Bad Manners thread

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Buster Bloodvessel spoke to me while in the queue for the bogs juring a gig!!!!
These guys are a spoof Ska band.


Can Can


My Girl Lollipop


Walking on Sunshine


Lip Up Fatty

[tattuchu]

I've heard of ska, but have no idea what it is

[M]

Lip up fatty was the best.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Fuck off you wankers!!



Oh. The band!

[Bella Fortuna]

Oh gosh, it's been ages since I've heard Lollipop....

[Deep Sea Isopod]

I've heard of ska, but have no idea what it is

It's a kind of two-tone Reggae for for non-racist whites who aren't black, but is jiggy with the home boys.

[War Arrow]

I've heard of ska, but have no idea what it is

It's a kind of two-tone Reggae for for non-racist whites who aren't black, but is jiggy with the home boys.

Sounds close enough. Pleasantly surprised to see a thread like this even though I was never a great fan of Buster's lads, well not so much the music. Actually living in Coventry right now and that two-tone thing was absolutely the only thing this place ever produced that wasn't shit. Anyway, I remember seeing Buster Bloodvessel and Ian Astbury on Breakfast TV once, both in the same slot for some reason, and it struck me what a nice guy the chunky lad obviously is, particularly compared to the sucked-in cheeks having fey poetry reciting goth twat on the next sofa along.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

I've heard of ska, but have no idea what it is

It's a kind of two-tone Reggae for for non-racist whites who aren't black, but is jiggy with the home boys.

Sounds close enough. Pleasantly surprised to see a thread like this even though I was never a great fan of Buster's lads, well not so much the music. Actually living in Coventry right now and that two-tone thing was absolutely the only thing this place ever produced that wasn't shit. Anyway, I remember seeing Buster Bloodvessel and Ian Astbury on Breakfast TV once, both in the same slot for some reason, and it struck me what a nice guy the chunky lad obviously is, particularly compared to the sucked-in cheeks having fey poetry reciting goth twat on the next sofa along.

Coventry is the home of two-tone ska!
To think a few days ago was the 20th aniversary of the release of Nelson Mandella, and Coventry gave birth to the Specials...... whom went on to release the song "Free Nelson Mandella" (1984 I think)

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I've heard of ska, but have no idea what it is

It's a kind of two-tone Reggae for for non-racist whites who aren't black, but is jiggy with the home boys.

Way to get it wrong DSI!!!!!

Ska was a style of early-1960s Jamaican dance music that was a direct precursor of reggae. It was livelier and more dancehall oriented than calypso (which was the predominant Jamaican musical style of the late 50s) and incorporated elements of R'n'B (that's proper R'n'B - rhythm & blues - not that smoothed-out, mock-soul, watered down crap that has acquired the name recently!)

The name Ska has several possible origins but the most credible is that it is an onomatopoeia for the sound of the guitar as it 'skanks'. The style is characterised by a fast, 2/4 drum rhythm, a prominent, walking bassline, guitar stabs on the offbeat and often a melody played by a brass ensemble. The original version of My Boy Lollipop by Little Millie is a perfect example. Others include Prince Buster (inspiration for the Madness track "The Prince"), Desmond Dekker, The Skatalites and early Toots & The Maytals. Ska became popular in the UK with the early skinheads - long before they were racist, neo-nazi thugs - in fact, early 60s skinheads used to hang out in black clubs and the style of dress was copied from Jamaican rude-boys!

Ska evolved into Rocksteady - which is basically the same sound slowed down and with more soulful elements added - and then into reggae in the mid 60s.

What you were referring to was 2-tone ska which was a British revival movement in the late 1970s and was indeed based initially around Coventry and the black country.

If you want to hear proper, original ska (or rocksteady, or any of the many variations on reggae), check out the Trojan compilation box-sets. You can find them online for about a fiver for 5 disks!! It's not even worth searching for a torrent - they are usually that cheap!! Just google "Trojan box set."

[War Arrow]

Actually... you can't go far wrong with a good Prince Buster album. This track's a fucking scream:



Love this one too:



To be honest, I really dislike reggae, but this is when it was fun - it has a tune and you can enjoy it without needing to get off your face.

[leo-rcc]

I've been to many Bad Manners concerts, I would not call them spoofs. They just like to party that is all.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I've been to many Bad Manners concerts, I would not call them spoofs. They just like to party that is all.

+1

Bad Manners loved the music firsrt. That is true of most of the Ska revival bands.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

I've heard of ska, but have no idea what it is

It's a kind of two-tone Reggae for for non-racist whites who aren't black, but is jiggy with the home boys.

Way to get it wrong DSI!!!!!

Ska was a style of early-1960s Jamaican dance music that was a direct precursor of reggae. It was livelier and more dancehall oriented than calypso (which was the predominant Jamaican musical style of the late 50s) and incorporated elements of R'n'B (that's proper R'n'B - rhythm & blues - not that smoothed-out, mock-soul, watered down crap that has acquired the name recently!)

The name Ska has several possible origins but the most credible is that it is an onomatopoeia for the sound of the guitar as it 'skanks'. The style is characterised by a fast, 2/4 drum rhythm, a prominent, walking bassline, guitar stabs on the offbeat and often a melody played by a brass ensemble. The original version of My Boy Lollipop by Little Millie is a perfect example. Others include Prince Buster (inspiration for the Madness track "The Prince"), Desmond Dekker, The Skatalites and early Toots & The Maytals. Ska became popular in the UK with the early skinheads - long before they were racist, neo-nazi thugs - in fact, early 60s skinheads used to hang out in black clubs and the style of dress was copied from Jamaican rude-boys!

Ska evolved into Rocksteady - which is basically the same sound slowed down and with more soulful elements added - and then into reggae in the mid 60s.

What you were referring to was 2-tone ska which was a British revival movement in the late 1970s and was indeed based initially around Coventry and the black country.

If you want to hear proper, original ska (or rocksteady, or any of the many variations on reggae), check out the Trojan compilation box-sets. You can find them online for about a fiver for 5 disks!! It's not even worth searching for a torrent - they are usually that cheap!! Just google "Trojan box set."

There is ska, and then there is 2 tone ska.
You will notice in an earlier post, I mentioned "2 tone"

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I've heard of ska, but have no idea what it is

It's a kind of two-tone Reggae for for non-racist whites who aren't black, but is jiggy with the home boys.

Way to get it wrong DSI!!!!!

Ska was a style of early-1960s Jamaican dance music that was a direct precursor of reggae. It was livelier and more dancehall oriented than calypso (which was the predominant Jamaican musical style of the late 50s) and incorporated elements of R'n'B (that's proper R'n'B - rhythm & blues - not that smoothed-out, mock-soul, watered down crap that has acquired the name recently!)

The name Ska has several possible origins but the most credible is that it is an onomatopoeia for the sound of the guitar as it 'skanks'. The style is characterised by a fast, 2/4 drum rhythm, a prominent, walking bassline, guitar stabs on the offbeat and often a melody played by a brass ensemble. The original version of My Boy Lollipop by Little Millie is a perfect example. Others include Prince Buster (inspiration for the Madness track "The Prince"), Desmond Dekker, The Skatalites and early Toots & The Maytals. Ska became popular in the UK with the early skinheads - long before they were racist, neo-nazi thugs - in fact, early 60s skinheads used to hang out in black clubs and the style of dress was copied from Jamaican rude-boys!

Ska evolved into Rocksteady - which is basically the same sound slowed down and with more soulful elements added - and then into reggae in the mid 60s.

What you were referring to was 2-tone ska which was a British revival movement in the late 1970s and was indeed based initially around Coventry and the black country.

If you want to hear proper, original ska (or rocksteady, or any of the many variations on reggae), check out the Trojan compilation box-sets. You can find them online for about a fiver for 5 disks!! It's not even worth searching for a torrent - they are usually that cheap!! Just google "Trojan box set."

There is ska, and then there is 2 tone ska.
You will notice in an earlier post, I mentioned "2 tone"

But only as an adjective. You really did not convey any hint that you understood the origins of the name - or the music. In fact, your post cast completely unjustified aspersions of it being a 'white' musical form upon it. Ska was Jamaican through and through. It was only later (almost 20 years later!) that it became subsumed by a certain British, white subculture, that mistakenly identified it with the 60s mod scene (although most of the bands of the time were very true to the original sound and well versed in the original Jamaican recordings.) And then it was 5 or more years again before it became popular in the US.