welcome back to the Skaject folks! this week we’re looking at Bad Manners’ 1985 album, Mental Notes! What the Papers Say is a funky, EXTREMELY 80s track, and yknow i can’t deny this song is a bop, with those sharp,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! this week we’re checking out Madness’s fourth studio record, Mad Not Mad, released in 1985. I’ll Compete did not let me forget this was an 80s record, at all. this feels very 80s pop[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! this week we’re looking at two releases, and secondly, it’s the Toasters debut EP, Recriminations, released in 1985. it looks like a lot of these would be repackaged and put as bonus tracks on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! this week we’re looking at two releases, and our first release is from LA band Fishbone. They got their start in 1979, before getting signed in 1983 and releasing their first EP, Fishbone, in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! this week we’re taking a look at what is commonly accepted as the first Ska record released by a band in the States – it’s Wild Child, from the Untouchables, released in 1985. kicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! this week we’re taking a look at the Specials release just before their original breakup – In the Studio, released as The Special AKA. godDAMN i love Bright Lights. phenomenal track about disillusionment of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! this week we’re taking a look at Madness’s 1984 record, Keep Moving! the title track, Keep Moving, begins the record, and i really enjoy this mellower groovier sound theyre displaying. this feel like a big[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! this week we’re taking a look at Return of the Big Guns, a reunion record from the Skatalites in 1984. gonna say up front – this album’s instrumental and i am no music expert,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! this week we’re taking a look at the next Bad Manners record, Forging Ahead, initially released in 1982! Salad Bar opens this record, and it’s a fun lil track. big fan of what this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! this week we’re taking a look at the fourth studio album by Madness, The Rise & Fall, released in 1982. this one’s fun because i don’t believe this one ever got a stateside release,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…