The ghosts of me and you...

a quick one here for tonight. gotta get ready for tomorrow and the hopeful wish that the oklahoma thunder will beat the livin' snot outta the lakers. our state needs a big win such as this to help us out. we always seem to get the short end of everything going on in our nation and with this hopeful win, we can come back together as one. i love my home state and i want it to feel good about itself sometimes. we aren't all hicks an' hillbilly's here!!! no we aint' gosh darnit'!!!

okay, more of the summer vibe goin' right now. here's something to make you people skank!!! a big helping of, Less Than Jake.



i've had the pleasure of seein' these guys perform two times and each was better than the last. they are a ska-punk band with a long history behind their belts. they are from gainsville, florida and started their careers in 1992. over the years there have been several members that have come and gone, but the current lineup is as solid as a rock and a great bunch of personalities to boot.

this band is all about fun, and if you ever get the chance to see them you will understand what i'm talkin' about. i always get a summer feeling when listening to them, and it's something i can't help but notice every time. there is a huge mix of musical styles here. you get a great dose of punk/pop/ska/reggae/ and even some metal thrown in to mix it up. it's a great combination of ingredients to make the ultimate fast music-food package.

right here you will find all their immediate full length albums, minus a ton of other stuff i just didn't feel like posting. yes, i'm leaving out countless splits and 7inches along with compilations and live albums. (it's my blog you know...) anyway, we first start with the album, Pezcore, then follow that with the album Loosing Streak. this album is my ultimate favorite and possibly one of the best ska-punk albums to ever be made. so, right after those first two we now come to album three which it titled, Hello Rockview. this is considered the best album by the band from many of their old school fans and rightfully so. it contains a lot of their popular hits and it's a great combination of punk and ska. next we have the album Boarders and Boundaries and then the album, Anthem. anthem is my other personal favorite because it contains my favorite LTJ song, "the ghosts of me and you". (very personal to me) okay, so we have already mentioned quite a bit if music so far, but what's next for the band??? well we now come to the album that cornered a lot of fans and brought the question of, "is it time for them to hang it up???" that album is called, In With the Out Crowd. it's really a radical departure from their usual ska-punk style and a more pop-rock progression. people could see this coming, but not many expected them to take it to this level. putting that album aside, we come to the last and latest album from the band, GNV FLA. this was made over the course of a few years and released on the bands own music label. it's a great return to form and a reminder of how awesome they can be when playing to their hearts content. (ha ha cheese...) ssssssssssssooooooooooooooo, with all of this under you nose, you know what to do. try them out and get to skankin' in the pit and befriend a rude boy. GO, NOW!!!


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I’ve been down
Wandering past 2nd Street
And looking at the ghosts of you and me
And thinking back on all those memories
Of how we used to be

I’ve been hearing
I hear those voices over the noises of the breaking glass
And all those plans we had to get us through
They’re never coming true

And I hope and hope that you won’t forget
And I’m hoping... Hope you know that
I can clearly see the ghosts of you and me
And I’m just a moved on memory
And you’re still alive
And I’m still getting by
On these dead end streets
The ghosts of you and me

I’m still talking
I talk of what we’ll do to the ghosts of me and you
And I’m still looking back into the past
When we were all we had

And I hope and hope that you won’t forget
And I’m hoping... Hope you know that
I can clearly see the ghosts of you and me
And I’m just a moved on memory
And you’re still alive
And I’m still getting by
On these dead end streets
The ghosts of you and me
The ghosts of you and me
The ghosts of you and me

I hope you won’t forget
I hope you know that I’ll always regret
Those things I’ve said

I hope you know that I can clearly see
The ghosts of you and me
'Cause I'm just a moved on memory
And you’re still alive
And I’m still getting by
On these dead end streets
The ghosts of you and me
The ghosts of you and me
The ghosts of you and me
The ghosts of you and me