Hey, could someone please give me a list of good ska band? I don't know that many.

Bands I already know:

The Impossibles
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Five Iron Frenzy
Yellowcard
The Starting Line
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
No Use For a Name
The Aquabats
Reel Big Fish
They Might be Giants
Dropkick Murphy's
Less Than Jake


I'd be much obliged if you would help me.

Catch 22

Hi Terry!

Welcome to our forum; I'm so happy you have come to be among us here!

I know it might not be ska, but...

...I really love Flogging Molly. I have two principal reasons for this: the quality of the lyrics of their songs, and the quality of their musicianship; as a poet and composer myself I find myself respecting their work very much. Also, it's just plain bloody addictive! Of course, when my son's band puts out a CD I'll have to support them. But until then, 'tis Flogging Molly, me lads!

You could give them a listen and see what you think, eh?

Solidarity, and again, welcome among us.

AD ASTRA PER ASPERA

flogging molly is a kickass band, and i guess some of their songs could be considered ska. one of my favorite ska bands is echo and the bunnymen. another good ska band is no doubt, but they're not ska anymore, they're pop. but if you listen to their really old stuff it's some pretty good ska.

Reel Big Fish, Mad Caddies, Catch22, Less Than Jake, Operation Ivy, Goldfinger, Link 80, The Hippos, Five Iron Frenzie, mustard plug, Skank Agents, RX Bandits, Against all authority, Mighty Mighty Bosstones (aka "The Kings of Ska"), The English Beat, Sublime, The Forces Of Evil, Save Ferris, The Witches, Long Beach Dub All Stars, Let's Go Bowling, Stubborn All Stars, Conehead Buddha, tsunami bomb, ill repute, plinky, propaghandi, Insyderz, Buck, Supertones, Whole Wheat Bread, Buck-0-Nine, The Starting Line, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, No Use For a Name, The Aquabats, They Might be Giants, Dropkick Murphy's, Flogging Molly, echo, bunnymen,

Another good one is Streetlight Manifesto

*Hey terry - Yellowcard and The Starting Line are definatly not ska bands..

but . . .

Big D and The Kids Table (especially the album Strictly Rude and The Gypsy Hill EP)

Suburban Legends

The Toasters

The Skatalites

False Colours (new, kinda sketchy, but they have good potential and awesome live)

Synthetic Elements (lead singer is gorgeous, and they are also awesome live)

Voodoo Glow Skulls (more ska-core)

Slighty Stoopid (depends on song - some sound reagea, some sound bad, etc.)

The Aggrolites (again, depends on song)

The Dancehall Crashers

Save Ferris

Catch 22/Streetlight Manifesto (2 members from Catch created Streetlight, and they remade a lot of the same songs)

Mad Caddies

Op Ivy

Reel Big Fish (f*cking amazing live)

and the rest I think have been named

I also forgot :

Mu330

Edna's Goldfish

Taj Motel Trio

Distorted Penguins

The Hippos

and

Lightyear