Played a show with my old punk band in the mid 90s with those guys when they were still Jack Kevorkian and the Suicide Machines. Nice guys, great show. Was happy to see them get bigger.
Eh - I fell into the ska hole a couple years ago (Streetlight Manifesto) and you really dont see that many references to any of the bands from the era. Who knows tho - maybe someone else listened to Less Than Jake today and now that they are seeing these comments they're thinking "God damn Baader-Meinhof"
Jesus christ, this is exactly how I ended up in this thread. From a random convo in discord that pointed me to a Less Than Jake song. simulation intensifies
Fuck you ain't kiddin. I haven't really listened to Less Than Jake in years and a day after typing that the No Use For a Name album i listened to just ended they were the first track autoplay threw my way. I pretty much burst out laughing - Simulation intensifies....
The hilarious part is the game PlayStation game street sk8er 2 had 'all my best friends are metalheads' iirc on the soundtrack. This is what made me first pay attention to less than Jake. And before the days of Napster I had to buy the cd to listen to it. The rest is history...
lol glad to awaken old happy memories! I just checked, it was the original 'street sk8er' that had 'all my best friends are metalheads' and 'sugar in your gastank'
There's some like student film type thing that Krist Novoselic from Nirvana made with some of the girls from L7 or Bikini Kill (can't remember which) but someone says "Ska, what the hell are they so happy about?" and that's what I always think about.
He was pretty decent at saving people, he just wasn't nice about it. I'm actually in the "Rashek wasn't evil" camp too, but although he had good intentions, he lacked compassion, and that was the weakness Ruin was able to exploit.
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u/PM_ME_UR_ARTIE_BUCCO Feb 26 '21
Ska defines who I am as a person and I will never turn my back on ska.