History Main / SkaPunk

* Music/ThreeEleven (also incorporating funk rock and reggae into their sound)

* JerkJock: Fans of the genre have generally grown to be stereotyped as this, primarily due to the party-friendly nature of the music and the frequent inclusions of ska-punk songs on nineties fratboy comedy movie soundtracks. Sublime, Reel Big Fish, and 311 in particular have gained a reputation for fratboy douchebag fans; while this isn't entirely true, the reaction at the average college bar when "Santeria" or "Beautiful Disaster" comes up on the jukebox proves that it isn't untrue, either.

After {{Grunge}} went out of style and {{Britpop}} failed to gain a foothold in America, this subgenre of AlternativeRock -also known as Third Wave ska - briefly came to the fore at the end of TheNineties. Owing as much to HairMetal or Classic Rock as it did to [[TwoTone 2 Tone]] or {{Reggae}}, ska punk essentially fused '90s {{Punk Rock}}/PopPunk with semi-metal guitars and then added horns, syncopated rhythms and [[LyricalDissonance some of the most cheerfully dissonant lyrics you're likely to find in pop music]].

After {{Grunge}} went out of style and {{Britpop}} failed to gain a foothold in America, this subgenre of AlternativeRock -also known as Third Wave ska - briefly came to the fore at the end of TheNineties. Owing as much to HairMetal or Classic Rock as it did to [[TwoTone 2 Tone]] or {{Reggae}}, ska punk essentially fused '90s PunkRock / PopPunk with semi-metal guitars and then added horns, syncopated rhythms and [[LyricalDissonance some of the most cheerfully dissonant lyrics you're likely to find in pop music]].

After {{Grunge}} went out of style and {{Britpop}} failed to gain a foothold in America, this subgenre of AlternativeRock -also known as Third Wave ska - briefly came to the fore at the end of TheNineties. Owing as much to HairMetal or Classic Rock as it did to [[TwoTone 2 Tone]] or {{Reggae}}, ska punk essentially fused '90s PunkRock/PopPunk with semi-metal guitars and then added horns, syncopated rhythms and [[LyricalDissonance some of the most cheerfully dissonant lyrics you're likely to find in pop music]].

After {{Grunge}} went out of style and {{Britpop}} failed to gain a foothold in America, this subgenre of AlternativeRock -also known as Third Wave ska - briefly came to the fore at the end of TheNineties. Owing as much to HairMetal or Classic Rock as it did to [[TwoTone 2 Tone]] or {{Reggae}}, ska punk essentially fused nineties PopPunk with semi-metal guitars and then added horns, syncopated rhythms and [[LyricalDissonance some of the most cheerfully dissonant lyrics you're likely to find in pop music]].

* [[Music/{{ReelBigFish}} Reel Big Fish]]

* Rx Bandits (combined with ProgressiveRock)

** Crack Rock Steady takes this up to eleven by writing songs about drug use, anarchism (more typically in the traditional sense, not the AnarchyIsChaos way - although there may be some overlap), and police brutality, among other "darker" subjects. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56flbcUqAB8 song]] that named the subgenre is about a 3 or so on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness, but the lyrics blatantly describe the singer's hatred for police officers, to put it lightly.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Typically anywhere from a 4 to 8, depending on how much HardcorePunk / HeavyMetal vs. Music/{{Ska}} / {{Reggae}} influence a given band has. Many bands also go up and down the scale depending on the song, or even within a song.