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This article is from the Ska FAQ, by Tomas Willis tomas@twillis.com with numerous contributions by
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2.11: p1 Can anyone recommend some good ska albums for someone who has absolutely no clue about ska?
Here are a few choice titles, with an emphasis on compilations, so
that you can get a feeling for a lot of artists all at once. Thanks to
Evan M. Corcoran [EC], for some of this info. Evan also maintains a
more comprehensive list of ska albums that is aperiodially posted to
alt.music.ska, check it out.
There are some fine reviews to be found at the Lash Out
ska/rocksteady/reggae review page,
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lashout/skar.hrml. Others can be found at
.
The *SKA'mpilations* page has more info, at
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~brianu/2/media/music/ska/skomps.html
Also, the `American Skathic' series, on "Jump Up!", offers an
excellent taste of Midwestern ska. If I can only find my copy, I'll
add it to the list above.
Celebration
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`Celebration: Twenty Five Years Of Trojan Records', *various
artists*, Trojan Records, `CDTRD 413', (1991).
Club Ska 67
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`Club Ska '67', Mango Records, (1980). The contents:
`Guns of Navarone'
The Skatalites
`Phoenix City'
Rolando and the Soul Brothers
`007 (Shanty Town)'
Desmond Dekker
`Broadway Jungle'
The Maytals (as the Flames)
`Contact'
Roy Richards with Baba Brooks
`Guns Fever'
Baba Brooks
`Rub Up, Push Up'
Justin Hines and the Dominoes
`Dancing Mood'
Delroy Wilson
`Stop Making Love'
Gaylads
`Pied Piper'
Rita Marley
`Lawless Street'
The Soul Brothers
`Skaing West'
Sir Lord Comic and his Cowboys
`Copasetic'
The Rulers
The History of Ska
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`The History of Ska, Blue Beat and Reggae', *various artists*,
Esoldun S.A.R.L./Blue Beat, `REG 101', (1992).
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