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
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
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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
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
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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Public Service! - Somebody Scream! (1990)
Public Service! - Waste (1994)
Public Service - Raw 2K (1999)
This is their only real ska song that I know of besides their cover of Symarip's "Skinhead Girl".
I just saw that the YouTube channel UK PUNK DEMOS had posted this demo in 2022 and even though I'm a regular attendee of that blog I overlooked this one.
The YouTube channel I'm posting here disordertaf includes other tracks not on the demo that's on UK PUNK DEMOS including "Skinhead Girl".
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.
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.
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.
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.
