aku budak sistem
Hey!! Watch out for the ultimate boss reggae band from Malaysia,The Aggrobeats..Many ska band in Malaysia born like mushroom such as Gerhana Skacinta,Skudap Skudip,Plague of Happiness,Corumn 80's,the otherside orchestra and much more!!!Come visit us in Malaysia for more info..Visit Malacca Means you Visit Malaysia!!

Elizabeatgirl
I saw a band in Amsterdam in 86.They were UK. They threw noodles and did Mack the Knife.Anyone know?

SEAN (SHEEPMAN)
I WANNNA SEE MORE GAL SKA BANDS LIKE IN 80'S GOME ON GALS GET YE SELF OUT THERE, ONCE U R TOUCHED BY SKA U RSKA'D FOR LIFE

iamgumshoe
Goodness me, some people are so snobby about their ska! It's supposed to be fun, lighten up and enjoy the beat.

Tony f/ L.A.
Thats Right Sam,Their name Is "THE AGGROLITES" From L.A. And the're The Closest Thing To The Original Check Em Out You Won't Be Disappointed

Vicki
I Love ska, its so much fun!!! Im going to see Bad Manners for Buster's 50th birthday bash this sat.cannot wait!! Lip up fatty!!!!

gracie
does anybody out there know where I could find any NO NONSENSE or STRANGE TENANTS cds????

biff the rude boy
i love ska i have done since the late 70s i now love any ska music the old and the new

ScrewyDriver
visit..skasurgery.org.uk and follow all gigs with SkabeatPete and DJ Bosher. Non stop skanking...oi,oi.

Gaz
What about 'The BiG'?How come there's not a mention (that i can see) of them here?Tears At The Dover is an absolute classic,& they're ace live too!Q-Does anybody know where exactly the (police force)masonic temple floor b&w-check look came from?Ta in advance for anyone that can answer that.chika-chi chika-chi chika-chi!

Jim
SKA is the best. Can't say i'm too keen on the USA SKA bands, although The Toasters aint too bad.On the British SKA scene though, i can't believe no one has mentioned The Hotknives or Mark Foggo's Skasters.

TheBrainSlug
Poms saying American Ska is not real Ska is a laugh. After all Madness aren't exactly the Skatalites are they (then again The Stones weren't exactly Fred McDowell or Howlin Wolf for all that they wanted to be). Listen to some Don Drummond and find out what it's all about. Unlike Madness, the specials, et al, the Jamacan ska musicians could generally actually play their instruments! eg. both Ernest Ranglin and the aforementioned (and sadly missed) Drummond were among the best at their respective instruments in any genre of music worldwide. BTW "Message To You Rudi" is a Danny Livingstone song, not a Specials song.

helen
The Big are the best ska band around form Essex!1

Peter
Every 1 has 2 go see lukes whisk, they are awesome

RUDENESS
SKA ORIGINAL RUDEBOY STYLE!!! FROM BOGOTA COLOMBIA!!!

Teebee
Brett Harrison Top Trumpet ska

ass
RANCID ROCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PS.I LUV LARS HAIR

danielle
ska is my life! im always goimg to ska gigs and then gagging for more!

rumpolegriff
Love Ska - since 1979!-dito and im just a nutty boy

SpArKo
im 15 and i love ska which my dad got me in to but y isnt the any English ska around today?

alec
i class ska as....the specials, the selector, special a.k.a, fun boy three i love it! but i also love capdown, less than jake, voodoo glowskulls, king prawn, sublime....also the police have some ska riffs! i wouldnt say rancid were at all ska!!!

iian
reel big fish are the 2006 ska punk band,they are amazing and rock,!!!!

Hooligan Brad
PUNKS NOT DEAD... HOOLIGAN FOR LIFE!!!

steve
Shaun of the Deads ska is The Specials - Ghost Town. Support the uk ska, lightyear, howards alias, capdown. Brass rules

Murray
Listen to Jam Sesh Rejects if you like proper ska/punk ;)

caitriona
Pama International keep it real and how they have just got better and better since their Loafers (which was raw and superb) and Skooby days. I think they have the right aproach to reach a wider audience without compromising their beliefs.

Sam
Y'all need to check out the Aggrolites. Awesome authentic studio one reggae out of CA.

Chris
The Dualers are the uk leading contender to " Go Big " Check out " The Melting Pot "

Rob
For a great ska radio show from Canada, listen to Ska on the X, every wednesday night at 7 pm Pacific Time (GMT+8?)www.thex.ca

wayne
the two tone movement left me SKA`D for life don`t call me ska face

Skafunkel
i love ska/punk, but in the uk section you need capdown,farse and the jam sesh rejects etc, and there are better american examples like leftover crack or big d and the kids table. plus chester is the ska capital of the uk, keep on skankin'

nige
american ska wther its punk bands doing it or pop punk its just not the same sound. Id suggest that type of ska the type Reel Big Fish play is more influenced by Calypso than jamacian reggae.

jett rink
i hear roddy byers ex-specials combine,s rock,a,billy and ska in his new band "the skabilly rebel,s"!!

Rob Burns
And let's not forget that Ska made its way to Australia with Bands like Strange Tenants, Allniters, No Nonsense, Funaddicts and more recently the Porkers, Area 7, Dr. Octopus and a host of others. Australian Ska has its own sound that is true to its roots with strong 2Tone influences. The Ska scene is still strong down under. Keep Skankin'

OWEEN FREDERICKSON STUARDO
FROM CHILE: WAKE THE DA TOWN & TELL DA PEOPLE CAUSE CAME DA TOWN OWEEN FREDERICKSON!!!!! I'M A SINGER OF SKA MUSIC WITH MY ORCHESTRA LOS ALAKRANES DEL RITMO WE HAD PRESERVED DA OLD RIDIM. MY OPINIOS ABOUT SKA MUSIC IS JUST DANCE & HAVE FUN & DANCE UNTIL DA MORNING COMES FEELING & DOIN DA HARD TIMES IN A NEW SENSATION CALLED SKA... RIGHT ON TIME YALLL

JAK
those American ska examples are pretty bad. I mean, NOFX and Millencolin just have fast guitars, and are in no way ska. Rancid, while they are technically ska, aren't real ska. they need to mention bands like Catch 22, streetlight manifesto, reel big fish, and even more local ones to the East coast like Arrogant Sons of bitches, since that is really where ska is biggest in the USA.

yank
yeah, terrible examples of American ska, I mean come on. Rancid??? Nobody in America considers them ska. Some better examples of American ska are Eastern Standard Time, Reel Big Fish, and Mad Caddies sort of have that Russian-ish thing you were talking about. Way to make British ska seem better. And PS, Catch 22 aint the best thing ever.

stigs
In response to Adam Millencolin have a whole album of B sides out witch most of the stuff is ska, they even do a cover of Desmond Dekkers Israelites

Mrs Jingles
I think you should try listening to The Dualers - they are a ska band and are absolutely fantastic. TO get more info log onto their website www.thedualers.com

a
ska is great. i love ska-punk and ska-core and regularly go to my local ska venue. ive seen, the toasters, fandangle, sonic boom 6, adequate 7, bad manners, to name a few! skankin is the best! i love rancid, skindred, streetlight manifesto, catch 22 and reel big fish. big up to the pitz ska crew! oi oi oi !!

Chrissie
In response to Michael I think you mean the SPECIALS! Catch 22 rock my socks.

Ska-tch mo
If you want to hear some truelly trafditional style Ska music from the UK then the only band to hear at the moment are a band called no1station. I think that there a London based band but they tend to pop up all over the place. There web site tells you more than i can write but all i know is that they have worked with some great people like... prince buster, laural aitken, Dennis Al Capone, Winston Francise and are generally pushing the music forward. Check them out. I'm Hooked.

SockPuppeteer
Love Ska - since 1979!

Chordie
ska rules, good ole skin reggae. Oi Oi Oi

mandy
I love ska in all its glorious forms. My favourite has got to be Pama International. Fantastic band.

Alanah
ranid r the best band in the world tim armstrong is god! totally agree with the whole no doubt thing further up the page they totally pants now first album awsum i do recomend everyone keep rocking! and ska punk all the way dudies! loves ya! :O)

rodrigo
hola soy chileno y fanatico de bandas como specials, madness, the selecter, etc de inglaterra

Pampalini77
Remember Ska Music-Skinhead Music

Sco
Ska is good in ALL forms, weather it be trad ska, 2 tone or third wave. When people complain about some ska bands being to 'popish' (or any good bands really) i am discusted at this, I'd much rather hear a pop-ska song than the crap we have in the charts! Ska bands i've seen live - Spunge (twice), the toasters, fandangle, lukes whisk and Whitmore. Also i've seen Skaface (a tribute to madness and the specials. You cant beat a good Ska gig- all that skanking - endless fun until after the gig when u cant feel your legs :D

sockmonster..hull
i love ska..and..punk..and jazz..and jaffa cakes..and boobs..yeah so er bye

Adam
Hey! I Love Ska, and all types of music, and i'd like to make the comment that Millencollin are not ska, fast guitars they do have but they are a popish punk band! Pick it up! Pick it up! Pick it up!

Yvonne
I was really into ska in the early 80's, but what I'd like to know is how much did early U.B 40 fit in with the ska music. Would you call their music ska or were they more reggae?

Alex
I went to the london international ska fest on saturday and saw the toasters and i've also seen the mad caddies!

Martin
Too many bands are becoming mainstream and giving "Ska" the wrong name. For instance No Doubt used to be really into the whole reggae roots thing and now look at Gwen Stefani.Similary Spunge have taken Ska and turned it into a horrible hybrid of whiny punk and pathetic upstrokes. On the other hand Ska-Punk can produce some fenominal bands such as Capdown and Big D and the Kids table who haven't commercialised for the masses and will they will continue to fight against commercialism.

Tom Nolan
Check out an up and coming band The Dualers from the South East/London area. Great voices, and a kicking brass section original style

shazza, derby
i think that ska music was brilliant. At school their was alot of name calling and when ska turned up we all began to unite, black and white together. It was the best decade that i had ever known and the music,still sounds good now. The band that rock our world as young teens were, The specials,The beat, selector,Madness,and bad manners. I also thought that The body snatchers were brill too, but the men seem to dominate it, and didnt give us rude girls a chance. What i didnt understand was the skinheads, how they loved ska but hated blacks, i couldnt weigh it up. Something must have sparked it up. I mean, who ever heard of men hating blacks and dancing to their music. As a young child they were intimidating,and scared me. I am with an ex skinhead, and he said that "it was something he got into when he was a youngster and followed everyone else, but he said their were black skinheads too". I also heard that there was the national front at a madness concert too, im glad i didnt go because it would have been quite frightening i think. I think that happend because madness had no blacks in the band. But my family grew up listening to madness cos the music was brill. Asians liked them too. Anyway thanks for listening, and all i can say is bring back ska. it awesome.

tom
ska rocks.

christine
ska kicks ass!! cant wait for ka is dead to come. the planet smashers are an amazing ska band

pete
the bands name in the movie sean of the dead is the specials.

michael
I love ska and I want to find out what the British band name in the Movie Sean of The Dead... Listen 2 Catch 22

Joe
I love Ska! Oi oi oi!