I Jog & the Tracksuits

I Jog & the Tracksuits - Red Box 7" (1978)

A - Red Box
B - Worrying Man

The Tracksuits - Jah, Jah, Jah 7" (1979)

A - Jah, Jah, Jah
B - Tao, Tao, Tao

I Jog & the Tracksuits - Bedroom Tune 7" (1982)

A - Bedroom Tune
B - Optimists Song

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The Snappers - Trick Noise Makers (1995)

Horn-heavy up-tempo female-fronted third wave ska.

1 Too Slick Sawyer
2 The Pervert
3 Rude Girl in Love
4 Cup o' Joe
5 Never Knew His Name
6 Get Away
7 Too Bust Being Cool
8 B Flat
9 Pat and Adam
10 Let's Go
11 Big SKAhuna
12 Weekends
13 Late Night Love

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The Blue Beat - Say Boo! (1995)

1 Like a Virgin
2 Cat Came Back
3 Boys and Girls
4 Blues Beat Shoes
5 The Way She Wears Her Hat
6 Safety Guards
7 I Need You Dirty
8 Cool It Down
9 Hey Girl
10 In the Army
11 Secret Mission

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4th Class 85 - Free the World 7" (1985)

This is one of those expensive records that makes you wonder why you wasted the money. Discogs shows this as having been sold for under $4.00 but that was me. Somebody outside of the world of the internet offered me the record for a certain price but it didn't have the cover. Somebody on Discogs had only the cover so I bought the cover. For under $4.00. Discogs registered it as the record being sold for this price. The person selling the record never went through with the sale and, in the end, I bought it from somebody else. The one I bought had the cover which is just as well because my 2-year-old  had chewed on the cover I had previously bought. Now I have 2 covers - 1 record.

The band was honest enough to admit that the B-side is a cover of the Pioneers classic, but they weren't forthcoming with the A-side. They changed the lyrics but it is noticeably a rip-off of the Dobie Gray song "Drift Away" (I know it wasn't his song originally but his version is the one we all know*).

A - Free the World
B - Let Your Yeah be Yeah

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*For the record I can't understate how much I hate the song "Drift Away". I hate Dobie Gray's version and I hate the original swamp rock version. I hate swamp rock altogether. Now you see why I was disappointed with this record?

Skatologicals - Live in de Bakkerij (1990)

1 Crackin' Up
2 Rastaman Vibration
3 Wrong to be Like You
4 Rude Boy
5 Drunk Again
6 Every Night
7 Grandma
8 Breakin Bread
9 Bridge Vieuw
10 007
11 Run Joe

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88MATE! - Pousse Cafe' (2007)

1 The Underdog
2 Distortion
3 Ever, Ever
4 Suffocation
5 Intro
6 Lopen om te Kopen
7 Ask Yourself
8 Killa Food
9 Dem Make it So
10 Little Girl
11 Moon
12 Brosta
13 Elefteria

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INSYTE - Squat 7" (1990)

INSYTE was a tenuously political band from Australia. I thinks Squat is the B-side. It's an enjoyable song if you're in the mood to be pontificated to.
I included three other songs of theirs from a 1989 compilation tape called "Give them Love" that was posted on the defunct blog Terminal Escape.

A - Groove
B - Squat
*Liberation
*Capitalism in Decay
*Needless Kill

You can listen to "Squat" HERE.

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Verska Vis - complete recordings

The band was from Renne. The line-up was:
Giles 'Skant' Rouxel (saxophone & vocals)
Shoog (vocals)
Marc Chamu (guitar)
Denis Boutrais (guitar)
Fred Menuet (bass)
J.C. Benic (drums)
Xavier Debroise (saxophone)

They preferred playing live to recording in a studio so, sadly, there is not much in the way of recordings made before the band broke up in 1992 due to Skant being killed in a car accident.

Their entire discography that was released prior to the band calling it quits:
Experiment In Terror - from the 1989 compilation Sale Temps Pour Un Snarck (Rennes Via Rennes)
Go Out Anymore - Vive le Ska 1989
Ego Te Batisto (Live) - Stay S.H.A.R.P Vol. 1 1993
Cure De Redeem - from a split 7" with  Martin Dupont & His Gitane Mais 1993
Forget It - from a split 7" with Skaville Train 1991

...and one official live recording that served as their demo tape:

So here I bring to you, a Tone and Wave exclusive, what I believe to be every song this band ever recorded.

from the demo tape
1 Ego te Batisto
2 Millie in the Ska
3 No More Will I Row
4 Go Out Any More
5 Hey Nombril
6 There's a Party
7 On the Desert Road
8 Forget It
9 Cure de Redeem
10 Get Crazy

...everythings else
1 Experiment in Terror
2 Go Out Anymore
3 Ego te Batisto (live)
4 Cure de Redeem
5 Forget It
6 In Memory of Skant
7 Get Crazy
8 Do the Dog
9 Qu'es ce qui ne Tourne Pas Rond Chez Moi
10 Time Hard
11 Give Her
12 Message to You Rudy

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Bad Habbit - Goodbye Bob 7" (1984)

A - Goodbye Bob
B - Seven Eleven

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The Tonics - Major Problem (1995)

Demo cassette from this British band. I don't know what happened to them but they could have been huge. They had a couple more songs on compilations that I am in the process of obtaining and you can rest assured that I will post them when I get them. Actually, I'll post the whole compilation but I'll remind you of these guys when I do.

The band:
Daz Jackson - vocals
Jason Bagshaw - rhythm guitar and vocals
Wiff Smith - lead guitar
Adi Bates - bass
Gaz Bliss - keyboards
Waine Timms - trumpet and vocals
Stevie B - sax and percussion
Andy Garner - drums
Andy Greenway - mixing desk

Listen to "Major Problem"

First, I'd like to thank Rude Rich who informed me of them because I never heard of them myself.

Second, I tried and tried to get a better version of this recording with different tape players with all different settings, but this is the best I can do. It was mixed with low bass.

1 Major Problem
2 Special Brew
3 Tonic Shuffle
4 The Snake

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Revolutionaries - Cinderella 7" (1983)

A - Cinderella
B - Walking on Ice

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U.S. College Boys Allstars - Legend of the Monsterbeat (1997)

These guys had several releases HERE, but this is their first, their demo tape.

1 Anima
2 Big Boys
3 Let's Go
4 Nazi Scum
4 Rudeboy Blabber

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Big Beat - Boring Monday 7" (1981)

On Monday January 29th, 1979 a 16 year old girl named Brenda Spencer who lived across the street from an elementary school took out her Ruger semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle that her father bought her for Christmas and started shooting at kindergarteners when the principal opened the gates in the morning to let the kids in. Eight children were shot, the principal and a custodian were killed and a police officer who responded to the shooting was shot in the neck.
When asked why she did it Brenda responded "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day."

Bob Geldof was inspired by this line to write the Boomtown Rats song "I Don't Like Mondays" and it was scratched into a wall in the movie "The Breakfast Club".

This was an unknown California ska band who was also inspired to write a song about it. I know nothing else about this band but it took me well over a decade to find a copy of this one. My copy doesn't have the cover but I was able to find a small image of the picture sleeve.

If anybody knows anything else about this band, please let me know.

A - Boring Monday
B - Boring Dub

Listen to "Boring Monday"

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Loaded - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1995)

This is Loaded's first release. It was cassette-only and possibly their demo tape. All five songs on this tape appear on their first album "Turn Your Head and Cough". Same exact versions.

1 Team BBQ
2 Fast Train
3 Love Affair with Everyday Livin'
4 Gator Bait
5 Beer Ballad

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Burpas - Fat Man 7" (1981) [re-ripped]

This was posted previously but it skipped in a few places. This is a new better rip.

A - Fat Man
B - Dummies

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Buford O'Sullivan - demo tape (1995)

1 How Right I Was
2 I Can't Decide (live)
3 Waiting at the Bus Stop

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va The Shack (1994)

1 Nutty Boys - People
2 Hepcat - Dance Wid' Me
3 See No Evil - Ghetto Charged
4 Laurel Aitken - Rude Boy Dream
5 The Toasters - Social Security
6 Lynval Golding & Neville Staples (featuring Finny) - Wear You to the Ball
7 Bakesys - Animated Violence
8 Bim Skala Bim - Wandering Soul
9 Loonie Tunes - I Don't Think So
10 Maroon Town - Nostalgia
11 Lynval Golding & Neville Staples - Why?
12 Bim Skala Bim - Golden Arm
13 The Club - But Not You
14 Special Beat - Hypocrite
15 The Hotknives - Dave and Mary
16 Maroon Town - Pound to the Dollar
17 International Beat - Magical Feeling
18 Ruder Than You - Get Some Peace
19 Nutty Boys - Magic Carpet
20 Messer Banzani - Peace is Wonder
21 Neville Staples - Rude Boy de Ponporbation (007)

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Brand New World - Six Feet Under 7" (1983)

Discogs has this listed as a UK release but I could have sworn it was one of those great forgotten California ska records. (Not to be confused with the California ska/reggae band from the eighties Brave New World.) I don't actually know. Neither does anybody else, it seems. Great record though.

A - Six Feet Under
B - Monster Love

 Listen to "Six Feet Under"

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Bananafish - The Mad EP (cassette 1995)

1 Mad
2 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
3 World Concern
4 Uniform Blue
5 Mad (dub)

Listen to "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

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Ma'SKA - Bare Farvel 7" (1984)

Two Tone sounds from Denmark. I'm guessing this is the only thing they released. I'm also guessing that "bare farvel" means 'simply goodbye'.

Listen to "Bare Farvel"

A - Bare Farvel
B - Strandet

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