Here's one nobody asked for.
Nobody asked me to post it.
Not one person has it in their wantlist on Discogs.
And I'm guessing nobody gave a damn when he released it.
It's not bad. He has a great voice and these cover songs are very true to the originals. Except that they were done in an early 90s style. Which means electronic. Which means early 90s electronic.
1 Hey Little Girl
2 No Good
3 Dog War
4 Love and Affection
5 Lion Say
6 Solomon Agunday
7 Honor Your Mother
8 Little Did You Know
9 Chinny Chin Chin
10 The Look of Love
Talented ska-punk from Stuttgart, Germany. This band had the look of a 2Tone ska band. They took to the stage in their white shirts and black ties putting out the black and white checkered symbolism right away but they played punk saturated in ska riffs with a tight horn duo who might not have expected the band to sound this way when they joined. Or maybe the horn section is the reason they sound that way. I don't know because these guys don't have much of an internet presence.
This is the only official release I found that they have but on their MySpace page they mention "The Yellow Album" which may or may not have been released. I have an alleged copy of "the unreleased album" / Yellow Album but I know they recorded other tracks that aren't on either the 7" or the album.
They did have one song "No Reaction" that was on a compilation called Ska 21 - Ska Aus Stuttgart und Umgebung and I have to say this is probably their best song. It's not on the 7" but, lucky for you, it is on the unreleased album that I have included in this download.
Area 52 - Skattoo 7" (2002)
A1 - Skattoo
A2 - So What
B1 - Pizza Hills
B2 - Stalker
Area 52 - The Yellow Album (2003?)
1 Weiner*
2 EZ Come EZ Go
3 Dog Named Dog
4 New Job
5 Skattoo
6 I Wanna Believe
7 The Stalker
8 Suck Me Dry
9 Z-Speed
10 No Reaction
11 Do it Yourself
12 Bedman
*Fun fact: when hot dogs, or "hot dog sausages" as some call them, were invented there was a dispute about what to call them because they were going to name them after the town that they came from but they just couldn't agree on what town they were originally from. Some say Frankfurt, and some say Vienna. You have probably heard some people call hot dogs 'frankfurters' or 'franks' but the larger support was for Vienna so they are called Vienners but Americans will do what Americans do and bastardize languages so we prefer to pronounce the V as a W, thus we call the Vienners "weiners". When they were introduced in New York - I think it was during a World's Fair - they started out calling the 'dachsunds' but nobody could spell it right. Since they were served hot as opposed to cold sausages that were more familiar at that time and region like pepperoni and salami people just started calling the 'hot dachsunds' which was immediately shortened to 'hot dogs'. Ironically, today, people refer to dachsunds as 'weenie dogs'.
This was a compilation put together by Ted Perry of Skinhead World with help from Cliff of 20 Dead Camels. It has two otherwise unreleased songs by The Tonics and rare tracks from The Orobians and Bombskare.
The band listed as The B53's is actually The B3's.
1 The B53's - Foggy Dew
2 Smoke Like a Fish - Ready or Not
3 20 Dead Camels - Ska Blues
4 a.k.a. Rudie - Trouble Clef
5 Bombskare - This Old Man
6 The G-Men - Freedom Train
7 The Tonics - Celebrity Gangster
8 The Moonrakers - Walkin Talkin
9 General Rudie - Rainy Days
10 The Allstonians - No Hesitation
11 The Explosions - Big Thing
12 Green Island - Dancing Mood
13 The Unsuccessfuls - Lady at the Bar
14 a.k.a. Rudie - Dance Hall Ruler
15 Nunc Bibendum est - Wish You were Here
16 Smoke Like a Fish - Mesmerise
17 20 Dead Camels - The Camel Beat
18 The Tonics - Ska Patrol
19 The Orobians - Napoleon Solo
Straightforward 3rd wave ska-punk from New Orleans. More ska than punk. The album title comes from a rejection letter the band received from MCA Records after the band sent them their demo. MCA responded with "Unfortunately, I did not find the material strong enough to pursue at this time."
1 Full Court Press
2 Ska'd Shitless
3 8 Month Stand
4 Unity
5 Shoot Me
6 Scene
7 Oi! Boy
8 Have At You
9 Ballad of a Drunken Idiot
10 Radio Rock
11 Why are You Here?
Skallywag - Skandal im Schrebergarten (1996)
1 Depressions
2 Law and Order
3 Mr. Ordinary
4 Song for
Scrooge Vs. Skallywag - Eye for an Eye...But with a Smile (1998)
1 Scrooge - Bailare
2 Scrooge - Itz All Good
3 Scrooge - I Know Better!
4 Skallywag - Special K
5 Skallywag - Who the Hell
6 Skallywag - Nothing Else
Skallywag - Eleven (2001) 1 Don't Call Me Rasta
2 Dienstag
3 Catch Di Mouse
4 Skapocalypso
Late 90s 3rd wave ska-punk from Turlock, California. I've heard it said that this was a Christian band but there's nothing overtly religious in the lyrics. Aside from two other tracks that were on compilations this is probably the only thing the band ever recorded.
1 Ego Trip
2 One Eyed Sailor Man
3 Living Dead
4 Lime Green Nail Polish
Here's everything I have by this band. They released two tapes that I don't have yet. I've been looking for them for many years but have not had any luck. In my search for those tapes however, I did find a tape called "Démo 6 Titres" which did not have a track listing. There are 7 songs on the tape and I don't recognize any of them. Hopefully some of you folks can help me out here.
Then there's the live recording "Live in Bologne" which I though has 14 tracks but their old MySpace page shows it as having 20 tracks so I'm missing 6 songs. Any of you have them?
7 tracks - all unknown titles
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*OK Les Boys from Skankin' 'Round the World volume 4
*Sally Cannonball from Move to the Ska Groove
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Tchicky Monky - Live in Bologne
1 Intro
2 Trop Fatigue
3 Ska Every Night
4 Killers
5 Susie-Marie
6 Baby Baby
7 Night Boat to Cairo
8 Summer Train
9 Dju Dju Jamiaka
10 September
11 OK Les Boys
12 Helicoptere
13 Kinstown
14 Rude Boy Train DOWNLOAD everything listed from MEGA
1 The Phantoms - Shack 78
2 The Blaster Master - Jolly Bum
3 Liberator - Sinking
4 The Cigarres - The Legend
5 Duck Soup - Look the Other Way
6 The Skalatones - 4 of them Outta Jail
7 Jing & Jangsters - Wet Dream
8 Skanksters - Weekend
9 Stiff Breeze - Misfit
10 Chickenpox - Rocket
11 The Phantome - Local Boys
12 The Blaster Master - Sunday's Best
13 Liberator - Nervous Breakdown
14 The Cigarres - Beautiful Day
15 Duck Soup - Shame and Scandal in the Family
16 The Skalatones - What I Really Had to Do
17 Jing & Jangsters - Egyptian Skank
18 Skanksters - New Year
19 Stiff Breeze - Two Weeks
20 Chickenpox - No Mistake DOWNLOAD from MEGA DOWNLOAD from Zippyshare
I originally posted this in May of 2012. It's one of my favorites that I lamented was lost to time but, thankfully, somebody recognized its importance in the grand scheme of things and requested that I re-post it. So here it is. Don't lose it this time. Save it. Share it with everybody.
A - Hard Yard
B1 - I Wanna See You (Dance)
B2 - Yes I Love You
Basement 5 - 1965 - 1980 (1980)
1 Riot
2 No Ball Games
3 Hard Work
4 Immigration
5 Last White Christmas
6 Heavy Traffic
7 Union Games
8 Too Soon
9 Omega Man
Basement 5 - Silicon Chip 7" (1980)
A - Silicon Chip
B - Chip Butty
Basement 5 - Last White Christmas 10" (1980)
A - Last White Christmas
B - Paranoiaclaustrophobia
Basement 5 - Peel Session (1980)
1 Last White Christmas
2 No Ball Games
3 Silicon Chip
4 Immigration
Basement 5 - Basement 5 In Dub (1980)
1 Paranoiaclaustrophobia
2 Work Dub
3 Games Dub
4 Immigrant Dub
5 Holocaust Dub
1 20 Penny Nail
2 Don't Hate Me
3 Watch Out!
4 Shut Up and Drink Your Jo
5 Perfect Order
6 Outlaw
7 They Don't Like It
8 Being Struck
9 Dirty Pictures
10 People Grow Up
This wasn't a great year for ska. Every now and then (it almost seems like the years alternate from one to the next) everybody slows down and all of the "ska" releases are reggae. It's boring.
I prefer the up-tempo stuff with a ska beat and there were some good releases this year but not many. Individual songs stood out above full albums or EPs. In fact I can't think of one release from 2019 that I can listen to all the way through. So many songs start out as a great ska song and then goes into a reggae or pop-punk or (egads) funk. Come on people. Stop ruining your own songs by trying to appeal to too many different interests. If you play a ska song then, for fuck's sake, play a ska song. Ska from beginning to end.
A few of the selections on this playlist do that. Start out as ska but becomes something else. But I kept them in there because I had a hard time scraping up 35 songs this year. My end-of-the-year posts usually have 50 songs but that wasn't going to happen. These are songs I actually like, not just stuff I feel like I have to put on there.
In the spirit of brutal honesty there were some anticipated releases this year that I was very disappointed with. Top of that list is The Specials. I seriously didn't appreciate one single second of that album. The content was as drab as the cover. Of course the cover inspired my picture up there because I wasn't all that enthused about this past year in ska myself.
One thing I like to see is when old bands make their music accessible. If they all did that there would be no interest in blogs like this one. But the only two noteworthy releases I know of are The Tigers who made their classic album "Savage Music" available on iTunes and they even included the song "Religion for the Hungry" which was non-album b-side which I do have but I never posted it on the blog before. The only other one I know of is a little-known California band called One Legged Bob who only ever released one 4-track 7" in 1996 called "The Unbearable Lightness of Bob". They put out "Best of One Legged Bob" on CD Baby which has the 4 songs from the 7" and three unreleased studio songs with three live tracks. I have never posted the 7" before but, even though they made the recordings available, I might still post it because I think the record sounds much better than the version available on CD Baby.
Some of the releases that I can't complain about are
Rantanplans - Stay Rudel, Stay Rebel,
Crepitans - Tribulations,
Rocksteady Conspiracy - Rough and Sweet
Roy Ellis "Mr. Symarip" and the Transylvanians - Almighty Ska
Steady 45s - Meaning of Love single
Void Union - Return of the Super Vape
The Beat - Public Confidential (RIP Ranking Roger)
Scotch Bonnets - Come On Over
Eastern Standard Time - Time for Change
Culture Shock - Found it in a Skip (not great but still a must-have)
The Offenders - Class of Nations
Death of Guitar Pop - In Over Our Heads
Mark Foggo's Skasters - Ska Pig Returns
The Max's Kansas City compilation is also essential and Buck-O-Nine, Big D and the Kids Table, and The Planet Smashers also had some new releases in 2019 as well as the 90s band The Miggedys who haven't released anything since 1995. Get The Miggedys - Destined for Mispronunciation.
The one release I regret not being able to hear this past year is an unreleased song that was put out on a 7" by the band The G-Men called "Bottle of Dog".
Here's the songs I enjoyed this past year. When I listen to them all together I have my doubts about whether a few of them should be on here but I really do like them so they get to stay with no promise that you will like them.
This is a flexi that was included in an issue of Patches Magazine in 1980. It's Madness talking about their upcoming album "Absolutely". It starts out with the guys singing Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me" acapella then they play a few seconds of instrumental versions of "Close Escape" and "Solid Gone".
My copy here looks okay but it sounds pretty bad. That's a flexi for you. A much better version of the guys singing "Release Me" was included on the anthology "The Business (The Definitive Singles Collection) that was released in 1993. The other two fragments were not included in the collection and are only available on this release.
I tried posting swing music on my other blog but it wasn't well received. I guess there's no real place for it but it makes more sense to post it on a ska blog rather than on a punk/new wave blog so here we are.
The song "Hey Santa" was later re-recorded but this is the original and, in my opinion, much better version.
The b-side is only available on this single. It's a joke that only works the first time you hear it.
I love this single and I hope at least one other person out there appreciates it.
1 Hey Santa!!! (I'm not Sharin' My Baby this Xmas)
2 The Gift
This is upsetting. I have only ever seen one copy of this. I sold it to somebody and they returned it because it arrived in several jagged pieces. As rare as it was, there is now one less copy than before thanks to the US Postal Service.
Look at this. Can you believe this shit? On a few occasions I have received records in this condition and somehow it's always the really rare stuff.
This is a square double-sided flexi and it's indescribably rare. I could emphasize how rare it is by repeating the words "super super" or using the terms "ultra" or "mega".
The band was from New Orleans and they released two records that I'm aware of but I heard from somebody who knows this kid who heard from a guy that they recorded more than that. I'm not sure and I don't actually care.
I heard the song "Gun Rush" many years ago and had to track this record down. It is rare 2Tone style ska. The other songs on the record aren't ska except for "The Line" which is definitely ska-influenced. The other songs are surf / skronk / no-wave and I've heard that their other record is along these lines with no ska at all so I'm not really willing to pay the price their other record commands unless I hear it first.
Listen to this song "Gun Rush" and tell me you wouldn't try to hunt this thing down yourself.
Download it. Save it. It will likely be the only time in your life you will hear of this record. No matter how many copies they made, flexies don't survive very long. I got real lucky finding it in the condition I did.
1 Gun Rush
2 Surfin' Communist Guerillas
3 Naugahyde
4 The Line
Third wave ska-punk from Philadelphia. I posted their 7" many years ago. I included it in this download for those of you who missed it the first time around. This CD has not been posted before.
1 You are the Ketchup in My Coffee
2 The Confidants
3 Not What I'm Dreaming
4 I do Not Think I Would Have Some Fun
5 Orange is a Good Color for Love
6 Soldier Boy
7 I Was Riding Riding
8 Gentrification Skank
Kubie was a moderately successful glam rock / pub rock artist who put out a couple of albums in the 70s.
I'm guessing he tried to re-invent himself with this release. He even changed the spelling of his name from "Kubie" to "Kuby" for this one (even though it's spelled "Kubie" on the record itself).
He really changed his sound. The b-side is the same old pub rock that you would expect from him but the a-side is an impressive 2 Tone style ska classic.
This band was from Basel, Switzerland. They played post-punk with a heavy ska influence. This is their only release but both of the recordings on this single appeared on a compilation called "What's Happening" which also has two other songs by Man Without Future, one of which is also a ska song.
I do have the cassette and I'll try and post it soon.
Blue Beat in My Soul (2001)
1 Godzilla - Yes, I'm Rocking
2 The Crooked Beat - New Complexion
3 Rudy Willy's Sound System - Rude Boy Invasion
4 The Bakesys - Grass is Greener
5 Somersault - Black & White Unite
6 Calamities - Clockwork Blue
7 Ska Trek - Lightning, Earthquake, & Thunder
8 Prince Nutty - Man on the Top
9 Schwarz Auf Weiss - Madchen die Jungs - Gegenssatze Ziehen Sich An
10 The Xplosions - Grey Skies
11 Kalles Kaviar - Perfidious Game
12 Ska't - Where are You From
13 Downbeat Snapper - How Should I Know?
14 Intensified - Treasure Island
Blue Beat in My Soul - The Second Step (2003)
1 The Magadogs - Come On (ext. version)
2 Maskapone - One Ticket Flight
3 beNUTS - Ska Summer Night
4 The Braces - The Designer Song (demo version)
5 Schwarz Auf Weiss - Full Flavour
6 Rebelation - Rockers
7 Dubplate 48 - Don't Cry Over Me
8 Western Special - See Them Drop
9 Luana Point - Les liaisongs Dangereuses
10 Go Jimmy Go - Push Me Out
11 Pama International - Love We Give
12 Downbeat Snapper - Walk Over Water (longer version)
13 The Dreamlets - Someday We're Gonna Love Again
14 The Liptones - No Way Out
15 Yellow Umbrella - Candela
16 Corey Dixon & the Zvooks - Runaway Love
17 Smoke Like a Fish - One in a Million
18 The Special Guests - Talking Out
This is a Dutch punk/ska band that released this one single and a song called "Slave" that was on a live compilation called Heel Erg Punk Vol.1, which I included in this download. Aside from that I don't know of any other recordings.
They had a mature sound for a young punk band. For fans of OPIV and Rancid's ska stuff. So much like Rancid that I'm willing to bet that the song "What it's Like" started out as a cover of Rancid's "I Wanna Riot" that morphed into its own song. I know that might not sound very promising but, like I said, they have a mature sound. It works really well.
A - What it's Like B1 - Trip to Heaven B2 - Vicious Circle * - Slave
1 Kingston 10 - Concordance
2 Steady Ups - Dub Disaster
3 The Speakeasies - Cardiac Arrest
4 The Mot!ves Project - Boy Next Door/Candy
5 Full Spectrum - Aravah
6 The Soul Stingers - China Dread
7 General Rudie - Rainy Days
8 The Empire All-Stars - Alone Again
9 The Delroys - Can't Stop Cryin'
10 The Debonaires - Tribute to Tommy McCook/Roland
11 Amusic Skazz Band - Jazzing You
12 Downbeat Snapper - My Woman
13 The Dynamos - Heartbreaker
14 The B3's - Devil Blues Boogie
15 The Tile Renters - One Last Time
16 The Legends of Brass - Horchata
17 Yellow Umbrella - Rise & Fall
18 So. Cal. Shocks of Mighty - Revenge of the Poon Poon
Lot's more stuff was put up on eBay today with lots more to follow. I really am getting rid of everything but it's taking a while to go through everything to see what I want to rip. A lot of things I'm just saving a song or two. A lot of the records I'm just ripping and saving as WAV files that I hope to actually listen to some day.
I'm posting this one because I posted their album "Toxeuphoria" which ironically did not include the song "Toxeuphoria" but it is the b-side to the single. The a-side "Pickney Gal" is on the album.
This is part one of a three part series that had otherwise unreleased tracks from several bands. I will be posting the others two in the future.
I lamented in my previous post that I was disappointed that I had not found an unknown Ngobo Ngobo track, but this compilation has one - the song "Shades of Madness" was not on any other release that I know of. It's a good song too.
1 Ngobo Ngobo - So What
2 Arpioni - Noi Vogliamo un altro Mondo
3 Eskalator - Monster Mash
4 The Butlers - High Spirit
5 Skatala - Budapest
6 Engine 54 - A Rest
7 Ngobo Ngobo - Shades of Madness
8 Arpioni - Il Paese dei Balocchi
9 Eskalator - Shy Boy
10 The Butlers - Paint it Black
11 Skatala - Skatalahits
12 Engine 54 - No Duty, No Love
13 Loaded - Love Affair with Everyday Livin'
This is a compilation with two punk songs and two ska songs. I bought this thinking I had stumbled on a rare Ngobo Ngobo song called "Good for U, Man" but, as it turns out, it's the song "Good for Nothing Man" that was on their demo and their first album.
On a positive note, the Blechreiz song is a rarity that is unique to this release.
A1 - Ngobo Ngobo - Good for You, Man
A2 - Die Kassierer - Tot, Tot, Tot
B1 - The Shamrocks - Empty Brain
B2 - Blechreiz - Mike Hammer
Vis-a-Vis - Heart and Soul ep (1985)
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Pardon the water damaged sleeve you see to your left. Thankfully the music
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Playing with Death
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"A Taste Of A&M Records" 1967
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Wonderful A&M Jazz, Latin Sampler of the 60s!
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The Rainyard - Let It Speed EP
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*THE RAINYARD*
Let It Speed EP
1992 House Of Wax Records
Notes :
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LADY FLASH - Beauties In The Night LP 76
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The Sconeheads – Go Buckskin EP (1981)
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Modcast #611: Still Walkin' The Dogs
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Walkin' the dogs, just walkin' the dogs. If you don't know how to do it,
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Skooch - Skooch EP (1999)
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*Posted by Request *
American 90s pop punk with a horn section. I don't know what state they're
from or if they have ever released anything else.
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New single "Tell A Stranger"
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Espiando en los 80's Venezuela Vol 2
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1-Jah Jah Children - Vamos a Bailar
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3-Fabrica de Sueños - Tu Estilo de Amar
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Very fine powerpop record by this South African R'n'R group. It was
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Yo Sí Le Brinco - Desgracias, Gracias (2022)
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LMNOP - ELEMEN OPEE ELPEE (1986)
Originally posted in 2010 (January 20th)
Full details *here*
*Re-up as requested*
*FIRST TIME IN FLAC*
*LMNOP* (291 mb)
No Comply
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