Slapstick

It’s like ska by people who went to high school with Operation Ivy The best part is reading about the band even they were like oh god we can’t do ska anymore

This one was enjoyable musically, just ran way long for a ska album. There's not much dynamic contrast (not that I would expect much, it is ska) or instrumental variation to change things up, and at about 40 minutes in the listening experience started to feel like a beating. A fun beating! But a beating nonetheless.

I am normally against compliations but it seems like their only album isn't available anywhere and was most of this album with some tracks meant for the 2nd album, so it's acceptable in this case. From wiki they it states: "The creative process stagnated. it has a lot to do with the fact that none of us really ever liked ska a lot." I totally get it. It's kinda the same song multiple times so even they were like "yeah we think this isn't great". Respect for them for not trying to force it. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

Slapstick is a 1990s ska-punk album. I don't know what it is supposed to add to this world. Everything is mediocre from songwriting to performance and production. And with 25 songs in 54 minutes it's at least 10 songs to long.

The whole discography of a ska punk band I hadn't heard before? Ja danke!

Awesome! Loved these dudes back in the 90s. Brandon Kelly/Dan Adriano - great combo.

First album on the user list I've been excited for in a long time and it did not disappoint. Definitely gonna listen to this again.

Man...this fits exactly into what I would describe as "mehester"core circa 1998. As someone who tried to push his high school band in a ska-punk direction (and is from ~ 2 hrs away from Chicago) it is shocking to me I have never heard of Slapstick before today. Great fun tunes. Shame they broke up before really getting started. 4.5/5

Ska-Punk. Vinilo.

I never expected to like a collection of ska-punk albums so much. I never ever combined all these words in the same sentence. Ska-punk is far from my favorite punk subgenre. I never heard about this band before, and it's quite a long album, but it's enjoyable. Great surprise!

These guys love trumpets more than I love cheese! An absolute joyful racket - a great shout

loved it

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Cheat to win, Not tonight, Broken down, Johnny, Earth angel

I love Less Than Jake and Mad Caddies, plus Alkaline Trio are one of my favourite bands, so yea this is right up my street

Every generation needs a shitty genre they can half ass in high school so they can say they’re in a band. This was my generation’s. Darn Tooten I’m a Rebel could have recorded Wake Up Stanley, but Slapstick could NEVER have recorded Penguins on the Beach

This was fun. Not the best ska/punk i've heard, but very cool

Punk-rock un tanto melódico, con tramos de ska y algo de reggae. Estilo que me gusta y que saca buena nota, aunque se hubiese agradecido algo más de melodía a las canciones, más que simple estilo cantado. No muy agresivo. Puede llegar a gustar con el tiempo.

Really enjoyed this. I do wonder what pushes it to be a 1001 user submitted. I’d love to know why the user chose this.

Ska 💪keep it koming

Not as good as the first album of The Suicide Machines, at least on a very superficial listen, but I still think this comes very close to the mark. Being pretty busy in a foreign country right now, so I can't give the attention this album deserves, so I'm giving this one the benefit of the doubt. All I can say is that I'm ready to go out tonight, and the punk rock mood displayed by this record fits with my current circumstances. Let's go and have a riot!

Hmmm, ska punk - I prefer the tracks that are more punk over the tracks that are more ska, I guess. Probably a 3.5, but I like this a lot more than Tally Hall which I just reviewed, so I'll round up... Fave tracks - "There's a Metal Head in the Parking Lot" (mainly for the title, heh), "Crooked", "Broken Down", "Alternative Radio"

More ska... my appetite for it is less than what this list is producing. Clever and talented fellows here for sure, and it's the good old punk sensibility - 25 songs coming in comfortably under an hour. Really not up for nearly an hour of these vocals but I'll chalk that up to preference.

Standard ska

Really stupid, but not entirely unlikable 3

Ska and punk together on one album. This is like a musical combination akin to the breakfast club. Not sure if it’s a great genre combo but someone had to try it. It’s truly not that bad but it’s just so back and forth and peculiar it’s hard for me to really enjoy. It’s alright but not for me to revisit. 6.0/10

I gave hello rock view 4 stars a couple of days ago for nostalgic reason. This album obviously in a very similar mould to that, but wasn’t one I listened to constantly as a teenager, so gets 1 star less for that reason.

Slapstick #dnf

Skankstick

Ska punk is not my favourite branch of punk, but it was a decent listen. +1 for the cover of a song from Back to the Future

If it was more punk and less ska, I'd like it more. Not bad otherwise.

I liked Slapstick for what it was and defo good to have more ska punk on the list. It's a little more ska than pop punk which skews slightly off my preferences but lots of it was good and he ska elements, while a little prosaic perhaps, still hit the spot. Solid 3/5, better examples from the genre, but a good time was had nonetheless.

eh, I kinda liked it at first, but the novelty of ska punk quickly became grating, and I spent most of this album’s runtime waiting for it to end - 5/10

Ska-punk makes me so damned happy. Pardon me if I think it’s all by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones but I very much enjoyed this one-shot album by this seminal but forgotten band.

Ska-punk is a difficult blend to get right. This was energetic fun but ultimately I think these guys were right to throw in the towel

54 minutes of non-stop ska-punk — relentless. Faves? Maybe The Park and Alternative Radio.

Enjoyable ska punk with just a hint of being perfunctory. I'm sure there are better examples of the genre out there, but this one is just fine.

Fun, energetic, enjoyable, but ultimately not sure what new this brings to the table. Didn't mind listening, though, so not a terrible share.

Pretty average ska album, I enjoyed it

Run of the mill ska punk tunes with the kind of singer that has razors in their throat.

Well, this was just so so for me. Ska has never really been my jam and I got pretty bored with this by the end.

Wow, you guys really like ska punk, huh? I don't.

Initial thought: this is jolly Mid point ponder: this is relentless Final findings: oh gosh no. An album is too much.

Incredibly generic ska

Eh, pretty generic. Generally been a fan of the ska punk picks on here, but this one didn't do much for me.

I was prepared to be very annoyed that a "-punk" act is clocking in at 54 minutes, but seems like this is a compilation album from a band that had a lot of trouble with managing their physical media releases back when they were active. That at least seems like an interesting story, if nothing else. Anyway, I really fucking hate this kind of hairball vocals

Well, they had fun

I never really got the whole ska punk thing. Slapstick does little to convince me otherwise. I love ska, I love punk. But only in their purest forms. You're better off listening to Sandinista! from start to finish. So there

Giving this an extra star because like Slapstick, I also never “really ever liked ska a lot.”

Admittedly more Ska than other offered Ska-Punk bands which saves the 1* Amusing to read on Wiki that they stopped being able to write songs and never really liked Ska anyway....

Ska, metal, cussing, and screaming. It’s nobody’s favorite combination.

Wacky. Not in a good way. To be fair, I have never met a ska punk band that I like. And this continues that trend.