They had two other recordings. SEE HERE for details.
1 Intro
2 Skasso
3 Mr. Skazz
4 P.G.R. '96
5 Babylon Style
6 Luglio
I am not happy with how this tape sounds. It's very low sounding. The bass sounds great but the rest of the music suffers because of it.
I think I might have to re-rip it with modified settings.
REPOSTED BY REQUEST
This is a re-post deluxe. I got a request to re-post the two demo tapes so, instead of just posting the two demo tapes, I also included a live recording and a collection of songs recorded at practice sessions that were never recorded in a studio.
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They did have one other release that they put out in 1998 - a year before they put this out - and that release was a live recording that showed they were not an instrumental band. There were vocals in some songs. That recording can be heard HERE.
1 Mike the Reindeer
2 La Cocina
3 The Day the Catfish Died
4 El Cid
5 Ghengis Kkan
6 Tilingo Lingo
7 Dance of the Maniacal Fan Blades
8 Mike the Reindeer (alternate take)
9 untitled
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(Posted by request)
1 Man on the Scene
2 The Upsetter
3 Jimmy Hate
4 Waiting Game
5 From Cairo with Love
6 Sally Brown
As time went on they got better. The vocals went from fun amateur to professional pop vocals. The songwriting started out strong and got even better over time and the band played tighter. Unfortunately as they got better as a band they drifted away from ska. That last album has horns in a few songs but there is only one ska/reggae song and the rest is pop-punk.
I like pop-punk and I think it's a great album but I am disappointed that they moved away from ska when they were at their finest.
The Barrymores - Kill All the Ska Kids (demo CD) (2001)
2 The Great Date Skatastrophe
3 S.S.
4 Up the Bum
The Barrymores - The Barrymores (2001)
2 The Way It's Supposed to Be
3 My Girlfriend's Got Bigger Balls than Me
4 Pachabel's Skanon
5 Menace II Society
6 The Great Date Skatastrophe
7 S.S.
8 It's What You Did
9 Missing in Action
10 Up the Bum
11 What You Think About Me
The Barrymores - All Nighters (2004)
2 Why So Much Hatred
3 Hearsay
4 Jesse and Jo
5 Run Run da Chillin'
6 Think Straight Again
7 Our Ocean
8 By the Way I'm Not Your Girl
9 The Sweetest Song
10 Can't Stop the Rock
11 Just Another Stupid Day
12 Tick
The Barrymores - New Invasion (2006)
2 Radio De-Lite
3 There's Something Missing in Paradise
4 Diary of a Neurotic
5 In the Mayfair Streets
6 Another Night with You
7 Old Dogs
8 Back in Eighty One
9 Every Day
10 World of Repetition
11 How to Kill a Goldfish (Still Hooked)
12 Destin for Nothin'
13 Lies, Cheat and Deceit
14 Karma Kids
15 My Problem is You
The Barrymores - non-album tracks
* Happy Hour
* No Sugar Tonight
* Our Ocean
* The S Song
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"Conspiracy" is one of the greatest 3rd wave ska songs ever recorded.
A - Halitosis
B1 - Conspiracy
B2 - Gilligan
A - Mamma Don't Dance
B - In the Beginning
No, this is not ska or reggae. I'm posting it because their first two records are ska/reggae and if you have them (I posted them here - the link is dead but I could find it in my heart to re-up it if anybody needs it) then you might want this one to complete the collection. It's not a great rip but I was so disappointed with it that I won't be re-ripping it. This is for reference only and not for enjoying on a long car ride.
A - Hey Baby
B - Ice Cream
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2 Dr. Ed and the Flu Shots - Bitches and Hoes
3 Dr. Ed and the Flu Shots - Calypso
4 Dr. Ed and the Flu Shots - Recognize
5 Dr. Ed and the Flu Shots - Ate My Hand
6 Kool-Aid Kids - Hamtaro
7 Kool-Aid Kids - Irony
8 Kool-Aid Kids - Kickball
9 Kool-Aid Kids - Uninspired Days
10 Kool-Aid Kids - Reggae Slow Jam
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1 Easy as 1
2 Receding Hairline
3 The Price is Right
4 Silly Temptations
5 More Than Meets the Eye
6 Take a Look at Your Showcase
7 Dirty Me
8 Staring into Darkness
9 Have Your Pets Spayed and Neutered
2 Skunk
3 Soldato
4 Vera
5 Brivado
6 Vile Denaro
7 Sono Stufo
8 E' Gia Mattina
9 Help
10 Cosi
11 Buongiorno
I have it now and this is that EP.
Sadly, there's no ska on it. Ska influence, but not real ska.
Oh well. If you have the other two albums you will want this to complete the collection.
1 I Can't Get No Sleep
2 Walking in the Sunshine
3 Jerk
4 Pretty Baby
5 Without You
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The A-side is a punk/reggae cover of Bobby Pickett's Monster Mash. Actually, the whole song is punk but it begins and ends with a punk-reggae beat.
I don't know where this band was from but this single was issued with a cover. My record doesn't have the cover but you can see a teensy-tiny picture of the cover on Discogs. If you read the comment on this entry you'll see a band member saying that this a one-off implying that the band never released anything else.
I don't care much for the B-side but the A-side is really good. And this record is quite rare.
A - Monster Mash
B - Bloodsuckers of the Universe
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All of these songs are available on YouTube on THIS CHANNEL, but this download is for my own rips and scans.
1 C.S.B.
2 Brivido
3 Plaza de Toro
4 Quello che Verra'
5 Maskara
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1 Ganja Man is coming to town
2 Look at the People
This was a ska band from Bavaria, Germany. Very little is known about them and the only reason I know they were from Bavaria is thanks to Burn Heart from In Search of the Ska.
This image has nothing to do with the band itself, just a sticker I found on eBay.
There are four tracks I'm assuming I must have gotten from MySpace many years ago but I don't remember exactly. Sadly the quality sucks but that's all I got. Here they are in incredible 52 kbps.
1 Gobwithchilli
2 Right Now Finish
3 Silency
4 Your Town
When I was younger some of the best shows I have ever seen were band rehearsals when the band invited people to watch them rehearse and it always started out for the first hour or so as a serious band rehearsal but morphed into a party a couple hours later.
Ah...the good ol' days.
This tape is a live recording. I don't think they ever recorded in a studio. This recording is available on Bandcamp but it's not complete. This download here is for the complete tape including "Rudi, a Message to You" and "Rat Race" which are not on the Bandcamp version. "Rudi..." is a cover song but, surprisingly, "Rat Race" is not.
1 Liberty
2 Revenge
3 Dumb Stormtrooper
4 Me with You
5 Roadkill Restaurant
6 Funky Smell
7 Rudi, A Message to You
8 Character
9 Attitude
10 I Wanted it All
11 San Francisco
12 Rio
13 There for Me
14 Rat Race
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1 Go Out Anymore
2 Do the Dog
3 Qu'est-ce Qui ne Tourne pas Rond Chez Moi?
4 Give Her
5 Time Hard
6 Get Crazy
7 A Message to You Rudy
8 Cure the Redeem
Esperanza - Permanent Ska (2011)
1 Screwface
2 Be Brave
3 No Zion I
4 Pontiac Skank
5 The Lesson
6 Headliner
7 Talk About It
8 Mr. Rude
9 T3
10 Allergy
11 Troubled Lands
12 Where You Gonna Go?
1 Glimmer
2 2-Tone Ain't Dead
3 One Man Down
4 Between the Sheets
5 Forget It
6 Inevitable
7 Naysayers Delight
8 Sunday Morning
9 Always Gonna Wonder
10 All You Wanted
11 As Day Turns Into Night
12 Weirdo
1 Better Late Than Never
2 Welcome to the Shite Show
3 Waiting for Billie
4 Trouble
5 Jean
6 Nobody's Friend
7 PRW
8 Bored
9 G12
10 Safe
11 At Large
12 Skallabye
1 Summer Ska
2 Live Dabei
3 Nase Im Wind
4 Hardcore
5 Zieh ab
6 On ne Veut pas Arreter
7 Proberaum
8 Sandra
9 Babayaga
10 Rosen für Dich
11 Sweet
Babayaga - Funky Drop (2010)
1 I am a Train
2 Mellow Mood
3 Funky Drop
4 Life Hustle
5 Mafia
6 You Better Go
7 Yesterday Night
8 Hippie
9 Sweet
10 Motherless Child
11 Dos Alemanes Muertos
12 Der Traurige Clown
13 Sommawaso
1 Night Owl
2 Being a Bum
3 Mad Man
4 Fool's Gold
5 Do it Again
6 Trouble
7 Two Two Tango
8 Batman
9 Reggae Got Soul
10 Red Headed Woman
11 High and Low
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Much thanks to the original poster!
1 Offbeat
2 Too Much Hamlet
3 No Exit
4 C'est Toi
5 On the Catwalk
6 Now I Know
7 Maria
8 No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service
9 Superman on Holiday
10 Verano
11 Skaramouche
12 Goodbye
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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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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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1 Linda Richman
2 Another Saturday Night
3 View Points and Vantages
4 Big Star
5 Sometimes U Can't Hold On
6 30 Miles South
7 Dick-N-the-Butt
8 Sadie's Gone
9 Friends All Think We Suck
10 Jersey Bound
11 Jah
12 Melt Away
13 None of My Friends are Metalheads
14 30 Miles South (acoustic reprise)
15 Just What I Needed (Cars cover)
16 Thank Yous
I also have some other songs that may be demos or just unreleased songs which I have included in this download:
* Our Friends All Think We Suck (demo)
* Russterbate
* Saturday
* Sometimes You Can't Hold On
* Songs About Growing Up
* 'Sup Dan
* The Replacement Song
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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:
Live at Bogart's Battle of the Bands - July 8th, 1997
Live at Fountain Square in Cincinnati, Ohio - July 2nd, 1998
They were the headliners of their own "festival" 'Crookhamstock' in 1999
1 Cincinnati, Here We Come
2 Can't Get Enough
3 Fear of a Vegan Planet
4 Alan Greenspan
5 Poolside
6 Princess
7 Russians at the Rodeo
8 R. K. G.
9 Rebellion Alter Ska: Solar System Remix
10 Lactose Intolerant
11 Ace of Ska
12 My Butler is a Rude Boy
13 Rockfort Ska
14 Power Station
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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.
Paul PK - Jumped the Gun 7" (1982)
A - Jumped the Gun
B - Pickin' up the Pieces
I bought this CD because it's on here. Lots of other good stuff on here too. Especially if you speak German.
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.
1 Mint Julep
2 One Eyed Giant
3 Batman
4 She Sure Can Cook
5 Sonic Boom
6 Solomon Gundey
7 Nut Monkey
8 Hi-Ball
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.
1 John Tesh
2 Underwear
3 Bust a Move
4 Without You
1 One Night Stand
2 Nica's Dream
3 I'd Rather Stay In
4 Youth
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.
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.
I do not have their full length The Hippest Cats in Skaville (2001)
I also don't have their "Venus" 7"
Here's what I do have:
1 Rode Fiets
2 Lady Marianne
3 Mighty Spliff
4 Tweedle Kans
1 Rode Fiets
2 Make Me Feel
3 Penetration*
4 Fantast
Son Of Blob - Skagiddyboogiddy (1999)
1 Britishlessness
2 Er Uit
3 Mr. PC
4 A-Team
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.
DOWNLOAD the three Son Of Blob recordings and the 2ndHand Sneakers tape
* The song Penetration is a cover of "Penetration" by the first American skinhead band The Pyramids.
They were skinheads before skinheads were a thing.
