Tone and Wave: ska-punk

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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

Monday, September 1, 2025

Kool-Aid Kids vs Dr. Ed and the Flu Shots (2006)

1 Dr. Ed and the Flu Shots - New Voice

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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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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Friday, December 29, 2023

va Lil' Punx Presents - Punk vs. Ska (1999)

The band Dimples Malone was new to me so I looked them up and found that they released a couple of CDRs and then put out a CD with all of those recordings. You can hear all of their recordings HERE.

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 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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Saturday, September 16, 2023

Screwtape - Through the Roof (1998)

Real ska-punk - not pop-punk - from this band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

1 Dropout

2 Supermodel

3 Shut Up

4 Narcoleptic

5 Vogue

6 Annie

7 Lizzy

Sunday, June 25, 2023

Policy - Dead Kids Can't Skank 7" (1997)

Teenage punk with interspersed fast ska rhythms.

A - 2 Weeks

B - John Zorn Looks Good in Jeans

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Sunday, March 5, 2023

The Incognitos - Hold On Amigos (1997)

Rare third-wave ska punk from Glastonbury Connecticut.

1 No Excuses

2 Toys 'r' Us Kids (Jeff's Cowbell Song)

3 Sweet Sands

4 Just One Shot

5 Two Tone

6 Swing With Me

7 700 Miles Away

8 Waldo

9 Familiar

10 My Town

11 Essentials

12 Had My Fill

13 Wednesday Morning

14 17 (Live @ Pearl St.)

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Scatterbrains [Switzerland]

Scatterbrains was a punk-with-horns band from Switzerland who played a couple of ska songs. Not really ska, but fans of third wave ska punk will appreciate it. They also have an EP from 2000 called "Do Best" which I don't have.

Scatterbrains - Sunnyside Up EP (2002)

1 Donut

2 Visions of Summer

3 Movie Addicted

4 Afterglow

5 Should I Grab?

6 That's How I Feel

Scatterbrains - Facts and Fairytales (2005)

1 Intro

2 Football

3 Say Goodbye

4 Am I Ever,,,?

5 Wanna be Free

6 Big Black '79

7 Catch the Moon

8 El Questo Esta Abuso y Podrido I Donde Estan los Servicios?

9 The Great Man

10 Mom vs Porn

11 T-Bone Steak

12 She Breaks My Heart

13 Like a King

14 Next One

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Cheap Suits - Lookin' for a Deal (2000)

This is the CD that I was lamenting in THIS POST. I believed it had been stolen by mail thieves. It's not too far fetched to think that. We do have some bold daytime mail thieves in my neighborhood. I bought my kids some Paw Patrol masks and they were stolen right out of the mail box. Imagine if they had been caught in the act in that moment. Risking federal detention for some cheap little Paw Patrol masks.

But as it turns out I was cleaning off my desk and I found a padded envelope under some of my work papers. It was sealed and this CD was inside. Neither myself, my wife, nor my kids remember putting it there.

This could be one of those manifestation /Law of Attraction things. I don't usually believe in that sort of thing but a few months ago I did the Neville Goddard Ladder Experiment and what actually happened blew me away.

I have an open mind. You'll need an open mind to enjoy this CD. It's mostly punk but there are a few ska moments. It's not bad but their later releases were a lot better.

1 We Aim High

2 #1 Fan

3 Lay it on the Line

4 No Ami

5 Perfect Girl

6 In Love with the Lead Singer

7 Julia

Monday, January 16, 2023

Jerry Lives Twice - Living it Up (1999)

Rare California third-wave ska punk.

1 Someday

2 Super Jock

3 She Sucks

4 Better Days

5 New Girlfriend

6 I'm OK, You're OK

7 I Jave No Friends

8 Bus Trip to L.A.

9 Hide and Go Seek

10 Up All Night

Free Cheese For All

Free Cheese For All was a band from Germany that put out a fun ska/punk EP in 1992.

Strangely, they followed it up with an EP of heavy guitars and hip-hop. No ska on their second release. As far as I know the band broke up after that.

Here's their good CD - the ska one, and I have included 2 songs from compilations as well as that "what the hell were they thinking?" second CD.

Free Cheese For All - Cheese 'N' Beat (1992)

1 Free Cheese For All!

2 Wild One

3 My Kampf

4 Car Damage

5 The Ride of the Crazy Mosquito

6 Radio Free Cheese... (End Dance Party Version)

7 ...for All!

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Free Cheese For All - Heavy Roots E.P. (1993)

1 Introducing the Tribal Elemental

2 Burning Inside

3 Free Chiiiizz

4 Free Chiiiizz (Asba Jazz Mix)

5 Burning Inside (Dance Metal Mix)

6 No Name No

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* Blue Beat Confrontation

* Luis Goes to the Guig

...both from the first Skampler compilation

Monocromo - Monocromo (1999)

Italian 3rd wave ska-punk. Most songs are sung in Italian. Very rare.

1 I Love You

2 Stelle Musicali

3 Ska in Your Mind

4 Non Mitrà

5 Balla Ciao

6 Sogni

7 Torero Olè

8 Come Noi

9 Punk'm People

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Cheap Suits

Third wave Canadian ska-punk. They were obviously inspired by many of the third wave bands especially Less Than Jake. Just listen to those lyrics on the song Gainesville.

I found a copy of this band's demo CD on Discogs and I bought it for $50. I was hoping to have it before I did this post but it has been lost in the mail. I hope whoever stole it enjoys it but I doubt it. They probably listened to it once and said "what is this crap?!" and threw it away. A piece of ska-punk history gone forever.

Cheap Suits - Canadian Idles (2003)

1 We Aim High

2 It's Time

3 Ska Saves

4 Fatty's Lament

5 Lead Singer

6 Moving Day

7 Burning Bridges

8 Another Song About Girls

9 Julia

10 Did You Know?

11 Song About Us

12 Just What the World Needs

13 R.G.S.

14 Maybe Tonight

15 My Ever Lasting

16 Conversation

Cheap Suits - One Giant Leap (2005)

1 One Small Step

2 Judge & Jury

3 Perfect Girl

4 Gainesville

5 Every Night

6 Sing the Blues

7 Ska Saves

8 Two Tone Town

9 Lay it on the Line

10 Break You Down