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Thanx for Laughing (full title: (Take Your Heart and Stick it on the Fridge) … and Thanx for Laughing) is the sophomore album by the American ska band The Skadaddles, released on Eclectica Music in 1999, distributed in the US by Diamante Music Group.
The Skadaddles. With that name, what did you expect? Yep, it’s another ska disc. But take a look at where this band hails from… Georgia. East Coast ska? Yeah, and they’re good! If all labels had Eclectica’s sense of standard, perhaps ska wouldn’t have gotten the bad rap that it has.
These guys are the first band since Tourniquet to send me running for my dictionary. One title reads «Inextricable Prolixity Consummated Amidst Relentless Insomnia». Say what?? Turns out it’s a bit of self-deprecation on the boys’ part (look it up.) Musically solid, just in time to catch the end of the ska train, but lyrically a bit stranger than normal ska, as in the line from «Prolixity»: “And somewhere out between the starry night, the Montagues and Capulets are shining bright, evading life’s pretentiousness.”
It may be too little, too late to save ska’s reputation, but it’s a fine album nonetheless. [Josh Marihugh, The Phantom Tollbooth, 12/9/99]
> iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/album/thanks-for-laughing/183508588)
CD tracklist:
01. Shadows Dissipate
02. MTV, Thanx For Laughing
03. Shelby 2000
04. So Long
05. Transparent
06. Everyone But Me
07. Thoughts To Myself
08. All The Right Moves
09. One Day Heartbreak For Ray-Ray
10. Need
11. Augusta, We Sold Out
12. The Show Is Over
13. Inextricable Prolixity Consumated Amidst Relentless Insomnia
14. Long Ago And Galaxies Away
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