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Aug 9, 2021 · The Maytals - Never Grow Old (1964) I have a friend that will pull out Toots and the Maytals for anybody that insists they absolutely hate ska music. You can understand why. Toots Hibbert is an ...
- Less Than Jake
- Desmond Dekker “007
- Dance Hall Crashers “Lady Luck” from “Meet The Deedles”
- Isaac Green and The Skalars “Don’t Count” from “Bang”
- Reel Big Fish “Beer” from “Baseketball”
- The English Beat “Save It For Later” from “Kingpin”
- Toots and The Maytals “Sweet and Dandy” from “The Harder They Come”
- Honorable Mention: Goldfinger (1996-2004) Too Many to Name
- Funicello & Fishbone “Jamaica Ska” from ‘Back to The Beach”
Nickelodeon and third-wave ska had a symbiotic relationship in the ‘90s, something about the fast-paced horns and uptempo backbeat really hit with the 2-17-year-old demographic. Ska-punkers Less Than Jake backing Ed’s surfer dude vocals during a fast food-making montage is a ‘90s kids culture time capsule. Gender Studies majors might have better ob...
This creepy sci-fi horror snuck under the radar, but struck a chord when its release coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots star as a couple who find themselves alone in an empty, inescapable neighborhood and get mysterious deliveries to their door, including a rapidly aging child. Desmond Dekker’s spectacul...
“Meet the Deedles” never seemed to exist outside of print ads in superhero comics. Judging by the ad, it’s about two fun-loving but troublemaking surfers, one of which is Paul Walker, go on a wacky adventure and may or may not have blue waves for hair. Since the Dance Hall Crashers never got enough respect, perhaps due to movies like this, so enjoy...
There are three items of note in this Post-“Pulp Fiction” indie crime drama: It is the film debut of Lucy Liu, it was written and directed by Ash Baron-Cohen (as in Borat’s cousin), and it features an all-ska soundtrack. It doesn’t work. in this story of a downtrodden Asian-American woman stealing a motorcycle cop’s bike, uniform, and badge as she ...
Reel Big Fish and a raunchy comedy starring the “South Park” guys–two tastes that obviously go together. Despite being musically solid, Reel Big Fish cemented the image of the goofy, bowling shirt-clad, bouncy ska band in the public eye. Who better for the in-game entertainment for a made-up sport? The jokes aged like egg salad, but with “South Par...
The English Beat provided the backdrop for Ferris Bueller running through backyards and as a zombie ska band on Scooby-Doo, but music supervisors must keep the song “Save It For Later” permanently on their desktop in a folder marked “Montage Music.” Most recently it appeared in “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” but it’s a perfect fit for this slapstick seq...
Forget ska songs appearing on soundtrack albums, this hallmark of Jamaican cinema tops every list of the best movie soundtracks. Reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff as an impoverished farm boy who comes to the city to be a singer and encounters a creepy preacher, a greedy record producer, corrupt cops, and drug dealers in league with the corrupt cops. Bas...
Kenny Loggins is known as “The King Of The Movie Soundtrack,” but there was hardly a silly teen comedy during the turn of the millennium that didn’t have one or more Goldfinger songs. If they didn’t divide their attention by also appearing in numerous video games, Goldfinger would wear the crown.
Despite being a parody of the long-forgotten 1960s beach party movie genre, this movie about Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon as adults being unable to relate to their kids was permanently on basic cable. In a throwback within a throwback, Funicello, backed by Fishbone, dives into a musical number teaching these ‘80s kids how to do the ska. And...
Gie Knaeps/Getty Images. The ska style known as 2 tone developed in the late 1970s and early '80s in England. According to SF Gate, while reggae was exploding in Jamaica, the popularity of new wave in the U.K. made nostalgia for '60s ska fashionable, and British bands picked it up (pun intended).
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Jul 27, 2020 · It combines elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska developed further in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement “Coxsone” Dodd, and Duke Reid formed “sound systems” to play American rhythm and blues and eventually recorded their own songs.
Apr 16, 2018 · It was the same respite from struggle and tension that had produced ska in Jamaica in the early 1960s, in England in the late 1970s, and now in America in the 1980s and ’90s.
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It was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Stranger Cole, Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods and with many skinheads.
Jun 24, 2021 · The Shakers’ story alone would make a good film, but there are many interesting stories here: The Blue Riddim Band from Kansas City making it all the way to Reggae Sunsplash and then being a hit there with Jamaican listeners; The Boxboys – “the first American ska band” – who in the late ’70s/early ’80s packed Silverlake’s O.N ...
