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I'm feeling nostalgic today. Back in high school my buddy Rex and I would drive around in his Le Barron rocking this Punk-O-Rama CD thinking we were the coolest nerds around.

 
peccary said:
I'm feeling nostalgic today. Back in high school my buddy Rex and I would drive around in his Le Barron rocking this Punk-O-Rama CD thinking we were the coolest nerds around.

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Man, I used to play vol. 2 all the time. Fat Mike could do no wrong when I was 15. I still put the Decline on occasionally when the news is getting me down.
 
My first band could have been an Operation Ivy cover band we played so many of their songs. My pals were super into the 90s ska revival but I was more of a Bad Religion kind of guy. They were those "rudeboys" who thought ska was a mix of punk and reggae. So I had to endure covering Reel Big Fish in order to get some nofx/Guttermouth in my life.
 
Mentaltossflycoon said:
My first band could have been an Operation Ivy cover band we played so many of their songs. My pals were super into the 90s ska revival but I was more of a Bad Religion kind of guy. They were those "rudeboys" who thought ska was a mix of punk and reggae. So I had to endure covering Reel Big Fish in order to get some nofx/Guttermouth in my life.
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I was never a big ska fan, but living in Orange County, CA during the 90's it was like ska central. My buddy Rex, who I mentioned above, was a ska nut. The good thing about ska at that time (at least where I lived) was that it was pretty much all about young people (jr. high and high school) and so I went to a bunch of free ska shows at coffee shops around town. It was good to have that, even if I wasn't the biggest fan of the music.

While I never really considered myself a fan of ska, I did like Reel Big Fish. I don't really listen to them much, but I still think that Beer is a pretty rad song, and their guitar player is pretty damn good.

 
That's the one my singer made us play every time. I call him a singer but he also held a guitar. Dod supra distortion into a crate practice amp was... well you guys know.

I don't absolutely hate on it but I found rbf pretty corny. As far as the ska goes, I liked skankin pickle, Less Than Jake, slapstick, started playing with bass with a pick to do goldfinger tunes, the aquabats were a fun show though actually way cornier than rbf, but I never listen to these anymore. Sometimes hepcat (saw them open for Rancid and pansy division) and skatalites but I really only regularly listen to toots and the maytals. Feels like I just got out of a confession booth. Been hiding my "checkered" past.



The best thing about RBF to me is when I saw them, Satan's Pilgrims was the opener. I still play this record a ton. My version of Rex drove us to at least 5 more of their shows in his mom's Buick... we were also the coolest nerds.

 
Mentaltossflycoon said:
That's the one my singer made us play every time. I call him a singer but he also held a guitar. Dod supra distortion into a crate practice amp was... well you guys know.

I don't absolutely hate on it but I found rbf pretty corny. As far as the ska goes, I liked skankin pickle, Less Than Jake, slapstick, started playing with bass with a pick to do goldfinger tunes, the aquabats were a fun show though actually way cornier than rbf, but I never listen to these anymore. Sometimes hepcat (saw them open for Rancid and pansy division) and skatalites but I really only regularly listen to toots and the maytals. Feels like I just got out of a confession booth. Been hiding my "checkered" past.



The best thing about RBF to me is when I saw them, Satan's Pilgrims was the opener. I still play this record a ton. My version of Rex drove us to at least 5 more of their shows in his mom's Buick... we were also the coolest nerds.

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Goldfinger, that's another gem in the rough! I'd forgotten about them but that self-titled first album was awesome. I must have that CD laying around here somewhere...

There's no shame in music. It's an experience that requires a specific time and place for each of us, and when we hear something that speaks to us, then we gotta go with it. If not we'll miss out on all kinds of cool shit. Own that wacky music background!

The music I listen to regularly always shifts and changes, but some music I love because it brings me back to a time and place. It's like the closest thing to time travel for me 🤣
 
No work from home today, so my morning commute soundtrack was
Cave-In - Jupiter
Tom Waits - Anthology of Tom Waits
A Place To Bury Strangers - Hologram
 
peccary said:
I was never a big ska fan, but living in Orange County, CA during the 90's it was like ska central. My buddy Rex, who I mentioned above, was a ska nut. The good thing about ska at that time (at least where I lived) was that it was pretty much all about young people (jr. high and high school) and so I went to a bunch of free ska shows at coffee shops around town. It was good to have that, even if I wasn't the biggest fan of the music.

While I never really considered myself a fan of ska, I did like Reel Big Fish. I don't really listen to them much, but I still think that Beer is a pretty rad song, and their guitar player is pretty damn good.

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Love the bass tone


Right now I'm listening to multiple versions of "There Will Never Be Another You"; Even listened to some very talented ukulele-player's version.
Music Harry Warren
Lyrics Mack Gorden
1942
— have to learn it for a quick short-term project, but don't know who's on the gig: a female singer channeling Ella? Keys? Guitar? Some very different versions out there...


Man, Oscar Peterson is the shazizzle — after a stroke with mainly just his right hand he still kills it! Niels-Henning Ørsted-Pedersen on bass, blistering! Who's the undersung geetar slinger? Lorne Lofsky, that's who. Hard-swingin' drummer is Martin Drew.






Also for my own listening enjoyment Quincy Jones "Boo's Blues", gotta love Quincy! — Julian Lage also does a killer version of Jones' tune.


Lage is so tasty here, with a killer groove laid down for him by Dave King (drums) & Jorge Roeder (uprighteous!).
 
Oscar Peterson could play piano with his face and it would still crush. Also, Dave King is amazing. His playing on Iron Man was always an excellent gateway drug to jazz for the "metal and only metal" kids I used to teach. "I'm not saying metal bad, jazz good. I'm saying metal good, jazz good, learn everything."

 
Eels are one of the best bands to come out of the 90's. Cool factoid: Mark Oliver Everett's dad was Hugh Everett, the physicist who first thought of the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum physics and is basically the reason Rick and Morty exist.

 
Looking at my play count, John Wizards has been in constant rotation over the last few years. I just wish they had more albums, anybody know of other soukous/shangaan electro influenced guitar pop I can check out?

 
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Fuck man, I love Cleaners from Venus! Martin's entire discography is littered with gems, but with 30+ albums I feel like I find new favorites all the time. Same with R. Stevie Moore. Those guys would have benefited from a Louder than Bombs-style compilation to ease the intro for casual listeners.
 
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