This is the End??

Buster Shuffle is NOT to blame for my account being suspended. The actual email I got that informed me of the suspension stated that it was due to having a file titled Buster Shuffle.
I don't think it was unreasonable to jump to the conclusion that I did, but I admit I shouldn't have been so quick to accuse the band itself.

I got an email from them (basically what they wrote in the comments) which ended with them saying that my post accusing them of this is untrue and unfair. They are absolutely right and this is my open apology. It was done out of anger and I never bothered to even try to contact them first to see if this was their doing.

I'm still debating whether or not to buy their new cd. I'd hate to think that I'd be handing my money over to the record label or distributors who did this. I do recommend that if you are able to get either album from the band itself to do so. The first one was great so I imagine the new one will not disappoint.
(I'm not just trying to do damage control here, I actually am a fan and I do think their music should be heard, that's why I did the post in the first place.)

This is the first single from the new album:



As for the blog...I'm still not sure what to do. Half of the emails I get are people asking me to reupload things. If I keep it going the way it is I'll be getting emails for every file at some point. I don't have a lot of time for the blog as it is right now. I still have a lot of rarities that I want to share with you. (I just realized the other day that I have never posted the Lodgers demo tape yet), and in the near future I'll have more time than I do now but when I do have time to sit at the computer the bulk of the time is spent answering emails. Now, with the added task of having to re-upload everything, I won't have much time at all to post new things.

[...to be continued tomorrow...and Thank You everybody who took the time to comment, I will respond to all comments tomorrow] [...es tarde, estoy cansado, pero mañana todo esto se traducirá en Español...pero Buster Shuffle NO es culpa de mi cuenta está suspendida]

Pressure - Pressure 12" (1983)

A1 - Stir It Up
A2 - Runnin'
A3 - Dance Band
B1 - Pressure Cooker
B2 - Save a Little Time
B3 - Imagination Dub (Runnin')




http://www.mediafire.com/?ucp2at0b9kpc6gu

Ska Kings - Oil in My Lamp 7'' (1968)

Traditional ska featuring Eric "Monty" Morris

A - Oil in My lamp

B - Jamaican Ska


http://www.mediafire.com/?bl2xtt35flmffej

2404 - Riot Girl 7" (1994)

Hardcore,Oi!,Streetpunk from Philadelphia with one cool ska-punk song.

A1 - Riot girl
A2 - Open your eyes
B1 - You can't get us down
B2 - Jon's party


"Riot Girl"



http://www.mediafire.com/?l3u0fl2ln1y11f4

Brave New World 12" (1988)

Ultra rare release from this California band. I can't tell you a single thing about them.
A couple of okay reggae songs on the B-side but the A-side is amazingly good. I can't believe this isn't a popular song.

A - Hard Yard
B1 - I Wanna See You (Dance)
B2 - Yes I Love You


"Hard Yard"


http://www.mediafire.com/?9r3me44se3bap2v

I.D. - I Have Something to Say to You 7'' (1984) [LINK FIXED]

I'm pretty sure this band was from Canada. Can't find anything about them online. I know this record goes for a pretty penny on eBay every now and then and I'll admit that it's not a ska song even though when you do see it on eBay on those rare occasions the seller likes to say that it's a ska song. It's a piano driven new wave song with a bit of a ska rhythm to it and I shouldn't be posting it on T&W but I am because of how rare it is and because of how good it is. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

A - I Have Something to Say to You
B - Sonyman Walking



http://www.mediafire.com/?jwuz029r5228brl

Eddie Vedder - Reggae EP

A - Reggae Woman
B1 - Redemption Song (Pearl Jam live)
B2 - Three Little Birds (Pearl Jam live)

"Reggae Woman" is a song Eddie Vedder wrote in 1988. This version was recorded before he was in Pearl Jam. The other two songs here are just Eddie singing solo in between Pearl Jam songs. These are both Bob Marley songs and they are basically a capella, no reggae music behind him. The other members of Pearl Jam don't share his love for that reggae groove it seems.

"Reggae Woman"

http://www.mediafire.com/?no4oqcxky4k2s8x

The Cats - Swan Lake 7'' (1968)

Most of you have this classic already. Here's for the few who don't. A - Swan Lake B - Swing Low http://www.mediafire.com/?pt6bd5nloi5t2x3

Praetors - I'm the Best 7'' (1983)

A - I'm the Best

B - Bam Bam


http://www.mediafire.com/?vhc05c1lye3i6um

SOTD: Tackhead - Ska Trek (1989)

Remember the song "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang? They had a group of guys backing them up called Fats Comet who were also known as Tackhead. These are the same guys backing up Grandmaster Flash on White Lines and The Message.

They released their first 7" in 20 years on November 11th, 2011. Its a cover of Bob Marley's Exodus. Here's a remix of the new track.

It's from an album of new music that's supposed to be released in 2012. Stay tuned to their Official Site for news on that.

They released the album Friendly as a Hand Grenade in 1989 and the first track on the album was "Ska Trek"




http://www.mediafire.com/?lw6tlsph6w3blvl


...

Culture Club

Culture Club was a rock-n-roll quartet from Nashville, Tennessee which featured a pretty young lady on lead vocals named Boy George



(...let the E-mails commence!)

First there was the Sex Pistols, then Malcom McLaren took Adam out of Adam and the Ants and inserted a 13 year old girl into the band and called them Bow Wow Wow but, when that band started to waver, he threw in a teenage Irish transvestite named George O'Dowd to sing lead. That didn't work out so well - Anabella didn't want him there and the fans didn't want him there - he was booed off the stage.

Ironically there was another member of Adam and the Ants - a drummer named Jon Moss who started his first band called Pig Williams in 1975 with his friend Nick Feldman (who later found fame in the band Wang Chung) who was not in Bow Wow Wow because he was busy playing with Shane MacGowan's band The Nips at the time before replacing Rat Scabies as the drummer for The Damned. He was advised by an unnamed friend that Bow Wow Wow's new singer Lieutenant Lush was calling himself "Boy George" and he started a new band called Praise of Lemmings.
Jon Moss joined Praise of Lemmings and they changed their name to Culture Club.

Culture Club started out as a reggae band but most of their reggae sound was overshadowed during production in favor of a pop sound.

A lot of their music had reggae influences but they never released a straightforward reggae song in their heyday. It wasn't until 1999 when they released the album Don't Mind If I Do when they had a minor hit with a cover of the Dolly Parton song "Your Kisses are Charity"

They even performed this song live with Dolly herself

Dolly Parton and Culture Club doing a reggae song:


This download includes the original Don't Mind if I Do version of "Your Kisses are Charity" as well as a studio version featuring Dolly Parton plus two early reggae demos "Lion's Roar" and "Run, Run, Run"

"Lion's Roar"

"Run, Run, Run"


http://www.mediafire.com/?334w273qve7x4nq




Dolly Parton is cooler than you realize. Here's her hanging out with Cyndi Lauper...and I hear she did a cover of the Whitney Houston classic "I will Always Love You"

(...and, yes, the Dolly Parton ska EP is in the works!!)

Cornerstone 96-98

This band was out of Vancouver, WA and recorded an album in the late 90's that never quite got finished or released, until just a few days ago. This band has a unique style with the lead singer who plays an upright bass. One more reason to pick it up, proceeds from the album will benefit The National Brain Tumor Society in the name of Joshua Dalton, the bands founder and bassist who is battling cancer. Although the band has been broken up for many years now, their music can now be properly enjoyed and remembered.



Sample all 17 tracks and buy the album at Amazon, or CD Baby

The Choice - Candy 7" (1983)

The Choice was a post punk / new wave band from Ithaca New York. Their set was comprised mostly of covers: "Should I Stay or Should I Go" (Clash), "Psycho Killer" (Talking Heads), "What I Like About You" (Romantics), "Freedom of Choice" (Devo), They also played some Rolling Stones and a B52's cover or two etc.



The band was started by two brothers from Florida Jay and mark Mendelson. Jay worked at a T.V. center in Owego and was able to use some equipment to make a couple of videos. One for their original song "Life of the Party", and another for "Technician". They did release a CD that had these two songs and a few more studio tracks with several live songs. I have never come across this cd.

A - Candy

B - Strange


http://www.mediafire.com/?8ezhhrf2oxid8n9


[I think everybody has covered Psycho Killer at some point. And, although I have never heard The Choice's version, I would still have to say that my favorite is Debbie Neon's]

SOTD: Scritti Politti - The Word Girl

http://www.mediafire.com/?qhd09xcv6992cah

SOTD: Ziggy Marley - Blackcat

You may have heard the name Ziggy Marley before (from what I hear his dad was a musician of some sort. He used to hang out with Mick Jagger)

In 2006 Ziggy was feeling the 2 Tone vibe when he recorded this song for his second solo album (without the Melody Makers) Love is My Religion.



http://www.mediafire.com/?n2423oyeuk2mvx6

SOTD: William Shatner and Toots Hibbert cover the Police

Remember the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" about the man who was on an airplane and kept seeing a man on the wing of the plane? The main actor was a guy named William Shatner who later went on to find fame in a TV show called TJ Hooker with a woman named Heather Locklear who was married to members of Motley Crue and Bon Jovi after Charles in Charge broke up with her.

Anyways...this TJ Hooker guy went on to do commercials for an online based airplane ticket agency, which is ironic considering his beginnings. He made enough from his commercials to fund one of the most...um...interesting album of 80s cover songs. On this album he enlisted the help of a down-and-out nobody named Toots Hibbert (normally I would never say a negative thing about Toots - he's the guy who sang Split Personality - but he sank pretty low on this one and I feel like my shit talking is justified).

Here's Captain Kirk and the 54-46 guy doing a cover of the Police song "Walking on the Moon"

I wanted to expose this to the world but I never wanted to contaminate one of my podcasts with it, so, if you decide to share this with another Earthling, please do not mention Tone and Wave.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3dfnrfwpl08aw38

SOTD: What Fun - The Right Side Won (1983)

I never got around to buying this record yet. There are lots of them all over the internet so I will have a copy someday but the song itself is easy enough to find on line so here it is if you don't have it yet.
This was definitely going to be on my next podcast but I couldn't decide if I wanted the 7" version at the beginning of the episode or the 12" version at the end. You can have both:

7" Version

12" Version

Laurel Aitken - Boogie in My bones 7" (1960)

A - Boogie in My bones

B - Little Sheila

http://www.mediafire.com/?ru2a5in9rouvs8q

Cyndi Lauper - Ska EP

Cyndi Lauper never did a ska EP but, if she did, it would be this.

This was supposed to be my SOTD but there were a couple to choose from. These songs were intended to be used in my next podcast but I couldn't pick which one I thought represented Cyndi Lauper properly.

She released her first album She's so Unusual in 1984 when she was 31 years old - although she did release a record with her band Blue Angel. (When she was 24 she damaged her vocal chords and was told by a doctor that she would never sing again).

She's so Unusual featured the song "Witness" which was overlooked but remained a favorite of Cyndi's.
It was the B-side to several of her singles off that album starting with "She Bop" (a song about masturbation - using the 'self-service' pumps), I'll Kiss You, and All Through the Night which was intended to be a reggae song but was changed by her producers before it was recorded. When she performed All Through the Night live she performed it in a reggae style as it was intended:

...then, again in 1986 Witness was the B-side to the Change of Heart single from her second album True Colors.

After that she didn't delve much into the ska/reggae sound until 10 years later with her 1996 album Sisters of Avalon when she recorded the song Brimstone and Fire


Then, 10 years after that, she recorded a live version of All Through the Night with Shaggy. (Don't ask my opinion about this version - I will not say good things)

1 Witness
2 All Through the Night (featuring Shaggy)
3 Brimstone and Fire
4 Witness (live at The Summit 1984)

"Witness"





http://www.mediafire.com/?395438mkx1h315h

Plate O' Shrimp - Tribal Surrealism (1987)

These guys were from Boston and you might remember them from their appearances on Ska-Ville USA volumes 2 and 4. (I know the song Mariskando was on a comp too but I forget exactly what one - it's the same version here so, no big deal)

This is their one and only vinyl release and I have included the songs Out of My Mind and In Your Heart from the Skaville comps for your convenience. (Immorality Act was also on Skaville vol.2 but it's the same version here)

1 Mariskando
2 Dream Holiday
3 Nevada
4 Over the Edge
5 Not the First Time
6 Elegant Style
7 Immorality Act
8 (untitled)
* Out of My Mind
* In Your Heart

"Mariskando"


http://www.mediafire.com/?xdrphzxqt4ubtpn