Jazz: The world is broken and it’s beautiful
Country: the world is broken but so is my pickup
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trve black metal: bizarre rooster sounds
cockadoodle
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Damn, I didn’t realize I was ska until just now. I in fact have a trumpet and a coronet. And the first live show I ever got high at was Skankin Pickle touring Skafunkrastapunk. Somehow completely unrelated I ended up with their bass drum kick pedal about a year and a half later. I don’t even listen to ska though. But the attitude is all mine!
Yo I got a sax. We just need a bass player and we got a band
Bubba?
do i look like i got healthcare?
Uhhhhhhh noye?
slap epic
Furries: OWO Notices your broken world
Pop: world is broken let’s ignore it
R&b: world is broken let’s smash
D&b: world is broken let’s dance
Weirdcore: World is broken so I’ve been slamming Monster energy drinks for 48 hours straight and now I’m delirious and hallucinating the nineties.
What -core is “I haven’t slept in a week for non-meth reasons so here’s wonderwall” (I never learned to play wonderwall)?
I don’t know what the exact genre name is but Opeth’s Eternal Rains Will Come comes to mind
Techno: The world is not broken as long as we have drugs
Trance: the world is broken and I can see it in all its kaleidoscopic majesty.
Breakcore: “the world is b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-brRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrR b r o k eeeeeeee n”.
folk metal: the world is broken, as foretold from by the Ancient Ones whom we celebrate with gut-wrenching melancholy
Death Metal: RAARRRAOARAAAGHHH (booklet with the lyrics probably says “world is broken let’s fuck shit up” )
Alternatively, “if you piss blood it’s a symptom of kidney issues”.
That’s my buddy’s grindcore combo’s name!
“Ska is what a 13 year old hears in their head when they are told they are getting free mozzarella sticks.”
Grunge: “The world is broken, and so am I. But there’s nothing we can do about it so let’s just fuck.”
“Ska is what a 13 year old hears in their head when they are told they are getting free mozzarella sticks.”
I always think of this song by 7 seconds of love when I read that. Pretty much sums it up.
Open question to the floor: what is the most “Ska” song I could send to someone? Like the most iconic or the most stereotypical “Ska” a song could possibly be.
Edit: I’ve got some listening to do, thanks for the responses, keep them coming! I’ve never heard of half these bands, and while Ska isn’t usually my thing I definitely vibe with some of them.
Legalization by skap
For the 90s ska revival, I think Reel Big Fish takes the cake for most ska-ish ska band
None of these are stereotypical but I think I covered part of the range.
The Science of Selling Yourself Short, Less than Jake
Commenting both to track these Ska recommendations, I fucking love Ska. But also to recommend Life Sucks…Let’s Dance by Reel Big Fish, to my that song really hits the nail on the head in a cliché way. I constantly tell my wife, who reminds me I tell her that every time we are listening to it lol
Modern Ska i’d say
Flying Raccoon Suit afterglow
We Are The Union Out Of Patience
Half Past Two Barrier For Entry
of the older stuff, a few greats i havent seen mentione yet would be
Against All Authority All Fall Down
Link 80 enough
AAA and Link80 are very much not “the most ska”, they are very hardcore leanleaning ska, which is really a few steps too farfar from The Specials or Toots and the Maytals to be a good introduction to ska.
Streetlight manifesto is probably one of the more popular ska bands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOqenYis1iQ
Streetlight fucking slaps. I can’t name a bad song of theirs.
We’re getting a new album sometime totally soon, for real this time, and they still won’t have a bad song
Millie Small’s ‘My Boy Lollipop’ from 1964 is the original ska song that made the genre popular outside Jamaica.
Of the second-wave aka two-tone ska: The Selecter’s ‘On My Radio’, Madness’ ‘Night Boat To Cairo’, The Specials’ ‘A Message To You Rudy’.
To me, madness - one step beyond is definitive ska
It’s a cover, btw.
It’s not the best ska song by a country mile, but it’s definitely the most ska song. At least as far as third wave goes.
surprised this isnt #1. Def the most stereotypical and well known ska song
for the lazy, it’s The Impression that I get
Definitely the first one I thought of. If you’re going by most well known, and recognizably ska, then yes this.
Not what you asked for but https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uPRG6klixus
Varies by generation of ska.
- first generation: “Keith & Ken with Byron Lee & the Dragonaires - Jamaica Ska” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhLjOgUXut8
- second generation: “Madness - One Step Beyond” - https://youtu.be/SOJSM46nWwo?t=29
- after that idk
One Step Beyond
Which is a cover of Prince Buster’s track from 1964.
Brings back memories.
3/4ths of these are just punk subgenres lol
No Patrick, Goth and Emo are not
an instrumentpunk.YOU’RE a punk subgenre >:(
YO MOMMA is a punk subgenre!
…
She’s awesome!
The three that are not punk itself. Emo and goth both came out of punk, and ska was fused with punk by the time of two-tone.
I’m genuinely curious how Goth came out of Punk.
Basically, some people started incorporating gloomy aspects to punk aesthetics and music. Gloomy aspects from literature, film, tropes. Some were looking to express similar political sentiments but in a more metaphorical way, I suppose; that’s my impression, that there was an added element of artistry/artsy there. Some were looking to add also subjective themes (madness, unlove, etc.). Example (Bauhaus - In the Flat Field).
This gave us post-punk and similar sounds in the very late 70s and mostly early 80s. You probably know some bands that were influential. Example. (The Cure - The Hanging Garden).
Anyway, the mohawk grew longer, blacker. Still teased, often shaved, but creepier. The leyering in clothing also became blacker or creepier (transparent layers, protagonism of the net layers). Theatrical and extravagant outfits emerged, inspired by the decade’s fashion too. Example in music video A. (_Alien Sex Fiend - R.I.P.).
Example in music video B. (Specimen - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang)Famously, the night club called “The Batcave” started reuniting bands and listeners, and in the 80s many countries had similar venues. A little more aggressive or punkier sound persisted with a genre called deathrock. There was now post-punk, deathrock, goth rock, darkwave (inspired by the synth-driven genres of the 80s), etc. Example A. (The Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia my Reflection)
Example B. (The Frozen Autumn - Is Everything Real?).The subculture was consolidated around these genres, and then the name “Goth” stayed, and then more communication and inspiration… And nowadays social media keeps many things alive through teachings in video and, I guess, text, like this one. Why? In part, because [context] a person that is new to all this world is called a “baby bat” and [/context] most Goths are protective and integrating of baby bats.
And that’s it. There was a good deathrock revival in the late 00s and early 10s. Example. (Cinema Strange - I Remember Tendon Water). And today there’s an obsession to bring back the original elements but it’s all still very different (and often cliched, which I don’t like, personally).
Here’s some Goth music from ‘recent’ years. (Lebanon Hanover - Gallowdance).
Another one. (Boy Harsher - Fate).
And another one. (The Cemetery Girlz - Broken Teeth)More knowledgeable Goths, correct or add as needed…
Holy moses, thanks for all that effort! Good read!
Yeah, after commenting that I considered that what some people consider goth is actually post-punk (the punk connection should be obvious), but then remembered goth rock exists obviously does not come from punk. Ska and emo though for sure, emo by ways of post-hardcore, by ways of hardcore, by ways of protopunk and you’ve already covered the ska lineage
My understanding is punk came about at least in part of the first wave of ska, not the other way around.
Though I could be mistaken.
Goth-rock started from post-punk, with Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees following the lead of Joy Division. Not sure what kind of goth-rock you mean that didn’t start there.
Post punk. And dub, glam, reggae, Krautrock.
“Mozart came from Gregorian chants.“
Nu metal is bipolar. Its either “the world is broken but ignore it with the help of a song that has no right to be this groovy” or “the world is broken and thats why im setting the whole fucking place on fire including myself”
Its either “the world is broken but ignore it with the help of a song that has no right to be this groovy”
Also, “I’m broken, here’s a sad and angry song about it that has no right to be this groovy”. Nu metal was/is big on introspection and personal tragedies instead of societal tragedies, though introspection =/= wisdom.
Noise: lol noise
Where is the beauty in billionaires taking over the world and fucking everybody?
In the cracks left behind where plants can still grow
A good kiss
Your baby’s words
Lots of beauty to find, plenty of life to live
Sadness is rebellion
