Let's talk about SKA

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

SKA SKA SKA

[Poll #733643]

Discuss it in the comments box too.

Comments

[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.