tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716854468261033292.post5244338447457504698..comments2024-02-19T14:51:00.611-06:00Comments on The CD Project: Specials (1979)Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13004375650529185768noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716854468261033292.post-65682345438246773152013-09-03T17:53:22.522-05:002013-09-03T17:53:22.522-05:00Never saw what the attrraction was in dressing for...Never saw what the attrraction was in dressing for a certain genre or style of music. I have always been a 501 jeans and T-shirt man although over the last few years I have evolved into a cargo shorts and T-shirt man. I maintain a strict no logos policy on my shirts and if they are not plain must be something I beleive in: music bands or labels, Marvel Comics, selected brands (Dr. Pepper, Mr. Pibb, Mello Yello, Blue Bell), Star Wars, Muppets, any cassette or vinyl graphics and sarcasm like "Keep Earth Clean It's Not Uranus." Yes, my phyisical resemblance to Jeff Albertson, the Comic Book Guy on The Simpsons, is eerie.<br /><br />About two years ago, my least favorite niece asked if I had heard "that new ska music". I told her I would send her what I had and hit her inbox with everything I got: Madness, The Clash, The Specials, (English) Beat, Untouchables, The Selecter, Fishbone along with later bands like Reel Big Fish, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, early No Doubt and Less Than Jake.<br /><br />She sent an email saying none of those bands were THE ska she was talking about. I never replied and we have not spoken of ska music since. Now you see how she retains the title of my least favorite niece over her four competitors.<br /><br />Turns out we are currently riding the fourth wave of Ska: the original wave was Jamaica in the late Sixties, second wave (aka two-tone) hit in the late Seventies and third wave hit in the late Eighties and early Nineties. You learn something new every day.<br /><br />I still call it all SKA.HERChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00361888365133381438noreply@blogger.com