AAA and Link 80 were my intro to ska in the late 90s. someone tossed 17 reasons, all fall down and question the answers in my lap and was like “this is your music, im sorry”. so skacore is just where it starts in my brain. then it skirts around the gross pit of anything tim armstrong touched and moves to 2tone, then new tone.

little surprised JER and bad opperation didnt pop up in the comments here. but i suppose it’s comment thread about ska in a shit post community, not a music specific one.

Modern Ska i’d say

Flying Raccoon Suit afterglow

We Are The Union Out Of Patience

Half Past Two Barrier For Entry

of the older stuff, a few greats i havent seen mentione yet would be

Against All Authority All Fall Down

Link 80 enough

honestly every explanation probably just ends at ‘this is what i learned on and it works’. same way i religiously use nano and try to do everything in bash first. or how a couple coworkers can’t stop explaining their vim workflow and defending python unprompted like it’s a trauma response for them. my current homelab is also running a r9 with 64gb ram and 30tb storage. if i were paying for remote hosting, still using salvaged hardware or being paid, i’d invest time learning newer processes. but containers haven’t caught my interested and this set up takes basically no effort on my part to maintain, so i can focus my limited free time elsewhere.