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Skankin' Pickle - Sing Along With LP NEW
Sold Date:
March 26, 2017
Start Date:
April 23, 2016
Final Price:
$21.99
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Skankin' Pickle - Sing Along With LP NEW
Skankin' Pickle - Sing Along With LP NEW
Skankin' Pickle - Sing Along With LP
New. Album arrived unsealed.
San Francisco's had bad timing, hitting the peak of their powers just before ska became the next big thing in the late 1990s, and failing (perhaps not even trying) to capitalize on their sudden, if brief, popularity. The band made a number of fine albums on its own Dill Records label, and this is one of the best. When many other ska-punk bands went the easy route with faster-than-thou shout-alongs and odes to beer, incorporated swing rhythms and dub textures into their songs while exploring such themes as family life ("Watch Your Tone"), slacker culture ("20 Nothing"), and female comedians ("It's Margaret Cho"). The best songs are those by guitarist ("Rotten Banana Legs") and, especially, Mike "Bruce Lee" Park ("Onyonghasayo," "Pabu Boy"), who has a monstrous way with a hook. (Park later left to form his own label, Asian Man Records, and his own .) At the end of the program is a hidden track, a weird sort of -ish heavy metal excursion layered with samples á la . There is also one ode to beer, the charmingly titled "Thick Ass Stout." It's an instrumental.
Asian Man Records
