Skanksters [Norway]

 There is a band from Canada with the same name, but this is the band from Norway. I think this is everything they recorded. They do have one demo tape that I know of but it was released as the first EP.

Skanksters EP (1995)

1 Boot Boy

2 Status Quo

3 The Firm

4 Pictures 

5 Jimmy

6 Stains

Kippers Singles Club Vol No.1 (1996)

1 Jimmy

2 The Firm

3 Stain

 

 Ask EP (1996) 

1 Rainy Day

2 He Said

3 New Year

4 Summer Day

 

 Machine Gun Girl (Skanksters / Cockroach Clan split 7") (1998)

1 Skanksters and Cockroach Clan - Machine Gun Girl

2 Skanksters - Rude Boy

3 Cockroach Clan - Fly the Flag

Shaven Not Stirred (1999)

1 Weekend

2 Excited

3 Sinking In

4 Seperation

5 Adidas

6 Three Monkeys

7 Skanksters

8 New Year

9 Summer Day

10 Rude Boy

11 Rainy Day

12 Kiss of Life

This Man EP (2003)

1 This Man

2 Shake the Tree

3 Stains

4 He Said

Life is Here Today (2010)

1 Life is Here Today

*In the Rain (Madness cover)

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SKAmpler volume 1 - 4

SKAmpler (1993)

1 Ventilators - Blue Beat Sky

2 Nude Club - Tree

3 Les Infants de St. Gall - Mexico

4 Lucky Hiob - Roschtiland

5 Jimmy Bastard - Looser

6 Crank - I'm a Reiser

7 The Noses - Ai, Ai, Ai

8 Free Cheese for All - Blue Beat Confrontation

9 The Peacocks - My Generation

10 Jolly and the Flytrap - Gang Bang

11 Die Aeronauten - Du Warst So Gern Dabei

12 Melk Them - I Love You

13 The Monsters - Whisky Song

14 The Ventilators - Mystification

15 Free Cheese for All - Luis Goes to the Guig

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SKAmpler No 2 (1994)

1 Radio Active - James Bone

2 Schlossch - I Ask Myself

3 The Peacocks - Living in a Town

4 Cadizier - Die Nachbarn

5 Les Congelateurs - Ace of Space

6 Kalles Kaviar - Stand by Me

7 Godzilla - Body Count

8 Peacestreet - El Nino de Ringo

9 Wicked - Julie

10 Hans 'n' Moses - Body

11 The Spots - Mr. Career

12 Aligaga - La Greve

13 The Ventilators - Try Me One More Time

 

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SKAmpler 3 (1997)

1 Die Aeronauten - Horror Beach

2 The Planet Smashers - Pee in the Elevator

3 Halle K - Rote Ernte

4 Less Than Jake - Boomtown

5 Humus - Fun Instead of Brains

6 Steven's Nude Club - Hit in My Back

7 Skankin' Pickle - Racist World

8 Kerbholz - Ska Song

9 Kalles Kaviar - Last Mission

10 Skarface - Politiquement Correct

11 Technicolour Yawn - Emergency Break

12 Chickenpox - Anything You Say

13 Moonraisers - Wanna Know

14 Terrorgruppe - Der Rhein Ist Tot

15 Godzilla - Mr. Fred

16 Admiral James T. - Space Sa-Five

17 Les Congelateurs - Muddy Muck

18 Shame & Skandal Family - Kingston, Kingston

19 Bruce Lee Band - Brother, Brother

20 Deep Circle Smile - Invisible

21 Bakesys - Confused

22 Radio Active - Dummi Sach

 

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SKAmpler 4 (1999)

1 Quatre In Toulouse - El Nino

2 Les Congelateurs - Fuck You

3 Radio Active - Moi

4 Godzilla - Les Liaisones Dangereus

5 Steven's Nude Club - Haunted House

6 Peek-A-Boo - Abrahim

7 Nguru - The Spider & the Sperm

8 Blind-Man's Bluff - Dirty Frank

9 Star Five - Killing Them Softly

10 Space Skadets - Explosion!

11 Kalles Kaviar - Big Fat Mama

12 Cadizier - Hitlerbubi

13 Admiral James T. - The Priest

14 Ingraban - Morning in Milan

15 King Fumm - Mr. Big Stuff

16 Scalawax - I Can Wait

17 Plankton - Nachtmusig

18 Body Bag - R.U.D.E.B.O.Y.

19 Skaladdin - It

20 Tom Hogan Motors - No Education

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The Cats - The Cats Complete Singles 1968 - 1978

 This is a Tone and Wave exclusive. It took me years to assemble this collection. I believe this is every song that The Cats released in their lifetime. 

If you don't know, when Madness did "Swan Lake" they weren't covering the classic Tchaikovsky song outright. They were covering The Cats version of the song. The B-side to The Cats Swan Lake" single was called "My Girl" and, as you know, Madness also had a song called "My Girl" but the joke here is that when you played the B-side to the Cats single and you were expecting a cover of the Temptations song but what you got instead was a cover of Mary Wells' "My Guy".

 The Cats recorded a lot of their renditions of classical music in the studio but their releases of these songs were limited. They recorded reggae/soul versions of Beethoven's "Fur Elise", Bach's "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring", Mozart's "Ein Kleine Nachtmusik", Satie's "Gymnopedie No.1" and, I believe, Albinoni's "Adagio". These were never released until 2014 when a label called Kipa Recordings put out a CD with all of the Cats unreleased songs which were recorded in 1968. I don't have this CD but I am desperately looking for it.

What I do have is all of their singles that they did release. Here is my collection:

1 Swan Lake

2 Swing Low

3 The Hog

4 Blues for Justice

5 William Tell

6 Love Walk Right In

7 My Girl

8 Sherman

9 What Can I Do?

10 Falling in Love

11 Knees Up Motther Brown

12 Rubbish

13 Air on a G String

14 Swan Lake (1976)

15 Swan Lake (Disco Version)

 

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Rhythm Trak - Don't Ask 12" (1990)

 There is a semi-well-known California punk band called War Called Peace who put out two albums in the 90s and each one had a ska track or two.

Their first album from 1995 was called "Yuppie Ghetto" and there was one ska-inspired song called "Maggot Mentality (Donahue)"

Their second album from 1998 was called "Everyday War" and it had two ska songs - "Meltdown" and "What Would You Do?".

 

The thing that people don't know about this band is that they started out as a ska band called Rhythm Trak. Maybe not 'ska' in the strictest terms, but they were a punk band who mixed in reggae and dub into just about every song.

 You might think "so?...lots of bands did that..." but there was no internet in the 80s and early 90s and bands only knew what was happening in front of them and what they saw in the clubs and venues themselves. As far as they knew they were the only band in California playing punk/reggae. They really were pioneers but, sadly, they didn't record very much. 

As far as I know they only released this one record. The band at that time was:

Robbie Rogers - vocals

Chris Sueta - drums and vocals

Steve Burdette - guitar

Adam Gonzales - bass

Peter Carreiro - guitar (and producer)

Eric Neseth - saxophone 

I know Robbie Rogers and Chris Sueta went on to form War Called Peace about a year after this record was released but I don't know what other band members joined them. War Called Peace released their first EP in 1992. It was called "WCP" and I don't have a copy (there are several for sale on Discogs but, even though it's on my want list, there are too many other things I'd rather buy first) and I have heard that there was at least one song from their Rhythm Trak days on the EP. Was it a ska song? I don't know. 

Rhythm Trak - Don't Ask 12" (1990)

A1 - Don't Ask

A2 - Don't Dub

B1 - War Drum

B2 - War Dub

I included the three aforementioned War Called Peace tracks in this download

* Maggot Mentality (Donahue)

* Meltdown

* What Would You Do?

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Short Round

 

Short Round was a very talented 3rd wave ska band from Syracuse, New York who had alternating male-female vocals and they did the weirdest cover of "Walking on Sunshine" I have ever heard. 

Short Round - Is it Really...? (1998)

1 Summer Days

2 Big Wheel

3 Doctor Jones

4 Pants

5 The Other Night

6 Mess

7 March On

8 Slack

9 Blizzard

10 No More Troubles

11 Trendy Girl

12 Salt City

13 We're Not Gonna Take It

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Short Round - Butch Cassidy and Your Mom (1999)

1 Here We Go Again

2 Hold On

3 Where I Belong

4 Good Things (Come in 3's)

5 Kim in a...

6 Pants

7 Keep it Short

8 Walkin' on Sunshine

9 Johnny Hate

10 You 

11 Trendy Girl

12 January

13 untitled

14 Good Things (Come in 3's) [alt version] 

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Free Press - Workin' in Washington 7" (1990)

A - Workin' in Washington

B - Idaho

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Peek-A-Boo - Lost Again (2000)

1 Aleksandr Aljechin

2 I Have Grace Kelly on My Mind

3 Tu t'es Laisse'e Aller

4 Lost Again

5 You

6 Ibrahim

 

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