Skabba the Hutt

 From Wiki and Discogs and anywhere else online that ever mentioned this band:

Skabba the Hutt were a Ska punk band that featured former The Bravery frontman/songwriter Sam Endicott on bass and keyboard-player John Conway, CSI: Miami actor Jonathan Togo, actor/filmmaker Will Carlough, session drummer Chris Markwood, solo-musician/voiceover-artist Brian Grosz and musician/illustrator Seth Berkowitz.

After some members went on to form The Bravery others continued on as a ska band called El Conquistadors. They released one 5-track self-titled CD before calling it quits.

On a personal note, I was a fan of The Bravery before I even knew of their ska past. 

I previously posted the demo tape but the self-titled tape is being posted for the first time on this blog. Neither the demo nor the self-titled tape are my own rips and I graciously thank the people who ripped these tapes and all those who share them. 

 

Skabba the Hut - demo (1998)

1 Fat Guy on My Head

2 Beatdown Stomp

3 Salt in the Wounds

4 Ballad of Captain Morgan

5 Film History and Theory

6 Work in the Tubes

7 Crimson Guard

 

 

Skabba the Hut - Skabba the Hut (1998)

1 Fat Guy on My Head

2 Can't Find My Pants

3 The Beatdown Stomp

4 99 Red Skabballoons

5 DeathRocker Babe

6 Cinesex (The Berk's Theme)

7 Bearded Lady

8 Doin' the Grown Up

9 Skabba Nagila

10 RAM Doubler

11 Beer Gogglin'

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Bad Shakyn - Badidiba (2001)

 90s German ska band that plays in the 2Tone/Unicorn style. Most lyrics are in English. 

 1 Intro

2 Looser

3 Bad Boy

4 Stibbo

5 Living in Sunshine

6 Feel It

7 Mr. Brown

8 Amors Pfeil

9 Kondom

10 Skanooooon

11 Badidiba

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Hot Tongs - Démo (1999)

 This is a band from France who didn't have any official release, only two demos. This one titled "Démo" and one before this titled "La Démo". 

Many years ago I saw a video of them and in my memory they played traditional ska in an aggressive style. I was excited to find this tape but it doesn't sound the way I was hoping it would sound based on my memory of them. It's good, but I'm thinking the first demo might be better. I don't know though because I've never heard it. If anybody out there has a copy please let me know.

Here's a full live set. 

 1 Wicked Style

2 Recordate

3 Trop de Violence

4 La Boite te Nuit 

 

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Nostrilsaurus

 This was a punk band from Gurnee, Illinos (about an hour from Chicago so they're known as a Chicago band) who dabbled with some ska and the slightest bit of funk in the years leading up to the third wave. They have a very original sound and, in my opinion, their best stuff was the songs they had on compilations but the two records they made have some poignant moments as well.

This download is for both 7" records and all five of their compilation tracks. My version of the song "90210" isn't very good but you'll be happy to know a better version of it and others is available on a collection called "Hell Bent for Pleather" that's on Bandcamp.  

Nostrilsaurus - Whooooa!!! 7" (1993)

1 Kwazar

2 You Too

3 It Sucks 2BU

4 Poke Your Eyes Out

Nostrilsaurus - Don't Forget the Little People (1994)

1 Everything

2 Crazy 8

3 One Million Little Morons

4 That Girl

Compilation Tracks

* One Step Forward

* He and She

* Don't Rock the Boat

*Do You Remember?

*90210

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Peppermint Rock - Candy 7" (1982)

I honestly don't know what to say about this one so I won't say anything. 

It is ska. It is rare. That's all I got.

A - Candy Part 1

B - Candy Part 2

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The Jamons - The Jamons (demo tape 1994)

 This is not my own rip. This was sent to me on a few different occasions in the last year or so. I want to thank all those who shared it with me and, especially, the person who originally ripped it. 

 

1 Ska Pirate

2 Jamon con Huevos

3 Shaved Monkey

4 Pervert

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Beat Around The Bush - Cha Cha Hula (1990)

 It's been over a decade since I've done a podcast but I recently (about half a year ago) was inspired to do a new podcast. My old podcast focused on well-known bands doing the one off ska or reggae song. The novelty of it ruined the quality. I listened to my old podcast and it was horrible. 

 

With the new podcastI decided to forget the popular bands playing terrible ska songs and focus on the unknown bands playing great ska songs. I put together an episode and this was the first song. It's by a California band who put out a ska/reggae demo tape in 1990 before they faded away. This is the best song on that tape.  

I'm never actually going to finish the podcast so I'm going to post the one-off songs that would have been on the podcast.

This is the first one: "Cha Cha Hula" by Beat Around The Bush.

toneandwave · 01 Beat Around The Bush - Cha Cha Hula (1990)

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The Nicks - Say Something More (2005)

 1 Say Something More

2 Murder on My Mind

3 I Suck

4 Ȁppelwoi

5 Boom Boom

6 Ghostride

7 Bad Times

8 Have a Drink

9 Hey Hey

10 Hazy Day

11 Gonzo's Dinner

12 Sunday Stripper

 

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Second Twelve - Demo CD (2002)

 

This CD-R demo is probably the only thing this talented 3rd wave Canadian band ever released. Very rare. 

1 Final Relief

 2nd 12

3 Second Chance

4 Wrongful People

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Nu-Clear Energy - Ground Zero (1982)

Is this ska? No.

Is this punk? No.

Is this reggae? No

Is this new wave? No.

It is all of the above combined without being any of the above. 

 

1 Dare Devils of the Red Circle

2 Money

3 Kings and Queens of Ska

4 Right Time

5 Jah Music

6 Jah Jah's Army

7 Babylon

8 African Herbman

9 Storybook Tellers

 

 

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The Slapstickers - Demotape (1995)

 1 Holiday in USA

2 Hey German

3 Trip to Barcelona

4 Ska Invasion

5 Holiday in USA (slow)

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(Horrible sound quality. "Hey German" is unique to this tape but the other songs were later re-recorded for later releases.)

Sneaky Pierre - Another String to My Bow 7'' (1981)

 

 This is a British band that only ever had this one release. Lead singer Alistair Gordon had a few other projects he was in. HERE's his site.

A - Another String to My Bow

B - Doing the Best I Can

Hear - Another String to My Bow

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Cold Snacks

 Cold Snacks was a third wave ska punk band from Florida. They had a female singer and were aiming for more pop than punk. They never released anything officially in their years of playing but they did record a 7" EP that never saw the light of day as well as this CD-R demo CD. 

 The primary band members eventually realized how hard it is to maintain a horn section so they formed a new punk band called Damsel In This Dress who also didn't release anything (or did they? I don't know. Prove me wrong.)

Cold Snacks - 1998 Demo CD

1 Summer of '97 (Bunk)

2 Second Wind

3 Up on Stage

4 Starting all Over

5 Meaningless Day

6 Wishing Your Life Away

Cold Snacks - Unreleased 7" (1998)

A - Bunk Summer

B - Middle Child

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Joe & The Originals - Bad Boys 12'' (1988)

 All I know about this band is that they are from Italy and this is probably the only thing they ever released. I had a copy of this record for many many years and I never posted it because my copy sounded terrible. I eventually got another copy and this new one sounds even worse. I thought the first one was compressed (when you stack records on top of each other in a pile instead of side by side) but I'm thinking that this record just wasn't produced/mixed right and that's just how it sounds. 

This is a ska/reggae band and, like a lot of bands from Europe in this era, the vocals are hard to get used to. As an ignorant Yank I appreciate that all the lyrics are in English (The language of The U.S.A! - God's language!)  but I still can't quite grasp them. 

Ironically my favorite song on this record is "Forty Minutes of Fire" which is the least ska/reggae but it's a great song. I included on an episode of the Tone and Wave Podcast that I never actually released. 

Today I re-ripped this record and even though the vinyl looks beautiful and unblemished in any way it sounds atrocious. I am frustrated and I don't care so I'm posting my latest rip. It sucks but at least you can hear these rare ska songs in shit quality. 

The only good thing about this new record is the cover. My other copy didn't have the hand-made picture sleeve. 

 

A - Bad Boys

B1 - Forty Minutes of Fire

B2 - And God Created the Woman

 

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The Freakin' Cads

 

The Freakin' Cads - Into the Pink (1997)

1 Priority 1

2 DeNile

3 Wrecking Ball

4 Teenage Werewolf

5 Jumpin'

6 Everyone

7 Likely Stories

8 Policeman

9 Dinosaur

10 P.O. Guns

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The Freakin' Cads - Escape from Philly (2000)

1 Flow

2 Foolish

3 White Collar Crime Lord

4 Guerilla Pimps

5 Drain

6 Roide

7 Itty Bitty White Lie

8 Me Llamo es Scrapple

9 Goodtime

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Schmutz - Gigi 7'' (1981)

 

 

This is a re-post. It was originally posted in 2013 but the link didn't last long. Here's another chance to get this rare ska gem.

A - Gigi

B - Can Can

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Ms. B. Haven - Get It 7" (1981)

 This was a female-fronted new wave band from California. This might be the only thing they ever released. The keyboard player Sue Palmer put out some other music but I don't think anything else was recorded with this band. I'll be happy to be proven wrong.

The A-side is a new wave song. The B-side is a reggae song that sounds very similar to Judith Ann-Marie. 

I should add that my copy doesn't have the sleeve so I respectfully stole all of the images from Discogs. My copy is very very crackly and I spent a lot of time trying to edit out the pops and crackles. You wouldn't know it by listening to it. I probably could have done better if I spent more time on it but oh well. There's only so much time in a day.

A - Get It

B - Sexuality/Normality

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Ivy and the Rebels - Ska 7"

 

This is a re-post. I posted this many years ago and there's a chance that the band name "Ivy and the Rebels" is incorrect but that's the name that was used when I bought the record in a previous decade.

As I mentioned the first song just cuts off abruptly. I didn't do that. That's how it ends on the record. 

A - Love You

B - Do It

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Stained Glass Alice

 

I'm confused by this band. They are a ska-punk band from Nuneaton, U.K. and they have one 9-song release that they put out in the early 2000s but, before that, they released this on 3-track demo CD. 

Here's why I'm confused. The songs on the CD are not the songs listed on the CD. The track list on the back cover says there are three songs:

*Juice Hair

*Last in the Class

*Red Handled Brush

...but on the CD itself there are these three songs:

1 Feel so Good

2 Good State

3 Tipsy

I'm thinking this is another band that recycled their demos to include a different demo. I searched the internet for the three songs listed and I found the song "Juice Hair" but I did not find the other two. I did find a few more and I included Juice Hair and the other ones in this download.

 

The missing songs listed on the back of their demo are not on the 9-track CD they released.

 HERE's a link to that one. 

Where are the songs Last in Class and Red-Handled Brush?

Here's what I have by them:

Feel So Good

Good State

Tipsy

Juice Hair

Mr. Scientist

(radio intro) Problems

Rag and Bone

Rubicon Passion

These are the seven songs in this download.

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The Ammonites

This is a re-post deluxe. I am re-posting the 7" which is the only thing this band ever released and I posted on the blog many many years ago but I'm calling it a re-post deluxe because I'm including a lot of other things this band recorded but never released.

The band had a site that they posted these recordings on many years ago and I probably never would have known about it if Marco On The Bass didn't do a post about it. As far as I can tell the site is long gone.

The Ammonites - Dressed to Kill 7" (1981)

A - Big Eater

B - Dressed to Kill

 

The Ammonites - demo tape (1980)

1 Tighten Up

2 Big Eaters

3 Fatty Fatty

4 Greedy Girl

5 Dressed to Kill

6 Rude Boy Ska

7 Move ya Mule

8 Everything Crash

9 Secret Lives

10 Reggae in ya Jeggae

11 Hong Kong Flu

 Unreleased tracks

*Blue Lagoon

*Indian Tiger

*Where's the Action?

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