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Ska ftw

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Pop: world is broken let's ignore it
R&b: world is broken let's smash
D&b: world is broken let's dance
- Techno: The world is not broken as long as we have drugs
  
  Trance: the world is broken and I can see it in all its kaleidoscopic majesty.
- Weirdcore: World is broken so I've been slamming Monster energy drinks for 48 hours straight and now I'm delirious and hallucinating the nineties.
  
  What -core is "I haven't slept in a week for non-meth reasons so here's wonderwall" (I never learned to play wonderwall)?
- D&D: world is broken let's adventure
  
  With dice!
- Metal: world is broken and so are we.
- Pop: I have a crush on a boy. World broken? Sorry, um... I don't follow the news.
  Gangsta Rap: I'm the king of this 'hood, and don't give a shit about anything happening outside of it.
  Country: My truck is my whole world, and the world is broken.
  Classical: I will describe the great forces at play that are breaking the world using music.

Death Metal: RAARRRAOARAAAGHHH (booklet with the lyrics probably says "world is broken let's fuck shit up" )
- Alternatively, “if you piss blood it's a symptom of kidney issues”.
  
  That's my buddy's grindcore combo's name!
- world is broken let's act accordingly
- "i like CWD-positive meat"

"Ska is what a 13 year old hears in their head when they are told they are getting free mozzarella sticks."
Grunge: "The world is broken, and so am I. But there's nothing we can do about it so let's just fuck."
- “Ska is what a 13 year old hears in their head when they are told they are getting free mozzarella sticks.”
  I always think of this song by 7 seconds of love when I read that. Pretty much sums it up.
- Re: the ska quote - There's a sticker at a venue here with Batman pimp slapping Robin as he says this that I think about a lot.

3/4ths of these are just punk subgenres lol
- YOU'RE a punk subgenre >:(
  
  YO MOMMA is a punk subgenre!
  ...
  She's awesome!
- The three that are not punk itself. Emo and goth both came out of punk, and ska was fused with punk by the time of two-tone.
  
  Yeah, after commenting that I considered that what some people consider goth is actually post-punk (the punk connection should be obvious), but then remembered goth rock exists obviously does not come from punk. Ska and emo though for sure, emo by ways of post-hardcore, by ways of hardcore, by ways of protopunk and you've already covered the ska lineage
  
  I'm genuinely curious how Goth came out of Punk.
- No Patrick, Goth and Emo are not ~~an instrument~~ punk.
  
  Emo literally stands for "Emotive Hardcore", i.e "Hardcore Punk"
  Goth music is rooted in Post-Punk.

Furries: OWO Notices your broken world
- [cue nightcore]

Open question to the floor: what is the most "Ska" song I could send to someone? Like the most iconic or the most stereotypical "Ska" a song could possibly be.
Edit: I've got some listening to do, thanks for the responses, keep them coming! I've never heard of half these bands, and while Ska isn't usually my thing I definitely vibe with some of them.
- None of these are stereotypical but I think I covered part of the range.
  The Science of Selling Yourself Short, Less than Jake
  Ghost Town, The Specials
  Beer, Reel Big Fish
  I know you too well to like you anymore, Reel big fish
  Keasby Nights, Catch 22
  A Better Place, A Better Time, Streetlight Manifesto.
- For the 90s ska revival, I think Reel Big Fish takes the cake for most ska-ish ska band
- https://youtu.be/NIGMUAMevH0
  It's not the best ska song by a country mile, but it's definitely the most ska song. At least as far as third wave goes.
  
  Definitely the first one I thought of. If you're going by most well known, and recognizably ska, then yes this.
  
  surprised this isnt #1. Def the most stereotypical and well known ska song
  for the lazy, it's The Impression that I get
- Millie Small's ‘My Boy Lollipop’ from 1964 is the original ska song that made the genre popular outside Jamaica.
  Of the second-wave aka two-tone ska: The Selecter's ‘On My Radio’, Madness' ‘Night Boat To Cairo’, The Specials' ‘A Message To You Rudy’.
- Streetlight manifesto is probably one of the more popular ska bands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOqenYis1iQ
  
  Streetlight fucking slaps. I can't name a bad song of theirs.
- To me, madness - one step beyond is definitive ska
  
  It's a cover, btw.
- https://youtu.be/9NxMlG3M40k
- Varies by generation of ska.
  first generation: "Keith & Ken with Byron Lee & the Dragonaires - Jamaica Ska" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhLjOgUXut8
  second generation: "Madness - One Step Beyond" - https://youtu.be/SOJSM46nWwo?t=29
  after that idk
  
  One Step Beyond
  Which is a cover of Prince Buster's track from 1964.
- Modern Ska i'd say
  Flying Raccoon Suit afterglow
  We Are The Union Out Of Patience
  Half Past Two Barrier For Entry
  of the older stuff, a few greats i havent seen mentione yet would be
  Against All Authority All Fall Down
  Link 80 enough
  
  AAA and Link80 are very much not "the most ska", they are very hardcore leanleaning ska, which is really a few steps too farfar from The Specials or Toots and the Maytals to be a good introduction to ska.
- Commenting both to track these Ska recommendations, I fucking love Ska. But also to recommend Life Sucks...Let's Dance by Reel Big Fish, to my that song really hits the nail on the head in a cliché way. I constantly tell my wife, who reminds me I tell her that every time we are listening to it lol
- Crack Rock Steady by Choking Victim
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5jGyy2qL84&t=43s
- Saba
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfqguL88tA
- Not what you asked for but https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uPRG6klixus
- https://youtu.be/09q6cUlDJ_k
  Brings back memories.
- Legalization by skap
- Decent recommendations here, but I will always suggest the ska version of I Wanna Riot for playlist purposes.
  I've always wanted to see a high school band cover this, and every year I just want that more.

Nu metal is bipolar. Its either "the world is broken but ignore it with the help of a song that has no right to be this groovy" or "the world is broken and thats why im setting the whole fucking place on fire including myself"
- Its either “the world is broken but ignore it with the help of a song that has no right to be this groovy”
  Also, "I'm broken, here's a sad and angry song about it that has no right to be this groovy". Nu metal was/is big on introspection and personal tragedies instead of societal tragedies, though introspection =/= wisdom.
  
  As a former nu metal fan this definitely sums up the genre perfectly
- Damn, now I need to learn about Nu Metal! Who do I listen to in the first batch?
  
  Uhh thats kinda hard to answer cause nobodys gonna be happy with it. Nu metal is a kind of contraversial genre because nobody agrees on what it is exactly and every artist seems to say that theyre not actually nu metal. My top five would be Korn, deftones, limp bizkit, slipknot, system of a down. The most famous is probably linkin park which you definitely know but they are kinda their own seperate entity. Rage against the machine is also kinda seperate tho still kinda nu metal. As for songs i recommend to get s feeling for the genre: Freak on a leash, blind, break stuff, change, be quiet and drive, aerials and eyeless.

Country: the world is broken but so is my pickup
- Those are the songs about fords.

Jazz: The world is broken and it's beautiful
- Scat: the wo-wo-wooo-ba-ba-ba-ba-ski-ski-skiddlidoo

Country: the truck is broken and there is an odd beauty in family parts.
- family parts?

Ska is what plays in a 13 year old boy's head when he finds an extra mozzarella stick.

Noise: lol noise

trve black metal: bizarre rooster sounds
- cockadoodle
  DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
- For your listening pleasure.

Damn, I didn't realize I was ska until just now. I in fact have a trumpet and a coronet. And the first live show I ever got high at was Skankin Pickle touring Skafunkrastapunk. Somehow completely unrelated I ended up with their bass drum kick pedal about a year and a half later. I don't even listen to ska though. But the attitude is all mine!
- Yo I got a sax. We just need a bass player and we got a band
  
  Don't forget us trombone players.
  
  But what will the other 6 members of the band play then?!
  
  slap epic

Ska is basically: the world’s on fire, but we’re still bringing horns and a two-step. Honestly… fair.
- World Inferno/Friendship Society. They got it all.

Where is the beauty in billionaires taking over the world and fucking everybody?
- In the cracks left behind where plants can still grow
  A good kiss
  Your baby's words
  Lots of beauty to find, plenty of life to live
- Sadness is rebellion

Just different stages of grief. The world is broken. Maybe we can fix some parts of it but nobody is going to singlehandedly fix everything. Trying to fix it is the bargaining stage of grief. Being upset that you can't do anything is the depression stage. Embracing it is the acceptance stage. Can't change the world but we can change our attitude.