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Originally Posted by Intrepid Ska had a big hay-day back in the 90s. Never heard of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones? I think they sort of fronted that movement when it came on MTV. Ska has been since the 70s I suppose or even earlier with The Specials. Even if you're an old fart you should have heard of this unless you're a really, really old fart. Emo has all been around since the early 90s. Grudge at the time was just the bigger movement with big radio play. Maybe you've heard of Fugazi or Rites of Spring? |
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Ska has been around since the late 1950's. During it's real hayday, 1960-1966, it was big in Jamaica AND the UK...it had little exposure in the US. It's an uptempo combination of Mento, Calypso, Jazz and American Soul.
The 'second coming' of Ska was in the late seventies and early 80's. This is generally known as Two-Tone ska, because the biggest label for it at the time was Two-Tone records, owned by the Specials, and distributed by Chrysalis. There WERE others labels doing it too...Go Feet records was operated by the English Beat, and of course, the other 'big daddy' Brit group was Madness. Lots of 2-tone era ska is redone versions of Jamaican originals...that weren't credited.
The 'Third Wave' became big in the mid-90's, but most of the bands were playing back in the mid-eighties and before. It was cult music that was below the cultural radar at the time. By the Mid-90's it tended to be harder and faster, thanks to the influence of seminal bands like Operation Ivy (members went on to start Rancid) and the Bosstones (with or without the mighties, which they added later on) who combined that ska beat with punk and hardcore.
