Ska Bands
 

Hey whos everyones favourite ska bands?

Mines gotta be Less Than Jake, they are heaps rad!!!

yea less than jake is really cool. but mine is probably home grown. i saw them in concert last december with starting line and allister and some others and they were awesome. their most recent cd is good. kings of pop i think its called

awesome, i'll have to go listen to em.
I love ska its so cool

I've only heard two Less Than Jake songs, and they both sounded like punk rather than ska.

But you didnt sya what your favourite ska band is?
Mines the slackers

i prefer to listen to the original old ska bands, like Madness, Specials and Bad Manners

I don't really have a favourite band. I judge each song as I hear it. At the moment, I like the Splitters (a UK band), and I'm getting into the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

The bands you mentioned are not the originals. The originals were Jamaican artists from the 1960s such as Prince Buster, Laurel Aitken, the Skatalites, Don Drummond and so on.

i love the planet smashers they are the sickest ska band...and their from canada...so that makes them cool lol...save ferris is really good and i'm starting to get into Mustard Plug...there's soo many good ska bands...ooo meganoidi's really good too...and i dunno if sublime really counts as ska it's more regaeish but sublimes my fav band so yea

i love madness, the specials, selecter....

I like Bim Skala Bim.

favorite all time is bosstones. but i love skatalites, slackers, hepcat, pietasters, desmond dekker.

Yea, But You Know What He Means, You Just Trying To Be Clever Now, Mine Has Gotta Be Less Than Jake Like Yellowcard

I love Less than Jake but you're right their alittle bit of punk alittle bit of ska in my opinion I guess. My oldest brother was into ska when he was in high school and being the youngest and only girl I remember stealing all his cds and listening to them, all my brothers liked ska at one point and one of them had an Aquabats cd, and I just found it again, has anyone listened to them?

I'm not trying to be clever. I just strongly feel that the Jamaican roots of the music should never be forgotten. Ska did NOT start in late 1970s Britain (though all those bands were good and it was them that got me into ska). A lot of the modern so-called ska bands are more punk than ska. Nothing wrong with that, but it could lead people to think that ska is just punk with a horn section. Okay so I'm a traditionalist.

i totally agree with prince burridge. i meen untill recently i did think that ska was just punk with horns untill i started getting into reggae and ska and listened to bands liek the skatalites and early wailers.

the slackers are currently my favorite ska band

Ska
 

OK Heres My List (well This weeks list)

Zenbaseballbat
Capdown
Harijan
Weapons Of Brass Destruction
Monkeytoast

Catch 22 is my all time favorite. Streetlight Manifesto is good too. Oh, and good ol' Op Ivy.

hmm well my list is pretty long
i love catch 22 n they are so good live... :yeah:
streetlight manifesto are amazing, technically accurate as well as just fun.
then thers the 2nd wave stuff, like the specials, the madness, bad manners, the toaster, they're all great.
hmmm n i can't forget Rx Bandits (going to see them in 14 days). :bowdown:
n obviously less than jake, such a fine band.
mad caddies are always good.
n my fav band ever are sublime altho thats more reggae, but still deserves a mention of corse! :clap:
:pimp:
~~skakid-el~~

i love catch 22 they're awesome :)

sublime isn't reggae because they're strumming consist of fast up strokes thats ska. they're more like a blend of reggae rocksteady and ska.

sublime is just too sick.

Way to go. I hear 2tone bands listed as original ska bands much to often.. I think you and I are going to get along very well.

Anyway my favorite ska band would have to be The Skatalites, hands down. No one will ever match the original skatalites.

I think I like 2tone the best... The Specials and English Beat the most, probably...

The Skatalites are very good too.

As for 3rd wave... Catch 22 and The Mad Caddies are pretty good, and I like The Toasters and The Slackers, and Reel Big Fish.

Catch 22,Mad caddies, and Reel Big Fish dont play ska. And the Toasters are a 2tone band

my favourite ska band are ska-p and banda bassotti. they're completely unknow in america but they're quite famous in spain and italy...specially ska-p ;)

Supertones!

Nsync Is The Best Reggae Band
Lance Bass Is So Hot

Wow, that wasnt even funny.

Less Than Jake or Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A. they're oldschool but awesome...

He he old school.... This thread keeps getting better.

These 6 are some of the best in my opinion.


Big D and the kids at the table
Sublime
Bad Manners
RX bandits
suicide machines
five iron frenzy

Less Than Jake are my favourite, but theres also Reel Big Fish

hey guys...check out matamoska. their my favorite!! www.matamoska.com

I love sublime

Less than jake are more pop punk then ska thiers hardly horns in their music anymore.

If Spring heeled Jack is Old school, then Bob Marley is Moses!!!!!!

And How about the NY cats like The Toasters, The Scofflaws, and mephiskaphales

well none of these bands play traditional ska, it's alot easier when you use the punk/ska sound. only band I can think of that tries to play the traditional sound is Hepcat, and i dont even listen to them that much. I'm surprised no one mentioned the skatalites, that's like THE ska band. the only one for all i care. alot of this third wave stuff makes me sick sometimes. i dont mind the punk/ska-influenced sound, but i wouldnt call any of them 'ska.'

Yer right, Third Wave is really awful, the worst thing to happen to ska, and big props to Hepcat for keeping trad. ska alive. The Skatalites are still at it after all these years, and they're still AMAZING live. I really think that the style that's characteristic of NY ska scene/subgenre could hardly be considered easy even compare to trad jamaican ska. I feel the same about 2-tone to a lesser extent. They just arent so much my cup o' cake. I highly recommend checking out (if you havent already) The New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble. Its an all-star ensemble of musicians from The Toasters, The Scofflaws, and The Skatalites playing ska interpretations of great jazz standards & originals too. The 1st album features the 2 singers from Hepcat Cvering a Toots and the Maytals song.

No one mentions the skatalites???? I think I've mentioned them in at least half my posts on the ska board. FOUNDATION SKA MY BROTHER! Hepcat is more of a rocksteady group but they are incredible whtever they play. Alex Deserts voice is just awe inspiring. I cant belive you mentioned the NY ska scene and didnt bring up the Slackers! Slackers destroy scoffaws in my book. But yea the NY Ska Jazz ensemble is really good, as is most the stuff on megalith or stubborn. Im excited I get to go see The toasters and westbound train for the second time the 18th. As for other good traditional ska acts Westbound train, 2 1/2 white guys, Chris Murray Combo, Eastern Standard time, aggrolites, and the allentons areall awsome bands.

Skankin Pickle
The Skatalites
Toots and The Maytals
The Specials
The Slackers