Skatelites = Not Inventors of Ska

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Well, I hope everyone had their word game fun with the last thread. Hey, next time, try Boggle. I hear your favorite band Pavement love it.

I've heard from a number of people that The Skatelites (awesome name, terrible band) supposedly invented ska. That's friggin BS.

Let me break it down for you: in 1987 a little known group of punks from the Greater Boston area heard 'I Shot The Sherrif' and I think (don't quote me) General Public and came up with the dynamic yet simple BOSSTONES. Rock that's danceable and you can smile the entire time is what they were all about.

Then comes 1997 and the OC and then all of the sudden everybody loves SKA. Thanks to the Bosstones, OC and most of all, you for helping the progenitors, if you will, show off their stuff!

― SkaFanatic, Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Your Ronald Thomas Clontle impression is REALLY bad, btw.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

dude, fyi, i'm deleting the next one.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Remember this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska

Try reading the whole thing this time.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 13 October 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

No idea who RTC is. They should call this site "I LOVE CENSORSHIP".

― SkaFanatic, Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

I am fairly certain that Eli Whitney invented Ska.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

You should try asking the Bosstones if they invented ska.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

this is the best OMGWTF paragraph ive ever read.

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I saw the Bosstones open for Fishbone about 10 years ago.

Man, did Fishbone destroy them.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

this is the best OMGWTF paragraph ive ever read.

-- petesmith (plsmit...), October 13th, 2005.

How could you leave out this part: Then comes 1997 and the OC and then all of the sudden everybody loves SKA.?

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I remember back in '97 when I first heard of ska. Little did I know it had been invented a full 10 years earlier.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

"We’re not a ska band. I think the true ska bands are from Jamaica." - Dickie

http://www.crazewire.com/features/20030605256.php

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I remember back in '87 when I first heard of ska. Little did I know it had been invented a full 10 years earlier.

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

I remember back in '07 when I first heard of ska. Little did I know that I had invented it a full 10 years later.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I suppose if you ignore the entire first and second waves of ska (while pretending the music these artists played wasn't ska), and then ignored the Bosstones' third-wave contemporaries, this position would have some merit.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I remember back in '77 when I first heard of ska. Little did I know it had been invented a full 10 years earlier.

― john roberts (mattsoncarlhew), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I remember back in '67 when I first heard of ska. Little did I know it had been invented a full 10 years earlier.

― Mike Barson (mattsoncarlhew), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Rosco Gordon to thread!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

I remember back in 2004 when I first saw the O.C.

Little did I know it had come out a full seven years earlier.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Arrested Development takes place in Orange County, yet none of the characters from THE OC ever seem to show up for a frozen banana.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

MONKEYS INVENTED SEX

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

I remember skafish back in '87. Little did I know...

http://naha.cool.ne.jp/ramona88/Resources/skafishska.gif

GGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAHHhhHHHHHHH!!

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

So ska was invented in Orange County at some point during the last century.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

> The Skatelites (awesome name, terrible band)

So awesome you can't even spell it, you fucken knob.

― Niall, Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Orange County, New York. Ska would help invent reality TV shows about making motorcycles.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

skafish xpost

oh man! i remember that ugly dude from Urgh! A Music War!!! yikes!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Skatelites? No. Skatalites? Maybe. I can see how you'd get them confused. The Skatelites were the ones on the OC.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Eric Clapton got Dickie Barrett in his hair.

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Really good troll. Arrogantly, flamboyantly wrongheaded. Only reason more people aren't gibbering with rage is that few people here give a shit about ska.

9/10

(Russian & French judges gave 10 each, I suspect collusion.)

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

This has got to be a joke, right?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's one of those too good to be true situations.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

yeah it's someone taking the piss for sure

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

I retract my earlier analysis of you. You're just an idiot.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 14 October 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

i love "(don't quote me)"

― Nick Sylvester, Friday, 14 October 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

yeah it's someone taking the piss for sure

That was my first thought too but then I dismissed it as too clever to be made up. I guess I just don't give people enough credit.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)

i dunno, it just seemed a bit too much in the other thread when the poster went off to 'skank' in their room. to be honest i just don't think someone could honestly be stupid enough to think the bosstones invented ska? maybe i don't give people enough credit.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

It's kind of a random topic to troll, too. It's not like ska comes up much in discussion here otherwise. Also, "I hear your favorite band Pavement love it," suggests either only a very cursory familiarity with ILM, or a brilliant disguise.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

OTOH, he/she could be new here and still very clever. Not ALL clever people are already on ILM ...

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

the bosstones did however invent black people, so he may have us on a technicality

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

thus, we finally have an answer to the age-old question "why does black people never want to rock?" answer: the bosstones.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 14 October 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Maybe SkaFanatic got a job at BAM
Reggae in a Babylon

Part of the BAMcinematek series Punk 'n' Pie

Sun, Nov 23 at 4:30, 9:15pm

Directed by Wolfgang Buld

(1978) 80min

Were reggae not introduced to Britain’s music scene, we might not have seen the birth of ska, which blends reggae and punk, amongst other genres. From the warm, sandy beaches of Jamaica to the craggy cliffs of Britain’s shores, Reggae in a Babylon charts the spread and subsequent influence of reggae in England by documenting acts such as Steel Pulse and Jimmy Lindsay.

― mizzell, Sunday, 2 November 2008 02:03 (seventeen years ago)

Had man not lived in caves, we might never have seen the birth of rock.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 2 November 2008 02:10 (seventeen years ago)

Rock that's danceable and you can smile the entire time is what they were all about.

― s1ocki, Sunday, 2 November 2008 07:54 (seventeen years ago)

Doesn't this joke come from Scharpling and Wurster's New Hope for the Ape Eared? I'm sure there's a "Madness invented ska" skit on there...

― Rombald, Sunday, 2 November 2008 10:08 (seventeen years ago)

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