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The Ska Parade is perhaps the most widely
known Ska radio show in the
country. That has enabled Albino Brown and Tazy Phillips, at the helm of
Ska Parade, to put together a wide variety of
sounds in the second Ska
Parade compilation. I cannot put my finger on
it, but I have never gone
in
for compilations. I've always had a collectors way of buying
music, with an all or nothing view of music, that has excluded
compilations as a sort of a cop-out. Runnin' Naked Thru the
Cornfield, however, is an exception
I have made. A very eclectic collection of
songs, it is not for
the un-initiated of the ska scene. Although
giving some of the scenes
best acts free reign, it is not a primer in the
sounds of ska. For those
who know the ins and outs of what they like in ska it is a must
have, as it includes things that you will not
find anywhere. A few of
the gems on this collection include two BoitoVision tracks
with Hepcat's Greg Lee, and Jump With Joey's
pianist Mike Boito- Big Bamboo and Reincarnation; two Equators
tracks- Softly Softly featuring Angelo Moore, and Ageof 5 featuring Dave Wakeling;
Big 6's Groovey Geezer; and Jump With Joey's Fun at King King. For us TwoTone types the CD offers
Dave Wakeling and Bang! doing Two Swords, and in an odd
twist of fate The Specials doing Farmyard Connection originally recorded by Fun Boy
Three. For those of us who
remember The Vengers, Uniform of Destruction by Reel Big Fish
drags
up
painful memories when they sing of going to
Seattle. The varied
collection is accompanied by a very complete,
informative, but at times
fragmented liner notes. On the whole, though,
I really enjoyed Runnin' Naked Thru the Cornfield. It is available
at shows or can be ordered through the Ska Parade
website.
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