Ska is like candy, there’s a wide variety, and it’s all pretty sweet!
00:00 – the Hotknives – W.L.N. (Screams, Dreams and Custard Creams ’00)
02:08 – Yum!Yum!Orange – CHANGE MY LIFE (Orange Juice ’04)
05:32 – the Fuss – That I Know (In Person ’22)
08:51 – Wersja De Lux – Number One (City of loss ’22)
13:04 – Half Past Two – Magic Dance (Magic Dance ’22)
16:27 – Vespa – Polska Miejska (Bujaj się ’03)
20:29 – Dan Potthast – I’ve Set Sail (Eyeballs ’99)
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Ok, here we are, ready to start another 23 episode cycle of 23min of Ska! As always, I hope you are ready to join in on music, find some new bands, and remember older ones… but not too much older. As you can see from this playlist, I try to keep it pretty current with just a handful of tracks from the past. So yeah, in the next 23 episodes you’re going to hear a lot of new ska, and yeah, there’s going to be a bit of a “comics” theme going on (hopefully not too annoying) but I hope you stick around if it’s your first time listening, and if not, thanks for coming back, I mean that! Thanks for listening and keeping up with the show!
When I started this episode, and finished it a few weeks ago (sorry I’ve been working ahead a bit, I have been busy with my essential job (second aside: I don’t come into contact with many people, so don’t worry for me)) I didn’t expect the world to go to hell… I almost scraped this for a more pointed episode addressing America’s dire situation… but in the end this episode that I had assembled kept bringing me joy as I listened to it, and I want to bring you all joy as well in these, now very, troubling times. Be well my friends, take care of yourselves and care and help out others in need.
What I loved about ska shows back in the mid-’90s was that you really didn’t know what you were going to get. A more traditional ska band, a ska/punk band that was more punk than ska, a 2 Tone revival sounding band, a ska/punk band that was more ska than punk, a band with 4 members, a band with 10 members, a band full of high schoolers or a band full of actual adults! It really was all over the map like that, and the thing that brought those bands to our towns and the crowds to the venues was the ska that was at the center, in some way, of it all. This episode represents that love of all things ska that I had as a young man encountering shows not knowing exactly what I was going to see, but at the same time knowing that I was going to dig it!
“When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled “made in Germany”; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, “Americanism”…”
Is it time for some ska? You better believe it is! No matter what time you find this podcast, it is always time for ska. So get into it and enjoy it, life, ska, anything!
Oh man, this episode was so close to not coming out at all! Seriously, big hardware failure over here! But things got figured out and BAM! It. Is. Ska time!
23min of Ska 