When I first went to college, the dude in the room next door had this mix-tape of all this ska music. English Beat, Madness, Selecter, X-ray Specs, the Specials. Man, we played the hell out of that tape, in the car, at the beach, at the dorm parties, everywhere.
I remember we called it "The Black Tape," 'cause it was just this beat up old black cassette with no label on it or anything. Eventually it got eaten in the baja bug's cassette player and we were super bummed.
I'm ashamed to admit now it was pretty much my first introduction to ska. I had a lot of Black Flag and Sex Pistols and Zappa and Zepp and Floyd, but ska was a whole new thing for me, and it was perhaps the first time I really started wearing funny clothes and acting weird just because of some music I'd heard. Here's the tune that sold me on the Specials.
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