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Oh poo poo, I love Stray Bullets. Thanks.StrikerObi posted:Heads up to any central Florida goons. Less Than Jake isn't doing a Gainesville show on the new tour because they get back from Europe on July 15th and the tour starts on the 17th. They are, however, doing a special listening party for the new album / acoustic set / meet and greet on the 16th. Location isn't known yet. I'm driving down for this, gonna be awesome. I should be at UCF then, I might go to this. Mysterious Aftertaste fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Apr 29, 2008 |
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Acoustic set with Tomas only. Very good quality for a YouTube vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms4PsH5yb7I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAGz4kjgc8w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEPOwftGonk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAXvTJGwnVI That'll be the day is loving awesome, jesus. edit: Tomas from Streetlight Manifesto. Sorry I turn this thread into an SM thread from time to time. Mysterious Aftertaste fucked around with this message at 19:32 on May 5, 2008 |
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Haha, Victory is hilarious. http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=320643 edit: I'll probably go to the Boca show for Taj Mysterious Aftertaste fucked around with this message at 18:56 on May 25, 2008 |
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May 25, 2008 18:54
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guppy posted:Rx Bandits - I don't even know whether to classify these guys as ska. They have... a trombonist, if I remember correctly. They tend to write much more complex stuff than most ska bands. I dig 'em. They have three albums (well, four, but the first sounds totally different), Progress, The Resignation and ... And The Battle Begun. I like all three, but they all have a very different sound. I used to like Progress the most; now I find myself with a marked preference for ... And The Battle Begun. They actually have 5 studio albums (and a live album). The first 2 are pretty generic 3rd-wave ska. Those drat Bandits Halfway Between Here and There Progress The Resignation ...and the Battle Begun They've kind of gone to a ska/reggae influenced progressive band, but I still think they're great. I'm actually going to see them next month. Their last 2 albums are amazing, Progress was a bit overproduced for my taste.
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Jun 11, 2008 00:03
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Your Japanese Dad posted:So do you guys consider Leftover Crack ska? I've never been a fan of ska but I dig Leftover Crack, but I can't seem to figure out what genre they are. Kind of hardcore skapunk. I only have Choking Victim though.
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While waiting for GNV FLA, I've been listening to State Radio - Us Against The Crown a lot. It's not really ska, as Dispatch wasn't really ska. It's Chad of Dispatch's band. Live recroding of a song off it, Gunship Politico http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F87nQrFfaZY&feature=related
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Quest For Glory II posted:They're traditional ska and rocksteady. Probably one of the top Boston bands. Their music is so.. peaceful, but catchy. It's not reggae outright, though they do have a couple of very downtempo songs. On average their music generally ranges between 120bpm-160bpm. While I do enjoy Westbound Train, I could never say I like them more than SM. And going from Whole Wheat Bread -> Westbound Train -> Streetlight Manifesto didn't work at all on that tour. And the crowd wasn't into Westbound at all, which really sucked. I unfortunately didn't know about them prior to that show, wish I did. I wouldn't listen to WBT when I'm in the same "mood" to listen to SM. And yes Transitions is very good. The bass on that album sounds so warm, I really don't know what they did, but it's amazing sounding.
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Quest For Glory II posted:That does not sound like a very smart pairing. WBT shouldn't be going on tour with the ska equivalent of drinking upwards of 10 lattes. They should tour with a band like the Slackers or Deal's Gone Bad. If they're gonna tour with any kind of uptempo band they should roll with the Toasters. In fact, they have! No, I never said WBT was boring. But that tour lineup didn't fit at all  The current tour of Don Potthast -> Zox -> SM works much better, despite Zox having little ska influences.
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BackInTheUSSR posted:I saw Less than Jake for the 6th time tonight and their setlist was pretty bad but I was really impressed by Mustard Plug opening for them. They are way better than I expected, even though they're pretty generic. Since it's raining all night at the Ft. Lauderdale show, I'm trying to skip Suburban Legends. I've been to quite a few LTJ shows, but nothing has stood up to their Florida Friends tour. That was loving amazing, and I'll never forget those concerts. 2hr 30min+ of playing each night.
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Suburban Legends were pretty bad. Their best song was seriously Under the Sea, and I liked some of their earlier stuff. When their last song wasn't actually the last song, the crowd booed them, which was kind of lame. I'm not a big fan of Mustard Plug, but they were alright. They did two covers, both of which I liked better than all of their original music. But I went to see Less Than Jake. It was quite a good show, but the crowd sucked balls. They actually went back and replayed the breakdown in The Ghosts of Me and You because the crowd sucked so bad. When Chris asked the crowd if they would rather see LTJ on the Shout it Loud tour or Warped, Warped got more cheers  After that Vinnie spammed the Price is Right "loss" sound for about 30 seconds. lovely picture because I accidentally left my phone on SMS picture mode   And Buddy never fails to amaze me in how much energy he has.
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Jun 19, 2008 19:10
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jetgrindeggy posted:I've never been to an LTJ show where the crowd was anything but amazing, but I'll admit they've all been in NYC. I wonder if they'll sell out the Roseland like last summer. That was the 2nd biggest show I'd ever been to, after blink-182. I've never been to a LTJ show with a crap crowd either. And I'm in Florida to boot, what the hell?
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Jun 20, 2008 20:16
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TLG James posted:I was listening to GNV FLA, and does anyone else find it weird that in the song, City Of Gainesville, one of the lyrics are "I may be going broke but I’m never broken down" I thought the science was one of the few songs not written by Vinnie. IIRC, Roger wrote that.
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Jun 24, 2008 12:22
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guppy posted:Also, GNV FLA is out today Didn't get it at the show? It was only $10. The Ft. Lauderdale show only got SL, Mustard Plug and LTJ. I'd like to see Goldfinger, never seen them live and don't like them enough to go to one of their headlining tours. Half of SL and Mustard Plug were walking around talking to people after they played. I didn't stay after LTJ was done, but JR and Buddy generally talk to the crowd, and sometimes Vinnie comes out a lot later.
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Bought it off Amazon MP3 this morning. Very good, much better than the last couple. Standout track is clearly "Does The Lion City Still Roar?" but there's a lot of great stuff on it.
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FloppyDiskCommando posted:edit: Granted this IS the ska thread but THREE SM avatars? hahahaha I think we got 3 SM and 1 BOTAR in this thread.
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Thornes posted:Well I was bored so I tried to pick out the songs and ignore his voice. First song is Brown Eyed Girl cover by Skatalica. I'm pretty sure 10 (the background song when they're talking about his band name) is the Skatalites, I know I've heard it before but I can never remember Skatalites song names. Song #6 is a mystery, sounds a bit like Big D but I really doubt it is. And I just was looking through the first list, when the hell did The Stray Bullets break up? I'm disappointed, they were great.
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Chipyy posted:US folks - how 'into' UK ska are you guys, generally speaking? Are you particularly aware of it? Or do most UK ska bands not cross the pond? What about older UK two-tone bands from the 70s such as The Specials, Madness, Bad Manners etc? I like some former Moon Ska EU bands (and random stuff). Solabeat Alliance, Spankboy, [spunge], The King Blues, SB6, The JB Conspiracy. But generally no one over here has heard of any of them. I'm not really into two-tone though. And JB Conspiracy is really really good. edit: seriously, check them out http://www.myspace.com/thejbconspiracy
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I know they're barely even ska-influenced now, but I just got back from an awesome RX Bandits concert. It was the best concert I've seen all year. The ending with Infection was amazing. The first opening band (Facing New York) was pretty bad, and the second one (Portugal) was alright. Portugal's lead singer/guitarist never faced the crowd the whole set :?:
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guppy posted:I'm going to their show in Baltimore on the 29th, glad to hear they're in good form. Anyone else going? It was an older and more friendly crowd too. Don't get me wrong, it was one of the biggest mosh pits I've ever seen at that venue, but everyone was very kind. At most ska shows people will just push you over, don't help people that fall back up, and generally are assholes.
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Well, everything they said that was "on their new album" was awful. I remember one being called "Cops on Bikes" and it was just terrible.
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Jul 28, 2008 11:04
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Don't those games already have both guitar and bass on some songs as the buttons?
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Yeah, pretty much. Big D has a lot of mediocre songs, but their good ones are pretty drat good.
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Aug 21, 2008 02:31
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guppy posted:Man, they're going on tour again but aren't coming to my area? Poop. Same here. Not coming to my state, even.
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I highly doubt it will be Catch 22. Maybe Dan Potthast or Tomas solo album. Even late 2009 would be awesome. I was expecting 2010 before anything.
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They played Sick and Sad acoustic? drat.
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Please don't start that discussion in this thread.
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FloppyDiskCommando posted:for some reason unbeknownst to me, I've never been able to get into Mustard Plug. I feel like I should like them, but they don't click. Kind of like Radiohead for me. I don't like Mustard Plug at all. OK Computer is amazing though. Aww Cute Kitty! posted:The new RBF album has a cover of Brown Eyed Girl. Why am I irritated by this? First, holy poo poo they have a new album already? Second, ugh. I'm the only hardcore FIF fan still around, but Reese posted this recently quote:Also, we are still hoping to get the FIF DVD out by Christmas on Asian Man Records/Department of Biophysics. We hope you hate it. Love, Reese I'd kill to have them do a reunion tour come 2013.
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Cheesegod posted:Didn't see this posted here yet surprisingly. Tomas Kalnoky was interviewed by Alternative Press and played a few acoustic covers of Streetlight songs which are really loving cool (even though he cant remember his own lyrics): Tomas sounded so creepy at the beginning. "I'd be playing acoustic guitar, by myself, in my house, to my cat." Hahaha. He didn't sing my favorite verse in Dear Sergio, which was kind of disappointing.
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Nov 13, 2008 11:34
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guppy posted:~10 new dates announced for Less Than Jake in March. They're coming back to Baltimore Yup just ordered tickets for the Orlando show
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Nov 22, 2008 22:00
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Holy poo poo I love Stray Bullets. Thanks.
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Wait, Warped Tour isn't going to suck this year? http://www.warpedtour.com/warpedtour/bands.asp Going for Streetlight, Big D, Bad Religion, NOFX, Westbound Train, Less Than Jake and Flogging Molly.
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Cystic posted:Yeah, I just found a youtube clip of it for anyone wondering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbJWZHmjHk Finally a semi-good recording of it, thanks I'll be seeing them again on the 7th
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lessthankyle posted:Just stumbled into a great show by the band Passafire. I was walking back from a night out on a business trip and heard them playing in Emos here in Austin, TX. They were a lot of fun, but I had never heard of them before. I'd give 'em a listen, they're more reggae than ska, but still good. Okay these guys are awesome
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The streetlight show last night was pretty good. The only difference from the last time I saw them was Tomas opened the encore with the acoustic Sick and Sad. And the encore didn't include Dear Sergio this time. And the concert was way oversold which kind of sucked.
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Gipsy Hill is the best Big D release imo I really like Checklist
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Streetlight Manifesto posted:02.11.2009 | Oh, Like You've Never Been Late Which year Warped tour?
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Dundee McFluffers posted:They're on the '09 band list. I know 
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Well, I suppose this counts. http://www.nodoubt.com/events/
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guppy posted:Less Than Jake were awesome, they've been among my favorite bands for a while now but I thought they were better last night than they were last time I saw them. They played 9th At Pine, too, which was on my shortlist of "want to hear" songs. That's like one of the very few non-covers I haven't heard them play live. That and St. James Hotel
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