There are ten songs on this CD and eight are covers with only two being original songs by the band but those originals are well worth the price of the CD. "What's Goin' On" is a cover of the Funaddicts song which Tom McKenzie wrote so it is a cover but it isn't. And they do a Puzzles cover which I think they did a great job on.
1 Steps in the Alley
2 Inspector Martens
3 Trouble
4 Breakin' Up
5 What's Goin' On?
6 Hey Yo!
7 Tequila
8 Lorainne
9 Just a Feeling
10 Nite Klub
1 Ska Mitzvah
2 Heat Miser
3 No Coloreds in Funland 'cause Whitey's on the Moonwalk
4 Blue Green Slime
5 Heat Mixer
6 Sea Weed
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Retracide - Watch Your Back (1997)
1 Fake
2 Star 69
3 Two Year Lease
4 Whores Exist
5 Connect the Heads
6 Lost all Doubt
7 Mr. Negative (version 2)
8 No Name
9 Sik Bum Hair
10 Pit in the Ghetto
11 Won't Work
12 Life Sucks
13 Falling Down
14 Raver B. S.
1 Uncommon Sense
2 Giving In
3 Rock Star
4 Rule the World
5 Naive
6 Bloodstains
7 Worm
8 Goodnight
These guys used to promote their band by putting ads in Billboard Magazine. I remember the ads from back in the day.
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1 Blind
2 Burning Sound
3 Keep Your Head Up
4 Something Better Happen
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1 Kaiser Man
2 Shut Up Train (Shut Up)
3 Battery Thinkers
4 Candlelight Dinner
5 Rock Me Baby
1 Flick It
2 Do U Like It?
3 MoonBoot Baby
4 Baby (You Got Me Down)
5 Great Women
6 FireGirl
7 Boom Boom
8 Be Whippy
9 Electricity
10 Goodbye Girl
11 Grindboy
12 Doin' it Again
Brazzaville started out as an alternative rock band called Tongue Gongue who recorded three demo tapes. The first two tapes were alternative music. The third one was ska. Then Tongue Gongue changed their name to Brazzaville and became a full-time ska band.
Tongue Gongue- Tongue (1995 demo tape)
1 Shut Up Train (Shut Up)
2 Great Women
3 Hej (I Love You, Let´s Go Stealin´)
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1 Easy to Please
2 Fashion Police
3 Working Week
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Earlier today I listened to some of these tapes and this one here stood out.
Every song is great. The voice sounds a little familiar but I can't place it exactly. This is 90s style 2-Tone inspired ska with female vocals played very fast. The last song is the A-Team theme song so that should give us a starting point but I have Googled this (or "done my research" as some might say) but I can't find anything about this tape.
There are four tracks of female-fronted ska from either the 80s, 90s, or early 2000s and they could be from any country. All lyrics are in English if that helps
1 - ?
2 - ?
3 - ?
4 - ? (The A-Team Theme Song)
UPDATE - I found an old folder with this tape that I had ripped previously and I have titles. I have searched these online to no avail. Do any of these titles sound familiar? Especially that first one? You would think that title would stand out.
1 Britishlessness
2 Er Uit
3 Mr. P.C.
4 A-Team
I thought her accent sounded Dutch and the title "Er Uit - "Get Out!" "Get outta here with that shit" -or- "Go on with your bad self" is a Dutch expression.
When I first said her voice sounded familiar I was thinking of Rebelation but now I'm reconsidering.
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(Perdue Uni? I think so but I'm not sure.)
1 Rubber
2 Non Sequitor
3 She's Not Happy
4 Black and White
5 Why
6 Smithereen
7 Wake Up!
8 Gimme a Slab
9 Singing in the Night
10 Typical Town
11 It's Over
B - Keep on Walking
* - Opportunities
I posted this single in the early days of Tone and Wave but this is a new rip that sounds way better than the old one and I included another song that wasn't in the old post.
1 Being a Hero
2 Un Camino
3 Sweet Home Reggae
4 Atlantis
5 One Feeling
In the past few weeks this was posted by two different sources.
There is a new YouTube channel called Ska Tapes which has also posted the complete Aquabats - Revenge of the Midget Punchers tape.
And Dennis Castro from the Ska in St. Louis Facebook page has posted a download link including images of the tape and inlay. (Posted January 29th).
1 People are You Ready?
2 Reggae Fire
3 Slow Ragga-Muffin
4 Yuma
5 Por la Raza
6 Mystic Biscuit
7 Fishtank
8 Stuck in a Groove
9 What it Takes
10 Waves
11 Don't Ya Know
12 People are You Ready? (remix)
13 I Feel Like Funkin' it Up
I do not have a copy of this tape so these files have been respectfully stolen from THIS SOUNDCLOUD CHANNEL which posted great sounding versions of all songs on the tape.
I'm posting this for two reasons. First, people are still requesting this from me so I'm guessing it isn't coming up in their Google searches. And second, the track listing on Discogs is incorrect.
Jon Armstrong - the keyboard player for Swim Herschel Swim - does a blog where he posted remastered versions of nine of these ten tracks for free download and the way he numbered the tracks matches the track list on Discogs.
The way they are listed here is how they are listed on the tape.
1 Baby Babaar
2 Clueless
3 Ring O'Fire
4 Fuz
5 Kick Me (No Words)
6 Chickenfingalickin'
7 Mahi Mahi
8 Chevy Bossa Nova
9 R-Bug (Racism Bad, Unity Good)
10 Suzy-Q
1 Someday
2 Super Jock
3 She Sucks
4 Better Days
5 New Girlfriend
6 I'm OK, You're OK
7 I Jave No Friends
8 Bus Trip to L.A.
9 Hide and Go Seek
10 Up All Night
Strangely, they followed it up with an EP of heavy guitars and hip-hop. No ska on their second release. As far as I know the band broke up after that.
Here's their good CD - the ska one, and I have included 2 songs from compilations as well as that "what the hell were they thinking?" second CD.
Free Cheese For All - Cheese 'N' Beat (1992)
1 Free Cheese For All!
2 Wild One
3 My Kampf
4 Car Damage
5 The Ride of the Crazy Mosquito
6 Radio Free Cheese... (End Dance Party Version)
7 ...for All!
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Free Cheese For All - Heavy Roots E.P. (1993)
1 Introducing the Tribal Elemental
2 Burning Inside
3 Free Chiiiizz
4 Free Chiiiizz (Asba Jazz Mix)
5 Burning Inside (Dance Metal Mix)
6 No Name No
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* Blue Beat Confrontation
* Luis Goes to the Guig
...both from the first Skampler compilation
2 The Blinking Underdogs - Salvation
3 Gigalo Big and the Barflies - Dejanos Tocar
4 Cold Snacks - Middle Child
5 Caught Inside - Solstace
6 Skif Dank - Lost and Dumbfounded
7 Blindsyde - Blindsyded
8 Don't Know Jack - $1.45
9 The Hard Richards - She Bought You
10 Bum Ruckus - Dyin' to Know
11 Neptune 66 - Punk Rock Girl
12 New Found Glory - Passing Time
13 The Blinking Underdogs - Blame
14 Gigalo Big and the Barflies - Sun Goddess
15 Cold Snacks - Bunk Summer
16 Caught Inside - John Bobbit
17 Skif Dank - Still Looking Up
18 Blindsyde - What it Takes
19 Don't Know Jack - Grab Me Another Drink
20 The Hard Richards - E.B.S.
21 Bum Ruckus - Shelly Delong
I have never been a fan of white funk or "skronk". I just don't like it. But I have so much of it and I should be posting it because they do play an occasional ska song. Not only that, but I have the music. Why not share it? I know there are people out there that do like things that I don't necessarily like so I post it for them. Especially if it's rare. Sometimes I post things that I think most people agree isn't very good but I post it so people can hear it and maybe keep them from blowing their money on it.
Not only that, but I never post something that is ska-ish as a stand-alone post. I always try to do more than one post so you get the ska you're wanting and you can ignore the other stuff.
This CD is a perfect example. It's very rare. I haven't seen it anywhere online. I am not a fan because there are 6 songs and 5 of them are white-boy-funk. Not my cup of tea. But there is one decent ska song.
Maybe somebody out there will enjoy this. If you only want pure ska then skip this one.
· Any Old Charlie - Oh Charlie (1998)
And I certainly know what a third wave ska-punk record looks like. This looks exactly like a third wave ska-punk record. I pretty much already knew what it would sound like before I played it. Young guys making puerile jokes with songs about school and girls, and their messed up job/car situation; distorted guitars; snotty/bratty vocals singing "pickituppickituppickitup!" with noticeable ripoff riffs and choruses from well known bands at the time.
Look at that cover. Look at the record (white vinyl- they're up to something).
Now, you're getting the same vibe that I was getting, right. Third wave ska-punk?
But I was wrong. We are wrong.
I was expecting something more like Bingo Mut but they sound more like Hepcat. It threw me for a loop.
Two instrumental tracks that I never would have expected from the images I was seeing.
Never judge a book by its movie and never judge a ska band by its record cover.
Actually, no, it's okay to judge a ska record by its cover; they are pretty accurate. Just not this one.
A - Money in the Pocket
B - Captain Jones
KaraMamma - KaraMamma (demo tape -1989)
1 I Vicini di Casa
2 Attaccami L'A.I.D.S.
3 Questione di Look
4 Lo Senti Il Ritmo
5 L'Uomo Animale
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KaraMamma - Panetti Di Burro (1992)
1 Kara Mamma
2Bongo
3 Ti Amo Ti Sbrano
4 Attaccami L'AIDS
5 The Cheese Rap
6 Va Gina
7 Sesso
8 Superman
9 La Setta Nera
10 Vieni Bambino
11 A Parte Il Piccolo Particolare
12 Deodorante
13 Panetti di Burro
14 Bravo MarcoHai Studiato Il Sax
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KaraMamma - Siamo Tanti (1994)
1 Intro
2 La Razza Eletta
3 La Danza Dell'abbondanza
4 Maiali
5 Siamo Tanti
6 Cosa Mi Manca
7 Attaccami L'AIDS
8 In Prigione, In Prigione
9 Il Pogo
10 Skarantella
11 Fidati di Me
12 Muppet Show Theme
13 Sabato Sera
14 Domenica Mattina
15 Son Contento
They have other recordings such as these on YouTube.
They only released one album but there was a demo tape before the album and the quality of that demo was as good as any professional release. There are songs from the album that were on the demo tape but all of them were re-recorded.
Last Man Out- Next Stop......Nowhere (1999)
1 10 Month Mistake
2 Newfound Popularity
3 Banczack's House of Crack
4 Time for a Change
5 Backseat Jo
6 Seven Ten
7 Green Acres
8 Work Sux
9 I'll Get By
10 Boredom
11 Run Away
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1 I'll Get By
2 Slow Down
3 Work Sux
4 Two Tone
5 Boredom
6 Newfound Popularity
