Ska is basically: the world’s on fire, but we’re still bringing horns and a two-step. Honestly… fair.
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Country: the truck is broken and there is an odd beauty in family parts.
Country: the world is broken but so is my pickup
Jazz: The world is broken and it's beautiful
trve black metal: bizarre rooster sounds
cockadoodle
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Damn, I didn't realize I was ska until just now. I in fact have a trumpet and a coronet. And the first live show I ever got high at was Skankin Pickle touring Skafunkrastapunk. Somehow completely unrelated I ended up with their bass drum kick pedal about a year and a half later. I don't even listen to ska though. But the attitude is all mine!
Yo I got a sax. We just need a bass player and we got a band
Don't forget us trombone players.
Bubba?
do i look like i got healthcare?
Uhhhhhhh noye?
slap epic
Pop: world is broken let's ignore it
R&b: world is broken let's smash
D&b: world is broken let's dance
D&D: world is broken let's adventure
With dice!
Techno: The world is not broken as long as we have drugs
Trance: the world is broken and I can see it in all its kaleidoscopic majesty.
Breakcore: “the world is b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-brRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrRrR b r o k eeeeeeee n”.
Jazz: " the world is broken and ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop"
folk metal: the world is broken, as foretold from by the Ancient Ones whom we celebrate with gut-wrenching melancholy
Weirdcore: World is broken so I've been slamming Monster energy drinks for 48 hours straight and now I'm delirious and hallucinating the nineties.
What -core is "I haven't slept in a week for non-meth reasons so here's wonderwall" (I never learned to play wonderwall)?
I don't know what the exact genre name is but Opeth's Eternal Rains Will Come comes to mind
Death Metal: RAARRRAOARAAAGHHH (booklet with the lyrics probably says "world is broken let's fuck shit up" )
Alternatively, “if you piss blood it's a symptom of kidney issues”.
That's my buddy's grindcore combo's name!
"Ska is what a 13 year old hears in their head when they are told they are getting free mozzarella sticks."
Grunge: "The world is broken, and so am I. But there's nothing we can do about it so let's just fuck."
Re: the ska quote - There's a sticker at a venue here with Batman pimp slapping Robin as he says this that I think about a lot.
“Ska is what a 13 year old hears in their head when they are told they are getting free mozzarella sticks.”
I always think of this song by 7 seconds of love when I read that. Pretty much sums it up.
3/4ths of these are just punk subgenres lol
No Patrick, Goth and Emo are not ~~an instrument~~ punk.
Emo literally stands for "Emotive Hardcore", i.e "Hardcore Punk"
Goth music is rooted in Post-Punk.
YOU'RE a punk subgenre >:(
YO MOMMA is a punk subgenre!
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She's awesome!
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Open question to the floor: what is the most "Ska" song I could send to someone? Like the most iconic or the most stereotypical "Ska" a song could possibly be.
Edit: I've got some listening to do, thanks for the responses, keep them coming! I've never heard of half these bands, and while Ska isn't usually my thing I definitely vibe with some of them.
Decent recommendations here, but I will always suggest the ska version of I Wanna Riot for playlist purposes.
I've always wanted to see a high school band cover this, and every year I just want that more.
Legalization by skap
For the 90s ska revival, I think Reel Big Fish takes the cake for most ska-ish ska band
None of these are stereotypical but I think I covered part of the range.
The Science of Selling Yourself Short, Less than Jake
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Nu metal is bipolar. Its either "the world is broken but ignore it with the help of a song that has no right to be this groovy" or "the world is broken and thats why im setting the whole fucking place on fire including myself"
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