Biography

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones formed in Beantown in the mid-1980s and are best known as the creators of the two-headed party-music beast known as ska-core. Featuring veterans of the infamous Boston hardcore scene, the Bosstones merged the rambunctious energy of punk and the metallic roar of classic metal with the good-natured rhythms of 2 Tone ska. The result proved hard not to like. Replete with matching plaid suits and ever-present Converse All-Stars, the band scored several hits during the 1990s, powered by a full horn section and singer Dicky Barrett's sandpaper yowl. Though the band didn't fare quite as well in the 2000s, they remained popular in punk and ska circles, and are thought of as key figures in ska's third wave.

Top Tracks

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• A Little Bit Ugly

• A Reason To Toast

• Almost Anything Goes

• Awfully Quiet

• Bronzing The Garbage

• Hometown

• Hope I Never Lose My Wallet

• Let Me Be

• Like A Shotgun

• Pictures To Prove It

• Royal Oil

• She Just Happened

• Simmer Down

• Situation Breakdown

• So Sad To Say

• Someday I Suppose

• Someday I Suppose ["don't Know How To Party" Album Version]

• The Ballad Of Candlepin Paul

• The Upper Hand

• The Bartender's Song

• The Day He Didn't Die

• The Impression That I Get

• The Rascal King

• They Will Need Music

• Tin Soldiers

• Toxic Toast

• Where'd You Go?

Discography

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• The Magic of Youth

  Big Rig Records

  2011

• A Jackknife to a Swan

  Side One Dummy

  2002

• Question the Answers

  Mercury

  1994

• Don't Know How to Party

  Mercury

  1993

• More Noise and Other Disturbances

  Taang! Records

  1992

• Devils Night Out

  Taang! Records

  1990