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Friday, June 3, 2011
Ska history part 5 of ?: Ska goes mainstream
During the 1990s third wave ska finally broke into the mainstream in the US with bands like Sublime, No Doubt, Gold Finger, The mighty Mighty Boss Tones, Less Than Jake, and Reel Big Fish topping charts and receiving mainstream radio play and punk bands like Rancid and NOFX adopted ska sounds. Ska scenes were by this point spread through out the US though were most prominent in the North Eastern US, Southern California, Florida, and Urban pockets of the mid west. During this time period ska bands were for the first time producing large budget music videos that ran on such stations a MTV (back when it still played music =P). This could possibly be seen as the golden age of the US ska scene as never before and not since has it been as widespread. Below are some videos of the more prominent bands at the time,
Music always gets worse when it goes lamestream, they start playing to please the audience, to make money, instead of making music that they are good at.
Quite a young genre of music, awesome post!
ReplyDeleteno doubt got my vote!
ReplyDeleteSeems like ska died off recently - why is that?
ReplyDeleteyeah im with timmy the robot
ReplyDeletewtf no doubt used to do ska? didnt know that!
ReplyDeleteSka hasn't died off, its just gone back underground again. =)
ReplyDeleteawesome vids keep it up =D
ReplyDeleteYeah, Ska is nice.
ReplyDeleteWow, I'd never thought old skool No Doubt qualified as Ska.
ReplyDeleteSublime!
ReplyDeleteThe Suicide Machines, another good ska/and then punk band.
ReplyDeleteyeah no doubt used to do ska XD. then........it turned to gwen talkin about bananas =/
ReplyDeleteLove all three of these songs, RBF is awesome.
ReplyDeleteWoooo! Nice man.
ReplyDeleteSublime are so good, especially when under the influence of certain substances
ReplyDeleteah the good old days
ReplyDeleteI was never that keen on this scene of ska, it seems to be the one that most people associate with though.
ReplyDeleteno doubt was the greatest. one of the first CDs i ever bought!
ReplyDeleteNo Doubt was so good, its a shame Gwen Stafani ruined it with her solo career..
ReplyDeleteNo doubt, before Gwen Stefani became a monster or something with asian.
ReplyDeleteMusic always gets worse when it goes lamestream, they start playing to please the audience, to make money, instead of making music that they are good at.
ReplyDeleteMemories came flooooding back with Sublime's Wrong Way.
ReplyDeleteCool blog, pal! followed, MC-hammer style!!!
ReplyDeletenice songs, enjoyed the second one the most. thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteInteresting!
ReplyDeleteSublimeee, good pick my man haha love them
ReplyDeleteCensorship is what kills the world.
ReplyDeleteI've liked this series of entries so far, keep it up. Cheers
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