This band was from Chicago. They started out in 1995 as a ska band but by the time they recorded their second album they had abandoned ska completely. I included the second album because I have it and also so you can hear it before you decide to waste your money on it.
With all due respect, I know the giant wave of 3rd wave ska was basically over by 2002 and these guys wanted to distance themselves from ska. So why did they go in the direction of white-boy funk which was already a dead scene in 1992? Did their audience encourage this? If they had stayed true to ska they'd all be millionaires living in mansions right now but they chose a different path. Shameful.
(Long-time Tone and Wave patrons should know that I abhor white-funk. That's because I came from a time before the internet where the only way to buy music was from local record shops which had basically the same stock month after month, or the big retailers who labelled anything with horns as "ska". I wasted so much money on white-funk music before The Wherehouse allowed returns. God I hate white-funk.)
Incredible talent from these young guys from...somewhere...Ohio, I'm assuming (?). Songwriting, musicianship, stage presence. They had it all.
I'm pretty sure they had other recordings besides this and a 5-song demo tape from 1997 called "Rebel Music" (which I do not, and never have, had a copy of). but I'm not willing to bet money on it. There are a few live shows on YouTube:
There is an established country artist in from London U.K. called Little Ginny who put out a few albums in the late 70s / early 80s. Her bass player was Paul Kirby. He played in bands of various genres and he was also a songwriter who dabbled in producing. Eventually Little Ginny and Paul got married.
Since Paul was familiar with different genres of music he knew that the emerging ska/reggae sound of the late 70s/early 80s was a path worth taking.
He encouraged Little Ginny to record a ska/reggae song. So, in 1984, she did a ska cover of Don Gibson's 1961 hit Sea of Heartbreak but she didn't use the name "Little Ginny", she used the name Ginette for this record:
This may or may not have been inspired by Paul's own ska reggae single presented to you right here and one might even go so far as to say this reggae/ska record was inspired a bit by old country music.
It seems both of them just kind of faded from the world of music after this.
I am compiling a post for the band Skatoon Syndikat (which I will be posting shortly) and I believe I have everything by them but I was missing one song - the song "Skatoon Syndikat" by Skatoon Syndikat.
I bought this CD because it's on here. Lots of other good stuff on here too. Especially if you speak German.
This re-up post is by request. I originally posted this in 2017 and I assure you the post was from my own rip of the tape.
When I saw that somebody requested this I went looking through my old stuff and I could not find it. I sold the original tape years ago but I was certain I kept the MP3s and the scans. Well, not certain, but pretty sure. But I couldn't find it anywhere. Luckily I found this version on Soulseek. It was originally WAV files and I converted them to MP3 and I think it sounds pretty good. I don't remember what my old rip sounds like so I don't know if this is a better version or worse or exactly the same. But it seems it's the only copy I have and I am lucky to have it and to be able to share it so I thank the anonymous person who took the time to do their own rip and share it with us.
This is a female-fronted ska band from the U.S.. They were from Wisconsin or Michigan. I don't remember exactly. They had one song "Without You" on Moon Ska's "Skarmageddon #4: Armageddon Time!" compilation.
That song came off of this CD-R. I don't know if they ever released anything aside from this demo CD-R.
2nd Hand Sneakers was formed immediately after Son Of Blob broke up in 2003. This is possibly their only recording.
Let's take this back a bit. Son Of Blob was a Dutch ska band that formed in the mid 90s. They played De Melkweg in Amsterdam alongside bands like Catchup Squad, Venus Hill and De Hardheid and shared the stage with The Slackers, The Toasters and The Selecter.
The known Son Of Blob line-up was:
Skippy - vocals Michiel Leeuwenburgh - bass Maurice Bierhuizen - guitar Kris van der Heyden - drums Hessel van der Flier - keyboard Jeroen Mullié - trombone, trumpet Lodewijk Reijs - alto sax, baritone sax
Son Of Blob had a music video for their most well-known song Rode Fiets (Red Bicycle) but the drummer in the video was called Ron and he was one of the founding members of The Upsessions.
Some of you may remember a post I did in September 2023 about a blank cassette I had and I didn't know who the band was.
As it turns out it was a demo tape by Son of Blob that they recorded after their new singer Nena joined the band. I thank aboynamedstew for steering me in the right direction which eventually solved this mystery.
I don't know what happened to their iconic lead man Skippy but it seems like people were used to the original lineup with Skippy at the helm and Nina was a hard sell. I don't know for sure that's what the situation was but that's my observations as an American 20 years after the fact.
Nina was the vocalist for the demo tape as well as for their only full-length.
The band didn't break up after that, they just changed their name to 2nd Hand Sneakers with the intention of changing their sound to incorporate more mellow reggae sounds as well as aiming for a pop sound.
This post includes the 2nd Hand Sneakers demo as well as everything I have by Son Of Blob which is not complete.
Also included is a live song called "Het Strand" (The Beach) which was recorded on the same night that the first demo tape was recorded but it was not included on the tape.
Rare British ska from the turn of the century. Is this the only thing they ever released? I don't know. You tell me. I'm hoping they do have more to offer.
This was a ska band from Manhattan, Kansas who released two albums in the 90s. This download includes what I believe to be everything they ever released.
Ruskabank - Swank! (live demo cassette 1996)
1 Hothead
2 Hectic
3 Been Around
4 One Shot Judy
5 Ruskabank
Ruskabank - This Took Some Time (1998)
1 We Dancin'
2 Feel
3 My Friends
4 Gangster Girlfriend
5 Ruskabank
6 Hothead
7 Try n' Try
8 I Been Around
9 Tube Socks
10 One Shot Judy
11 Ska on da Radio
12 Mission
13 Sultan of Scandal
14 Wishing Well
Ruskabank - I Don't Think You Hear Me, Though (2000)
1 Cheer Up
2 I Don't Think You Hear Me, Though
3 Give it Up
4 Lover's Sea
5 Hectic
6 Wish I Would Have Kissed You
7 Wrong Again
8 Speedy Gonzales
9 Strugglin'
10 All My Fans Are Dead
They had several songs on compilations but most of those songs were on their albums.
They did have two songs unique to those compilations that were not available anywhere else:
The Ratchet Boys was a D.C. area ska band that started out as The Skanker Sores. The band was made up of musicians who played in other bands such as The Ready Steady Go!, the psychobilly band The Alphabet Bombers, The Unidentified, and The NoGoodniks.
There's not much more I can say about the band without plagiarising a post about the band on The Duff Guide to Ska.
Livets spel - The Game of life. This Swedish band put out this 7" and a CD EP before fading away into the void. Livets Spel is probably their only ska song but I don't know for sure because I never heard the EP.
Backdoor Stomp was a ska band from Brisbane Australia that was formed in 1998 by Tom McKenzie who was the sax player for The Funaddicts.
There are ten songs on this CD and eight are covers with only two being original songs by the band but those originals are well worth the price of the CD. "What's Goin' On" is a cover of the Funaddicts song which Tom McKenzie wrote so it is a cover but it isn't. And they do a Puzzles cover which I think they did a great job on.
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