Looks like I got this one out on time this week! HUZZAH! Ska from everywhere! Ska for all! Ska rules!
00:00 – Lo(u)ser – Me Vs Me (the Shape of Ska Punk to Come Volume II comp ’21)
02:23 – Esaopa – Cuando me vaya (STAGE 1 ’18)
05:05 – Ska Simulator – Peachy (Ska Simulator Vol. 2 ’21)
07:06 – Eric Daino – Problems x Infinity + Forever and Always (Only Momentarily ’19)
08:28 – New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble – See Yah Wouldn’t Wanna Be Yah (In the Moment ’22)
12:50 – Skaramouche – Space Invaders (Never Ever Touch ’04)
16:46 – Ira Virus – Of Course the Princess is in Another Castle, She Ain’t Gonna Wait Around for No Schlub Like Me (Surface Pressure ’22)
19:11 – Lekker Origineel – Dromen (Het Betere Werk ’22)
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Thanks to Craig for sharing Ladybug with us for this episode!
Trucker lingo translation of the title: apparently it means “Love and Kisses” because it is double of the normal “Eighty-Eights” which means simply “Best Wishes.” But I’m finding a lot of trucker slang that translates to simply “Best Wishes” and I’m not finding more than one resource that says “Double Eighty-Eights” is even real trucker CB radio talk. I coulda been hoodwinked on this one my fine listeners, but you know, the intent was there to name it something sweet, because, it’s the kinda-sorta St. Valentine’s Day episode. Get into it!
Ready for a laid back chill episode? Well, here it is… kinda… I’m not going to say it’s laid back and chill the whole way through, but boy oh boy there are certainly real moments of it. There’s some straight up ska, ska/soul and ska/lounge on this episode that I think/hope that you’ll really enjoy listening to.
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!
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Hey listeners, still in the middle of moving, but I was able to get you this chilled out episode this week. Pour yourself a fancy cocktail and relax to this one.
A Note: This episode first “aired” in September of 2012. Well, not exactly. The original episode has one song in it that has been swapped out for another. See, when I first made this episode I’d planned on using “Mr. Tragedy” by the Slackers, then I saw I wanted to use a different Slackers song in another episode right after this one and didn’t want my listeners to have some Slackers overkill, so I replaced it w/ “Mr. Pink” by the Articles. This wouldn’t be a problem except for the fact that I’d just used “Mr. Pink” in a episode about a month before! Whoops! I didn’t realize this until it was far too late. Then in the next episode the Slackers song I was going to use there got edged out and delayed for a while, meaning I could’ve totally done what I wanted w/o worry and not have played that Articles song twice… if only I had a time machine… So here is the episode as it was originally intended! 
23min of Ska 