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yeah, i was briefly into the third wave stuff. but now...i just like roots stuff.

but ska and the "ska scene", i think that's pretty funny ****. unintentionally hilarious.

The person defending ska was making fun of emo, which is a style of music he probably knows very little about. Emo has gotten out of control, where now it is really marketed for spineless and self-loathing teenagers, so I'm not phased at all when people constantly bash emo. I do myself sometimes, but it had it's roots aswell. Let me tell you those emo bands from 1985 kicked ass, and you have NO IDEA.

If I had known that crying in bars would have gotten me more babes, I would have tried it.

If we are going to talk music, then lets talk music. I used the phrase ska "scene" because before it was popularized on MTV and commercialized in saturn adds, there actually was a very rich, vibrant midwest ska scene. The music, in addition to its intrinsic value, had a powerful message of racial unity and social conscience--hence the checkers and black and white suits. While some may think "skanking" to be hilarious, i find jumping around with glo sticks whilst on x to be a silly form of dancing. My point was that as ska became more popularized, trendy little high schoolers who knew little about the music, its jamacian/british roots, or its message swarmed venues because of a few popular MTV videos and "diluted" the scene. I'm not one of these "i liked it before you did so you suck,"---but I also hate little trendy teenie boppers who listen to music simply because its popular and have no clue about its culture or roots. After 1996, many shows became cross-over shows with EMO bands opening for the flavor-of-the month MTV ska band. Dance halls that used to be populated with a racially diverse mix of rudies and skins skanking together now turned into pseudo jock mosh fests with self-loathing, depressed 16-old suburbanite girls crying because someone grabbed them while they got body passed and kids like the one in the picture crying because someone kicked him in the mosh pit or made fun of their reel big fish t-shirt.

The picture simply reminded me of a scene i witnessed countless times where some skinny crybaby teenie booper who was pissed at their parents doned a pair of cheap plaid pants from goodwill toped with a weezer shirt got their a$$ kicked at a ska show.

I could care less whether anyone here likes my music---i listened to ska before it was popular in the 90s, still listen to it now and plan to be around for the fifth wave revival.

nm, no reasoning with ska kids

This is priceless.

"That should be the emo flag"

-Shaun

P.S.Since.this.thread.is.old referring to the OP

you know, this kid who is in my house right now was talking earlier about going to see the aquabats. i wanted to tell him he was ********, but i was nice, and kept my mouth shut.

Nathan Fabian took his woman. And this is what Nathan has to say about it:

And while you're at it, what is this EMO? Electric Moon Orchestra?

My favorite ska band was the Specials. I also like the English Beat and the UB40, which became more of a reggae-ska-pop band by the time they hit American Bandstand. Alas, the Specials split and became the Fun Boy Three.

Jeez, now you've got me started on 80's music again. Any Echo and The Bunnymen fans out there?

Madness invented ska.

jim-bob only listens to Merzbow and Masonna.

That crap's too prefab for me. I only listen to my veins and arteries pulsing angrily.

Familiar with that album?

actually marley did but madness still rocks

i love the old brit two-tone stuff: Madness, specials, and definately Bad Manners----Special Brew!

I thought Clement Dodd & Jamaican push for independence from the Brits did...well, whatever.

true true, marley just was the first to popularize it

I stood at the precipice of aube completism at one point, but then my money found somewhere else to go.

you're ****ting me, right?

He must be. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones invented ska, but then the Voodoo Glow Skulls stole all the credit.

Ha Ha Ha--voodo glow skulls--i saw a kid a a show get his A$$ kicked for wearing a bomber with a vodoo glow skulls patch next to a less than jake patch

Somehow, this does not surprise me. I've only got like 5-6 of em... my completism fetish was mainly focused on FAX records. Pete Namlook = Satan.

theres nothing like the look on a "rock and roll" dudes face after he gets knocked out by an "emo" kid.

i might cry if i got some ****ing rockjocks blood on my mineral shirt.

but whatever.