![]() ![]() Later it became popular with many skinheads. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. It was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Stranger Cole, Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. A brutal dissection of a toxic relationship, with all the standard finger pointing, tears, arguments and rage bound in, this quietly seething track explodes into a brilliantly bitter, vicious chorus which concludes ‘I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you, plugged in and ready to fall.’ Not a song ever likely to be played as a wedding first dance then.Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. ![]() ‘Please turn that fucking radio off’ pleads an exasperated Skiba, asking instead that someone ‘Put Walk Among Us on and turn it up!’ Noble sentiments, I’m sure we can all agree.įor the first 30 seconds of Alkaline Trio’s finest song, with it’s chiming arpeggio guitar line, you could be fooled into thinking this is going to be a pretty punk rock ballad, and then Matt Skiba sings the opening lyric ‘Shaking like a dog shitting razorblades…’ and it all goes downhill from there. ![]() ![]() The second single from From Here To Infirmary is another masterclass in dark story-telling from Skiba, with its grim images of alcohol abuse and loneliness, not least in the memorable second verse lyric ‘New Year’s Eve was as boring as Heaven, I watched flies fuck on Channel 11.’ For those drawn in to the Trio’s third album by gateway single Stupid Kid, here was proof that Skiba’s band were a rather different proposition to the likes of New Found Glory or indeed Blink-182.įeaturing backing vocals from former Black Flag/Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris (a cameo described by Skiba as “a dream come true” for his band), this thrillingly direct punk rock song from Good Mourning will resonate with anyone who’s been forced to listen to commercial radio at home or work. You won’t catch me behind the wheel of a Chrysler ever again.’ Turns out that the truth was rather more prosaic, with Skiba explaining that it was actually an ode to a lost friendship, inspired by a female friend named Jess who lived in Aurora, Illinois who the singer used to “make the sex with.” Sorry it that’s spoiled it for anyone. Step two – play in my blood’ or indeed with an opening verse stating ‘I shat the bed and laid there in it, thinking of you, wide awake for days.’ That chorus is a belter though, and this is one of the songs that turned the band into magazine cover stars.įor the longest time, Alkaline Trio mythology interpreted this emotional, lyrically heavy song from Maybe I’ll Catch Fire as Matt Skiba’s dedication to a friend who died in a car crash, largely because of the chorus, which runs ‘Fuck you Aurora, you took my only friend. A truly twisted little tale of obsession and lust, torture and murder, it reads like a particularly harrowing film noir script: it’s hard to imagine any other pop-punk band delivering a chorus beginning with the words ‘Step one – slit my throat. The fierce opening song on 2003’s Good Mourning album is another Alkaline Trio love song… of sorts.
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