SO COOL!| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get REACTION

I have zero empirical evidence for this, but I just know the world would be a better place if more people listened to their ska music each day.

You have just entered into the rad world of SKA

Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Someday I Suppose
Real Big Fish - Sellout
No Doubt - Spiderwebs

SKA baby, SKA!!!! The 90s witnessed the 3rd coming of SKA. This time around it made it big! It went full mainstream. It was the official music of every Pub in existence at the time! It was also huge in the Latin world. Many Spanish SKA bands! It was everywhere! Even No Doubt was primarily a SKA band. It's just pure fun and party music!

Yaaayyy!!!
SKA!!!

This album is amazing!

The title song, Let’s Face It, has powerful, important, lyrics.
And it’s just a great song!!!

Nineties Ska is just some of the most feel good music of the decade.

If you like this, check out The Squirrel Nut Zippers and The Brian Setzer Orchestra.

Hello 90’s, hello to my 20’s, hello to living above a liquor store on Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, hello to alcohol, weed, the surf waking me up in the morning, working at a record store. Hello Mighty Mighty Bosstones. That’s the impression that I got.

Fishbone is something else to check out along the same lines

YES!!! I 💖SKA!!!! It didn't have nearly enough time in the sun. The Bosstones are awesome! So glad you got to this!

"It makes you feel good."

Welcome to Third Wave Ska. Ska, in general, was a dancehall genre. It's purpose is to make you wanna move.

"The horns sound like something you would hear on an island."

Yeah. Ska was originally from Jamaica. It was a blend of music popular on the island, and the R&B, Jazz, Soul, and Rock being broadcast from the US. Then, it jumped across to England with Jamaican immigrants where working class kids got together regardless of race and started playing a variation of it blended with a bit of the rock and punk popular at the time. That's Second Wave/Two Tone. The checkerboard pattern associated with Ska comes from this era where it was intended as a symbol of racial unity. Then It hopped back across the pond to the US where more punk was added (specifically Skate Punk), and that's Third Wave.

Big bad voodoo daddy is another band along the lines of the mighty mighty bosstones.

As a fellow New Englander, I spent many nights in many bars bopping to these guys. A delightful fusion of Madness and The Specials. Not bad for a band from Boston, MA. 😊

I love how you mentioned the dancer! There's a guy in that band that literally all he does is dance! No instrument, no singing, just skanking! If you're unfamiliar, that's the type of dance he's doing.

Dickey Barrett definitely has a unique voice. It’s built for Ska

Please check out Fishbone!! They are a ska rock funk band that have been around since the late 70’s and still tour. They need all the attention they can get. They really took off in the nineties. The songs Sunless Saturday or everyday sunshine are amazing. But honestly you could pick any song and it would be amazing!!!

That dancing is Skanking. It has it's roots from the 1950's in Jamaican dance halls.

Ska is such a blast! The Bosstones have a great catalog of tunes

In the late 90s there was a revival of kind of band music...this is called ska-punk but with the brass instruments. Also swing music & swing dance got big, also a big band sound but upbeat and bouncy. Was in a lot of movies like 'Blast from the Past' with Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone, the music and a swing dance scene, and in '10 Things I Hate About You' with Heath Ledger & Julia Stiles, there was thing kind of ska punk swing music, too. It was a fun change because we hadn't heard those brass instruments for like 10-15 yrs. We're about due for them to come back now!!

My favorite ska band in the 90s was ironically a Christian ska band called the Orange County Supertones. Even without the message, they were a legitimately great band, but the intelligent lyrics and religious themes made them not to be missed. They and Five Iron Frenzy are probably the two best Christian alternative rock bands ever.