The Jesters

 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.)

 The Jesters - ...Which is Nice (1998)

1 Bored

2 Road Trip

3 Waiting for Another

4 Evolution

5 Zombie Skank

6 The Funky Buddha

7 Hasselhoff

8 What's Real

9 Humpty Dance

10 Bananas in the Mist

11 Alone

12 Welcome to Clown School

13 Funky Chair

14 Skank to This

15 untitled

16 Closure

17 untitled

 

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 The Jesters - Everybody Loves a Chimp (2002)

1 J. Load

2 Nippeaux

3 Harvey

4 Shame on Me

5 Tragic Sad Mistake

6 The Cell

7 One of a Kind

8 Pähn Støør Høør

9 Null Set

10 Then You Walked in

11 Shoulda Got 2

12 Dirty Muthascratcher

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