2 tone ska is about the greatest argument for promoting and embracing immigration and integration that I have ever come across. Racial, cultural, ethnic, integration always seems to produce mind-bogglingly good and creative results, food, art, ideas. The kind nobody can even predict or imagine.
I'll never forget being introduced to Ska in 8th grade. This girl had Ska written on her notebook. I asked " what is skuh " she laughed said Ska and handed me her Walkman cassette player with an English Beat song playing. I still listen to a lot of Ska and i'm 50 years young. Ska !!!
Whoah - ok no joke. I also am 50 - AND I was introduced to Ska in Gr 8. I went to a Boarding school, one of the "old boys" he was a grad (school only went to gr10) came to visit the school. He had a jacket covered with 2 tone band patches and one badge said "SKA". I asked him what "ess kay ay" (pronouncing it by letter hahahaha) was. He explained it was a style of music, "uptempo reggae". I already liked reggae. The first 2Tone I listened to was I Just Cant Stop it the guy leant me an english beat tape. I eventually worked backward to the original jamaican stuff but 2 Tone still rules. Cheers to 42 years of Ska fandom!
I grew up in SoCal and a cholo taught me how to skank at a yard show when I was in my teens. There’s never been another place that I’ve felt so accepted than in the ska community. They really just accepted anyone who wanted to be part of it, and I made lifelong friends going to those shows
@@Veritas.0 telling someone who is suffering that they are suffering because of their mindset is to tell a person that you think their suffereing is their own fault and that they deserve it. This is just a cowardly way to avoid accepting the reality of things which you find uncomfortable to hear.
@@Veritas.0 Buddy, I'm quite successful, but I criticize your cowardice because I am a Christian and I believe that Christ told us to love our brothers. I'm not successful because of my own merit. I'm fortunate and incredibly lucky. I didn't choose to be born the way I was, or with the advantages I have. I don't get any credit for that.
@@Veritas.0 unlike you I use my real name and I'm pretty easy to verify who I am and what I do. But that's not the important thing. You're the one who tried to make this about my personal success. Except it isn't. It's about your lack of compassion.
@@Veritas.0 this is a legit new low for dumb bullshit I've read from people online. You can literally go check my public Facebook page. Ironic how you hide behind the "truth". (for reference for other commenters, is that the person I'm talking to: Veritas, their screen name is Latin for truth. A classic choice for dipshits who thrive on bad faith and sophistry (did you really think you were clever? 😂)) Literally go check it 🤣
"We grew up listening to music that was about helping you change your mind, not your fucking sneakers" Holy fuck, that quote. Can I have it on a shirt please?
THANK YOU Noisey, Camera guy Sam, Elvis Cortez and Tim Armstrong, plus everyone else that worked hard on this awesome documentary! It was an honor to be mentioned along side all these legendary musicians. Mad respect and much love! -Happy Drunk Cartel
What a great programme. I grew up in the UK when Two Tone started and can confirm the more than any other musical style it appealed to everyone. Two Tone was the soundtrack to much of the anti racist action in the 80s.
I feel like modern Japanese ska is sort of the next evolution of the genre. Bands like Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Cool Wise Men, The Miceteeth, Beat Sunset etc. It seems that Japanese ska has a strong jazz influence but other genres too, and yet it still has an old school kind of sound somehow. Ska hasn't developed much in the West over the last 15 years, at least for now.
@@QualeQualeson Another band I just happened to remember is Cubetone. Another band with a sort of classic ska feel plus a smooth jazz element. That's why I like these bands in particular and it's in a lot of Japanese ska it seems.
What an amazing trip! From Jamaica to the UK from Long Beach to Chile ( my motherland) I guess Ska means more tome than I thought. Our band had the privilege to open for Maldita Vecindad a couple of times and it was amazing. Great people mi gente Mexicana
Ska music is proletary and feels so good!!! Work class, we are mates of life!!!! With style and great sound for fun and tell all our problems about life & society...... Love this doc of Ska!!!! I can view this a million times!!!!! Big love from Argentina to all!!! Fabulosos Cadillacs, Intocables, Todos tus Muertos, Sumo & many more!!!! Cheers and keep Ska playing at your stereo car!!!!
Wow. Not sure why this never popped up in my recommendations until now. One of the best music docs!!!! Also, RIP Rankin Roger. Still see the English Beat every couple years and brings back some great memories. So glad that Roger and Dave kept the music alive on both continents!!!
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..
thank you for re-telling the story of the fight for freedom in the UK n re-illuminating the youngsters of the horrors and impacts of imperialism around the world and explaining why its fall was inevitable and just! We SHARPS love this! Learned a lot!
It was an honour to meet and talk with Ranking Roger last year when him and The Beat played in Bristol. I love that you got him in the series, he is a living legend as are the rest of the true 80s Coventry ska bands.
I was part of the 3rd wave of ska founding 2 Davis, CA bands: Affirmative Action (mid-1980s) & Punch the Clown (mid-1990s). We put out several albums and played with many of the bands featured here. It was fun to revisit those days via this doc. Thanks for posting!
I’ve never met anyone who dislikes “Ghost Town”. From the opening bars to the eerie clarinet sound and the banshee backing vocals this song is so desolate and still relevant today.
Man, it's still going on, spreading the message. I'm 59 and just got turned on to "The Interrupters". "Babylon" brings me to tears sometimes. And then there's old songs like "For What It's Worth" from "Buffalo Springfield".
This was Awesome. In the credits, it states that "A Message to You Rudy" was written by the Specials. Actually that was written by Dandy Livingstone and covered by the Specials.
@O. B. no! It’s was originally written, recorded and performed by Dandy Livingston in 1967!!! And then rereleased in 1971 on the Trojan records label. IT WAS NOT WRITEN FOR OR PRODUCED BY THE SPECIALS! Great band as they were I must say!
As kids, race was irrelevant for us. We never saw skin colour. These were just groups that we loved, full of incredibly talented people, that we rightly admired. And Jerry Dammers, is the real deal. Next level genius.
Ska came to life in my hood, shy south of Oakcliff - in the borders. Heavy tirals man. Kids man, fighting for our right to live and love and be with our friends, fighting gangers and goose steppers - Heavy crip lifestyle there, but dirty south ideals. Ska got the punks and they came to us like, hey man, lets get together and make a space we can survive in. Kids stop seeing colour when their parents are struggling together, too. We all had it. I rep oakcliff every day, but not the anarchy so much as the unity. people fighting to work together.
@@kadewilliams3301, I should have written that differently. We left England, where I lived, in 1975. I remember Ska music being out prior to that. When we came to Canada, it was strange not to hear it on the radio here.
Best Ska-umentary ever. The history,style,Tim Armstrong, political relevance and transcendance of cultures all over the world.Ska s Not Dead! Loved it thank you thank you so much.
Eso perra, yo también soy de Medallo. Que pesar que ya no hay buen ska en la radio. Por ahí escuché que la Moji volvía a tocar, voy a estár pendiente. En la buena loca.
Thank you, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for making this and showcasing how huge ska is in latinamerican culture from the US to the rest of the Americas. You have no idea how ingrained in our popular youth culture it is and our resistance to oppresion.
Boston was alive with it. So many bands everywhere. They would come and stay at folks apartments and local hangouts. We had such a great time. The city has changed some the music fades but still strong in the hearts of those that lived it.
Just the best music scene. Happy to be a kid at school when two tone broke. Ska'd me for life. The music is just as relevant today as it ever was. They were called The Specials because they were.
I got that impression also. I will definitely have to memorize this now too fml. I love mimicking that voice. His Mr grinch is the highlight of his career.
Much of my influence on my way of being is because of Harcore music. So thank you so much to all the bands that I've heard since my youthful days. Most of them are represented here. Pride in enjoying this kind of sound. Until death. I learned from the old school in the 80's. Best regards to the Hardcore Mafia of the World. HARDCORE STILL LIVES !!!
Man, this is really great. Between the NYHC & this 2Tone doc, you guys are really covering really great scenes. These were the scenes of all the older kids I looked up to and 2 tone and nyhc really defined whom I am and what I stand for. Cheers Noisey you guys are doing it right. I want to see a revival of ska punk and hardcore. I want to see kids dealving into the 80's scenes and embracing them, and keeping the spirit alive. Oi! Oi! Oi! from the Lower East Side. STAY RUDE STAY REBEL
I discovered Ska in '79, thanks to The Special's appearance on SNL. Changed my life and led me to Punk Rock. It was my entry drug into a plethora of subcultures. 40 plus years later, almost 60, still working in the music biz. I blame it all on Two Tone and all those great bands. Saw em all live as a teen. Saw Madness a few months back. Still love all those 2nd wave English bands. Thanks 2 Tone!
Check out the Dutch ska band Doe Maar who were part of the second wave of Ska, they had songs with political content such as "De Bom" (The Bomb) about the atomic scare of the cold war. Or "Rumah Sajah"(My home) which is about indonesean people living in the netherlands having a tough time adapting. (Doe Maar vocalist and keyboard player Ernst janzs is from Indonesian heritage But also "Nachtmerrie op hol" (Nightmare on the loose) amd "Dansen met Alice" (Dancing with Alice) where they put themselves on one par with those English bands but never broke big outside the Netherlands or Belgium because of their choice to sing in Dutch. Sting cited them as a band he cosidered to be formidable.
I'm so fucking glad Vice is using their money to make awesome pieces/series like this. They went in on this episode, seems to be no interview spared... Traveling all around the world for a 20 second clip. Loved it ... Never knew this beautiful music I grew up on has such a history
I loved it when musicians made depressing songs with upbeat and bouncy sounding music to back it up. I believe that catches more attention than being one dimensional in terms of mood. A lot of 2 Tone sound similar, but it's always fun.
Well done.. Ska and 2 Tone will forever be a living part of my past, present and future. I can still remember going to La Paloma Theater in Encinitas to watch Dance Craze at the midnight showing and dancing to every song. It is and will always be part of my DNA, and I'm grateful for the pioneers who made it all possible.
Fell in love with ska when I first took pills at home with my roommate.we thought we would jump around listening to trance music but no. The ska playlist we had squeezed our seratonins out of our brain. That’s when I know ska music will be in my veins forever
The Beat were my favourite band of the era. Their influences were all there to see but what came out of them was something most excellent and original, very musical.
This show brought a whole new meaning after my child watched Yo Gabba Gabba since this first came out. I found myself shockingly recognizing the Aquabats and other artists featured on that show.
The bosstones were my first favorite band. I was born in 1990. By '93 my 26 year old dad was driving around blasting 'more noise...' and I fell in love by repetition if anything. They were also the first band I saw live when I was 6 years old right after 'lets face it' came out, which was my own first cd.
What a blast this documentary is. Absolute golden memories. I remember seeing Mustard Plug live age 14 in the late 90s and I was tied to Ska Punk from there on. I played in the band ninepoundnote (with Robin from Random Hand!) from age 16 and supported bands like The Beat and Bad Manners in my hometown. I remember meeting Roger Ranking and smoking my first joint with his bassist loool. Golden memories I will never forget. Sweeney Todd of the Dead Pets sang on my last bands (Broadway's Not Ready) EPs tracks. Another great band from the fourth wave in the 2000s... def check out the Dead Pets!! My daughter grew up watching The Aquabats Super Show and she's like a child genius at school these days, I couldn't be any prowder. I loved being a ska kid, always will be a rudeboy, and always remember 2 TONE IS FOR LIFE! NOW OPEN THE BLOODY CLUBS AGAIN 'COS THIS PLACE IS TURNING TO A GHOST TOWN! Pick it up! Pick it up yo! Big up Tim Armstrong for the narration. Your voice still is incredible bredda!
He's covered in the noisey documentary about the origins of skinhead and Oi! All about Trojan reggae and ska, and the skinhead moonstomp dance step for reggae.
Thanks for a very informative video! I'm 64, from Arizona, but I never learned about The Specials until around five years ago. I don't know how I missed this video. You've done a good job explaining where the music of the early 80's came from.
Wow, this is fantastic. Thanks for covering the current wave of foreign bands too! Would have been cool to see Tokyo Ska Jazz Ensemble in there (they have like 20 albums lol).
thank you. this video encompasses the music that really made me dance (and will continue to get me skankin, till i die). 2-tone ska is a genre in and of itself. born from working class understanding, it's as real as the sweat on the back and face after hustling for the danglin' carrot and the stick on the back from survival in this modern concrete jungle and suburban wasteland. blues made it's way to England to be discovered. Well, Ska made the opposite trip. the real vibrations of genre make their way around the word. Ska speaks to the diaspora of the world and embeds a musical vibration that remembers what family really means
i was crazy about the beat and that all two tone stuff , as a french 50 years old kid who got to meet all this on records (wich is the main thing) you 've enlightened me and my insatiable curiosity and i thank you a lot for that!!
@@partybwoy8521 Hi, would you like to give me a time stamp? I must have missed it then because from what I’ve seen, even this second time watching, no, they didn’t really dig into how ska originally developed in Jamaica. I saw that they talked about Jamaican immigrants had came to England after the war and the country kind of being in shambles. They explained England’s punk scene’s influence on 2tone ska. They showed a very brief clip of people dancing to ska in Jamaica at about 4:23 but the guy who was talking about it didn’t explain Jamaican folk music’s (aka mento) or American r&b’s influence at all (facts easily found with a google search). 17:46 the narrator said that the mix of punk and “Jamaican dance music” were known throughout the world as ska even though it’s actually 2tone ska. The “Jamaican dance music” referred to is actually just ska. And then afterward it just discusses 2tone ska’s influence on the rest of the world.
Tim Timebomb 26:00 La maldita Vecindad (Pachuco) la mejor banda de ska en México. Pachuco + 2 Tone = La Maldita Vecindad. Excelente documental de 2 Tone Ska
2 tone ska is about the greatest argument for promoting and embracing immigration and integration that I have ever come across. Racial, cultural, ethnic, integration always seems to produce mind-bogglingly good and creative results, food, art, ideas. The kind nobody can even predict or imagine.
I lived in Britain during two tone, and you ate correct.
Word. Fucking quality.
Muslims won't want this. Windrush yes. Muslims no.
Seems kinda racist dude
Working class people are not the racist closed minded kinds the media will lead you to believe.
I'll never forget being introduced to Ska in 8th grade. This girl had Ska written on her notebook. I asked " what is skuh " she laughed said Ska and handed me her Walkman cassette player with an English Beat song playing. I still listen to a lot of Ska and i'm 50 years young. Ska !!!
Whoah - ok no joke. I also am 50 - AND I was introduced to Ska in Gr 8. I went to a Boarding school, one of the "old boys" he was a grad (school only went to gr10) came to visit the school. He had a jacket covered with 2 tone band patches and one badge said "SKA". I asked him what "ess kay ay" (pronouncing it by letter hahahaha) was. He explained it was a style of music, "uptempo reggae". I already liked reggae. The first 2Tone I listened to was I Just Cant Stop it the guy leant me an english beat tape. I eventually worked backward to the original jamaican stuff but 2 Tone still rules. Cheers to 42 years of Ska fandom!
I grew up in SoCal and a cholo taught me how to skank at a yard show when I was in my teens. There’s never been another place that I’ve felt so accepted than in the ska community. They really just accepted anyone who wanted to be part of it, and I made lifelong friends going to those shows
Anyone coming back in 2020 and thinking we need a resurgence of this?
@@annedavis6090 Yup, that was kind of the point of the comment.
make ska great again.
@@danikoenig "Ranking come forward!"..🕴️🕴️🕺🕺✨
I hope some people watch this and get a history lesson!
@@JoshBeut some folks are so opaque, I see that I figured incorrectly here. I hope you are safe & well and I send you big oneLove..
"We weren't alien, we weren't exotic, We were their mates" That's true anti-racism defined for you lot here
Sadly that doesnt translate to anything, pocs still suffering
@@Veritas.0 telling someone who is suffering that they are suffering because of their mindset is to tell a person that you think their suffereing is their own fault and that they deserve it. This is just a cowardly way to avoid accepting the reality of things which you find uncomfortable to hear.
@@Veritas.0 Buddy, I'm quite successful, but I criticize your cowardice because I am a Christian and I believe that Christ told us to love our brothers.
I'm not successful because of my own merit. I'm fortunate and incredibly lucky. I didn't choose to be born the way I was, or with the advantages I have. I don't get any credit for that.
@@Veritas.0 unlike you I use my real name and I'm pretty easy to verify who I am and what I do.
But that's not the important thing. You're the one who tried to make this about my personal success. Except it isn't. It's about your lack of compassion.
@@Veritas.0 this is a legit new low for dumb bullshit I've read from people online. You can literally go check my public Facebook page. Ironic how you hide behind the "truth". (for reference for other commenters, is that the person I'm talking to: Veritas, their screen name is Latin for truth. A classic choice for dipshits who thrive on bad faith and sophistry (did you really think you were clever? 😂))
Literally go check it 🤣
6:55 "I heard this drummer playing reggae [but] he thought he was playing punk. All he knew was to hit it hard." is the purest definition
RIP Ranking Roger Rude boy. Legend.
In his Country of origin maybe!
Johnny Jabsco
RIP Ranking Roger 💜
@@robertroberts2666 In his country of origin and everywhere else that two tone hit.
Robert Roberts I can tell you Roger was very well known and respected in the USA in the early-mid 80s and beyond. Unless you were uncool.
Shame he was never invited into the Johnathan Ross show...
"We grew up listening to music that was about helping you change your mind, not your fucking sneakers" Holy fuck, that quote. Can I have it on a shirt please?
I hope that's an ironic comment
LMAO , clever , size XL .Rude Boys 👍
THANK YOU Noisey, Camera guy Sam, Elvis Cortez and Tim Armstrong, plus everyone else that worked hard on this awesome documentary! It was an honor to be mentioned along side all these legendary musicians. Mad respect and much love! -Happy Drunk Cartel
Saludos cabrones 🏁
happydrunk Cartel that’s right y’all! Getting the props y’all deserve. See y’all soon! 🔥💯
#happydrunkcartel
Nice work on the documentary!🤟
What a great programme. I grew up in the UK when Two Tone started and can confirm the more than any other musical style it appealed to everyone. Two Tone was the soundtrack to much of the anti racist action in the 80s.
I feel like modern Japanese ska is sort of the next evolution of the genre. Bands like Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Cool Wise Men, The Miceteeth, Beat Sunset etc. It seems that Japanese ska has a strong jazz influence but other genres too, and yet it still has an old school kind of sound somehow. Ska hasn't developed much in the West over the last 15 years, at least for now.
Hey thanks for the tips. I'm going through the list right now.
@@QualeQualeson Another band I just happened to remember is Cubetone. Another band with a sort of classic ska feel plus a smooth jazz element. That's why I like these bands in particular and it's in a lot of Japanese ska it seems.
It’s not supposed to. It is and always will be Jamaican Black music.
Many thanks for that, love TSPO but don't know the others.
Awful tripe
Love love love. Thank you xx (I’m a grandma born 1971 - I’ve been skanking all my life)
It was an honor to be in this documentary even for one second! 4th generation revival!
What an amazing trip! From Jamaica to the UK from Long Beach to Chile ( my motherland) I guess Ska means more tome than I thought. Our band had the privilege to open for Maldita Vecindad a couple of times and it was amazing. Great people mi gente Mexicana
Ska music is proletary and feels so good!!! Work class, we are mates of life!!!! With style and great sound for fun and tell all our problems about life & society...... Love this doc of Ska!!!! I can view this a million times!!!!! Big love from Argentina to all!!!
Fabulosos Cadillacs, Intocables, Todos tus Muertos, Sumo & many more!!!! Cheers and keep Ska playing at your stereo car!!!!
Wow. Not sure why this never popped up in my recommendations until now. One of the best music docs!!!! Also, RIP Rankin Roger. Still see the English Beat every couple years and brings back some great memories. So glad that Roger and Dave kept the music alive on both continents!!!
God bless Terry, the man who had the foresight to start it all, RIP
Great to see Pauline Black in this video.. I loved her in the 80's and still love her today.. so talented and such a lovely and charming woman
She's aged (hardly at all) amazingly well too. Still a brilliant live performer.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..
thank you for re-telling the story of the fight for freedom in the UK n re-illuminating the youngsters of the horrors and impacts of imperialism around the world and explaining why its fall was inevitable and just! We SHARPS love this! Learned a lot!
It was an honour to meet and talk with Ranking Roger last year when him and The Beat played in Bristol. I love that you got him in the series, he is a living legend as are the rest of the true 80s Coventry ska bands.
What a beautiful piece of history. Working class human beings coming together to create a cultural ripple.
I was part of the 3rd wave of ska founding 2 Davis, CA bands: Affirmative Action (mid-1980s) & Punch the Clown (mid-1990s). We put out several albums and played with many of the bands featured here. It was fun to revisit those days via this doc. Thanks for posting!
2 tone music became part of the Mod movement in the UK , which is still alive and kicking today . It will never leave , IT`S A WAY OF LIFE
It was Jamaican ska that became part of the Mod movement during the 60's
I live on a council estate and it's just black and white and you see mods on their lambrettas riding around in summer. It's so lovely to see
I’ve never met anyone who dislikes “Ghost Town”. From the opening bars to the eerie clarinet sound and the banshee backing vocals this song is so desolate and still relevant today.
Never more relevant than when the lockdowns hit…this song was waaay ahead of its time.
This town is scary like a ghost town 💯 classic
Man, it's still going on, spreading the message. I'm 59 and just got turned on to "The Interrupters". "Babylon" brings me to tears sometimes. And then there's old songs like "For What It's Worth" from "Buffalo Springfield".
This was Awesome. In the credits, it states that "A Message to You Rudy" was written by the Specials. Actually that was written by Dandy Livingstone and covered by the Specials.
@O. B. no! It’s was originally written, recorded and performed by Dandy Livingston in 1967!!!
And then rereleased in 1971 on the Trojan records label.
IT WAS NOT WRITEN FOR OR PRODUCED BY THE SPECIALS!
Great band as they were I must say!
@@djdefk2 that is what the comment is saying
@@djdefk2 released on ska-beat label 1967 and its rock steady,not ska
As kids, race was irrelevant for us. We never saw skin colour. These were just groups that we loved, full of incredibly talented people, that we rightly admired.
And Jerry Dammers, is the real deal.
Next level genius.
Ska came to life in my hood, shy south of Oakcliff - in the borders. Heavy tirals man. Kids man, fighting for our right to live and love and be with our friends, fighting gangers and goose steppers - Heavy crip lifestyle there, but dirty south ideals.
Ska got the punks and they came to us like, hey man, lets get together and make a space we can survive in.
Kids stop seeing colour when their parents are struggling together, too. We all had it. I rep oakcliff every day, but not the anarchy so much as the unity. people fighting to work together.
Nothings wrong with acknowledging skin color dude. It’s seeing it that helps actually, it’s pretending it doesn’t matter that doesn’t help.
I loved the Specials.... I wish there would be some of that on today's charts...I'm in Canada now, since 1975
What does being in Canada since 1975 have to do with it?
@@kadewilliams3301, I should have written that differently. We left England, where I lived, in 1975. I remember Ska music being out prior to that. When we came to Canada, it was strange not to hear it on the radio here.
The Specials latest album was no1 2 years ago
@@emeraldscorpio in 2019 they had a record.
@@Mr.Truxton aye it came out in Feb 2019 2 years ago
Best Ska-umentary ever. The history,style,Tim Armstrong, political relevance and transcendance of cultures all over the world.Ska s Not Dead! Loved it thank you thank you so much.
"it's okay. have fun." So true. Ska was a revelation to me starting to high school in the middle of grunge and gangsta.
"WE HAD MORE SIMILARITIES THAN WE HAD DIFFERENCES"
Ska is huge n Medellin, Colombia. Alive in young culture as it can be
Eso perra, yo también soy de Medallo. Que pesar que ya no hay buen ska en la radio. Por ahí escuché que la Moji volvía a tocar, voy a estár pendiente. En la buena loca.
It's great with cocaine!
Got to see Ska-P play there in '08, was so ridiculously good to come across the globe and find my people still
@@sebasagudelo50 ¿Con esta música también atracan y consumen allá en Medellín?
looking forward to it when I come to visit
There's an amazing music scene in Beijing, and people of all scenes seem to get along quite well. Brilliant to see them represented here!
Then who this is Jamaica an England making 2 tone... Jamaica made ska
*Clicks on video* *Op Ivy plays in the first 2 seconds*...well I guess I'm watching this
Thank you, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for making this and showcasing how huge ska is in latinamerican culture from the US to the rest of the Americas. You have no idea how ingrained in our popular youth culture it is and our resistance to oppresion.
That 2 Tone movement was so good. Look was cool and the music even better.
this series is so well made - thanks dudes!
That was a great video on the influence of 2 Tone and SKA. Thanks for sharing!
Boston was alive with it. So many bands everywhere. They would come and stay at folks apartments and local hangouts. We had such a great time. The city has changed some the music fades but still strong in the hearts of those that lived it.
I know old farts always say the old days were better, but anybody who was growing up in the late 70s/early 80s certainly had many good times on offer.
Better? We were bloody spoilt! I didn't have much when I was a kid but I definitely had the best music.
Just the best music scene. Happy to be a kid at school when two tone broke. Ska'd me for life.
The music is just as relevant today as it ever was.
They were called The Specials because they were.
The Beat....the best 2-tone creation of them all, by a mile & one of the best bands of all time, full stop (no pun intended!)
Love how you credit the great Don Letts and his influence on British multi culturalism Punk and the Two Tone Ska revival.
Superb !!
Ska was big in the 80s and 90s, but seemed to largely fade out of the mainstream in the 2000s. It still has a devoted worldwide following.
"Narrated by Tim Armstrong"??? Now I've seen everything.
johnnyconsumer much more understandable while speaking
thought he was a perfect for this
No. Two Tone is English. It's like asking some nob head like Danny Dyer to narrate a Doors documentary.
I got that impression also. I will definitely have to memorize this now too fml. I love mimicking that voice. His Mr grinch is the highlight of his career.
@@johnnyjabsco1999 Two Tone is English? The documentary heads to Los Angeles at about the 13 minute mark.
RIP ranking thanks for 70s good music we will miss you
Much of my influence on my way of being is because of Harcore music.
So thank you so much to all the bands that I've heard since my youthful days. Most of them are represented here. Pride in enjoying this kind of sound.
Until death. I learned from the old school in the 80's. Best regards to the Hardcore Mafia of the World.
HARDCORE STILL LIVES !!!
The Untouchables were left outof the Cali segment. They were there in the early 80's. They are in the movie Repo man too.
Rusty Pelican, Is that a bar in Oceanside?
Mandingo!!!! A real mean dude. Mandingo!!!! The rudest of rude.
@@MrSpikebender I think I remember a restaurant called the Rusty Pelican in Long Beach in the 80's
@Michael Savin Yea!!!! at least the long term is still firing. LOL
Man.... LOVED this!! Nice to relive the past! And your interviews were amazing! Thanks so much for putting this together🙏
R.I.P Ranking Roger. Thanks for everything,
Noisey!!! Thank you for this special. It brought memories and happiness. Rude Boy for life.
Man, this is really great. Between the NYHC & this 2Tone doc, you guys are really covering really great scenes. These were the scenes of all the older kids I looked up to and 2 tone and nyhc really defined whom I am and what I stand for. Cheers Noisey you guys are doing it right. I want to see a revival of ska punk and hardcore. I want to see kids dealving into the 80's scenes and embracing them, and keeping the spirit alive. Oi! Oi! Oi! from the Lower East Side. STAY RUDE STAY REBEL
I discovered Ska in '79, thanks to The Special's appearance on SNL. Changed my life and led me to Punk Rock. It was my entry drug into a plethora of subcultures. 40 plus years later, almost 60, still working in the music biz. I blame it all on Two Tone and all those great bands. Saw em all live as a teen. Saw Madness a few months back. Still love all those 2nd wave English bands. Thanks 2 Tone!
since hearing my dad play Prince buster Al Capone all them moons ago i was hooked
Check out the Dutch ska band Doe Maar who were part of the second wave of Ska, they had songs with political content such as "De Bom" (The Bomb) about the atomic scare of the cold war. Or "Rumah Sajah"(My home) which is about indonesean people living in the netherlands having a tough time adapting. (Doe Maar vocalist and keyboard player Ernst janzs is from Indonesian heritage But also "Nachtmerrie op hol" (Nightmare on the loose) amd "Dansen met Alice" (Dancing with Alice) where they put themselves on one par with those English bands but never broke big outside the Netherlands or Belgium because of their choice to sing in Dutch.
Sting cited them as a band he cosidered to be formidable.
thanks for sharing! cheers
I'm so fucking glad Vice is using their money to make awesome pieces/series like this.
They went in on this episode, seems to be no interview spared... Traveling all around the world for a 20 second clip.
Loved it
... Never knew this beautiful music I grew up on has such a history
Turned off my news
turned up some SKA
and im better for it.
Damn good.lesson for me too. Dont go for the low hanging horror fruit. See who or what has been documenting music
I loved it when musicians made depressing songs with upbeat and bouncy sounding music to back it up. I believe that catches more attention than being one dimensional in terms of mood. A lot of 2 Tone sound similar, but it's always fun.
Well done.. Ska and 2 Tone will forever be a living part of my past, present and future. I can still remember going to La Paloma Theater in Encinitas to watch Dance Craze at the midnight showing and dancing to every song. It is and will always be part of my DNA, and I'm grateful for the pioneers who made it all possible.
Fell in love with ska when I first took pills at home with my roommate.we thought we would jump around listening to trance music but no. The ska playlist we had squeezed our seratonins out of our brain. That’s when I know ska music will be in my veins forever
Best 34 minutes I have spend on the internet ....
So Don Letts is why I like dub reggae ... Kool !!! Thanks Don .
The Beat were my favourite band of the era. Their influences were all there to see but what came out of them was something most excellent and original, very musical.
This show brought a whole new meaning after my child watched Yo Gabba Gabba since this first came out. I found myself shockingly recognizing the Aquabats and other artists featured on that show.
What a great documentary! More people should see this and listen to music like this! ♥️❤️♥️❤️
I just want to thank Tony hawk Pro skater for introducing me to Ska🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
RIP Ranking Roger. The (English) Beat were such a big part of my youth that I listen to "Just Can't Stop It" and BAM I'm back in high school again.
I love Dickie Barrett, love that they spoke to him. What a great documentary.
The bosstones were my first favorite band. I was born in 1990. By '93 my 26 year old dad was driving around blasting 'more noise...' and I fell in love by repetition if anything. They were also the first band I saw live when I was 6 years old right after 'lets face it' came out, which was my own first cd.
Guys! Do you happen to know what song is playing while he speaks ?
Brilliant ska doco. Thank you Under the Influence. Much love in and for this one.
remember the original SKA fae the 60s was brilliant i didnt know the 60s at the time but i love the 60s SKA
Ska is forever and for all, even if it's not your favorite... Who doesn't like ska? Great stuff, thanks!
Half gentleman half working-class!
love that , almost the best quote innit.
@@Coldcut '...That's what a harmonious society should be like' . That guy is so cool.
What a blast this documentary is. Absolute golden memories. I remember seeing Mustard Plug live age 14 in the late 90s and I was tied to Ska Punk from there on. I played in the band ninepoundnote (with Robin from Random Hand!) from age 16 and supported bands like The Beat and Bad Manners in my hometown. I remember meeting Roger Ranking and smoking my first joint with his bassist loool. Golden memories I will never forget. Sweeney Todd of the Dead Pets sang on my last bands (Broadway's Not Ready) EPs tracks. Another great band from the fourth wave in the 2000s... def check out the Dead Pets!! My daughter grew up watching The Aquabats Super Show and she's like a child genius at school these days, I couldn't be any prowder. I loved being a ska kid, always will be a rudeboy, and always remember 2 TONE IS FOR LIFE!
NOW OPEN THE BLOODY CLUBS AGAIN 'COS THIS PLACE IS TURNING TO A GHOST TOWN!
Pick it up! Pick it up yo! Big up Tim Armstrong for the narration. Your voice still is incredible bredda!
LOVED THIS! i grew up on ska in 90's so-cal, it was my identity as a teenager
Better late than never😂
I've watched this dozens of times... I really can't think of a better documentary about ska.
They seem to have missed out mentioning Prince Buster.
Well, this documentary is specifically about Two Tone ska and its influence. But I'd love to see a documentary about the original Jamaica scene.
He's covered in the noisey documentary about the origins of skinhead and Oi! All about Trojan reggae and ska, and the skinhead moonstomp dance step for reggae.
and laurel aitken
@@patrickholt2270 oi was created by tabloids ,can't have blacks and whites together and oi boys were racist
fuckin lover buster
Brilliant documentary - thank you to all the creators and participators! Salute!
i nearly cried at the end there. r.i.p also to john bradburry and every other rude boy that passed on
holy hell.... best noisy doc, ever...... thank all you involved... seriously.... thank you....
México y Latinoamérica presentes!
What an amazing documentary this is! I remember all but maybe 5 of these bands! Such memories & such amazing music!
Dave Wakeling on "Stand Down, Margaret" .. "ended up being the longest serving Prime Minister in British history; all my fault!" lol.
Wow! What an amazing doc, goosebumps the whole time i was watching! From 2 Tone to Ana Tijoux, how amazing is that? Two thumbs up! :)
I've seen this like 5 times. I regret nothing
Thanks for a very informative video! I'm 64, from Arizona, but I never learned about The Specials until around five years ago. I don't know how I missed this video. You've done a good job explaining where the music of the early 80's came from.
Wow, this is fantastic. Thanks for covering the current wave of foreign bands too! Would have been cool to see Tokyo Ska Jazz Ensemble in there (they have like 20 albums lol).
Awesome job Noisey! It's my favorite music - started listening to it late 70s, early 80's - and still to this day!
Multiculturalism is the way of the future, and Music is a tool for social change!
@3pac son who says it is? That chinese skinhead is a beautiful example of multiculturalism
@3pac son Who said anything about white nations?
thank you. this video encompasses the music that really made me dance (and will continue to get me skankin, till i die). 2-tone ska is a genre in and of itself. born from working class understanding, it's as real as the sweat on the back and face after hustling for the danglin' carrot and the stick on the back from survival in this modern concrete jungle and suburban wasteland. blues made it's way to England to be discovered. Well, Ska made the opposite trip. the real vibrations of genre make their way around the word.
Ska speaks to the diaspora of the world and embeds a musical vibration that remembers what family really means
you guys should really do some music playlists/links with these. can't wait to look up some of these artists and give them a listen :D
I loved you highlighting the ska scenes in other parts of the world and not just the UK and America
>Don Letts talking about the creation of the London Punk scene.
>Clip shows Stiff Little Fingers and Irish punks from Belfast
wut
Alternative Ulster!
@@Pointblankmos Don't you mean "I'M TELLING YA MONSTER!! I'M TELLING YA MONSTER!!"
i opened for stiff lil fingers in lincoln nebraska like 5 years ago. one of the best experiences of my life
@@uFOcHAcHA 😂😂😂😂😂😎
Maybe he meant to wrap the whole uk in that statement 😅
i was crazy about the beat and that all two tone stuff , as a french 50 years old kid who got to meet all this on records (wich is the main thing) you 've enlightened me and my insatiable curiosity and i thank you a lot for that!!
This is really well covered. Only thing that would have made it better is talking about the origin of ska (American r&b and Jamaican mento).
Yea they kinda covered it
Well the video is about 2 tone ska :)
@@lkmetro8223 yeah I got that lol.
@@partybwoy8521 Hi, would you like to give me a time stamp? I must have missed it then because from what I’ve seen, even this second time watching, no, they didn’t really dig into how ska originally developed in Jamaica.
I saw that they talked about Jamaican immigrants had came to England after the war and the country kind of being in shambles. They explained England’s punk scene’s influence on 2tone ska. They showed a very brief clip of people dancing to ska in Jamaica at about 4:23 but the guy who was talking about it didn’t explain Jamaican folk music’s (aka mento) or American r&b’s influence at all (facts easily found with a google search). 17:46 the narrator said that the mix of punk and “Jamaican dance music” were known throughout the world as ska even though it’s actually 2tone ska. The “Jamaican dance music” referred to is actually just ska. And then afterward it just discusses 2tone ska’s influence on the rest of the world.
I love how this begins with people who had something to say about an apocalypse. And ends with look at me!!! I'm in a band! LOOK AT ME!!! NOW!!!
RIP Roger. What a legend. Gone too soon.
Tim Timebomb 26:00 La maldita Vecindad (Pachuco) la mejor banda de ska en México. Pachuco + 2 Tone = La Maldita Vecindad. Excelente documental de 2 Tone Ska
This was a pretty rad documentary
It's super rad
Unity has created some of the best vibes ever to cry the Turntable, 🎵😎👍 Keep it that way, ✌️🎵🎶🎶