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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Evilpopsicleguy on 22 Feb 2006, 17:38
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okay, I haven't been on these forums very long, but it looks like theres a few Ska fans, so I figured I'd make a topic (I get the feeling I'm not the first to make a Ska thread though...hm...)
if you don't know, Ska is a genre which orriginates from a form of jaaican rock, involving laid back beats, and a horn section, with bands like the skatellites, and skankin' pickle. now-a-days, yo usually just see punk-ska bands, that take influences from ska, like trumpets and reagae-style tempos, but are primarily punk-based.
so anyway, come here to suggest bands, or just generally talk about Ska
a few awesome bands of the genre:
The Aquabats
Streetlight Manifesto
Catch 22
Reel Big Fish
Big D & The Kids Table
Save Ferris
Less Than Jake
Sublime
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Ska is teenagers without enough talent to be jazz musicians, but they're faaar too white to be full out reggae.
Everybody knows only Jews can make good reggae music.
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What ever happened to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones? Hmm.
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Ska is teenagers without enough talent to be jazz musicians, but they're faaar too white to be full out reggae.
Everybody knows only Jews can make good reggae music.
=staggers backwards=
Ouch...
and just for the record, I'm not Jewish. I am Irish.
What ever happened to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones? Hmm.
oh yeah...I coulda' sworn I put them on the list...yeah, they are also very good.
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do Leftover Crack count as ska? Because they win. And I think they have a trumpet somewhere.
Aquabats win.
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do Leftover Crack count as ska? Because they win. And I think they have a trumpet somewhere.
Aquabats win.
yeah, I wasn't sure whether leftover crack counts as Ska, so I didnt put them down.
and yes, the Aquabats win. they usually do.
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We're going to go ahead and call Leftover Crack Ska.
I have some good memories with it.
And skanking is the dumbest dance thing ever.
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Well Kai, you're the dumbest...face...ever.
It's such a shame that almost everyone who listened to ska had an emo phase. An obnoxious emo phase.
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folly are ska/metalcore, and they are good
choking victim are great
\along with leftover crack
oh, and ska-p is an awesome band
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Well Kai, you're the dumbest...face...ever.
It's such a shame that almost everyone who listened to ska had an emo phase. An obnoxious emo phase.
Except me, actually. But that's because I'm FUCKING AMAZING. Like, if I didn't know I was cooler than him, I'd totally think I was Jesus coming back again. But that's another topic.
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And modest.
Besides, everyone knows Tycho is the most awesome person ever.
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I'm kinda new to the ska genre, but it's really taken a hold on me. I absolutely love it. Haha, it's my savior from Black Metal and Death Metal.
*Shrugs* I guess what really got me into it were the bands Reel Big Fish and The Aquabats. Now I'm pretty much into Skankin' Pickle, The Aquabats, The Forces of Evil (I can't believe they broke up! ;_;), Mad Caddies, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and really whatever sounds good. I even listen to some jSka.
Can't really get into Less Than Jake, though. *Shrugs* I'm considering going to a Less Than Jake concert this march, just to check it out, so maybe that'll change my mind.
Voodoo Glow Skulls is pretty good, though. From the little bit I heard. Some of their stuff sounds more reggae influenced than anything else, which I like a lot.
Oh, and major hate towards Big D & The Kids Table for ruining Once In Awhile on The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show. >=(
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No, I mean what happened to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones? Where are they now? Flippin' burgers at McDonalds?
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No, I mean what happened to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones? Where are they now? Flippin' burgers at McDonalds?
I think they're either about to release a new album or just released one. As much as I like them, I haven't been following them much lately.
Kinda like Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
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DESMOND DEKKER, PEOPLE. COME ON.
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I've been listening to a scant bit of Common Rider lately. Carry On is a great song.
Also, Catch-22 and Streetlight Manifesto are easily some of my favorite bands. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are some excellent ska too.
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I kinda like Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra and Mad Caddies
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Evilsons (http://www.myspace.com/evilsons), who named their debut ep "De Mysteriis Dom Skathanas" which counts as teh awesome in my book.
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The specials and UB40 were pretty awesome.
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Well Kai, you're the dumbest...face...ever.
It's such a shame that almost everyone who listened to ska had an emo phase. An obnoxious emo phase.
oh god...while I never really went through that phase (although there was a small span of time where I thought Panic at the Disco! was OK...that didn't last long), my friend, who is also into ska, is going into an emo phase. I fear it may last a loooong time...
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Kick him in the nads and sign him up for the marines.
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i have been into ska for quite some time now and i just about love every ska band out there. my fav band would have to be Less Than Jake they kick arse. yea and all the other bands that people have mentioned are awesome too. the Aquabats, Streetlight Manifesto, Catch 22 oh there is a local ska band here in sheboygan and they are awesome you should listen to them i will give you they myspace http://www.myspace.com/4thandmichigan they are awesome
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Ska? Moer liek a precursor of RegGAY, amirite?
Shit, it's really hard to do that one with ska.
But, well...ska sucks.
Ska revival isn't cool you stupid fucks.
All the bands are only in it for the bucks.
And if you fucking like it you're a schmuck
...Ska sucks!
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Besides, everyone knows Tycho is the most awesome person ever.
Tycho Brahe the astronomer?
I don't listen to ska, granted I haven't really made any effort, but what I have heard sounds the same. I don't know if I have just missed the good stuff.
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I hate ska threads, because of the sarcasm that invariably comes with them. Same with Matthew Good threads.
Less Than Jake puts on an amazing live show. I've been listening to them since Grade Six. (Sophmore in Uni now)
Here's a LTJ Required Listening list to help you along, if you can't seem to like the stuff you're listening to. Albums are in CAPSLOCK, and showstoppers, and fan favorites are marked with a *.
PEZCORE
Shotgun
One Last Cigarette
LOSERS KINGS AND THINGS WE DON'T UNDERSTAND
867-5309 (Jenny)
LOSING STREAK
Automatic*
9th at Pine
Never Going Back to New Jersey
How's My Driving Doug Hastings?*
Just Like Frank
Johnny Questy Thinks We're Sellouts*
Jen Doesn't Like Me Anymore*
HELLO ROCKVIEW
All My Best Friends Are Metalheads*
Nervous In The Alley
History of a Boring Town*
Richard Allen George... No, It's Just Cheez
Scott Farcas Takes It On The Chin
Al's War*
BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
Magnetic North
Gainesville Rock City***
Last Hour of the Last Day of Work
ANTHEM
The Ghosts of Me And You*
Look What Happened*
The Science of Selling Yourself Short*
Short Fuse Burning*
Motown Never Sounded So Good
She's Gonna Break Soon*
That's Why They Call It A Union
Plastic Cup Politics
The Brightest Bulb Has Burned Out/Screws Fall Out
Of course, being the fan I am, my picks are obviously biased to hell. Rock N Roll Soldiers is opening for them right now, which is worth the price of admission alone, so I would advise going. Show up early and get a good place next to the stage, the show is phenominal. Watch all the opening acts, (RNRS, damone, A Wilhelm Scream) and prepare to be crushed by the crowd. For what you pay on the ticket, the show doesn't disappoint.
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Besides, everyone knows Tycho is the most awesome person ever.
Tycho Brahe the astronomer?
I weep for your ignorance. (http://www.penny-arcade.com)
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I had a feeling you were talking about that ghastly rag and I can only conclude that even Tycho Brahe's iron nose is more awesome than Penny Arcade.
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I like ska. I've been posting on the Operation Ivy (Jesse Michaels band pre-Common Rider for anyone who doesn't know. Pre-Common Rider by quite a few years) forums for a while now. They're one of my favourite bands. Misled Youth are also a very good skacore band from the UK, try and check them out on MySpace. Common Rider are definitely another favourite, especially with their second album because it's kind of experimental and just generally brilliant.
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MU330
The Planet Smashers
The Chinkees/Mike Park
Makeshift Heroes
The Toasters
Skatalites
The Specials
Madness
King Apparatus
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Hah, you call that ska? (Well I guess it is... but I wanna be an elitist snob too sometimes.)
How about some real ska: Jackie Mittoo, The Skatalites, The Toasters (yeah they're new but they play first wave ska so they count), Byron Lee & the Dragonaires, Clement Dodd's house band?
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The Toasters have been around for like 20 years. They're not what you call new.
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The Toasters have been around for like 20 years. They're not what you call new.
Hah, showing my age there. Not really, I actually meant to say newer but hey, nobody is going to believe me now anyway so I may as well say I'm old.
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Desmond Dekker and The Specials - King of Ska (and each's separate careers)
All she wrote about ska, in my opinion.
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But, well...ska sucks.
Ska revival isn't cool you stupid fucks.
All the bands are only in it for the bucks.
And if you fucking like it you're a schmuck
...Ska sucks!
But.... You like shit metal bands.
You need to just shut the fuck up sometimes Khar ^_^
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Metal rapes the shit out of ska, and, if you actually had any musical savvy, or, hell, just the inclination to use google, you'd know that I had quoted the lyrics of a Propaghandi song which is itself a ska song.
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I weep for your ignorance. (http://www.penny-arcade.com)
Being reasonably familiar with both of them, I'd have to say that I wouldn't know which one he was talking about either. Besides, as we've recently discovered, it is Tycho and not Gabe who is a junkslut.
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Well Kai, you're the dumbest...face...ever.
It's such a shame that almost everyone who listened to ska had an emo phase. An obnoxious emo phase.
Your face is an obnoxious emo phase.
No sorry I take that back that was mean.
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Metal rapes the shit out of ska, and, if you actually had any musical savvy, or, hell, just the inclination to use google, you'd know that I had quoted the lyrics of a Propaghandi song which is itself a ska song.
Yes, because everyone runs quotes from a messageboard through google just on the off chance that they're quoting lyrics from a song...
I don't listen to Propaghandi and didn't know it was their lyrics. Obviously I have no musical savvy what so ever.
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That's right. you don't.
Course, I'd generally assume that since it's written in a sort of verse thing, rhymes, generally ignores grammar.. Maybe they may or may not be quoting a song?