Plan of Action
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Plan of Action is the third full-length album
by Ska
band The Kingpins
on the Stomp
record label. It is also the final recording the band made before its breakup in 2004. The album, the followup to the 1999 album Let's Go to Work released only a year before, was cited as a big change in the band's musical style. The band experimented with different stylistic fusions, mixing ska with various other musical genres, including new wave and breakbeat and had many guest vocalists singing with them. The title track was a cover of a song originally recorded by Manual Scan
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Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by Ska
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
band The Kingpins
The Kingpins
The Kingpins featuring Lorraine Muller - The Queen of Ska was a ska band from Montréal, Canada, signed to the Stomp Records label. The last Kingpins tour took place in 2004, after which the members of the band reformed under the name Lo and the Magnetics founded by Muller in order to reflect the...
on the Stomp
Stomp
Stomp may refer to:*Stomp , a downwards kick using the heel*Stomp , a percussive physical theatre troupe*Stomp Records, a record label now part of Union Label Group*Stomp Entertainment, an Australian entertainment group...
record label. It is also the final recording the band made before its breakup in 2004. The album, the followup to the 1999 album Let's Go to Work released only a year before, was cited as a big change in the band's musical style. The band experimented with different stylistic fusions, mixing ska with various other musical genres, including new wave and breakbeat and had many guest vocalists singing with them. The title track was a cover of a song originally recorded by Manual Scan
Manual Scan
Manual Scan was an American mod and power pop group from San Diego, active between 1981–1991.Manual Scan released numerous CDs, LPs and 7-inch singles, in England, Spain and the U.S....
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Track listing
- Plan of Action
- Designated Driver
- L'aventurier
- Sick Valentino
- Takin' It Uptown
- Matchbox
- Bordel
- The Main
- Goes a Little Something Like This
- Consequence
- All the World's a Cage
- End of the Parade
- Supernova