Another installment of "Diatribe!"...

[justplainbryan]

It still floors me that not a single person I encounter everyday in real life has any idea what Ska is. Even my so-called contemporaries. The Ska wave did happen in the late nineties, right? Or am I just imagining that it was a huge craze in the music world for at least a couple of years

Comments

[welfy]

I liked CHRISTIAN ska. Hah! I still remember going to an Insyderz concert when I was 17. I liked Five Iron Frenzy, too. My freshman year at Christian college, they stuck five Erins on the same floor of my residence hall. So I called us the Five Erin Frenzy! :^P

(I know, I am SUCH a dork)

[justplainbryan]

That was one of the beauties of Ska! It could be adapted to just about any message and language, and it still sounded good!

[starcrossedlady]

... darlin, that was a revival. I had ska going when I was in high school, late 80s. Madness being one of the Big Names. If I recall, that was even a revival, and ska is actually older, evolved from Rocksteady.

[justplainbryan]

I know. :)

Can you believe I actually wrote a paper about the history of Ska during my college days? I wish I still had a copy of it.

[starcrossedlady]

sorry! I didn't mean to sound condecending or anything :P

[justplainbryan]

S'ok. Jen can tell you some stories about those days. I was so into that scene!

[scubagrrl]

Ska wasn't something I was into, but I remember it existed.

[rue_deday]

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones was the beginning and end of my ska phase. I'm not that worldly, but I know what it is.

Plus, I'm older than you are.

[jamespolk]

Other than the fact that it shows up in the NY Times crossword puzzle regularly I have no idea what ska is.

But that probably isn't a surprise.