the music shared in this post was shared by Rikard from his own private collection:
Floyd Lloyd and the Potato Five - Live (1986)
1 Shuttle Disaster
2 Jesse Jackson
3 Tear it Up
4 Babylon
5 Spin on Your Head
6 Mr. Yoyo
7 You're for Real
8 Rocksteady Party
9 Trapped
va G - Rock Around the Clock (1994)
Prince Nutty - Demo CD-R (1999)
1 She
2 All the Kids
3 Harry Boy
4 Grow Up
Prince Nutty - The Nine-to-Fiver Man (2000)
1 Brian Belly
2 The Nine-to-Fiver Man
3 Bad Days
4 I Only Take Care of My Best
5 Get Away
6 Man on the Top
The Pacman Crew - Skademo (1997)
1 Playboy Mansion
2 Major Haircut
3 It's Not You
4 Outlaw Favourite
5 Ska from Hell
USCB Allstars - The Great Lasse Demo (1996)
1 Great Kasse
2 A Pie for an Eye
3 New Age Healing
4 This One's for Jah
5 Plug it On
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Rikard's End of the Year Blowout - Part 2
Capone and the Bullets - demo tape (1992)
1 As Time Goes By
2 Babylon's Burning
3 Cruel to be Kind
4 Fistful of Ska
Fitzgeralds - Ninja Boy (1996)
1 Ninja Boy
2 Sunshine or Rain
3 Ai Ai Ai
4 Go Jamaica
5 Holy Smoke
1 Late Night (Torpedo Shot)
2 Golden Eyes
3 Eastern Standard Time
1 Torpedo Shot
2 Perfidia
3 Can't You See
4 Tougher Than You
5 Seven Pieces
Stiff Breeze - Mr. Stiff (1997)
1 Down
2 Occupied
3 Waky Waky
4 Misfit
5 Never for You
6 N. W. G.
7 Shortcut
8 Jesus Loves You
9 Start the Day with a Beer
10 Go Against the Tide
11 Three Piece Suit
12 Fooling Around
13 Take a Hike
14 Home
Stiff Breeze- Wonderman (demo tape 1996)
1 Wonderman
2 Overrated
3 A Girl Like You
4 Tell Your Mom
* Waxon
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Ska articles
Rikard has provided us with more ska articles from old publications with articles about Bad Manners, Fishbone, Fun Boy Three, Camper Van Beethoven, General Public, Maroon Town, Potato Five, The Farm, and The Untouchables, The Deltones, and The Boothill Foot Tappers.
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Klinkhamer
In 2020 they released a full-length album called Ratta Sossa.
I never posted them before because I never had a copy of their first album or their Ansje-Liek single from 1994. Aside from those two recordings missing from this download it is otherwise complete and it even includes their 1992 demo tape which is not on Discogs or anywhere else online. Thanks to Rikard for providing the sounds and scans from that tape!
Klinkhamer - Maakt Kabaal! (1991)
1 Aai Aai
2 It Doarp
3 Skabaal
(These songs were recorded before their first single but were released a year later)
1 Nij Nummerke
2 Skabaal
3 It Doarp
4 Winter '79
5 Aai Aai
1 Whip Whap
2 Don't Wanna Lose You
3 Idol Billy
4 Fuckin in the Streets
5 Hielke
6 I Don't Wanna Be
7 Yn 'e Trein
8 Ferdwaald
9 Noet Je Poepen (live)
10 Aai Aai (live)
11 Lifters Yn 'e Mist (live)
12 Monkey Man (live)
13 Winter '79 (live)
14 Der Walter (live)
15 Jongens Fan 'e Kameleon (live)
16 King of Ska (live)
17 Das Tremp (live)
Klinkhamer - Danish Girl 7" (1995)
A - Danish Girl
B - Out of Sight
Klinkhamer - Defeat (1995)
1 Defeat
2 Single Guys Bar
3 Mainstreet
4 Danish Girl
5 Out of Sight
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Friday, December 29, 2023
Les Congelateurs - -459.688*F (1996)
This band was from Switzerland and if you look at their Discogs page you can see that they had several songs on compilations (just about all of which have been posted on Tone and Wave over the years) but band spearhead Admiral James T. has recorded under the name Les Congelateurs as well as the name Admiral James T.
On Skampler 3 he did the song Space Sa-Five and on Skampler 4 he did the song The Priest.
All of the songs from this CD and all of the songs from the compilations can be found on his Bandcamp channel with lots of otherwise "unreleased" stuff.
1 Muddy Muck
2 La Sorciere en Arriere
3 Three O'Clock A.M.
4 Denn Auch Sie Wissen Keine Antwort Darauf
5 Mind War
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The Sprawl - Ska Mitzvah, Heat Miser, Sea Weed (1992)
1 Ska Mitzvah
2 Heat Miser
3 No Coloreds in Funland 'cause Whitey's on the Moonwalk
4 Blue Green Slime
5 Heat Mixer
6 Sea Weed
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va Lil' Punx Presents - Punk vs. Ska (1999)
The band Dimples Malone was new to me so I looked them up and found that they released a couple of CDRs and then put out a CD with all of those recordings. You can hear all of their recordings HERE.
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Ska articles
These are things that are probably not available anywhere else online and they feature articles and rare photos of Bad Manners, The Bodysnatchers, Toots Hibbert, The Specials, The Beat, and they mention so many others like The Selecter, Madness, the movie Dance Craze, Elvis Costello, UB40, Hazel O'Connor, and The Skids.
(Buster Bloodvessel ensuring he has enough calories to get him through a Norwegian winter.)
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Pitching Woo - Gettin' Some (1998)
1 Savoy '98
2 A Sharp Thing
3 Doom
4 Poverty
5 Blossom
6 Gother than You
7 Pitchin' Woo
8 Panties
9 Never Gonna
10 Co(e)dependency
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I have this tape and I did the images and the scans but I can't find them so I respectively stole this image from Discogs. I don't care anymore.
Boss Skank - Boss Skank 12" (1989)
1 Soft Side
2 A Toast, a Prayer, and a Rhyme
3 On the Corner
4 I Warned You
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Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Blue Meanies [UK] - Banquet (demo tape 1991)
Their only official releases were one 3-track 7" record, a live cassette with Citizen Fish, and this demo tape. I have never obtained any of their recordings myself but I found this demo tape on THIS YouTube channel where they give credit to Dick Lucas for ripping and sharing this tape.
The three-track 7" had two songs that were on this tape but there was one song called "Head on Mars" that wasn't on this tape but I have included it as track number 10 in this download.
1 Mythical Table
2 Poll Tax Collector
3 Get Out of the Rut
4 Summertime
5 No Solution
6 Frank
7 Lout
8 Leave
9 Waiting Man
* Head on Mars
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Nine "Ska" Records
Only after I pay down my credit cards after buying my kids a bunch of crap for Christmas - stupid shit like this . Watch the video. It's stupid, but that's what they want. My kids are weird. I'm beginning to think they were brought up wrong.
When I get a new record player I think I'll go back to getting an Ion. I've heard people say "I wouldn't let an Ion touch my record!" but all of the recordings I made in the first ten years of this blog were done on an Ion with a $30 elliptical needle. I think the recordings came out just fine. Ten years for one Ion and in the last 6 years I went through 4 Audio Technicas which are supposed to be way better.
Fuck pop-culture brand worship. Audio Technicas suck. I don't like them. Ion isn't great but they are certainly adequate.
Despite all that noise here is a collection of records that were sold online as "ska" records. I buy anything that says "ska" and sometimes I do strike gold buy most of the time I strike aluminum.
I will agree that all of these records have at least some ska or reggae influence except for the one in the center "Giant" but I saw it listed as either ska or reggae and I know a band from that era with the same name appeared on a Walkman recording. It may or may not be the same band but there is a similarity.
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Saturday, December 16, 2023
Mr. Smarty Pants - Smartworld (1999)
2 Nintendo Girl
3 I Don't Want to be a Goat
4 Kung Fu! I Dig You
5 Tuesday
6 G.I. Joe
7 Whitetrash
8 T. S. C.
9 Mr. Turtle
10 Duffel Bag
11 Lime Green Nail Polish
12 Stand by Me
13 Secret & 'Stuff'
I previously posted their demo tape.
I have this original CD but it was posted on YouTube with more tracks than I have on this CD.
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Thursday, December 14, 2023
Dynamo Ska
Dynamo Ska was a German ska band with male/female vocals. They officially released two CDs but they recorded much more than that. Here is everything I have by them and the majority of these files were found on Soulseek so the tags are often incorrect but they are as I found them. I don't know who I downloaded all of these files from or even if those folks are the original uploaders but I thank them just the same as well as the original uploaders. Vielen danke!
Dynamo Ska - demo tape (1999)
1 Lebenodernicht
2 Dynamo Ska Theme
3 No Way
Dynamo Ska - demo tape (2000)
1 Baby Undress
2 The Sun is Bright
3 Modern Pirates
4 The Streets of BS!
Dynamo Ska - demo tape (2001)
1 The Streets Belong to Us
2 Baby Undress
3 If the Kids (Sham 69 cover)
1 The Streets Belong to Us
2 Baby Undress
3 If the Kids are United (Sham 69cover)
Dynamo Ska - Proberaum (2005)
1 You're Too Young
2 Sun is Bright
3 Separate Ways
4 Rude Boy
5 Perfect
6 Getaway
7 Dogs of Istanbul
Dynamo Ska - One Way (live - female lead vocals - 2006)
Dynamo Ska - Live in Knust (2007)
1 Outbreak
2 Separate Ways
3 Radderenne! (Rat Race - Specials cover)
Dynamo Ska - Live in Lehre (2007)
1 No Way
2 Perfect
3 Perfidia
4 Rudeboy
5 Together Again
6 Too Young
Dynamo Ska - Studio Recordings (2007)
1 Dogs of Istanbul
2 No Way
3 Separate Ways
4 Sun is Bright
Dynamo Ska - In the Mood for Ska (2014)
1 In the Mood for Ska
2 Rudeboy Cool
3 Get Away
4 Oh My Brothers
5 Outbreak
6 Too Young
7 Perfidia
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Ska Gal & the Hands of Ra
This was a turn-of-the-century female-fronted ska band from the UK.
The reason I never posted them before is because the CD mislabels the song titles. I see on Discogs what the songs should be but that's not how they appear on the CD. At least not on the copy I had.
I ripped my CD and have since sold or traded it. I no longer have the physical CD and I regret not doing the proper scans.
The demo tape had no titles listed so the titles are assumed.
This is such a great band that, if I didn't post them before I ended the blog, I would regret forever.
Here you go. Figure it out.
Ska Gal & the Hands of Ra - 61 Stone (2004)
1 Let's Go Out Tonight
2 One Armed Man
3 Ferdy
4 Spanish
5 Egyptian
6 Hard to Get
7 Saturday Night
8 One More Time
9 Never Let You Go
10 Going Down
11Right Now
12 Love Was All I Had
13 On My Mind
(I already said the songs aren't as listed)
Ska Gal & the Hands of Ra - Demo Tape (1999)
1 On My Mind
2 Kim (I'm with You)
3 Never Stop Loving You
4 Some Higher Ground
5 untitled
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Sunday, December 10, 2023
Bedlam Beggars - Rude Boy EP (1999)
It was sent to me many years ago by Merrick who was the keyboard player for this band. He had his own blog and he posted a live recording from Bedlam Beggars. I have included the live recordings in this download
Bedlam Beggars - Rude Boy EP (1999)
1 Rude Boy
2 Who Shot Cyrus?
3 Ain't Nowhere to Go (live)
(Bedlam Beggars - live)
4 Sweet Talkin' Girl
5 Young Love
6 Boot Girl
7 Rudeboy
8 Just Can't Get It
9 Soundtrack to...
10 Under Pressure (You're No Good)
11 Ain't Nowhere to Go
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Retracide
Retracide - Watch Your Back (1997)
1 Fake
2 Star 69
3 Two Year Lease
4 Whores Exist
5 Connect the Heads
6 Lost all Doubt
7 Mr. Negative (version 2)
8 No Name
9 Sik Bum Hair
10 Pit in the Ghetto
11 Won't Work
12 Life Sucks
13 Falling Down
14 Raver B. S.
1 Uncommon Sense
2 Giving In
3 Rock Star
4 Rule the World
5 Naive
6 Bloodstains
7 Worm
8 Goodnight
These guys used to promote their band by putting ads in Billboard Magazine. I remember the ads from back in the day.
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Saturday, December 9, 2023
Shakerz - Shakerz (1998)
This CD is the only thing this band released aside from the song "Christmas Wrapping" that was on the 1998 Drive-Thru Records compilation Christmas Gone Wrong.
I have included the song "Christmas Wrapping" in this download so you have every song they ever released.
1 Selfish One
2 Soca Loca
3 Pipe Dreams
4 Hard to Name
5 Boogie Man
6 Island Joe
7 Interlude (Outback)
8 Christmas Wrapping
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Did you hear that? in the video at the 13:40 mark she said "We have tapes for sale in the back."
They have a demo tape. We need to find this!
Friday, December 8, 2023
va 2 Tongue
All songs on these comps are ska and all are sung in French.
2 Tongue vol. 1 (1999)
2 Tongue vol. 2 (2000)
2 Tongue vol. 3 (2001)
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