Line #30 Music/TheDingees


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2	[[caption-width-right:330:[-You can't see with the picture shrunk down this much, but the headlines on the wall behind them read: "Terror!" "Gov't Consiracy" "Evil Robots Will Makes Slaves of Us All!" "Did NASA Probe Find an Airplane on Mars?" and "Global Scorching".-] ]]
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4	The Dingees are a {{Reggae}}[=/=]PunkRock[=/=]{{Ska}} band from Long Beach, California. They were initially formed in 1996 as a side project of The OCSupertones (and traded band members with the 'Tones more than a few times), but soon grew into a distinct identity. Unlike nearly all of their [[SkaPunk 3rd wave ska]] contemporaries, they played [[Music/TheClash Clash]]-inspired GenreRoulette rather than [[GenreMashup mix and match musical genres]]: their repertoire included punk songs, and reggae songs, and ska songs (but mostly punk songs), yet but precious little ska-punk or punk-reggae or what have you.
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6	They recorded three albums in this varying manner for Tooth & Nail Records. Afterwards, they disappeared into the southern California underground music scene. In 2006, they put up a page on Myspace to let the outside world know that they still existed, and that they were working on a new album.
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8	[[DevelopmentHell Four years later]], ''The Rebel Soul Sound System'' was released ([[http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/75806 for free]]), and it was... [[NewSoundAlbum different]]. Punk, ska, and reggae were still present, but this time they were mashed into a thick stew (with reggae predominating), and for the first time the Dingees added ragga jungle, hip-hop, sound collages, extensive sampling, and thoroughly grimy production to the mix.
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10	The lyrics were the same as they always were: rallying cries for global unity and the overthrow of the establishment, songs of alienation from modern society, celebrations of street culture, and ruminations on God and the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] apocalypse.
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12	[[AC:Discography]]
13	* ''Armageddon Massive'' (1998)
14	* ''Sundown to Midnight'' (1999)
15	* ''The Crucial Conspiracy'' (2001)
16	* ''The Rebel Soul Sound System'' (2010, [[http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/75806 free, here]])
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18	[[folder:Roster]]
19	[[AC:Current]]
20	* Matt "Pegleg" Roberts: vocals, guitar, keys, sax
21	* Matt "Bean" Hernandez: bass
22	* Dave Chevalier: sax, keys, guitar, vocals (left just before the first album, then returned just after)
23	* Aaron Landers: guitar, keys (joined before ''Sundown to Midnight'')
24	* Scott C. Rodgers: drums (joined before ''The Crucial Conspiracy'')
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26	[[AC:Former]]
27	* Tony Terusa: Drums
28	* Jon Bon: Trombone
29	* Jeff Holmes: Guitar
30	* Ethan Luck: Drums
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32	All of these guys departed prior to the first album, with the exception of Ethan, who departed soon after the first album.
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36	!!Provides examples of:
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38	* AdultsAreUseless: "Conspiracy Against the Youth".
39	-->It's a big conspiracy! \
40	They hate youth and they hate me!
41	* ConspiracyKitchenSink: ''The Crucial Conspiracy'', natch.
42	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: A common theme in the lyrics.
43	* EpicRocking: "Smoke Signals'', a nine-minute reggae-funk jam.
44	* GenreMashup: ''The Rebel Soul Sound System''.
45	* GenreRoulette: Their first three albums.
46	* GraffitiOfTheResistance: The cover art of the album ''The Crucial Conspiracy'' features a propaganda poster in the Soviet style. Inside the liner notes, the poster is shown again defaced by anti-government slogans, and with a skull painted over the worker's face.
47	* HiddenTrack: ''Armageddon Massive'' has a dub remix of "Could be Worse" at the end. ''The Crucial Conspiracy'' has "Conspiracy Against the Youth" hidden in the ''middle'' of the album.
48	* IndecipherableLyrics: On their forays into hardcore--"Ronnie Raygun", "Conspiracy Against the Youth", and "Capital Imperial".
49	* {{Sampling}}: All over the place in ''Rebel Soul Sound System''. For example, "Who Stole the Soul in Rock N Roll" combines samples from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Music/TheBeatles, and Music/PublicEnemy, and somehow makes them all fit seamlessly.
50	* SloganYellingMegaphoneGuy: In the "Street vs State" sound collage.
51	* SongStyleShift: "Blackout!", "Smoke Signals".
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