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Friday, January 10, 2025

Random Order [Canada]

Random Order - Destiny (Cassette 1990)

1 One Drink

2 Positive Emotion

3 You've Got the Power

4 Generally Speaking

5 Oppression

6 Fashion

7 Destiny

toneandwave · Fashion

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Random Order - Soul Control (cassette 1993)

1 Resistance

2 Joire de Vivre

3 Fashion

4 Things Fall Apart

5 Soul Controller

6 Tables Turn

7 Serious Distraction

8 Things Fall Apart (re-mix)

toneandwave · Resistance

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Random Order - Not a Perfect World (1994)

1 Perfect World

2 Fashion

3 Less is More

4 Presidense Choix

5 Things Fall Apart

6 Resistance

7 Glad to See You Go

8 Joire de Vivre

9 Fraction

10 Oppression

11 Things Fall Apart Dub Mix

12 Perfect World Dub Mix

13 Shame Shame Shame

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Random Order - Dimples and Anti-Depressants (2010)

1 What's on Your Mind?

2 Double Standard Girls

3 It Takes One to Know One

4 Sink or Swim

5 Destiny

6 Frame of Mind

7 Feel the Greed

8 Foxy Lady

9 Skavinsky

Patrick Retour - Ik Ben Wie Ik Ben 7" (1985)

A - Ik Ben Wie Ik Ben

B - Swing Met Mij

Sunday, January 5, 2025

The Hard Richards

The Hard Richards was a ska-punk band from Florida.

The Hard Richards - On the Move (1997)

1 Punk Rock Show

2 Tim's Song

3 Polite

4 Dog Beach Dub

5 Stress

6 Trendy Little Girl

7 Insanity

8 Child Thing

9 Drinking Time

10 On the Move

11 Sold Out

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The Hard Richards - What Did You Expect? (2008)

1 1976 (Another One Gets Shot)

2 E.b.s.

3 Right Now

4 Early Riser

5 Teenager

6 A Little Speed

7 Sticky Green

8 She Bought You

9 Bartenders

10 Sex

11 Freedumb

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The Hard Richards - Nu Derection (2013)

1 Caught on the Inside

2 Possibly Positive

3 Jenny

4 Ten Minutes Later

5 The Walk

6 I Don't Care

7 Jagermeister

8 Look Busy

9 Get Down

10 S O S

11 Better Days

12 Nu Derection

13 I Wanna Riot

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Hard Richards - demo tape (1995)

1 Dog Beach Dub

2 Drinking Time

3 Tim's Song

4 Soldout

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Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The Ratchet Boys - Bend Over and Say Ska (1999)

The Ratchet Boys was a D.C. area ska band that started out as The Skanker Sores. The band was made up of musicians who played in other bands such as The Ready Steady Go!, the psychobilly band The Alphabet Bombers, The Unidentified, and The NoGoodniks.

There's not much more I can say about the band without plagiarising a post about the band on The Duff Guide to Ska.

1 This Life

2 Montoya

3 Shipwrecked

4 Satan Express - Ten Items or Less

5 Newcastle

6 Brave New World

7 Before I Die

The live album is included in this download

The Brownies - Four Songs For The Mon (1992)

This is the demo tape from the California band The Brownies.

I have posted this several months ago on my Facebook but this is for those who missed it.

1 Total Hardcore Ska

2 Listen to the Jammin'

3 Pop Goes the Weasel

4 Why Can't I?

Sunway Six - Livets Spel 7" (1991)

Livets spel - The Game of life. This Swedish band put out this 7" and a CD EP before fading away into the void. Livets Spel is probably their only ska song but I don't know for sure because I never heard the EP.

A - Livets Spel

B1 - Funky Way

B2 - Banal Kanal

Steady Ups Meet The Speakeasies - Reggae Showdown (2002)

For those of you nursing a hangover or just starting the new year in a more mellow, relaxed mood.

The Steady Ups were from California and the Speakeasies were from New Jersey. Each band offers five tracks of their style of 90s reggae.

1 Steady Ups - No Need to Worry

2 Steady Ups - You Amaze Me

3 Steady Ups - Bygones

4 Steady Ups - I Never Wanted to Hurt You

5 Steady Ups - Mr. Swindle

6 The Speakeasies - Top Ranking

7 The Speakeasies - Cary, Il.

8 The Speakeasies - Country Boy

9 The Speakeasies - Go With Him

10 The Speakeasies - Time Will Tell

Backdoor Stomp - Steps in the Alley (1999)

Backdoor Stomp was a ska band from Brisbane Australia that was formed in 1998 by Tom McKenzie who was the sax player for The Funaddicts.

There are ten songs on this CD and eight are covers with only two being original songs by the band but those originals are well worth the price of the CD. "What's Goin' On" is a cover of the Funaddicts song which Tom McKenzie wrote so it is a cover but it isn't. And they do a Puzzles cover which I think they did a great job on.

1 Steps in the Alley

2 Inspector Martens

3 Trouble

4 Breakin' Up

5 What's Goin' On?

6 Hey Yo!

7 Tequila

8 Lorainne

9 Just a Feeling

10 Nite Klub

toneandwave · Strange Tenants - The Final Show

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Tone and Wave Returns 01/01/2025

I was going through a lot of my music when I realized I have so many things that I never posted. I have acquired a few things over the last year that I would like to share as well.

I don't have very much to share. Maybe enough to keep the blog going for another two or three months.

Then it's over for good.

Let's go another few months.

I will need to make some room for the new stuff on MEGA so you have some time to download whatever you need from the blog before January 1st. On that day I will begin deleting the old stuff to make room for the new.

I can't promise you will like or want any of the new stuff but I do promise it will be things which were never posted on Tone and Wave before.

Stay tuned.

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Tone and Wave - 2007 - 2023

The Riffs - demo tape (1989)

1 Murderation

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

All of the music shared in this post was shared by Rikard from his own private collection:

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

Ichmet Bricket - The First of... (1999)

1 Late Night (Torpedo Shot)

2 Golden Eyes

3 Eastern Standard Time

Ichmet Bricket - Ska Superiors (2000)

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.

Lots of good readin' and lots of rare images.

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Klinkhamer

Formed in 1991 and includes former members of Strawelte, It Dockumer Lokaeltsje, and LUL. Singing in the Frisian language and playing a mix of poppy punk and punky ska, which they self-titled skabaal. They changed from Frisian to English in 1995, and moves from skabaal to ska with less punk, but more pop influences. They officially broke up in 1997 but then got back together in 2001 and recorded a demo tape.

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

Klinkhamer - Skylge Tape (1992)

(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

Klinkhamer - Zinkt (1995)

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)

This was one of those white-funk / reggae bands from the early 90s. They were from Texas and they released 4 albums - "King of Parking", "Deflorist", "The Man with the Yellow Hat", and "America is Dying of Wetnurse". All 4 albums can be found HERE.

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)