Album Rating: 4.5

Haven't jammed Point/Counterpoint in ages. What a fucking jam.

Useless

Album Rating: 5.0

That's a great one, Hans. I've been digging Here's to Life lately

Album Rating: 4.5

seeing these guys tomorrow

Album Rating: 4.0

Found a promo version of this CD yesterday in a "For Free" Box in front of a house, togehter with some other stuff. Took it with me because it was released on Victory Records. Never gave a shit about Ska, but I gotta admit... this is good.

Album Rating: 4.5

streetlight transcends ska

If you think this is ska then you really are an absolute cunt

What happened was during the post war immigration impetus of the 50s people from the Commonwealth were brought into the UK which meant small pockets of London would be culturally mixed with West Indian, Jamaican, Barbadian and in such their musical heritage could be heard.

As the 60s drew to a close the working class took on board the changing environs of their surroundings and bore with it a new skinhead culture which relished reggae, ska and the rocksteady beat as a soundtrack to the fashion and culture that grew around it and splintered into the mod offshoot.

Come the 70s the skinhead culture was co-opted by the National Front and radicalised and the scene was tarnished and ultimately diluted.

As the late 70s and 80s approached there was a melding of punk and what came before to bring about a new wave of bands such as the specials and the beat.

The 80s and early 90s saw a resurgence of the original mod ethic and with it the original ska records and sounds of the early 60s which to this day still reverberates and brings with it the odd ska night down at the boozer.


Meanwhile across the pond brat picks up trumpet, strums guitar and calls it ska.

tl;dr but i appreciate the bump. haven't heard this in years. thanks for the reminder, zak!

:D

Album Rating: 5.0

I love good old fashioned ska like this.

5. Christ.

Album Rating: 5.0

Nothing like rolling the windows down and blasting some 100% authentic ska on a sunny day.

lol. Good lad.

As much as I love the newer shit, sometimes you have to go back to the first wave pioneers like these guys and Less Than Jake.

Joking aside I think Reel Big Fish would’ve held their own back in the day.

Album Rating: 5.0

But did you know that ska came before reggae?

oh shit its bruce

Album Rating: 4.0

That'll Be the Day owns

Album Rating: 5.0

Trust me I've been there before

I wouldnt wish it upon

My greatest enemy what irony once friends but I find

YOULL HAVE TO LEARN THIS LESSON ON YOUR OWN