SKA and PUNK!

MikeMcG · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:25 am

It comes from the heavens!

So how about that ska and/or that punk? Bomb the Music Industry is due to release a new album sometime soon. Streetlight Manifesto's next album is coming out soon! If 2039 is soon. Big D and the Kids Table kind of sucks.

The Noid · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:26 am

um I thought music was still in OT.

Lunar Jesty · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:46 am

I don't know if you'd put this here, but I love 80s LA punk. X, The Germs, and the CJs are some of my favorite bands of all time.

Word Up · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:02 am

MikeMcG wrote:

Big D and the Kids Table kind of sucks.

Rot in a corner.
Also Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, The Vibrators, etc.

MikeMcG · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:08 am

Pff, enjoy your highly typical and boring ska. I bet you like Mustard Plug too. Although, I heard Mustard Plug puts on a really good show.

Acekirby · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:53 am

I dig ska. Big D, Mustard Plug, Reel Big Fish.

I also dig older stuff like Dead Kennedys.

Aquabats is some rll gud stuff.

Word Up · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:56 am

MikeMcG wrote:

Pff, enjoy your highly typical and boring ska. I bet you like Mustard Plug too. Although, I heard Mustard Plug puts on a really good show.

Ok, Mike. What bands do you consider punk?

SnowyFox · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:00 am

I like the musical idea of ska, but I hate the whole concept of trying really hard to be different and nonconforming most ska and punk bands have going.

Word Up · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:05 am

SnowyFox wrote:

...but I hate the whole concept of trying really hard to be different and nonconforming most ska and punk bands have going.

Can't speak for ska, but punk was founded on non-conformity. Punk started out as a social movement, like the hippie movement, but has since just been referred to as a subculture and genre of music.

MikeMcG · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:33 am

I wouldn't say most ska/punk bands are trying to be nonconforming or different. I think they're just doing what they like.

Word Up wrote:

Ok, Mike. What bands do you consider punk?

Anything from The Dead Kennedys to The Mr. T Experience to Bomb the Music Industry to Johnny Hobo. All very, very different types of punk, but punk nonetheless.

Beyond the Grave · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:34 pm

= Awesome

The Noid · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:47 pm

Quote:

Sex Pistols

I can't listen to any of their songs without wanting to kill myself

Word Up · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:58 pm

Beyond the Grave wrote:

[Mighty Mighty Bosstones]= Awesome

Second.

The Noid wrote:

Quote:

Sex Pistols

I can't listen to any of their songs without wanting to kill myself

I think they wanted to make something sound so bad that it eventually sounds good. None of them are really musicians at all.

Mini-Trogdor SP · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:37 pm

Dead Milkmen on my punk side, Toasters on my ska side.

Capt. Ido Nos · **Posted:** Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:29 pm

I love me some Five Iron Frenzy, to prove Mike's first post.

Homerun Starrer · **Posted:** Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:54 am

MikeMcG wrote:

So how about that ska and/or that punk?

Enjoy listening to the same three chords over and over again

The Noid · **Posted:** Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:57 am

^masterful burn

and that'd also be why a guitar hero: punk would suck

AbuGrape45 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:18 am

Word Up wrote:

The Noid wrote:

Quote:

Sex Pistols

I can't listen to any of their songs without wanting to kill myself

I think they wanted to make something sound so bad that it eventually sounds good. None of them are really musicians at all.

lol, stolen instruments.

Word Up · **Posted:** Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:26 am

Homerun Starrer wrote:

MikeMcG wrote:

So how about that ska and/or that punk?

Enjoy listening to the same three chords over and over again

That's the style. Quick, but simple. Don't hate.

MikeMcG · **Posted:** Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:57 am

Pff, three chords my butt. Brotha, get yourself a dozen assorted punk donuts.

Capt. Ido Nos wrote:

[FiF]
I love me some Five Iron Frenzy, to prove Mike's first post.

Much approved.

iand93 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:19 am

oh hey mike made this thread didn't see that coming

Yeah, I listen a fair amount of ska and a wee bit of punk.
Streetlight Manifesto is probably my favorite ska band but they can get old. I saw them in concert a couple months ago. That was fun.
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches are my second favorite. I wish they'd play another reunion show but I know it won't happen.
I'm still not sure whether I'm excited for the new Bomb The Music Industry! album or not. I mean, it's BTMI! and all but I haven't been too impressed with the new demos I've heard.
Less Than Jake is another awesome ska band. I still need to buy their new album.
Catch 22 is pretty good but Keasbey Nights is their only album I thoroughly enjoyed.
Some punk bands I like are The Dead Kennedys, The Wipers, Minor Threat, and The Misfits in their later, more hardcore days.

MikeMcG · **Posted:** Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:39 am

You weren't a fan of Permanent Revolution? Rules of the Game, Keasbey Nights, and Permanent Revolution were the only really great albums they made.

I liked the sound of 25 and Saddr? Weirdr?, but the sound of Little Brother is almost too techno-ey for me. If it's the only track on the album that sounds like that, I'd be fine 'cause it's pretty good. Edit: Well, it's an Andrew Jackson Jihad cover. That's why it's pretty good.

Word Up · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:12 am

One of my favorite ska bands is Flip the Switch from Sacramento.
Sacramento has a really good unsigned ska scene...

Mini-Trogdor SP · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:21 am

Bah, screw all your third wave ska bands.

MikeMcG · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:51 am

Bah, screw all your second wave/two tone bands.

Capt. Ido Nos · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:57 pm

I would just like to declare that Five Iron is wonderful to work out too. Quite lovely. Mmm...

Bugkiss · **Joined:** Mon Aug 29, 2005 4:05 pm **Posts:** 2226

Question: Would bands like Hepcat and The Slackers be considered third-wave since they were around in the nineties, or would they be considered first-wave since they play that style of music?

Word Up · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:02 pm

Mini-Trogdor SP wrote:

Bah, screw all your third wave ska bands.

I like The Specials. So.

MikeMcG · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:40 pm

Bugkiss wrote:

Question: Would bands like Hepcat and The Slackers be considered third-wave since they were around in the nineties, or would they be considered first-wave since they play that style of music?

Waves are broken up primarily by sound. So I'd say they're first-wave, I suppose.

Capt. Ido Nos · **Posted:** Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:00 pm

Holy shoot, Five Iron is on iTunes now?! I must see when I get hoooooome!

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