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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

The evidence that we are in the midst of a ska revival is plentiful. ­Indie-punk phenomenon Jeff Rosenstock managed a critical hit with “Ska Dream,” a reimagining of his 2020 album “No Dream.” The genre thrives online, where the Ska Tune Network has more than 200,000 subscribers and ska cover versions rake in the views, including a version of Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” by Los Angeles band the Interrupters that has 5 million and counting. This year sees the release of two major books, one a 400-page oral history of American ska and the other a spirited defense of the often-maligned genre. And with We Are the Union, there’s a band with genuine breakout potential; the group’s new album focuses on singer Reade Wolcott coming out as a trans woman.

There’s only one argument against the idea that we’re in the midst of a ska revival, and it’s a simple one — ska never went away.

The classic British ska outfits that first brought upstroke guitar playing to the Billboard charts have existed in various stages of restoration, anniversary celebration and short-lived hiatuses since the first George Bush was in the White House. Bands like Less Than Jake, Fishbone and the Slackers found varying levels of success in the ’90s and never stopped touring and never fired their horn sections. Ska disappeared from the radio in the ’90s, giving way to the much less upbeat sounds of nu-metal, but right on cue 20 or so years after that, we’re all rushing to catch up with what the rude boys, rude girls and rude non-binaries have known all along.

“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

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KEYWORDS: jamaica; music; ska
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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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