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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: PickItUpPutItDown on 12 Mar 2008, 04:47
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Sarcasm initiated:
There are only 5 ska bands in the world.
I always thought LTJ was a really weak ska band... at least their Hello Rockview album. Losing Streak wasnt bad.
Catch 22, Streetlight Manifesto, The Specials, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Reel Big Fish are good ska bands. Aquabats are good too but very silly and a lot of people dont like them because of it. Five Iron Frenzy is also very good :)
Ska can be excellent when done correctly! My favorites are Streetlight Manifesto, Catch-22, Common Rider, and Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
I am a big fan of The Aquabats, Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and select Catch 22.
SKA IS NOT DEAD TO ME YET!
i like some ska, but mostly because it is fun to listen/dance to. I've been to one of Reel Big Fish's shows and plan on going to see them again in August. I also like the Aquabats and some older Catch 22 eh.
Also, Catch-22 and Streetlight Manifesto are easily some of my favorite bands. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are some excellent ska too.
i have been into ska for quite some time now and i just about love every ska band out there. yea and all the other bands that people have mentioned are awesome too. the Aquabats, Streetlight Manifesto, Catch 22
Aquabaaaaaaats!
I like the Aquabats
Whee ska!
I dabble in the genre, but the only bands i really follow and buy their cds are reel big fish, the slackers, the aquabats, sublime, catch 22 (although i only own keasbey nights and have heard bad things about them since), and streetlight manifesto.
Said the kid with the Less Than Jake tattoo. D:
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What about the Skatalites, they invented the genre. They may not fall in with the modern style of ska but they are still an amazing band to listen to and see live.
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Sarcasm deactivated?
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HEY GUYS I'M SEEING BIG D & THE KIDS TABLE ON SATURDAY.
(what? They're opening for Dropkick Murphys.)
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What the fuck is going on in this thread
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PICKITUPPICKITUPPICKITUP!!!
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This thread makes Desmond Dekker's ghost cry.
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ska ska ska ska ska ska ska ska ska ska ska ska ska ska ska ska ska ska
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:-D
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Jeph I think you forgot the second half of the "make a stupid comment and then lock the thread" trope
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I wasn't making a stupid comment, that is the name of my new ska band
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Y'all's first album should be an all-ska cover of that new Spoon album. You can call it Ga Ska Ga Ska Ga Ska Ga Ska Ga Ska
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My ska band would be called Skatalytic Converter.
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Long ago I came up with the name "Skary Monsters", it would be a ska tribute to 70s david bowie.
That night I cut myself from the sheer horror.
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Someone should make a beverage called ska. And ska-lite.
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There is a local ska group of some renown here. Instead of going the obvious route and naming themselves "SaSKAtchewan" or "SKASKAtchewan" or something like that, they went with "Skavenjah."
"Skavenjah."
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I've always thought Skapple Pie or the Skellacopters would be fun. Though, I kind of already vowed to myself that my next band, regardless of genre, will be called Eli Whitney and the Sound Machine.
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I am starting to wonder why no one has started a science fiction themed band called The Ska-ship Enterprise.
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"Slobodon Miloskavic" would be such a great band.
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I actually laughed out loud.
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Brain Skan
O-Ska Night
Skadaddle
Skarejevo
Skarate Kids
Skatire
Ska-ter Boi
Cheese Skandwich
LimeSkale
Skaddam Hussein
Skatological Humour
Arturo ToSkanini
Skanta Claus
Skaving and Investments
Insurance Skam
Skantily Klad
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WHAT? No one mentioned Mephiskapheles? (http://www.mephiskapheles.com/enter.html)
Out of all the third wave NYC ska bands with tattoo artist keyboard players, Asian French horn players, that used mercenary bass players, they were the best. Shit... They were so good I saw them on two continents and let at least one of them crash on my futon.
Werd.
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Skattered Ashes. They'd play Emotional Skacore, and weep as they skank
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Emotional Skacore
If Khar never gets around to destroying the human race I think now I'll do it for him.
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WHAT? No one mentioned Mephiskapheles? (http://www.mephiskapheles.com/enter.html)
Out of all the third wave NYC ska bands with tattoo artist keyboard players, Asian French horn players, that used mercenary bass players, they were the best. Shit... They were so good I saw them on two continents and let at least one of them crash on my futon.
Werd.
Epic Band.
Satanic Ska FTW.
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Meph was awesome. I'm not kidding about a) seeing them on two continents (Saw them headline in Germany, saw them open for Fishbone in Hawaii) or b) letting Brian (the keyboard player) crash on my futon.
Damn those were good times.
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Brain Skan
O-Ska Night
Skadaddle
Skarejevo
Skarate Kids
Skatire
Ska-ter Boi
Cheese Skandwich
LimeSkale
Skaddam Hussein
Skatological Humour
Arturo ToSkanini
Skanta Claus
Skaving and Investments
Insurance Skam
Skantily Klad
The Skarate Kids were actually really good. They were a local band and broke up like a year ago.
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Some good ska band names:
Skat Porn
S'ka Problem (Albanian for "no problem")
Skarface
Srpska-Hrvatska (Serbo-Croat for "Serbo-Croat")
Crna Gorska (Montenegrin for "Montenegrin" lolol seeing a pattern yet?)
PolSKA Kielbasa
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Oh and one more: the SKAlocaust
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Patrick's signature leads me to suggest HUAGLBBLAGLSJHFSASGBLYSKA
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WHAT? No one mentioned Mephiskapheles? (http://www.mephiskapheles.com/enter.html)
Out of all the third wave NYC ska bands with tattoo artist keyboard players, Asian French horn players, that used mercenary bass players, they were the best. Shit... They were so good I saw them on two continents and let at least one of them crash on my futon.
Werd.
I was listening to "Maximum Perversion" driving home from work tonight and contemplated uploading it to the music thread. I had decided against but your post has motivated me.
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Skatland
Ska Sports
Skaentology
VolkSkagen
Skandal
Skalet Johanson
Skandinavia
NewSkaper
Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Yellow PolSka Dot Bikini
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Dear newguy, I'm afraid that I made that post two years ago. Unfortunately, much like Men With Beards, The Toronto Raptors, and Bowtie Pasta, ska is now dead to me.
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Also, I would totally name a ska band "Bowtie Pasta"
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What about the Skatalites, they invented the genre. They may not fall in with the modern style of ska but they are still an amazing band to listen to and see live.
God, I was so high at that show that I couldn't even sway rhythmically back and forth.
Long ago I came up with the name "Skary Monsters", it would be a ska tribute to 70s david bowie.
That night I cut myself from the sheer horror.
Emilio, I would so see this band...and drag you along with me.
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Skantily Klad
Ska band, or Aryan softcore?
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The Planet Smashers are pretty good. And there's a band called Staylefish from the London, ON area who put on a good live show too. I don't know how they sound recorded, and admitedly, I was pretty drunk at the time, too.
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For the record, the Mad Caddies are pretty rad when they're not being retarded for the sake of being retarded.
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Emilio, I would so see this band...and drag you along with me.
You can't make me
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For the record, the Mad Caddies are pretty rad when they're not being retarded for the sake of being retarded.
And when is that?
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For the record, the Mad Caddies are pretty rad
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For the record, The Specials are pretty rad
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No love for the Toasters?
or No Doubt, for that matter?
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The Toasters are alright.
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(snip) or No Doubt, for that matter?
Yeah because they're totally an original-sounding third-wave ska band to this very day.
Oh wait, no, that's complete bullshit, Gwen is just like every other pop princess now. She's just less fucked up in the head, hotter IMHO, and with less grating music.
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Can we merge this with the Mastodon thread and form a thread about a hypothetical band called Maskadon?
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It's all about Hep Cat and the Stingers.
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Can we merge this with the Mastodon thread and form a thread about a hypothetical band called Maskadon?
Best idea ever
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(snip) or No Doubt, for that matter?
Yeah because they're totally an original-sounding third-wave ska band to this very day.
Oh wait, no, that's complete bullshit, Gwen is just like every other pop princess now. She's just less fucked up in the head, hotter IMHO, and with less grating music.
Cutting out Rock Steady, No Doubt was a solid band.
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I'm slightly ashamed to admit, I actually really enjoyed that damn Talk Talk cover.
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(snip) or No Doubt, for that matter?
Yeah because they're totally an original-sounding third-wave ska band to this very day.
Oh wait, no, that's complete bullshit, Gwen is just like every other pop princess now. She's just less fucked up in the head, hotter IMHO, and with less grating music.
But she named her first born son Kingston, for which I will always give her props.
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It's all about Hep Cat
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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It's all about Hep Cat
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wait... it depends. By listen to, I mean, put on in the background while I and my friends get drunk and ignore the music. If you're actually listening to ska while there's no sunshine, bbq and beers, you're doing it wrong.
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Dude at least put something good on
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Sometimes as a concession to summer if I am in a really good mood I will put like, Korpiklaani or Finntroll on instead of Xasthur or Anaal Nathrakh or whatever.
Sometimes.
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Sometimes as a concession to summer if I am in a really good mood I will put like, Korpiklaani or Finntroll on instead of Xasthur or Anaal Nathrakh or whatever.
Sometimes.
Finntroll, huh? Clearly those classes at the community center on how to balance your "chi" have really been paying off.
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No Strawberry Switchblade, Khar?
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Finntroll
The girl I made out with a couple weeks ago was a fan of Finntroll. I heard it and I decided it was like Golden Bough had a love child with a Swedish metal band.
I took a lot of ibuprofen that day.
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Finntroll is good music to fry on mushrooms in the woods to.
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I like one Finntroll song, Trollhammaren. Me and my friend discovered it one day a couple of years ago and we just though it was rather novel.
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If you like Trollhammaren, you pretty much like every Finntroll song.
Still one of the defining high points of my life was being lifted atop a crowd at Wacken 2006, drunk off my skull, right at the most awesome point of Slaget Vid Blodsalv.
DOODY-DO-DO-DOO-DO-DO-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOOO-DOODY-DOO-DOO-DO-DO-DO-DO-DOOOOO
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
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Dude at least put something good on
Hepcat is good.
Not as good as The Pietasters, though.
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or No Doubt, for that matter?
I know people have already discussed this somewhat, but I've been thinking about this for a long time and I've come to this conclusion about No Doubt (I was a huge fan for a long time so I know what I'm talking about).
No Doubt made a steady decline from album to album, drifting away from ska a little bit more.
With their first one that they sold out of the back of a van, that was ska, with songs like Trapped in a Box... Tragic Kingdom, that also would be considered ska, with the brass, pounding bass, and crazy sounding vocals. Return of Saturn is the beginning of their transition to more pop-rock, it was also more mellow and used way more electronics than Tragic. And then finally, Rock Steady, they just went off the fucking deep end with that shit. I liked the album, but it was more influenced by the Jamaican house scene (that was where the went to record btw) than ska.
So there you have it. That's my analysis of the No Doubt music style.
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that's not really a conclusion.
you could draw a conclusion based on that information (i.e. "they did that because _____") but basically you just said "this happened, then this happened, and then later this happened" which isn't a conclusion.
</pedant>
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Conclusion: No Doubt did it 'cause they figured it'd sell well.
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Didn't their first lead singer kill himself in a park or something?
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I am a big fan of The Aquabats, Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and select Catch 22.
SKA IS NOT DEAD TO ME YET!
It saddens me that someone's already posted my list of favorite ska-ish bands ._.
ish because Aquabats are iffy for me.
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It should sadden you that like 9 people have posted that exact same list, some of them twice. That's what started this thread.
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Did anybody ever listen to these guys? Their major debut was a trainwreck, but early independent stuff was cool. They were from my hometown and huge when I was in high school-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H1JTVd4Qsc&feature=related