Scatterbrains - Do Best! (2000)

  I made THIS POST in February 2023 for the band Scatterbrains from Switzerland and I mentioned that they had an EP that I do not have.

I have it now and this is that EP.

Sadly, there's no ska on it. Ska influence, but not real ska. 

Oh well. If you have the other two albums you will want this to complete the collection.

 

1 I Can't Get No Sleep

2 Walking in the Sunshine

3 Jerk

4 Pretty Baby

5 Without You

 

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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.

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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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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va Florida's Punk Ska Element (1999)

 1 New Found Glory - 3rd and Long

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

 

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Winston and the Churchills - demo tape (1986)

 British punk/ska from Winston Forbes former keyboard player for Splodgenessabounds. 

The songs "Why do You" and "Giant Mushroom" are on the album but these are different versions. The song "Come Off It" is not on the album. 

1 Come Off It

2 Why Do You?

3 Giant Mushroom

4 radio interview

 

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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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Angrybeans

Angrybeans (Angry Beans on the first tape, Angrybeans almost everywhere else) was a punk band from Italy who played lots of ska. Their first release was mostly punk with just a couple of ska songs but their second release was seven ska songs and three punk songs. Unfortunately my copy of the first tape came out really good but my copy of the second one is pretty poor quality. The tapes are a bit weird. On the first one the shell is printed with the band name and track listing along with other standard lettering but you can tell there was something else printed on the shell which was later scraped off. It said "Fabrizio Giagoni" under the band name and above the track listing. The second tape is exactly the same but the track list has also been scraped off but it's easy to make out that it's the same track list from the first tape.

So these guys recorded over their first tape for their second tape. Sadly, though the sound quality of the second tape suffers because of it. And it looks like they had an alternate cover for it at some point.

By the time they recorded their album they reverted back to playing punk with just a couple ska songs and the lyrics are primarily in Italian. 

They do have one other release which is an EP but all of the songs on the EP are on the album. The song "Baraonda Town" was on the second Italian Ska Invasion comp from 2002. 

 

 Angry Beans - Angry Beans cassette (1998)

1 HT 675

2 Unlucky!

3 The Great Angry Time

4 Class '78 (Some of Us)

5 Playin' Hooky

6 I Can't do Anything

7 Not so Responsible

8 The Day I Decided to...Kill You

9 My Dog

10 Brown Haired Girl

11 Campin' Alone

12 The Hottest Dog

 

 

 Angrybeans - The New Thing (2000)

1 No Scheme

2 Tritones

3 Baraonda Town

4 Game's Pawns

5 Float the Boat

6 Alien Skin

7 Tango

8 My Riddle

9 Honey-Full

10 Skyscraper

 

 

 Angrybeans - Crisi Stabile (2005)

1 Nobody's Perfect

2 Tango

3 Moskova

4 Insonnia

5 Contro Di Me

6 Dan & Debbie

7 Game's Pawn

8 Crisi

9 Stabile

10 Scream at the Queen

11 Flowers on Ice

12 Last Call

13 Malibu

14 Introspecttacolo

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The Neighbors - Nuclear Family 7'' (1979)

 

This is a rare example of the ska influence in California in the late 70s. The A-side is a great female-fronted new wave/punk tune. The B-side is a ska-punk song that was way ahead of its time. Third wave ska punk from 1979? Awesome.

A - Nuclear Family

B - Punk in Paradise

toneandwave · Punks In Paradise

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Nigel Six demo tapes

 I previously posted Nigel Six's EP and the Let's Go Crime demo tape HERE.

These other tapes are more punk with less ska but sometimes you just wanna complete the collection.

Nigel Six - Rage Against the Spatula (1994)

1 Idiots on TV

2 The Land of the Nude

3 Dominic the Flasher

4 Ohio Chicken

5 You Know Him

6 Jerome

 

 Nigel Six - Don't Ask, Don't Tell (1996)

1 Virginia

2 Cloud City

3 No Women

4 Push Me

5 Goodnight Ned

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Man Without Future - Over Your Shoulder 7" (1986)

This band was from Basel, Switzerland. They played post-punk with a heavy ska influence. This is their only release but both of the recordings on this single appeared on a compilation called "What's Happening" which also has two other songs by Man Without Future, one of which is also a ska song.
I do have the cassette and I'll try and post it soon.

A - Over Your Shoulder
B - Well, Listen to Me

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va Skintonic 7" (1992)

This is a compilation with two punk songs and two ska songs. I bought this thinking I had stumbled on a rare Ngobo Ngobo song called "Good for U, Man" but, as it turns out, it's the song "Good for Nothing Man" that was on their demo and their first album.
On a positive note, the Blechreiz song is a rarity that is unique to this release.

A1 - Ngobo Ngobo - Good for You, Man
A2 - Die Kassierer - Tot, Tot, Tot
B1 - The Shamrocks - Empty Brain
B2 - Blechreiz - Mike Hammer

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The Touch - Come Feel 7" (1983)

I have posted a lot of rare stuff on this blog over the years but this is definitely in the top 5 rarest things I've posted.

I think The Touch was from Texas but I'm not sure.

I have been looking for this record for a long time and I have heard that there are about three copies known to exist. The reality is that the band members probably each have crates of these records in their basements and that two years from now there will be 15 copies available on Discogs for $5 each. But I wasn't so lucky to score one for cheap. The copy I found is in amazing shape so I'm lucky for that, but the seller knew what he was selling.

I tell people that when they go to record conventions you need to go against your instinct. If you're looking for ska, go to the guys selling rap. If you're looking for punk, go to the guys selling country. Most vendors at conventions sell things outside of their scope of interest and they don't know the value of some of what they're selling but let me tell you...the guy who specializes in ska knows what he's selling and what it's worth. The guy who sold me this record...I respect him and hate him at the same time.

Rare doesn't always mean good, but in this case it does. This is one of the best rare records you'll ever hear.

A1 No Guarantees
A2 Don't Touch Me There
B1 Trouble on My Street
B2 Agent 109
B3 Jungle & Such

Listen to "Trouble on My Street"

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Nigel Six

Let's Go Crime demo tape (1995)
1 Cloud City
2 Let's Go Crime
3 Rusty Gate
4 Brown Lifeguard
5 Poop
6 Well Said

America's Favorite T.V. Family (1996)
1 Long Vacation
2 Racecar
3 Bus Pass
4 No Women
5 First
6 Push Me (non-album track)


Nigel Six was a punk band with a heavy ska influence from Connecticut. They released a demo tape and then these two recordings. The tape is more ska than the later offering.

Thanks to the Punk Guy YouTube channel who submitted the cassette for our approval. He has tons more punk and ska rarities on his channel.
If you have anything to do today I highly recommend that you DO NOT GO to his YouTube channel. It will hold you captive for a long time. The rest of your day's plans will become secondary.

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Shack - Suburban Urban 7" (1983)

My copy doesn't have a cover so I stole this one from Discogs which seems to be the only image of the cover anywhere online. These guys were from New York and I think this is their only release. Collector's Frenzy states that this band has one of the members of the very short-lived New York band The Plague but I think they got that information from an eBay post and I'm not convinced that it's true. I welcome you to prove me wrong.

A - Suburban Urban
B - Give a Little

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The Strikers - No Reason 7" (1981)

It's pretty hard to find a good copy of this record. It's a 7" but the cover is longer than it should be. My copy doesn't have a cover and the seller was honest enough to tell me that the record is warped and in terrible condition before I bought it. He was right - the record is trashed but I got it cheap so I at least know what it sounds like. This image is from Discogs. It's the only image I've ever seen of the cover.

The first song "No Reason" is so good that I am still looking for a decent copy just so I can hear it in better quality. I'm not into high quality sounds as you can tell from so many past offerings, but this rip really is pretty bad. The song "Knock it Down" is the worst. It's very crackly and skips in a couple of places but the song was released on a compilation from 1981 called Test Patterns that featured bands from St. Louis, Missouri (so we can guess that's where this band is from...) and I have included a CD version of the full album that includes another song by The Strikers called "Kick Around". It's not a ska song but there is a nice ska tune called  "Love 'N' Skank" by a band called The Felons.

The Strikers - No Reason 7" (1981)
A1 - No Reason
A2 - Original Crowd
B1 - Knock it Down
B2 - Running on Air

va Test Patterns (1981)

1 The Felons - Love 'N' Skank
2 Zanti Misfits - Holier Than Thou
3 Trained Animal - U.R.A. Girl
4 The Mopeds - Woe is Me
5 Oozkicks - Unknown
6 Swift Kick - Crushin' Russian Girl
7 The Strikers - Kick Around
8 Oozkicks - I'm so Young
9 Swift Kick - Unpredictable
10 The Mopeds - She's a Mongrel
11 The Strikers - Knock it Down
12 The Felons - Dancing School
13 Zanti Misfits - Bachelor's Friend
14 Trained Animal - When You Dance With Me


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The Internationalists - Let the Pressure Start (1986)

This is a British punk-reggae band who released this album in 1983. It was re-released in the UK in 1986 and again in France in 1988. The original 1983 release had a different cover...

...and the track listing was a different order.
This is the French version:

1 Kicking on the Wrong Door
2 Every Fifth Man is Guilty
3 Breaking Your Heart
4 Tighten Up
5 Solidarity
6 Gun Runner
7 Let the Pressure Start
8 Tooth and Nail
9 Lay the Foundation

"Kicking on the Wrong Door"


"Solidarity"


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va Beat of the Street (1989)

There's a record store in Southern California called Dr. Strange Records that I have mined many gems from over the years. Many years back I came across this record in the back room (where all the good stuff is) but it had a price tag of $30.00 so I put it off for a few years. It has a rare song by The Loafers which was later featured on Skarities in 1990. I eventually stumbled across a copy for $2.00. This is that copy.

The Instigators are an amazing punk band from Dewsbury, England not to be confused with the ska/punk band from Auckland, NZ that I previously featured HERE.



There are only two records in this series and I have included a Frankensteined version of the first record which I know aren't the original versions but it's still good stuff.


A1 -  The Crack - My World
A2 - The Instigators - Cry Freedom
B1 - The Loafers - Feelings Right
B2 - Frantic Flintstones - Honey Maker

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*Incidentally there was an American band also called the Instigators who only put out one single in 1985 and I absolutely love it. It's campy new wave with naive lyrics but it's brilliant. We Don't Know What We Want.

Instigators [Auckland, New Zealand]

Instigators - double A side (1981)
This Side - Not Really Bad
That Side - In Line

Instigators - Hope She's Alright 7" (1982)
A - Hope She's Alright
B1 - No Problems
B2 - No Problems (dub)


This download also includes their version of Israelites from the Goat's Milk Soap compilation.


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va Alive! Rock City (1980)

Compilation of live recordings from some lesser known California bands including the only recordings that I know of the ska band Two Tones and a reggae song by Ace & the Eights who did release a single which was not ska. I do have it and I wanted to post it when I posted this LP but I can't find it right now. I'll update the link at some point.

1 Lifers - Missing Person
2 Two Tones - Reggae Woman

3 Two Tones - Random Riff
4 Elements of Style - Oh Bob
5 Elements of Style - Sacred Objects
6 JJ10 - Factory Limits
7 Impostors - Trouble
8 Impostors - Leave Me Alone
9 Ultrasheen - Super Bad
10 Ultrasheen - Danceannette
11 Dickheads - (S)he Love You
12 Ace & the Eights - Dead End
13 Ace & the Eights - Touch of Style



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