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Hard Band For Dead
''Hard Band for Dead'' is the sixth studio album by The Toasters. Track listing # "2-Tone Army" - 3:19 # "Talk Is Cheap" - 3:11 # "Friends" - 2:56 # " Secret Agent Man" - 2:40 # "Chuck Berry" - 2:38 # "Mouse" - 3:44 # "Hard Man Fe Dead" - 3:05 # "Don't Come Running" - 3:13 # "Properly" - 2:44 # "Maxwell Smart" - 1:58 # "I Wasn't Going To Call You Anyway" - 3:01 # "Speak Your Mind" - 3:11 # "Skaternity" - 2:41 # "Dave Goes Crazy" - 2:07 Reception AllMusic praised ''Hard Band for Dead'' for being a good example of third wave ska Ska (; ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walk ... while honoring music that came before The Toasters. Charts References {{Authority control 1996 albums The Toasters albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Toasters
The Toasters are one of the original American second wave of ska bands. Founded in New York City in 1981, the band has released nine studio albums, primarily through Moon Ska Records. History Englishman Robert "Bucket" Hingley relocated to New York City in 1980, where he managed that city's Forbidden Planet comic book store location. Hingley formed the Toasters in 1981 after seeing the Beat perform at the Roseland Ballroom. The group's first live show was supporting Bad Brains at A7 in 1981. One of the original second-wave ska bands, the early Toasters lineup included other employees of the Forbidden Planet store. The group self-released their first single, "Beat Up", in 1983. They recorded their Joe Jackson-produced debut EP, ''Recriminations'', in 1985. After failing to find a label to release it, Hingley formed his own label Moon Ska Records. The group collaborated further with Jackson on later albums and in live shows. Jackson had known Hingley since 1978, and appeared o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moon Ska Records
Moon Ska Records was one of the most influential ska record labels of the 1980s and 1990s. The label operated from 1983 until 2000, and during those seventeen years, only released ska and ska-influenced music. Originally named ''Moon Records'', as a tribute to Sun Records, the label changed its name to ''Moon Ska Records'' because another label owned the copyright to the ''Moon Records'' name. The label was started by Robert "Bucket" Hingley, founding member of The Toasters as a means to distribute albums by The Toasters. The label became an American source for many British ska import albums. History The label rose to prominence in the early 1990s by releasing albums by many of the ska genre's biggest acts, such as The Toasters, The Slackers, Hepcat (band), Hepcat, The Scofflaws, Mephiskapheles, The Pietasters and the debut album of Dance Hall Crashers — as well as many up and coming bands such as Spring Heeled Jack USA, Spring Heeled Jack and Mustard Plug. The label also promote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert "Bucket" Hingley
Robert "Bucket" Hingley is lead singer and guitarist for the ska band the Toasters. Early life Robert Hingley was born in Weymouth, Dorset in the United Kingdom in 1955. His family relocated regularly due to his father's career in the British Army and as such Hingley spent much of his early life abroad living in Germany, Cyprus, Kenya, Singapore and France. His roots are largely in Devonshire, hailing from a long line of Huxtables on his mother's side. His great grandfather, Charles, was one of the last of the great Appledore shipwrights. Charlie Huxtable's brother Richard was technical advisor to the clinker-built replicas of the Golden Hind (Sir Francis Drake) and the Mayflower. His great great uncle, Captain Oates, was a member of the ill-fated Scott 1912 expedition to the South Pole. Education Due to his father's military commitments Hingley attended Drake's Mead boarding school and Tavistock Comprehensive in the United Kingdom before entering the University of York in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dub 56
''Dub 56'' is the fifth album released by the ska group The Toasters. It was released at a time in which ska punk Ska punk (also spelled ska-punk) is a fusion genre that mixes ska music and punk rock music together. (sometimes spelled skacore) is a subgenre of ska punk that mixes ska with hardcore punk. Early ska punk mixed both 2 tone and ska with hardc ... was looking to break into the mainstream. Track listing - Original #"Direction" – 2:43 #"Freedom" – 4:07 #"Mona" – 3:05 #"Dancin'" – 3:28 #"Dub 56" – 2:45 #"Sweet Cherie" – 3:52 #"Tunisia" – 2:35 #"Little Hidden Secrets" – 2:49 #"Marlboro Man" – 2:50 #"Ain't Nuthin" – 3:13 #"Razor Cut" – 3:14 #"Legal Shot" - 3:18 #"Midnight Hour" – 2:32 #"Goody Goody" - 2:18 Track Listing - Special Edition *Disc 1 #"Direction" – 2:43 #"Freedom" – 4:07 #"Mona" – 3:05 #"Dancin'" – 3:28 #"Dub 56" – 2:45 #"Sweet Cherie" – 3:52 #"Tunisia" – 2:35 #"Little Hidden Secrets" – 2:49 #"Marlboro Man" – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down
''Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down'' is the seventh studio album by The Toasters. It has a much more mature sound than their previous albums and wasn't as solely focused on one genre ( 2-Tone) as their other albums before it had been. The album's cover includes the supposed-Latin motto, "'' Illegitimis non carborundum''", which is supposed to mean "one must not be ground down by the bastards", although it is largely faux-Latin, with "carborundum" (intended to look like a Latin gerundive) actually referring to silicon carbide Silicon carbide (SiC), also known as carborundum (), is a hard chemical compound containing silicon and carbon. A semiconductor, it occurs in nature as the extremely rare mineral moissanite, but has been mass-produced as a powder and crystal sin ..., a type of abrasive. Track listing Personnel *Dave Barry – keyboards *George Evageliou – engineer *Rick Faulkner – trombone *Rob "Bucket" Hingley – guitar, vocals *Jafo – design, illustratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers Song)
"Secret Agent Man" is a song written by P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri. The most famous recording of the song was made by Johnny Rivers for the opening titles of the American broadcast of the British spy series ''Danger Man'', which aired in the U.S. as ''Secret Agent'' from 1964 to 1966. Rivers's version peaked at #3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and #4 on the Canadian RPM chart, one of the biggest hits of his career. Numerous covers and adaptations have been recorded since then with the song becoming both a rock standard and one of Johnny Rivers's signature songs. History According to composer P.F. Sloan, the American television network that licensed ''Danger Man'', CBS, solicited publishers to contribute a 15-second piece of music for the opening of the U.S. show to replace the small section of the British theme, an instrumental by Edwin Astley entitled "High Wire", which started each episode. CBS executives were worried the show might not be successful without a "hummable" th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Albums
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