In praise of Ska

[Dave 123]

Or this,

View: https://youtu.be/RA4R-WoM10A

I Have that one too....

 

[ianrauk]

Dave Barker of Dave and Ansell Collins, was such a lovely bloke. He used to come into the Trojan office every Christmas with a 4 pack of Special Brew for me. I didn't have the heart to tell him that I hated the stuff. So used to give it to someone else in the company.

 

[Dave 123]

I just downloaded this....

 

[derrick]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Shq4U27Ieo

 

[raleighnut]

The original version of this song,


View: https://youtu.be/SQXqkiKXiHc

but then a lot of songs come from that era later to be hits,


View: https://youtu.be/CDYAqz603TE?list=RDSQXqkiKXiHc

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

Far from it. Can't stand the stuff.... even though I worked for Trojan Records far a good few years.

Though must say, Desmond Dekker was a lovely chap.

I think it's incredibly annoying,so I can't imagine what it was like to be in amongst it a lot.

 

[nickyboy]

I think it's incredibly annoying,so I can't imagine what it was like to be in amongst it a lot.

With the exception of @ianrauk who is allowed in the thread for his ska ancdotes, if you aren't here to praise it, you can do one

 

[TVC]

Dropped in my inbox today, The Specials with Toots and the Maytals next May.

http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/203080/9

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

With the exception of @ianrauk who is allowed in the thread for his ska ancdotes, if you aren't here to praise it, you can do one

Ska gave rise to UB40.
Need I say more ?

 

[Stephenite]

View: https://youtu.be/DhKHAopx7D0

 

[Firestorm]

I saw Madness and Selector on a 6 band bill at the Lyceum , August 79, March of the Mods tour,
The Two Tone label was just starting, Tribute to the Prince had just been released and on my Radio wasn't out yet.
A few weeks later I picked up Tears of a clown by the Beat, just because it was on Two Tone.
Going to see the Beat on Saturday, with the mate I went gigging with back in the day....

 

[DRM]

My goodness that lot takes me back to the 2tone days, some really quality tunes posted too, I can remember being stood at traffic lights regularly on Chapeltown Road, Leeds, some of the shops had speakers outside belting Ska & Reggae out so loud the beat shook my van!

View: https://youtu.be/K5w8zV9Uoos

As childish teenagers we thought this bloke was hilarious, it's NSFW though, my mate got his album from the record library

 

[Hacienda71]

I used to frequent a club called Cloud Nine on Cross Street in Manchester in the eighties on a Saturday afternoon. It was packed with mods, skins, suede heads and rockerbillys. Lots of hitch hiking on the floor was had to Jamaican Ska and Two Tone.

 

[uphillstruggler]

There was a great programme about the skinhead movement by don letts on 6 music recently. Some fantastic stuff on there.

Also saw madness for the first time this year, almost shed a tear when the foghorn sounded at the start of Nightboat to Cairo - took me right back to my boyhood.

Lucky enough to catch toots and the maytels this summer. Brilliant stuff.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've got this LP lurking in the rack somewhere, must dig it out for a spin.