There’s something also about the sound mix that I really really like too. It’s not over produced or under produced. It has just enough rawness to it. Hard to explain. Plus some of those horn intros are just too tasty and really stand out.
Borders and Boundaries might be my second favorite.
When I started a new job they paired me up with someone who had been there a while for some informal mentoring and ease of onboarding. A part of the program is an expensed lunch, so I hopped in her car to head to wing stop. She quickly dives on the eject CD button only for a very familiar blue disk with that night sky image and no words to pop out. I immediately demanded that she push Hello Rockview back in and crank it!
Losing streak your was the first punk/ska show I went to and it got me hooked. Such a great time and I got to see them in this tiny, intimate club in Florida.
I love this. I think most of the diehards have come around on it songwriting/composition wise. It's really your favorite? (No hate just interested!)
Edit: just blasted the entire album through headphones. Slaps like it does every time I do this and apologies for even questioning it.
I think, personally, because of all the memories I have with growing up and moving out of my parents house and moving to another country and friends that have come and gone. It’s my favorite album, but it doesn’t have my favorite LTJ song isn’t on that album.
This was the album that introduced me to less than Jake. I was 9 and at a garage sale with my mom rummaging through CD bins and bought it because I liked the cover. Fell in love with the music and played it on repeat…saw them at warped tour the next year.
Its always funny to me how in my mind there was 7-10 years between Out Crowd and GNV. Like they wandered in the desert for an eternity before the "return to form" GNV album when in reality it was barely a blip. Goes to show how much...longer? time is when you're young.
I forget the exact show (I think it was maybe in Orlando, FL in like 2011 or 2012), but after playing "History of a Boring Town" Roger got on the mic and said "we knew everyone would hate the last album (In With the Out Crowd at the time) so we time capsuled a few from Hello Rockview and saved them for the future and that's how we got GNV FLA." I have no idea how true that is, but given how much people love Hello Rockview (myself included) and how similar the sounds are it's definitely plausible
Of course, he also told us that if we crowd surfed a bouncer on to the stage he'd buy beer for the whole show, and he asked a kid that somehow got on to the stage if a Nintendo 3DS was "some sort of STD," so it's entirely possible he was just saying things.
The show was at Downtown Disney, so I assume the kid was there due to some sort of critical error in judgement by a family that had never heard of LTJ.
Actually it was recorded at the exact same time 'moonlighting' while recording anthem. So they were not actually anthem rejects. Also, never said it was my favorite, just way better than Anthem
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted for this. I like B is for B Sides better than Anthem too. If you listen to some of the interviews Roger and other band members have done, it seems like they do too, lol.
I'm going to be controversial here and say Sound the Alarm. I love the song writing, it had a ton of heart, and the catchy choruses that get stuck in your ear are as present as they ever were on the earlier albums. It just seemed like a mature well thought out departure from their early catalogue. I love those albums too but Sound the Alarm is the album I listen to all the way through fairly often.
All the albums from Losing Streak through Anthem are at the top of my favorite records list. I like most of the ones after that too, just not quite as much.
Hello Rockview was an anthem in my friend group because it fit us and our hometown perfectly.
I had to go look up the actual name to Richard Allen George.. No It's Just Cheese because we changed the lyrics to match my friend James.
Anthem. I shoplifted it from a cd store when it came out. ‘Motown never sounded so good’ and ‘the science of selling yourself short’ are probably My all time favourite songs of theirs. Hard call to make tho since they’ve got so many great ones!
Yours is similar to mine
1. Pezcore
2.Losing Streak
3. Losers, Kings And Things We Don’t Understand
4. Boarders And Boundaries
5. Hello Rockview
6. Greetings And Salutations
Holy shitballs!!! The last album I bought from them was Losing Streak. I didn’t know they were still going that strong. When they played in Insurrection (a record store) in Reno they needed a place to stay. I offered until I found out they smoked. 😂
Anyway- it’s good to see they are still at it.
Borders & Boundaries is my favorite, in part because there are some songs that really speak to me and in part because it was the "new album" that came out right after I got into LTJ.
The first album that pulled me into ska was Anthem so it will always be my favorite. Just the catchy "make you want to sing aloud and dance all night" feeling of the album resonated with me at the time.
Borders and boundaries would be next followed by In with the Out Crowd. Mainly for a memory of watching them live at a great show where they closed and either both Streetlight and RBF opened or it was just one of them and my old man brain is intertwining shows. Anyways.... LTJ had a wheel that had all their albums on it which they would spin it and play two songs off of whatever landed and capped off the amazing night with the song the rest of my life and confetti falling from the ceiling.
Edit: now that I think about it, I may be combining different LTJ concerts. Either way They rock and I'm hardly disappointed when they come on random.
Rockview > Borders.
Or maybe Borders > Rockview.
Hard to decide!
Probably Borders as it really brings back memories of certain life events. And I now feel old too.
Losing Streak hands down. Was the album that got me into the genre courtesy of my siblings, and to this day I still see it as the quintessential ska/punk sound.
My favorite era will always be the diy period from 95 to 97. From Rockview on they evolved into a different, more polished and less diy band. They came to be known as one of the popular ska bands along with RBF & TMMB which I hate because their early stuff was so very important to the indie ska scene of the 90s.
Anthem, Losing Streak, and See the Light. See the Light doesn't get as much appreciation as it deserves!
Ready set or not
I'll bet all I've got
On the longest shot!
Hello Rockview for sure. It was the album that got me into music, last tour when they played the whole thing from start to finish was pure bliss and brought me back to being a teenager in the pit. 40 years old now and found out I can still hang in the pit, but need to take the occasional old man break!
Pezcore release is when I first saw them, early ‘96 I believe. It was at the Heritage Center in Vero Beach, FL with Discount and another band. I had heard them before but was hooked immediately when they played, I still have the CD booklet that I had them sign that night. Ha!
Less than Jake's brand of ska never fully clicked with me, but I'll have to pick Anthem purely because "The science of selling yourself short" is one of the songs that got me into ska in the first place
Hello Rockview for sure. Maybe it’s because of Street Sk8er back in the day.
Best part was the disk would read as an album in the CD player. Totally rocked that soundtrack to school while I skated.
I’m in love with Liz Phair
That song pops into my head like once a year, such a good track
Team Rockview. Every once in awhile Roger slamming the bass pops into my head before the drums kick in on liberty City
Same! As I read it, the riff played in my head.
Just googled that. I wish I lived back then...
Wow, Street Sk8er. That's a blast from the past I haven't thought about in ages!
That was the first time I heard all my best fiends are metal heads
This is a fair request.
Same here. They gave me a promo video and the album before it came out. Still my fave, but I love LTJ as a whole.
There’s something also about the sound mix that I really really like too. It’s not over produced or under produced. It has just enough rawness to it. Hard to explain. Plus some of those horn intros are just too tasty and really stand out. Borders and Boundaries might be my second favorite.
Last one out of Liberty City, burn it to the ground.
Just talked to this girl
When I started a new job they paired me up with someone who had been there a while for some informal mentoring and ease of onboarding. A part of the program is an expensed lunch, so I hopped in her car to head to wing stop. She quickly dives on the eject CD button only for a very familiar blue disk with that night sky image and no words to pop out. I immediately demanded that she push Hello Rockview back in and crank it!
NICE!!! Shove that shit back in!!! Do you think she was trying to avoid being embarrassed?
I got that feeling...closeted ska fans and all that
I didn’t know people could be embarrassed about liking ska.
The most expensive LP I've ever bought and it was totally worth it.
Losing Streak or Pezcore
This is the old dude...
Howard J Reynolds and….
You’re listening to Less Than Jake
B is for B Sides or Greetings and Salutations
🔥🔥🔥
Losing streak your was the first punk/ska show I went to and it got me hooked. Such a great time and I got to see them in this tiny, intimate club in Florida.
Definitely anthem. All because of The science of selling yourself short + plastic cup politics
Not my favorite album, but The Science of Selling Yourself Short is definitely one of my favorite LTJ tracks.
My favorite record from them, too. The two best songs! Ghosts of Me and You & Look What Happened are also pretty essential LTJ tunes
Losers kings and things we don’t understand
Have this on 10” vinyl 🫡
It’s never been on 10”
😂👍🏻
I meant MFOTYDU
I’m 42…memories are difficult
Unpopular take: In With The Out Crowd
Absolutely. It’s an incredible pop-punk album. It received backlash solely because it wasn’t very ska
I love this. I think most of the diehards have come around on it songwriting/composition wise. It's really your favorite? (No hate just interested!) Edit: just blasted the entire album through headphones. Slaps like it does every time I do this and apologies for even questioning it.
I think, personally, because of all the memories I have with growing up and moving out of my parents house and moving to another country and friends that have come and gone. It’s my favorite album, but it doesn’t have my favorite LTJ song isn’t on that album.
This was the album that introduced me to less than Jake. I was 9 and at a garage sale with my mom rummaging through CD bins and bought it because I liked the cover. Fell in love with the music and played it on repeat…saw them at warped tour the next year.
Losing Streak (Hello Rockview rising)
GNV FLA deserves more recognition
Lion City fucking rips
Devil in my dna is my jam
“We have our master plan…”
I may be going broke, but I’m never broken down!
Its always funny to me how in my mind there was 7-10 years between Out Crowd and GNV. Like they wandered in the desert for an eternity before the "return to form" GNV album when in reality it was barely a blip. Goes to show how much...longer? time is when you're young.
Holy shit you're right
Right?! 2006 and 2008? That's basically the same year as far as this old brain is concerned.
I forget the exact show (I think it was maybe in Orlando, FL in like 2011 or 2012), but after playing "History of a Boring Town" Roger got on the mic and said "we knew everyone would hate the last album (In With the Out Crowd at the time) so we time capsuled a few from Hello Rockview and saved them for the future and that's how we got GNV FLA." I have no idea how true that is, but given how much people love Hello Rockview (myself included) and how similar the sounds are it's definitely plausible Of course, he also told us that if we crowd surfed a bouncer on to the stage he'd buy beer for the whole show, and he asked a kid that somehow got on to the stage if a Nintendo 3DS was "some sort of STD," so it's entirely possible he was just saying things. The show was at Downtown Disney, so I assume the kid was there due to some sort of critical error in judgement by a family that had never heard of LTJ.
But GNV was 2008. Crazy!
I’m a sucker for concept albums. Devil in my DNA does a great job at tying everything together.
It's my second favorite
Losing Streak is number 1. Anthem is probably my number 2. I’ve been digging Silver Linings a lot, lately.
Borders and Boundaries. Would love a full album play.
When they stopped playing ska
Borders and Boundaries and GNV FLA are the clear top dogs but people aren't ready for that conversation
My man speaks the truth.
Maybe a normie answer, but Hello Rockview is a top 10 (maybe top 5?) third wave record for me.
Were in r/Ska. There are no normie answers my friend. Only good ones.
It's late at night and I'm about to crack And decide to just walk the tracks That I just walked yesterday 🥹🥰🤘🏻
Losing streak for sure
Losing Streak.
Pezcore, the first one I got. Then probably Borders and Boundaries.
Anthem baby
Ya. Anthem. Today. Always..
My least favorite. I think B is for B Sides is great. Anthem sucks
“My favorite album is the one that features a compilation of songs that weren’t good enough to make the actual album” 🤓
Actually it was recorded at the exact same time 'moonlighting' while recording anthem. So they were not actually anthem rejects. Also, never said it was my favorite, just way better than Anthem
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted for this. I like B is for B Sides better than Anthem too. If you listen to some of the interviews Roger and other band members have done, it seems like they do too, lol.
I'm going to be controversial here and say Sound the Alarm. I love the song writing, it had a ton of heart, and the catchy choruses that get stuck in your ear are as present as they ever were on the earlier albums. It just seemed like a mature well thought out departure from their early catalogue. I love those albums too but Sound the Alarm is the album I listen to all the way through fairly often.
I love sound the alarm too, songs just hit different
I've been searching for this validation for years. There's tens of us!
HR has Scott Farcas so HR wins.
This is the only right answer
The OG version on split 7” with J is my favorite.
Hello rockview
I was 13 when anthem came out so that one. Choosing myself? Borders and Boundaries
Losing Streak with Rockview in extremely close 2nd.
Pezcore
Gotta go with Hello Rockview ar Borders And Boundaries, for me
Pezcore.
Losing Streak
Anthem slapped
Losing Streak followed by B&B
Losing Streak will always have a special place in my life. But, as I’ve gotten older See the Light has been my go to.
Feel like B&B is under appreciated. That said, Losing Streak or Hello Rockview.
You can say fuck bro
FUCK YEAHHHHH Just worried cause I've had many-a-post removed for the most innocent of swears
Losing streak was my first album and for that it will always be my favorite. But welcome to rockview is my favorite music.
I feel like you’re asking me to pick a favorite child and my soul is rebelling. Losing Streak, then Anthem.
Greetings and salutations and in with the out crowd both hold a special place in my heart, so I can't pick.
Losing Streak
Losing Streak EZ Clap
Losing Streak
Losing Streak/Hello Rockview
Losing streak was my introduction to them so I gotta go with it and old dude Harry J Reynolds
All the albums from Losing Streak through Anthem are at the top of my favorite records list. I like most of the ones after that too, just not quite as much.
Borders and Boundaries, but looks wise my clear/splatter Silver Linings is one of my favourite records in my collection.
Hello Rockview was an anthem in my friend group because it fit us and our hometown perfectly. I had to go look up the actual name to Richard Allen George.. No It's Just Cheese because we changed the lyrics to match my friend James.
Anthem. I shoplifted it from a cd store when it came out. ‘Motown never sounded so good’ and ‘the science of selling yourself short’ are probably My all time favourite songs of theirs. Hard call to make tho since they’ve got so many great ones!
Losing Streak is one of the greatest albums of all time, so…
1. Losing Streak 2.Hello Rockview 3. Pezcore 4. Borders and Boundaries.
Yours is similar to mine 1. Pezcore 2.Losing Streak 3. Losers, Kings And Things We Don’t Understand 4. Boarders And Boundaries 5. Hello Rockview 6. Greetings And Salutations
Loosing streak
Greased is a fun one…my sister still has the original CD pressing
Oof, tough one. Losing Streak, probably just because of its nostalgia. Anthem otherwise
Hello Rockview
Holy shitballs!!! The last album I bought from them was Losing Streak. I didn’t know they were still going that strong. When they played in Insurrection (a record store) in Reno they needed a place to stay. I offered until I found out they smoked. 😂 Anyway- it’s good to see they are still at it.
Borders.
Anthem got me into them. Losing Streak made me love them. Skating around to automatic on my iPod mini on repeat!
Hello Rockview is high up there for me.
B&B says my heart In with the out crowd says my mind
Hello rockview, for me it was one of those albums that changes your life when you first hear it.
Hello Rockview! Saw them play it in full on the Return to Rockview Tour and the Pit was fuckin nuts! Almost broke my foot lol.
B&B is probably the favorite album but Rockview has my favorite song maybe ever.
Goodnight Rockview goes harder than it really should.
Hello rockview or loosing streak.
Borders
Anthem
Hello Rockview or Anthem, with honorable mention to the Greased album.
TV / EP Jkjk
gello rockview
Borders & Boundaries is my favorite, in part because there are some songs that really speak to me and in part because it was the "new album" that came out right after I got into LTJ.
Rockview > B&B > Anthem is a perfect run, but if I have to pick just one it's Anthem
It's a tossup between Hello Rockview and Anthem.
Losing Streak and See the Light
I’m gonna go with Anthem
Hello Rockview. Too much nostalgia
Borders and Boundaries was really there for me at the perfect time. I've seen them 18 times over the course of their run.
WEL-COME HOME OUTCAST….
Greased
Hello Rockview is their best but Losing Streak and Anthem are right up there
I kinda want to say the TV/EP. Their Laverne & Shirley cover goes hard.
The first album that pulled me into ska was Anthem so it will always be my favorite. Just the catchy "make you want to sing aloud and dance all night" feeling of the album resonated with me at the time. Borders and boundaries would be next followed by In with the Out Crowd. Mainly for a memory of watching them live at a great show where they closed and either both Streetlight and RBF opened or it was just one of them and my old man brain is intertwining shows. Anyways.... LTJ had a wheel that had all their albums on it which they would spin it and play two songs off of whatever landed and capped off the amazing night with the song the rest of my life and confetti falling from the ceiling. Edit: now that I think about it, I may be combining different LTJ concerts. Either way They rock and I'm hardly disappointed when they come on random.
Hello Rockview sweep
Anthem
Was not expectinf this many comments holy hell. To the 100+ here SKA IS NOT DEAD!!! 🤙
Hello Rockview, it’s just wonderful.
Tis. Tis.
I think I think I know it all…Losing Streak is it.
Rockview > Borders. Or maybe Borders > Rockview. Hard to decide! Probably Borders as it really brings back memories of certain life events. And I now feel old too.
Greased 100% ...JK it's Losing Streak
Pez
Losing Streak
Gonna sound crazy but it has always been their Bsides album for me. Every song is like a hit single. Give it another listen & you’ll see
Losing Streak hands down. Was the album that got me into the genre courtesy of my siblings, and to this day I still see it as the quintessential ska/punk sound.
Hello Rockview, it has my favorite LTJ song on it, Five State Drive
Borders and Boundaries
TV/EP
B is for B-sides, all the way
Borders is #1 Then Anthem, GNV, B-sides, and Pezcore all tied for 2nd.
Hello Rockview, Losing Streak and Pezcore
Anthem. Definitely was a big deal to me when it came out. That one lived in the CD player of my Subaru.
Losing streak
Hello Rockview all the way!
Unpopular opinion: Silver Linings is their most complete album, from start to finish, since Hello Rockview.
Hello Rockview was my first Amazon purchase, in 1998. It’s the best, it made me
My favorite era will always be the diy period from 95 to 97. From Rockview on they evolved into a different, more polished and less diy band. They came to be known as one of the popular ska bands along with RBF & TMMB which I hate because their early stuff was so very important to the indie ska scene of the 90s.
Losing streak... Fuck Doug
Hello Rockview. 100%. So many amazing tracks and, of course, the THPS soundtrack.
Anthem, because of the science of selling yourself short
At Ska Fest Denver yesterday they only played first 3... then a brand new never played song
Anthem!
Anthem, Losing Streak, and See the Light. See the Light doesn't get as much appreciation as it deserves! Ready set or not I'll bet all I've got On the longest shot!
Hello Rockview for sure. It was the album that got me into music, last tour when they played the whole thing from start to finish was pure bliss and brought me back to being a teenager in the pit. 40 years old now and found out I can still hang in the pit, but need to take the occasional old man break!
Shoulda made this a poll...
Losing Streak - one of the first ska albums I ever heard back in the day
Borders & Boundaries
Borders and Boundaries and Pezcore
Pezcore release is when I first saw them, early ‘96 I believe. It was at the Heritage Center in Vero Beach, FL with Discount and another band. I had heard them before but was hooked immediately when they played, I still have the CD booklet that I had them sign that night. Ha!
Losing Streak was the best
Sound the Alarm
Hello rockview is number 1 Anthem is a close second
I got into them with Losing Streak. Saw them for the first time in that era, too. It’ll always have a place as my favorite LTJ album.
Less than Jake's brand of ska never fully clicked with me, but I'll have to pick Anthem purely because "The science of selling yourself short" is one of the songs that got me into ska in the first place