23min of Ska : Red Wind

Oh man, this episode makes me wanna dance! I mean, for real wanna get up and boogie! This is a collection of some of my favorite get loud and get down kind of tunes. I hope you dig it, and if you don’t, eh, I’ll be rocking out to this one alone then!

00:00 – the Smooths – Sin Supposed to Be (Fall / Sin Supposed to Be ’98)
03:15 – Slow Gherkin – Years Off My Life (Lives ’16)
05:33 – OreSkaBand – Carry On! (Carry On! ’15)
09:13 – the Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Holy Smoke (Don’t Know How to Party ’93)
12:04 – Jeff Rosenstock – Rainbow (WORRY. ’16)
13:36 – Codename: Rocky – Mile Markers (Reboot ’16)
16:58 – Night Gaunts – Nights & Daze (Conversations with Creation ’15)
20:05 – Big D & the Kids Table feat. Maddie Ruthless and the Doped Up Dollies – Oi DJ (Big D & the Kids Table/Dope Up Dollies split ’15)

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23min of Ska : Second Coming

Yo, listen up, after last weeks over stuff and frantic episode, I thought we could take it a little easier this week. Geez, I hope you agree, I certainly think it’s another awesome episode! Listen up and enjoy yourself out there, it’s later than you think!

00:00 – Half Past Two – Girl in a Band (It’s About Time ’09)
04:15 – the Equators – Baby Come Back (Baby Come Back ’80)
07:45 – Pressure Cooker – Secondhand Soldier (What She Wants ’08)
11:26 – the Smooths – Enemy (Very Own Vegas ’96)
15:16 – the Caroloregians – Back in the Day (Fat is Back ’11)
18:01 – Corey Dixon & the Zvooks – I Hope You Know (Calm Down ’01)
20:28 – the Bohunks – Precious (In the Waiting Room ’11)

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23min of Ska : dONE

Here it is, what was at one time supposed to be the final episode of 23min of Ska. In fact it is a reverse order of the bands played in the very first episode, different songs of course. It’s been a long road to get here, and I’ve had a ton of fun along the way. I still think this would’ve been a perfect ending, seriously, I’ve literally been sitting on this episode for years. Heck, even the last few episodes were mostly worked out 3 years ago. I’d always planned on ending this show one day. Podcasts don’t end, they just stop updating, and I thought 23min of Ska deserved to go out with a proper ending. But more than going out in style, the listeners have shown me that instead, 23min of Ska deserves life! One day we’ll come to a true ending, but this, this is just a check point, a weigh station on the journey of this silly little podcast. Thanks for having me, see you next week.

00:00 – the Toasters – Weekend In L.A. (Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down ’97)
04:09 – Mustard Plug – What You Say (In Black and White ’07)
07:11 – Less Than Jake – Best Wishes to Your Black Lung (Anthem ’03)
09:59 – the Smooths – Big Decisions (No Breaks ’98)
14:09 – MU330 – Got Caught (Chumps On Parade ’96)
16:13 – Johnny Socko – Rocks in My Head (Quatro ’99)
19:56 – the Slackers – Alone Again (the Question ’98)

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23min of Ska : the Coming Four Horsemen

The theme is the end. The Apocalypse is an end. The horsemen come and herald the end. The theme for this episode is fours and endings. I didn’t think about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse until I was trying to think of a better name for this episode than “Nothing Lasts Four Ever” and now I feel I wasted a perfectly good theme. Well… maybe I’ll come back to it some day… I mean… I’m not really going to end 23min of Ska am I?

00:00 – Dan P. & the Bricks – Connecting Four (Watch Where You Walk ’12)
02:12 – the Smooths – Farewell (No Breaks ’98)
04:59 – Skandalous All-Stars – Waiting for the End (Age of Insects ’99)
07:44 – the Jinkies – Kiss Me Goodbye (the Jinkies ’97)
11:19 – Save Ferris – Goodbye (It Means Everything ’97)
14:54 – the Good Skamaritans – the Way That You Do (Let’s Rawk ’02)
17:36 – the Hotknives – Last Song on the Jukebox (Screams, Dreams and Custard Creams ’00)

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23min of Ska : Look! It’s the 6th Anniversary Show

It’s true listeners, we’ve made it to the 6 year mark! I’m not going to lie, I never thought I’d take it this far! I figured I’d give it a good shot for 3 years and see how things go. Due to the support of many listeners and many bands I’ve been happy to continue doing this little podcast for any ska fan that downloads it. Thanks, for real, thanks!

00:00 – the Siren Six! – All in the Family (UK Version) (the Voice with the Built in Promise ’97)
03:50 – BOP (harvey) – Man in Disguise (Bread & Circuses ’90)
06:28 – the Smooths – Look Out (No Breaks ’98)
09:51 – My Man Friday – Dissatisfied (Night of the Exotic Tiki Gods ’99)
13:39 – the Stretch Band – Lounging in a Mood Rut (Armstrong ’99)
15:38 – Fighting Gravity – Sally Brown (live) (Hello Cleveland ’99)
19:46 – the Insteps – Always Remember (Eleven Steps to Power ’96)

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23min of Ska : 21 Black Jack

So very many 23min of Ska episodes are finalized and mixed in the wee hours of the night when I really should be asleep, this episode is no exception. I had a few ideas for this one, luckily it snapped together pretty quickly and awesomely. I always try to plan a few weeks ahead, makes a better podcast, or at least one that doesn’t keep me burning the midnight oil to produce. But this one, this one feels right that it kept me up so late. Exhausted, listening to music I love, to share it with the kind of folks that are awesome enough to listen… well it doesn’t get better than that! I’ll take a million sleepless nights to party with any one of you rascals! Ska is made for late night revelries. And maybe a bad decision or two.

00:00 – the Resignators – Black Jack Swing (Down in Flames ’13)
02:51 – Bad Cards – the Wanderer (Bad Cards ’15)
05:24 – Counting Coins – In the Red (Reach for the Sky ’13)
07:56 – Rotterdam Ska-Jazz Foundation – Black Night (Sunwalk ’05)
11:46 – Stop the Presses – Originator Red (Does it Still Look Pretty? ’11)
15:56 – the Smooths – Tout Seul (Very Own Vegas ’96)
19:31 – My Man Friday – Red Colored Lemon (Night of the Exotic Tiki Gods ’99)

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23min of Ska : Pretty Octopi Pants

Hey gang, check it out, another debut song for all ya’ll! It’s from los Kung-Fu Monkeys and their new album is due out next week and it kicks off with this same song! “Taking it Easy” indeed! But that’s not where the great music stops, no! There’s plenty more, so keep those computer speakers turned up, or those earbuds in your ears, because it’s another upbeat fun episode from 23 Minutes of Ska! (Remember kids if it’s not the 23min of Ska podcast, it’s either longer or shorter than 23 minutes and may or may not be ska.)

00:00 – los Kung-Fu Monkeys – Taking it Easy (Rudeboy Rockers ’15)
02:24 – the Forthrights – Drift Away (the FORTHRIGHTS ’12)
05:22 – the Smooths – Letter After J (Very Own Vegas ’96)
08:54 – the Meow Meows – (I Don’t Know Why) I Love You (Somehow We Met ’13)
13:29 – Club 99 – There was a Fire Last Nite (Club 99 ’13)
16:44 – the Interrupters – White Noise (the Interrupters ’14)
19:00 – doctormanette – Guilt (the Same Thing Over & Over ’99)

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Rerun-ish : 23min of Ska : Excuse Me Mr.

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!

Here’s the episode’s original write up (w/ a few minor changes): In honor of my awesome cat Mr. Pants, here is a whole bunch of songs for the Misters! There is a lot of absolute classics in here! You can’t beat the Toasters, the Articles the Slackers or the Smooths! Hands down, great songs by great bands! New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble and Pressure Cooker also the deliver the good diggin’ down on the ska sound. The Stretch Band (AKA Stretch Armstrong) throws in a cover of one of my favorite Devo songs, and while it loses the ska beat every now and again, it is so good, I couldn’t leave it out! Then smack in the middle of all this, I hit you with Jorge and the Landladies incredibly lush and psychedelic sound. If you don’t have that album yet, I don’t know what more convincing you’ll need.

the Toasters – Mr. Trouble (Skaboom! ’87)
New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble – Mr. Pitiful (Low Blow ’97)
the Stretch Band – Mr. DNA (Mashin’ Potatoes comp ’00)
Jorge & the Landladies – Mr. David (Monobound ’12)
Pressure Cooker – Mr. Precious (Future’s History ’06)
the Slackers – Mr. Tragedy (the Great Rocksteady Swindle ’10)
the Smooths – Mr. Figurehead (Very Own Vegas ’96)

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23min of Ska : Back and Forth and Back Again

Back when I was a young lad, which is going back further and further all the time, a group of friends and I would go to any ska shows we could find. One such show took us all the way to a Rockford, IL skate park. At said skate park was a ska show that started at 10 AM and ended at 10 PM. It was glorious! 12 hours of ska! My favorite part was that every band was a bit different, traditional ska, ska-punk, new wavey ska, you know what I’m saying, right? Anyway, I loved it! After a more traditional band, then a punky one, then a more 2 Tone style band followed by a ska-pop band! This is what I’m trying to bring out on this episode, going back and forth all over the style map, but it all has that killer ska beat.

the Impossibles – Come Back (Come Back / the Position ’13)
the Smooths – History’s Burning (No Breaks ’98)
Pressure Cooker – Rockin’ by the Sea (Burning Fence ’03)
Call Me Malcolm – Does My Offbeat Look Big in This? (Check Sells ’11)
LODD – Ska James Infirmary (Et Pourquoi? ’11)
New Riot – Welcome to Our World (Riot.Sleep.Repeat ’11)
the Pressure – Fly No More (the Pressure ’14)

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23min of Ska : It’s Time to… Start Again!

Wow, I really dug back in to my stash for this one! A lot of these tracks are ones that I just couldn’t believe that I hadn’t played yet on the show! Sure, maybe it is a little too ’90s, but don’t act like you don’t enjoy it! For most of the year (save May) I’ve really been pushing new music from established and emerging ska bands, so I just HAD to have a small dip back into what got me hooked on ska way back when (alone w/ a new song that is crazy stuck in my head!)

Bim Skala Bim – Start Again (How’s it Goin’? ’90)
MU330 – LA (Chumps on Parade ’96)
the Smooths – Take a Look (No Breaks ’98)
Kriptolites – vete ya (mueve tus pies con kriptolites ’13)
Johnny Socko – Half Your Brain (Full Trucker Effect ’97)
the Toasters – Freedom (Dub 56 ’94)
Stretch Armstrong – Crackhouse (Lollygag ’94)

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