Burnt CD Vault Volume #3

So I've made my triumphant return to update the blog no one reads. Aren't you excited, oh blog audience of 0? I know I am.

Alright our next burnt CD comes straight to us from sometime in the summer of 2002 or maybe in the spring, I dunno but anyway...it's old. The CD is entitled "90% Ska" although judging by the track listing it's more like 79.6% Ska but whatever. And then there is the debate over whether half of that percentage is really considered ska. Hey, my 17-year-old small town self had to discover all non-top 40 music on my own relying on allmusic.com and Rolling Stone magazine, so cut me some slack. Anyway moving on to the tracks.


1. INXS- "Never Tear Us Apart"

Wow good move. Let's start a cd that is supposed to be mostly ska with a song that's not ska. Anyway this is a really good song. I always loved that line "If we could fly, cuz we all have wings but some of us dunno whyyyyyyyyy" I'm not sure why but at 17 it really spoke to me. Sweet sax solo. There's the ska connection. Just kidding.

2. Save Ferris- "I Know"
This song is pretty lame but it makes me wanna jump. "And I know. Know! Cuz you said so and I can't just let chu go" Wasn't this song in one of those late nineties teen movies?

3. Inner Circle- "Bad Boys"
COPS! Haha I remember when I was a kid I used to sing this to my brother and my mom got mad because she said it would confuse him because he would think he was being bad when he wasn't or something.

4. Fishbone-"Ugly"
I think I always skipped through this one for some reason because I don't remember this song at all. Oh well.

5. Nelly Furtado- "Hey Man"
I hated Ms. Furtado at the time. But did I ever love this song for some reason. It's still a pretty good song actually.

6. Less Than Jake- "Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts"
I remember I used to think this song was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Mostly because of the title/chorus. Sweet song though.

7. Madness- "Baggy Trousers"
Ahh the classics. Weird song though. Reminds me of funhouse mirrors for some reason. Always has even though it has nothing to do with funhouses at all.

8. Madness- "Our House"
Madness's "big" song. And by big I mean some people outside of England knew it and it was in some commercials.

9. Pavement- "Fame Throwa"
For the longest time I thought this song was called "Flame Throwa" probably because I mislabeled it on this CD. Even though I've owned Slanted and Enchanted (the album it's on) since shortly after I made this cd I still thought this song was called that until a couple months ago. Sometimes I can't read. Or listen. Since he clearly says "FAME throwa" in the song. Regardless I have no sweet clue what this song is about. But then again, it's Pavement, you're not supposed to know what it means.

10. Reel Big Fish- "Thank You For Not Moshing"
My roomate and I have pretty different taste in music. While we have some things in common the rest of what she listens to I generally don't know and vice versa. Well one day she was randomly listening to this song and I started singing along from down the hall. She was like "How do YOU know this song?". Well because either allmusic suggested it as ska or WinMX (hahaha winmx!) brought it up under ska. I guess I'm just full of surprises.

11. Madness- "It Must Be Love"
This song is pretty lame. "Nothing more, nothing less. Love is the best." haha

12. No Doubt- "Move On"
I loved this song when they performed it on the MuchMusic 1997 Intimate and Interactive (see previous entry). I think it was the only song they did on that that wasn't on Tragic Kingdom.

13. Operation Ivy- "Knowledge"
A little bit of Socrates' wisdom summed up for us all in 1:42. Haha the first time I read Socrates I was like "Man it's like that Operation Ivy song"

14. Pavement- "Stop Breathin'"
Summer of 2002 was the summer of Pavement. I was obsessed. Hmm this is a good song. Might be time to dust off those Pavement albums. :)

15.Reel Big Fish- "Sell Out"
Man this music really makes me want to jump up and down. That would be ill-advised as it is 3:00 AM and I live in an apartment building.

16. Reel Big Fish- "Kids Don't Like It"
No. No they don't.

17. Shania Twain- "You've Got a Way"
SHANIA TWAIN!!?? This song reminds me of weddings since it seems to be every couples first dance. Not mine! Kinda makes me want to be in love though...haha. Was it written by Diane Warren? I bet it was.

18. Pavement- "Starlings of the Slipstream"
Oh Stephen Malkmus I want to marry you. Too bad you are taken.

19. Less Than Jake- "All My Best Friends are Metalheads"
Not a damn thing wrong with that.

20. The Specials- "Too Much Too Young"
You tell that slut Terry Hall!

21. The Specials- "Little Bitch"
Oh The Specials. I bet their live shows were sweet.

22. Sublime- "What I Got"
UGH UGH. This song has been forever ruined by my first year university. Everytime someone had a guitar out they played this and anyone within a 1 km radius started singing along to the whole thing and we all knew all the damn words. Sickening. Oh well at least it's not that terrible "The General" by Dispatch which I haven't heard since first year thank god.

23. Yaz - "Don't Go"
Fuck you Shawn Desman for sampling this synth-pop gem and making it a auditory weapon of mass destruction. In all seriousness I own the Yaz album this came from and it's pretty damn sweet.

24. Talking Heads- "Radio Head"
Allegedly the name sake for a famous band...

Wow that was fun. It made me want to listen to Pavement and Yaz and continue to stay as far from "The General" by Dispatch as I can.