THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: MyNameIsMethodis on November 21, 2008, 06:51:42 PM
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Plz and thnx
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Let me go cue tehjaybo. BRB.
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The best ska bands ever:
The English Beat
The Specials
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My bat-signal has been ignited, and I have arrived. Sup motherfuckers.
Currently, I'm in a little bit of a mixed ska feel, second and third wave goodness. So, I'll just list them as I can think of them, not necessarily in any order whatsoever.
Reel Big Fish
Streetlight Manifesto
Madness
Mad Caddies
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Less Than Jake
The Toasters
The Pietasters
Catch 22
The Specials
The Aquabats
Goldfinger
The Suicide Machines
BAMALAM.
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My bat-signal has been ignited, and I have arrived. Sup motherfuckers.
Currently, I'm in a little bit of a mixed ska feel, second and third wave goodness. So, I'll just list them as I can think of them, not necessarily in any order whatsoever.
Reel Big Fish
Streetlight Manifesto
Madness
Mad Caddies
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Less Than Jake
The Toasters
The Pietasters
Catch 22
The Specials
The Aquabats
Goldfinger
The Suicide Machines
BAMALAM.
No English Beat/The Beat? FOOL.
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Never heard of them. I'll add them to the list to "legally procure".
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I already have some Bosstones but none of the others, so thanks bro. :D
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Never heard of them. I'll add them to the list to "legally procure".
Really? :'( Alongside The Specials they are easily the most important Brit-Ska band of the 80's. I weep for Ska fans who don't know the original kings of the genre. A lot of the band members and the specials band members worked together a lot. The English Beat who tours these days is a random mix of the original beat and the specials.
Although they never hit it off big in America outside one or two songs, they were HUGE in England. Probably the biggest ska band of that time in the UK.
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And some of the members went on to form Fine Young Cannibals after they broke up lol.
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Also have any Ska-Punk like Sublime reccs? You know that reggae / ska type of sound.
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Never heard of them. I'll add them to the list to "legally procure".
you're so fucking fired.
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some of my credentials
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A Message To You Rudy <3
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Pretty much the best ska ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pToG1kCXwoo
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Is that a good game?
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Is that a good game?
Good? Well, it's pretty much a series of fairly straight-forward mini-games. On the other hand, it's totally hilarious and bizarre.
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Never heard of them. I'll add them to the list to "legally procure".
you're so fucking fired.
I've only been listening to ska for a little while now, so I'm sorry to have offended your vastly superior knowledge.
See you guys next time Bloodwake texts me.
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Do The Specials still exist?
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Do The Specials still exist?
Not really. Like I said, when I went to go see The English Beat in concert a few years ago it was like half The Specials band members.
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Never heard of them. I'll add them to the list to "legally procure".
you're so fucking fired.
I've only been listening to ska for a little while now, so I'm sorry to have offended your vastly superior knowledge.
See you guys next time Bloodwake texts me.
To be fair, The English Beat was THE ska band of the 1980's. It be like being a fan of 60's british invasion rock but not knowing who The Beatles or the Rolling Stones are.
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HAY.
He gave me the damn ska I listen to and love so FUCK YOU GUYS
:maf :maf :maf
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you're absolutely right
that was incredibly dickish of me.
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At least tehjaybo learned about ska. So it works out. Kind of.
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i like old roots rock ska and 2 tone the best.
modern ska is good.
my own favorites are the toasters and the pietasters.
luckily i grew up in DC in the 90s so I got a lot of great home grown talent along with all the "big" tours because nyc was so close and our own scene was huge
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i like old roots rock ska and 2 tone the best.
modern ska is good.
Same here, nothing wrong with more recent ska but 2 tone is where it is at. Nothing beats it for me.
My dad was huge into ska in the early 80's so I grew up with a lot of it.
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let me see if i still have the bbc radio documentary on the rise and fall of 2 tone. it's some fascinating listening
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Basically my image of ska in my head looks like this:
(http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z255/Chloe616/2ToneSka.jpg)
I absolutely loved seeing the beat in concert in 2006. Even though only the lead singer was from the english beat seeing so many people of the 2 tone era up there playing lots of stuff not just the beat but the specials and so on, was fantastic. And I never heard that BBC documentary. I gotta look into that.
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if you want to look for it on your own it's called Too Much Too Young, and it's two one-hour episodes.
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i have far less ska than i thought i used to, it turns out
VA - This Are Moon Ska
VA- The Two Tone Story Box Set
The Toasters - Discography
The Scofflaws - S/T
Pietasters - 1992-1996 (3 disc set collecting their early period)
The Bosstones - Discog
Suburban Legends - discog
Suicide Machines - Destruction by Definition (their first album is their best, i think)
Skatalites - High Bop Ska
scrappy - discog (pop punk / ska. total guilty pleasure)
reel big fish - discog
Operation Ivy - Energy (recently remastered. sounds excellent) 2 Bootlegs
Moshpit on Disney - Ska / Punk covers of Disney tunes (Japanese Only release)
Mephiskapheles - God Bless Satan ("satanic" ska, really good pop ska done at a million miles per hour)
Manu Chao - Spanish punk singer turned Ska / Reggae singer
Less Than Jake - Discog
Hepcat - Discog (soulful Ska in the DC mode)
goldfinger - darren's coconut ass (a collection of more pop punk than ska covers)
common rider - lead singer from Op Ivy's band. released 2 LPs then broke up. Brilliant stuff.
checkered cabs - remember (my favorite DC ska band. released one album then broke up)
i know i have more stuff not ripped like Ruder Than You's two CDs from philly and some Skunks from DC as well.
not counting all the Ska I have on vinyl (madness, english beat, specials, etc)
If you like i could toss together a quick sampler of some tracks so you can get an idea of the various sub genres surrounding ska
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The only thing I can think of that hasn't been said is Flogging Molly, and it's not really ska.
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ska is one of my most hated music genres
BUT
A message to you rudy is an awesome song
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Fuck you Rudy! scibiddy boop....
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Basically my image of ska in my head looks like this:
(http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z255/Chloe616/2ToneSka.jpg)
I'm with you 100%.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/Birkoff/DSC00775.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/Birkoff/DSC00774.jpg
My wall. And yes, the second was just to show more posters.
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Less Than Jake
Reel Big Fish
Catch-22
Suburban Legends
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Edna's Goldfish
This is all you need. :)