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Originally Posted by BTown787
I always thought of ska-punk mostly just being the staccato-like guitar playing with fast punk tempos with use of horns here and there which makes Operation Ivy a great example again.
I always saw Less Than Jake as a ska-punk band but never really saw Reel Big Fish as much of a punk band.
So if the Bosstones are the sole owners of the ska-core genre where would bands like Choking Victim, Leftover Crack, and Evil Empire fit in? Or do you see them as more hardcore punk than anything?
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I was more or less saying that Reel Big Fish exemplifies what I think of when I think of straight forward 3rd wave. I would be inclined to call Choking Victim, Leftover Crack, and Evil Empire ska-punk, but really they're 3rd wave. It's more of a timeline than a style distinction. I give The Bosstones the sole ownership of the ska-core genre label because they coined the term, and because every band with a remotely similar sound has copied or been heavily influenced by them. There's no way around it.