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Dandy Kaiser posted:Somebody in Columbus is requesting that they do Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell. Two people have backed Albuquerque by Weird Al in Palantine, IL.
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Dandy Kaiser posted:I just realized that there's nothing I've ever waned more than to go to that NYC show and get Jeff to play a Bosstones song gently caress, now I wish I'd asked him to play "Let's Face It".
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# ? Oct 29, 2015 18:10 |
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If anyone requests a Streetlight song, the universe may cease to exist as the two fundamental forces collide into each other.
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# ? Oct 29, 2015 18:11 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:gently caress, now I wish I'd asked him to play "Let's Face It". My idea was probably Hell of a Hat, 7 Ways to Sunday, or A Little Bit Ugly. I figure that those seem the most JEFF to me
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# ? Oct 29, 2015 19:28 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:I was in a music shop recently and found, of all things, a copy of the Save Ferris album (It Means Everything) in the used CDs section, and got it because it was cheap. It's an odd thing. It isn't really ska, is it? Probably owes more to the swing revival than ska. I actually remember reading this pretty old (maybe around 2000-2001) online interview the band's trumpeter did around the time their last studio album was coming out, and he reminisced about how when was invited to join a ska band in school and asked, "What's ska?" the answer he was given was, "It's rock with horns." I still enjoy their cover of Come on, Eileen. And that's a terrible description for ska.
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# ? Oct 29, 2015 20:38 |
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Dandy Kaiser posted:My idea was probably Hell of a Hat, 7 Ways to Sunday, or A Little Bit Ugly. I figure that those seem the most JEFF to me Those would be cool too. I'm the only person who voted for the gig I'm attending so far, it'd be weird if I got what I wanted by default, but the show's not until 12/3. Looks like he'll playing "Radio" by Alkaline Trio tonight unless an 11th hour vote comes in for "Angeles" by Elliot Smith or "Misery Business" by Paramore... El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Oct 29, 2015 |
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Battle Rockers posted:I still enjoy their cover of Come on, Eileen. See, when I was in school, I was into music that was popular a decade before I was born (I still am, but now I've added music that was popular three decades before I was born as well ) and one of the bands I was really into was Dexys Midnight Runners. Of course, I knew "Come On Eileen", but what I really liked was the Searching For the Young Soul Rebels album and the stuff with the horns out in front. In fact, it was this fansite that helped me discover a lot of 1960s bands which are now among my favourites - Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band, obviously, as well as Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers and Zoot Money's Big Roll Band. So, of course, I ended up running across the Save Ferris version of "Come On Eileen" on YouTube, but it wasn't until later that I realised this was third-wave ska (I'd gotten into Reel Big Fish in the meantime and loved that one stupid song from Turn the Radio Off where Monique Powell does the female vocal part) and gave their album a try. There's one song on it called "Superspy" which I really like. There's another one called "Spam" which is ludicrous in the extreme but still sort of charming, in that sort of inimitably optimistic pre-9/11 way. quote:And that's a terrible description for ska. It is indeed.
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# ? Oct 29, 2015 23:31 |
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Ahh for the late 90s early 00s when every punk-ska band had to have an 80s cover. I was briefly in a band and we covered Take Me Home Tonight, and partially covered Anyway You Want It. It's actually kind of amazing how easily most of those 80s pop hits can be converted to ska.
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# ? Oct 30, 2015 12:40 |
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and yet no one has ever done van halen jump which is just begging to be made into a ska song
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# ? Oct 30, 2015 15:13 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:I actually remember reading this pretty old (maybe around 2000-2001) online interview the band's trumpeter did around the time their last studio album was coming out, and he reminisced about how when was invited to join a ska band in school and asked, "What's ska?" the answer he was given was, "It's rock with horns." I saw America live with my family a year or two ago and the drummer used to play with Reel Big Fish. I was waiting to get a pic with him and a crowd of younger guys were reminiscing about how great it was to see RBF live while some older folks were asking what ska was and he described it as "fast reggae." I also like Spam, but I'll like any song that sounds like the jingle to some canned food.
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Action Tortoise posted:I saw America live with my family a year or two ago and the drummer used to play with Reel Big Fish. I was waiting to get a pic with him and a crowd of younger guys were reminiscing about how great it was to see RBF live while some older folks were asking what ska was and he described it as "fast reggae." Well, at least that sort of acknowledges the Jamaican roots! ()
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Bird in a Blender posted:Ahh for the late 90s early 00s when every punk-ska band had to have an 80s cover. I was briefly in a band and we covered Take Me Home Tonight, and partially covered Anyway You Want It. It's actually kind of amazing how easily most of those 80s pop hits can be converted to ska. Woah you were in atom and his package?!
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rear end Catchcum posted:Woah you were in atom and his package?! Nah, he was in I Voted For Kodos.
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Monday_ posted:Nah, he was in I Voted For Kodos. Haha I still have my IV4K sweat band.
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# ? Oct 30, 2015 20:37 |
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aricoarena posted:Haha I still have my IV4K sweat band. I have their keychain in my pocket right now.
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rear end Catchcum posted:Woah you were in atom and his package?! I wish. I was in a band called The Indecisives.
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# ? Oct 30, 2015 22:55 |
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Congrats. I was In a band, too. We played out a lot. Well, away games.
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# ? Oct 31, 2015 00:53 |
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Monday_ posted:Nah, he was in I Voted For Kodos. I just saw that Simpsons episode IV4K were fun
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# ? Oct 31, 2015 01:31 |
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DOOP posted:I just saw that Simpsons episode I got an email from one of them asking where i heard of them after ordering stuff from bandcamp. I dunno if anyone else in Florida buys their music.
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Wheat Loaf posted:See, when I was in school, I was into music that was popular a decade before I was born (I still am, but now I've added music that was popular three decades before I was born as well ) and one of the bands I was really into was Dexys Midnight Runners. Of course, I knew "Come On Eileen", but what I really liked was the Searching For the Young Soul Rebels album and the stuff with the horns out in front. What the hell genre are they anyway? I was only familiar with them being the originators of Come On, Eileen and didn't realize they had a horn section like in that video. Sounds pretty decent, could almost mistake them for a two-tone ska band if you had it on mute.
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Battle Rockers posted:What the hell genre are they anyway? I was only familiar with them being the originators of Come On, Eileen and didn't realize they had a horn section like in that video. Sounds pretty decent, could almost mistake them for a two-tone ska band if you had it on mute. Album #1 (Searching for the Young Soul Rebels) was blue-eyed soul through the prism of punk. Not exactly mod revival, but part of that same zeitgeist. In this incarnation, Dexys were actually on the 2 Tone Tour when Madness left and there was some talk about the possibility of them signing to the label. Horace Panter's autobiography (Ska'd For Life, which I would recommend to anyone who's interested in an inside story on 2 Tone) has this story about how Jerry Dammers had been sent a demo tape of a song called "Mirror In the Bathroom" from a then-unsigned (English) Beat, and every time it was played on the tour bus there'd be this chorus of boos from the Dexys contingent, because they were apparently rivals back in Birmingham. There's an Album #1.5 called The Projected Passion Revue which came out in 2008 or so and compiles recordings from 1981, including a full live show (the eponymous Project Passion Revue - they called all their tours revues because they were big into Stax and Motown and so on). Album #2 (Too-Rye-Aye) is the one with "Come On Eileen". The original guitarist left between albums and set up his own band (the Blue Ox Babes) which incorporated strings into the Dexys sound, but he played a demo tape to Kevin Rowland, who promptly lured away his violinists (the Emerald Express, who are credited as featured artists on some releases of "Come On Eileen") and brought them into the Dexys line-up. I think the biggest influence on the album here is actually Van Morrison; sort of "Celtic soul", I suppose (there's a cover of "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)" on this one). Album #3 (Don't Stand Me Down) was the expansive, experimental album. It's usually ranked as their best (though my own favourite is Album #1) but it's hard to categorise. Very much Kevin Rowland's passion project. Infamously failed because Rowland refused to release a single, then when he did relent and let them put out a single (too late to save the album), chose "This Is What She's Like", which was 12 minutes long. Album #4 (One Day I'm Going To Soar) came out a couple of years ago. I have not listened to it (I tend to shy away from "comeback" albums by bands who were popular 30 years ago; the only example of such I can think of that equals or even betters the band in question's heyday is The Liberty of Norton Folgate by Madness) so I cannot comment on its songs.
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# ? Oct 31, 2015 13:07 |
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Sounds like I might dig their first album.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Album #1 (Searching for the Young Soul Rebels) was blue-eyed soul through the prism of punk. Not exactly mod revival, but part of that same zeitgeist. In this incarnation, Dexys were actually on the 2 Tone Tour when Madness left and there was some talk about the possibility of them signing to the label. Horace Panter's autobiography (Ska'd For Life, which I would recommend to anyone who's interested in an inside story on 2 Tone) has this story about how Jerry Dammers had been sent a demo tape of a song called "Mirror In the Bathroom" from a then-unsigned (English) Beat, and every time it was played on the tour bus there'd be this chorus of boos from the Dexys contingent, because they were apparently rivals back in Birmingham. I'm surprised no punk band has done a cover album of just Literally Every Song From Searching for the Young Soul Rebels But Played Twice as Fast because it seems like a lot of them could be adapted better than most songs people try to cover twice as fast and with a horn section.
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# ? Nov 8, 2015 07:12 |
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guys guys GUYS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzVdqlftWU8
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 21:36 |
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Also Streetlight and Catch are back up on Spotify
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Spaced God posted:Also Streetlight and Catch are back up on Spotify
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# ? Nov 9, 2015 22:06 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpifCKmOGTQ
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# ? Nov 11, 2015 18:54 |
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So when is his cover album coming out?
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# ? Nov 11, 2015 18:56 |
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Skeezy posted:So when is his cover album coming out? Then Jeff’s slow transformation into the Anti-Kalnoky will be complete.
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CodfishCartographer posted:Then Jeff’s slow transformation into the Anti-Kalnoky will be complete. He's already not good so he's already the anti-kalnoky
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whoa didn't see that coming
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I let three videos be posted this time before voicing my displeasure edit: fun story: Victory tried to sign some acquaintances of mine. They asked what the whole Streetlight deal was about, Victory flat out refused to talk about it, so they told them to gently caress off and now aren't a band anymore. Punx. Fateo McMurray fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Nov 11, 2015 |
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Every now and again I wonder why I pay attention to Travis Barker. Then I see things like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AErXRmFqtu0
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SkaAndScreenplays posted:Every now and again I wonder why I pay attention to Travis Barker. And now you know you should stop paying any attention to him.
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aricoarena posted:And now you know you should stop paying any attention to him. The Baron von Tito loving owned. Fateo McMurray posted:He's already not good so he's already the anti-kalnoky Skeezy fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Nov 12, 2015 |
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So I dunno how many ska goons are familiar with the GTA area of Ontario but, The Slackers are playing in Barrie on the 15th. The Slackers. In Barrie. OF COURSE I'm in Mexico during this incredibly unlikely event.
CDX fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Nov 13, 2015 |
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CDX posted:So I dunno how many ska goons are familiar with the GTA area of Ontario but, The Slackers are playing in Barrie on the 15th. The Slackers. In Barrie. OF COURSE I'm in Mexico during this incredibly unlikely event. I think you meant Greater Toronto Area but god drat if I didn't laugh my rear end off at the thought of a GTA game set in Canada
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# ? Nov 13, 2015 01:34 |
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It was me
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# ? Nov 16, 2015 22:37 |
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Some rear end in a top hat stole all of Jeff's gear
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The original 10k goal was reached, so they extended it, and also Jeff uploaded a video of himself playing a new song as a thank you on the gofundme page. Heartwarming!
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