Ive been building up a healthy collection of third wave CDs recently, and on the compilations, particuarly the older ones, have alot of really, really good swing ska, ska-jazz, rocksteady and trad ska. It totally destroys ska-punk's punk&trumpet mediocrity. But ska-punk is the flag flyer. And that flag is not exactly flying. My opinion? That ska-punk stole the limelight from the real ska, and ultimately killed the whole thing, or reduced it to a punk subsidiary.

As Dog would say, bump.

Ska never would have survived anyway. Punk ska just was a death rattle, IMHO.

Damn, i was all hyped about having a post in this thread...

I think its a totaly differnt style of music, Most of it is closer to pop-punk.

Amen to that. And you posted the first peice of productive feedback too!

thanks

I agree with you. When people think of ska these days, they think of super punk'd up ska, not what ska used to be, which was a closer to reggae and jazz. I liked it a lot better then. But what can you do, most music sucks these days anyways, so why shouldn't ska?

That post was cool, because it agreed.

well, u may view it as a bad thing, but it is pulling more ppl in2 seeing wut ska is about n generating more fans