I didn't have anything prepared so I just went and threw this crap together. Some good stuff on here and a whole lot of shit. Very few, if any, of these tracks have ever been posted on the blog before.
Side 1
1 Fabulous Poodles - Toytown people 2 Dolly Dots - Ragged Nights 3 Roaring Jelly - Beethoven Bluebeat 4 Take Me - Laughing Inside 5 Chairman Youth - Uncertainty 6 Big Bill - Tes Ka 7 Tempo - Not for a Million 8 Keeper - Where is He Now? 9 004 - Too Much to Do 10 Sedans - Rhythm of the Nation 11 TV Neats - Was I Dreaming Again? 12 The Bogey Boys - Gunslinger
Side 2
1 The Monotones - Edison 2 Bouncing Soles - Dangerzone 3 Talk Back - Rudy 4 The Positions - Get Up 5 Penknife Glides - Taking the Weight Off 6 Les Gangsters - Therese 7 Moira & the Mice - Heart Like a Whore 8 Split Enz - My Mistake 9 Tempo - Stay Clean 10 Timelordes - Don't Mess (With Joh) 11 Damage - Jailhouse Ska 12 Willem OP Schepper - De Tien Geboden
1 Shuttle Disaster
2 Spit + Pollish
3 Stop That Train
4 Harvest in the East
5 Hi Jacked
6 Western Special
7 Got to Go
8 Sally Brown
9 Dial M for Murder
10 Sahara
11 Shocker's Rock
12 Never Take the Place of Your Man
Some more records (and cassette) I bought thinking they were ska.
First is Prudence Dredge. A straightforward rock-n-roll band from Seattle who named themselves after a children's book about potty training. At one point Craig Ferguson played bass for them.
Unrelated to this post Craig Ferguson was also a drummer for a punk band called The Dreamboys in which Peter Capaldi was the front man. Craig Ferguson had Peter Capaldi on his show and Peter mentioned the band and said they were terrible.
They released one 3-song single including a cover of Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead"but Craig Ferguson did not play on the recordings:
Prudence Dredge had a sax player and a trombone player and they released two albums and two singles. Not a ska beat anywhere in their recordings and, yet, they are often sold as ska just because they have horns.
This was sold on eBay as a ska record. It's 80s pop-rock with prominent saxophone with no semblance of ska at all but it's pretty good and it only cost me 3 dollars. The band was Swedish and I don't know of any other recordings they ever did.
I'm assuming this is a demo tape. I can't find anything at all about the band (but I honestly didn't look hard at all). This was also sold on eBay as "ska". The band does have a horn section and they give thanks to Jah in the liner notes but that's about where it ends. This is one of those long-hair funk/metal bands that were popular around the early 90s. I'm not really a big fan of that sound so I was quite disappointed with this purchase. If nothing else, it is rare.
1 Oatmeal Days
2 Sick
3 Realities
4 I Explore the Soul
5 Slave to Cool
6 Hitchiking to Heaven
7 Pagan Prayer
8 You Gotta be Strong
Diversion Factor - Information 7" (1987)
A - Information
B - Going Home
Diversion Factor - Scenario 6 (1987)
1 Quick Fix
2 Scenario 6
3 Animal Friction
4 Break Down
5 Better Life
6 Heartbeat
7 Come With Me
Diversion Factor - Sold Away 7" (1988)
A - Sold Away
B - Reflexive
Discogs had all three of these records labeled as 'ska' but the only ska song is "Better Life" from Scenario 6. They were actually described as sounding like The Animals more than anything else.
This is a French band that I know nothing about. This single may be the only thing they released and I was after this record for many years because it was always called 'ska' but guess what?
Unicorn Records classic. In 1994 it was released on cd as a split with Mr. Review's Walkin' Down Brentford Road but the last song "Everything Crash" was not included. This is the vinyl version with all 10 tracks.
1 VC 10
2 Neither Red/Black Nor Racist
3 Look Smart
4 Shake it Up
5 A Message to You Rudy
6 The Things I Feel
7 Phantoms
8 Morange
9 Reminds Me of Cairo
10 Everything Crash
This is the only album they released but they did record a demo in 1989 called "Have a Good Ska Stomping" that had 6 tracks:
1 Brand New Beat
2 Rude Boys
3 Me and My Shadow
4 These Boots are Made for Walkin'
5 Reminds Me of Cairo
6 I Hate You
Attack of the Maffia (1979)
1 Attack of the Maffia
2 Love Song for Dillinger
3 Jesse James on the Road
4 The Killer in Action
5 Demons in Chicago
6 The Night of Capone
7 Murders Party
8 Action in Chinatown
9 Death of the Traitor
10 Ballad for Elliott Ness
11 Dance of the Syndicate
12 Daysy's Theme
Jamaican Survivers LP (1980) - this was previously posted - same rip
1 Dark Side of Hong Kong
2 Baby Face Nelson
3 Attack of the FBI
4 Buggy's Theme
5 Murders of Chicago
6 Dillinger is Back in Town
7 The Vendetta
8 Chicago Stomp
9 Theme from The Gamblers
10 Stoned in Bangla Desh
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