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Monday, October 12, 2026

Linoma Mashers

In 2020 I posted the Linoma Mashers' first tape. There was a great ska song on there called "Good Golly".

The link is dead so now I'm re-posting it with their second tape. On the original post I said they only had two tapes but I was corrected. Matty from Talk the Ska sent me his rip of their third tape.

This band was prolific. They didn't do four songs here and six songs there. Oh no. They put out three cassettes full of music with as many songs they could fit on a cassette tape in those days.

The first two tapes had 18 songs each and the third one had 13 tracks but that's because they released it on CD as well.

The first two tapes are from my own rips and the third one is from Matty.

Thank you Matty again and there will be many more "Thank you Mattys" coming up.

Linoma Mashers - Landlocked (1987)

1 Patti O.

2 Talk Too Much

3 Okoboji

4 Good Golly

5 Apartheid Can't Win

6 Can't Stand It

7 Lazy Holiday

8 The Piston

9 Factory Beat

10 Openers

11 Change in the Weather

12 Fish Hut

13 Rock Cum Baby

14 Losing Sleep

15 Victim of Love

16 28th Street Girls

1 Herman

18 Lake McConaughy

Linoma Mashers - No Lifeguard on Duty (1988)

1 Carmelena

2 Walk on Water

3 Theme for the Gay Olympics

4 She's so Sweet

5 Knock, Knock, Knock, Nobody's Home

6 Good Boys are Hard to Find

7 Bullets and Kruggerands

8 BMW

9 Lobster Linguini

10 Ichiban

11 Dirty Pix

12 De Woman

13 Story

14 Dandy

15 Future Passed

16 Since You've Been Gone

17 Campita

18 The Driver

Linoma Mashers - Made In The Mid-West Indies (1992)

1 Big Bamboo

2 Know Not What

3 Okoboji

4 Runaway

5 Iowa City

6 See Shot Drop

7 Monkey Tango

8 My People Sleep

9 The Rip

10 Don't Do It

11 Rub a Little Lower

12 Man Smart, Woman Smarter

13 Lake McConaughy

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Jerkwater Jive - Prick Up Your Ears and Listen (1999)

I think they were from Ohio but I don't really remember. I used to put the song "Sugar Mama" on tapes whenever I made somebody a ska tape (that I knew they were never going to listen to).

I had the CD last century but I either lost it, sold it, threw it away, or temporarily lent it to somebody for eternity.

I was lucky enough to find all of the songs online. I couldn't find decent versions of the cover and other images from the CD but I am thankful somebody uploaded these crappy images to Discogs which is where I found them. Crappy or not, it's all I got. And I am thankful.

1 L-A-Z-Y

2 So There It Is

3 God's Greenest Acres

4 Looking Up

5 Closet Ho

6 Sister

7 Sugar Mama

8 We Don't Love You Anymore

9 Grace

10 Touch

11 Swea Pea

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Bette Bright REPOST

Someone requested that I re-post Bette Bright and normally I put the re-posts in the MEGA Re-Up folder and I keep on truckin' but I found those files and started listening and I heard this great music again for the first time.

I always focused on the ska-leaning stuff. The Clive Langer productions. The "What Would Suggs Do" sort of songs while I ignored the rest.

But today I realize that a song I always skipped is probably the best song in her discography.

"On a Night Like This" is probably the best pop song I have ever heard. Well, it's in my list for the top 1 million pop songs ever written. I listened to it a few times. I'm a song-writer myself. Someday I hope to be able to write "A Song Like This".

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Sunday, October 11, 2026

Hot Tongs - Our Mundo (2000)

1 Walking in da Steady Garden

2 Societé Haute Sécurité

3 Y' a Ceux La

4 Ah Waye

5 Trop de Violence

6 L'Orphelin

7 Plus Jamais...

8 It's Your Mundo

9 Violent Mix

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I posted their demo tape previously HERE. I mentioned on that post that they did not have an official release but I was wrong. Here it is.

See, the thing is...

I recently obtained two rare cassettes that I have been trying to find for a very long time. Now I have them and both of my cassette players stopped working. I haven't had a chance to even hear these tapes yet.

A few months back my record player stopped working and that's why I haven't been posting records. I saved up and finally got myself a new record player and my computer is not recognizing it.

It sounds like I'm at a stand still as far as the blog is concerned but I have ripped a lot of records and tapes over the years that I have never posted because I never thought they were really good enough compared to the other stuff I have. But that's okay. Sometimes I post absolute gems and the audience yawns. And then I post some basic bullshit and the audience goes wild.

Ultimately it's really not for me to decide what would make a good blog post. I'm just going to post all of it.

Sense of pride? No. Sense of accomplishment? Yes.

Now, that being said, - I mentioned before that I often find great stuff online and I need to be sharing it with you so that's the point of this post. This is none of my own stuff so take it or leave it. Enjoy.

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I found a demo tape from the 80s by a band called "Wind at Night" and the third track on this demo is a ska song called "Red Sweat". It was posted by a YouTube channel called occupiedmind. Check it out. It's the third song on the tape starting at the 8:00 mark.

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Here's a weird one. Halloween is coming up. This is not really ska but 80s new wave with a ska influence. It's interesting to hear a time or two but it will never be on your "Greatest Hits of the 80s" compilations.

The Fibonaccis "Leroy"

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The Tapes - Call Me

Another one that is not ska but new wave with ska-influence. A great song nonetheless.

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Have you heard this one before?

Hermine - Happy Holidays (1982)

I can show you these songs but I can't say of they are good or bad. That's for you to decide.

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Okay, so, if you need to cleanse your palate try this

The Brewts - self titled album from this Ann-Arbor Michigan band from 1998 on the Internet Archive.

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There's lots more but that's just some shit I heard today.

I'll post more of my random findings. Some are better than others but it's all out there and we're here now.

Perfect Thyroid

Posted by very popular demand. I have more requests for this than just about anything else.

I do have some of the CDs but not all 4 but none of the files in this post are my own. This is a download for all 4 albums and the files are all things I found online over the years. If you really really want them in better quality I might do that for you but, to be honest, after hearing these albums I don't think anybody will care.

I don't say this to insult the band. I say this because this is a ska blog full of ska people who like ska music. Perfect Thyroid was NOT a ska band. They did do a few ska songs but the majority of their stuff is not really ska music for ska people on a ska blog.

Perfect Thyroid - Kiss the Mammoth and Run (1991)

Perfect Thyroid - Which One of Us is Me? (1995)

Perfect Thyroid - Musical Barnacles (1996)

Perfect Thyroid - Sticktuitiveness (2001)

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Saturday, October 10, 2026

Repeaters EP (1999) LINK UPDATED October 12, 2026

I'm glad I finally found this one but in my search to find it I also found a few unreleased studio tracks as well as some live tracks that were posted on MySpace back in the day.

This download includes the rare CD-R EP and the Tone and Wave exclusive "Unreleased and Live"

The Repeaters EP (1999)

1 Business in Bangkok

2 Slow Your Tempo

3 This Time

4 Another Fool

The Repeaters - Unreleased and Live

1 This Time

2 2 Steps Back

3 Shirley

4 The Riddim

5 Nah Pull No Brakes

6 All I Ever Wanted (live)

7 We Can Make it Alright (live)

8 Stand Tall (live)

9 Another Fool (live)

10 Far Away (live)

11 No More Suffer (live)

(Thanks to Anonymous who let me know the file was bad. I downloaded it and saw for myself so I thank you for letting me know. It has been re-upped and I tested it. I think it's good now.)

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Some of the rare unreleased tracks are songs that appeared on their vinyl releases but these versions sound better than the ones I previously posted. If you download this post here and that one there you will have their complete recordings as far as I know.

The Repeaters original post.

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Thursday, October 8, 2026

For Pete's Sake [San Dimas, California]

For Pete's Sake - Our Time (1999)

1 Mr. Rogers

2 Bootyhound

3 H.B. Girl

4 Just a Friend

5 Angel Baby

6 Poorboy

7 My Hero

8 No Name

9 Come Back

10 Thank You F.P.S.

11 Always on My Mind

4 Pete's Sake (2000)

1 Flatline

2 Emo Bot

3 Like Most Good Things

4 Dave DeVaughn

5 Bend or Break

6 Run Around

7 Comeback

8 Peek at You

* Logic

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Robert Palmer - Too Good to be True EP (1996)

This is not a real release by Robert Palmer. This is some "fantasy" record that I made about ten years ago and I never posted it on the blog. (I also did one for Dolly Parton. I'll have to find it.) I came across it recently and I think it's really good. All of these songs are actually songs he recorded, they were just never released in this format.

I don't know what your plans for this weekend were but I can almost guarantee that "listening to Robert Palmer" was probably not on your agenda. But now it is.

1 Too Good to be True

2 What Can You Bring?

3 Pressure Drop

4 Hard Head

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Dolemites - On the Real Tip (1998)

This was shared for us by Matty from Talk the Ska. I recently found a folder he sent to me a few years back and it's full of gems that have never been shared on Tone and Wave before. I'll post his other gifts in time.

Thank you Matty!

1 Bernie Mack

2 Wolveron

3 The Righteous Dr.

4 He's Alive

5 Heavy Metal Garbageman

6 Corey Goes to Cali

7 Wo!!

8 Oi

9 Good Thing My Mom Gives Me the Car

10 Right

11 GQ Smooth

12 Wake Up

13 Mama Don't Beat Me

14 The Ends Justify the Skins

15 The Search for the Holy Pimp

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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

The Offbeats - Demo Tape (1983)

This is The Offbeats from Melbourne who did the song "Ripple Sole Shoes" not to be confused with the New Zealand band of the same name.

This picture here is of the Australian band The Leftovers. This download has literally nothing at all to do with The Leftovers but I have no image at all to share with you regarding this demo tape and I feel like I need an image to go with the post so I just selected a rare photo of whatever ska band from Australia I could find and, out of the few I found, I liked this one the best.

This demo was sent to me a few years ago and I never posted it because I thought I had already posted it. I'm an idiot. You, my regular patrons, know this. This is not my own rip. It's from 1983 and it sounds amazing.

I thank the person who shared it with me as well as the one who converted their old tape to WMA files.

1 Ripple Sole Shoes

2 Wooley Bulley

3 Going West

4 Bartender

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