Tone and Wave: 3rd wave

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Monday, January 12, 2026

The Jinkies - Nine-Piece Nug Combo (1996)

Another great gift to us from Marcel from the Punk Guy YouTube Channel.

Thank you Marcel!

1 Scooby Doo

2 Mixed Messages

3 Darlin'

4 Groovy Doo

5 Last Night

6 No Exit

7 Road Trip

8 Studio J

9 Give it Up

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Sunday, January 11, 2026

The Wobblers - Oh No! (2004)

This is a very rare release from this German band. It was only ever released on CD-R and I think it's the only thing they ever put out.

For fans of third wave ska-punk. All vocals are in English.

1 I Wanna Be

2 Just Fine

3 Back to Hell

4 Travel of My Life

5 Summertime

6 For a Night

7 Good Old Times

8 Schubidu

9 Sometimes

10 Speak About

11 G. L. F.

12 untitled

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Sunday, December 28, 2025

Ziptacular! - Don't Call J.J.! (2008)

Ziptacular was a ska-punk band from Michigan who, I am pretty sure, only released one album in 2009. This was a demo CD-R that the band put out before the album. There are six tracks on this demo and five of them are on the album. Same recordings and I think the same mixes. The only track that wasn't on the album is "This is It!" which is just over a minute long and is more of a intermission than a full song.

Very third-wave sounding with tight musicianship and male vocals with some female backing vocals.

You can hear their full self-titled album HERE.

1 Not Today!

2 250 Plus!

3 This is It!

4 One Missed Call

5 We're Sorry Yoshi!

6 Henry the VIII!

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Sunday, September 14, 2025

The Barrymores

Female-fronted third wave ska from Canada.

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)

1 The Barrymores Theme

2 The Great Date Skatastrophe

3 S.S.

4 Up the Bum

The Barrymores - The Barrymores (2001)

1 Song One

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)

1 200 Late Days a Year

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)

1 New Invasion

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

* Another Teenage Love

* Happy Hour

* No Sugar Tonight

* Our Ocean

* The S Song

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The Go Go Rays - The Great Ska-Punk Swindle 7" (1996)

These guys were from Erie, Pennsylvania. I think all three of these songs are available elsewhere online but here they are in order from my own rip in the way that God intended them to be heard -and- I have included all scans of the cover art, inserts, stickers, etc.

"Conspiracy" is one of the greatest 3rd wave ska songs ever recorded.

A - Halitosis

B1 - Conspiracy

B2 - Gilligan

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

The Venkmans - Keeping Ska Dead (2006)

3rd wave ska-punk from Baltimore.

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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Sunday, January 5, 2025

The Hard Richards

The Hard Richards was a ska-punk band from Florida.

The Hard Richards - On the Move (1997)

1 Punk Rock Show

2 Tim's Song

3 Polite

4 Dog Beach Dub

5 Stress

6 Trendy Little Girl

7 Insanity

8 Child Thing

9 Drinking Time

10 On the Move

11 Sold Out

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The Hard Richards - What Did You Expect? (2008)

1 1976 (Another One Gets Shot)

2 E.b.s.

3 Right Now

4 Early Riser

5 Teenager

6 A Little Speed

7 Sticky Green

8 She Bought You

9 Bartenders

10 Sex

11 Freedumb

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The Hard Richards - Nu Derection (2013)

1 Caught on the Inside

2 Possibly Positive

3 Jenny

4 Ten Minutes Later

5 The Walk

6 I Don't Care

7 Jagermeister

8 Look Busy

9 Get Down

10 S O S

11 Better Days

12 Nu Derection

13 I Wanna Riot

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Hard Richards - demo tape (1995)

1 Dog Beach Dub

2 Drinking Time

3 Tim's Song

4 Soldout

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Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The Brownies - Four Songs For The Mon (1992)

This is the demo tape from the California band The Brownies.

I have posted this several months ago on my Facebook but this is for those who missed it.

1 Total Hardcore Ska

2 Listen to the Jammin'

3 Pop Goes the Weasel

4 Why Can't I?

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Retracide

Ska-punk from my hometown of San Bernardino, California.

Retracide - Watch Your Back (1997)

1 Fake

2 Star 69

3 Two Year Lease

4 Whores Exist

5 Connect the Heads

6 Lost all Doubt

7 Mr. Negative (version 2)

8 No Name

9 Sik Bum Hair

10 Pit in the Ghetto

11 Won't Work

12 Life Sucks

13 Falling Down

14 Raver B. S.

Retracide - Modification (1998)

1 Uncommon Sense

2 Giving In

3 Rock Star

4 Rule the World

5 Naive

6 Bloodstains

7 Worm

8 Goodnight

These guys used to promote their band by putting ads in Billboard Magazine. I remember the ads from back in the day.

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Saturday, December 9, 2023

Shakerz - Shakerz (1998)

This was a female-fronted ska band from Orange County, California in the 90s. Imagine if No Doubt was actually a ska band (they weren't) they would sound like this.

This CD is the only thing this band released aside from the song "Christmas Wrapping" that was on the 1998 Drive-Thru Records compilation Christmas Gone Wrong.

I have included the song "Christmas Wrapping" in this download so you have every song they ever released.

1 Selfish One

2 Soca Loca

3 Pipe Dreams

4 Hard to Name

5 Boogie Man

6 Island Joe

7 Interlude (Outback)

8 Christmas Wrapping

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Did you hear that? in the video at the 13:40 mark she said "We have tapes for sale in the back."

They have a demo tape. We need to find this!

Sunday, November 26, 2023

The Worms / Blinking Underdogs

I think it's well known by now that Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron from the Star Wars Movies) was in a few ska/punk bands in the late 90s/early 2000s.

Some of these are my own rips and scans but some were found online.

I think that, by now, everything in this post can already be found somewhere else online. I should have made this post years ago but for the few of you who don't have these recordings already - here they are in a single download.

The most well known and well discussed band was The Worms. They only had one legitimate release but before that they put out a demo tape called "Live Bait" that I don't think was actually live.

The Worms - Live Bait (1996)

1 Problems

2 Spit

3 Wanna Be

4 Lynn

5 Mr. Giant

6 The Girl I Love

The Worms - Fish Fry (1997)

1 My Unity

2 Freight Train

3 Remember Me

4 Love Me on Your Way Out the Door

5 No Way Out

6 In My Head

7 Everybody Dance

8 I'm a Creep

9 I Am Not OK

10 Virus

11 War

12 The Girl I Love

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After The Worms Oscar Hernandez (Oscar Isaac) moved on to start his own band The Blinking Underdogs. They were more punk than ska but the ska sound and the horns were ever present.

They released 2 CDs but before they put those CDs out they had 2 demo tapes. The first one "Timestamps" from 1999 was included in its entirety on their CD "Last Words". The exact same recordings. But their second demo tape was not on any of their other recordings.

The Blinking Underdogs - One Day demo tape (2000)

1 I Can't Go On, I Go On

2 One Day

3 Take Everything

4 Through My Window

5 Take it Back

6 Rise Up

The Blinking Underdogs - Last Words (2001)

1 Days Gone By

2 Salvation

3 Jimmy Jolopo

4 Away

5 Acceptance

6 Trailer Park

7 Lost Words

8 Once

9 Blue Alisha

10 Blame

11 Misery

12 Untitled

The Blinking Underdogs - Champagne Anarchy (2001)

1 Against the Sun

2 Desolation Road

3 Scatter

4 I Can't Go On, I Go On

5 Somewhere in Between

6 Subsonic Love Child

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Saturday, November 25, 2023

First 8 [Germany]

First 8 - Some Help (1999)

1 That Doesn't Suit Me at All

2 Your Abuse

3 Commander Keen

4 Indiscretion

5 210

First 8 - Nothing in Common (2001)

1 Nothing in Common

2 Right or Wrong, My Country?

3 Interlude

4 No Idea

5 My Friends

6 Are You Scared?

7 You

8 We Know

9 May 13th

10 Why do We?

11 Between the Lines

12 Take it or Leave it

13 Another Working Day

14 This World

15 Rainy Day

16 Bonus Track

First 8 - Crossroads (2004)

1 Crossroads

2 Time-Out

3 The Qusetion

4 Three Kibgs

5 Ready Fire...Aim

6 Set Your Goals

7 @ Our X-Pense

8 What's the System?

9 I Can't Figure it Out

10 Beat Called Off

11 Mr. Hiob's Story

12 Thoughts and Doubts

13 Snowboard Girl

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Saturday, November 18, 2023

25 Liars - Blind 7" (1997)

Punk-ska from New Jersey.

1 Blind

2 Burning Sound

3 Keep Your Head Up

4 Something Better Happen

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Sunday, November 12, 2023

3 Ball Combo [New Mexico]

This was a ska-punk band from New Mexico. I know the CD is available on Soundcloud and I'll admit that I respectfully stole the tape from Punk Guy's YouTube post but the CD is my own rip and the scans are my own.

3 Ball Combo - Skabrones Locos (1997)

1 Panzon Fire

2 Cold Slitha

3 Seco Boy Skank

4 Why

5 Punk Song

6 Chump Change

7 Glasses

8 Pedo Boy Bus

9 El Molacho Crunch

10 Porn Star Holiday

11 Priorities

12 Mentiras

13 Frustrations

3 Ball Combo - Porn Star Holiday (1996 demo tape)

1 Seco Boy Skank

2 Pornstar Holiday

3 Pedo Boy Bus

4 Glasses

5 Runnin'-N-Jumpin'

6 Mentiras

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Friday, November 10, 2023

Microskapic / Microscopic

This was a third wave Christian* ska punk band from Tennessee. They used the name "Microskapic" on their first release but then changed their name to "Microscopic" for their second release.

Microskapic - Scraping the Culture... (1998)

1 Boss Man

2 Can't Wait

3 Red Balloon

4 Damascus Ave

5 Face to Face

6 Pipeline

7 Fade Away

8 13 O'Clock

9 Simple Gift

10 Polka for Danny

Microscopic - Blind to See (1999)

1 Island Boy

2 Too Much Time

3 Resistance is Futile

4 Night and Day

5 Miles Away

6 WEST on 40

7 Celebration Song

8 Jehova-Jireh

9 No Separation

10 Red Balloon Reprise

11 Don't Feel Sorry for Yourself

12 Hobropog

13 The Mighty One of Israel

14 What's Chad Doing?

15 Problems in Space