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Nov 23, 2022 · 1. Operation Ivy – Energy (1989) (Image credit: Lookout) 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 Aquabats! – Super Rad! (1997) These days The Aquabats! – a band who never missed a chance to place an exclamation mark anywhere – are better known for their other projects.
- Capdown – Ska Wars (2000) Beloved Buckinghamshire boys Capdown kick-started something of a movement here in the UK, a short-lived but raucous few years at the beginning of this century that wasn’t the same as the third-wave ska of the 90s but didn’t quite get big enough to be its own thing.
- Dance Hall Crashers – Lost Again (1997) Originally formed by Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman after Operation Ivy but before Rancid, Dance Hall Crashers ended up very different, fronted by the pop-perfect harmonies of dual vocalists Elyse Rogers and Karina Deniké.
- King Prawn – Survive (1998) Genre-colliders King Prawn – who call their particular blend of ska, punk and hip-hop ‘wildstyle’ – combined the political messaging of more underground bands with the big-ass tunes of more commercial ska punk, but decided to call it a day in 2003, arguably at the peak of their popularity.
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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.
- Late 1950s, Jamaica
Ska punk had significant mainstream success in the middle-to-late 1990s, with many bands topping pop and rock music charts. The best-selling ska punk record of the era was No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom, which was certified diamond by the RIAA in 1999 and was certified diamond by Music Canada in 1997.
- Late 1970s, United Kingdom
- Reel Big Fish. Coming together in a California high school as a cover band, Reel Big Fish changed their style to ska in 1992 and enjoyed an underground cult following.
- Less Than Jake. Ska punk has been represented in the state of Florida since the early ’90s by Less Than Jake. The band released two studio albums in the late ’90s on Capitol Records, garnering some national exposure.
- Goldfinger. Next, we have one of the contributors to the third-wave ska movement, Goldfinger. The group was created by John Feldmann, Simon Williams, Darrin Pfeiffer, and Charlie Paulson in 1994.
- Sublime. Our next band, Sublime emerged on the music scene in the late ’80s out of Long Beach, California. Childhood friends Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson were playing punk rock when they joined up with Bradley Nowell, who introduced them to ska and reggae.
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.
Feb 17, 2024 · Some musical styles never die, they only recede to regroup and return again in a different guise. Ska is a great example of that. It developed as a uniquely Jamaican sort of folk music which drew ...
