TheMeeper Wrote:
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> Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> > I tricked TheMeeper, "Mr. Ska is Just Some
> Weird
> > Thing That Got Popular For 5 Minutes In 1997"
> into
> > liking a ska song.
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> Ummm, I don't recall ever saying that. I know ska
> has been around since the 60s, and I don't even
> consider those goofy 90s bands like No Doubt or
> Mighty Mighty Bosstones to be ska. Ska-revival
> maybe, but it's an insult to bands like The
> Skatellites to call those nineties bozos "ska".
I was just assuming you'd be one of those guys who thinks that, because you're usually too cool for school. No Doubt are a bunch of bozos. I'd punch Gwen Stefani in the back of the face if I got the chance. 48 year-old cunt singing about being a "Holler Back Girl".....fuck her. I will defend The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, though. No, they aren't ska either, but they are actually good and I still enjoy them. A thing to understand also--like any other kind of music, there are different styles and subgenres in ska. The Skatalites are ska at it's root. That's the textbook definition, but there are variations also, like the 2-tone style with The Specials, or the more traditional contemporary style of The Slackers, Hepcat........The Toasters are what they call 'third wave' but third wave is not as much a style as it is an era.......you wouldn't call The Slackers third wave, or Hepcat, even though that's the era they came out of.
There's just a lot more to it than "No Doubt bad, Skatalites good". If you're interested enough to listen to more than the polar opposites and form your opinion based on that, there's room for different kinds of ska. But yes, No Doubt is absolute garbage, and a whole shit load of the come and go 'ska' bands from that period. Don't write off all ska from the 90's, or 80's, though.
you're late for football practice, tho
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