Go Bananas

 This was a ska band from Bavaria, Germany. Very little is known about them and the only reason I know they were from Bavaria is thanks to Burn Heart from In Search of the Ska. 

This image has nothing to do with the band itself, just a sticker I found on eBay.

There are four tracks I'm assuming I must have gotten from MySpace many years ago but I don't remember exactly. Sadly the quality sucks but that's all I got. Here they are in incredible 52 kbps. 

1 Gobwithchilli

2 Right Now Finish

3 Silency

4 Your Town

 

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The Lidds - A Ska Outfit (1995)

 The Lidds was a ska band from Philadelphia who were known for not rehearsing in private but every rehearsal they had was open to an audience. Every show they performed was basically a band rehearsal. More bands need to do this. 

When I was younger some of the best shows I have ever seen were band rehearsals when the band invited people to watch them rehearse and it always started out for the first hour or so as a serious band rehearsal but morphed into a party a couple hours later. 

Ah...the good ol' days. 

 This tape is a live recording. I don't think they ever recorded in a studio. This recording is available on Bandcamp but it's not complete. This download here is for the complete tape including "Rudi, a Message to You" and "Rat Race" which are not on the Bandcamp version. "Rudi..." is a cover song but, surprisingly, "Rat Race" is not.

1 Liberty

2 Revenge

3 Dumb Stormtrooper

4 Me with You

5 Roadkill Restaurant

6 Funky Smell

7 Rudi, A Message to You

8 Character

9 Attitude

10 I Wanted it All

11 San Francisco

12 Rio

13 There for Me

14 Rat Race 

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Verska-Vis - Danse L'Espace (1992)

 

1 Go Out Anymore

2 Do the Dog

3 Qu'est-ce Qui ne Tourne pas Rond Chez Moi?

4 Give Her

5 Time Hard

6 Get Crazy

7 A Message to You Rudy

8 Cure the Redeem 

 

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Alerte à Skalibu - Train to Alphonsoville (1999)

 

1 Train to Alphonsoville

2 Darling

3 Hooligangsters

4 Eldorado Ska 

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Esperanza

 

This is a ska band from Glasgow, Scotland

 Esperanza - Permanent Ska (2011)

1 Screwface

2 Be Brave

3 No Zion I

4 Pontiac Skank

5 The Lesson

6 Headliner

7 Talk About It

8 Mr. Rude

9 T3

10 Allergy 

11 Troubled Lands

12 Where You Gonna Go?

 

 

 

 

 Esperanza - Back On Hope Street (2016)

1 Glimmer

2 2-Tone Ain't Dead

3  One Man Down

4 Between the Sheets

5 Forget It

6 Inevitable

7 Naysayers Delight

8 Sunday Morning

9 Always Gonna Wonder

10 All You Wanted

11 As Day Turns Into Night

12 Weirdo

 

 

 

 Esperanza - Better Late Than Never (2022)

1 Better Late Than Never

2 Welcome to the Shite Show

3 Waiting for Billie

4 Trouble

5 Jean

6 Nobody's Friend

7 PRW

8 Bored

9 G12

10 Safe

11 At Large

12 Skallabye

 

 

 

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Babayaga [Germany]

 Babayaga - Heiss (2008)

1 Summer Ska

2 Live Dabei

3 Nase Im Wind

4 Hardcore

5 Zieh ab

6 On ne Veut pas Arreter

7 Proberaum

8 Sandra

9 Babayaga

10 Rosen für Dich 

11 Sweet

 

 

 

Babayaga - Funky Drop (2010)

1 I am a Train

2 Mellow Mood

3 Funky Drop

4 Life Hustle

5 Mafia

6 You Better Go

7 Yesterday Night

8 Hippie

9 Sweet

10 Motherless Child

11 Dos Alemanes Muertos

12 Der Traurige Clown

13 Sommawaso

 

 

 

 Babayaga - Night Owl (2018)

1 Night Owl

2 Being a Bum

3 Mad Man

4 Fool's Gold

5 Do it Again

6 Trouble

7 Two Two Tango

8 Batman

9 Reggae Got Soul

10 Red Headed Woman

11 High and Low 

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