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Any Ska fans on here?
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I love my ska music amongst many other genres of music, just wondering how many of you that get on the Digital Spy forum listen to ska?
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Daz
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like both, got a real soft spot for two tone, the life and energy it brought to my generation.
Which made me aware of the Ska which was around before that era which I now also enjoy.
My family are from the West Indies, so I got to listen to the classics here
I love both , got into it through my brothers as I was too young to be properly aware of it in its hey-day.
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do they count as ska?
I have a Tighten Up as well. The one with the girl and the snake on the cover.
I love the original 60s Trojan stuff as well.
The Beat and The Selecter seem to have been forgotten about as when early 80s Ska gets mentioned it's always Madness and The Specials as though there was nothing else.
The Beat and The Selecter were great. They had a faster more 'punkier' feel, even though The Beat were a bit more 'poppy', if that can be a word.
The Beat especially were very big at the time and possibly had as many or more hit singles than The Specials.
People tend to mainly remember the hit singles of all these groups. Because they were groups then, not bands.:p:D
But many of the album tracks by all these acts were very interesting.
Stand Down Margaret by The Beat and Man at C&A by The Specials are two album tracks which spring to mind from the top of my head.
I deliberately chose not the most popular songs you'll be likely to know, and instead went for choices which you may have forgotten, or may not have even heard before.
I may as well add that they all seemed to drift away from being strictly ska as time went on. Some more so than others.
The Specials - Man at C&A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul_Ahhuto98
The Specials - Do Nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-fEr0kv-E4
The Beat -Rough Rider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CXJCnHsT9E
The Beat - Stand Down Margaret (Dub)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDr8cnH6-SU
Madness - Cardiac Arrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s359OsWRBLM
Madness - Tomorrow's Just Another Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSlHSq3cFAg
The Selecter - The Selecter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czVEty7-n6E
The Selecter - Celebrate The Bullet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-SZD_ffiBc
Two of The Beat or The English Beat turned into Fine Young Cannibals, who were a pretty mean outfit as well.
Three other favs by The Beat
Mirror in The Bathroom
Tears of a Clown
Save it for Later ( Not strictly ska the last one)
The Beat did receive a little criticism for having a lot of songs at the same pace.
As for The Selecter (got a hello from Pauline Black once)
On My Radio
Missing Words
Great musical heritage in the British Isles.....
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Im loving the clip of the song and im quite excited for the album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bch9DuV0Y8o
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes - Carry Go Bring Come
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrYmZPxTJqs
Baba Brooks - Shank I Sheck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvr0dfrrtU8
Don Drummond - Eastern Standard Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBB3KnLWZXs
Lord Creator - Don't Stay Out Late (1962)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNKg1XA06Lw
Roland Alphonso & The Skatalites - Skaravan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NP06-vh3MI
The Maytals - Treat Me Bad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55FyZiIj3gQ
Prince Buster - Wash Wash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yx_L1uC8I0
.. and one of my favourites:
The Maytals - Dog War (a.k.a. 'Broadway Jungle')
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suLMSIZ55GI
Here is a reggae cut of the Shank I Sheck riddim from Yabby You. Notice the tempo compared to Baba Brooks ska:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXPb7pxOyTA
(ignore the year on the clip - this came out mid-70's)
Like a lot of 'foundation riddims' Shank I Sheck has been versioned numerous times. Here's Bounty Killer on a 90's cut:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFkYoWJpokQ
A reggae cover of 'Wash Wash by producer and artist, Carlton Patterson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReOT9Wc-7AI
... and a couple of recordings of jazz standard 'Caravan' by the man mostly associated with it, Duke Ellington and which, of course, is the basis of 'Skaravan':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUUYp3nmsXE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNoLbP5s-68
Ska guitarist Ernest Ranglin's 1996 jazzier version of 'Ball Of Fire' which was recorded in the 60's by The Skatalites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jt-J28JYy0
No that's early reggae, not ska but I was looking at a 'Ska' compilation cd in a store a while back and half the tracks on it (maybe a slight exaggeration, I can't recall) were NOT ska.
Of course Trojan is just an English label who licensed original Jamaican recordings from their producers.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dance-Craze-Best-British-Ska-Live/dp/B000008ETH
Saw all these at their height and The Beat (at Moles in Bath 1980) was one of the best concerts I have been to up to now. I would love to see them again but would miss Dave Wakering. The best recent ska group I have heard and loved are The Dead 60s. A brilliant mix of the above groups.