Kames Jelly wrote:Just read this on Steve Shaffer's blog this morning. Another Toasters reissue with bonus tracks.

personally, I would have loved to see a Thrill Me Up or a This Gun's for Hire reissue before this one (and New York Fever which Steve said will probably be next...) But either way, everything pre- DLTBGYD is classic and historically important, and I'm excited to get my hands on all of these upcoming reissues.

Duff Guide to Ska wrote:The Toasters' excellent 1996 album Hard Band for Dead (which followed on the heels of the brilliant Dub 56) is being re-issued as 2Tone Army, with new artwork and six previously unreleased bonus tracks:

1. 2Tone Army (Hingley)
2. Talk Is Cheap (Hingley)
3. Friends (Hingley/Ugbomah/Toasters)
4. Secret Agent Man (Barri Sloan)
5. Chuck Berry (Hingley)
6. Mouse (Reiter)
7. Hard Man Fe Dead (C. Campbell)
8. Don't Come Running <Extra>Intro] (Faulkner)
9. Properly (McCain/Ugbomah)
10. Maxwell Smart (Irving Szathmary)
11. I Wasn't Going To Call You Anyway (Hingley)
12. Speak Your Mind (Hingley/Rice)
13. Skaternity (Reiter/McCain)
14. Dave Goes Crazy (Rimsky-Korsakov)
<Bonus>Tracks]
15. 2Tone Army <Special>Forces Version] (Hingley)
16. Skar-Toon <Unreleased> (Brown)
17. Retroactive <Unreleased> (Reiter)
18. Speak Your Mind <Instrumental> (Hingley/Rice)
19. Skaternity <Demo> (Reiter)
20. Moon Ska Stomp <Unreleased> (Hingley/Toasters)
21. Speedy Gonzales <Unreleased> (Hingley/Toasters)
22. 2Tone Army <Blues>Reprise] (Hingley)

The album features guest spots by The Godfather of Ska himself, Laurel Aitken (on "Speak Your Mind"), The Skatalites' terrific saxophonist Lester Sterling (on "Mouse" and the cover of Prince Buster's "Hard Man Fe Dead"), The Ventures' guitarist Jerry McGee (on "Friends"), and King Django (chatting on "Properly").