Self Medication (album)

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Self Medication
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Studio album by The Slackers
Released 2008
Genre Ska
Length42:15
Label Indication Records
Producer Vic Ruggiero assisted by Glen Pine
The Slackers chronology
The Boss Harmony Sessions
(2007) The Boss Harmony Sessions2007		Self Medication
(2008)		 The Great Rocksteady Swindle
(2010) The Great Rocksteady Swindle2010
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Self Medication is an album by the New York City ska band The Slackers. It was released on Indication Records in 2008 (See 2008 in music).

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The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world's most populous megacities, with an estimated 20,320,876 people in its 2017 Metropolitan Statistical Area and 23,876,155 residents in its Combined Statistical Area. A global power city, New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, and exerts a significant impact upon commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports. The city's fast pace has inspired the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy.

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat. It was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. Later it became popular with many skinheads.

The Slackers band that plays ska

The Slackers are an American ska band, formed in Manhattan, New York in 1991. The band's sound is a mix of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, soul, garage rock, and jazz. The Slackers' notability is credited to their prolific career, tours of North America, Europe, and elsewhere, and signing to notable punk label Hellcat Records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Every Day Is Sunday" (Geard) – 2:35
  2. "Don't You Want a Man" (Hillyard) – 3:30
  3. "Don't Forget the Streets" (Ruggiero) – 3:26
  4. "Estranged" (Pine) – 3:52
  5. "Stars" (Ruggiero) – 4:29
  6. "Leave Me" (Nugent) – 2:58
  7. "Eviction" (Pine) – 4:54
  8. "Happy Song" (Hillyard) – 2:21
  9. "Self Medication" (Ruggiero/Nugent) – 4:11
  10. "Don't Have To" (Geard) – 2:03
  11. "Walking with Myself" (Hillyard/Ruggiero) – 4:05
  12. "Sing Your Song" (Ruggiero) – 3:51

Personnel

Players

Drum kit collection of drums and other percussion instruments

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

Saxophone type of musical instrument of the woodwind family

The saxophone is a family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. Like the clarinet, saxophones have holes in the instrument which the player closes using a system of key mechanisms. When the player presses a key, a pad either covers a hole or lifts off a hole, lowering or raising the pitch, respectively.

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Jayson Nugent is a guitarist and DJ from New York who plays in the style of several Jamaican music genres.

Additional Players

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

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French horn type of brass instrument

The French horn is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B♭ is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands. A musician who plays a French horn is known as a horn player or hornist.

Clarinet type of woodwind instrument

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a clarinetist.

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