''Peculiar'' is an album by the

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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 walki ...

band

The Slackers The Slackers are an American ska band, formed in Manhattan, New York in 1991. The band's sound is a mix of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, soul, garage rock, and jazz. The Slackers' notability is credited to their prolific career, tours of Nort ...

. It was released on

Hellcat Records Hellcat Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an offshoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion, the owner of Epitaph, and Tim Armstrong of Rancid, w ...

in 2006.

Track listing

# "86 the Mayo" (

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) – 4:23 # "Peculiar" (Ruggiero) – 4:08 # "Propaganda" (Ruggiero/ Babajian/Geard) – 4:31 # "Crazy" (Ruggiero/The Slackers) – 3:31 # "Set the Girl Free" (Ruggiero) – 2:38 # "In Walked Capo" (

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) – 3:21 # "I'd Rather Die Happy" (Ruggiero) – 2:59 # "What Went Wrong" (Pine) – 3:55 # "Keep It Simple" ( Hillyard/Ruggiero) – 3:05 # "International War Criminal" (Ruggiero) – 3:57 # "Sauron" (Hillyard) – 3:46 # "Rider" (Ruggiero) – 4:02 # "I Shall Be Released" ( B. Dylan) – 4:20

Personnel

The Slackers' players

Ara Babajian Ara Babajian (born July 9, 1972) is an American drummer who has been a member of such bands as Leftöver Crack and The Slackers. Etymology Ara is of Armenian descent, and is named after Ara, an Armenian king. Career Together with Dunia Be ...

– drums * Marcus Geard – bass, stick guitar, backing vocals *

Dave Hillyard "Disco" Dave Hillyard is a Tenor saxophone, tenor saxophonist originating from San Diego, California. He has performed in groups such as The Slackers, The Rocksteady Seven, The Donkey Show (band), The Donkey Show, Hepcat (band), Hepcat, Stubbor ...

–

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

Jay Nugent Jayson Nugent (born 1972; also known as Agent Jay, and Crazy Baldhead) is a guitarist and DJ from New York who plays in the style of several Jamaican music genres. Nugent's experiments with ska, reggae, rocksteady, dub music, and skinhead re ...

–

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

* Glen Pine –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

, vocals *

Vic Ruggiero Victor "Vic" Ruggiero, (also known as Rugaroo, Bad Vic or Lord Sluggo) is a musician, songwriter and producer from New York City who has played in reggae, blues, ska and rocksteady bands since the early 1990s, including The Slackers, Stubb ...

– organ,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, guitar, vocals, etc.

Additional players

* Marc Lyn – backing vocals on 3, 5, 6, 12, 13 * Alex Desert – backing vocals on 1, 5 *

Larry McDonald Lawrence Patton McDonald (April 1, 1935 – September 1, 1983) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1975 until he was killed ...

–

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

on 12, 13 * Sidney Mills – organ on 13 * T.J. Scanlon – guitar on 3, 10, 12, 13 * Susan Walls –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

on 2, 8

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Peculiar (Album) 2006 albums The Slackers albums