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Ska?
KharBevNor:
They're damn good live.
ImRonBurgundy?:
--- Quote from: Green Gorgon on 30 Nov 2007, 13:51 ---At any rate, I don't listen to that much ska. My favorite band, however, is a ska band that apparently no one has heard of. Please someone else tell me they listen to Five Iron Frenzy. You would restore my faith in the state of the ska fanbase.
They're really more like hard rock with a horn line, especially their later stuff. Anyway, check 'em out.
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I listened to this band in like tenth grade. They were a Christian band, but had their share of sociopolitical songs (several focusing on the mistreatment of Native Americans during the Manifest Destiny era). However, on the flipside of the same coin, the most enlightened position on homosexuality they were able to come up with was "love the sinner, hate the sin."
Also, their sense of humor was completely stunted.
brady:
I love ska but more for the shows. I almost never miss a ska show even if I have no clue who the band is but I can rarely just listen to ska if I'm not at a show. Ska be dancing music.
Blank_Jebus:
ska show are really really fun...even if you don't like ska going to a show puts you in a good mood because the bands usually have great stage presence and everyone at the show is really nice...plus skanking is fun
as far as bands go...ill agree ska has it's good, bad, and ugly...like some of the best ska bands out there are Streetlight Manifesto, Catch 22, Five Iron Frenzy, Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, No Doubt, The O.C. Supertones, Slapstick, Mustard Plug, Slapstick, Slow Gherkin...there are more those are just the ones i can come up with off the top of my head...
i don't get why people hate ska so much...like was there a tramatic event in your life that happened and was ska playing in the background so now whenever you hear some off beat guitar with horn you wanna kill someone or what..like i don't get it...but if you don't like it then it's cool...just don't be an ass about it...
recently one of my friends never heard of ska so i had her listen to "Somewhere in the Between" and she loved it...i think it's really weird how unknown ska is toward most people seeing on how it's been around for soo long
there i think i've reached just about every thing that was talking about in this forum..i think
yossarian07:
--- Quote from: The Viz on 29 Nov 2007, 20:24 ---
--- Quote from: ViolentDove on 29 Nov 2007, 20:13 ---Wait, what?
There's a band called Catch-22?
Do all their songs consist of paradoxical and temporally disjointed narratives?
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Catch 22 was a really good band once. They made on album, then their songwriter left, and the band only made one good EP and one good album after that. The rest of their catalogue is mediocre at best.
The songwriter of their first album, however, went on to form Streetlight Manifesto, which is ten times better than Catch ever was.
Other than Streetlight, my main ska squeeze is the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, whose first show after a four year hiatus I shall be attending this December. A few other ska bands I love are Reel Big Fish (obviously), The Toasters, MU330, and the LI-based Homecoming Queens, who are only local right now but they deserve to get big so bad.
Ska is no different from any other genre. It has good bands, bad bands, and bands that rip off both. It's okay if it's not really your thing, but don't go bashing it just because it's different from your taste, the good bands have some very solid music. The ska scene is better than the other scenes though. Hardcore shows are just a bunch of pissed off kids kicking each other's asses and indie shows tend to be populated by pretentious assholes who are more concerned with looking superior to others than listening to the music onstage (which can be phenomenal). At a ska show though, everybody is there to have a good time. Yeah, uber-ska-kids can get really annoying. A lot. But I have more fun with them on the train home than fanboys and fangirls of any other genre.
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Totally agreed. Only complete idiots bash an entire genres of music and say it sucks. It's fine if you dislike it, just making bread generalizations makes you look like a complete douche.
Kalnoky is one of my favorite songwriters ever. Im not that into ska but Streetlight Manifesto is one of my favore bands ever mostly because Kalnoky is such a brilliant Lyricist.
Reel Big Fish is cool two, I've seen them twice, both times with Streetlight opening for them.
I havent heard much of MU330, but they went to my high school and I had a class in the very room that they named themselves after, so that makes them cool in my book. :-)
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