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Ska still slaps though (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

If you wanna get really old ska check out Toots & The Maytals. They did a ton of songs like “54-46 was my number” that turned into ska standards

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    oh yeah, that song is familiar. Not sure why you didn't link to it :

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtGPpYJOFH4

    Obviously I'm more into Madness since I'm a complexity and speed addict, but it's still a great source to place my example, and as a part of the history of the genre.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Id love to know what songs youre thinking of when you sat Madness embodies speed and complexity, because i love madness but id never use either of those words to describe them. Maaaayyybe complexity if youre judging by the times and on a sliding scale, but speed i dont get at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    "I'm more into madness" = I prefer madness over Toots & The Maytals because they are more complex and faster.

    Yeah, they're not Archspire, but they're fast enough for more mainstream music.

    Also, it's fairly sophisitcated, they have dimished scale and some kind of arabian sounding mode in the song I linked, and the tempo is in the high 100s. (turns out it's 150+ but fucking whatever , feels fast, and changes)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I cant follow the links you posted because youtube is down according to invidious. I didnt mean anything by it though, i was genuinely just curious because i do have quite a few madness songs saved but none of them are especially fast or complex by modern standards so i was wondering if i was missing out on something in their catalogue or if you just meant in comparison to other similar genre artists that came before them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Does “complexity and speed” mean shred guitarists?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No it means things faster than uptempo and non major minor tonality and non even rhythm.

    Just so happens that shred has all those, and I make excuses for things like bach

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    So who’s your fav? I was a big fan of Satriani and Tony McAlpine 35 years ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Obviously Mike Lerner of Behold the Arctopus, hence having Skullgrid as my name. I wrote a LONG ASS post about my favourite shred guitarists that have excellent phrasing , where it's not just a zillion notes a second, but they still do play a zillion notes a second here :

    https://lemmy.world/post/32373621/18016464

    I will post again in a few days with my favourite "fast as fuck" shredders that have no concept of phrasing for you.

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