The Ventilators - SKA live cassette demo (1991) [UPDATED LINK]

The Swiss band The Ventilators really is one of my favorite bands. They're right up there with Mr. Review. This tape was recorded when they first started out and it shows how amazing they were from the beginning. From what I know there were less than 100 copies of this tape made and the number of them that exist today is God's own private mystery. There are four songs on it and none of them were ever recorded in the studio. The only way to ever hear these songs is from this tape. Unfortunately my copy is warped pretty badly. I tried my best to adjust the sound to make it listenable but the sound quality sucks. Nothing I can do about it.

Most of you will want to skip this one, but Ventilators fans will truly appreciate it.

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La banda suiza The Ventilators es una de mis bandas favoritas. Están ahí arriba con Mr. Review. Esta cinta fue grabada cuando comenzaron por primera vez y muestra lo increíble que eran desde el principio. Por lo que sé, hubo menos de 100 copias de esta cinta hecha y el número de las que existen hoy en día es el misterio privado de Dios. Hay cuatro canciones en él y ninguno de ellos fueron grabados en el estudio. La única manera de oír estas canciones es de esta cinta. Por desgracia, mi copia está muy deformada. He intentado mi mejor para ajustar el sonido para que sea audible, pero la calidad del sonido es una mierda. No puedo hacer nada al respecto.

La mayoría de ustedes querrán saltarse éste, pero los ventiladores de los Ventilators apreciarán verdad.


1 Jah War
2 In Heaven
3 Take Me Away
4 (Why Don't We) Start a Revolution

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Ngobo Ngobo demos

Ngobo Ngobo - Live cassette demo (featuring Rico Rodriguez) (1990)
1 Katuscha
2 Salomon Gundi
3 Love Pain
4 Shanty Town
5 Way Out
6 Keep On
7 I Feel Fine
8 54-46 (That's My Number)

Ngobo Ngobo - We're Just Kidding (1992 demo cassette)
1 Good Fine Day
2 Good for Nothing Man
3 I Can't Stand It
4 No One Cares
5 Lilly
6 Hello Everybody
7 I Feel Fine
8 Skinhead Moonstomp

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Thanks to skabouy for posting these!

Jammah Tammah - Live in Simplon (live demo tape, 1993)

1 Dr. Liverstone
2 Babba
3 Ik Ben Een Jongen
4 Ze Spuugde Vodka
5 Dance Punky Ding
6 Vodkasong

(Songs 5 and 6 are on a single track)

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The Memos - Drag Me Down 7" (1985) [LINK UPDATED NOVEMBER 26, 2016]

The Memos was a band from Boston who played new wave and the ocassional ska song. Their live shows incorporated lots of covers of the current new wave hits at the time, which they did amazingly well, with several of their own songs and the occasional oldie but goodie thrown in.
Even though these guys could write a great song they only ever released one 2-song 7". Luckily for us the a-side was a ska original called Drag Me Down.

The Memos - Drag Me Down 7"
A - Drag Me Down
B - Childsplay

I would have loved to see these guys in the eighties. Hell, I'd love to see them now.

They had another original ska song called Procrastination Song that never saw a formal release. You can hear a live version of that on this official bootleg which also includes some other originals and some of those amazing covers I mentioned.

The Memos - Live in '85
1 I Saw Her Standing There
2 New Years Day
3 Who Gives
4 My Old Neighborhood
5 Don't You (Forget About Me)
6 Procrastination Song
7 I Will Follow
8 Everybody Wants to Rule the World
9 Stiff Competition
10 Trouble in Doggyland
11 Hang on Sloopy
12 Save it for Later
13 Stir it Up

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Razor Blade - Pirate Station 7" (1981)

Razor Blade was a Dutch pub/glam rock band who only ever released one full-length album and this one single. The A-side is a ska song that (as far as I know) never saw a studio release. The version on this single was recorded live and it is the same version that appeared on the album Recorded Blindfolded. Both were released in 1981. The album did have one other ska-type song called 220 Volts which I have included in this download.

A - Pirate Station
B - Recorded Blindfolded
*220 Volts





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The Blackpools Skampilation volume 1 (1993) cassette

1 King Willy - Watermelon Man
2 King Willy - Storm Warning
3 King Willy - Feelin' High
4 The Israelites - Sally Brown
5 The Israelites - Eternally
6 The Israelites - Roots
7 Orange Street - Rudeboy 3rd Generation
8 Orange Street - Undercover
9 Orange Street - SKA SKA SKA
10 Ye Olde English - Big 5
11 Ye Olde English - I'm Free
12 Ye Olde English - Doobies at Sunrise

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va Alive! Rock City (1980)

Compilation of live recordings from some lesser known California bands including the only recordings that I know of the ska band Two Tones and a reggae song by Ace & the Eights who did release a single which was not ska. I do have it and I wanted to post it when I posted this LP but I can't find it right now. I'll update the link at some point.

1 Lifers - Missing Person
2 Two Tones - Reggae Woman

3 Two Tones - Random Riff
4 Elements of Style - Oh Bob
5 Elements of Style - Sacred Objects
6 JJ10 - Factory Limits
7 Impostors - Trouble
8 Impostors - Leave Me Alone
9 Ultrasheen - Super Bad
10 Ultrasheen - Danceannette
11 Dickheads - (S)he Love You
12 Ace & the Eights - Dead End
13 Ace & the Eights - Touch of Style



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The Kingpins - Lootin' Shootin' and Wailin' 7" (1998)

A - Lootin' Shootin' and Wailin' (live)
B - Do the Ska (live)

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The Papers - Live at Thornham Magna Fair (1983)

1 Fahrenheit in a Centigrade World
2 Miracle
3 Android
4 Dirty Business
5 Telephone
6 The Only One I See
7 Cinerama
8 How Many More
9 Roxy Plays the Wild Card
10 Rescue

"Roxy Plays the Wild Card"

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Club Ska - Live (1986)

Club Ska is an Australian band that only existed for a few years and in that time only released 3 singles.
This bootleg shows what a talented band they really were.

1 Darling Patricia
2 Rub Up, Push Up
3 The Tide is High
4 Soul Shakedown Party
5 It Mek
6 Let Your Yeah be Yeah
7 Intensified
8 Good Thing
9 Miss Jamaica
10 Money Worries
11 Montego Bay
12 Cupid
13 Soon You'll be Gone

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All three singles have been posted previously but if you don't have them, they're HERE



...as usual, much thanks to the original submitter!

I.H. Ska - Live EP (199?)

Here's their official site. 

1 Skankin' Town
2 Tin Tin
3 Cowboy
4 Flung Zum Mond
5 Sex Spider

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The Untouchables - Live at Glastonbury 1985

This is a submission from Rikard who doesn't know himself whether or not this ever saw an actual release or if it was strictly made for use by the BBC.

1 (I Spy for the) FBI
2 Soul Together
3 Freak in the Streets
4 Lasershow
5 Free Yourself
6 Wild Child

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Strange Tenants - Live at Cardiff's Worker's Club (8th December 1984)

1 Two Steps Back
2 Just What You Need
3 Hard Times
4 Shoulder to Shoulder
5 instrumental
6 Cannon Fodder
7 Killer Zombies
8 007 Shantytown
9 Dreaming of You
10 Things are Looking Good
11 I Work at My Machine
12 Temptation Got the Better of Me
13 Not a Crime
14 Grey Skies (Over Collingwood)
15 Soldier Boy*
16 Big Red Bus
17 The Firm
18 This is the U.S.A.
19 One Thirty
20 Rude Boys Outta Jail

http://www.sharebeast.com/39eh8v4hwaeh
        -or-
http://www50.zippyshare.com/v/26520460/file.html

*track 15 Soldier Boy cuts off. It sounds as though this came from a tape that either got chewed up or came to and end in middle of this song.

Thank to the anonymous submitter!!

Blur - Nite Klub (live w/ Terry Hall)

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Strange Tenants - Live at Pharoah's Night Club in Adelaide - 5th of April, 1985

Much thanks to Merrick who will be submitting lots more rare Australian ska in the next several posts!!

1 Cannon Fodder
2 Soldier Boy
3 Just What You Need
4 Shoulder to Shoulder
5 Ball and Chain
6 Two Steps Back
7 Hard Times
8 Afro Beat
9 I Work at My Machine
10 Temptation Got the Better of Me
11 Grey Skies Over Collingwood
12 Killer Zombies
13 007 (Shanty Town)
14 Can't Pretend
15 Born on the Waterfront
16 This is the U.S.A.
17 The Firm
18 Big Red Bus
19 crowd part 1
20 One Thirty
21 Rudeboys Outta Jail
22 crowd part 2
23 Nairobi Airport

http://www.mediafire.com/?d224loqrfwcb2l3

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We Are Stronger (1984)



1 We are Stronger
2 It's My Imagination
3 What She Wants
4 Let Me Be
5 Dreaming of You
6 Ball and Chain

http://www.mediafire.com/?zwpq3xoic999859


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Movin In (1984)



1 I Work at My Machine
2 Shoulder to Shoulder
3 Corporation
4 Big Red Bus
5 This is the U.S.A.
6 Just What You Need
7 Born on the Waterfront
8 I Can't Pretend
9 Nairobi Airport
10 Temptation (Got the Better of Me)

http://www.mediafire.com/?hhsaiuw7h8ly7rz

The Nicks - '89 Live demo cassette

German up-tempo band with 2 Tone sounds.

1 Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
2 All You Black Ones
3 Wodska
4 Apache

"All You Black Ones"


http://www.mediafire.com/?ztk00yy2pm1lnzb

T-Shirts - Live January 19, 1982

...submitted by Rikard

1 (anybody know the title to this song?)
2 Computer Man
3 You Got What it Takes
4 Not Another Love Song
5 Let's Twist Again
6 I'm the Television
7 Dancing in a Glass House
8 Walk on Water

http://www.mediafire.com/?ycn39xh2byz31ey

Rude and Visser - Live in Leipzig (2007)

This has been making the rounds since '07. I have seen it posted here and there and I even posted it on Tone and Wave a couple years back but it seems that it is no longer available anywhere else so if you don't have it yet here you go.

1 Shake and Shiver
2 Prejudice
3 When Feelings Run Too High
4 Fear the River
5 Ice and Snow
6 Letter in the Mail
7 Street Where I'm Living
8 Street Where I'm Living (take 2)
9 Ships that Pass in the Night
10 The Feeling is Alright
11 The Girl is Money
12 Keep the Fire Burning
13 Probation
14 Rainy Day
15 Everyday, Another Day
16 One Way Ticket
17 Christine Keeler
18 Far Away From Here

http://www.mediafire.com/?7l5o11xr3b5m7q5

No Doubt - live at Mod Expo 1987

In no particular order:

(...unless you consider alphabetical to be particular)


*Baggy Trousers
*Bouncin' Shoes
*Get a Life
*Jerros
*Little Something Refreshing
*Mr. Big Stuff
*No Doubt
*Paulina
*Rampage
*Showing Off

http://www.mediafire.com/?084pftfbhmhtati

Bad Manners - live in '95

Rikard sent me this a week or so ago and I never did get around to listening to it yet so I don't have a track listing but it's Bad Manners. You don't need a track listing.
This was a performance at Hultsfredsfestivalen in 1995 that was aired on a Swedish radio station.
It's just under an hour long.

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