American ska mix tape

Somebody on Reddit pretty much stated that American ska sucks and was almost asking somebody to prove them wrong. Now, I must admit that I - being from California - will say that there are better English, European, Australian, and Dutch bands (European is an altruistic term) and, although the majority of American "ska" bands really do suck, there really are some good ska tunes to come out of the good ol' U.S. of A. I spent about four minutes making this compilation. There are better songs (and I know there are a hell of a lot worse) but this was my quick response.

I actually had about 50 songs to begin with but I whittled them down to exclude the more popular ones.

1 The Good Guys - Fun Lover
2 Los Rudiments - Too Late
3 The Chinkees - Big World
4 Tiny Hat Orchestra - Jawbone
5 Plate O' Shrimp - Mariskando
6 Highball Holiday - Poetry in Motion
7 Stretch Armstrong - Rodent Deoderant
8 Heavy Manners - Flamin' First
9 The Bruce Lee - Running Out of Time
10 Stinkfish - Victim
11 Uptown Rulers - Somebody Else's Fun
12 Rebel Rockers - You Get to Me
13 Hepcat - Home
14 Dave's Big Deluxe - To Build a Fire
15 Skoidats - Free Consultation
16 Skiptooth - El Detectivo
17 Dance Hall Crashers - Street Sweeper
18 The Chinkees - She's My Friend
19 Let's Go Bowling - The Cup Rub
20 The Allstonians - Walking in the Sand
21 The Suspects - The Bad One
22 Mephiskapheles - Force of Nature

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Tone and Wave mixtape part two (Electric Boogaloo)

More unrelated random stuff:

1 The Beazers - Blue Beat (1964) {with Chris Farlowe on vocals)
2 The Suspects - The Bad One (single version)
3 Wilko Johnson - Dr. Dupree (1978)
4 Stiff Richards - Sound Pressure {members of The Uptones}
5 The Plugz - Touch for Cash (1981) {L.A. punk band's only ska tune - I did put this on the Marco on the Bass / Tone and Wave podcast but it's worth hearing again)
6 Sue Saad and the Next - Young Girl (1980) {their only reggae sounding song}
7 Saxawhaman - Amanda
8 999 - Trouble
9 Yellow Bentines - Down and Up
10 Skin-Deep - Come into My Parlour (Bleechers cover the full album is available HERE
11 New Age Steppers - Fade Away (1980)
12 Coloured Stone - Kapi Pulka (Big Rain)
13 Alberto y los Trios Paranoias - Snuffin' in a Babylon (1977) HERE's a video but you have to start at 2:00
14 Johnny G - Highway Shoes (1984)
15 Joe Pesci - Take Your Love (this is a swinging number I threw in for fun)

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Tone and Wave mixtape vol.1

This is just a lot of random stuff I've been listening to lateley. Some of it's great and some of it's cheesy. You probably won't like it all.

About 3/4 of this stuff is from the 80s.

I could give you some information about all these songs but that's a lot of work. I could take the time, but I'm not gonna.

Just enjoy the music.



1 Roberto Jacketti and the Scooters - Moscow Nights (1984)
2 Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons - Puppet on a String (Let Her Go)
3 Lou and the Hollywood Bananas - Hollywood
4 The Forest Hillbillies - Western Ska
5 Napoleon Solo - 0059 (from one of their 1986 demos)
6 Spectre - Ideal Home
7 Kodiaks* - Murderska
8 Bill Lovelady - One More Reggae for the Road
9 APC - The Scum Ska
10 The Hotknives - Echo Beach (Martha and the Muffins cover;non-album track from the Echo Beach 7")
11 Piranhas - Zambezi
12 X-Streams - Appeared to Me
13 The Burtons - McArthur Park
14 50% Potato - Pay Hommage to Hommus
15 Cowboys - Rude Boy
16 Claudio Cecchetto - Ska Shou Shou

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(*If you are a ska fan who appreciates the Pogues you should check out the Kodiaks. The best of both worlds.)