Sluggo - 1994 demo tape

 

Three incredible ska tracks from Sluggo (Derek Grant from Suicide Machines / Skolars). 

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Five Men Down - FMD demo tape (1998)

 

 This was posted a couple days ago on a YouTube channel called Chairshot to the Skull. It's a rare ska punk (more punk than ska) six-track demo tape from this Naperville, Illinois band.

 

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A Letter To My Constituency...

 

Just a quick post to show that I am not dead and the blog is not over.

I still have lots of cool stuff to share and I'll eventually get around to doing so. 

I am working 6 days a week for 9 hours a day. I look forward to my one day off each week because I get to do super exciting things like going grocery shopping, cleaning out the house, car, and garage, and doing laundry. So, not a lot of time for music.

I have lots of cassettes but I don't think any of them are really anything anybody would really care about. I' have already posted all of my great ska cassettes and all I have left are "reggae" stuff and punk demos with one or two ska-ish songs, I'll post them all eventually just to put them out there but I know those posts will elicit the "This blog used to be cool but know it sucks" comments. And that's fair.

 And I do read the comments. I have a few requests for re-posts and I intend to post them all. Next Friday is Juneteenth in America and I will have a full three-day weekend so I hope to do a lot of stuff for this blog over those three days including every re-up request. No promises but I will try.

 Anyway, as long as I have been doing this blog I had a rule about not posting other people's stuff without their permission but I have been finding so much good stuff online lately that I feel like it would be irresponsible of me to keep it to myself and not share it. I do make Facebook posts with some of the stuff I find but I know a lot of you aren't on Facebook so I have decided that it's okay to share my findings as long as I give the original posters credit and not act like it's my own stuff. 

So, just to keep the blog from going silent for months at a time I will post stuff that I find online. 

For example - this cassette is currently for sale on eBay. It is a rare ska tape from 1988 from a California band.

 The seller is asking $70 which I believe is a realistic price and I would buy it myself but I already have it (on MP3) so I don't need it. 

Not to undercut the seller but you can also get the MP3 version for free because the band made it available for free download on Bandcamp. They didn't use the original cover but it's the same album.

 

DOWNLOAD it HERE

 

Stay tuned. I'll be posting a lot more often but not every post will be great but it's better than not posting anything at all. 

Solemite - Not This Time Solemite... (2000)

  This California band put out this EP which is pure ska but then they released an album in 2002 that had no ska at all and then they faded into obscurity. If they had stuck to playing ska they would all be millionaires right now instead of having to work day jobs. But hindsight is 4/20. Or something. 

This is their album. Bunch of Lando Calrissians. 

1 Cops & Rockers

2 Girlfriend's Friend

3 Cancun

4 Robot Love

5 I Wanna be in a Boy Band

6 Carly

7 Thinkin' Bout Us

8 There's a Hidden Track 

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Worthy of a Beating - Circus Animals (1999)

 American third wave era ska from Redmond, Washington.

1 Incarnation

2  Without

3 Under the Sun

4 Klezmer Soundtrack

5 The Klezmer Song

6  Death of a Washing Machine - Demise

7 Death of a Washing Machine - Rebirth

8 Let's Just be Friends

9 Laura

10 The Best Things in Life

11 Hidden Track 

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Refrigerators - Erste Liga (2003)

 

1 Freiburg Rot-Weiss-Rot

2 You Never Walk Alone

3  Hey, Hey, Hey Refrigerators

4 Fast Food

5 Crazy Little Girl 

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I previously posted their 1992 album "Keep Refrigerated" 

 which you can download HERE

 

...as well as their 1995 EP  "I Wanna Dance"

 

which you can download HERE. 

Their full-length album "Ska Until I Die" can be found on YouTube.

 

 

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Lots of re-uploads

 I went through all of the re-upload requests. There are a few things I no longer have and a few things I have to rip and scan all over again but I will be adding those over time. If I missed anything that you requested or if you have new requests please let me know.  Even if it's something I have never posted on the blog.

I'm just dumping everything into one folder. I hope it works better that way for me and for you. 

MEGA did give me a bit of trouble when I tried sharing the whole folder and it said only I have access to it unless I pay for the ability to link. But I just copied the URL and attached it to the link here.

 

RE-UPS

 

If you are not able to access my folder please let me know and I will tediously link to each and every file. 

 

But - if this link takes you to the whole folder - please let me know so I'm not left wondering what's going on.

Muchas gracias in advance. 

 

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Perfect Thyroid - That's Good Enough, Let's Go Home (1993)

  I saw this tape today on eBay and I remembered that I had a copy of it but I think I ripped it and sold the tape without ever scanning the cover or getting images of the tape. This picture here is from the current eBay listing. I am not the one selling it and I don't know the person who is so this is not an endorsement. 

If you're looking for a copy of this tape then HERE's the eBay listing. 

If you want to hear it first then this download is for my rip of the tape I used to own. 

1 Skunknutti

2 Mc Bird

3 Zero

4 Marcella

5 Polyester

6 Loyal Pawn

7 Mr. Moon

8 Michael Row Your Boat Ashore / Ed's Promise

9 Rearrange

10 In the Rain

11 Stupidity

12 Right Ground (live)

13 Party at My House (live)

 

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The last two songs are live versions of songs that were on the 1995 album "Which One of Us is Me?".

I have all of their albums but last I checked this tape is rare but their other releases are readily available online. If you can't find them anywhere else, let me know and I'll rip them and make a post.  

I still plan on uploading everything that was requested as a re-up. I'm way behind schedule but I will get around to it. Bear with me. Thy will shall be done.

The Liquidators [U.K.] - Prepare to be Ska'd (2002)

 

This is not The Liquidators that you know of. Not the California band or the French band. This band was from the U.K. - probably from Devon or the surrounding area. 

They performed with Neville Staples and The Selecter and had offers to open for Bad Manners, The Beat, and The Skatalites. They might have actually opened for those bands but there's little to go on to know for sure.

The band played a mix of covers and originals. This 4-track recording demonstrates a bit of both. 

The band was (in order on the photo):

Lee Shepherd - guitar

Steve Thorne - vocals

Giles Isaac - bass

Mark Robinson - drums

and the band even played with trumpet player Major Chris Willis from the band Too Hot but this recording has no horns. 

This incredible post is thanks to Rikard who recently sent this to me. I haven't posted anything in the last couple of weeks due to an excessive work schedule but this was so good I had to find time to get back to the blog for a few minutes. 

Thank you Rikard!

 

1 Rude Boys Bar

2 Gangsters

3 I can't Sleep

4 Liquid Dance

 

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The Indecisives - Fully Assembled Ready to Fly (1999)

 Third wave ska-punk from Chicago. They have more releases but this is their first and rarest. 

1 How do They Cram all that Graham?

2 I Don't Care

3 Don't Knock Me Down Suckah!

4 Where Were You?

5 I Lost My Shoe

6 The 6th's Song (Here to Save the World)

7 Q101

8 Fiasco

9 Indiana Freeway Girl

10 Countin' Sheep

11 Shot Down

 

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Jumpstarts - In the Here (2000)

 A few years back I posted the Jumpstarts complete non-album tracks and I lamented that I did not have the album. Shortly afterwards Timmy from Talk the Ska sent me the album and I thought I shared it with you folks but I've searched through the blog and it turns out I never did share it. 

I am now correcting this injustice and I am openly thanking Timmy for this gift.

 

1 Ya Da Day

2 One Drop

3 Holy Day

4 Clearly of You

5 Peas and Carrots

6 What About Us?

7 In the Here 

8 Cyber Disgrace

9 Tribute

10 My My

11 bonus track 

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...and if you didn't get the non-album tracks yet they're still available HERE 

 

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Twotonics - Twotonin' 7" (1980)

 

 Posted by request. Kind of. Somebody asked me about it and I told them to save their money.

I don't know the story behind this one. The words on the record say that this is from a soon-to-be-released album. Was it every released? Who knows? A quick Google search offers no answers. 

Eddy Grant was involved with this project and it just really misses the mark for me. It insists that it is Two Tone but it's just not.

A - Twotonin'

B - Twotone Rappin'*

 

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* Neither Two Tone nor rap in the same way that Grape Nuts cereal is neither grapes nor nuts.