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mziemba
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response 125 of 206:
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Oct 26 17:29 UTC 1997 |
Hmmmm...it's almost 1p, now...maybe I'll flip on the radio...
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jiffer
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response 126 of 206:
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Oct 27 03:36 UTC 1997 |
i heard that! I didn't know they did some of the music for the English
Peteint, great movie with great music.
I am currently getting interested in Egyptian vocalistic music... so if you
know anything, casn recomend anything, etc... give me a e of a mail. More
to come as i get educated and aquainted wiht this.
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orinoco
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response 127 of 206:
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Oct 28 23:55 UTC 1997 |
Yeah, let me know what you run across. All I've seen in this regard are some
vocal samples on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - hardly a representative
sample -but I'm quite curious.
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krj
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response 128 of 206:
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Nov 21 19:26 UTC 1997 |
Q for Mike McNally: what, if anything, do you know about a ska anthology
titled THE THIRD WAVE on Shanachie? It was being played in Borders,
sounded kind of catchy...
In general I'd be curious for recommendations for some ska albums which
won't trigger my audiophile allergies... a lot of the classic ska
such as Desmond Dekker seems to have been recorded in lo-fi
circumstances.
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mcnally
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response 129 of 206:
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Nov 22 04:21 UTC 1997 |
I'm afraid lo-fi is pretty much what you get with the best early ska
recordings -- the musicians recorded in tiny studios under less-than-ideal
conditions on shoestring budgets and until fairly late in the game when
some of the bigger producer figures dominated the recording scene
production was minimal and primitive. Chris Goosman might be better
qualified to comment on this than I am, seeing as he's both a ska fan
*and* a recording-engineer-type-person..
I don't know anything specifically about "The Third Wave" but usually
"Third Wave" ska is fairly recent (the original Jamaican ska was the
first wave, the Two Tone bands like The Specials & The (English) Beat
were the second, and the third wave encompasses as much as late 80's
to the present..) I'm more into "first wave" ska than any of the others,
however I'd be more than happy to put together a listening list and a
stack of CDs for you to borrow..
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orinoco
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response 130 of 206:
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Nov 23 17:34 UTC 1997 |
Hmm...Most ska fans I know tend to be pretty insulting towards Third Wave,
but I really haven't heard much earlier to compare it to, so I wouldn't know
myself.
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mcnally
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response 131 of 206:
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Nov 23 18:30 UTC 1997 |
It tends to work better live. I don't think the third wave recordings
have the staying power of the classic first wave stuff (or even that of
the 2nd wave stuff, much of which still sounds good to me..)
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diznave
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response 132 of 206:
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Nov 24 20:03 UTC 1997 |
Dan, I recommend some of The Wailers early stuff. They made some good 'first
wave' ska. Its fairly easy to find. I think there's even some on Bob Marley's
box set.
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mcnally
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response 133 of 206:
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Nov 25 14:48 UTC 1997 |
(Dan?)
I'm a Skatalites fanatic. Haven't been wowed by anything they've done
lately but I think their early work was the backbone of the ska scene.
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krj
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response 134 of 206:
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Nov 25 17:45 UTC 1997 |
Oh dear. And here I am listening to The Skatalites/HI-BOP SKA,
billed as "The 30th Anniversary Recording," from 1994.
I picked this one out because it has jazz player Monty Alexander
playing on piano on several tracks, and Leslie & I like him a lot.
The sound quality is beautiful, heh. There was another recording
over at Flat Black & Circular, which was supposed to be most of
The Skatalites playing under a different name -- maybe I'll go pick
that up after lunch.
(For some odd reason, some of my shopping has been influenced by
mcnally this month.)
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mcnally
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response 135 of 206:
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Nov 26 02:14 UTC 1997 |
My birthday's in November so that's when my amazing mind-control
powers are at their peak.
There's nothing particularly wrong with "Hi-Bop Ska", especially if
you're not familiar with the earlier stuff. I just think the earlier
stuff is more creative and energetic, at this point in their careers
they don't have a lot new to say. They still put on a great show, though..
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goose
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response 136 of 206:
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Nov 26 19:14 UTC 1997 |
That is soooooo true Mike. I consider myself to be *extremely* luck to have
actually seen the Skatalites once, but I've been able to see them nearly a
half a dozen times. In some ways it's like watching my grandfather on stage.
The 'lo-fi'-ness of the "first wave" or "traditional" ska is just a symptom
of the recording conditions of the day in Jamaica. Also, the fact that many
of the versions that get released are many generations removed from the
'original masters'. The technology they were using in the early to mid 60's
was roughly equal to what the US had in the early 50's. The music shines
through in any case.
I'd pretty much follow Mike's Ska Timeline (tm) with a small exception at the
end. Third wave I'd hazard ended in the early 90's (92ish) and now most
modern ska is a blend of genres i.e. Ska-Core, or Punk-Ska. A good example
of post-third wave is The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, or Buck O'Nine.
Locally we have an excellent outfit called the Articles who are more in the
traditional vein of Ska with a little third wave thrown in.
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orinoco
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response 137 of 206:
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Nov 26 23:17 UTC 1997 |
I've heard people refer to a 'fourth wave' of Ska - would the Ska-Core, etc.
that you refer to be what they're talking about?
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goose
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response 138 of 206:
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Nov 27 05:15 UTC 1997 |
yep, sorry. i meant to mention the new ska is the 'fourth wave'
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orinoco
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response 139 of 206:
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Nov 27 19:32 UTC 1997 |
Aha. It all becomes clear.
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eeyore
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response 140 of 206:
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Nov 29 08:30 UTC 1997 |
Well, I'm a little disappointed in Mark now...:) Unless I scanned past it,
he never mentioned Seamus Egan....If any of you have seen the movie Brothers
McMullen, He did all of the music for it, plus as done instruomental
backgrounds for many other artists. He's a Celtic instomentulist....plays
probably 10 or more instroments....Wonderful music...:)
There's a german a-capella group calle Prinzen that's really wonderful...but
I don't know if it's possible to get any of their stuff in America...
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krj
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response 141 of 206:
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Dec 1 05:11 UTC 1997 |
Probably any mention of Seamus Egan would be in the Celtic music item.
We must keep our pigeonholes straight and tidy!
Wednesday, I picked up that other ska album I'd mentioned, TRICIA & THE
SUPERSONICS. Supposedly the Supersonics are the Skatalites under
another name. This disc seems fairly lifeless to me; Tricia sounds
like she was recorded using authentic early 60's Jamaica studio
technology.
There's a party denizen named TwoTone who thinks most stuff on the
Moon Ska records label should be pretty good, but this album was a bust.
I did hear, at Schoolkids today, a decent-sounding compilation of the
Skatalites; this is new on one of the Rounder Records imprints, a
2-CD set.
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mziemba
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response 142 of 206:
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Dec 1 06:00 UTC 1997 |
We have a Celtic music item? Gosh, I didn't even know...
I saw Solas when they were in town a year or so ago. Ms. Horan, their
fiddler, was very generous and spent quite a bit of time talking with some
folks after the show. I've been meaning to pick up a Cherish the Ladies
album, sometime (another band that Horan was in).
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mziemba
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response 143 of 206:
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Dec 1 06:00 UTC 1997 |
And, wow...thanks for coming over, Megan!
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orinoco
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response 144 of 206:
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Dec 1 21:55 UTC 1997 |
Of course we have a celtic music item, silly.
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lumen
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response 145 of 206:
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Dec 2 07:11 UTC 1997 |
I'm sure Mark was being sarcastic..haven't you posted over there, Mark?
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mziemba
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response 146 of 206:
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Dec 2 16:15 UTC 1997 |
No, I haven't, actually. But that's easily corrected...
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diznave
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response 147 of 206:
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Dec 3 17:40 UTC 1997 |
Actually, can anybody think of a style of music that we *don't* have an item
for? We appear to have quite the diverse selection.
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orinoco
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response 148 of 206:
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Dec 4 02:32 UTC 1997 |
Australian? Polka? Gregorian Chant?
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mcnally
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response 149 of 206:
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Dec 4 05:35 UTC 1997 |
re #147: You don't want to throw out a challenge like that in this
newsgroup, really..
there're plenty of styles for which we don't have a corresponding item,
including many of my favorites. we do get around to discussing quite
a lot, though..
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