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Ska is inherently faulty?
ImRonBurgundy?:
the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. best ska band in the world? yes.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: Narr ---I thought the whole point of the genre was to be absurd and silly
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And therein lies the problem with contemporary "ska": so much of it is the musical equivalent of a fart-joke. Ska (like reggae, of which it was a precursor) was originally an incredibly wide-ranging form - as is any musical genre worth anything - and could be party music, social protest, whatever. Listen to the famous song "Israelites" by Desmond Dekker to hear ska how it should be.
jcknbl:
Go to a high school for 4 years with a music scene that consists entirely of eight terrible ska bands and you lose all sympathy for the genre.
That said, The English Beat is really good.
ALoveSupreme:
--- Quote from: Inlander ---
--- Quote from: Narr ---I thought the whole point of the genre was to be absurd and silly
--- End quote ---
And therein lies the problem with contemporary "ska": so much of it is the musical equivalent of a fart-joke. Ska (like reggae, of which it was a precursor) was originally an incredibly wide-ranging form - as is any musical genre worth anything - and could be party music, social protest, whatever. Listen to the famous song "Israelites" by Desmond Dekker to hear ska how it should be.
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Though I'm not as versed in the argument as you are, that is essentially what I was going to say. Guess it was a good thing you did it first, anyways.
Ghostwriter:
What is this ska music that can be likened to a crude and simple musical joke? I have yet to hear it. No, really, I have no idea what you're talking about. Just what are you people listening to, or what am I not hearing? I've never observed ska music as being absurd so much as unrelentingly energetic, in a hyperbolic and (yeah) absurdist sense. But crude and silly? What?
YEAH THAT'S RIGHT HATERS, PLEASE TAKE ONE OR SEVERAL BLUNT OBJECTS TO THE HEAD
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