There are several bands called Catch 22, including ones in the ska (1), met… Read Full Bio ↴There are several bands called Catch 22, including ones in the ska (1), metal (2), jazz, American alternative, and 1980s UK punk genres. German tech-house producers Daniel Girresser & Michael Erb also use the name.
1) Catch 22 (ska):
Catch 22 is a third-wave ska band based in New Jersey. The band was formed in 1995 by drummer Chris Greer and vocalist Tomas Kalnoky. They released a self-produced demo tape, Rules of the Game, in 1996. All 2000 copies of the tape quickly sold out. The band mailed several copies to labels they were interested in working with, including Gainesville, Florida's Toybox Records (which had previously released a 7" by Less Than Jake). Toybox was owned and operated by Sean Bonner, who had recently moved to Chicago, Illinois to work at Victory Records. Sean brought the tape to the Victory office and suggested the band be signed.
The band then signed to Victory and produced their first studio album, 1998's Keasbey Nights. Ansley left and was replaced by Pat Calpin. Kalnoky left the band shortly thereafter, having decided to continue his education rather than tour. Catch 22 continued on with Pat Calpin moved to guitar, Pat "Mingus" Kays on bass, and Jeff Davidson on vocals. The band tested out their new lineup with the 1999 EP Washed Up!. Egan left to continue teaching. Alone in a Crowd followed in 2000 with Mike Soprano on trombone. During this time, the band began touring heavily on a national scale, appearing with Mustard Plug, Reel Big Fish, and other third-wave ska, hardcore, and punk acts. Davidson and Soprano left the band in 2001 to pursue other projects, and for a while the band actively courted new vocalists, even putting an advertisement on their website. The group also recruited Ian Mckenzie, formerly of Long Island, New York ska band Edna's Goldfish, on trombone/vocals.
After a fruitless search, the band decided to continue on as it was, with Ryan Eldred and Kevin Gunther sharing vocal duties. Washed Up and Through the Ringer, an expansion of the Washed Up! EP, was released in 2001, featuring two new songs, three rarities from the Alone In A Crowd era, and a handful of live tracks recorded in October 2000 at Club Laga in Pittsburgh and Euclid Tavern in Ohio. The band released its third full-length album, Dinosaur Sounds, in 2003. This was roughly the same time that Streetlight Manifesto, a band founded by former Catch 22 frontman Tomas Kalnoky and featuring Josh Ansley and Jamie Egan (as well as former members of the NJ ska band One Cool Guy) released their debut, Everything Goes Numb. Both albums featured veiled attacks on each other, suggesting to many fans that there was some sort of disagreement or heat between Catch 22 and Streetlight Manifesto. This was true, although the two parties have since reconciled their differences. Given that Catch 22's Kevin Gunther is in charge of Streetlight Manifesto's tour booking, and members of both bands have said in conversations with fans that there is no "beef" between the two, it is safe to assume that any disagreement is firmly behind them.
In 2004, Catch 22 released Live, a combination CD and DVD recording of a show performed in Farmingdale, New York earlier that year.
Several bands who opened for Catch 22 in the past have gone on to find fame on the mainstream, including Sum 41, Bowling For Soup, Thursday, and Taking Back Sunday.
Catch 22's fourth studio album, titled Permanent Revolution, was released on June 27, 2006. The album can be classified as a concept album, centering around the life of Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940); the title represents a theorum called Permanent Revolution that Trotsky had been associated with.
2) CATCH 22 (metal):
GENRE:
US Power/Thrash Metal
ORIGIN:
USA (Marietta, Ohio), 1992
CURRENT LINE-UP:
T.J. Berry (vocals, lead and rhythm guitar)
Jesse Forrest (rhythm guitar, backing vocals)
Hank Ramage (bass, backing vocals)
Joe Bailey (drums, backing vocals)
BIOGRAPHY
CATCH 22 was formed by T.J. Berry (vocals, guitar) in 1992 in Marietta, Ohio. When grunge was hitting it big, CATCH 22 stayed true to their art form (metal) and treaded on.
In 1994 their first 6 song demo tape, "Crazier Than Life", was released. One song from this demo, "Fate Keeps On Happening", scored a spot on the Rodell Records compilation "Sounds From The Underground". That was a brave move from Rodell Records because at that time CATCH 22 were considered very uncool as anything metal was labeled uncool.
In 1995 they recorded a 3 song tape, that gained them some national exposure and encouraged them to record a full length CD entitled "Through Eyes Of Pain" in 1997. They scored distribution and a Metal Edge magazine ad from Perris Records, that is known for glam metal, but saw the potential of the band and couldn't resist it.
In 1998 CATCH 22 released their second album, "Time Reveals All", to rave reviews from all over the world. Songs such as "Burn" and "Think For Yourself" still pop up at the band's live shows. CATCH 22 played at the March Metal Meltdown in New Jersey. The year was 2000 and they were surrounded by death metal cookie monster vocals and the outcast once again, waving the flag of true metal loud and proud.
The following year saw the beginning of a great relationship for CATCH 22 with the Classic Metal Festival series. They went to Kalamazoo (Michigan) to play the first annual CMF. At CMF 2 they met J.B. Mestad which led to his label Molten Metal, releasing CATCH 22 third album, "Awaken", in 2003.
CATCH 22 played at Classic Metal Festivals 1, 2, 4 and 5 and have shared the stage with TESTAMENT, EXCITER, ANVIL, OMEN, ATTACKER, HALLOWS EVE, S.O.D., SEVEN WITCHES, CAGE, DORO and many other well known acts.
CATCH 22 were featured on four tribute CDs released by Dwell Records, performing songs of KING DIAMOND, TESTAMENT, WHITE ZOMBIE and SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.
In December 2006 CATCH 22 entered the studio again to record songs for the new album. The sessions resulted in 22 heavy and diverse power/thrash metal cuts, however due to the limited budget only half of these songs saw the light of day, being released by the band under the title "Soulreaper Vol. 1" in 2007. This CD got many great reviews from all over the globe, however it was more of a promo without the booklet, so Metal On Metal Records decided to release "Soulreaper" the way it was planned by the band in the first place: as a double CD with all the songs, lyrics plus a lot of additional artwork in the booklet.
3. Catch 22
Catch 22 is a UK Hip Hop artist signed to Sugar Free. Catch 22 released his debut feature length album "The Harlequins Monologue" in 2009 on Sugar Free.
1) Catch 22 (ska):
Catch 22 is a third-wave ska band based in New Jersey. The band was formed in 1995 by drummer Chris Greer and vocalist Tomas Kalnoky. They released a self-produced demo tape, Rules of the Game, in 1996. All 2000 copies of the tape quickly sold out. The band mailed several copies to labels they were interested in working with, including Gainesville, Florida's Toybox Records (which had previously released a 7" by Less Than Jake). Toybox was owned and operated by Sean Bonner, who had recently moved to Chicago, Illinois to work at Victory Records. Sean brought the tape to the Victory office and suggested the band be signed.
The band then signed to Victory and produced their first studio album, 1998's Keasbey Nights. Ansley left and was replaced by Pat Calpin. Kalnoky left the band shortly thereafter, having decided to continue his education rather than tour. Catch 22 continued on with Pat Calpin moved to guitar, Pat "Mingus" Kays on bass, and Jeff Davidson on vocals. The band tested out their new lineup with the 1999 EP Washed Up!. Egan left to continue teaching. Alone in a Crowd followed in 2000 with Mike Soprano on trombone. During this time, the band began touring heavily on a national scale, appearing with Mustard Plug, Reel Big Fish, and other third-wave ska, hardcore, and punk acts. Davidson and Soprano left the band in 2001 to pursue other projects, and for a while the band actively courted new vocalists, even putting an advertisement on their website. The group also recruited Ian Mckenzie, formerly of Long Island, New York ska band Edna's Goldfish, on trombone/vocals.
After a fruitless search, the band decided to continue on as it was, with Ryan Eldred and Kevin Gunther sharing vocal duties. Washed Up and Through the Ringer, an expansion of the Washed Up! EP, was released in 2001, featuring two new songs, three rarities from the Alone In A Crowd era, and a handful of live tracks recorded in October 2000 at Club Laga in Pittsburgh and Euclid Tavern in Ohio. The band released its third full-length album, Dinosaur Sounds, in 2003. This was roughly the same time that Streetlight Manifesto, a band founded by former Catch 22 frontman Tomas Kalnoky and featuring Josh Ansley and Jamie Egan (as well as former members of the NJ ska band One Cool Guy) released their debut, Everything Goes Numb. Both albums featured veiled attacks on each other, suggesting to many fans that there was some sort of disagreement or heat between Catch 22 and Streetlight Manifesto. This was true, although the two parties have since reconciled their differences. Given that Catch 22's Kevin Gunther is in charge of Streetlight Manifesto's tour booking, and members of both bands have said in conversations with fans that there is no "beef" between the two, it is safe to assume that any disagreement is firmly behind them.
In 2004, Catch 22 released Live, a combination CD and DVD recording of a show performed in Farmingdale, New York earlier that year.
Several bands who opened for Catch 22 in the past have gone on to find fame on the mainstream, including Sum 41, Bowling For Soup, Thursday, and Taking Back Sunday.
Catch 22's fourth studio album, titled Permanent Revolution, was released on June 27, 2006. The album can be classified as a concept album, centering around the life of Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940); the title represents a theorum called Permanent Revolution that Trotsky had been associated with.
2) CATCH 22 (metal):
GENRE:
US Power/Thrash Metal
ORIGIN:
USA (Marietta, Ohio), 1992
CURRENT LINE-UP:
T.J. Berry (vocals, lead and rhythm guitar)
Jesse Forrest (rhythm guitar, backing vocals)
Hank Ramage (bass, backing vocals)
Joe Bailey (drums, backing vocals)
BIOGRAPHY
CATCH 22 was formed by T.J. Berry (vocals, guitar) in 1992 in Marietta, Ohio. When grunge was hitting it big, CATCH 22 stayed true to their art form (metal) and treaded on.
In 1994 their first 6 song demo tape, "Crazier Than Life", was released. One song from this demo, "Fate Keeps On Happening", scored a spot on the Rodell Records compilation "Sounds From The Underground". That was a brave move from Rodell Records because at that time CATCH 22 were considered very uncool as anything metal was labeled uncool.
In 1995 they recorded a 3 song tape, that gained them some national exposure and encouraged them to record a full length CD entitled "Through Eyes Of Pain" in 1997. They scored distribution and a Metal Edge magazine ad from Perris Records, that is known for glam metal, but saw the potential of the band and couldn't resist it.
In 1998 CATCH 22 released their second album, "Time Reveals All", to rave reviews from all over the world. Songs such as "Burn" and "Think For Yourself" still pop up at the band's live shows. CATCH 22 played at the March Metal Meltdown in New Jersey. The year was 2000 and they were surrounded by death metal cookie monster vocals and the outcast once again, waving the flag of true metal loud and proud.
The following year saw the beginning of a great relationship for CATCH 22 with the Classic Metal Festival series. They went to Kalamazoo (Michigan) to play the first annual CMF. At CMF 2 they met J.B. Mestad which led to his label Molten Metal, releasing CATCH 22 third album, "Awaken", in 2003.
CATCH 22 played at Classic Metal Festivals 1, 2, 4 and 5 and have shared the stage with TESTAMENT, EXCITER, ANVIL, OMEN, ATTACKER, HALLOWS EVE, S.O.D., SEVEN WITCHES, CAGE, DORO and many other well known acts.
CATCH 22 were featured on four tribute CDs released by Dwell Records, performing songs of KING DIAMOND, TESTAMENT, WHITE ZOMBIE and SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.
In December 2006 CATCH 22 entered the studio again to record songs for the new album. The sessions resulted in 22 heavy and diverse power/thrash metal cuts, however due to the limited budget only half of these songs saw the light of day, being released by the band under the title "Soulreaper Vol. 1" in 2007. This CD got many great reviews from all over the globe, however it was more of a promo without the booklet, so Metal On Metal Records decided to release "Soulreaper" the way it was planned by the band in the first place: as a double CD with all the songs, lyrics plus a lot of additional artwork in the booklet.
3. Catch 22
Catch 22 is a UK Hip Hop artist signed to Sugar Free. Catch 22 released his debut feature length album "The Harlequins Monologue" in 2009 on Sugar Free.
Real
Catch 22 Lyrics
These bitches waitin' for a dollar to holla I know they squalor cause this nigga singing
doctor up prop up Like how he pop up with the fuckin' words
to mock up his old self Yeah, that's the chop up on
How he bitter cause he riddle of dittle His new witch litter
Yeah, that pussy ain't no glitter She kid herself till she shitter
Yeah, the game is gettin' thicker I pimp her she want the dick up
Babysitting silly Niggas a hiccup just off the pick-up
Smoothest nigga, accrue the whip up I flip up like how he get-up
On the rappin' and the singin' Which is it niggas keep blinkin
Bet those singles meanin' meanings The money gon' come with demons
How I lean them as I team em' No wizard better than He-man
EL-O-Doctro leave them steamin' Forever pettin' my demons
They don't live here for no freein' They do what I tell them reasons
Cause a demon is a demons They handle themselves with reasons
I'm the reason and the meaning The meaning built up, I'm cleaning
Right side of, my mind is dreamin' the left a Drill, you know reason
Don't let my soul catch you creepin' I do this shit cause I'm beamin
Straight from the sky, yeah, they fiendin' They laugh how I break a peon's
My heart the color of neon I break your face off a dion
I'm the mentally savage Eon The last option to see em
Who the fuck they tryna be on The last Maverick to Eon
Bet these bitches want my sheets on I'm God-bodied To lead on
Delete on, motherfucker Catch, nigga
The word'll always be more important than a motherfuckin' number
How numbers don't lie if nobody can trust you to add up correctly?
What's the importance of a number without the motherfucker sayin' it out his mouth?
Why the fuck would a number even matter if it isn't spoken out of context of a word that came before it ?
What you think came first, the motherfuckin' word or the number ?
Let's be motherfuckin' real
doctor up prop up Like how he pop up with the fuckin' words
to mock up his old self Yeah, that's the chop up on
How he bitter cause he riddle of dittle His new witch litter
Yeah, that pussy ain't no glitter She kid herself till she shitter
Yeah, the game is gettin' thicker I pimp her she want the dick up
Babysitting silly Niggas a hiccup just off the pick-up
Smoothest nigga, accrue the whip up I flip up like how he get-up
Bet those singles meanin' meanings The money gon' come with demons
How I lean them as I team em' No wizard better than He-man
EL-O-Doctro leave them steamin' Forever pettin' my demons
They don't live here for no freein' They do what I tell them reasons
Cause a demon is a demons They handle themselves with reasons
I'm the reason and the meaning The meaning built up, I'm cleaning
Right side of, my mind is dreamin' the left a Drill, you know reason
Don't let my soul catch you creepin' I do this shit cause I'm beamin
Straight from the sky, yeah, they fiendin' They laugh how I break a peon's
My heart the color of neon I break your face off a dion
I'm the mentally savage Eon The last option to see em
Who the fuck they tryna be on The last Maverick to Eon
Bet these bitches want my sheets on I'm God-bodied To lead on
Delete on, motherfucker Catch, nigga
The word'll always be more important than a motherfuckin' number
How numbers don't lie if nobody can trust you to add up correctly?
What's the importance of a number without the motherfucker sayin' it out his mouth?
Why the fuck would a number even matter if it isn't spoken out of context of a word that came before it ?
What you think came first, the motherfuckin' word or the number ?
Let's be motherfuckin' real
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
Written by: Donnell Slay jr
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Jose Huerta
i love this story because it sorta shatters this idea we were planted in our heads that during WW1 and WW2 every soldier fought with honor and never complained. It's a really great mini series, i highly recommend to those who have hulu watch it!
Lucky the Lemur
Haha they say "if the Marines (or soldiers) ain't complaining than they're dead"
In the military there is a legend (this really is a US military legend of a real guy) of a soldier by the rank of Private who used to be in the military, who went crazy and started dribbling an invisible basketball, after he kept doing this his unit sent him to the base mental institution where they were told that he just cracked. He stayed in the mental institution for an entire year walking the halls day and night playing invisible basketball, and then one day he was told he was being discharged for being crazy, to where he just kept looking into space past people thinking he was playing basketball, after his discharge papers were processed an NCO escorted him off base to where the poor mental patient kept playing basketball, he than took the invisible ball in his hands and gestured like he was throwing it to the NCO and said "Catch", the sergeant, bewildered and slightly nervous knowing that he was dealing with an insane man acted like he caught the ball, the just discharged Private than stared at the sergeant expressionlessly in silence for a few long seconds than said "good game" turned around and walked away, an obviously sane but free man.
Moral of the story....we veterans know a thing or two about playing Catch, 22 or otherwise.
Lucky the Lemur
In the military there is a legend (this really is a US military legend of a real guy) of a soldier by the rank of Private who used to be in the military, who went crazy and started dribbling an invisible basketball, after he kept doing this his unit sent him to the base mental institution where they were told that he just cracked. He stayed in the mental institution for an entire year walking the halls day and night playing invisible basketball, and then one day he was told he was being discharged for being crazy, to where he just kept looking into space past people thinking he was playing basketball, after his discharge papers were processed an NCO escorted him off base to where the poor mental patient kept playing basketball, he than took the invisible ball in his hands and gestured like he was throwing it to the NCO and said "Catch", the sergeant, bewildered and slightly nervous knowing that he was dealing with an insane man acted like he caught the ball, the just discharged Private than stared at the sergeant expressionlessly in silence for a few long seconds than said "good game" turned around and walked away, an obviously sane but free man.
Moral of the story....we veterans know a thing or two about playing Catch, 22 or otherwise.
Haydn Main
Me and my grandma love this now. Dark humor, the everything
Landsraad
German Anti-aircraft Artillery was very advanced for it's day. They actually had range finders that calculated plane distance and altitude using mechanical computers.
Alhy0308
This series was never a comedy ,i had never experience a movie or series that touched me more, it is one of the saddest
chicagofan76
Just finished the series tonight. Loved it. Waiting for the sequel Closing Time.
Neil Nelson
Just watching Catch 22 and its awesome my friends, episode 3 & 4 is where things get really hitted up....but no spoiler
Nekminute
Loved the season hope to see more !
Glizzy Gordon
Great seeing a new series about WW2, not many of those anymore. I just hope it will be Historically accurate