va Lil' Punx Presents - Punk vs. Ska (1999)

 

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The band Dimples Malone was new to me so I looked them up and found that they released a couple of CDRs and then put out a CD with all of those recordings. You can hear all of their recordings HERE.

The Worms / Blinking Underdogs

 I think it's well known by now that Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron from the Star Wars Movies) was in a few ska/punk bands in the late 90s/early 2000s. 

Some of these are my own rips and scans but some were found online.

I think that, by now, everything in this post can already be found somewhere else online. I should have made this post years ago but for the few of you who don't have these recordings already - here they are in a single download.

 The most well known and well discussed band was The Worms. They only had one legitimate release but before that they put out a demo tape called "Live Bait" that I don't think was actually live.

  The Worms - Live Bait (1996)

1 Problems

2 Spit

3 Wanna Be

4 Lynn

5 Mr. Giant

6 The Girl I Love

 The Worms - Fish Fry (1997)

1 My Unity

2 Freight Train

3 Remember Me

4 Love Me on Your Way Out the Door

5 No Way Out

6 In My Head

7 Everybody Dance

8 I'm a Creep

9 I Am Not OK

10 Virus

11 War

12 The Girl I Love

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After The Worms Oscar Hernandez (Oscar Isaac) moved on to start his own band The Blinking Underdogs. They were more punk than ska but the ska sound and the horns were ever present.

They released 2 CDs but before they put those CDs out they had 2 demo tapes. The first one "Timestamps" from 1999 was included in its entirety on their CD  "Last Words". The exact same recordings. But their second demo tape was not on any of their other recordings. 

The Blinking Underdogs - One Day demo tape (2000)

1 I Can't Go On, I Go On

2 One Day

3 Take Everything

4 Through My Window

5 Take it Back

6 Rise Up

 The Blinking Underdogs - Last Words (2001)

1 Days Gone By

2 Salvation

3 Jimmy Jolopo

4 Away

5 Acceptance

6 Trailer Park

7 Lost Words

8 Once

9 Blue Alisha

10 Blame

11 Misery

12 Untitled

 The Blinking Underdogs - Champagne Anarchy (2001)

1 Against the Sun

2 Desolation Road

3 Scatter

4 I Can't Go On, I Go On

5 Somewhere in Between

6 Subsonic Love Child

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25 Liars - Blind 7" (1997)

 Punk-ska from New Jersey.

1 Blind

2 Burning Sound

3 Keep Your Head Up

4 Something Better Happen

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3 Ball Combo [New Mexico]

 This was a ska-punk band from New Mexico. I know the CD is available on Soundcloud and I'll admit that I respectfully stole the tape from Punk Guy's YouTube post but the CD is my own rip and the scans are my own. 

3 Ball Combo - Skabrones Locos (1997)

1 Panzon Fire

2 Cold Slitha

3 Seco Boy Skank

4 Why

5 Punk Song

6 Chump Change

7 Glasses

8 Pedo Boy Bus

9 El Molacho Crunch

10 Porn Star Holiday

11 Priorities

12 Mentiras

13 Frustrations

 3 Ball Combo - Porn Star Holiday (1996 demo tape)

1 Seco Boy Skank

2 Pornstar Holiday

3 Pedo Boy Bus

4 Glasses

5 Runnin'-N-Jumpin'

6 Mentiras

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Screwtape - Through the Roof (1998)

 Real ska-punk - not pop-punk - from this band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 

1 Dropout

2 Supermodel

3 Shut Up

4 Narcoleptic

5 Vogue

6 Annie

7 Lizzy

 

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Policy - Dead Kids Can't Skank 7" (1997)

 Teenage punk with interspersed fast ska rhythms. 

A - 2 Weeks

B - John Zorn Looks Good in Jeans

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The Incognitos - Hold On Amigos (1997)

 Rare third-wave ska punk from Glastonbury Connecticut. 

1 No Excuses

2 Toys 'r' Us Kids (Jeff's Cowbell Song)

3 Sweet Sands

4 Just One Shot

5 Two Tone

6 Swing With Me

7 700 Miles Away

8 Waldo

9 Familiar

10 My Town

11 Essentials

12 Had My Fill

13 Wednesday Morning

14 17 (Live @ Pearl St.)

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Scatterbrains [Switzerland]

 Scatterbrains was a punk-with-horns band from Switzerland who played a couple of ska songs. Not really ska, but fans of third wave ska punk will appreciate it. They also have an EP from 2000 called "Do Best" which I don't have. 

Scatterbrains - Sunnyside Up EP (2002)

1 Donut

2 Visions of Summer

3 Movie Addicted

4 Afterglow

5 Should I Grab? 

6 That's How I Feel

 

 Scatterbrains - Facts and Fairytales (2005)

1 Intro

2 Football

3 Say Goodbye

4 Am I Ever,,,?

5 Wanna be Free

6 Big Black '79

7 Catch the Moon

8 El Questo Esta Abuso y Podrido I Donde Estan los Servicios?

9 The Great Man

10 Mom vs Porn

11 T-Bone Steak

12 She Breaks My Heart

13 Like a King

14 Next One  

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Cheap Suits - Lookin' for a Deal (2000)

This is the CD that I was lamenting in THIS POST. I believed it had been stolen by mail thieves. It's not too far fetched to think that. We do have some bold daytime mail thieves in my neighborhood. I bought my kids some Paw Patrol masks and they were stolen right out of the mail box. Imagine if they had been caught in the act in that moment. Risking federal detention for some cheap little Paw Patrol masks. 

But as it turns out I was cleaning off my desk and I found a padded envelope under some of my work papers. It was sealed and this CD was inside. Neither myself, my wife, nor my kids remember putting it there.

This could be one of those manifestation /Law of Attraction things. I don't usually believe in that sort of thing but a few months ago I did the Neville Goddard Ladder Experiment and what actually happened blew me away. 

 I have an open mind. You'll need an open mind to enjoy this CD. It's mostly punk but there are a few ska moments. It's not bad but their later releases were a lot better. 

1 We Aim High

2 #1 Fan

3 Lay it on the Line

4 No Ami

5 Perfect Girl

6 In Love with the Lead Singer

7 Julia

 

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Jerry Lives Twice - Living it Up (1999)

 Rare California third-wave ska punk.

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

 

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Free Cheese For All

 Free Cheese For All was a band from Germany that put out a fun ska/punk EP in 1992. 

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

 

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Monocromo - Monocromo (1999)

 Italian 3rd wave ska-punk. Most songs are sung in Italian. Very rare. 

1 I Love You

2 Stelle Musicali

3 Ska in Your Mind

4 Non Mitrà

5 Balla Ciao

6 Sogni

7 Torero Olè

8 Come Noi

9 Punk'm People

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Cheap Suits

 Third wave Canadian ska-punk. They were obviously inspired by many of the third wave bands especially Less Than Jake. Just listen to those lyrics on the song Gainesville.

I found a copy of this band's demo CD on Discogs and I bought it for $50. I was hoping to have it before I did this post but it has been lost in the mail. I hope whoever stole it enjoys it but I doubt it. They probably listened to it once and said "what is this crap?!" and threw it away. A piece of ska-punk history gone forever.

 

Cheap Suits  - Canadian Idles (2003)

1 We Aim High

2 It's Time

3 Ska Saves

4 Fatty's Lament

5 Lead Singer

6 Moving Day

7 Burning Bridges

8 Another Song About Girls

9 Julia

10 Did You Know?

11 Song About Us

12 Just What the World Needs

13 R.G.S.

14 Maybe Tonight

15 My Ever Lasting

16 Conversation

 

 

Cheap Suits - One Giant Leap (2005)

1 One Small Step

2 Judge & Jury

3 Perfect Girl

4 Gainesville

5 Every Night

6 Sing the Blues

7 Ska Saves

8 Two Tone Town

9 Lay it on the Line

10 Break You Down

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69 Fingers - Narcoleptic Sleepover (2002)

 Great 3rd wave ska-punk. 

1 4-Sale

2 Hate Yourself

3 Pick it Up

4 She Said

5 Girl in the Middle

6 Movie Star

7 Anti-School

8 I'd be Blind

9 Gimpless

10 April 14th

11 Last Mistake

12 Ugly Tree

13 In One Ear

14 April 14th (instrumental)

15 Bowlies

16 Breakfast Bar

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va The Best Fucking Ska In The World

The Best Fucking Ska in the World Vol. 1 (2003)

 

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The Best Fucking Ska in the World Vol. 2 (2004)

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The Best Fucking Ska in the World Vol. 3 (2006)

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va Compunktion (2001) -and- Compunktion 2 (2003)

 va CompunktionVolume 1 (2001)

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Garden Weasels

 

This is a punk band from Colorado who plays more ska than most punk bands from this era.

Their Discogs page shows another album but,trust me, that is not the same band. 

The Garden Weasels - Hey, Sue Us (1994)

1 Dance

2 I'll Try to be so Good... (The Pop Song)

3 Your Green Thumb

4 I'm so Bored

5 Uncoil Your Hose

6 Spade Me Baby

7 It Means Nothing 

8 Lay My Hoe Down

9 Weasels

10 Ground Hogs

11 Falling Down

12 Cool Love

13 Inside My Fence

 

 The Garden Weasels - Lawn Job (1997)

1 Buster...The Killer Clown

2 Rock Star City

3 Heart Like a Chainsaw

4 Mrs. Rhododendron

5 Weasels in My Pants

6 Innocent Man

7 Inclement Weather

8 Drought

9 Chasing You

10 Vertigo

11 Girl

12 Vacancy

13 Buster...The Euro Mix

(Tracks 14 through 24 alternate between blank tracks and short answering machine messages)

25 Santa Likes to Garden

 

 The Garden Weasels - Filler (1998)

1 I Don't Wanna Know

2 Speak to Me

3 Whatever You Say

4 Wrecked

5 Green with Envy

6 Killer '96

7 Bang

8 Skankin' Santa

9 (blank track)

10 (blank track)

11 I Don't Wanna Know - Know Mix

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Skalawags - By Accident (1995)

 1 Springwood

2 Slurpees & Cigarettes

3 Skank City

4 George McFly

5 Lesbian Love Triangle

6 Hall Monitors

7 Raver Girl

8 We're Not Gonna Take It

9 Aryans on Parade

10 Squeal Like a Pig

11 The Unconcerned Polka

12 Sinuses

13 Beautiful People

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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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Chowder Boy - The Soup is Off (2003)

 This is probably the worst cover I have ever seen for a ska album. This band is from the UK and they are heavily inspired by Sam Raimi films - Evil Dead in particular - but rest assured that this is a ska album. This isn't even "horror-ska" it's more along the lines of Less Than Jake. There are 8 tracks on this CD and 6 of them are ska-punk. None are punk/heavy metal. The cover is very misleading.

I think they were a great band but I think they screwed themselves with this CD cover. Ska fans would not have bought this if they saw this CD in a local record shop and any heavy metal fans who did buy this CD based on the cover would have been severely disappointed to hear ska music. 

1 Lesta Specs

2 Rock Mullet

3 Mike Kell's Sideburns

4 Bruce Campbell Sez

5 Kiss My Face

6 Kylie on Ice

7 Perfect to Begin

8 Uglee

9 (hidden track that plays after track 8) Chowder Boy

toneandwave · Lesta Specs

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