Skywarp! Posted January 5, 2004 Report Posted January 5, 2004 311 and Sublime also dabble in ska occasionally, but it is not 311's main sound, but you could argue that it is Sublime's.
notJames Posted January 5, 2004 Report Posted January 5, 2004 Ska-punk begins and ends with Operation Ivy. Smartest. Post. Ever. And I think that most of the 2-Tone things shouldn't be considered ska-punk. They really weren't all that punk - they're just straight up ska. I dunno, Two-Tone bands were coming out of punk modifying ska to fit in with punk rock. It may not be as punk sounding as the faster sound of Rancid, Reel Big Fish etc, but it's still closer to ska punk than ska. Isn't there another term for the Two-Tone bands' music style... something like British Wave Ska? I think bands like Madness and English Beat were more mod than punk, but I see what you're getting at. Maybe we should call them mod-ska... ... or not.
C Dubya 04 Posted January 5, 2004 Report Posted January 5, 2004 I used to be a huge fan of early Mighty Mighty Bosstones stuff. They kind of started to suck IMO a few years ago, but their first few albums were really solid. Less than Jake are alright by me too. Now a question..... Does anyone know which ska band did a cover of the Bumble Bee tuna song? It's still stuck in my head from my first year of college about 8 years ago.
notJames Posted January 5, 2004 Report Posted January 5, 2004 Mephiskapheles did it on their God Bless Satan album. Unless, of course, someone else did it that I'm not aware of. Maybe Skankin' Pickle? That goes good with tuna, right?
nl5xsk1 Posted January 6, 2004 Report Posted January 6, 2004 Ska-punk begins and ends with Operation Ivy. Operation Ivy bit the Clash's act. So what does that mean? I think it means your equation is wrong. I think Rancid after their third album bit the Clash much more than anything OpIvy every did. Besides, the Clash aren't ska-punk in the sense of bands like Less Than Jake, the Bosstones and Reel Big Fish. Yes, the Clash were a punk band who had lots of ska influences in some of their songs, but I wouldn't consider their sound ska-punk. I mean, is "Should I Stay or Should I Go" ska-punk? Or "Train in Vain"? What about "Rock the Casbah"? I think not. The Clash weren't ska-punk band, they wera a punk band who played some ska. I agree ... they were a punk band more than a ska-punk band - they just happened to have some dub-influences. If we're going to consider the Clash as ska-punk, then we'd have to throw in the latter day bands like Murphy's Law into that genre, too, and that's just way too much of a stretch. And count me as one of the ones that considers Rancid to be more of a Clash-clone than OpIvy. (not that being a Clash-clone is a bad thing per-se)
Guest Homeless Guy Spare Some Change Posted January 7, 2004 Report Posted January 7, 2004 Less Than Jake The Specials The Selector The Toasters Whitmore Chris Murray Spunge King Prawn Sonic Boom Six Graveltrap Solabeat Alliance Just to name a few! I love Less Than Jake, The Specials, Whitmore, Spunge, Madness, Reel Big Fish and Madness. I was gutted when King Prawn split up this year. King Prawn and there little osama Bin Laden playing the bass. Pure Gold
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