A Message from Desorden Publico – The Winners Of The Best Ska Album Poll 2011

With 1049 votes Desorden Publico from Venezuela were the winners of the Best Album 2011 poll at joescholes.com. In fact, it was a homerun. Hollie Cook on No. 2 received less than half their votes.

After the poll ended Desorden Publico’s bass player Jose Chacin sent out a very nice message to everyone who took part in the votings. It’s also in the comments’ section of the poll itself. But I want to make sure that you gentle readers don’t miss it there.  Here it is:

“In the name of all DESORDEN PÚBLICO members, I would like to send one million THANKS to all the real friends who voted for our album “Los Contrarios”..And of course, Vielen, Vielen Danke für JOE for giving us the chance to participate here. We are really proud for such a huge number of votes and want to say that as someone mentioned in one message, “EVERY SKA or REGGAE Band that was abble to released their album, is a winner, there are a LOT of great bands with wonderful albums on this list. I know every member of DESORDEN has his own Top ten with bands like Selecter, Holly Cook, NY Ska Jazz Ensemble, Moon Invaders, Alpheus, Planet Smashers, Little Roy, Prince Fatty, Kevin Batchelor, Carlos Dingo , the Slackers,etc etc…We are real fans of all of them, we play their music on our own Radio Show, every saturday´s afternoon (Radio Pirata on: http://www.ateneofm.com)..We even trade cd´s with some record labels of the world, in order to spread the word of the International SKA and Reggae, for the Venezuelan audiences…All this is Beacuse WE LOVE SKA MUSIC!!! …Much Respect for all the people on this list!.. that´s the main reason because we are really PROUD and HAPPY for being here, among soooo many great bands.

Keep on Skanking!
Caplís (Jose Chacín)”

In case you like some more background information on the band, check out the great interview that Marco On The Bass did with Jose Chacin.

To learn more about Desorden Publico’s plans for 2012, you should visit their  website or fan them on Facebook.

To round up things here is a link to the original poll posting and to the results of the “Best Ska Rocksteady Early Reggae Album 2011” poll at joescholes.com.

Do you want to know who won that competition in 2010 and 2009? There you go.

Everyone who likes to make sure that your band’s album is enlisted for the next poll, just drop me an email at joe@joescholes.com.