The Rebel Black Dot Song o' the Day: SKApril XI

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, "The Final Parade" from the The Final Parade single (Rude Boy Mike Papa Whiskey)

Skammentary: "The Final Parade" is the eight-minute long lead single from The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' forthcoming album, When God Was Great, due out on Friday, 7 May (Album-link). As Maxwell Smart would say, the new album missed SKApril "by that much." I, of course, find the title When God Was Great disquieting, but I'm trying to reserve judgment & give the album a fair hearing. "The Final Parade" is a collaboration with many, many of The Bosstones' friends, a celebration of ska around the world, across time & space (Single-link).

"We play around with a punk rock/reggae sound,
'Cause sometimes dancin' is all you got.

"We were crankin',
We were skankin',
We were crankin', we were skankin',
All over the world…"

As soon as I heard "The Final Parade," I knew it was the perfect way to close SKApril XI, the first SKApril of SKApril's second decade. I hope you've enjoyed this SKApril as much as I have. Stay tuned for the SKAfter Party & SKAugust, or come back to see us next year, when April 2022 will host SKApril XII. Don't stop skankin'!