Skaboom

Skaboom!
Studio album by
ReleasedOriginal: 1987 (1987)
CD: June 20, 1995
GenreSka
Length37:14
63:54 (Re-release)
LabelCelluloid (original)
Moon Ska Records (1995 re-release)
Megalith Records (2003 re-release)
The Toasters chronology
Skaboom!
(1987)
Thrill Me Up
(1988)
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Skaboom! is an album released by The Toasters originally in 1987 and re-released on a CD in June of 1995. The 1995 released featured an additional eight bonus tracks. The album is often stated as being the origin of modern, or "third-wave" ska in the United States.[citation needed]

Track listing

  1. "Talk Is Cheap" -3:50
  2. "Pool Shark" -3:47
  3. "Weekend in L.A." -4:22
  4. "Shocker!" -4:31
  5. "Toast on the Coast" -2:11
  6. "Manipulator" -3:30
  7. "Mr. Trouble" -3:24
  8. "ABC's" 2:54
  9. "East Side Beat" -3:45
  10. "Now or Never" -3:19
  11. "So Long, Buck" -1:16
Reissue Bonus Tracks
  1. "Renee" -4:07
  2. "Matt Davis" -2:45
  3. "Ideal Man" -3:22
  4. "Naked City" -3:14
    • Tracks 12-15 from the 1987 UK-only album release Pool Shark
  5. "Recrimination" -3:15
  6. "Razor Cut" -3:37
  7. "Run Rudy Run" -4:14
  8. "Radiation Skank" -2:07
    • Tracks 16-19 from the EP Recriminiations, recorded May 1985 & Produced by Joe Jackson (aka Stanley Turpentine)
Megalith Records re-release of Skaboom!.


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