But this album is truly unique and has to be ingested to be understood. Yes they're back again, but unfortunately, no one seems to care. It's on HellCat, so at least it's easily available.Īssorted Jellybeans - What's Really Going On!?!Ī really weird step forward for ska and punk, a trippy, hilarious, and sometimes forward thinking (but not overly serious or nihilistic) album by a band that left too early. But listen to this fucking album and have your fucking brains blown out by it. Now I know why this album isn't well known, it's simply because it's two niche styles on this album that never seem intersect with each other normally outside of this band and unfairly quarantines it to be a niche album. Everything they did before was just a warm up for this, which is a complement since their early stuff is actually awesome, too. This is the peak of this band (though Turbo was brilliant) and such a unique sound they've never quite recaptured with the pure passion and energy of Willis. The meeting point of ska, rock n roll, and classic soul music. If you haven't heard this yet, you might as well get on that right now. Another band that should have been huge but just wasn't for no apparent reason, this is about as pop as ska has been since Madness came out. To be fair, this is the band's fault for literally vanishing from existence, after making such great albums like this one. I can't fucking believe I have to list this. If you're not hooked by Someone To Lean On, you're hopeless. This is the best ska punk album ever written as merging the absolute pure core of the two styles together could possibly ever achieve. Just listen to Anytime for the single best ska punk song ever written.
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Every song is full of explosive energy, the songs all have extremely careful construction (something Potshot only ever achieved one more time on Til I Die) and will all get you singing along even if you don't understand what the heck they're saying. Not Worth Your While But Worth My Life 2:49Īs stated before, this is the absolute pinnacle of the style of ska punk. In my opinion, this is up there with the Specials, One Step Beyond, and whatever other ska classics you can think up.ġ2. I know being on a shitty record label killed this album and all, but the fact that Beggin' is not a radio staple is just insane. Though personally I think Pop Song and Time could have been left off simply for not reaching the rest of the albums glorious heights, and my favorite SHJ song (Pay Some Dues) isn't on the album, this is pretty much as perfect as ska can get. Seriously, how the fuck can you drop a classic like this and just break up. Just go to google and search with 'band name - mediafire' and you'll most likely find them.įuck this band for breaking up.
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If you want to find these, most of these bands are broken up so you might as well download them. I'm not going to put numbers because I consider these all classics and are all well worth listening to. To build on a recent ska kick of mine, I thought I'd make a post where I list ten albums that are probably not listed very often by critics (lol ska + critics) or only brought up by ska fans to prove how great their obscure taste is (I tend to think they never even listened to the albums when they do, though), but tend to get overlooked since heavy hitters from the 90s are still around like Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake as well as other bands like Streetlight Manifesto and the serious ska bands that have tended to co-opt the genre unintentionally for many other likeminded bands. So pardon if some terms don't make any sense. I hope you'll forgive the extremely formal tone of this post as I wasn't up to do any serious writing here.