Could There Would There Should There Ever Be a Nostalgic Revival for Third-Wave Ska and Ska-Punk?

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I mean, that was me in 1996 -- skanking was all I knew. Sweet, sweet youth. Dance Hall Crashers? Mephiskapheles? All that and a bowler's hat. Now Gwen Stefani can't find a ska-punk riff in between being an R&B queenie and sampling Martin Luther King.

So what in the world would it take for people to look back on the ska-punk era wistfully? People outside of Long Beach, preferably.

― Rob Uptight (Rob Uptight), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

You can revitalise anything. I am dreading the day my future teenage children look at me all disappointed because I was nothing like the housemates on Big Brother back in the day.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

pitchfork, in two year's time, mark my words.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

they're going to have to think up a new term cuz they've already thrown the word "ska" into as many band names as possible.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

no way, anthony, there are still so many possibilities!! For instance, I don't think there has been a band named Ska Ska Black Sheep yet! Or Sis Boom Ska! Or Ska Na Na!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Third-wave ska and ska-punk already were nostalgic revivals of second-wave/new-wave ska, which in turn was, you guessed it . . . I suspect the next cycle is due any day now.

― Vornado, Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Would it then just take one band of twenty-year-olds to do a piss-take ska version of a late-'90s record and have a fluke hit with it, to set the cycle in motion?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

And then Pitchfork to give it a 9.1129

― Rob Uptight (Rob Uptight), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

the Ska/Skank Redemption.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

All right, Scott and Tripmaker are totally starting this band with me.

I'm on trombone and maracas! And clackers!

― Rob Uptight (Rob Uptight), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I thought the twin towering talents of Hard-Fi and The Ordinary Boys had already kick-started this particualr revival in the UK? I believe everything I read in the NME. Two bands who don't know each other, constitutes a scene, after all.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

That isn't third wave ska, though, unless Hard-Fi have been keeping wisely quiet about the Voodoo Glow Skulls element to their music

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

OMG Rob, the picture in my head of you skanking...

I still totally enjoy 2 Tone stuff, as well as 60's Jamaican Ska.

I have no shame.

Ska Na Na = CLASSIC!

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

what was that guy from The Bravery's ska band called again? twat.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

skabba the hut, i think.

all the new wave bands are old ska nerdz.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

It's still going in Norwich.

*weeps*

― Ben Dot (1977), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

I used to quite enjoy Mephiskapheles (and, I think, still own a t-shirt of theirs). Not sure I'd lump them in with No Doubt and the Dance Hall Hanjobs, but hey...ska is ska, I guess.

Anyone remember the pre-third-wave NYC ska band, the Toasters? They were fun.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

i dunno why this guy is dissing gwen stefani for getting away from ska -- she only became interesting when she dumped that shit.

and there will be a psychotic mass slaying in pitchfork's offices if they kick off an "ironic appreciation of 3d wave shit-ska" revival.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

a man'skatta eat

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 20 July 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

all the new wave bands are old ska nerdz.

-- hstencil (hstenc!...), July 20th, 2005.

OTM.

i dread this revival.

― latebloomer: lazy r people (latebloomer), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

"All My Best Friends Are Metalheads" > music you like

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

Skamon Duul II
My Blood Skalentine
Fake Skaccents

― ian, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Skampire Weekend

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Sirius Faction and Punk still rotate in Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake and Goldfinger. Argh.

― milo z, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

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