Comments on: More Ska-Deprecation

By: xdavex

xdavex — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:42:20 +0000

an Rude Boy is black. not white……..

By: Rude Boy

Rude Boy — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:47:22 +0000

a. hot topic was never about ska
b. ska was never about pissing people off
c. quit being so biased.
thank you.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:37:35 +0000

YourSceneSucks.com is comedy gold!

Hub City Stompers addressed 3rd wave in my ska scene with one pOi!gnant song – “Ska Train to Dorkville”.

Hard mods, skins, suedes and rude boy culture is steeped in hooliganism, violence and other things of provacative nature. Don’t confuse apathy with acceptance, gentelmen. The proverbial ska-dork has not found a haven in which to be accepted, but rather there will be a skin/hard mod/”proper” rudeboy more than willing to fill in the vacuum the a jock/bully once occupied. There is no blanket acceptance anywhere. Every (sub)culture has unspoken rules, social graces or general guidlines which make it said subculture. Refusal to acknowledge or address them is a liberty obviously left to the individual. But, it’s these rules that created the genre we love. The very roots of this “movement” revolved around proper fashion: the RIGHT shoes/boots, the RIGHT style of suit, the RIGHT brand of shirt…and, obviously, the RIGHT music.

spirit of ‘69,

Chris

By: JJ Loy

JJ Loy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:25:10 +0000

@Rude BoyTenchi- I hope you know that I only intended this as a way for us to laugh at ourselves. I (of course) have respect for any subculture that give the kids a place to go and a sense of belonging.

I should have said it when I originally posted this link, but I’ll say it now- I accept this scene for all of it’s greatness and all of it’s flaws. So keep on rockin’ the wing tips and horned rims- I’ll sleep better knowing that the scene is in good hands.

By: Rude BoyTenchi

Rude BoyTenchi — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:23:03 +0000

I love ska music. Yes i wear the suit and tie at gigs. People are willing to talk smack how nerdy ska is killing the “scene” but when your a nerdy kid and all those other genres of music dont feel right here you have a type of music that doesn’t judge that doesn’t tell you to have the best shoes or biggest rims its a type of music that encourages you to look beyond what you know to break racist barriers, a type of music that makes u just wanna sit back listen and then makes you jump off your seat and dance no matter how nerdy or geeky you are. Music evolves “unity as one stand together, unity evolutions gonna come” -Operation Ivy

By: Jakeegill

Jakeegill — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:55:25 +0000

what would happen to this image if the prominent ska bands started dressing in their sunday best?

By: length

length — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:21:31 +0000

I saw this a few years ago.

you can thank stores like Hot Topic and general commercialization of Ska Punk over the years for this.

the end. : D

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:15:15 +0000

So sad, but true…this is how ska has come to be characterized thanks to the nerdy silly-ska bands and their followers.

As someone who was in high school during the mid-80’s, this is especially saddening. Back then, “rude boys” actually dressed sharp and rode slick vespas (back in the last days that you could actually buy a 2-stroke vespa in Los Angeles before they stopped importing them).

The style back then was more mod-influenced, and much tougher. There was a lot of crossover between the scenes.

But there was definitely not a silly nerd element associated with ska or its followers.

I only wish that someday, somehow, ska will shed this ugly 1990’s image and either return to, or evolve to something more respectable.