Here we are, at the end of another session of 23 min of Ska. Thanks for hanging in there since the beginning of the year, and experiencing all this great (and mostly new) ska & ska punk these last 23 weeks with me. I hope you’ve found some new fun bands to listen to, I know I have! 2021 has been such a great year for music that it’s been a breeze to toss this together each week! As always, thanks for listening, and until next time, keep listening to ska!
00:00 – We Are The Union – Broken Brain (Ordinary Life ’21)
02:36 – Tight Spot – Time Heals Everything (Time Heals Everything ’21)
06:11 – Small Town Get Up – Don’t Tell Me (New Noise ’14)
09:23 – Tape Girl – No Thoughts, Head Empty (Single Version) (No Thoughts, Head Empty ’20)
12:01 – Chango Munks – Plan(et) B (We Want All Your Minds ’21)
15:03 – Half Past Two – Mean Green (Mean Green ’21)
17:55 – Something To Do – This Year’s been a Kick in the Nuts (This Year’s been a Kick in the Nuts ’21)
20:10 – the Fabulous Lolo Meets King Kong Girio – When Time is Running Out (My Favorite Heart to Break ’15)
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It’s been a minute since I set up a virtual 90min mix tape (split across 4 episodes) dedicated to a decade. One reason it’s been awhile is well… I ran out of decades… but hey, look, we’re in 2020, the 2010s are behind us! Let’s go! Like always, this isn’t a “Best of 2010s Ska” at all, it’s a just a bunch of great music from that decade. I also made it a special point to play bands that I haven’t played in a bit, but were always really rad! When I switched over to trying to keep as current as possible, some of these great bands fell by the wayside, as they either broke up, had trouble recording new material, moved away from being a ska band, or put out great new material that superseded their older, yet still great work! Enjoy this episode and for the next 3 weeks some more gems that we shouldn’t leave behind as we continue on into the 2020s!
Here’s something crazy… this podcast is 10 years old! Say what? I seriously do not believe it. On January 23rd, 2010 I posted the first episode of 23min of Ska, not knowing what journey I was about to embark on. It was just a little side project to do when not working on the reality show podcast I was working on at the time. In fact, I wasn’t sure if it should be 23 minutes or 15 minutes. To this day I’m still not sure, but 23 feels right.
Oh man, it’s that time of year again in the States (or elsewhere as well, I’m a ska fan, not a historian of the world and its celebrations) where people head back to their small towns and take in a football game or whatever and the high school kids are all fretting about the big dance… yup, it’s homecoming season! So yeah, find that old jacket that’s been packed away for decades, blow the dust of the ludicrously expensive class ring, and maybe talk to some of the few cool people you went to school with… you know the ones, the ones in your “Screw the actual “cool” people” club! Yeah, all your friends! I swear, call both of them! It’s Homecoming mother bitches!
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!
Once again I’m just dropping a ton of new ska (with some well picked older song) on you! Hope that’s ok! More than that, I hope that your Summer is going well and that you’re all doing OK. It’s been a hectic one over here, getting the new house set up, oh man! But it’ll be great in a bit. Trust me when I say, when things are hectic take a small break where you can, and only for as long as it needs to be, then push on through, the reward will be awesome and you didn’t burn yourself out either. Double bonus!
Congrats to all you fantastic listeners, you’ve made it through another one! That’s right, it’s the end of another 23 episodes. Thusly, the spy theme comes to an end. This was a rougher session to put together than most, what with me moving and going out of town, and just being all around busy. I think I missed two weeks? Man, I’m probably more bummed about that than you. Thanks for sticking it out and enjoy the show!
Day late and a dollar short. Isn’t that always how it goes. Well, you shouldn’t let that thought hold you back! Keep pressing! Don’t let all your hard work build to nothing. Fix what is restraining you and complete your mission. If not for anyone else but for yourself.
23min of Ska 