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I offer a silver lining to the Tomas Kalnoky Hope Massacre of 2012: He promises (merely says the words) a gift so let's just lie to ourselves and pretend it's gonna be a B.O.T.A.R. EP.
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http://vimeo.com/52062742 Video for the song "Amen" off Jeff's new album. I love this dang album.
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Oct 31, 2012 15:24
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mogran posted:I offer a silver lining to the Tomas Kalnoky Hope Massacre of 2012: He promises (merely says the words) a gift so let's just lie to ourselves and pretend it's gonna be a B.O.T.A.R. EP. Dear Sergio: The Album
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Oct 31, 2012 17:31
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I'd happily accept It's A Wonderful Life: The Album.
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Oct 31, 2012 19:09
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New Madness album is pretty good.
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Nov 1, 2012 09:06
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drat. I'm gonna have to grab that. I picked up The Liberty of Norton Folgate on a whim about a month ago and loved it. I was a Madness styled Rude Boy for Halloween. Nobody got it  .
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Nov 1, 2012 09:46
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Psalmanazar posted:New Madness album is pretty good. Wait what? I had no idea Madness still existed.
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Nov 1, 2012 12:55
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Yeah, Madness reformed in 1992. They even performed in the closing ceremony at the Olympics this year. I don't know how much this applies to all their new stuff, but their 2009 album, the Liberty of Norton Folgate, has a pretty different style One Step Beyond or any of the early releases. I still really like what they're doing though. Here, have a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LRWq5kXmV4&feature=related Still silly as ever. Edit: probably going to see Toots and the Maytals on Monday. Hobbit fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Nov 1, 2012 |
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Nov 1, 2012 19:07
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Ugh. I have a bunch of cds I just found that are super scratched but there's some classics and awesome old bands but I can't find them anywhere on the internet. In the stack besides all the big bands I found The Taxis Mephiskapheles Interrobang!? New York Ska Jazz Ensemble Skanic The Allstonians Skastori (Italy) Yum Yum! Orange (Japan) Kemuri (Japan) Dallax (Japan) Ska-P (Spain?) none of them really play in the cd players I tried. Check out some of these bands though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u4ZO4ItUgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=271tFgD0LcY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IilBqyOnJ0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQDrXoQFSho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEXmPAnkKXw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4dsKYPe2Qg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vSeHQV8brA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_6w1egapE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2uVcKZB3RM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Mo4QSedFo bands all own. I just wish I had working cd's!
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Nov 1, 2012 19:31
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NYSJE is still kicking, they put out an album called "Double Edge" last year although it wasn't my favorite (I prefer some of the material on Step Forward to be honest).
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Nov 1, 2012 19:44
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Interrobang is awesome and I wish I had more than like 3 of their songs
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Nov 1, 2012 21:53
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Ska-P loving owns!
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Nov 1, 2012 22:02
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God Bess Satan is my favorite Mephiskapheles album. It's so loving good.
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Nov 1, 2012 23:24
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Ah yeah, Mephiskapheles, I just love listening to Bumblebee Tuna over and over. Yum Yum! Orange is pretty rad too. I just started listening to them more lately in my attempt to listen to more Japanese ska.
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Nov 2, 2012 00:12
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Japanese ska is loving awesome. It feels to me like 3rd wave never died there
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Grandmaster.flv posted:Japanese ska is loving awesome. It feels to me like 3rd wave never died there Japanese people make any type of music/scene amazing. See also X Japan, Japanese rockabilly gangs, etc. If we're repping j-ska bands, gotta mention Oreskaband (lit. "We are a ska band"). Decent all-girl squeeky ska.
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I saw them on Warped a few years ago. They were awesome. I'm also super into the rockabilly gangs (bousouzoko) but I don't know a lot about j-rockabilly.
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I used to be really, really heavy into Japanese ska and here's some I don't see mentioned a lot. Gelugugu: Named after a Gundam mecha (Geloog). Seriously. More times than not they're taking cues directly from Voodoo Glow Skulls playbook, but this is one of their songs that's a bit more pop-oriented. I always dug their ridiculous engrish and how the vocalist sounds like he plows through cartons of cigarettes every day. I think they're still around in some form. Link: Beileve - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbISIZVmphE ARTS: A two-tone oriented ska group. Reminds me a bit of Tokyo Ska Para before their leader/hype-man was injured in a car crash back in the late 90's and forced to sit on a stool at shows and occasionally play alto sax, strum a guitar or bark into the mic. They're still around, apparently. Link: Honey Dance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0jLztz5qPk SKA SKA CLUB: This was essentially Japan's Streetlight Manifesto. I followed them closely and felt that they were so close to re-energizing ska in the mainstream what with old guards like Potshot and Kemuri on their way out, but ultimately the size of their band (12 members!!) and the day jobs of each individual member kept them from touring heavily behind their first (and only) album and they went on a permanent hiatus. Eventually Grover Yoshikazu, the Bradley Nowell-sounding, half-Japanese vocalist went on to form an okay-sounding band called Jackson Vibe that had nothing to do with ska. A sad story but hey, at least they didn't get the chance to end up like Reel Big Fish. Link: Heart Break Cafe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goUjF1oHLWY Young Punch: Cool ska punk band without horns. Moved further and further away from ska punk as time went on in a fashion similar to Rx Bandits, ending up with an interesting fusion between live instrumentation and pre-programmed electronica click tracks before disbanding in 2002. Their original guitarist Chin Nakamura left before their second album and later ended up in punk band Ging Nang Boyz, whose songs have been covered by Jeff Rosenstock of Bomb The Music Industry and Asian Man Records band "Shinobu". Link: Nothing Goes Right - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thb-lr8vEL0 Duck Missile: Kind of a cross between Op Ivy and Assorted Jelly Beans. Came around in the mid to late 90's, disbanded before the aughts and recently reformed in '09 to do a couple reunion shows. Nothing mind-blowing and they didn't even make a huge impact on their native scene but I always dug their energy and the bassist's lines. Link: Couple songs from Ska of it All '98 VHS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVdZEpFun0 no dad im not gay! fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Nov 2, 2012 |
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RBF just posted this on Facebook. Unsure if any of you are interested in this. I'd probably go if I lived anywhere near CA. "CASTING CALL! We are casting ska dancers and extras for a REEL BIG FISH music video shooting on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, near Riverside, CA. If you like the band and you like skanking, come out and join us! We want people who are willing to dance and take part for at least five hours, but filming could go longer so you must be willing to stay for the entire shoot. You MUST be 18 or older to participate. Everyone's ID will be checked at the door so please remember to bring yours! There is no pay, but we will provide you with snacks, water and of course, great music. Come meet the band and hang out. Once we get your information and finalize our cast, we will send you more details about the shoot. Please do not show up if are not invited - anyone who does will be removed from the premises. Please send your name, phone number and a photo (in ska clothes if possible Recommended: black-and-white checkers, neon colors, Hawaiian shirts. Accessories are highly encouraged! Fedoras, porkpie hats, sunglasses) to: rbfvideo@yahoo.com. We hope to see you there!"
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Now that I've had a chance to go back through the Best of Us For the Rest of Us super deluxe mega ultra version.... some of the skacoustic versions aren't bad after all. Actually I think I like the acoustic versions of '241' and 'Good Thing' more than the originals. A lot of those re-recordings though are really sloppy as poo poo and not great to listen to.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Now that I've had a chance to go back through the Best of Us For the Rest of Us super deluxe mega ultra version.... some of the skacoustic versions aren't bad after all. Pretty much anything off Cheer Up sounds better when you're not listening to the horrendously over-produced Cheer Up version.
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Yeah but I also hate the over-distorted horn sound that RBF likes so much so I will always find Why Do They Rock So Hard to be the best album, mix-wise. I know it's a tower of power thing but not having reverb on the horns really grinds my ears. WDTRSH, Cheer Up, and We're Not Happy all put reverb on em and it sounds way better to me than Monkey For Nothing, Candy Coated Fury, or Turn the Radio Off. Best of Us keeps the reverb off too and way overdrives them so. Not a huge fan. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Nov 2, 2012 |
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Can we be bros because seriously. I was heavy into J-ska and nobody in the ska community here ever knows about all these goddamn amazing bands.
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You guys can be the J-Ska clique, and I'm the only person that listens to traditional/revival ska cause all yall think its boring or somethin :I I listen to most music through Spotify nowadays, and Spotify ain't got poo poo in the way of japanese ska but thats because region locking in music is dumb as poo poo in general. OreSkaBand is one of the few bands available. Yum!Yum!Orange only has one song on there. Skapara is missing. Pistol Valve is missing. Kemuri is missing. The only band I've discovered on Spotify is Dad Mom God, which is basically the frontman of Tokyo Ska Paradise starting his own side band, which is literally just Tokyo Ska Paradise again, and they even cover Lupin III and All or Nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-qRsNAkGNs The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Nov 3, 2012 |
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I'm into roots stuff as well especially dub, but my main thing is anything where the horns are going completely loving insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf4RWdS_Itc
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Grandmaster.flv posted:I'm into roots stuff as well especially dub, but my main thing is anything where the horns are going completely loving insane. Look at the size of the crowd in that video
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That's the thing. In the Ska-P video I posted as well there's like a good arena-sized crowd. I don't think I've ever seen a ska band in a non-Warped Tour context with that many goddamn people. Well. Maybe the Bosstones at the Hometown Throwdown but even still, some of the videos I've seen of TSPO have them playing to Madison Square Garden sized crowds.
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I think TSPO gets that kind of crowd because they're just considered pop in Japan. They've performed (and recorded) with Puffy AmiYumi and other headline acts. I hope that One Piece/Toriko movie gets localized in America someday, because it means we'd actually get a Tokyo Ska album released in the US, since they did the soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6cluqutgDs
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All those J-ska bands, that makes me so happy. All I had before was Orekaband, Yum Yum! Orange, and TSPO. Everything I saw in the Gelugugu videos is basically a combination of all the ridiculous things I love about third wave ska. Spotify also doesn't have poo poo on Russian ska apparently. That or it doesn't think Russkaja is a ska band, not sure which one.
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aricoarena posted:Ska-P loving owns! You're not wrong. One of them had a spin-off band called The Locos, who weren't nearly as good, but had a couple of catchy songs. Ska-P's back catalog on the other hand is just a treasure trove of awesomeness. On the J-Ska side I was way into Potshot for a long time, to the extent of ordering 'Til I Die at ridiculous import prices while having no money, but I'm also going to check out some of the bands from a bit earlier in the thread.
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Quest For Glory II posted:You guys can be the J-Ska clique, and I'm the only person that listens to traditional/revival ska cause all yall think its boring or somethin :I Sounds like you may dig The Miceteeth. Nemo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvJYbDqZ3Sc Sleep on Steps - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fauTFc5TK5A Or perhaps FISHMANS, the former band of current Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra drummer Kinichi Motegi. Not quite ska but with having a sound most akin to rocksteady, in the same ballpark. Baby Blue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnYTo6OYNn0 More of a madchester-esque britpop/dub number but this is another cool FISHMANS tune. Weather Report - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVA7_gxXegA Like most Japanese ska bands FISHMANS became more progressive as they went on. They're still hugely influential in Japan today for this more experimental work and perhaps because the singer shot himself, or od'ed. I honestly forget which. He's dead though and the Japanese people seriously revere those who have died. Grandmaster.flv posted:Can we be bros because seriously. I was heavy into J-ska and nobody in the ska community here ever knows about all these goddamn amazing bands. If you know about most of the bands I listed it's possible we may have been bros on Soulseek at one point.  nach0king posted:On the J-Ska side I was way into Potshot for a long time, to the extent of ordering 'Til I Die at ridiculous import prices while having no money, but I'm also going to check out some of the bands from a bit earlier in the thread. Haha that's nothing, I'd pester Mike Park online and ask what it was like touring with them, recording their first album, rhanging out with them in Japan, etc etc. I'd ask about Skankin Pickle and Gerry of MU330 too though so I'd like to think it's all good by him. no dad im not gay! fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Nov 3, 2012 |
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Quest For Glory II posted:You guys can be the J-Ska clique, and I'm the only person that listens to traditional/revival ska cause all yall think its boring or somethin :I No! You're not alone with the traditional ska love. I'm kind of sad that more people aren't talking about first and second gen ska in here, but not really surprised. Honestly, I'm way more excited for the new Madness album than the new Streetlight record. Quest, which are your favorite traditional ska bands? Mostly I just have compilation CD's I pick up here and there, so I don't have too much by any single band.
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no dad im not gay! posted:Haha that's nothing, I'd pester Mike Park online and ask what it was like touring with them, recording their first album, rhanging out with them in Japan, etc etc. I'd ask about Skankin Pickle and Gerry of MU330 too though so I'd like to think it's all good by him. Rather you than me. I find Mike Park terrifying.
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Hobbit posted:Quest, which are your favorite traditional ska bands? Mostly I just have compilation CD's I pick up here and there, so I don't have too much by any single band. Royal City Riot The Beatdown Hepcat See Spot Mr. T-Bone Chris Murray Combo The Aggrolites Prince Perry The Pinstripes The Caroloregians Mostly modern bands, because I use Spotify and that's generally what they carry. Although they also have a decent selection of Skatalites, Dekker, and Toots & The Maytals too. I've found it to be perfect work music. No other genre/wave will suffice. The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Nov 3, 2012 |
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STraight up the coolest part of the ASoB reunion show was the Mu330 "reunion" that was really just the guys from ASoB playing the horn parts of Mu330 songs with Dan. That owned.
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Royal City Riot is a Very Good BandDickeye posted:STraight up the coolest part of the ASoB reunion show was the Mu330 "reunion" that was really just the guys from ASoB playing the horn parts of Mu330 songs with Dan. That owned. Indeed it did. WATU just put their new album up on soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/paperandplastick/sets/we-are-the-union-you-cant-hide
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Obama Yo Mama posted:WATU just put their new album up on soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/paperandplastick/sets/we-are-the-union-you-cant-hide Oh WATU why do you have to have that generic faux-hardcore sound now? Your first album was so good and everything since has been a disappointment. Straight up, This Is My Life is one of my favorite ska-punk songs ever, and Your Allowance Exceeds My Rent and I Am Like John Cusack are right behind it.
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I didn't hate the last one but I totally agree, and by the sound of it, I'm not going to have much hope for this one to reclaim the magic
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The Aggrolites got me into revivalist ska. I had never heard of them until I saw them open for the Dropkick Murphys a million years in the past. During their Aggrolites' set, in the mother of all "hardcore guy doesn't get it" moments, I had my left knee dislocated and my leg below the knee hyper extended. I spent the rest of the show at the back of the crowd on a stool with an ice pack on my leg. Kind of sucked since the Dropkick's were my favorite band at the time. Apparently word traveled fast around that small venue though, because before the Dropkicks went on stage I got a personal visit from Ken Casey to make sure I was alright.
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Dickeye posted:Oh WATU why do you have to have that generic faux-hardcore sound now? Your first album was so good and everything since has been a disappointment. I read some of the poo poo the song writer posted online around the time they released Who We Are, the impression I got was that everyone considered them an ASOB ripoff band because of Grow Up or Shut Up and he was pretty ashamed/embarassed about it.
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