The Aquabats!!!

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http://megadownload.net/search/aquabats/all.html

Really? You couldn't find their stuff?

You can find almost anything by going to google and typing "band name – mediafire" and you get a shitload of links.

anyone heard that song this gigantic robot kills by mc lars?

it has mc bat commander and suburban legends in the song

Yeah. It was pretty cool.

MC Lars also did a song with The Matches, "Hot Topic is not punk rock"

yeh i know

but he has also done songs with the dude from bowling for soup and the dude from simple plan

but he does have a song with weird al

They're breaking up soon 🙁

They're breaking up soon 🙁

Here's pretty much everything by them. I wasn't able to find a few rare tracks. I took a lot of time finding the best quality as well.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=5f7e210f502217417c6e3be0a33e891a1a5eea4ac6043428

[quote1265053680=gurryska]
They're breaking up soon 🙁
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I guess you would have the inside info to this.
So they're not going to record a Charge follow up?

They better not break up.

I liked that show they did.

Not Yo Gabba Gabba, I'm not a high teenager. I mean the cartoon.

They supposedly have already recorded a new album, but are no longer on Nitro records so aren't releasing it or something…

Read the news pages on their website.

They said that if they can't find a label to release it, they'll make it a free download.

They said they had a followup album already? 😮

They said on their website that they're reaching the "end of the road" so i'm guessing they're breaking up soon 🙁

They said on their website that they're reaching the "end of the road" so i'm guessing they're breaking up soon 🙁

They said they reached the end of the road……for this year. That was posted on 12/22/09. It was just to scare people, don't worry.

This band will never have all their albums on the same label, will they?

Did you mean any? Because, yeah. That's impossible now.

Down the road it's going to be a nightmare for newcomers to get into this band "legally" because of stuff like this.

By the way, did anyone see the Yo Gabba Gabba characters in that car commercial? I think it played during the Super Bowl, IIRC…

Listening to a lot of Aquabats recently.

Return was originally a demo so it's rough edges are easily forgiven. Plus it has Ska Robot Army, CD Repo Man, and perhaps their best ska song It's Crazy, Man and where else are you gonna find them without listening to bootlegs? Other than the redone songs on Fury though, the others don't quite stack up.

Fury is still such a top notch album. It has everything great about music in one album. While I'm finding myself get sick of more and more albums I liked as a teenager, this album I realized while listening, will always remain a top favorite to me. Red Sweater, Cat With Two Heads, and Story Of Nothing have got to be considered a classics even by people who hate "goofy" music.

Floating Eye is kind of a hard album to discuss. On one hand, Giant Robot Birdhead, Lovers Of Loving Love, and Hello Goodnight are genius and easily some of their best songs. On the other hand, the band feels like they're trying to hard to get out of the ska pattern with this. I mean, people complain about the lack of ska on Charge, but there's actually less ska on this album than any other album by them. I mean, is there any reason that Sequence Erase, Amino Man, Canis Lupis, and Monster Wedding had to make an album? They feel like Worms Make Dirt in that, they're good (even great) songs, but they don't flow together in any sort of cohesive manner and actually make it feel more of a patchwork listen.

What makes it harder are the songs that didn't make it on the "Rarities" albums. That Dear Spike, Pool Party, Hey Luno, and Pizza Day were not deemed album worthy for reasons I can't even begin to imagine just floors me. Heck, Radiation Song makes more sense then half of Floating Eye. I can imagine one really fantastic album out of this. The remainder are really good songs themselves, but they just wouldn't work in an album setting.

Charge is also great and almost up to Fury, but I think they overuse distortion and synthy keys a bit and bogs a few of the songs down more than it should. I mean, I honestly have to remind myself what Plastic Lips, Time Sprinkler, and Mechanical Ape sound like to start humming them and even then they're kinda boring. However, every other song is great and catchy as hell.

One thing I love about the band is that they never seem to remain in one spot for too long. Whether ska, 50s rock n roll, surf, new wave, modern rock, experimental stuff, or whatever they tackle is always a treat to listen to or watch. They never force themselves to be what they're not, and it works great. If only more bands could understand that trying to pigeonhole yourself does nothing but make you irrelevant faster.

I love Canis Lupus.

I think Floating Eye flows nicely. Fury is the absolute best though.

[quote1273453169=The Wind]
I love Canis Lupus.
[/quote1273453169]I do too, I just don't think it works on Floating Eye. The only song I don't actually like is Sequence Erase. For a track 1 it sure kills all momentum.

Does anyone know what became of the show, by the way? I'm assuming it died? 🙁

The cartoon? Probably. That could have been a really good show.

Something I did purely for fun (like the RBF instrumental thing) only this time for my favorite Aquabats song:

[url=http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BJQTDPMR]It's Crazy, Man! (Batcrazy Version)[/url]

All material used from 100% recycled Aquabats material (all from Return, as well) for the sake of crazying up the core song. Give it a go if you feel like it.

I hate Floating Eye and have an incomplete copy of Return, but otherwise I love the Aquabats. My friends treat the rarities thing as a real album and it's probably their favorite.

I don't have a favorite Aquabats album. The three I like are all good in their own different ways.