#i like the ska genre

[patricksbandmerch]

Band: Blue Meanies

Link to merch this one was such a pain to track down. resellers of any merch are far and few between. thanks to a fan on their facebook page for posting all their old merch so I could even prove this shirt exists

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Genre: Chicago ska punk

[edwinisms]

it’s kinda funny to me that charles seems like this classic brit punk rocker and looking at him makes you think of like. the clash. sex pistols. etc. but really according to his pins and the time period he died in he was probably most frequently listening to fucking. ska

[cubezart]

more trolls stuff btw

[xx-emowarz-xx]

one thing about alt stuff is that the barrier to entry to being "goth" is truely so fucking low and yet people constantly limbo under the bar instead of stepping over it and wonder why they get called posers. like we're not asking you to move mountains here we're just asking you to find even one band under the umbrella that you like and to engage with the community a little bit. The fashion has truely so much overlap between goth punk and emo so very few people will care which one you call yourself based on your look and you just have to find a band you like. Dashboard Confessional screams a bit too much for your taste and Dead Kennedys is too loud? Guess what you're in luck the goths listen to something a little softer and weirder they call it dark wave or ethereal wave depending on the phases of the moon. Try out Clan of Xymox or Switchblade Symphony. Like truly the alt music scene is so fucking diverse there's gotta be something in here that you like. If not and you truly are a pop girlie then don't call yourself punk it's very easy.

[lovebunnie]

the more cecil talks about dogs, the more convinced i am that hes never seen a real dog before and aubergine is just an empty water bottle with a leash

[comas-are-for-sleeping]

also 1. the youtube goths say all u need to be a goth is to know the music and 2. i would LOVE a list

OK OK BET (note in the middle of writing the list: i am Sat Up in my bed so locked in rn)

so like, first the classics duh:

i love love love the cure like that's an obvious one but rrrrr they are so good these are like my favs. i saw them in concert like a year ago w my dad and we fucking missed boys dont cry bc it was like. the last encore song and it was midnight and we wanted to get merch and run like the wind yknow (top two hoodies i own tho so i think worth it)

siouxsie and the banshees?? fun fact if you've seen the show hannibal she did the last song and said she interpreted as a love story so 😌 somehow i dont have a siouxsie playlist oh well

depeche mode i also don't listen to a whole lot but the bangers are fr bangers. could listen to ghosts again on repeat forever probably

bauhaus!! bela legosi's dead is such a song of my childhood tbh maybe that explains some things

cocteau twins.. ok gonna be honest i know maybe Two songs lmao but i know they're kinda important so still putting them here. i feel like my dad called them pretentious once and that was all i needed to hear rip (small slight con of having a dad who literally showed me everything to do with music is that his opinion of music is still very influential to me. but like he's also usually right so)

not a band, but the rolling stone had an article of the top 50 goth songs (idr if it was *ever* bc that's kinda crazy but whatev) and mcr was on it? for baby bats they said but i was still kinda surprised. and then i thought about it and like.. lowkey yeah. if emo is "the world is dark and horrible and everything sucks" and goth is "the world sucks but there's beauty in the shadows" i feel like mcr is smack dab in the middle. anyway i made the list into a playlist and added ones i thought were missing

ok!! these ones are newer:

varsovia is so fucking good omggg. found them bc one of their songs was the theme song for this AMAZING hbo show called los espookys ive prolly mentioned that lmao. theres a bunch of spanish (i say spanish and not latino just bc i don't actually know some of them might be spaniards lol) goth bands (including the next one) and made a playlist bc like. duh

twin tribes is another band that i kinda only know two songs by but like that's ok!! they are rlly good

ok so i found vision video on instagram randomly and didn't even listen to the music at first bc i didn't realize they were a band?? mostly it's just the lead singer posting and he has the persona of "goth dad" and is an emt and just generally a really cool guy (amazing makeup also). but have come to v much enjoy their music and if i ever see them live i will combust

[pokeharvest]

you know a song is good when you have to stop and think "is this ska" halfway through

[theygender]

I just found out that the majority of the music I used to listen to back in my "emo phase" was actually nu-metal. I don't know what to do with this information

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

i love defending pete wentz against the mania haters who call him the music industry's mr krabs bc he sucks in other ways.

[daz4i]

it's always kinda funny when you *almost* share a music taste with someone. we like the same bands but all your favorite songs by them are the ones i can't stand. same genres but every artist you like in them is juuuust grating enough for me to be unable to stand them. on paper we're perfectly compatible. in practice if you put us in a car together one of us won't make it out alive

[chekovsphaser]

What is the most unfairly maligned genre in music and why is it Disco?

[jackgoodfellow]

Did you know Samo has a big brother?? It's true! He picks them up after class sometimes. Of course, Hikari insists that everything he says sounds ""incredibly threatening,"" but he really is just a wonderful big bro!!

[salds-miegs]

also we've reached the point of post-eurovision depression where i'm having esc dreams; last night i dreamt it was the grand final and luke black had decided to change things up after the semi, so he had a more upbeat version of samo mi se spava that i can only describe as a ska (ska-punk? two-tone? idk i had to go on wikipedia to figure this out) remix. an odd creative choice but it seemed to work for the audience so idk, maybe ska is gonna be the next big thing at esc.

[bluewinnerangel]

I was just about to mention that The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke passed away on the weekend, and I saw your post that Louis updated before that 😱 I was a Smiths fan back in the 80s and it's lovely to see that Louis loves the same music I grew up with 🤧

And to that anon that asked about the playlist, whether it's only a Spotify thing, unfortunately it is, not on apple 😑

Yeah he's added The Smiths and worn related stuffs over the years but it's nice to see its still current and more and more are getting added. Theres quite some additions that have been personal favorites forever or hit me in some other way (also right in the nostalgia). And thank you for the update on apple.

[accursedthing]

I wonder how many ska haters online even actually know anything about ska at all or have ever properly listened to it instead of just developing opinions based solely on other people's internet jokes tbh. You should be required to listen to something from The Specials or something before posting a ska joke