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Ska Music

DiscoCAFC
DiscoCAFC Posts: 1,762
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Any Ska music fans out there?

I'm trying to co-operative a playlist for my mates birthday. I've been told he likes Ska music but I don't know too much about Ska music so looking for advice or any tunes you like?
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  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    Get some Toots and the Maytals in there. Monkey Man or 54-46 Was my Number maybe.
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,881
    edited March 2018
    Message to you Rudy / Gangsters - Specials
    Lucky Seven / Dick Tracey - The Skatalites
    Man in the Street - Don Drummond
    Train to Skaville - Ethiopians
    Miss Skaculation - Roland Al & the Soul Brothers


    Intensified Ska Compilations 62-66 / 63 -67 /
    First Specials album 1979 - lots of classics

    On my radio / Too much Pressure - Selector
    Mirror in the Bathroom / Too Nice to talk to / Twist & Crawl - Beat
  • SexyDave
    SexyDave Posts: 374
    Anything by Less Than Jake - especially the song All My Friends Are Metalheads... I think it's called than anyway. Reel Big Fish, Monkey Man.
    I don't know much ska but punk isn't far off. Throw some classics in there... Blink 182, New Found Glory, Green Day, Offspring etc.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,207
    This is just madness.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    Pearl's Cafe by The Specials. Nah, on second thoughts it's all a load of bollocks.
  • kafka
    kafka Posts: 2,367
    Dave and Ansil Collins are a must
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    The 2% in Belgium.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Love a bit of Ska.

    Jump on YouTube and have a search around for some ideas. Most of the above mentions are great choices.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,443
    Skinhead moonstomp - symarip
    Ten commandments - Prince buster
    Madness - Prince buster
    Al Capone- Prince buster
    Guns of navarone - skatalites
    Pied piper - rita marley
    Pressure drop - toots and the maytals

    Add in some Jimmy Cliff(reggae)
    The Harder they come
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    edited March 2018
    A favourite album 1969.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYe9QZHFvE
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  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    .
  • Mr. Happy
    Mr. Happy Posts: 653
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M_HPcN2ct74

    Anything by The Slackers. Really underated band.
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    SexyDave said:

    Anything by Less Than Jake - especially the song All My Friends Are Metalheads... I think it's called than anyway. Reel Big Fish, Monkey Man.
    I don't know much ska but punk isn't far off. Throw some classics in there... Blink 182, New Found Glory, Green Day, Offspring etc.

    These bands are nothing like ska music
  • ScrappyCAFC
    ScrappyCAFC Posts: 278
    edited March 2018
    Suicide Machines


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


    Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  • ScrappyCAFC
    ScrappyCAFC Posts: 278
    PopIcon said:

    SexyDave said:

    Anything by Less Than Jake - especially the song All My Friends Are Metalheads... I think it's called than anyway. Reel Big Fish, Monkey Man.
    I don't know much ska but punk isn't far off. Throw some classics in there... Blink 182, New Found Glory, Green Day, Offspring etc.

    These bands are nothing like ska music
    Some real punk though.

    Rancid


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P9QMkm9Eew
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    Rancid offer a more modern updated ska with tones of punk. The ones bflow are worth a listen

    Time bomb
    Daly City train

    Or:
    Specials - Too much, too young
    Madness - Night boat to Cairo
    The Beat - Ackee 1 2 3
    Specials - Ghost town
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,150
    The Duallers or The Tremolites
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,443
    Desmond Dekker:
    Israelites
    Shanty Town
  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,596
    Check out The Ska East, new album by Hong Kong ska band, the Red Stripes.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    1000 volts of Holt

    Harder they come soundtrack
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Guns of Navarone
  • Daggs
    Daggs Posts: 1,344
    Club Ska '67 (album)
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    I really can’t take the likes of Madness and The Specials as authentic Ska.

    Nor The Beat a band I did like.
  • RedMist
    RedMist Posts: 1,404
    They're British ska, a different thing I agree but a thing all the same.
  • RedMist
    RedMist Posts: 1,404
    The name ska comes from the sound the guitar makes with the characteristic playing on the off-beat.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,260
    Throw in some Judge Dread too
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    edited March 2018
    There’s a wonderful Roland Alphonso solo album on CD with some great tunes on it. RA played sax with the Skatalites. There’s also a very good Randy’s ska comp on cd. Randy’s was a studio run by the Chinn family - they worked with Bob Marley in his early days and produced some great ska, some of which has yet to come out on cd - frustratingly. The singles are massively collectable and valuable.

    And of course, The Skatalites themselves were the early exponents of ska, and there are a couple of good CD comps of their stuff out there.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,207
    sillav nitram said:

    A favourite album 1969.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYe9QZHFvE

    One of my all time favourite albums.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    RedMist said:

    The name ska comes from the sound the guitar makes with the characteristic playing on the off-beat.

    Don’t get all technical and smart arse with me pal;)
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,443
    sillav nitram said:

    I really can’t take the likes of Madness and The Specials as authentic Ska.

    Nor The Beat a band I did like.

    I was a big fan of all these bands as a kid - most of the cover versions they did didn't really match up to the original version. Their own material had a British slant which worked far better - definitely the roots of these bands was in ska.

    Ghost Town was one of the best singles of the 80s.

    The trouble with a lot of ska bands is they just do covers. Most of the best stuff dates from the 60s - ska was really replaced by reggae.

    London ska festival is on over Easter.

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