Skatepunk

• Title: Tube Station
• Artist: Contribution
• Year: 2005
• Length: 0:45 minutes (711.96 KB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

Worked World used to break down some songs to the core section -- the most important section of the song, and Contribution has carried on the tradition. Here's a cool version recorded very live, with very little mixing, of The Jam's Down In The Tube Station At Midnight.

• Title: Bed Intruder
• Artist: Antoine Dodson Auto Tune Hero
• Album: 2008
• Year: 2010
• Length: 3:08 minutes (4.3 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)

This song is so genius and so funny and awesome. The story behind it is great. This guy was on the news because someone tried to rape his sister, in the projects in Mississippi, I think. He was on the news, his persona is a catalyst for controversy, and some folks took his words from the news and used Auto-Tune to "songify" them, added a background track, and voila, a catchy song! And now the guys rolling in the dough, which is awesome, too. Something good came out of it, he moved his family out of the ghetto into a nice home. Awesome.

• Title: New Youth Kool
• Artist: 100 Watt Halo
• Album: The Steady Continental Seventy
• Year: 1996
• Length: 3:42 minutes (4.24 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

New Youth Kool is from the Goldenrod Records 4-song 7" EP from 1995, GR31, still available through Goldenrod Records. Produced by Mark Waters. 100 Watt Halo was Brock, Marshall, Ben and Gabe.

• Title: Grim and Sexy
• Artist: 100 Watt Halo
• Album: The Steady Continental Seventy
• Year: 1996
• Length: 3:38 minutes (4.17 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Grim and Sexy from 100 Watt Halo's "The Steady Continental Seventy" recorded by Mark Trombino, produced by Mark Waters.

• Title: Cut With Diamonds�
• Artist: 100 Watt Halo�
• Album: The Steady Continental Seventy�
• Year: 1996�
• Length: 3:24 minutes (3.9 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

From "The Steady Continental Seventy" on Goldenrod Records, recorded by Mark Trombino, produced by Mark Waters.

• Title: Larry Calls Target
• Artist: Larry Perkins
• Album: Larry Perkins
• Length: 7:21 minutes (8.41 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Larry calls Target and inquires about a spot on their skate team.

• Title: Larry Theotis
• Length: 3:16 minutes (3.74 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Larry trying to come up on Theotis, and it's almost criminal how nice Theotis is, talking to a guy he obviously doesn't know...

• Title: larry kfc
• Length: 2:05 minutes (2.39 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

Tough times, tougher measures -- Larry resorts to having to work, or at least try to work, at the KFC on Elvis Presley Blvd. Nice to hear that Larry's back!

• Title: A U.K.
• Artist: Faction
• Album: Collection 2- The Uncollectable
• Length: 2:36 minutes (2.98 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

This is another song that was decided would not be included on the band's discography CD. It was released on the Thrasher Skate Rock Vol. 1 cassette in 1983 and not on anything else. It was a reaction to the factions within the Northern California punk scene that worshiped all the English bands and styles of the time. A.U.K. stood for Anti-U.K. and I think by 1994, when we did the CD, it just was not relevant anymore. I can't remember all the lyrics, but here are most of them:

AUK! AUK! AUK!
A little island way far away
That's loved and admired in the USA
England's scene it's cool for them
But here it just creates a bunch of problems
People here wear circle As
Right beside it the flag of the UK
Circle A--no government that's quite clear
So what's the Union Jack still doing here?

A-U.K. means anti-UK
United Kingdom go away
Remember you live in the USA
England's stale anyway

I don't care what Wattie says
Fuck the UK is what I say
They're just jealous they can't see
What in the world is the SPG?
Dump on the Irish for 800 years
Can't they see they're not wanted there?
Australian fields red with blood
Their English masters had to have guns

A-UK means anti-UK
United Kingdom go away
Remember you live in the USA
England's stale anyway

Their scene's divided by the punks and skins
We are united, always will
Phoney division made by our underground press
That we too are divided and we're in distress
Some English groups aren't even bands
They sound like a bunch of pots and pans
Cry about a war that doesn't exist
Americans are hated, we still persist.

A-U.K. means anti-UK
United Kingdom go away
Remember you live in the USA
England's stale anyway

A little island way far away
That's loved and admired in the USA
England's scene it's cool for them
But here it just creates a bunch of problems
People here wear the circle A
Right beside it the flag of the UK
Circle A--no government that's quite clear
So what's the Union Jack still doing here?

A-UK means anti-UK
United Kingdom go away
Remember you live in the USA
England's stale anyway

• Title: You Are Here
• Artist: Faction
• Album: Collection 2- The Uncollectable
• Length: 3:38 minutes (4.17 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

This song was definitely not one of Gavin's favorites -- he really did not want it on the Collection CD I put out. I sorta understand, lyrically it's not his strongest, but the bass is rad and the guitar parts work cool. Anyway, it's only available on a limited basis, so I thought I'd share...