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I'm new to this thread, and I haven't read much outside of the OP, but what do you guys think of Hub City Stompers? My step sister plays with them  and I like their stuff a lot. She also used to play in a long dead band called Professor Plum, if any of you managed to see them. Sorry, if this is a repeat. Haven't had the chance to read the whole thread.I grew up in central jersey so I was always around ska, but I haven't really grown to appreciate it since being stuck in North Dakota for years now without seeing a ska show.
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smertrioslol posted:I'm new to this thread, and I haven't read much outside of the OP, but what do you guys think of Hub City Stompers? My step sister plays with them Haha I saw Professor Plum like a million times in high school. RIP Birch Hill And yeah, not entirely excited for new Streetlight based on that track. It's not bad but it's just...bland.
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Youtube comments are magical. I didn't realize there was this giant, hatefuelled debate on whether or not Streetlight is actually Ska or not 
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Quick ask them if Rancid is ska
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Working for a radio station is the best thing. The Streetlight album is solid. So very solid. EatinCake fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Apr 4, 2013 |
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EatinCake posted:Working for a radio station is the best thing. Go gently caress yourself. I hate you.
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EatinCake posted:Working for a radio station is the best thing. You tease.
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smertrioslol posted:I'm new to this thread, and I haven't read much outside of the OP, but what do you guys think of Hub City Stompers? My step sister plays with them I'll give you my honest report on the Hub City Stompers. Many of few punks/ska fans in my area are really into this band but I just can't get into them. I like their instrumentals quite a bit, but the lyrics just turn me off. Specifically, I always feel like they're forcing the tough guy angle and it just seems phony. Too much "we're skinheads, oi oi oi" going on. I've just always thought 2-tone should be a bit whimsical. Take "Skinhead Girl" by Bad Manners. Loads of skinhead culture references, but it's not a threatening or aggressive song. That said, America needs more contemporary 2-tone bands so I really appreciate the Stompers for being out there and carrying on the style, even if I disagree with some of their stylistic choices.
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I loving love Hub City Stompers, although the last album was pretty weak. The lyrics are the best part, they're just so over the top they're fantastic. They're badass live too.
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EatinCake posted:Working for a radio station is the best thing. I hate you so much. So, so much. Haaaaaaaaaate. Can you leak it, please? 
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DOOP posted:I hate you so much. So, so much. Haaaaaaaaaate. It lacks a truly triumphant end like 1234, but makes up for it with 5+ minute songs full of horn. "Broke him down" is probably my favorite. Really fun, and it's always good to see how much this band's developed. Every song still sounds like Streetlight, but at least you can tell in the quieter bits that they're trying out different styles. Still no official recording of Point Counterpoint/Keasby Nights. :fistwaggle: EatinCake fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Apr 4, 2013 |
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Previews of all the new Streetlight songs are up on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Hands-That-Thieve/dp/B00C737REU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1365107264&sr=8-3&keywords=the+hands+that+thieve The Hands That Thieve (the song) sounds AMAZING. Whoa. Cheesegod fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Apr 4, 2013 |
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Apr 4, 2013 21:29
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These don't actually sound good to me. I hope I like the full versions better.
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I just got some tickets to see Streetlight Manifesto. When I mentioned this to the people in the concert booking/promoting committee I'm on, the notion of going to a Streetlight concert was laughed at and mocked. I was totally surprised. Apparently ska is universally hated and I never noticed somehow.  I've introduced ska to a number of people and have almost always had positive results with lads and ladys of every age. I even got my dad listening to it.
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guppy posted:These don't actually sound good to me. I hope I like the full versions better. Really? I think they sound great for the most part. Though I remember hearing samples of SITB and not liking them at first, but it became my favorite album. Also, the quality on Amazon is terrible, so that's not helping.
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Between what I've heard on the Amazon sample and the Soundcloud sample, 'They Broke Him Down' is gonna be incredible.
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FoxxorTheRed posted:I just got some tickets to see Streetlight Manifesto. When I mentioned this to the people in the concert booking/promoting committee I'm on, the notion of going to a Streetlight concert was laughed at and mocked. I was totally surprised. Apparently ska is universally hated and I never noticed somehow. Ska's actually really funny. Think of the most fun you've ever had at a show, and it probably involves you and a bunch of strangers looking like complete fools jumping and throwing your arms around, grinning like idiots, and making horn noises. It's a genre predicated on ridiculousness, but that at least part of the fun, right? Also:
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Heres a video of Toh Kay playing Toe to Toe (Toh to Toh?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQd2L0lJ7Xs
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Cheesegod posted:Previews of all the new Streetlight songs are up on Amazon: oh my god these all own April 30th can't come soon enough
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Man, those all sound awesome, but I was really thinking Grandpa would be on this CD. 
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Gabbleduck posted:Ska's actually really funny. Think of the most fun you've ever had at a show, and it probably involves you and a bunch of strangers looking like complete fools jumping and throwing your arms around, grinning like idiots, and making horn noises. This is completely true; ska look like madness. But I think more so than the fact that it looks ridiculous, it's that ska isn't a socially acceptable looking ridiculous. For instance, EDM is fairly big here and EDM concert goers look equally silly dancing and glowsticking about, but that's a kind of silly that people are used to seeing and like to participate in. Arm flailing and horn noises is the best kind of fun.
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It's insanely cool that Streetlight Manifesto are going to trick thousands of nerds into listening to Mariachi.
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FedoraDefender420 posted:It's insanely cool that Streetlight Manifesto are going to trick thousands of nerds into listening to Mariachi.
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gently caress poo poo drat this album is amaaaazing
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FedoraDefender420 posted:It's insanely cool that Streetlight Manifesto are going to trick thousands of nerds into listening to Mariachi. You say this like its a bad thing Mariachi is cool
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hito posted:Man, those all sound awesome, but I was really thinking Grandpa would be on this CD. Is there any kind of recording of this somewhere? All I've heard was a Toh Kay clip on youtube of him transitioning from part of Grandpa to Somewhere in the Between, and it sounded like a really great song and I'd like to hear more.
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There was a longer, ska-version fragment on some bootleg recording of a live show. Hell if I remember where to find it now, but it went in to a verse/refrain, and it sounded wonderful.
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The best success I've had at trying to explain ska to someone who doesn't get it is to take them to a show. No one walks out of Reel Big Fish or Streetlight Manifesto without at least a modicum of understanding about why we all like to flail around in a circle to trumpets while a guy yells about being a huge loser (A: because it's really, really fun.)
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i've stopped trying to explain ska to people because if you can't listen to the aquabats and not just have a huge smile on your face, you're a broken human being not worth saving
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CodfishCartographer posted:Is there any kind of recording of this somewhere? All I've heard was a Toh Kay clip on youtube of him transitioning from part of Grandpa to Somewhere in the Between, and it sounded like a really great song and I'd like to hear more. Here you go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/665412/10%20New%20Song%202.mp3 I don't think I've heard the Toh Kay version, got a link?
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Thanks Cheesegod, that's indeed the bootleg one I was remembering. Here's the Toh Kay verison, although be warned it's just a very short part before it goes into Sitb.
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hito posted:Thanks Cheesegod, that's indeed the bootleg one I was remembering. Thanks! I guess I had heard the Toh Kay version before as I apparently commented on the video.
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"Yeah, I have a split personality, he likes ska too though so he can't be all that bad."
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FIVE IRON FRENZY IN THREE loving DAYS I AM SO JACKED UP
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Wait, Westbound Train AREN'T dead?!
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FateoMcSkippy posted:
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Sandwolf posted:Wait, Westbound Train AREN'T dead?! Nope. Obi Fernandez was just doing some solo stuff I guess. He put out an album late last year that's pretty drat good. Mix of ska, reggae and soul. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szv3cWprPcQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tGKxkEBZww http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFuSOPd7snE That show looks amazing though. I wish I could go.
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FateoMcSkippy posted:
Sandwolf posted:Wait, Mephiskapheles AREN'T dead?! Why does this have to be in NYC?
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FateoMcSkippy posted:
if I wasn't buying a house in a week I would be buying a plane ticket to NYC right the gently caress now.
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