Let's talk about SKA

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

SKA SKA SKA

[Poll #733643]

Discuss it in the comments box too.

Comments

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Can one of ILM's elders please explain to me what the appeal of Madness was supposed to be? I would have ticked that box for The English Beat alone, but Madness really really REALLY are bad, surely?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask this question in reverse of the young poptimist whippersnappers who seem to hate them so?

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

an old goat writes: ahem it is not just YOUNG poptimists who loathe the ghastly cockney salt of the earth knees up banter and baggy trousered whackiness of the camden cnuts

who are these ppl who loathe ALL Ska?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about why Madness are bad and wrong, and it is entirely due to them that I hate all ska, because I cannot hear ska without being reminded of them.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

calling The Beat by their INKORREKT name disqualifies your question. Please try again. ;)

[juror8.livejournal.com]

ENGLISH Beat, LONDON Suede, Amen UK, the ALBION EMF, Blighty's Idlewild.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

you forgot Charlatans UK and The Verve.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

??? but they were great? what's not to like? chirpy cockney knees-up singalong! saxophonist on a string!! 10p videos!!!

although specials and probably the beat were better

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Baggy Trousers, One Step Beyond, Our House, The Prince, Night Boat To Cairo = ACE+++
Must Be Love, My Girl's Mad At Me = BOO+++

Madness canon to find out!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

dude, you've totally missed the best one, ie HOUSE OF FUN.

must be love and my girl are also both ace.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the madness got better as they got older and gother bleaker (=until they became THE madness!)

THIS is a grebt lyric:
My girl's mad at me
I didn't wanna see the film tonight
I found it hard to say
She thought I'd had enough of her
Why can't she see
She's lovely to me?
But I like to stay in
And watch t.v. on my own
Every now and then

(on the other hand so is this:
when god save she queen she turn a white shale of pale)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Yesterday's Men" is a wonderful song for this reason. Particularly as it starts with the line "an insolent speck of youth".

Suggs used to have a very rich voice.

chas smash as the ur-bez!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

one of the things i liked at the time about all the two-tones (inc.the beat and madness) wz their mix of bouncing around like crazy WHILE INSISTING that fun was often a bit rubbish

cf the way the beat perform a song w.the line "Drift gently into/mental illness" in it

Re: chas smash as the ur-bez!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes - "House Of Fun" being about the huge nerve-racking struggle to have the fun rather than the fun itself (which ultimately FAILS i think, doesn't he just end up buying a toothbrush or something?)

Re: chas smash as the ur-bez!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

this is a chemist NOT A JOKE SHOP!

Yes to

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Madness canon! I think of them as two different groups really, the ska stuff and the music-hall stuff. Some of the latter is really impossible to listen to, I admit (although Must Be Love is not one of them)!

Re: Yes to

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

There was an ILX thread at some point about "was there ever another group that so clearly had multiple song writers?"

Re: Yes to

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

that's an interesting argt (tho the answer = YES THERE WAS i ph345r)

Re: Yes to

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I suspect there was a footnote *not the sodding beatles.