Crawl - Ska! (1996)
1 Mr. Review - The Feeling's Alright
2 The Beatbusters - Suitcase
3 The Bouncers - You're Mine
4 The Beatbusters - La La La
Crawl - Ska! (1999)
1 Rude Rich & The Highnotes - Lion of Judah
2 The Bouncers - Needle Monster
3 Beatbusters - Private Teddybear
4 The 3rd Way - Gangster Movie
1 Freeto Boat - Soup Kitchen
2 Freeto Boat - Sloppy Thoughts
3 Trump Mother Jones - Bid to Grow
4 Trump Mother Jones - Larry Squatindorfski
5 Stomach Monkeys - Roadtrips
6 Stomach Monkeys - Nun Baseball
7 Pax 217 - Intolerable Acts
8 Pax 217 - No Place Like Home
9 Nifty Tom 50 - You I Need
10 Nifty Tom 50 - Skalifornia
11 The Bad News Bears - I Don't Play Basketball
12 The Bad News Bears - Straitedge
13 Gimerstick - Faithbuilder
14 Gimerstick - On the Double
15 Not for the Crowd - Vamanos
16 Not for the Crowd - On Every Side
17 Sampo - I Talk Too Much
18 Sampo - Repentance
19 The One and Only Skallelujah - Eutychus
20 The One and Only Skallelujah - Skank the Plank
Ska Craze 2 - The East Coast Collection (1999)
1 Face Value - Holy Huddle
2 Face Value - Never Stray
3 The Felluz - The Greatest Love
4 The Felluz - Lost and Found
5 Honeylocust - The Hell Song
6 Honeylocust - Forevermore
7 Nester's Bad Habit - Superman Soup
8 Nester's Bad Habit - Follower
9 Buckledown - U-Stor-It
10 Buckledown - Not Alone
11 Moffetts - Farmer's Daughter
12 Moffetts - All for Show
13 1 - 2 Punch - The Sellout Game
14 1 - 2 Punch - Waver
15 5 Men Down - Get Real
16 5 Men Down - Don't Look Back
17 UPPERROOM - I'm Not God
18 UPPERROOM - Burnt Clutch
19 Nifty Fifty - One and Only Fan
20 Nifty Fifty - Greater Cause
Anyway...this is that ultra rare demo tape from the band from Melbourne, Australia called Offbeats. There is a well known band from New Zealand called Offbeats but this is not them. This is a totally different band.
1 Ripple Sole Shoes
2 Wooly Bully
3 Going West
4 Bartender
I actually have two copies of this record and both have different covers.
Quick story... Years ago I had a mailman that used to hit on the women in the neighborhood. He made it clear that he was married but his wife had breast cancer and had to have her breasts removed. So he became obsessed with other women's breasts. He literally asked my wife to send naked pictures to him.
We complained to the post office and nothing was done about it. He was still our mailman.
I received this record in the mail and he literally snapped it and folded it in half to fit it into the mailbox. This record. Because we filed a complaint.
This pic here is from the first copy I got. I didn't scan the second copy but it looks much different from this one. You can see how different they can be from this image on Discogs.
1 Dee Dup
2 Rocktime
3 Belly Beat
4 Back in South Africa
5 If I
6 Try that Love
7 Things so Different
8 Take Your Time
9 Love that Flows
1 The Pink Panther
2 Felix Culpa
3 Salt Lane Shuffle
4 Mafia Hit Song
5 The Girl Next Door
6 Mr. Fly-By-Night
7 0-6-3-5
8 Guns of Navaronne
9 Sheriff Durgo
Quirky female-fronted ska/new wave from France.
A - Do the Ska Nana
B - Boy Watcher
A few days after I made that post I Googled their name and this YouTube channel came up. I don't know if they saw my post and were calling me out or if it was just a coincidence. Either way I'm actually okay with being wrong.
Here are two more Original Talkative songs. These are from 1984 and both are really good.
*Mental Slavery
*Unsatisfied
Subsection released an eleven song demo tape in 1981 that was 2 Tone style ska from beginning to end. It should be ranked up there with the most popular ska releases of that era but, sadly, very few people have ever heard it, or even know about it.
This is a Tone and Wave exclusive. A compilation of all of the songs recorded by both bands - Subsection and Original Talkatives. This download includes the Subsection demo as well as the pure-ska 4-track Original Talkatives demo and all five vinyl singles plus a live song that is not available on their other releases.
The songs "Dog Shit" and "Rocksteady fur Elise" from the Subsection demo were re-recorded for the 4-track Original Talkatives demo and the first song from the Original Talkatives demo "For Me" was re-recorded for the B-side to the Original Talkatives' first single. But, aside from these songs, everything else on the demos are unique to those tapes.
1 Watch Out
2 Alcoholic Man
3 Monday Morning
4 Boy
5 A Bom
6 Dog Shit
7 Don't Go
8 Death
9 Killing Dance
10 Watching TV
11 Rocksteady fur Elise
12 For Me
13 Bored Stiff
14 Dog Shit
15 Fur Elise
16 Computers
17 For Me
18 Pickin' Up
19 The Ladder
20 Waiting by the Telephone
21 Summer
22 High Pressure
23 Reggative Time
24 Squeeze Louise
25 City Life
26 Don't Wanna Hurt You (live)
Tracks 1 - 11: Subsection demo tape from 1981
Tracks 12 - 15: Original Talkatives demo tape from 1982
Tracks 16 & 17: Computers 7" from 1983
Tracks 18 & 19: Pickin' Up 7" from 1985
Tracks 20 & 21: Waiting by the Telephone 7" from 1985
Tracks 22 & 23: High Pressure 7" from 1986
Tracks 24 & 25: Squeeze Louise 7" that was recorded in the 80s but wasn't released until 2013
Track 26: from De Grote Prijs van Nederland
I must note that De Grote Prijs van Nederland also has a live version of "Pickin' Up" which I didn't include because I didn't include any live versions aside from "Don't Wanna Hurt You" only because it's not available on any other recording. .
I owe a tremendous amount of thanks to Sander for providing the last two songs I didn't have as well as the YouTube channel Diggin Demos from where I respectably stole the two demos.
This is a ska/swing compilation.
1 Dave's Big Deluxe - What I Used to Be
2 One Legged Bob - Jack Frost
3 Ska King Crab - Pennsylvania 6-5000
4 Save Ferris - Superspy
5 Big Time Operator - Jump Jive and Wail
6 Seven Foot Politic - Next Best Thing
7 The Socialites - Louise
8 The Gobbletones - TheMidnight Waltz of the Moldy Figs
9 Suspect Bill - Slow Down
10 Mobius Fruit Loop - So Glad She's Gone
11 Unsteady - Gotta Dance
Anyway, this is two brothers from New York who put out this lone release. It's supposed to be political but it's pickle barrel politics at it's simplest. I can't find any info online about this band or this release and, to be honest, I didn't look very hard.
The B-side is a decent new wave-rock song. It's creative. I like it despite the naive lyrics.
The A-side starts out bad but keep listening. It becomes a reasonably okay ska song.
A - Spy vs. Spy
B - The Dictator
1 War Town
2 Version Town
3 Warm Feeling
4 Fun City
I have managed to collect all three records plus a few songs I found on the internet.
The band was lead by Julian Johnson. All of the extra songs I found online came from his YouTube page. He was in the band I-Jay and the Reggae Revivals and you can hear their songs on his YouTube page.
Seven of these songs came from my own vinyl rips. The rest came from YouTube.
The song "More Today Than Yesterday" is a cover of the American band Spiral Starecase. They had a hit with this song in early 1969.
1 In the Night Time
2 It Doesn't Matter
3 More Today Than Yesterday
4 You Shook Up My World
5 Wildflower
6 New Ska
7 Rumours of War
8 In the Night Time 12" version
9 Take Jah
10 More Today Than Yesterday 12" version
11 Suffering in the Land (live)
12 Conquer Me (live)
This is the only thing they released (I think) but they did record other songs that you can hear on their YouTube channel.
1 Trey Meets Godzilla
2 Ska, Ska, Ska
3 Deceiver
4 Walking into Your Backyard
5 Orange Street
2 Sacoches' Train
3 La Fouille
4 Mauvaise
5 Ay Che Dolor
6 Las VĂ©gas
7 Fire & Forget
8 Sally Cannonball
9 La BĂ©guin
10 Skatalogue De La DĂ©route
11 So Far Away
This was a progressive rock band from Belgium who released one album and a single in the 70s and then, in 1980, they released this single with two ska songs. I actually have their other releases and nothing they did before sounds anything like this record. I don't know how their fans took it, but this was their final release.
My copy looks pretty good but it sounds atrocious. I may replace it someday. Pardon my crackles.
The sleeve I have is in really bad condition so I stole this image from eBay. The lettering on the cover is supposed to be white.
A - Two Red Lights
B - Emma
This was a traditional style ska band from Chapel Hills, North Carolina.
This is a Tone and Wave exclusive. I have managed to track down all of the songs they released that were not on their only album "In the Here". Ironically I do not have their album.
1 My Commanding Wife
2 Lost City
3 Part of the Past
4 Take Me with You
5 Recover Lover
6 We Dream
7 Useless Words
8 Passage to Nigeria
9 This is What I Do
10 The Lucky One
11 Rain from the Sky
12 My My
13 They Come and They Go
14 We're Comin' On
15 Sweet Poetry
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This was an established British indie-rock band who changed their name and this is the first thing they released under the new name. The title track on this EP is a ska song.
I have a feeling this post will be taken down pretty quickly. Get it while you can.
1 Pete the Hook Handed Skanker
2 Toys are Us
3 Big Guys are Cool
4 Recess Annie
5 Crisis Situation
6 Dave
Here they are doing a full live set in 1997:
This is a European band who started out with the name Godzilla but, as you know, there was already a band called Godzilla. And when I say there was already a band I meant there were many many bands with that name. In my own neighborhood there was a punk band called Godzilla (RIP Jocko!) so the band put out a few songs using the name "God & Zilla" but when they put out their first release they boldly went with the name Godzilla.
I don't know what happened but between their first record and their second they changed their name. They were no longer Godzilla nor were they God & Zilla but they changed their name entirely to "Luana Point". They released that second record then they disappeared.
I don't know who they were or what happened to them but here is everything I have by them: two singles and three compilation tracks. Lots of laid back and mostly instrumental ska. For fans of Ocean 11.
Godzilla - Get Away from Montego Bay (1998)
1 The Way to Luana Point
2 Mio
3 Yes, I'm Rocking
Luana Point - Two is Better than One (2000)
A - Les Liaisons Dangereuses
B - In Flagranti Ska
God & Zilla compilation tracks
*The Terminator
*Body Count
*Mr. Fred
