SHANDON: Not Happy to be Sad CD + +enhanced part. Perfect melodic punk rock w. poppy ska mix. Pop ska punk! + video

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Shandon Not So Happy To Be Sad
Label: Ammonia Records VVR1019432
Format: CD, Album + +enhanced part
Country: Italy
Released: 2001
Genre: Punk Rock, Ska
Tracks:
1 Washin’ Machine
2 Sesto Senso
3 Betray Shandon
4 Evoluzione
5 Bad Smell
6 Opportunity
7 Legacy
8 My Friends
9 Stubnitz
10 Adondo
11 Virus
12 Sangue
13 Noir
+ CD ROM Track

Bass, Backing Vocals Andrea Castelli
Drums Walter Guabello
Guitar, Backing Vocals Marco Rossi
Trombone Max Finazzi
Trumpet Pedro Gianpiero Quartarone
Vocals, Guitar Olly*

Barcode: 5 033197 194325

The World is so big that its sometimes easy to miss out on a really cool band just because they don’t have their albums too well distributed. This is why Not So Happy To Be Sad is already Shandons fifth album, and I never even heard of this Italian sextet.

Shandon started out in the mid-Nineties as a punk band and evolved later into ska territory. They call their style unselfconsciously punk-billy-ska-core, but its nothing else as a perfect symbiosis of melodic punk rock with poppy ska touches. This commercial attitude doesn’t do any harm though, because Shandon have a great ear for lasting melodies, and especially their Italian songs have a certainty that makes them totally great, as if they are the Italian latter day Bosstones. Hey, there’s even a hint of dub in Adondo.

This is a really good album, especially for people living in warm countries… or something for the Summer. And… Shandon somehow give me the impression that ska punk might be an ideal alternative for Italian bands, considering the wave of true metal from our neighbours in the South.

Again, I insist, this is more pop ska punk than ska core, but ska is supposed to make you feel good, and that’s something this album is achieving perfectly. Listen to Sesto Senso or Evoluzione, and you know what I mean. Now that’s enough talk, visit their homepage, download the song you can find there and convince yourself too.

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