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MondayHotDog posted:You guys failed to notify me about the new IV4K album. For shame, ska thread. This time it's you doing the notifying though! (Thanks for the heads up.)
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, they just took it off their Bandcamp.
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Fateo McMurray posted:Adults should be everyone's favorite because it's the only one that's good I am not real into most Jeff stuff so I am going to check out Adults in the hopes that our taste might be similar.
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I don't think I own anything that can play cassettes anymore.
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I always felt Bim Skala Bim was a group of very technically talented musicians who weren't making any interesting music.
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Luigi Thirty posted:I think noted bad record label Victory Records only has American distribution rights for some bands - others are still on there in Europe. Getting a record deal is really, really hard.
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Good timing for a Streetlight Manifesto discussion. Dyingscene.com is reporting that Victory is suing them for ONE MEELLION DOLLARS. Or, more specifically, they're suing Tomas. Victory is alleging that the band has not fulfilled their contract to release four studio albums. They reach this conclusion by excluding from consideration Keasbey Nights (because it's a rerecording of the Catch-22 original) and 99 Songs of Revolution (because it's a cover album). No idea what the specifics of the contract are. Obviously "Dyingscene.com" isn't exactly the Wall Street Journal.
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rear end Catchcum posted:Jeff is hands down more talented then Elvis Costello If you are deliberately trolling me, it's working. Elvis Costello rules but if you can't get past the voice you'll never like him. He writes a hell of a catchy hook. Give any of his first three albums a listen -- they're My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, and Armed Forces -- and if you don't like it you can ignore the rest of his output. For that matter, you can probably just listen to the first track on My Aim Is True and judge based on that. ("Tramp The Dirt Down" is on Spike, much later. That's the Thatcher death song.)
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A lot (possibly all?) of both Streetlight and Catch 22 albums are on sale for $5 a pop at Amazon MP3 if anyone is interested.
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There are some BTMI/Jeff songs I like but they're the exception not the rule. I find his writing mostly depressing, even on songs I like like "25!," and he is not a good singer. I am sorry if this says something terrible about me but well there it is.
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Wheat Loaf posted:What, if anything, distinguishes "ska punk" from "third wave ska"? Are they the same thing or are they different subgenres? "Third-wave" is, in theory, a descriptor of timing, as opposed to ska-punk, which describes a sound. It's the "third wave of ska," as in the third major period of its popularity (after traditional/trad and two-tone). In practice, there's a lot of overlap between "third-wave" and "ska-punk," but not all third-wave ska is ska-punk.
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Apparently Sonic Boom Six have a new album out, The F-Bomb: https://smile.amazon.com/F-Bomb-Son...ums-bar-strip-0 It's a double album with a second half that's all live, which I wish weren't there because I don't care about it and it raises the price, but hey. A version without the second half doesn't seem to exist. It looks like they also released a self-titled album in 2012, but as far as I can tell that got no US release, including Amazon MP3 and iTunes.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Can anyone recommend any bands that use the baritone saxophone? I know the Scofflaws and think they're great; I know Streetlight Manifesto do as well but I've nevertheless been able to get into them. Does it have to be a ska band? Morphine was an amazing band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqpcrpC3P28
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You are correct. Tour, on which they will play the entirety of Somewhere In The Between each night (plus some other stuff). I was... kind of expecting something more out of the ordinary? Not entirely sure why they are doing it with the album that came out in 2007, either, but hey, I like that album.
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Has there been anything out in, like, the last year besides Jeff projects?
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CodfishCartographer posted:Time to stop talking about not liking Jeff because new Jeff song This is one of the less bad Jeff songs, but I would still rather listen to non-Jeff songs.
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I don't know how this escaped notice but Less Than Jake released a new EP in February: https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Alarm-Less-Than-Jake/dp/B01NCSR0BI/ref=ntt_mus_dp_dpt_1
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I learned this from the Bosstones twitter feed, but their album is not the only new ska album of the year or even this month. Mad Caddies have a new album that came out the same day, Punk Rocksteady, and there's an album from the Interrupters, Fight the Good Fight, due out the 29th.
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I don't know why I didn't know about the Interrupters before this new album but it's really good.
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Yeah Interrupters' Fight The Good Fight is my pick for best ska record of the year. I love the Bosstones but the new album just isn't sustaining my interest. The Mad Caddies album has some great stuff on it, IMO, but not a start-to-finish winner, and does a cover album even count? They did make a Propagandhi song listenable, which is impressive.
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For me it's Hello Rockview. I get that the scene tends to like less polished recordings, and there is some really great stuff on Losing Streak and I love it too, but Hello Rockview is great almost from start to finish. I could do without Motto and Richard Allen George... but I like every other track on that album. About half of Losing Streak is great, but I'm not into the other half. I've had Borders and Boundaries for years, but I don't actually know it that well. I could only identify about 3 songs on it if pushed.
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Teemu Pokemon posted:Today is the 20th anniversary of Why Do They Rock So Hard, which is making me realize that it's about the be the 20th anniversary of pretty much every ska album that I love and I'm old and then I realized that the 20th anniversary of most of them actually passed over the last 18 months I really think Why Do They Rock So Hard? might be my favorite ska album overall. Almost nonstop winners, so many good tracks on that album.
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Dang I didn't even know this was out, thanks! EDIT: Weirdly, Amazon MP3 lists the release date as yesterday, but still has it in "preorder" status and the pricing is screwy. Preorder price: $11.49. "Today you will pay: $18.04 for all available songs. The remaining balance of $11.49 will be charged as music from this album becomes available." Yeah... I'm still buying ska records in 2018, but I'm gonna wait til this gets sorted out.
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I'm just starting to give it a listen, but Buck-O-Nine has a new album out: https://www.amazon.com/FunDayMental-Explicit-Buck-Nine/dp/B07PKRZW24/ref=sr_1_2
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The Interrupters are great and I'm glad they're getting name-checked.
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Nothing much is coming out, so I'm going to highlight a little-known album I really enjoy by a band no one knows about. That album is Fire Pit by Spider Nick and the Maddogs. They are a ska band, mostly, from Long Island, but they play a lot of covers and have a lot of calypso influence. Here are some tracks I like from this album: Uncle Al https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaUYRuuwZNc Midnight Special https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rU_TYQ0evU The Pool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLMy58aZAa8 Angelina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVGbIQWr_fE The horn arrangements leave something to be desired, but other than that I have gotten a lot of joy out of this album. It's available on Amazon and probably other places.
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There are a bunch of good songs covered on this and they are all markedly worse than the originals.
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I'm hearing that there's something of a ska revival happening right now. I'm not sure I believe it, but there are definitely some bands that people (who aren't me) know about that I've never heard of, like Bite Me Bambi, which is composed of alumni from other bands, including Save Ferris. Are there new bands I should know about? Just about the last new releases I knew about were Less Than Jake's "Sound The Alarm" in 2017 and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones' "While We're At It" in 2018.
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Kill Lincoln - Can't Complain is out now, today. Aquabats later this month.
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Warbird posted:Both of my vinyls should be showing up pretty shortly. Never got a shipping notification for the Bats one though so that’s a bit concerning. The Aquabats pushed their release back from June because of all the stuff happening. I would expect it to mail out soon if there are no other problems.
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Vanishingly little info available, but the Bosstones say they've finished a new album: https://www.punknews.org/article/73159/mighty-mighty-bosstones-finish-new-album
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That Brooklyn Vegan article is great, so much music I didn't even realize was being made. It's a bit of a firehose, though, even with their playlist that highlights their top picks. Any real standouts that I should check out? I didn't discover Kill Lincoln from that article -- that was probably this thread -- but I really like them. I don't only listen to ska-punk, although I think that makes up a lot of the current renaissance of the genre.
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WaffleZombie posted:My best friend likes a lot of this stuff too, but usually only hears about newer stuff from me. He read the article and basically said the same thing - it is a little too long and he got annoyed at it. It probably could have used some editing. But here are a couple of the standouts in my personal opinion, with the caveat that I'm assuming in addition to Kill Lincoln, you know We Are the Union since they've been around a while in relation to most of the bands in the article and that you'e heard the newer Bruce Lee Band stuff because both Jeff Rosenstock and Mike Park are the best. Thanks for this. Yes, I know Bruce Lee Band and We Are The Union already. It's probably because I grew up on 90s ska, but Half Past Two does scratch the itch even if it's very much like the stuff I already know. Hey Smith was cool too. I don't know what it is about Catbite but I just cannot get into them. Vocal style maybe. EDIT: I finally watched that Jeff clip from Seth Meyers. I am not into everything he does but gently caress if that didn't hit me just right and show me why everyone loves Jeff. Buying the album now. Edit again: I thought I wanted a more polished sound like Half Past Two but now i want more angry yelling. Jeff has radicalized my music preferences guppy fucked around with this message at 10:49 on Sep 30, 2020 |
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The new Five Iron Frenzy album has gone out to early KS backers, so general release is probably around the corner.
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FIF is always hit or miss for me and this is no exception. Some of it I like a lot, some of it I can't see listening to on purpose. Performance and production are good, it sounds tight. Lyrically I think it's no great shakes on a first pass. EDIT: Apparently it's on Spotify as well https://open.spotify.com/album/1NBcD5YIWTEo4Lp4t7xK5V guppy fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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The Bosstones' new Tim Armstrong-produced album has a name and a release date, and the first single is out now. "When God Was Great" will be released May 7th on Hellcat. New single "I Don't Believe In Anything" now streaming.
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We Are The Union surprise-announced a new record, "Ordinary Life," out June 4th. First single "Morbid Obsessions" streaming on Spotify and elsewhere. Reade Wolcott, their lead vocalist, also came out as trans.
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We Are The Union - Ordinary Life is out today. I haven't really previewed it much but I'm listening to it now and I like it a lot so far! The only album of theirs I had before was Who We Are and I wasn't that into it.
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