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The Ska Revival Is Here, But Ska Never Really Went Away
Washington Post ^ | June 18, 2021 | Zachary Lipez

Posted on 06/27/2021 4:37:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway
Fellow Jamaican--Lloyd Clarke (1964)
41 posted on 06/27/2021 6:23:44 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: PUGACHEV

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra!!!

They ROCK!


42 posted on 06/27/2021 6:31:07 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Ska Guns of Navarone.
Lupin’s song.

They are awesome.


43 posted on 06/27/2021 6:36:58 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Pride of Lions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcWGdkoo0Fs


44 posted on 06/27/2021 6:39:59 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Pride of Lions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcWGdkoo0Fs

Skaravan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPOeGWl6x4E

Almighty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3ihzv9g20


45 posted on 06/27/2021 6:42:54 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Pride of Lions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcWGdkoo0Fs

Skaravan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPOeGWl6x4E

Almighty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3ihzv9g20

The Godfather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFldyPyuk8o&list=PL-loOQtsuBZ_2KKsSA-Hifv5R_2SSXjgA


46 posted on 06/27/2021 6:47:13 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Bookmark.


47 posted on 06/27/2021 6:56:14 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: tet68

Ska me crazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsC1UTNGnV4

Look at that crowd!

These guys are musicians!!!


48 posted on 06/27/2021 6:57:26 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Bonemaker

Cute blonde, but I have no idea who she is.


49 posted on 06/27/2021 7:11:32 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: dfwgator

Classic! That video brings back memories of high school.

Madness is the only band that comes to mind when I hear the word “ska”


50 posted on 06/27/2021 7:18:36 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes

Ska punk masterpiece according to many music critics. Their only album. https://youtu.be/ABbp6AoMCik


51 posted on 06/27/2021 7:23:03 PM PDT by Treeless Branch
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To: Tired of Taxes

What about the The Mighty Mighty Bosstones from the 90s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGMUAMevH0


52 posted on 06/27/2021 7:23:42 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: nickcarraway

>>“I see it as a continuation. I mean, rock continues — nobody talks about rock revivals, do they?” says Pauline Black, singer of the Selecter, the British ska band that recorded the

Rock is dead. It’s off the radio and off “the charts”.

There are still practitioners but they don’t have cultural impact as they once did.


53 posted on 06/27/2021 7:36:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

The Skatalites are still touring.

It doesn’t always have any original members in the lineup (only a couple remain living).

Guns of Navarone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtESlTKBa4s


54 posted on 06/27/2021 7:42:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

They still tour as well.


55 posted on 06/27/2021 7:42:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

That’s right - I remember that one, too.


56 posted on 06/27/2021 7:43:15 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: SamAdams76

Writer submits to Vice(sux) and Pitchfork

https://twitter.com/ZacharyLipez

Don’t know if he’s a millennial


57 posted on 06/27/2021 7:45:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: nickcarraway

I saw English Beat with REM as the opening act many years ago. Amazing show. But my favorite ska band is the OC Supertones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BTEhPm7-F0

“How will you stand if you don’t understand? Fight like a man, scriptures in hand”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFQKequLo3A

“The problem isn’t Hollywood, the problem isn’t Washington, the problem is a weak divided Church of schismed Christians”


58 posted on 06/27/2021 7:49:31 PM PDT by PlateOfShrimp (c)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

They even became bumper music for the Rush Limbaugh Show


59 posted on 06/27/2021 7:49:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: Treeless Branch

Thanks for the link. I never heard of Operation Ivy before.


60 posted on 06/27/2021 7:50:40 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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