The AK Band

I have renewed the link for the AK Band's "Pink Slippers b/w Skegaway" 7"

and if you're interested their other 7"
"8-3-12 b/w Walnuts-Moleteazerz"

it's available HERE on one of my favorite blogs Short Sharp Kick in the Teeth.

Do yourself a favour and browse around that blog if you haven't yet. Lots of good 2tone-era music and other great stuff.

Like:

The Papers - "Who Put the Reggae on the Radio?" 7"
Mobster's 2nd single "Simmer Down b/w Mobster Shuffle"
and
Tranzista "Better Beware" 7"

Sax Maniax - Oversaxed

1 Never Gonna Lose Me Babe
2 Keeping It Quiet
3 The First Time
4 Wasted
5 On Your Own
6 The Things I do for You
7 Sara Sara Kiki
8 Answer Phone
9 !!One Hundred 'N' Eighty!!
10 Somebody Help Me
11 I Always Will
12 Do Good


Never Gonna Lose Me 7''
A - Never Gonna Lose Me
B - Let's Twist Again

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The Nighthawks - Skank It Up (1980)

This is a brilliant album that was sent to me by Andreu:

It's the Nighthawks one and only full length from 1980 but they did have 4 singles. I'm pretty sure though that all of their singles (including b-sides) are on the album. I could be wrong (although I never have been before). There was a "Belle Blue" maxi single and I cannot find what the other tracks on that are.

Guitarist/vocalist Oliver Stephan is currently playing in The Stimulators.

1 Sophisticated Woman
2 Jo'Burg Jive*
3 Johnny Too Bad
4 Shanty Town
5 Carry Go Bring Come
6 Patsy Girl
7 White Shoes
8 Here Comes the Nighthawks
9 Blood is Thicker than Water
10 Cocktail Blues
11 Belle Blue

(link has been removed at the request of the band because they plan on re-releasing their music)

Thank you Andreu!!!

*The track "Jo'Burg Jive" has a voice at the beginning that is a tag for the editing software that was used. It's a bit annoying, but it doesn't really interfere with the song too much.

Akrylykz - J.D. 7"

This is Akrylykz 2nd 7" from 1980.

A - J.D.
B - Ska'd for Life

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Ska-Boom!

It seems every time I have some money saved up to get a new computer my car somehow finds out about it and decides to break down so I still haven't been able to get a new computer yet - I'm hoping I will in the next 2 weeks. I am able to use a computer every now and then, but I can't rip my vinyls or use my scanner just yet.

However I did recieve an email today from your friend and mine Rikard who spent a good deal of his time ripping not only the Ska-Boom album "Lost in Ska", but all three of their singles as well.



The album in this download is the original 11 track from 1990 though the cover pictured here is from the 1991 re-release that included all 3 tracks from the "More Tea Vicar?" single. The cover of the original didn't have the yellow writing or the speech bubble.

Here they are performing "What Did I Do" in 1990. Rikard also posted this on Youtube.


The Plan 7" (1989)
A - The Plan
B1 - Long Shot Kick de Bucket
B2 - Rukumbine

Romeo 7" (1989)
A - Romeo
B - Ska Summer

Lost in Ska LP (1990)
1 Classic Case
2 Hard Times
3 What Did I Do?
4 But My Love
5 So FarAway
6 Carry Go Bring Come
7 Lost in Ska
8 Sister
9 Romeo (live Abbey Park '89)
10 Today
11 Ska Summer (1990)

More Tea Vicar 7" (1990)
A - More Tea Vicar?
B1 - Runaway Girl
B2 - I Didn't Mean It

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Here's the original cover:


Thanks again to Rikard!!!

A Tribute to the Spirit of '69

These four 7-inches were submitted by an anonymous submitter who suggests that you play these songs loud and "shake your ass!"
Beautiful skinhead reggae by both older and current bands keeping the Spirit of '69 alive.

Vol.1
1 Judge Dread - Bring Back the Skins
2 Yebo - Sound Pressure
3 The Spartans - At the Discotheque
4 The Mood - Wail Now

Vol.2
1 Derrick Morgan - Mon Hop
2 Allstonians - Hijacked
3 Monkey Shop - Funny Boy There
4 Scrapy - Suntime

Vol.3
1 The Pigletts - Johnny Reggae
2 King Banana - Don't Fight It
3 The Marvels - ...and Then He Kissed Me
4 Rocking Steady - Piano Concerto

Vol.4
1 Millie - Enoch Power
2 The Soulsteppers - Anything at All
3 The Mood - Hold Your Head Up High
4 Mighty Maroons - Midnight Hour

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The Frits - Look on the Bright Side of LIVE!

Here's one I didn't have that was just sent to me by Mr. Freeze.

1 Concrete Jungle
2 Not Enough for Me
3 Hey Girl
4 I Don't Want to Live Alone
5 Rat Race
6 Most I Hate is You
7 Bonehead
8 The Snake
9 New Life
10 Street Fighter
11 All You Ever Did
12 Life of Brian
13 Searching for Another Place
14 Why do You Change It?
15 Work
16 Too Much Pressure

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Thank you Mr. Freeze!!

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.)

The Villains - Go Crazy & Life of Crime

There was an old vaudevillian joke that wasn't funny to begin with and can now be found in numerous joke books for kids that goes:

"I can show you something that has never been seen before and, after I show you, will never be seen again!"

At that point the comedian will either peel a banana or crack open a nut and then eat it.

I feel the same applies to this cassette I just bought. It is by the Villains. Their "Life of Crime" EP is well known as a classic ska contribution, but this "Go Crazy" album falls short in so many ways.



The cassette I just purchased was still sealed in its original shrink wrap from 1984. This particular tape was never heard by anyone ever. I bought it for $2.
I think that after hearing it you'll see why it shouldn't be heard ever again.

I'll be honest - there are a couple of good moments, but overall this is not the sort of recording that a band such as the Villains should have ever made.

Even still, being completely unplayed for 26 years the tape has developed a hiss problem that I cannot get rid of. To be honest - the album isn't good enough that you'll want to listen to it more than a time or two so the hiss shouldn't really be a problem.
I know this sounds like I'm making fun of the band, but I'm really not. I love the "Life of Crime" EP and I have included it in this download so that you can see the difference yourself.


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The Smooths - Very Own Vegas

(posted by request)

1 In the Grass
2 78th of Soon
3 Letter After J
4 Enemy
5 Property is Theft
6 Mr. Figurehead
7 Tout Seul
8 Durango 95
9 Lord Jack
10 Bewitched

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Dave's Big Deluxe

(Reposted by popular demand)

DAVE'S BIG DELUXE S/T 1993 CASSETTE

LIVE AT U of A SPRING FLING (1995)

SOUNDS FROM THE CREDENZA

LIVE AT THE UNIVERSITY HIGH PROM

WHAT I USED TO BE SINGLE

MISS FORTUNE

Natural Rhythm - Bluebeat and Ska

Here's another great contribution by Rikard.

Natural Rhythm formed in Bradford, Northwest UK in 1990. They recorded this one album for Skank Records before breaking up in 1995. Their song Bluebeat and Ska might sound familiar to you if you have the Ska Wars 4 cd compilation. (If you don't have it it is on Hangover Heart Attack)

They have recently began playing again and have added new songs to their set list. Check out their Myspace.

1 When Night Time Falls
2 Ska Skank
3 I Want Justice
4 Ethiopia
5 People Unite
6 Cellar Beat
7 Bluebeat and Ska
8 That's the Law
9 Love at First Sight
10 007 (Shanty Town)
11 Natural Rhythm

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Thanks Rikard!!

Forest Hillbillies - Food Poisoning 7"

Forest Hillbillies released this 7" in 1986 and up until today I didn't know that it ever existed. This was sent to me by Rikard and it's an amazing rarity. You may remember their song 'Jump Start' from the 'Licensed to Ska' comp, or their song 'Hand in Hand' from the Bib Records compilation "The Shack vol.2: Club Ska '99", or maybe from 'The Munsters' 12" single they released on Gaz's Rockin' Blues.

With this new enlightenment I'm curious what else they have somewhere out there. Anyone know?

A1 - It's the Wouluff
A2 - Food Poisoning
B - Forest Hill Ska

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The Puzzles (REPOST)

This download includes both the full-length and the single.

"Let's Have a Puzzle Party" LP 1980

1 Do the Puzzle
2 (I Don't Like) Spiders
3 Talking Lady
4 Alibi
5 Alladinn
6 Heejoo
7 It's Puzzle Time Again
8 Silly Willy
9 Is That What You Want?
10 Zombie v.s. Godzilla
11 Hahahaha
12 Dance Woman Dance



"Do the Puzzle" 7" 1980

A - Do the Puzzle
B - I'm Ill

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Licensed to Ska

1 Busters Allstars - Skinhead Love Affair
2 The Bluebeat - Fire
3 The Braces - Julie Julie
4 The Busters - Orion
5 The Loafers - Laughing Loafer
6 Skaos - Ska Skank Down Party
7 The Forest Hillbillies - Jump Start
8 Busters Allstars - Pipeline
9 The Bluebeat - Safeguards
10 The Braces - The Letter
11 The Busters - Keen on Games
12 The Loafers - Melancholy Sally
13 Skaos - The Struggle
14 The Toasters - Shocker

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Ska for Ska's Sake

1 Mark Foggo's Skasters - Skadansk
2 The Loafers - It's so Easy
3 The Hotknives - W.L.N.
4 King Hammond - King Hammond Shuffle
5 Maroon Town - City Riot
6 Off The Shelf - Off The Shelf Tonight
7 The Riffs - Blind Date
8 Mr. Review - Another Town
9 The Skandal - Driving Me to Drink
10 Judge Dread - One Eyed Lodger
11 Pick It Up - Ska Sax
12 The Pork Hunts - Woman

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The Fifteen Commandments of Ska

This is the last of the three compilations put out by Skank Records.

1 The Hotknives - Dave and Mary
2 Maroon Town - Average Man
3 International Beat - Magical Feeling
4 King Hammond - Right On King Hammond
5 Judge Dread - Reggae and Ska
6 Natural Rhythm - Cellar Beat
7 Mark Foggo's Skasters - Spot
8 One Hundred Men - YeahYeah Girl
9 Clubland - I'm Yours
10 The Loafers - Feelings Right
11 The Allsorts - What More Can I Do?
12 Bugsy Malone - Best Friend
13 The Riffs - Darling
14 Clubland - Rude Boy James
15 The Hotknives - Julie Julie

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Ngobo Ngobo - Daily Talk

This post is by request.

Here's Ngobo Ngobo's Myspace.

1 I'm on TV
2 I'm Alright
3 Wednesday Man
4 Ghost Train
5 Stay Away
6 Bored Beyond Belief
7 Meet My Magnum
8 Everyday Man
9 Kraut Holiday
10 Don't Go
11 Blank Expression
12 Say Goodbye

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Intensified - demo tapes [Re-Upped on July 12th 2011]

Two early demos by Intensified submitted to us by Rikard.



1 Dictator
2 Carnival
3 Saturday Girl
4 Summer in Jamaica



1 Hard to Disguise
2 Suffering
3 Bullet for the General
4 Fugitive
5 Intensified

...both cassettes recorded in Ashford, Kent 1991

http://www.mediafire.com/?1c2jvfs9117f174


Again, thanks to Rikard for this post!!

Blue Riddim Band

Here are both releases from Blue Riddim Band. America's first all-white reggae band.
Some of you may be familiar with their song "Nancy Reagan" and the video of them performing at sunrise in August 1982 at Reggae Sunsplash in Jamaica.

If you don't already know about them HERE's a great article.



Restless Spirit (1981)
1 Come See About Me
2 Sho Be Do
3 Restless Spirit
4 One Love, One Heart
5 Rock It Sister
6 Cuss Cuss
7 Twistin' the Night Away
8 Oh Babe
9 Joke's On You
* Nancy Reagan (12 in. mix)

Alive in Jamaica (1982)
1 Chariots of Fire
2 Smile
3 Feeling Soul
4 Cuss Cuss
5 Tribute to Coxsone
6 Nancy Reagan
7 There's a Law

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