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Ska punk (also spelled ska-punk) is a fusion genre that mixes ska music and punk rock music. Ska punk tends to feature brass instruments, especially horns such as trumpets, trombones and woodwind instruments like saxophones, making the genre distinct from other forms of punk rock.
- Operation Ivy – Energy (1989) Filtering their love of 70s punk through the 2-Tone movement, UK pals Culture Shock, and 80s hardcore, Operation Ivy’s two-year existence was brief, but the urgent and chaotic yet uplifting Energy established a ska punk template for decades to come.
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – More Noise & Other Disturbances (1992) In terms of skilled musicianship and songwriting prowess, few ska punk bands could touch The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, specifically the compositional talent of core members vocalist Dicky Barratt, Joe Gittleman the bass fiddleman, guitarist Nate Albert and trombonist Dennis Brockenborough, the latter heading up the greatest horn section that ska punk has seen.
- Culture Shock – Onwards & Upwards (1988) Following the original split of the Subhumans in 1985, Dick Lucas returned with Culture Shock, whose sound couldn’t have been further from the nightmarish anarcho punk his former band delivered on The Day The Country Died and Cradle to The Grave.
- Rancid – Life Won’t Wait (1998) By the time Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman resurfaced with Rancid following the Operation Ivy split, it looked as if they’d all but left ska punk behind with the raw urgency of their hardcore 1993 self-titled debut.
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Ska ( / skɑː /; Jamaican: [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. [1] . It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat.
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May 17, 2024 · In the 1970s ska was a significant influence on British pop culture, and so-called groups (whose name derived from both the suits they wore and their often integrated lineups) such as the Specials, Selector, and Madness brought punk and more pop into ska.
May 27, 2021 · Musical-U explains the melding of punk and ska created even more "up-tempo" and "high-energy" music than the first wave of ska in the 1960s. Ska-punk is considered the second wave of ska. The third wave of ska came largely out of the California music scene in the mid-1990s with bands like Sublime, No Doubt, The Mighty Mighty Bostones and Reel ...
Jun 7, 2021 · Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Jun 7, 2021 • 3 min read. Ska music serves as a bridge between 1960s Jamaican music, 1970s British dance music, and 1990s American punk music. It does this by fusing many musical influences to create a genre unique unto itself.
