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Forum - General discussion - Where have you heard ska?

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skaman31689
User 		Posted: 2007-02-16 15:36 CEST
So, I know it's not a ska forum, but a lot of us do listen to it. What are some of the most unusual places you've heard ska? Commercials, TV shows, movies, etc... Here, I'll start:

Dance Dance Revolution: SuperNOVA
On the Disney Channel
On Nickelodeon
Diddy Kong Racing (for the N64)

and my favourite,

After The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart goes to commercials for the second time.
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Sander
Site admin² 		Posted: 2007-02-16 15:48 CEST
skaman31689 wrote:

Diddy Kong Racing (for the N64)

and many more nintendo games
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marty
Moderator 		Posted: 2007-02-17 03:14 CEST
America's Funniest Home Videos
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WarpedRyan
User 		Posted: 2007-02-17 17:40 CEST
There's a movie called Soccer Dog and the Aquabats have a song in it. Also, Shaun of the Dead features "Ghost Town" by The Specials towards the beginning.
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skaman31689
User 		Posted: 2007-02-18 08:07 CEST
Oddly enough, the radio also features ska from time to time ;P
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skankin_toaster
User 		Posted: 2007-02-18 16:14 CEST
I saw a commercial with a Japanese band called Oreska (if you fon't know them, i recomend checking them out). And it was for some random candy bar. The whole commerial is them playin on a bus, and every one has a Pocky. Tis very random.
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skankin_toaster
User 		Posted: 2007-02-22 01:16 CEST
Also, I heard the Bosstones on the Local sports radio station the other day
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TrombonistDon
User 		Posted: 2007-03-21 22:46 CEST
My sister was watching Sabrina the Teenage Witch today and some weird female-vocals version of "The Impression That I Get" by the Bosstones came on. It was pretty awesome. Coincidentally I was listening to Big D and the Kids' Table's new album at the time.


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skankin_toaster
User 		Posted: 2007-03-24 02:10 CEST
Digimon the Movie!!!! the Impression that i get is played at some point of time... forget when though
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Gremlin
User 		Posted: 2007-04-03 03:42 CEST
EA Sports must love Love less than Jake as much as i do bc there in Tony Hawk 4(all my best friends are metalheads), NHL 05(i think)(The Ghost of me and you), and Madden 07 (a still life franchise)
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skajunkie
User 		Posted: 2007-04-10 04:37 CEST
on some fedex commercial ...something about rockets on the moon...but...you can hear the intro from the live version of five iron's "one girl army" ...but...it sounds like ..well..not them...maybe strings and...symphony stuff...dunno. i was excited when i heard it.
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skajunkie
User 		Posted: 2007-04-10 05:12 CEST
there was just a bounty commercial on...it was the "quilted, quicker, picker-upper" melody....with ska guitar and beat...with horns playing the melody..and...it even said "oi!" .....how weird...i feel kind of ...unsure about paper-towels about now.
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TrombonistDon
User 		Posted: 2007-04-11 01:51 CEST
Anybody know the name of the song or band from the ska heard on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart?
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RCT2head
User 		Posted: 2007-04-12 18:57 CEST
kablam!'s theme song - 2-tone army

if only they found a place to put old rx bandits, like those damn bandits stuff
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skajunkie
User 		Posted: 2007-04-15 05:33 CEST
hey, while on the subject, is there anywhere to watch kablam! now-a-days?
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invertedtiwsted
User 		Posted: 2007-07-03 22:47 CEST
TrombonistDon wrote:
Anybody know the name of the song or band from the ska heard on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart?


I'm also DYING to find a copy of that song. I'm a sucker for rock (or ska) instrumentals, and that theme song is one of the best I've heard.

Wikipedia says the theme song is "Dog on Fire", performed by They Might be Giants. As far as I know, that wasn't released on any of their albums, so I'm desperate to find a copy of it.

It's used as the music on this youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuXuJghfN8Y

So the song must have been released at some point. Anyone know where I can find it?
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Hi-iH
User 		Posted: 2007-07-04 03:23 CEST
There's a song on a McDonalds commercial that has like a ska/surf/punk feel too it. Reminds me of Goldfinger, even though they aren't really surf, it just sounds like them.
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WarpedRyan
User 		Posted: 2007-07-11 23:18 CEST
I was sitting in a Chili's Restaurant the other day and the Bosstones came on. They are now included in quite a few greatest hits collections I see in stores so they are evidently much more popular in the world than they are in my area...

Other than that, I rarely here ska where I live in Illinois. I've been working to amend that!
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skankin_toaster
User 		Posted: 2007-07-14 04:37 CEST
Anyone here watch the show Teen Titans? In an episode in the first season called Detention, when Mad Mod (the most Two-tone villain EVER!), the play the song K2G by Puffy Ami Yumi, who usually aren't ska, but this song is VERY ska. It made me happy inside to see Cartoons Heroes seek down a villain with some ska in the background, 'tis awesome ^_^
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dontheman
User 		Posted: 2007-09-07 03:36 CEST
i first ska on tony hawk pro skater one goldfinger's superman
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swim lil fishi
User 		Posted: 2007-10-02 22:21 CEST
I heard a no-sax version of the English Beat's I Confess over the loudspeaker at Kohl's department store
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king_of_ska
User 		Posted: 2007-10-03 04:04 CEST
The movie Sky High had all kinds of ska in it. His wall was covered in aquabat posters
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ollie
User 		Posted: 2007-10-04 19:54 CEST
On the film 'Run, Fatboy, Run' there is someone doing a cover of Sublime - 54-46 thats my number and a cover of The Specials - Monkey Man.
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skankin_toaster
User 		Posted: 2007-10-05 06:04 CEST
ollie wrote:
On the film 'Run, Fatboy, Run' there is someone doing a cover of Sublime - 54-46 thats my number and a cover of The Specials - Monkey Man.


Could those both have been the original Toots & the Maytals versions? Because both of those are actually Toots covers xD
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ollie
User 		Posted: 2007-10-05 10:34 CEST
You know what I havent a clue, so they actually could be. Then again I would imagine the Toots and Maytals version would be of poor sound quality, whereas these sounded like modern recordings, but hey, im probably wrong.
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