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torchlitinthedesert · 21 days

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I'd be curious to hear your Ob-la-di Ob-la-da take lol

I claimed Ob-la-di Ob-la-da as a political song. No, I'm not kidding.

Obviously, Ob-la-di Ob-la-da isn't a protest song. It's a perky ska-style number about the happy, everyday life of an immigrant family. And it was released in 1968, when immigration had just become the most inflammatory topic in British politics.

In spring 1968, the UK government proposed a new Race Relations bill, making it illegal to refuse housing, employment, or public services to anyone on the grounds of race or national origin. It was a response to racism, particularly against recent immigrants, especially those from the Caribbean.

Cue a lot more racism, most notoriously from politician Enoch Powell, who gave what is still commonly referred to today as the "Rivers of blood" speech. Powell ranted about sending "the immigrant and immigrant-descended population" back to the countries they or their families had once come from. He was particularly freaked out by the idea that, having come to Britain, people would settle down and - horrors - have babies, eventually outnumbering the white population. Powell was sacked by his party the next day, but he sparked a horrible wave of racist protest and abuse.

All this was brewing over the summer, as The Beatles worked on the White Album, and on this song. What is Ob-la-di Ob-la-da about? It's an everyday love story. The ska style frames Desmond and Molly as Jamaican - which, in a British context, strongly suggests that they're immigrants. The song builds a happy ending out of exactly the things that racists like Powell were terrified that immigrants would do. They work, get married, and have children, who grow up and help with the family business. Life going on, happy ever after.

The Beatles were certainly aware of the tensions sparked by Powell, immigration and the Race Relations Act; they were still talking about it, and trying to write a protest song about it, in the Get Back sessions in January 1969. Ob-la-di Ob-la-da doesn't talk directly about any of that. Its subjects - work, home, children - are the sort of thing that 1970s rock journalists would put down as Paul's normie bourgeois sensibilities.

But normie is where most people live. The song presents Desmond and Molly as deeply relatable. It assumes that their happy ending is something everyone can root for and sing along with. That is not an apolitical act, particularly not in Britain in 1968.

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And people did sing along, in their millions. Ob-la-di was staggeringly popular. The Beatles didn't release it as a single in the UK or the US (though it topped charts in Australia, Japan and Europe). There were multiple competing cover versions. One by the band Marmalade went to No 1 in Britain, and sold about a million copies. Paul's own favourite cover was by The Bedrocks, whose members were all first-generation immigrants from the Caribbean.

(Obviously, there are other questions here about race, music, and appropriation; The Beatles, and most of the artists doing cover versions, are white people singing black music. Hello, history of western popular music.)

As I said, this isn't a protest song. But it has been sung in protest. @beatleshistoryblog found this great footage from a Women's March in London in 1971. Just listen to the first seconds: la la la la life goes on.

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#ob-la-di ob-la-da #racism #the beatles and race #the bedrocks #myplasticadversary #ask #tag for mine or my addition #the women’s march video is a favourite

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7grandmel · 3 months

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Todays rip: 02/03/2024

One-Winged DJ

Season 7 Featured on: The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection [Side A]

Ripped by duuzu, digboye, COCONABE, l4ureleye, Netyasha Roozi, Jiko Music Performed by Chase Beck

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You may have noticed that I try to keep an air of suspense when doing posts on the King for Another Day tournament such as Thank You, Everybody!. That is, of course, to not spoil the victor of Season 4 Episode 1's year-defining event - but at this point, it's a bit of a fruitless endeavor to try and uphold. Because DJ Professor K's victory celebrations haven't just been contained to his awarded day-long takeover during Season 4 Episode 2 - the takeover that gave us incredible rips like AIN'T NOTHIN' LIKE A CHUNKY BEAT, 88811, Ska Cha Cha (Rotten Mix) at an absolute breakneck pace during the SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival. Because during that takeover, a new flame was kindled - a flame by the name of Jet Set Radio Evolution.

Hideki Naganuma's style of sample-filled funk music is DJ Professor K's headlining ripping source, the one most closely associated with the game that the character originates from. Yet its a style that can be expressed in so many ways, not needing to be derivative of any prior existing songs from the two Jet Set Radio games - September, for instance, is able to sound authentically Naganuma-esque whilst being built off of a song as far away from his style as possible. Jet Set Radio Evolution, then, is an entirely made-up game - its name and logo deriving from a declined proof-of-concept, but its "soundtrack" completely made up by the SiIvaGunner team. This is far from the first fake game on the channel, and not the first one to be done without much of a shred of irony (Kirby Rip Attack is due for coverage on here) - but, notably, its a fake game born specifically to keep DJ Professor K's impact on the channel alive in the Seasons past his takeover. And, well, it took a few Seasons, but during Season 7, the team started going truly ham in utilizing its true potential.

There are a number of these Jet Set Radio Evolution rips I want to cover on here, both ones from DJ Professor K's takeover and from its revitalized usage during Season 7 - but to me, it was One-Winged DJ that really showed just how much flexibility rippers have with Naganuma's style of music. One-Winged Angel has long been seen as a sort of legendary track to rip due just how extensive of a song it is, a song that has a distinctly menacing feel to it that I can't imagine is easy to translate into a rip. Rips like One Winged PSYcho - V.S. Sepsyrop feel like absolutely herculean endeavors, and during Season 7 in particular we saw an absolute tidal wave of rips using it, as if it were just any other meme source in the channel's backlog and not this legendary 7-minute long work of art. Hen'yoku no Piraman was the first of these I covered, and while One-Winged DJ is likely far from the last, it still manages to feel like it sticks out from the crowd in just how dense of a sound it has - likely a result of how many people contributed to its creation.

There's the obvious highlight, of course: Chase Beck, the voice of DJ Professor K himself, returns to the role with new lines to supplement the original choir in latin of the original song, and it immediately gives the rip a charm to it, especially all these years after the original event and after Chase Beck's last "needed" performance as the character had long since passed. Before that even gets to kick in, though, its hard not to notice just how many different parts of Jet Set Radio's soundtracks are utilized right from the beginning: a bassline and voicelines echoing That's Enough, samples and pacing from Sneakman, the interlude's melody broken by the noise and chaos of The Concept of Love, and all throughout using small little sound effects and one-second samples from all over the games' soundscapes.

This is the kind of rip I could sit here and dissect for pages on end, yet I believe the point has been made abundantly clear already. In a Season already FILLED with celebration of every part of SiIvaGunner's life, One-Winged DJ is an absolute flex of a celebration, reminding us all of why DJ Professor K truly earned his win whilst showing just how much there is to still be done within the ever-appealing Naganuma style. I'm beyond proud of the rippers involved in how this rip turned out, and hope that the Jet Set Radio Evolution rips continue to impress into Season 8.

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remersgf · 11 months

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I'm begging you to write Remer x Goth girl reader. Just literally anything at all.

crying this was so cute to write

i got a req for remer x goth!gf a while ago but i forgot about it i hope this makes up for that anon💘

doug remer x fem!reader

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enjoy!!

- when you were talking / first started dating he’d say some dumb shit like “i need a big titty goth gf😍😍” but you smacked his head n whipped him into shape

- he never said it again (thank god)

- is absolutely ENTHRALLED with you

- genuinely obsessed, if he spend the entire day oggling at you he would. and he does

- rlly enjoys having you on his arm in public, showing you off

- also enjoys when people stare at you, he puts on a not-so-subtle show of holding you and kissing you to show them that you’re his

- you get confused every time but he just likes having people jealous of him

- so proud to be your bf:((

- coops obsessed with you too

- when remer first starts bringing you over and introducing you to coop, he can’t really muster up the words to say hi LMAO

- you walk in and he’s just like 😲

- and remers all, “i know, dude. look at her!!!!!”

- remer luvssss watching you do your makeup

- begs you to sit on his lap while you get ready, silently paying attention to every step in your routine until his legs fall asleep

- asks you to do trad goth makeup on him when he’s high

- he looks fucking ridiculous but also kinda… cute?

- stumbles over to the mirror and puts his glasses on

- his reaction is sooo silly

- 😮 literally him

- “what’s that band you like? alien sex fiend? yeah, i look like the lead dude.”

- you take some offense tbh but he meant it in a good way😭

- lets you take over his music taste

- also lets you ramble about your favorite bands!!!

- when you take him to concerts it’s really hilarious because there’s you, all done up, and then there’s your nerd bf next to you who looks clueless

- will ask you to make him mixtapes almost every week

- his favs are depeche mode, type o negative, and christian death (i’m 100% projecting)

- he likes your music but i think he’d be a punk fan

- esp second wave ska

- i can just feel it he’d be such a big ska fan argue with the wall

- anyways he loves you a whole bunch and would die for you tbh

#ur lanky nerd bf 💘💘#he’s so cute and hed fucking LOVE you on his arm #crying i need him #doug remer #doug remer x reader #baseketball #matt stone #matt stone x reader

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randomvarious · 4 months

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Today's mix:

Fuse Presents Hell by Hell 2000 House / Techno / Deep House / Electro / New Wave

Goddamn, man, I'm not gonna say outright that this mix in particular is the greatest shit in the world—although it's pretty close!—but the ethos behind it certainly represents what has ultimately led to some of the most astonishing sets that we've ever had the pleasure of witnessing as a species. There's this late 70s-and-80s-rooted spirit that's equal parts unpredictable and eclectic, in which the overall route of the set doesn't feel pre-planned at all, because the DJ takes risks by linking tracks together that you yourself would never expect to hear in succession. The overall journey from point A to point B that you get taken on is one that's long and winding and full of surprises, and the DJ themselves doesn't really have any particular destination in mind to begin with either, because the perpetual question that's always most immediately on their mind is, "hmm, what banger do I want to play next? 🤔"

And I feel like this flying-by-the-seat-of-its-pants approach to DJing has largely faded from the limelight and has gradually been replaced by either the DJ who specializes in one specific dance subgenre that's in one specific range of BPMs for a whole set, or the DJ who just plays mindless EDM claptrap from a pre-loaded USB stick 😒. All of it's so safe and hermetically sealed shut. Where's the danger, the fun, and variety of it all?

See, what you really have to understand here is that there was no place on the planet that was more sonically diverse than your typical late 70s and 80s dancefloor. House, freestyle, synthpop, disco, hi-NRG, pop, post-disco, art punk, art rock, art pop, electro, hip hop, funk, boogie, post-punk, new wave, dance-pop, dancehall, two-tone ska, glam rock, sophisti-pop, soul, alternative dance, R&B, etc., etc., etc., all had the potential to be played at any given moment during a set, and the ultimate job of the DJ was to craft a breathtaking sonic collage out of any of it.

And that's exactly what Germany's DJ Hell channeled here with this commercial mix from 2000 for the second ever installment in Belgian club Fuse's own series. But what's more is that while Hell was deriving his inspiration from an attitude of a bygone era, he also happened to have about an extra decade of music at his disposal that his spiritual predecessors didn't. And the 90s ended up seeing a mega-expansion on the frontiers of electronic and dance music entirely, so while Hell certainly picks out his classics from super popular acts like Donna Summer and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, on here you're also gonna find stuff from contemporary dance legends like Todd Terry and Carl Craig, different flavors of rock from Tuxedomoon, Sparks, and the Flying Lizards, Brazilian-sampled techno from Andrew McLauchlan, and deep house from Bougie Soliterre. In reality, almost none of this track list makes any lick of sense on paper, but that's the inherent beauty of the whole thing, folks! Once you put it on and get a taste of Orange Lemon's (Todd Terry's) "Extended Club Mix" of "The Texican," you really start to get a feel for the vision that's been laid out here, and it's one that's mindbendingly motley, and more in the vein of how a lot of old DJ sets used to be!

The best DJs to me are the ones who appear to be doing it purely off the dome and are just living right in the moment while barely thinking ahead. They know how to wow a crowd with a memorable blend of classics, a contemporary hit, and obscurities from any decade, place, or genre, but they make adjustments if and when they feel the need to as well. And above all else, they possess an uncanny ability to play songs that you don't see coming—or that you never even knew existed in the first place—while also convincing you that the choice they made is one that's both thrilling and logically sound. It's a tough act to balance, like a halftime gimmick who rides a unicycle and spins plates on a long rod that sits on their chin while also juggling bowling pins, but DJ Hell is someone who clearly has the knack for it and puts it on full display here.

The world could always use more of this kind of DJing in it, especially when so many of us now have access to more music than we know what to do with that's all sitting right at our fingertips.

And by the way, I didn't really get into specific tracks with this post here, but "Desire," by 69, which is just a nice alias that was used by Carl Craig, is one of the most stunning combinations of string synth and drum break that I think I've ever heard in my life. Good lord, what a tune that is! 🤯

Listen to the full mix here.

Highlights:

Speedy J - "Evolution" Ché - "The Incident (Wet Dream Mix)" Orange Lemon - "The Texican (Extended Club Mix)" Liaisons Dangereuses - "Avant-Après Mars" Tuxedomoon - "What Use" 69 - "Desire" Mitsu - "Shylight" Donna Summer - "I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Megamix)" Sparks - "Beat the Clock" Phuture - "Rise From Your Grave (Wake Side)" Foremost Poets - "Pressin On" Bougie Soliterre - "Superficial (Main Vocal Mix)" G Strings - "The Land of Dreams" Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Two Tribes (Annihilator Mix)" Dopplereffekt - "Rocket Scientist" Andrew Mc Laughlan - "Love Story" Filippo "Naughty" Moscatello - "Disco Volante" The Flying Lizards - "Steam Away"

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nimoy · 9 months

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with the stupid shit alice cooper said today (which is no surprise cuz hes been a republican for a while as are most of these clowns) i just have to complain about glam again like the second wave of glam in the late 70’s-80’s that became so huge in part by its extreme, volatile hatred of the disco movement and people who never really listened to glam rock/metal or maybe only casually sometimes act surprised when its like. these guys are some of the most conservative, predatory, racist, misogynistic, homophobic men ever and the entire basis of the genre is a reactionary one! these men would never actually support gender non conformity because seeing gay black artists do it in disco or funk or early punk/ska or women or literally anyone on the margins of society doing it made them want to throw up and cry because they’re scared lmfao. they wanted the benefits of drag and gender non comformity without actually ever giving up anything and overblowing their own oppression for wearing makeup and tight clothes because tipper gore and christians would get on their ass and saying they were harassed and called gay when their own reactions to that treatment were of disgust and never solidarity. and now 99% of these artists reminisce on shocking people while playing county fairs and spending most of their time golfing with republican pundits who still think they’re badass hoping they wont notice the black sweat from the box dye theyre still using on their fried hair at 60 years old because going to a salon would be gay.

#tp #PHEW !!!!!

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numetaljackdog · 10 months

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what i'm listening to 8/5/2023 (SKAUGUST SPECIAL) (song notes under cut)

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bonjour tout la monde :3 i see you're all working on that first course...... perhaps you'd like another? :3c

now. this is no ordinary WILT. bc as i've mentioned i have been absolutely INFECTED by the skaucous skanking energy of SKAUGUST!!!! i might do a mini-WILT later in the month with some other stuff i've been listening to, but for now this is an ENTIRELY SKA playlist ^w^ well...... almost entirely. there is one exception, of course....

Laura Les - Skaunted: it's skaunted. by laura les. i really did try to find a ska cover for this but as far as i can tell there is none. get on that, people.

Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Went Numb: very likely my favorite ska song i've ever heard, this one's been with me for a good few years now. there's just such a drama to it, lots of storytelling gravitas rather than just a fun pop song. and the HOOKS they cram into this thing, good lord. the rapid-fire lyrics and layered horn section and difference in dynamics all work so well together.... i always find myself running through the part "i don't wanna hear, i don't wanna be near, i do what i gotta do, just to keep my nose clean" over and over and over again. that and the quiet part "a little something like this, na na na na na na, na na na na na na na" i've never heard a band that made na na na's work as well as these guys, and you can take that as an insult to whichever pop punk band you like if you really want, but one way or another this is a fucking golden track and you HAVE(!!!) to listen to it at least once okay?

No Doubt - Just A Girl: probably one of the most if not just the absolute most commercially and culturally successful moments that ska has had..... and it's not hard to see why. this song is a fucking ALL TIME crusher, it's got hooks for days, the little synth part is all crunchy, it's a bona fide feminist pop anthem, and, if we can all take a second to be real with ourselves here, gwen stefani is an excellent performer for stuff like this. i have no trouble imagining young teen girls in 1995 seeing this shit on mtv for the first time and having their lives and brain chemistries irreversibly changed. this and spiderwebs but there's only so much room in the playlist, folks

Madness - One Step Beyond: considering what we still have yet to get to in this list, it's a real testament to how much i instantly loved this one that it's placed so high. it's goofy as shit but it represents so many things i love about 2 tone. first of all, the just intrusively obvious british lameness of it is quite charming, and also just really interesting from a historical perspective. as we'll see, a lot of 2nd wave ska bands hailed from the uk, likely bc of the genre's connections with new wave, which began largely as a british export. and then with third wave ska, the usa became the new hub of ska music, but i feel like that british influence remained a crucial part of the way ska presented itself even then. very interesting, if you're as big a nerd as me. i feel like this is also a tune where you can hear some of ska's jazz influences, which is awesome to think how this revival movement for jamaican dance music not only preserved its basic rhythm structure but also some of its influences. i ALSO like that it hardly has any words - they were just like here's some of the tastiest fucking riffs you've ever heard and a guy yelling "ONE STEP BEYOND" what else do you need? and i was like nothing 😌 you've given me all i need you bunch of goofy suited skanksters

Catch 22 - 9mm and a Three Piece Suit: i see this one as sort of a companion to everything went numb, which makes sense bc streetlight manifesto actually covered the entirety of keasbey nights at one point. 9mm predates streetlight's stuff by a good number of years, and i do prefer the roughness of the original version. it's more of that very fast-paced storytelling type of songwriting, and i've had this song with me for several years as well. not really much i can say about it that wouldn't be repetitious, but definitely love this one to death as well

Choking Victim - Crack Rock Steady: coming from a background of hardcore heavier music, it makes me so happy that people saw the rise of ska punk and said yeah man we need a way to make this all heavy and nasty too. and we'll sing about killing cops. and they did! ^w^ and so enter the creators of a genre named after this very song (though by my understanding of its influences it could have easily been called "crust ska" - but that wouldn't have been a fun pun now would it?). i just love that you could easily get up and skank to this song, it's very upbeat and lively, but it is also VERY about killing cops. like there is no mistaking that this is cop killing song from first lyric to last. so that's dope. or i guess it's crack

The Specials - A Message to You Rudy: the specials cover an enduring jamaican ska classic... it's a tale as old as time. i love the arrangement on this soooo much, and the pretty and subtle harmonizations. this is almost kind of a dreamy song to me, the way it just floats through the air. that has more to do with the base melody itself, but i do like the dandy livingstone original a lot as well! once again, only so much room on the playlist. the specials join madness as the two bands that i would deem most prominent and influential in the second wave, but i think the specials were a little less new wave and had some more of the original ska spirit in them. not a dis on madness, of course, i've already expressed my enjoyment of them. just an interesting difference between the two

Rancid - Time Bomb: just a girl might be ska's big moment for a lot of people, but for ME, it was time bomb. i heard this one on the radio as a kid, and it was one of the first ska songs i was exposed to, and i LOVE IT. it's definitely a little basic but it just epitomizes the phrase "ska punk" to me. so guitar-forward and with super rough vocals but also so fun and real and bouncy with an absolutely endlessly repeatable chorus. i love you time bomb

We Are The Union - Morbid Obsessions: oh, i'm sorry. did you think i was gonna make a list of my current ska favorites and NOT include a selection from we are the union's 2021 album ordinary life which documents the lead singer's journey and self-discovery? well you thought fucking wrong, dumdum!!!!!!!!!!! this was such a big album for me when i was. uh. how old was i in 2021. when i was like seventeen. i would almost go so far as to say that this album was my "transgender dysphoria blues" if not for the fact that i was also listening to that album a lot around the same time. there were some discoveries happening. but anyways this is such a great little album, i really recommend the whole thing. chewy tasty indie pop with a delightful ska base. and the band even has jer (of skatune network fame) on trombone!! how cool is that!!!! also AGAIN i kept it to only one song but if you only check out one other track from this record, listen to the closer "december." that shit makes me cry

Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun: I'LL ADMIT IT. THIS IS ONE OF SEVERAL TIMES THAT I'M GOING TO CHEAT ON THIS WILT. in the sense that this isn't really a ska song - it's a song by a ska band, and has some ska flavor in there as an influence. can you evar forgive me 🥺 but also like. look. it's fuckin smash mouth, okay. and this song is Loaded with them fucking HOOKS babeyyyyy. and it really is interesting, how smash mouth managed to be so commercially successful that they really existed as a goofy corporate pop rock band that had a couple big all-quadrants hits. but like you can feel that they have background in "The Scene." you can practically smell the punk on these guys, the same way you can smell the nu metal on sugar ray. these are always bands that used to be Something Else and that Something Else is undeniably cooler than what they are now, but what they are now is definitely catchier. so. walkin' on the sun! i like this better than all star, for the record, but it could also be a matter of overplay on the latter's part

The Selecter - On My Radio: this and one other song we'll get to are like the epitome to me of how second wave ska had huge crossover with new wave. the first time i heard this one i was kinda like ehhh yeah it's cool i guess. and then after a couple more listens i realized how well constructed of a song it is, and how great the performances are. the lead vocalist here is a real treat, apparently some people call her the "queen of ska" which is fucking awesome. also i love a good song about a radio, especially in retrospect now where it's like eh yeah you darned kids had better learn about what's what on the radio bc back in my day-

Operation Ivy - Sound System: this is like, the birthplace of ska punk/third wave. okay maybe not this particular album, but you could certainly make an argument for that early op ivy ep! point is, they were on the ground floor, and sound system is definitely the catchiest song i've heard from them. and, not dissimilar to songs about radios, i can get behind a song about a sound system! love it! honestly, despite being rough and punky, this song's almost... cute? like aw :) the sound system is the one thing he can depend on. i'm glad he has that kind of relationship in his life!

Less Than Jake - Nervous In The Alley: LTJ is the first ska band that i really became a fan of, probably bc of how accessible they are, particularly to the typical pop punk or skate punk enjoyer. they have three songs in this playlist that i have enough history with to warrant including but i don't have much to say about any of them. the fast part of this song is the best part, obviously

The (English) Beat - Mirror In the Bathroom: it's so funny to me that they're called the english beat but only sometimes. sometimes it's just the beat. i understand why but it amuses me. anyways THIS is the total new wave song i mentioned, and like with on my radio i didn't really "get it" at first. but man, what a track. not only does it have great composition and a delightful balance of new wave polish and ska beat, it's also just kind of a unique concept for a pop song. self-obsession pushed to the point of madness, framed entirely through the listing of different common objects one can look at themselves in while carrying out everyday business. just an interesting little chune :3

Less Than Jake - Bomb Drop: honestly this one could probably go higher i fucking love bomb drop. but once again i don't have much to say about it. i will say that i didn't realize until watching the music video while making this list that this is apparently about like, cyberbullying? the video's kind of lame honestly, but the intentions are good. i've had this song so long i forgot how recent it is, but i guess it's a testament to how consistent LTJ has stayed, and perhaps as a consequence, how little they've changed. you could send this song back to 1998 and apart from the slightly slicker production nobody would bat an eye

Derrick Morgan - Tougher Than Tough (Rudie in Court): had to get at least one first wave song that wasn't a 2 tone cover in here, right? this is another classic that earns the title of "rude boy anthem." without getting too serious, i do think there's something to be said about rude boys' existence as a subculture and the way that blends with the punk ethos later but also how the term exists more in isolation in jamaican ska. as the title suggests, there's definitely an element of getting into trouble here - was that something that inspired the revival of ska at the hands of rock bands later on? i can't say. but i think about it

The Aquabats! - The Shark Fighter!: if i'm 100% honest i don't tend to really like the aquabats. i wish i did but i don't. but this song is sooooo catchy. i did watch the full episode of the super show that the song appears in (which is in the youtube playlist btw) and it was some campy fun but not anything that made me want to watch more. what i will say is that not long ago i was rewatching robbydude's vods of reel fishing: road trip adventure, a vod series that contained a lot of ska references (not the least of which relate to the title and the continued botching of it to instead say "reel big fishing"). but one of the bits was that every time he went to catch a hammerhead he would play this song. so now it's lodged in my head forever. go make the same happen for yourself

Less Than Jake - Goodbye in Gasoline: some b-side action for you. the video for this one that i have in the youtube playlist is so funny, it's from SUPER early youtube and it's just a bunch of stupid random pictures over a low-quality mp3 of the song. there's only two comments and they're both people being like "this is dumb why did you make this." as far as i'm concerned this may as well be the official music video for goodbye in gasoline

Rancid - Hooligans: HOOLIGANS! rancid! RUDE BOYS! rancid! HOOLIGANS! rancid! RUDE BOYS! rancid! on a loop forever in my mind

Lazy Town - We Are Number One: once again i am super cheating bc this shouldn't count as a bonus track really, it's just not on spotify anymore. so whatever there's 20 songs, sue me. i don't need to introduce you to this song but what i do have to say is MAN is this a banger or what?! like yeah it's a kid's song and yeah it's a meme, but i really do love it! i've never seen an episode of lazy town in my life! i remember a tomska & friends video where they did a meme review of the 2010s and tom (who, as you may guess, is a noted ska fan) picked this song for 2018 or whatever fuckin year this blew up, but he noted that while he didn't really have very strong feelings about it one way or another, he had to take the opportunity to be excited that a ska song had become popular online. i can respect that. rest in peace of course to the actor who played robbie rotten, he seemed like a nice man and i'm glad we all are preserving something he worked on so passionately :)

wouaghhh. so that was the skaugust special!!!! thanks for reading, i hope your love of ska is improved by the work we've done here :3 i feel the need to give thanks to the wonderful violet of the gec (hi :3), fellow musicgirl and the creator of skaugust, because. oh man. i have not felt this energized to listen to and talk about music in MONTHS. in case you were confused about the thing i said about a first course earlier, go check out vi's batch of songs for some more certified bangers. do it NOW. okay thankies see you next month ^w^

#for reference the way i do these is i collect all the songs and then i sit down for an hour or 2 straight and write the entire post #so at the end i'm always like wow. time to fucking. go to bed -w-#*char noises*#talking pop

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lord-of-the-demons · 7 days

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hello yeah i love ska. depends on which wave you’re trying to get for but, classics from the first wave are desmond dekker, prince buster and the skatalites. from second wave, uhh the specials, madness, and the bodysnatchers are all excellent. from the 3rd wave i love catch-22 and against all authority. fourth wave i guess JER, we are the union, and skatune network.

What are these waves you’re describing? I don’t think I’ve heard a bunch of ska but from what I’ve heard I’ve liked it, the band I’ve heard the most is No Doubt

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skell10 · 6 months

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HOLY FUCKING SHIT

IF YOU ENJOY SKA AND SEE THIS POST PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS SONG IT IS SO GOOD I SWEAR

#ska is fantastic #ska #i fucking love ska #second wave ska #the toasters #spotify #ska punk #2tone #music #spread

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musicmoreweirdthangood · 3 months

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Madness, 1979: "One Step Beyond"

I really hope there's somebody out there following this blog specifically to find weird samples to put into their breakcore or mashups or neo-new-beat or whatever, because this is perfect for it: 1. some loony lads doing a capella ska, 2. a charming spoken word intro about how crazy the music is, 3. a proper second-wave ska instrumental

(Apologies to British followers to whom this might be well known, but trust me, it's not a famous track in the US outside classic ska fans, not sure about the rest of the world)

#ska #instrumentals #70s music #Youtube #samples for your noisecore

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runeswordproductions · 3 months

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wtf is hyperpulp

What is hyperpulp? It’s thoughtful, introspective fiction that utterly rejects the self-conscious trappings of litfic in favor of everything that’s bloody, sexy, irreverent, and generally un-respectable about genre fiction, weaving together the pulp and the literary so tightly that trying to remove one would destroy the other.

Real talk though, it’s a word I came up with to explain to my old writing prof why I stuck his name on the dedication page of a Conan the Barbarian parody. Let’s not take ourselves too seriously here.

But if we assume this is a real genre, what are some other examples? First thing that springs to mind is Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb, as it’s the series that taught me that you can write a story that’s both deadly serious drama and an utter shitpost, like that’s… allowed. It’s never sexually explicit but I don’t think hyperpulp needs to tick off all its own boxes. It’s a doctrine of freedom, not lawyerly fuckarsery. So long as it’s got the spirit, it’s there. Another example might be Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt, though genre-wise splatterpunk seems to have that one covered. It’s just smart, thoughtful, really good splatterpunk.

And there it is. The question that makes me not entirely comfortable with applying my own genre label to other people’s work: is there anything to hyperpulp other than, “it’s pulp, but it’s good”?

I could waffle all day about how hyperpulp is made distinctive by the balance it strikes, about its emphasis on emotion amid extreme circumstances, and how it’s possible to do that badly in a way that’s distinct from bad pulp or bad litfic. But no amount of prevaricating can parry either of the two objections I anticipate to calling someone else’s work hyperpulp. The objection I don’t respect: “ew, keep your pulp out of my serious literature.” The objection I respect deeply: “fuck off, pulp was good enough without you pretending to elevate it.”

Yeah, legit. Reminds me of that anecdote Neil Gaiman tells about some litfic shitfuck telling him, “oh no, you don’t write comics, you write graphic novels.” Going by that logic I should retire the concept of hyperpulp as a bad idea, quietly scrub it off the site and the socials before I earn a reputation as a pretentious poser.

But also no. Fuck it, I’m keeping it.

The reason boils down to the same answer given to that common strawman of queer and neurodivergent copypastas, the asshole who demands, “why do you need to keep coming up with all these stupid labels? Aren’t labels… bad?”

Because it’s good to know you’re doing your own thing right, not doing someone else’s thing wrong.

Trying to promote my own work without a simple label like hyperpulp has been a thankless slog. If I try to lean into the pulp, people wonder why everyone’s talking about their feelings. If I lean into the feelings, people wonder why everyone’s horny and covered in blood at the same time. Trying to describe my work always felt like being an underground metal critic fumbling to stuff someone’s genre-agnostic music into a box labeled, “raw melodic second wave black metal/thrashing kawaii dungeon drone with elements of crust and ska.” Death came up with a label that I used for a little while: “hyper-violent social commentary comedy smut.” I felt like that captured the spirit of it, but it was a mouthful and also not entirely accurate. BEHOLD! is plenty horny, but it’s still less than 5% porn by volume. Also, nobody’s impressed by comedy or social commentary. Anyone can do it badly, and when it’s bad it’s terrible. That leaves just the violence, which certainly gives the wrong impression.

So yeah. Nah. Hyperpulp’s the right word. Hyperpulp fantasy, to be specific. So much of the traditional publishing scene is talented people sanding away their personality and originality to fit into an easily marketed package, a thing I’ve long resented, despised, and struggled against. Hyperpulp is not just a label. It’s a blade for carving out a place for myself in a fantasy fiction market that has never been more crowded. Only time will tell if that’s a battle I can win.

#hyperpulp #BEHOLD!#pulp fantasy #rambling about writing

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prontaentrega · 11 months

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"I need shitty ska so bad"

do you mean most of ska since the second wave onwards?

#and i say it as a compliment #answered #osidius-el-enfatico

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detectivehole · 7 months

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what is your opinion on the aesthetic links between new wave and german expressionism

i have never been an art student of any kind, i've always been a STEM kid, and am not super familiar with german expressionism or even the real intricacies of new wave HOWEVER i am generally familiar with the premise and execution of both so i'll talk out of my ass anyway! the internet is for people saying whatever about things they don't understand, right?

first to be clear german expressionism is an art movement about a concept first (expression of true, possibly incomprehensible inner emotion and thought) with a recognizable visual aesthetic (surreal, unrealistic, and dramatic) second, while new wave is about a recognizable audio aesthetic (a less aggressive deviation from punk and ska with tie to funk/jazz and occasional highlights on almost discordiant sounds- tends to cultivate a nervous, frantic, or awkward energy on purpose) first and some identifiable trends of concept second, so their priorities are not totally in line

than being said expression of surreal, sometimes borderline incomprehensible internal concepts are absolutely popular topics in new wave music (common thematically in Talking Heads, Oingo Boingo, DEVO, and even the b-52's though theyve always been sillier about it, etc.). pulling from the obvious, i think this is pretty easily understood by just listening to Once in a Lifetime, though for an even more lighthearted but direct example Detour Thru Your Mind by b-52s also works

tabling the set and costuming of videos (which this question is almost certainly about) for a moment you could argue the audio aesthetics of discord themselves are analogous to factors of german expressionism as well but i am hesitant to draw direct parallels to audio and visual arts since they are ultimately digested separately- though you can't ignore how the deliberate chaos and creation of these Anxiety Sounds is thematically close to the "visualizing the internal" of german expressionism; same with the rejection of realism and focus on surrealism

in terms of new wave video design the influence is very obvious by just... comparing images of the two- and i assume done to communicate all the ideas i described above. sets are often in large, strange shapes and in unrealistic proportions, decorated in bold colors or dramatic monochromatic schemes, and the cinematography will be, as is predictable, deliberately surreal, with emphasis on symbolism rather than linear story telling; all characteristics of german expressionism. again Once in a Lifetime does a good job of communicating all this, but i think an even more obvious visual parallel can be found in a lot of the oldest Oingo Boingo videos- im particularly picturing Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me here but other videos apply as well

and that's my laymen's take 👍

#mine #ask #i love having asks that make my type out paragraphs of text i am positive make no fucking sense #word vomit is my specialty

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one-album-wonders · 1 year

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The America’s Greatest Rock Star Tournament Masterpost

Welcome to the The America’s Greatest Rock Star Tournament. We, the voters in Tumblr polls, will determine the greatest American solo artist of all time. We will begin with 320 solo artists performers from the 50 United States, District of Columbia, and territories (including artists who were born, naturalized, or just lived in the US for a long time).

We're using the broadest definition of rock for the artists participating in this tournament. Genres and sub-genres will included acid rock, alternative rock, art rock, blues rock, country rock, dance music, doo-wop, electronic music, folk rock, funk, glam rock, grunge, heavy metal, hip hop, indie rock, industrial, new wave, pop, power pop, punk, rap, reggae, r&b, rock and roll, rockabilly, singer/songwriter, ska, soft rock, soul, surf music, yacht rock, and more!

The artists have been assigned to a decade based on when they first emerged to prominence as solo recording artists. They are then randomized into groups of four. The breakdown:

1950s – 48 rock stars in 12 groups

1960s – 48 rock stars in 12 groups

1970s – 52 rock stars in 13 groups

1980s – 44 rock stars in 11 groups

1990s – 48 rock stars in 12 groups

2000s – 44 rock stars in 11 groups

2010s – 36 rock stars in 9 groups

While artists are competing against other artists from the same decade in their group, the groups will also be distributed evenly among 8 pools which will become important in the second stage of the tournament.

Schedule

April 3-10: Group Stage

Each day at noon EDT I will published polls for 1 pool (10 groups of 4). The polls in the group stage will run for 7 days. Artists will advance to the next round by the percentage of votes they receive.

Any artists receiving 25% or more of the vote automatically advances

Any artists receiving 10% or less of the vote is automatically eliminated

First place automatically advances

Second place advances with 10% or more of the vote

Third place advances with 25% or more of the vote

In case of a four way tie, all four artists advance

If two artists tie for second place with 10%-24.99% one will advance on a coin flip and the other will be eliminated

April 11-18: Second Stage

Artists who advanced from the group stage will be seeded for head to head, one day polls against other artists from the same pool. These polls will last one day.

April 20 -May 5: Bracket

April 20-21: Play-in rounds (10 polls per day) April 23-26_ Round of 64 (8 polls per day) April 27-28: Round of 32 (8 polls per day) April 29-30: Sweet Sixteen (4 polls per day) May 2: Elite Eight (4 polls) May 3: Final Four (2 polls) May 4: Third Place (1 poll) May 5: Championship (1 poll)

Participation

The more people who participate in this tournament the more fun it will be! Please vote. Please follow! And please reblog the polls!

Bring your passion! Campaigning for your favorite artists is encouraged!

But keep it friendly! Don’t make negative attacks on the other artists and especially at anyone voting for them. Vitriol, profanity, and threats directed at other voters will not be tolerated and I will block anyone who does.

Remember that in the group stage an artist doesn’t need to win the group to advance so vote strategically if you like more than one artist.

If an artist has been a member of a band as well as having a solo career, the spirit of the contest is to consider only that artist's solo work. But honestly I have no way of enforcing that, and I'll leave it up to your discretion if you want to rate an artist on their full body of work.

The history of rock music is full of some very loathsome figures including people guilty of domestic violence, sexual assault, and murder. You may want to vote for an artist because their music is transcendent and their lyrics speak to you. You may want to vote against an artist because they were a scummy human being. I think all these things are worth considering.

If you think any artist in the competition is "not rock" then the best thing you can do is not vote for them. Nobody wants to see your notes about how you think [artist’s name] is "not rock" and if you're too obnoxious about it you might get blocked.

Hope everyone has fun and we learn something about the greatest rock stars in America. Now, are you ready to rock!

#rock and roll #rock #tumblr polls #rock music #music #america's greatest rock stars #tournament

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