History Main / SkaPunk

+ Music/HeavyMetal, AlternativeRock

* Music/{{Catch 22]]

* [[{{Music/ThreeEleven}} 311]] (though they also count as FunkMetal, RapRock and AlternativeMetal)
* Against All Authority
* The Aquabats! (later changed to... well, [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly who knows what]])
* Bim Skala Bim
* Buck-O-Nine
* Catch 22
* Chase Long Beach
* Choking Victim
* Dance Hall Crashers

* FiveIronFrenzy
* Goldfinger (on their first two albums only, they then became PopPunk)
* illScarlet
* Hepcat (also Music/Reggae)
* LessThanJake (though they also count as PopPunk)
* Leftover Crack
* Let's Go Bowling
* Mephiskapheles
* TheMightyMightyBosstones
* Morning Glory
* Mustard Plug
* NoDoubt (up until [[NewSoundAlbum Rocksteady]], at least)
* {{NOFX}}
* Operation Ivy (pretty much the TropeMakers, or at least TropeCodifiers, of the whole genre)
* Pepper (they're more of a PunkRock / Music/Reggae hybrid really, but they still count)
* The Planet Smashers (though they come close to traditional Ska, with less PunkRock influence)

* Save Ferris
* The Scofflaws
* Skankin' Pickle
* The Slackers
* Slightly Stoopid (also Music/Reggae and borderline FunkMetal)
* Smash Mouth (well, sometimes, anyways)
* Streetlight Manifesto

* The Suicide Machines
* The Toasters (though closer to 2Tone in sound)
* The Untouchables
* The Upsetters (also Music/Reggae)
* The Voodoo Glow Skulls

** The genre has been abandoned to a greater-or-lesser extent by this demographic in recent years though- they tend to prefer Top 40 Pop/RnB, {{GangstaRap}} / GlamRap and Brostep (a subgenre of Music/{{Dubstep}}) these days. Back in the 90s/early 2000s, on the other hand...

** The genre has been abandoned to a greater-or-lesser extent by this demographic in recent years though- they tend to prefer Top 40 Pop/RnB, GangstaRap/GlamRap and Brostep (a subgenre of Music/{{Dubstep}}) these days. Back in the 90s/early 2000s, on the other hand...

* Less Than Jake (though they also count as PopPunk)

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 GlamMetal 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]].

* The Aquabats (later changed to... well, [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly who knows what]])

* Music/{{311}} (though they also count as FunkMetal, RapRock and AlternativeMetal)

* {{311}} (though they also count as FunkMetal, RapRock and AlternativeMetal)

* Music/{{311}} (though they also count as FunkMetal, RapRock and AlternativeMetal)

* 311 (though they also count as FunkMetal, RapRock and AlternativeMetal)

* Music\Fishbone (also counts as FunkMetal and NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly)

* Music\Rancid
* Music\ReelBigFish

* Music\Sublime (also Music/Reggae and AlternativeHipHop)

* Fishbone (also counts as FunkMetal and NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly)

* Music/Rancid
* Music/ReelBigFish

* TheSlackers

* Music/Sublime (also Music/Reggae and AlternativeHipHop)

* The Aquabats (later changed to... well, [[NeoClassicalPunkRockZydecoRockabilly who knows what]])

* Fishbone (also counts as FunkMetal and NeoClassicalPunkRockZydecoRockabilly)

However, ska's fifteen minutes of fame in America were soon up. Unlike {{Britpop}}, which was clearly finished off by the third {{Oasis}} album, it's hard to place a definite GenreKiller for ska punk. A lot of bands split up, while others (such as No Doubt, Less Than Jake and the Aquabats) changed their sound a bit. Even so, there were plenty of bands that stuck to their ska guns, such as Reel Big Fish or the Bosstones, who continue to play to audiences who remain as rabid as ever, and every so often bands - such as Chase Long Beach and StreetlightManifesto - come along who look like they may revive ska for a fourth wave.

However, ska's fifteen minutes of fame in America were soon up. Unlike {{Britpop}}, which was clearly finished off by the third {{Oasis}} album, it's hard to place a definite GenreKiller for ska punk. A lot of bands split up, while others (such as No Doubt, Less Than Jake and the Aquabats) changed their sound a bit. Even so, there were plenty of bands that stuck to their ska guns, such as Reel Big Fish or the Bosstones, who continue to play to audiences who remain as rabid as ever, and every so often bands - such as Chase Long Beach - come along who look like they may revive ska for a fourth wave.

* LyricalDissonance: A complete set of examples would probably fill a page on their own. This trope was practically a trademark of the genre.

* IncrediblyLamePun: It probably started with Mustard Plug's debut album ''Skapocalypse Now!'' and went on from there.

In the early 2000’s another wave of ska punk came about called Crack Rock Steady, Fusing Ska, Crust Punk, Death Metal and Rap and with Lyrics about Drug use, Political Dissent, gay rights and Anti-police sentiment.

In the early 2000’s another wave of ska punk came about called Crack Rock Steady, Fusing Ska, Crust Punk, Death Metal and Rap and with Lyrics about Drug use, Political Dissent, gay rights and Anti-police sentiment. I started with the band Choking Victim who released No Gods, No Managers in 1999.

By the late 1980s, the most successful American ska scene was developing in California, where short-lived but hugely influential groups like Operation Ivy combined hardcore and ska influences to create their own brand of ska-core. A west coast alternative to Moon Ska appeared in the form of the Asian Man Records label, formed by Skankin' Pickle saxophonist Mike Park. After the huge success of {{Grunge}} and PunkRock in the early to mid-nineties, ska was well placed to enter the mainstream. Early successes to come out of the California scene included reggae fusion masters {{Sublime}}, Op Ivy offshoots {{Rancid}}, whose album ''... And Out Come the Wolves'' was the first American ska record to be certified Gold and some punk bands, like {{NOFX}} and TheOffspring, who also recorded some ska-influenced songs.

Also of note is that ska-punk caught on outside the U.S., more so than it did outside Jamaica or the U.K. during the first or second wave; while it didn't get as popular anywhere else as it did in the U.S., there was no backlash against it, either. In parts of [[LatinLand South America]], the third wave of ska never really ended.

Also of note is that ska-punk caught on outside the U.S., more so than it did outside Jamaica or the U.K. during the first or second wave; while it didn't get as popular anywhere else as it did in the U.S., there was no backlash against it, either. In parts of South America, the third wave of ska never really ended.

* OneHitWonder: Reel Big Fish even had a song about it ("One Hit Wonderful").

* TropeCodifier: The Toasters for American ska music in general and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones for ska-core.