Vital Disorders - Zombie 7" (1982)

Female fronted British punk-reggae song. They released 3 singles and, later, a cd compilation, but I think this is their only ska/reggae influenced song.

A - Zombie
B - War Games

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In Search of the Ska

I recently had a friend visit from Germany. We hung out for a few days, drank a lot of beer, and listened to a lot of music. This guys musical collection is as extensive and impressive as my own.

I mentioned that he should start a blog of his own but he said he didn't have the time.
Apparently he found the time because this is his blog here:

In Search of the Ska

It follows in the Tone and Wave tradition of exposing those little known one-off ska songs by bands that don't usually play ska. A lot of it is in German, but I have been given a peek behind the curtain and I know a lot will be in English and other languages.

He just started it but it has potential to be a great blog.

The Great Train Robbery - This is Intensified (1987)

I once read that this is a New York band that only people from New York would know about.
This album was later re-released on cd with two extra tracks. I only have the vinyl version:

A1 Intensified / Protection
A2 Selling Guns to the Indians
A3 Hold Me Down
B1 How About a Kiss
B2 Little Persuasion
B3 Like a Building
B4 Police Feel So Tall


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Sam The Butcher - No Time 7" (1994)

Punk record with ska influences.

A1 - Tension
A2 - No Time
B1 - Circles
B2 - Sis Boy


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Skiptooth [REPOST]

Reposted by request...



Cool Ska Cool

1 Pachuco

2 Cuban Cigar

3 My Turn

4 Otra Vez

5 Preacher Joseyah

6 Rum and Coke

7 El Detectivo



Skiptown vol.1

1 My Turn

2 Reggae Man

3 Taxi Driver

4 El Detectivo



"Reggae Man"





"El Detectivo"



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Let's Go Bowling (1988 demo cassette) [REPOST]

Thanks Rikard!



1 Hair Tonic

2 Spy Market

3 Happy, Sad, Reggae

4 Cumbia del Sol

5 Bitch

6 Beat of the Dream

7 Y Jamaica Mess

8 LGB

9 Badminton on a Rope

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...and here's the "Rude 69" 7"

Skankin' Pickle 1990 demo cassette [REPOST]

People write to me every now and then and ask me if they can re-post something I've posted. My answer is always YES. Please help me put this stuff out there so that real ska fans have access to it somehow or another.



This tape is something that I know a lot of people will appreciate so if you have a blog by all means re-post this. It's Skankin' Pickles' first recording and is all but impossible to find. There are 4 songs that were never released on any of their later records as well as a studio version of Burnt Head which was only released as a live recording on Skafunkrastapunk.



(Oh yeah, on this version of "I Missed the Bus" he was watching a Panasonic, not a Magnavox. It's a strange world.)



1 I Missed the Bus

2 Pseudo Punk

3 Hand Twister

4 World's Falling Down*

5 Burn't Head

6 Nuclear Dance Bomb*

7 Anxiety Attack

8 My Hair (Look Like Dahn)

9 Peter, Piper & Mary

10 Shark Teaser*

11 Whatever Happened

12 I've Had Enough*



"World's Falling Down"





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*the four songs that are unique to this tape are marked

Crucial DBC - Dread Rock for a Long Time (1989) [re-uploaded May 30th, 2016]

Rare California ska from the 80s...

A1 - In this World
A2 - Mama, Mama
A3 - What's Your Trip
B1 - Right for My Heart
B2 - Universal Melody
B3 - Hold On

"Mama, Mama"


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Willo Selects - Rare Australian ska 1980 - 1986

Things have been extremely busy here at Tone and Wave headquarters so I haven't had much time to post anything. I do have lots of new stuff as well as re-posts but I just don't have the time this week.

             Working hard AND hardly working. You can do both. It's called multi-tasking.

Your friend and mine Willo J Irie has stepped up to the plate to provide an interesting podcast of rare Australian ska which are all unique rips. Never before posted on Tone and Wave or anywhere else on the WWW.

 Doing the Kangaroo Skank
Australian Ska 1980-1986

60 minutes of shit hot Aussie Ska all from vinyl!


Jump Vision - The Jump [1981]
Naughty Rhythms - Look Like Me [1981]
The Eighty Eights - She Fell in Love with James Bond [1980]
The Allniters - She Made a Monkey Out of Me [1981]
Paul Kelly & The Dots - Billy Baxter [1980]
Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons - Rub Up Push Up [1981]
Strange Tenants - Soldier Boy [1982]
No Nonsense - Titan [1982]
Strange Tenants - Hard Times [1983]
The Allniters - Solomon Gundie [1983]
The Girlfriends - Gone With The Wind [1983]
Naughty Rhythms - Without Your Love [1983]
The Allniters - Mr unioshi [1983]
Strange Tenants - Killer Zombies [1983]
Furious Turtles - Hard World Mad World [1984]
The Leftovers - Lemondade Song [1984]
Naughty Rhythms - Have Some Fun [1984]
The Allniters - So Long [1984]
The Leftovers - So Long, Farewell [1985]
Off The Shelf - OTS Tonight [1985]
Itchy Feet - Cliff Young Shuffle [1986]


Selected by Willo J Irie
2014

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I hope to post something in the middle of the upcoming week, but no promises.

(Thanks Willo for the Jump Vision track. I've never found my own copy yet. It's good to finally be able to hear it!)

If you have a podcast you'd like to submit send it to toneandwave@gmail.com.

Zzipp 7'' (1980)

I have been looking for this record for over a decade now. It was on eBay twice in the last several years and I was outbid both times. Three's a charm. It was on eBay a few weeks back and, in the end, I was the only bidder.

I have been trying to find any information about this band that I can but there's not much out there. I do know that they have 5 other songs that have been released on compilations but this is the only release of their own that I know of. I do have one other song of theirs called Masochism from a comp called Popmuziek In Doetinchem that I have included in this download

A - "I Quit"
B - "Footprints"
* - "Masochism"
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Club Ska - Live (1986)

Club Ska is an Australian band that only existed for a few years and in that time only released 3 singles.
This bootleg shows what a talented band they really were.

1 Darling Patricia
2 Rub Up, Push Up
3 The Tide is High
4 Soul Shakedown Party
5 It Mek
6 Let Your Yeah be Yeah
7 Intensified
8 Good Thing
9 Miss Jamaica
10 Money Worries
11 Montego Bay
12 Cupid
13 Soon You'll be Gone

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All three singles have been posted previously but if you don't have them, they're HERE



...as usual, much thanks to the original submitter!

Tiny Hat Orchestra - Put a Hat On it (1992)

Several of these songs were included on the "Noon at Nine" cd - same recordings. But here's their full first album with a few songs that were not included in later recordings.

1 Shoe
2 Skaface
3 Sing Sing Sing
4 Insomnia Cafe
5 Blank
6 Beyond
7 Yellow Bird
8 Empty Cup
9 Fine Thing
10 Taste of Honey
11 Long Shadows

"Shoe"

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I.H. Ska - Live EP (199?)

Here's their official site. 

1 Skankin' Town
2 Tin Tin
3 Cowboy
4 Flung Zum Mond
5 Sex Spider

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Regatta Sixty-Nine - Regatta Sixty-Nine (1992)

1 Byronic Hero
2 Bring Me Back
3 Somebody's Cadet
4 Micro Bus
5 Sometimes Things are Easier Said than Done
6 Rockin' in My Rocking Chair
7 I Would Rub Her the Wrong Way
8 Journey On
9 The World is Too Much with Us
10 Trouble
11 Breathe Clean Air
12 Time of Day
13 Taking My Chances on You
14 Addicted to Coffee
15 Someone to Cling to
16 Good Luck
17 Home All Alone
18 Slit Her and Sliced Her into Halves

"Sometimes Things are Easier Said than Done"

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Mahjun - Baby-Sitter 7" (1980)

A - Baby-Sitter
B - Emmène-Moi Dans Ta Rolls



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Spy Eye - Hot Pursuits (1990)

Unicorn Records classic. In 1994 it was released on cd as a split with Mr. Review's Walkin' Down Brentford Road but the last song "Everything Crash" was not included. This is the vinyl version with all 10 tracks.

1 VC 10
2 Neither Red/Black Nor Racist
3 Look Smart
4 Shake it Up
5 A Message to You Rudy
6 The Things I Feel
7 Phantoms
8 Morange
9 Reminds Me of Cairo
10 Everything Crash


This is the only album they released but they did record a demo in 1989 called "Have a Good Ska Stomping" that had 6 tracks:

1 Brand New Beat
2 Rude Boys
3 Me and My Shadow
4  These Boots are Made for Walkin'
5 Reminds Me of Cairo
6 I Hate You

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DOWNLOAD THE DEMO TAPE


 

RBs - Uruguay 7" (1982)

A - Uruguay (YouTube video)
B - Time

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Erector Set

A - Inside Out
B - No Room for Comfort

A1 - Imitation of Life
A2 - GI Jump
A3 - Potential Danger
B1 - Chinese Girl
B2 - Missing Peace

"Chinese Girl"

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IN2XS - Love Will Come 7" (1982)

A - Love Will Come
B - Butter Wouldn't Melt

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Naughty Rhythms

Don't Touch Me 7" (1986)
A - Don't Touch Me
B - The Things I Like

Go to the Rodeo 7" (1984)
A - Go to the Rodeo
B - Have Some Fun

A Naughty Compilation (1996)
1 Dance Craze
2 Go to the Rodeo
3 Naughty Rhythms
4 Tequila
5 Look Like Me
6 Still in Love With You
7 Without Your Love
8 I Know You Know I Know

"Naughty Rhythms"

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Foto Model - To Nisi Ti 7" (1981)

A - To Nisi Ti
B - Kiki

"Kiki"

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Skanxters - Knights On the Run (1994) [LINK UPDATED March 28, 2015]

Erin Bardwell's old band. They did release one cd (10 songs) called "Call It a Crime" in 1998. It was limited to 500 copies. I do not have a copy myself but there are some of the tracks posted on Youtube by vocalist Carl Humphreys - Names and Fools is my favorite of them.


Knights on the Run (1994)
12" vinyl release limited to 926 copies 
A1 - King Arfur
A2 - Fat & Ugly
B1 - Stupid Place to Be
B2 - Shantyville

"Fat & Ugly"

Spark in the Dark (1993)
cassette only release limited to 250 copies
A1 - Day Like Today
A2 - King Arthur
B1 - Who's Afraid of the Dark
B2 - People May Think

"Who's Afraid of the Dark"


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The cassette was posted on Tone and Wave in 2009 and, although I have acquired a copy of my own, the one available here is the same one from back then that was submitted by Rikard because his copy sounds much better than anything I was able to do. Thanks Rikard!

The Fabulous Bowler Boys - Word ~ Sound ~ Power (1994)

This is a cassette only release that was sold at shows and online for $6.00 before there was such thing as "third wave". These guys were from Texas and I think, not positive, but I think they had other recordings. If so I've never found any evidence. What I do know is that their drummer, Bill Matney, was also in the hardcore band Refuse to Fall but he does not appear on this recording.

On this recording:

Eric Tucker - vocals
Steve Fish - bass, vocals
Bryan Christner - guitar
Alan Turley - sax
Patrick Benfield - keyboard
Ryan McDaniel - guitar
John Chipman - drums


1 Man on the Scene
2 The Upsetter
3 Jimmy Hate
4 Waiting Game
5 From Cairo With Love
6 Sally Brown

When they listened to their 2 Tone records they were paying attention. The Beat is obviously an influence in their overall sound, especially in this one:
"The Upsetter"


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N - E - 1 - So We Go (1984)

...by request

N - E - 1 was a well known ska band from the San Diego area even though they weren't really a ska band. The were more mod/rock-n-roll but they did incorporate the ska sound on occasion. You know how people are...even one ska song (or even one art-punk song with a sax) makes them a ska band, right?

This album does have some high points but I never felt a need to post it previously until it was requested. Extremely rare as it is...

1 So We Go
2 Get Serious
3 Colleen
4 She Don't Like Me
5 Face Without a Mirror
6 Carol Ann
7 That's What You Do
8 Long Lonely Tomorrow
9 1 - 2 - 3
10 Cat's Pajamas
11 So We Go (Reprise)

"That's What You Do"
"1 - 2 - 3"

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I.H. Ska - Industrie & Hammelskammer 7" (1990)

Four 2-Tone inspired songs from this German band. All songs are in English. There's even a bonus track* from a 2010 comp called Ska Attack 2. They have at least one other song called Downwind from a Bad Moon Records comp which I don't have yet but it's readily available and cheap enough (HERE). I should have it someday.

1 Sex Spider
2 Scotland Yard
3 Can't Stop
4 Waterbed
* Skankin' Town

"Scotland Yard"


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Untouchables - Cool Beginnings [REPOST]

I have a long list of re-ups. If you have requested that something be re-uploaded I do intend to get around to it, I just don't know when. This one is frequently requested so I had to find the time for it. Some oil for you squeaky wheels out there.

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...one request down, a million to go...

Skaos - Inside (1987)

This is Skaos' first release. This is the 12" version. There is also a 33 RPM 7" version with an alternative cover (HERE).

A1 South African Struggle
A2 Hey Neighbour
B1 Ska Skank Down Party
B2 It's You

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Skaos' first full length/demo cassette Rankin' & Skankin' is available HERE

(...and thanks to Mr. Frank the Hat for pointing out that the song Sleep was in fact re-written and re-recorded with the title Bonehead on the Catch This Beat album.)

va Ska Takes the Great Lakes

1 Skapone - Tomorrow
2 Skapone - Once Again
3 Etch-A-Sketch - Escape
4 Etch-A-Sketch - Killer Bees
5 Invaders - Such a Jerk
6 Elevators - No More Stress
7 Elevators - Vendetta
8 State of Emergency - Violence
9 State of Emergency - Police Chase
10 Tom Collins and the Cocktail Shakers - Washcloth

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Everything Must Go!

I have to get rid of a lot of my music and I posted a few things up on eBay. A lot of it has been posted on Tone and Wave before and a lot of it has not been.

Click HERE you might see something you like.

I am not doing this for financial reasons and I am not trying to make a profit. I will combine shipping and if I over charge for shipping I will refund the difference.

I just don't have the room for them in my house and I might have to put them in my shed. With the weather, stray cats, and spiders they will not fare well in the shed.

I had several crates of new wave records out in the shed a couple years back and the warm California sun decided that round flat records are boring and that they should take on all different sorts of shapes.

I don't want to see these rare ska records suffer the same fate as my Flock of Seagulls collection. (Yes, I had them all - you got somethin' to say about it?!)

Some are really well priced and some aren't (you can tell which ones I don't really want to part with). If it's too expensive, talk to me...let's make a deal.

Wild Billy Childish and the Blackhands Play Cap'n Calypso's Hoodoo Party (1988)

If you don't know who Billy Childish is read HERE so you know a little about the man who is going to mess up your idea of what punk-ska is supposed to sound like.

1 Rum and Coca Cola
2 Underneath the Mango Tree
3 I Love Paris
4 Long Tall Shorty
5 Cap'n Jack is Boss
6 Sen' Me to the 'lectric Chair
7 Anarchy in the U.K.
8 Three Blind Mice
9 Tequila
10 Yellow Skinned Babys
11 Dread Luck

"Long Tall Shorty"
"Anarchy in the UK"

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AD 1984 - Race to Nowhere 7'' (1980)

A - Race to Nowhere
B - Leisure Crimes

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Late Notes - Hallelujah Ska (1990)

Australian ska classic Unicorn Records release.

A1 Ska Hop
A2  Yeah Alright
A3 Suzie Sue
A4 Hallelujah Ska
B1 Bouncing Woman
B2 Local member
B3 Confucius
B4 Hard Man fe Dead

"Yeah Alright"
"Bouncing Woman"

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Hope and Glory - Senza Patria 7'' (1984)

Italian Oi! record with one really good ska instrumental.

A1 - Senza Patria
A2 - Skin Heads
B1 - Ghost of the Ska
B2 - Giustizia

"Ghost of the Ska"

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The Agents - Double Agents (1986)

This is a band from Texas (Austin, I believe). They were not a ska band. As far as I know they had two releases - one in 1983 called "Square One", and this one. The first track on this record is called "Reggae Beat" so people jump to the conclusion that this is a ska/reggae record. To give you an idea of what they sound like, when I was ripping this record my wife came in and asked me why I was listening to the Housemartins.
There is only one song here that is worthy of Tone and Wave, but due to it's rarity I am posting the whole thing.

 

1 Reggae Beat
2 Star Avenue
3 The Way of All Flesh
4 Don't Need Your Lovin'
5 Never Fell Before
6 Swept Away
7 Unconditional Love
8 Space-Touch
9 Feel It
10 My Time, My Life
11 Share and Share Alike
12 Balance

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6 Feet Under - Spaghetti Face (1989)

Eighties style ska-punk from Connecticut. You may remember the song Hormonal Inspiration from the Mashin' Up the Nation comps.

Side One
A1		Nothing To Say
A2		John Dough
A3		Politics
A4		Pearl In My Oyster
A5		Minnie The Moocher
A6		Fish Feeder's Rave Up
A7		Goidzilla
		Side Too
B1		Wicked In The Head
B2		A#1
B3		They Saved My Life
B4		Eternal Bliss
B5		Hormonal Inspiration
B6		Zarkon: King Of The Mutant Fly People
B7		Rude Boy (Special Bonus)

"Nothing to Say"
"Politics"

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Splashdown - It's a Brand New Day 7" (1982)

This record was produced by Neville Staples and Lynval Golding and was released on Neville's Shack Records label. The back-up studio band here is made up of a member or two of Fun Boy Three's studio band. Neither track is actually ska but both fit in with the non-ska 2 Tone bands like the Apollinaires and The Friday Club.

I posted this due to seeing it on eBay recently with the alternative Red Bus Records cover. Look at this incredible work of art:

A - It's a Brand New Day
B - Actions Speak Louder Than Words

I have also included the only other Shack Records release that I have which is the 21 Guns single (previously posted on Tone and Wave HERE)

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Checkered Cabs

This download includes the 1998 CD "Remember

1 On My Way
2 Darling Boy
3 Walk Right In
4 Josephine
5 Honour Your Mother and Your Father
6 Puddin' Pop
7 Walking in the Threads
8 La Bamba
9 Brass Balls
10 Can't Hurry Love
11 Live Happily
12 Perfidia

...and both singles:

A - Something About the Weekend / B - Heathcliffe 8 (1994)

A - You Told Me That You Loved Me / B - La Bamba (1995)

...plus a live version of Honour Your Mother and Your Father from Oi! Skampilation (1995)

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