Join Riverfront Times Press Club. Because No News is Bad News. About ten years after its decline, third wave ska still seems like an oddity in the history of rock and roll. One principal tenant of the genre was the cover song. It was sometimes a formulaic practice, but it continues to be a way for the ska community yes, such thing exists and its bonds are stronger now than ever to take ownership of an outside song. Here are the six best covers by ska bands. Let us know your favorites in the comments ska-ments?

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Ever get sick of the shitty generic ones, ie. Us too. Oh an P. We start off with a fun one. Coincidentally, this EP was the only good thing Zolof ever did. Bomb the Music Industry! Usually BtMI! Big D is a great band although they seem to have fallen off recently but it just seems like their best songs were written by other bands. Gotta love the Number of the Beast ending. What I really want to know is what your mom is doing in a locker room and what she did to get that asshole to yell at her.
Top 30 Ska Covers of All-Time
Guide to election discussion on Metafilter. Ska covers of songs from other genres. These covers are often widely acknowledged to be the cover equivalent of terrible puns - or at least widely acknowledged by my housemates - but they always cheer me up. I would like more of them. Anyway, are there more of these? Any wave of ska acceptable. Truly a song helped by inaudibility in the original version. In your dreams, pick-up artist. Don't miss out on Mefi's Own Skallelujah. Mephiskapheles: bumble bee tuna posted by rabidsegue at AM on February 28, [ 6 favorites ].
Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat. It was developed in Jamaica in the s 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. Two decades later it became popular with many skinheads. Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the original Jamaican scene of the s; the 2 Tone ska revival of the late s in Britain, which fused Jamaican ska rhythms and melodies with the faster tempos and harder edge of punk rock forming ska-punk ; and third wave ska , which involved bands from a wide range of countries around the world, in the late s and s. There are multiple theories about the origins of the word ska. Ernest Ranglin claimed that the term was coined by musicians to refer to the "skat! After World War II , Jamaicans purchased radios in increasing numbers and were able to hear rhythm and blues music from the Southern United States in cities such as New Orleans by artists such as Fats Domino , Barbie Gaye , Rosco Gordon and Louis Jordan [15] whose early recordings all contain the seeds of the "behind-the-beat" feel of ska and reggae. To meet the demand for that music, entrepreneurs such as Prince Buster , Coxsone Dodd , and Duke Reid formed sound systems.