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Haha, seriously. I think my central nervous system would actually explode.

Recently, I've bought Donkey Kong 64, MLB featuring Ken Griffey Jr., Hybrid Heaven, and Mario Golf. Combined, I payed less than I would've for a new PS2 game... and I'm having a blast with all of em.

A few people I know saw the Slackers play a show on a cruise ship a few days ago. They said it was an awesome show, and it was quite interesting to try and dance while the boat was swaying .

I really can't get into any of the hardcore/ska stuff I've heard. I just don't think the horns mesh well with the heavy guitar riffs and screaming. And if you want to talk about favorite ska albums of all time, I gotta make a mention of The Suicide Machines' "Destruction by Definition", and Operation Ivy's "Energy".

This man's got the right idea. Best tracks, overall though, are 'The Velorium Camper I, II & III'. Especially The Faint Of Hearts. I don't see where the similarity between The Mars Volta and Coheed is drawn, apart from the fact that Claudio and Cedric have similar ranges in which they mainly sing. A lot of Coheed fans do like the Volta though. While we're in a topic like this, does anyone in the UK have the comic-book, and would be willing to sell it to me? ←

Haha, Warzone played nothing like No Mercy. Still, the price is right. One thing though, the No Mercy cartridge I have is black, and that one is gray. Does that have something to do with the reissuing of the game, or is it just nothing of importance?

You definitely gotta listen to "Here's to Life" by Streetlight, it's a masterpiece. Whoo, where exactly do you live? I'm on Long Island (until I leave for college in August), and there's a pretty good amount of local ska bands around here. We also get a lot of the NJ bands playing here pretty often, so it's pretty cool. And yeah, Big D is ridiculous. I saw them open for Streetlight last year, and they were great live. A few of my favorites: Catch 22 (Keasbey Nights is one of my favorite albums of all time) Reel Big Fish Rx Bandits Streetlight Manifesto The Arrogant Sons of Bitches (on hiatus ) High School Football Heroes Bomb the Music Industry! Big D and the Kids Table The Superspecs I Voted For Kodos And a load more locals, etc. Hopefully we can get a good multi-person discussion going here, that'd be cool.

So I saw someone in another thread mention something about Streetlight Manifesto and Catch 22, and it got me wondering how many ska fans we have on this board? And if you're a fan, what's the local scene like where you live/who are some of your favorite bands? Also, I know there are a lot of people who hate ska and everything associated with it, so if those people could not yell at me for posting this, that'd be pretty cool.

Nobody's said April 26, 1992 yet?

What CAW sites do you guys use? I've found a few ok ones, but I was just wondering if anybody knew of any that I haven't found yet.

You need an Expansion Pack.

Damn, that is some pretty huge news. Wish I lived over there, I'd love to go see them.

If you enjoy Ani and the like, you'll probably end up liking Jay Tea. He's a local solo acoustic act (who plays keyboard in a number of local ska bands... he's even in my sig! But that's beside the point) who does a lot of folkish acoustic songs, including some Ani covers, as well as acoustic versions of his bands' songs, and a bunch of awesome original stuff. Here's his Myspace, where I'm pretty sure you'd be able to find a way to order his album (5 bucks for 19 tracks, it's well worth it). http://www.myspace.com/jaytea Let me know what you think.

At the Drive-In - This System Is Non-Operational (Anthology) Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory System of a Down - Mezmerize Gorillaz - Demon Days Mae - The Everglow The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes (Single)

Check out Streetlight Manifesto's cd "Everything Goes Numb", for my money one of the best ska albums ever made (and I'm a huge ska fan).

!!! - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Krazee The Faint - Danse Macabre LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations Head Automatica - Dance Party Plus Those are some of my favorites.

Is that Claudio's side project? If it is, can you tell me where I can get some of their stuff? ←

Ah okay, I thought that was just a link to some guy's website who has his copy hosted there. Thanks.

Shouldn't there be an official download for EWR 4.0 somewhere that doesn't have a messed up DATA file?

A Perfect Circle's cover of "Love Song" by The Cure The Postal Service's cover of "Suddenly Everything Has Changed" by The Flaming Lips The Arrogant Sons of Bitches (local ska band) cover a bunch of Radiohead songs, all of which are awesome - "2+2=5", "Airbag", "Paranoid Android", "My Iron Lung", "Fitter Happier", and "No Surprises". I liked Boy Sets Fire's cover of "Fade To Black" by Metallica... until they sang the wrong lyrics at the end of the song. Totally ruined what would've been a pretty cool cover. Quite a bit of Me First and the Gimme Gimmies' songs that I've heard are pretty cool... "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", "Mandy", and "Hotel California" (especially the added horn line) to name a few. One cover I cannot stand is Korn's cover of Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall". I didn't realize quite how much I hated it until I listened to it and then listened to the original (all 3 parts in succession), it just doesn't compare.

Well all I know about him is he's in a tag team with Cade Sydal, who actually posts on these boards. It's not that big of a deal, I was just thinking about using them as a tag team and it would've been nice to know what he looked like, but meh. Cheers on the other pics though, very nice indeed.

These are really cool... do you happen to have pics of: Chris Sydal Kane (masked - either old school mask or more recent is fine) Psychosis (masked) Thanks a lot.