Ede & Die Zimmermanner (aka Skafighter) 7" (1980)

German ska from 1980. Male and female vocals.
Their later recordings didn't maintain quite the level of ska and reggae as this - their first release.

They have recently reformed and have recorded a new album in 2007.

Discography:
* 1982 1001 Wege Sex zu machen ohne daran Spaß zu haben, ZickZack.
* 1983 Zurück in der Zirkulation, ZickZack (EP)
* 1984 Goethe, Ata Tak
* 2007 Fortpflanzungssupermarkt, ZickZack

Their OFFICIAL SITE.

A - Eva, Jurgen + Max
B1 - Klein + Doof
B2 - So Froh

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While doing this post I discovered that this single was posted already on another blog called Happy New Wave and they even have the 1984 album "Goethe".

Tiny Hat Orchestra - Funhaus (1993)

The video for 'Jawbone'


...a bit of info HERE.

1 Funhaus
2 Wheel of Life
3 Jawbone
4 Bueno
5 Muse
6 Rat City
7 Wheels and Gears
8 Sleeping Heads
9 Lighthouse
10 Machine in Cleveland
11 Epilogue
12 Secret Track

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Madness - Live at the Astoria 2007

Disc 1
1 One Step Beyond
2 Embarassment
3 The Prince
4 NW5
5 My Girl
6 Tomorrow's Just Another Day
7 Bingo
8 Sun & The Rain
9 Return of the Los Palmas 7
10 Let's Go
11 Shut Up
12 Iron Shirt
13 Bed and Breakfast Man
14 Sugar and Spice

Disc 2
1 Grey Day
2 Lovestruck
3 Forever Young
4 House of Fun
5 Wings of a Dove
6 Baggy Trousers
7 Our House
8 It Must be Love
9 Madness (featuring Prince Buster)
10 Night Boat to Cairo
11 Pig Bag

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Let's Quit - Skanouska 7''

This is Let's Quit's first release from 1991.

Their official site.

A - Skanouska
B - Vegetarian Shoes

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Gaz's Rebel Blues Rockers 7"

This post submitted by Rikard.

Before Gaz Mayall started The Trojans he had another band. This is it and this is their only release. (I'm just guessing here because I trust the internet a little too much for information about this sort of thing. Did Gaz's Rebel Blues Rockers record anything else?)

A - Trigger Happy
B - Aggravation Station

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Girlsmen

The 1994 full-length from this Swedish band. Their sound is just a touch dancehall similar to Madness' "Dust Devil"

They have a Myspace with just one song

1 Life on the Hill
2 Mr. Man
3 Hate You
4 Waiting
5 Ruff Stuff
6 Rumblin'
7 Dog Bone
8 All Over the World (track missing)
9 Man Go Mad
10 Tied Up
11 Girlie Girlie
12 Alone

*Dog Bone (single version)
* Girlie Girlie (single version)
* I Would Die 4 U

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Basement 5 - 1965-1980 LP (1980)

Here's the LP and the Silicon Chip 7"

If you don't know about these guys read the Marco On The Bass post.

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

Silicon Chip 7"
A - Silicon Chip
B - Chip Butty

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Clive Langer and the Boxes - Splash!

I have a 'wishlist' of things I am looking for and this album has teetered right around the top of that list for a long time. In June when I was without a computer I knew I had to save money to get a new one and that meant not spending money on music but I did come across a few things that I couldn't pass up. One was this album, one was "Skankin' Round the World vol.4" and then there were some Piranhas 7-inches. I knew I couldn't afford them all so the one thing that I did not get was Skankin' Round the World. This is one of those things I will forever regret.
Now that I have these great vinyls to rip and a new computer to rip them on my usb record player has decided to stop working. I know the new computer isn't the problem because it recorded the Sax Maniax album just fine.
I am still able to share this album however because, lo and behold, it has already been posted on another blog called Music...isms.
It's good to have the original, but damn, if only I had searched for it first I could have gotten Skankin' Round the World vol.4 instead and still have this as well.



1 Simple Life
2 Hello
3 Never Wanted You
4 Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya
5 Hope and Glory
6 Best Dressed Man
7 Half as Nice
8 Splash
9 It's All Over Now
10 Burning Money
11 Take You Down
12 First Thing in the Morning
13 Had a Nice Night

This download also includes the EP "I Want the Whole World" which is also courtesy of Music...isms. (Please browse that site and download the great music posted there and, remember kids, a little thanks goes a long way.)

I Want the Whole World
1 I Want the Whole World
2 Lovely Evening
3 I Know
4 Those Days
5 Simple Life

You will see how much Clive's music changed from the EP to the LP that he recorded after producing Madness' "One Step Beyond"

Here he is in the film "Take it or Leave It" (the guy standing up)




The covers for the album and the "It's All Over Now" single were created by Barney Bubbles and they all had the 5-pointed crown...


...which Madness has recently begun using as their own symbol.


Clive Langer has also produced Elvis Costello, Morrisey, Dexy's Midnight Runners, They Might Be Giants, The Teardrop Explodes, and more as well as having been in Deaf School, Big In Japan, and Bette Bright and the Illuminations (The Boxes basically were The Illuminations).
And, yes, he did produce The Liberty of Norton Folgate. HERE'S his site.

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Skaville Train - Live in London

Submitted by Ronan

Skaville Train live in London in 1992 mixing desk recording.

1 Liquidator
2 Perhaps
3 Ska Ba
4 Blood Pressure
5 Take Five
6 Confucious

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Beat Direction

Submitted by Rikard.

Beat Direction was a post punk/mod band from Montreal, Canada (not the UK as I have previously posted). This is their only release. It's from 1984 and it has one ska song "Dream Girl", but they did have another song called "Ska-Au-Go-Go" that was on a very rare comp from 1985 called "The Cutting Edge". It was also put out on a flexi in 1985 in an issue of the mod fanzine "In The Crowd" with the mod band Squire.



Long Distance Beat
A1 - Walking on China
A2 Looking for Emma Peel
B1 Nina
B2 Dream Girl
B3 So Romantic

In The Crowd flexidisc
Squire - Does Stephanie Know? (originally a b-side)
Beat Direction - Ska-Au-Go-Go

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Yebo - Eastern Standard Time

This post is by request. I can't remember who requested it, but here you go.

1 Skayatollah
2 Reburial
3 Eastern Standard Time
4 Rudy, A Message to You
5 Miss Ska-Kulation
6 Delightful
7 President Kennedy
8 Congo Dub
9 Cleopatra
10 She Took Off My Romeos
11 Skaravan
12 Droppin' Out
13 Independance Ska
14 Jody Grind
15 Dick Tracy
16 Skazz (Work Song)
17 Famine
18 Dead End Streets

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Systemes Sonores

Systemes Sonores - A Frenchy Journey to Jamaican Sound Design

- a blogspot dedicated to French ska and reggae has made a comp for us.

Atlande - Le Mac Homme (1980)
Camera Silens - A Qui la Faute (1987)
Diesel - Barbes Pigalle (place Clichy) (1980)
Gang + - Un Singe (Derriere la Tete) (1990)
Les Ejectes - Rockskaroots (1989)
Vladimir Cosma - Formalities (instrumental) (1982)

...and I have added 2 more French 2 Tone songs to this comp:

Babylon Fighters - Fuck You
Gérard Blanchard - Rock Amonder

- both of which were contributed by Hiroshi

Download this comp HERE

Les Frelons - Mouvement Non Stop

1 Tous le Matins
2 Les Politiciens
3 L'Amoureux Timide
4 Ball Trap
5 Pussycat
6 Rock Rudy Steady

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The Farm - double feature

This is the first two releases by The Farm - the band from Liverpool who was well known in the nineties for the indie rock song "All Together Now". Though there was no noticeable ska influence in their later work their earlier releases were produced by Suggs himself who also managed the band for a couple years in the eighties and, although they weren't exactly ska, they fit perfectly in with the 2Tone scene.

Madness fans should appreciate these:

Hearts and Minds 12" (1984)

(Suggs even did back-up vocals on this one)

A1 - Hearts and Minds
A2 - Hearts and Minds (Dub)
B1 - Information Man
B2 - Same Old Story


Some People 7" (1986)


A - Some People
B - The Moroccan

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Thanks to regular submitter Rikard for these!!!

AK47 - Baby Come Back to Me 7'' (1983)

I don't know who these guys are or where they come from or whether or not they have other recordings. The A side is mellow reggae akin to UB40 and the B side is more like the Untouchables. Both songs are very good and the vocals are great.

A - Baby Come Back to Me
B - Foolin' Yourself

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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!!!