Planetary Refugees - demo (1993)

 

This band from Spokane, Washington is still active to this day. They play a blend of ska, reggae, and a bit of that Motown sound. 

I think this is their first demo tape and I think it's from 1993. Don't quote me on that. 

They are primarily a reggae band but this tape has two ska songs: "Reggae Snowman" and "Lay Down Your Gun" and I have found some more of their music online and they do have at least a couple other ska songs that I know of like "Refugees of Babylon" which is on their ReverbNation page. 

"Lay Down Your Gun" surprisingly pays homage to Bigger Thomas and the song "Ska in My Pocket".

 

1 Earth Report

2 Reggae Snowman

3 Did You Really Mean it?

4 Want More

5 Carry Me Back

6 Lay Down Your Gun

 

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The Plugs - Last of the Boiler Boys (1982)

 This is not an actual album. The Plugs never released an album. This is a collection of odds and ends. Mostly home recordings for songs they played live but never got to record in a studio.

 They hand made this tape for their fans and they sold it at their last show. 

I was holding off on posting this because I wanted to include both of their singles and a live tape which includes a compilation track (which is not ska) but I didn't have time today to work on a post so I just decided to put this out. It's very rare but a little hard to listen to because of the sound quality. The other stuff I have by them is even more rare but even more hard to listen to. I will post the other stuff at a later date. Sorry for the inconvenience.

1 We are Plumbers

2 Chips and Beer

3 Berserkers in Babylon 

4 Pluggage

5 My Bicycle

6 Interval

7 Why is Life so Complicated

8 B. Brain

9 In My Oriental Garden

10 Oh Dear!

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50% Potato - demo (2007)

 I can't remember if I got this from a demo tape or if it came from a MySpace page. Either way this band is incredible. I don't know if they ever released anything else but I hoping they did. 

If you know anything more about this band please let me know.

 

Here's what I know

They were from Thetford 

The guitarist/vocalist was Toby Mayes

Bass - Lewis Wilkins

Drums/back-up vocals - Daniel Adcock

Keyboard - Josh O'Farrell

Saxophone - Lois Braysher

 That's all I got.

 

1 Liquid Jelley Moon

2 Ghost Train

3 Pay Hommage to Hummus

4 Money

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Mistakes - Demo (1998)

 

This is not my own rip. I thank the original uploader.

1 Make No Mistake

2 Wake Up

3 Love Seals Destiny

4 Gold Digger

5 Nice 'N' Easy

6 Looking for a Way

 

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I made a post in 2019 with everything else I had by them. I'm still missing the other demo tape. If you need me to re-up the other releases let me know. 

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Crucial DBC - Haunted World (1988)

1 Spy Version#

2 Hold On

3 Oppression

4 I Don't Understand

5 Who's Lovin You?

6 King Darry's Rude Boy Rap*

7 Wicked*

8 Right for My Heart

9 Ipso Es Victium

10 Haunted World

 

# I'm guessing these tracks are not in order of how they were played. At the end of the first track Spy Version he says "Thank you! Good night!" like it was the end of the show. I didn't re-arrange anything, I left it as it is on the tape. 

*The song King Darry's Rude Boy Rap flows directly into the song Wicked. I tried separating them but without any real line of demarcation it sounded terrible so I left it as one single track. There are ten songs on this tape but you'll see only nine in the download.  

 

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Riot [France] - Riot (1993)

 

 I know nothing about this band. The tape says it's live but it doesn't really sound like a live recording and there is no audience noise.

Male and female vocals sung in English and French.

1 Sally Brown

2 Les Milchiens

3 Destroy Fascism

4 Mister Pile

5 Riot

 

toneandwave · 04 Mister Pile

 

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The Jinkies - Nine-Piece Nug Combo (1996)

 Another great gift to us from Marcel from the Punk Guy YouTube Channel.

Thank you Marcel!

 

1 Scooby Doo

2 Mixed Messages

3 Darlin'

4 Groovy Doo

5 Last Night

6 No Exit

7 Road Trip

8 Studio J

9 Give it Up 

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The Usuals - Non-Album Tracks (2026)

 

 

This is a Tone and Wave exclusive. I compiled their tracks from compilations and singles a few years ago and I shared my collection of 8 songs on a Facebook forum but if you were one of the lucky few who downloaded it, you might still want this one. It's pretentious of me to date it "2026" when this is not an official release by the band and these songs were recorded a long time ago but I did it to distinguish this collection from the previous one.

 The difference is that this one includes all 4 songs from their 1994 demo tape "May I be Excused" which was just shared with me today by Marcel who does the Punk Guy YouTube channel. If you are not already subscribed to his channel you are remiss in your duties as a collector of this type of music. It is primarily punk but there is a lot of ska, and I mean a LOT of ska, as well as indie, garage, a little bit of funk, and, really, just about everything. 

Here's his channel. Do yourself a favor if you haven't already.  

 The Usuals - Non-Album Tracks

(Yes, I know some were on the albums, I just included all tracks from the singles.) 

1 Salty Coffee

2 Rocket Power

3  Catahoula

4 Besame Mucho

5 The Setup

6 Cupid

7 Hey Boy

8 Bring on the Night

9 Dig the Beat

10 Let's Play

11 Had Enough

12 Ice Cream

 

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The Wobblers - Oh No! (2004)

 This is a very rare release from this German band. It was only ever released on CD-R and I think it's the only thing they ever put out. 

For fans of third wave ska-punk. All vocals are in English.

1 I Wanna Be

2 Just Fine

3 Back to Hell

4 Travel of My Life

5 Summertime

6 For a Night

7 Good Old Times

8 Schubidu

9 Sometimes

10 Speak About

11 G. L. F.

12 untitled

 

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Can I have a quick word with you...just real quick...?

 

 

I see a lot of requests for re-uploads and I will try to get to all of them hopefully in the next week or two. 

I did get a request for The Tigers - Savage Music which I am not allowed to re-post so whoever made that request shoot me an email at toneandwave@gmail.com and we'll take it from there. 

 

In order to make room in my MEGA account for all the re-uploads and all of the new stuff I have to delete a lot of the older things. The oldest year that is still available is 2021 so go through my posts from that year and download everything you need because a few weeks from now the links will all be dead.

 HERE's the LINK.

 For now 2022 and later will still be active so no need to rush on those years. 

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One of the things I'm working on right now is a tape from the band The Plugs which I'm not entirely happy with the quality of it so I'm not ready to post it just yet. And I have a live tape which is not on Discogs.

 

Here's the best song on that tape. There is some sitar in the beginning which is edited out but when I post the full tape on the blog it will be the full version with the sitar. 

toneandwave · The Plugs - In My Oriental Garden (1982)

 

Skaville U.K. - Devil Beat (2009)

 Uploaded by request.

 Skaville U.K.'s third and final studio album. 

1 Devil Beat

2 Same Old, Same Old

3 Tribute Band

4 We Want Your Money

5 I Threw it All Away

6 Sally Sly

7 Goodbye Piccadilly

8 Dreader than Dread

9 She's Got Vertigo

10 Money Shot

11 Last Train

 

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