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SKA! from Bakersfield, CA

Just decided to ask if anyone here listens to ska? for those who dont know what ska is, its a gender of music that combines rock music, with jazz instruments. in other words ska is horny rock/punk! its really cool music! so ya if you know what im talking about, what band is your favorite?

little yellow bus's picture

hmm

its between reel big fish and the aquabats 

"I'll grow my hair, I'll wear a bra, I'll even cut my penus off for you!" She Has a Girlfriend by Reel Big Fish

story79's picture

hi...

try save ferris also..with matching mighty mighty boston and cake.. i guess SHE HAS A GIRLFRIEND track is a reel big fish and save ferris combination..just a suggestion..im a big fun of ska music..
smokinbluegrass's picture

Do you mean...

...Mighty Mighty Bosstones?

 

--Talk Derby to me.

Ale's picture

SKA!!!!!!!!

I Love Mexican Ska....Panteon Rococo,Salon Victoria, Sekta Core Nana Pancha spanish ska is awesome..
Babel_Tower's picture

 There's a very very

 There's a famous spanish punk-ska band called ''ska-p'' http://youtube.com/watch?v=cZhl8HU2WQI. They split up a little time ago but i like it

 

 

queeniefakesit's picture

listenin to it now.

yay. don't really have a favorite ska band, but i like a lotta random ska songs.

used to LOVE Save Ferris though.

 

I got a dick like a mule...with a big dick.

GrbgRulz's picture

voodoo glow skulls i

voodoo glow skulls

i guess they're more punk, but they're awesome

"Life's too short to be cool" -Shirley Manson-

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MAliLAli's picture

best live!

I normally don't listen to ska at home but I love going to really fast ska concerts. I've seen Panteon Rococo twice, tehy are amazing!!! also love ska-p, la kinky beat and Gogol Bordello (on tour right now), although the last ones are a little different, not specifically ska ...

 

smokinbluegrass's picture

Ska...

...is one of my favorite styles of music, and has nothing to do with punk or any such. It's Jamaican in origin and was a precursor to reggae. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska
Meke's picture

I second that

wasn't punk music heavily influenced by ska and reggae?
Agge's picture

I love ska!

And you're both right, it all started in Jamaica as a precursor to reggae, and then it became the "soundtrack" of the first punk movement in England, because no punk was recorded yet!

Believe it or not, Sweden has a great ska scene at the moment, one of the best bands is Eskalator and I'm happy to promote them, not just because my friends are in the band...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRqdM8njbUs

 

story79's picture

same here...

ur definetly right bout its history..tell me does this Eskalator has its website? or can i just goggled it around? youtube might be accessible perhaps..im just amaze
Agge's picture

Website...

www.myspace.com/eskalator

Unfortunately it's in swedish...

OutRunning's picture

No Joke

Believe it or not, old school no doubt is all ska. their first two albums are some of my favorite music ever. for shizz no doubt has a bunch of connections with other sweet bands in ska.
Meke's picture

No Doubt was definitely the

No Doubt was definitely the best ska band. Them and Fishbone. Their new album is actually supposed to be alot like their older stuff.

 

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story79's picture

i second the motion!!!

Ska is unique that is!!its where i find myself being amuse with..classical, old school will never went to fade thats legendary stuff..here in my country basically in my place in particular vast groups trying to bring life the kind of genre!PUT3SKA's track MANILA GIRL IS awesome..SKALARS's HOTEL CALIFORNIA version cool and fascinating!!
drummergirl83's picture

SKA!

im not a huge ska fan, but there was an amazing melbourne based ska band that i loved, called "sounds like chicken" and they were crazy!! any one heard of them??

they were great live, but unfortunately they split last year..

stephj's picture

Ska is pretty great

Ska is pretty great i have to say. im more of a punk/indie person and i also love reggae so of coarse i would like ska.

h2's picture

my high school days were full of skanking

to the beat of ska music, particularly reel big fish--i rocked my vans!  my favorite remakes of songs are the ska versions....save ferris with come on eileen; somebody else did 'it's not unusual'

aww...thanks for the trip down memory lane

hiding's picture

Ska is my FAVORITE! I

Ska is my FAVORITE! I adore ska. I skank it up hardcore!

 

I love Five Iron Frenzy. They primarily played the christian scene (i was kind of a bible thumper growin up, lol) but they also played in clubs and such. They broke up Fall of '03, and one of my biggest regrets in life is that I never got to see them play live!

h2's picture

i almost mentioned five iron as well

i saw them play 3 times, the last time during their farwell tour...they were such a fun band!  i wasn't the biggest fan of them until their last tour though...a few of my friends actually drove to colorado (from WI) to see their last show ever, which I guess was pretty amazing! who knows, maybe they'll have a reunion show and you'll get to see them then :)

 have you ever heard of the oc supertones?

hiding's picture

i'm so freaking jealous

i'm so freaking jealous heidi!

FIF is the soundtrack to my life it seems. . .

yeah, i love the OC Supertones!

I haven't seen them in concert either.  *laments*

 

I think all rock needs horns. Brass makes music better.

h2's picture

reese is a lyrical genius

so it's not surprising that "FIF is the soundtrack" to your life :)

i too grew up kind of a bible thumper, as did my friends...but we also grew up totally addicted to going to shows, it seems like that was the sole purpose of our jobs:  cds and concerts

there is this christian music fest in illinois every summer called cornerstone, so that's where i saw the supertones and five iron the 1st time...and where i was introduced to skanking :)  i think i was 15...so that was um...11 yrs ago....wow do i feel old and dated....

i agree with the horns in rock...it's just more fun.

 

hiding's picture

oh man, i've wanted to go

oh man, i've wanted to go to Cornerstone for years and years, ever since like yeah, 1999. . . it's never happened though. man.

 

Reese is amazing with lyrics. some songs make me cry, some make me want the change the world!

 

Drowner605's picture

I was BIG into Ska when I

I was BIG into Ska when I was in middle school. Like above I was a HUGE fan of FIF. I saw them once live but they were kinda jerks. I liked the Supertones and I saw them too. They had a really great show (they wore the orange and blue jump suits) but then they got all serious at the end so I went to the merch table. AHAHA. The Insyderz were good too and I saw them too and I like them better live then on cd. Good bunch of guys.
I've always wanted to go to Cornerstone but either didn't have a ride or didn't have the time. *sad face*.
I liked Swing too like The W's and Flight 180. (Was there only swing album The Lineup or whatever it was called?)

hiding's picture

ahh!! totally into Flight

ahh!! totally into Flight 180 and The W's. Flight 180 owned!!! them and element 101, chick fronted swing/punk/ska mishmash.

 

The insyders cracked me up. I have their skaleluia cd, and it's still some of the only worship music of that era I can listen to. . .

Drowner605's picture

SKA!!!

hiding wrote:

ahh!! totally into Flight 180 and The W's. Flight 180 owned!!! them and element 101, chick fronted swing/punk/ska mishmash.

 

The insyders cracked me up. I have their skaleluia cd, and it's still some of the only worship music of that era I can listen to. . .

 

Oh gosh. Element 101. I never bought a cd of theirs, but I have one song of them from a christian comp cd. But this girl (who was much older) who I had THE BIGGEST gianormus crush on was really good friends with the lead singer. So I was "totally" into them to back then. Even though I had hardly listened to them. HA, I totally forgot all about that.

I wish I was into more ska besides christian ska. But those crazy christians were making ska music like crazy. I did like The Suicide Machines I believe.

Does any other of the people that grew up on christian music remember Noggintoboggin (sp?) If I remember they were ska as well.

hiding's picture

Ska and crushes on camp counselors!

Drowner605 wrote:
hiding wrote:

ahh!! totally into Flight 180 and The W's. Flight 180 owned!!! them and element 101, chick fronted swing/punk/ska mishmash.

 

The insyders cracked me up. I have their skaleluia cd, and it's still some of the only worship music of that era I can listen to. . .

 

Oh gosh. Element 101. I never bought a cd of theirs, but I have one song of them from a christian comp cd. But this girl (who was much older) who I had THE BIGGEST gianormus crush on was really good friends with the lead singer. So I was "totally" into them to back then. Even though I had hardly listened to them. HA, I totally forgot all about that.

I wish I was into more ska besides christian ska. But those crazy christians were making ska music like crazy. I did like The Suicide Machines I believe.

Does any other of the people that grew up on christian music remember Noggintoboggin (sp?) If I remember they were ska as well.

 

ahhh Noggintoboggin! I barely remember them. . . I think i got one of their songs off of a sampler. . .

 

Lol, I had sooooo many crushes on girls that were on church camp counselors lol. I go through my pictures from back in the day, and there are sooo many pictures of me with counselors. . . i'm like "heh" it makes me laugh! 

Takisha's picture

So does anyone know or

So does anyone know or remember -

The Skankin Pickles Or

Lets Go Bowling

Way Way back in the day I used to Luv those bands but not anymore! 

 

sliced_bread's picture

high school flashback

I was really into ska during highschool. A lot of my classmates were, actually - probably had something to do with the fact that some Reel Big Fish members went there.

I was really into the Specials, Op Ivy, Less than Jake, Goldfinger, Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, old No Doubt... I'm going to stop now.

And for an added touch of nerdiness - I wrote a paper about the Specials/2 tone ska in general for a history of rock and roll class during undergrad (the topic was "what band/genre we didn't cover in this class should have been included?"). It's weird the stuff you remember...

Drowner605's picture

Dude, those jesus camp, camp

Dude, those jesus camp, camp couneslors!!! They were so hot. Mmm. I'm gonna see if I can find that camp video. I remember mine loved me because I listened to all those bands above plus stuff like MxPx and stuff and we had our little "special bond" because all the other girls listened to pop music. The fellow campers weren't so bad either.
hiding's picture

totally man! oh yeah, sooo

totally man! oh yeah, sooo many jesus camp counselors!

i've been the hot jesus camp counselor myself. (and somehow, I still ended up with a crush on one of the counselors there is just something sexy about a camp counselor)

MONTAGFAN's picture

Sublime...

their very first cd secind hand smoke was great, Get Out and Dont Push both song i can listen to over and over

 

 

 

 

LIVE.SKATE.DIE

Meke's picture

Oh Middle/High School.

Oh Middle/High School. Those were the days. No Doubt, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Sublime, and Fishbone were all I listened to. Recently I've been listening to a lot of Rocksteady, mostly Jimmy Cliff.

 

No Doubt fucking owned. New album

 

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