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What are the distinguishing differences between ska and reggae?
Posted on 5/1/17 at 9:58 pm
Posted on 5/1/17 at 9:58 pm
Just watched one of those top 10 videos on YouTube. This one is on the top 10 ska bands. Their list included Bob Marley and the Wailers as the #6 best ska band. If Marley isn't reggae, what is? I think of ska as having a stronger use of horns, with quick reggae rhythm as the backdrop and heavy jazz influences
Here is a great example of ska
The Specials - Free Nelson Mandela
The rhythm is much quicker than traditional reggae.
Here is a great example of ska
The Specials - Free Nelson Mandela
The rhythm is much quicker than traditional reggae.
This post was edited on 5/1/17 at 10:08 pm
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Posted on 5/1/17 at 10:17 pm to Ramblin Wreck
That's pretty much the main difference. Ska has more punk influences as well.
For example:
Reggae
In Your Eyes - Tribal Seeds
Ska
Date Rape - Sublime
For example:
Reggae
In Your Eyes - Tribal Seeds
Ska
Date Rape - Sublime
Posted on 5/2/17 at 1:27 am to Ramblin Wreck
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:06 am to Ramblin Wreck
The Wailers were "ska" originally
Do you know who coined the term reggae? Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals fame.
The old dance hall music was ska, very fast, funky horns. Reggae slowed it down with a heavier drum and baseline. Just my two cents....
Do you know who coined the term reggae? Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals fame.
The old dance hall music was ska, very fast, funky horns. Reggae slowed it down with a heavier drum and baseline. Just my two cents....
Posted on 5/2/17 at 6:23 am to kingbob
The original ska predates punk, so it didn't originally have punk influences. There was a second generation ska that was a punk genre, like the Mighty Mighty Bostones.
As others said: ska is more uptempo with more doo wop and R&B flavor. The reason Marley is lumped in as a Ska artist is because they originally were a ska band then evolved into the roots reggae sound that he's most famous for.
As others said: ska is more uptempo with more doo wop and R&B flavor. The reason Marley is lumped in as a Ska artist is because they originally were a ska band then evolved into the roots reggae sound that he's most famous for.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 6:40 am to kingbob
quote:
Ska has more punk influences as well.
It's the other way around...
There is also Rocksteady... which is somewhere in between Ska and Reggae...
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