1 I Don't Know
2 Mission 49
3 Dance You Up
4 98
5 Plexy's Song
6 Skank it Up
7 Girl
8 420 (live)
Sunday, January 29, 2023
The Agents - The Agents (1996)
Stuck in a Groove - Beats in Your Mouth (1999)
1 People are You Ready?
2 Reggae Fire
3 Slow Ragga-Muffin
4 Yuma
5 Por la Raza
6 Mystic Biscuit
7 Fishtank
8 Stuck in a Groove
9 What it Takes
10 Waves
11 Don't Ya Know
12 People are You Ready? (remix)
13 I Feel Like Funkin' it Up
The RugCutters - A Dog of Mine Drinkin' 7" (1996)
The title of the 7" is a combination of three of their songs: "A Dog", "Girl of Mine" and "Hard Night of Drinkin'" but "Hard Night of Drinkin'" did not appear on the record so that probably confused a few people.
A Dog of Mine Drinkin' 7" (1996)
A - A Dog (also called "A Dog Song")
B - Girl of Mine
* - Smoke in My Horn
The RugCutters - Demo Tape (1996)
1 A Dog Song
2 Girl of MIne
3 Hard Night of Drinkin'
4 Smoke in My Horn
5 Where's Glen
Swim Herschel Swim - I Wish I Had a Ray Gun (1991)
I do not have a copy of this tape so these files have been respectfully stolen from THIS SOUNDCLOUD CHANNEL which posted great sounding versions of all songs on the tape.
I'm posting this for two reasons. First, people are still requesting this from me so I'm guessing it isn't coming up in their Google searches. And second, the track listing on Discogs is incorrect.
Jon Armstrong - the keyboard player for Swim Herschel Swim - does a blog where he posted remastered versions of nine of these ten tracks for free download and the way he numbered the tracks matches the track list on Discogs.
The way they are listed here is how they are listed on the tape.
1 Baby Babaar
2 Clueless
3 Ring O'Fire
4 Fuz
5 Kick Me (No Words)
6 Chickenfingalickin'
7 Mahi Mahi
8 Chevy Bossa Nova
9 R-Bug (Racism Bad, Unity Good)
10 Suzy-Q
Cheap Suits - Lookin' for a Deal (2000)
But as it turns out I was cleaning off my desk and I found a padded envelope under some of my work papers. It was sealed and this CD was inside. Neither myself, my wife, nor my kids remember putting it there.
This could be one of those manifestation /Law of Attraction things. I don't usually believe in that sort of thing but a few months ago I did the Neville Goddard Ladder Experiment and what actually happened blew me away.
I have an open mind. You'll need an open mind to enjoy this CD. It's mostly punk but there are a few ska moments. It's not bad but their later releases were a lot better.
1 We Aim High
2 #1 Fan
3 Lay it on the Line
4 No Ami
5 Perfect Girl
6 In Love with the Lead Singer
7 Julia
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Rude Boy System - Rarities
1 Saint Louis Ska
2 Before You Go
3 Fine Feeling
4 Skatalites
5 I Don't Wanna Know
6 Judgement Day
7 A Gun 1999
8 Free Ganja
9 It's My Heart
10 Blackout
11 What's Going On
12 Ska No 1
13 Passing Emotion
Monday, January 16, 2023
Jerry Lives Twice - Living it Up (1999)
1 Someday
2 Super Jock
3 She Sucks
4 Better Days
5 New Girlfriend
6 I'm OK, You're OK
7 I Jave No Friends
8 Bus Trip to L.A.
9 Hide and Go Seek
10 Up All Night
Get it while the gettin's good!
I will be clearing out everything in the re-ups post. If you don't have what you want from there time is limited. In the next week or two I will be deleting everything to free up some space. Get it while you can.
Clive Langer & The Boxes
Clive Langer & The Boxes - Splash! (1980)
13-track LP
Clive Langer & The Boxes - I Want the Whole World (1979)
5-Track 12" EP
Plus I included a b-side called "Even Though"
and a song called "Inside Houses" that was the otherwise unreleased song on their 1988 compilation.
This was originally posted in August 2009. I'm not going to repeat everything I wrote so here's a link to the original post.
Free Cheese For All
Strangely, they followed it up with an EP of heavy guitars and hip-hop. No ska on their second release. As far as I know the band broke up after that.
Here's their good CD - the ska one, and I have included 2 songs from compilations as well as that "what the hell were they thinking?" second CD.
Free Cheese For All - Cheese 'N' Beat (1992)
1 Free Cheese For All!
2 Wild One
3 My Kampf
4 Car Damage
5 The Ride of the Crazy Mosquito
6 Radio Free Cheese... (End Dance Party Version)
7 ...for All!
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Free Cheese For All - Heavy Roots E.P. (1993)
1 Introducing the Tribal Elemental
2 Burning Inside
3 Free Chiiiizz
4 Free Chiiiizz (Asba Jazz Mix)
5 Burning Inside (Dance Metal Mix)
6 No Name No
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* Blue Beat Confrontation
* Luis Goes to the Guig
...both from the first Skampler compilation
Allniters - Still in Love (1988)
The song is also readily available on YouTube but the sound quality isn't great. So this download is taken directly from the Crocodile CD.
Here's the version on YouTube that was uploaded by the band.
If you're interested in the whole compilation you can find it HERE.
DOWNLOAD this song from Zippyshare
Monocromo - Monocromo (1999)
1 I Love You
2 Stelle Musicali
3 Ska in Your Mind
4 Non Mitrà
5 Balla Ciao
6 Sogni
7 Torero Olè
8 Come Noi
9 Punk'm People
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Smoke Like a Fish demos
1 One in a Million
2 Siren
3 Someday
1 The Price
2 One in a Million
3 Death of an Angel
4 Decadance
5 No Questions
6 Rasputin
1 Romance
2 Servant for the Master
3 Freezin' in the Desert Sun
4 Siren
5 One in a Million
6 Re-Dick-U-Lie
I have both tapes but the second demo is on a second-gen tape with no cover. Thankfully the YouTube channel Rumusic posted it and it sounds a million times better than mine so I used that one for this download.
The EP is from a CD-R release (offucial release made by the band) which has degraded so it sounds like shit. I have been looking for a better copy for years. If anybody out there has one I'm interested in buying.
In my opinion the version of One in a Million on these tapes is way better than the re-recorded version.
Cheap Suits
I found a copy of this band's demo CD on Discogs and I bought it for $50. I was hoping to have it before I did this post but it has been lost in the mail. I hope whoever stole it enjoys it but I doubt it. They probably listened to it once and said "what is this crap?!" and threw it away. A piece of ska-punk history gone forever.
Cheap Suits - Canadian Idles (2003)
1 We Aim High
2 It's Time
3 Ska Saves
4 Fatty's Lament
5 Lead Singer
6 Moving Day
7 Burning Bridges
8 Another Song About Girls
9 Julia
10 Did You Know?
11 Song About Us
12 Just What the World Needs
13 R.G.S.
14 Maybe Tonight
15 My Ever Lasting
16 Conversation
1 One Small Step
2 Judge & Jury
3 Perfect Girl
4 Gainesville
5 Every Night
6 Sing the Blues
7 Ska Saves
8 Two Tone Town
9 Lay it on the Line
10 Break You Down
Big Noise - I Love My Job (1984)
DOWNLOAD this one song from MEGA
DOWNLOAD this one song from Zippyshare
va Florida's Punk Ska Element (1999)
2 The Blinking Underdogs - Salvation
3 Gigalo Big and the Barflies - Dejanos Tocar
4 Cold Snacks - Middle Child
5 Caught Inside - Solstace
6 Skif Dank - Lost and Dumbfounded
7 Blindsyde - Blindsyded
8 Don't Know Jack - $1.45
9 The Hard Richards - She Bought You
10 Bum Ruckus - Dyin' to Know
11 Neptune 66 - Punk Rock Girl
12 New Found Glory - Passing Time
13 The Blinking Underdogs - Blame
14 Gigalo Big and the Barflies - Sun Goddess
15 Cold Snacks - Bunk Summer
16 Caught Inside - John Bobbit
17 Skif Dank - Still Looking Up
18 Blindsyde - What it Takes
19 Don't Know Jack - Grab Me Another Drink
20 The Hard Richards - E.B.S.
21 Bum Ruckus - Shelly Delong
Any Old Charlie - Any Old Charlie (1998)
I have never been a fan of white funk or "skronk". I just don't like it. But I have so much of it and I should be posting it because they do play an occasional ska song. Not only that, but I have the music. Why not share it? I know there are people out there that do like things that I don't necessarily like so I post it for them. Especially if it's rare. Sometimes I post things that I think most people agree isn't very good but I post it so people can hear it and maybe keep them from blowing their money on it.
Not only that, but I never post something that is ska-ish as a stand-alone post. I always try to do more than one post so you get the ska you're wanting and you can ignore the other stuff.
This CD is a perfect example. It's very rare. I haven't seen it anywhere online. I am not a fan because there are 6 songs and 5 of them are white-boy-funk. Not my cup of tea. But there is one decent ska song.
Maybe somebody out there will enjoy this. If you only want pure ska then skip this one.
· Any Old Charlie - Oh Charlie (1998)
The Clones - The Clones 7" (1999)
1 Come On!
2 One Day
3 The Operator
4 The Opener
The Regiment - Gotta Get a Move On 7" (1981)
It was a teenage coming-of-age movie that was very popular. In some countries it was number one above E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
There were a couple of ska songs in the movie composed by Vladimir Cosma and sung by British singer Richard Sanderson who wasn't really involved in the ska/punk scene. He lived in France and did mostly pop ballads.
This download includes both songs from The Regiment and two ska songs from the La Boum soundtrack and I also included a song from G.T. Moore and the Reggae Guitars because Tony Hannaford from The Regiment used to be in that band. The song is from 1974 but it comes very close to the later 2 Tone sound. Not exactly, but close. They were ahead of their time.
Monday, January 2, 2023
In Fear Of Roses - Living in a Movie World (1987)
This download is for just this one song. I didn't get a good rip of the album but maybe I'll try it again someday and post it on the other blog. The one I've been neglecting for months.
I stole the image of the cover from Discogs. I'm pure evil.
Circles - Ever and Ever (1984)
A - Ever and Ever
B - My Friend
One monkey don't stop no show.
His response was "So? I make time for you, you need to make time for me!"
I have never heard such chutzpah in my life.
My youngest is about to turn four years old here shortly. That's how long I have been tolerating this guy and I have kept my mouth shut. For four years. He somehow found me on Reddit and delivered his bombardment of insults and slander. I know there were a few people on r/ska that knew who I was so he probably found out through them. I liked being anonymous on r/ska. I got told on a regular basis that I know nothing about ska by teenagers who obsess over Streetlight Manifesto. It was fun.
So, for those of you who who say I'm whining and trying to get attention, let me ask you, how long would you tolerate this?:
All of these comments (there were over 60 of them) came in over the course of more than three hours last night. It would have been about 4:00 to 7:00 in the morning British time. According to the analytics all but three of them came from the same source.
I didn't post the libelous comments, and there were lots of them, for legal reasons but I have every intention of suing whoever made those comments and anybody else aiding them. This will not be hard to prove who did it because I still have all of our old communications. There are two giveaways that link beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were authored by the same person. The first is the over-use of the term "sleazeball". I am pretty sure I have never in my life heard anybody use this term in serious conversations. Only one person.
As I have said in my comments I will try to keep the blog going for just one more year but, to be honest, I don't think I'll make it that far. I legitimately bored of the whole thing.
After I made the post that I was done I had some regrets about things that I really wished I had posted before I do call it quits. I'm not going out like that. I'm not letting one person chase me out of my own blog. I don't only have music to share but a treasure trove of vintage ska 'zines that were donated to us by Rikard. I have started digitizing them but it is a hell of a task. It's taking longer than I imagined. Even if this blog still stands I might post them at Internet Archives. If I do decide to shut the blog down for my own sanity or if the 'gentleman' finds a way of getting me shut down then look for me at the Internet Archives.
There are lots of people who collect rare ska music and they keep it to themselves. Hoarding it. Making sure you never get to hear it. Somehow those are the good guys.
Me? I post my stuff for anybody who wants it without asking for anything in return. I'm the stupid asshole evil bad guy sleazeball who doesn't know anything about ska. I don't get it.
For those of you who made comments of appreciation I thank you. That will keep me going despite that it really doesn't make any sense to do so.
I have decided a while back to do another Facebook page. I know nobody really uses Facebook anymore so I never really did anything with the page but now I think I'll take pictures and videos of my collection and let you guys have a say in what I post next. It's not private. Not yet anyway. I don't have a Twitter or Instagram or any other social media unless you consider Discogs. MY FACEBOOK page will be the best way to communicate with me. I don't have friends or family on this page. There's no politics or humor or anything else. Just music.
The end is nigh.