Ska bandsss
 

Hey all
I was wondering how many of you listen to ska and what bands
I just recently got into it and have been listenign to engine 54 and i voted for kodos
I voted for kods is my favorit :thumbsup:

Well I haven't listened to ska since I was in high school ... back then, Fishbone was king!

What kind of ska are you looking for?

I like a lot of the third wave stuff like Less than Jake, Catch 22 ( only Keasbey Nights - the other albums are decent but that cd is AMAZING.), Streetlight Manifesto ( a collaberation between One Cool Guy and Catch22 ), Mustard Plug, Operation Ivy, Suicide Machines, Goldfinger, etc.

Also, Ive been told to check out screeching weasel, The Hippos,The Pietasters, The Toasters, No Reason Why, The Donkey Show and a few other but I havnt had time to check them out.

the only recent stuff I've been digging is the Rx Bandits, which is barely ska anymore. Definitely a band that everyone needs to check out.

Yep. RX bandits are great - I remember finding them back in the good 'ol days on napster and had pretty much their entire first cd downloaded, which I eventually bought. It was a great cd so when the new one came out I got it. Its not the same sound or style as before really but I still like them a lot and its good to see that they are branching out a bit and changing their style (even though I liked them the way they were).

New Reel Big Fish album out Tuesday, not quite as much ska as their old stuff.

Sugar Ray is a ska band

..not that I like them that much

Yea 3rd wave ska sounds good
Im gonna check out Rx Bandits
Thanks guys just keep listing some more bands to check out

The Toasters and Pietasters are pretty good. Screeching Weasel is pop-punk, not ska. I don't think I've heard of the others.

Planet Smashers, Suburban Legends, Mad Caddies, Big D and the Kids Table are my favorite ska bands not previously mentioned.

http://www.musicianforums.com/forums...d.php?t=185472 - lists a lot of ska bands with little write-ups about a lot of them

First, check out these threads:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=49867
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=75771
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=83271
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=793

I'm mostly a 3rd waver, then 2nd, not so much old-school. It might be hard to find, but the ska-funk combination of Perfect Thyroid was one of my all-time favorites. They had a lead singer with a perfecly-clear baritone voice, three other guys who could sing well, good horns, and the drummer's rhythms were amazingly complex.

I've been digging Spring Heeled Jack - Songs From Suburbia recently

I voted for kodos is good stuff, from Madison WI...yay something from WI for once. Less Than Jake in one of my favorites too. Mu330 is pretty good, the specials, pietasters, some people call Goldfinger ska, i guess it qualifies.

I met some of the Rx Bandits....nice guys.

I would go for Less Than Jake and Mad Caddies as my favorites, but I don't really listen to much ska anymore these days

i used to be big into ska.
everything mentioned above is great stuff. one band that im suprised hasnt been mentioned yet is The Aquabats.

give em a shot. lol

Not the easiest stuff to find but there's this band from Florida called Skif Dank that I enjoy immensly. They haven't released an album in years. Last time I even saw them do a show was the beginning of 2003. Who knows if they're even still together? Either way try and find some of their stuff.

skif dank was the bomb..we have another great one here in Orlando called the Supervillians
http://www.thesupervillains.net/

Heh, I used to be in a ska band, but it's always amazing the sheer number of people who say "What's ska?" Ah well, more for me...or something.

But there's also the Christian ska bands which are pretty good as well. Five Iron Frenzy (Every New Day is a song of theirs to check out) has a lighter style and a tendancy towards silliness; Insyderz are a bit on the metal side at times and the Supertones have good all-around sound, and their bassist is awesome (although he left the band a year ago). FiF broke up last year and Insyderz haven't made an album for years...I think all sorts of ska is just not being popular anymore. Doesn't mean I don't enjoy it.

Oh, and if you're more into swing/ska, check out Hipster Daddy-O and the Hand Grenades. Such good stuff, but good luck finding their music; I stumbled on it in a swing pack I downloaded, but haven't seen them in stores anywhere.

a little on the jazzy side, great horns: www.easternstandardtime.com

I 2nd MU330, at least "press" and "chumps on parade"

King Apparatus - another hard to find band. The only one i've ever heard pull off great ska with no horns.

Voodoo Glow Skulls

Reel Big Fish's new album was released yesterday, with a typcially upbeat title of "We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy". If you like them, you'll like this album. I already have "One Hit Wonderful" stuck in my head.

haha I can imagine the beat to that song without ever having heard it. For some reason most RBF songs sound the same to me. I'll have to check it out anyway though. :)


BTW all I need to say
Oh hell yeah.

I used to work with the guitarist of Mephiskapheles, I miss seeing them sing the Bumblebee Tuna song.

Fishbone, Save Ferris, Untouchables...

\m/ I love that cover of the Bumblebee Tuna song. So, was the guitarist warped or basically normal?

basically your normal guy. He happened to also be well versed in Mac support so he did phone support when he wasn't touring with the band.

shame they went seperate ways...

thanks for the tips, I was just talking to a friend about ska bands.....The Specials came up on the winamp play list

damn.. this just doesn't sound the same.

Bumble Bee Tuna Song

30 second Windows Media Audio cut of it on Amazon.

I always forget whether it was them or The Spitvalves that broke up but I'm guessing it was the Spitvalves. I still have a debt to them for printing up a schedule and handing it out at the first Warped Tour show I ever went to lol.

thanks!!! nice memory...

I was trying to get them to do the HoneyComb HideOut song back in the day...which would make a great ska or punk cover.

When people say ska, I think of:

The Skatalites
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Tommy McCook
Don Drummond
Bob Marley
Toots and the Maytals
The Gaylads
Roland Alphonso
Clancy Eccles
Desomnd Dekker
Justin Hinds
The Ethiopians
Dave and Ansel Collins
Tony Tribe
Upsetters
Paragons

Just to name a few.

I never understood this new stuff they are calling ska. I think ska died in the late 60's. It had a revival in the late 70's with all the british punkers that were into old reggae songs and put there own little twist on it. That diluted the music, but it still had its moments (very rare ones).

But today, it is so much farther removed form what it was originially. They need a new name for it (sorry, I'm just a bitter real ska fan).

I really like(d) the Specials. Intro'd me to Ska. I found this link too:


http://www.skasummit.com/ska_history01.asp ( i forget where, it's on my desktop)

GREAT LINK!!! :thumbsup:

Buck-O-Nine out of San Diego. They had some airplay with "My Town". Regular good old ska/punk fun.

Ska Weekend in Knoxville, TN coming up next Skaturday. 4 stages, 30 bands. Going to be awesome.

I saw Less Than Jake Friday night, they put on helluva show, mostly old stuff and their new album is going to be ska. Qualtiy. My calves hurt from skanking so much.

I was going to go to Ska Weekend, but couldn't find anyone else that wanted to drive that far for a show :(

Friday night at Bogarts? LTJ put on a pretty good show. Their new songs sounded good, hopefully the rest of their new cd will be like that.