Originally posted by angie88erm not sure if you can get it overseas but we have a really good ska band called fuzzy gish (sp?) will try look around and see if I can find some for you
Tonight, for the first time ever, I was confronted by a style of music called ska. It was a band playing live, and I really loved it. Does anybody have any good ska bands or any good ska music they'd be willing to send me?
Thanks for your help,
Angie 😀
Originally posted by angie88Bad manners. The Selector.
Tonight, for the first time ever, I was confronted by a style of music called ska. It was a band playing live, and I really loved it. Does anybody have any good ska bands or any good ska music they'd be willing to send me?
Thanks for your help,
Angie 😀
Originally posted by angie88There is also 'Reel Big Fish' and 'Spunge'. They're classified as 'ska-punk'...
Tonight, for the first time ever, I was confronted by a style of music called ska. It was a band playing live, and I really loved it. Does anybody have any good ska bands or any good ska music they'd be willing to send me?
Thanks for your help,
Angie 😀
Originally posted by jimslyp69Yeah, and of these the absolute classic band you must listen to is The Specials. Later they split and half the member formed Special AKA which were more political and less fun to listen to.
Yup. And also don't forget to explore a bit of 'Two tone' music as well. It is from the same era as the 'explosion' of ska. It is a mixture of black and white influences of the time. Good stuff.
There's a Specials album with songs like
A Message To You Rudy
Do the Dog
It's Up to You
Nite Klub
and so on
here's the Amazon link, with samples you can listen to: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005YU95/qid=1120268366/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-3277574-8599857
there's also a collection of their singles, with Gangsters and Ghost Town on it. classics!
enjoy!
EDIT: early Madness is also fun to listen to...
Originally posted by Bosse de NageOooh yes please 😀
Big plug--lots of ska music in South Africa, with a bit of an African twist: The Rudimentals, Hog Hoggity Hog, Fuzigish, and others you won't have heard of. Fancy an exclusive promotional sample?
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And Nyxie:... lol, the only song I recognized yesterday was a pepped-up version of No Doubt's Sunday Morning 😉
I remembered an old reggae vinyl album I bought as a kid. On the cover said how to identify ska in music and mentioned the phrase... The guitars must say the words Ska! Ska! Ska! I remember the comment but had no idea what it meant until I googled it and found..
The History of Ska.
http://users.bigpond.net.au/lvisser/skahistory.html
Like mento before it, ska was born out of a combining musical elements. Both mento and jazz were combined to produce a new style that was initially called 'Shuffle' Popular shuffle hits were recorded by Neville Esson, Owen Grey and the Overtakers. The newly set up recording studios were always on the look out for the next new sound. With the popularity of American R&B artists like Fats Domino and Louis Jordan many Jamaican performers incorporated the 12 bar blues chord progressions and boogie bass lines with mento guitar rhythms. Increasing emphasis was placed on the offbeat rhythms of mento.
The offbeats became shorter and more detached. These distinct syncopated rhythms were sounded on guitar and piano. The new style of music became known as ska. The first person to record this 'ska' rhythm was Ernest Ranglin when performing with Cluet Johnson (Clue J.) and the Blues Busters. One day he was trying to get the guitars to play something, and him say 'make the guitars go Ska!,Ska!, Ska!' And that's the way the ska name was born