Favorite 2nd wave/2 Tone Artist

[Skapitalist]

Once again, there were no topics, and I felt obligated to start one.

What is your favorite 2nd wave/2 Tone artist/band?
I'm going to say The Selecter. Pauline Black's voice is the perfect sort of weird for ska music.

Feel free to vote in the poll.

[dannyc]

Haha, okay I'm just gonna hit up all these polls that you made.
I went with Madness this time. The Selecter, The Specials, The BodySnatchers, Bad Manners, etc. are all amazing bands. But Madness really opened my eyes to ska.
When I was first getting into ska, I only knew the third wave bands. But I was in Israel one summer and I went into a music store and asked if they had any ska, expecting third wave. The guy showed me Madness... And that was that.

[Skapitalist]

Thank you again for responding! That's a good story, my friend. I feel like my polls actually accomplished something now.

[Dalwyn]

The Beat "Just can't stop it" really defined Ska for me ... Specials as well. Madness, Bad Manners .. party bands. fun, but I couldn't take as seriously. And top underrated second-wave band, for me: the Selecter. I never seem to hear them any more ...

[Skapitalist]

The Selecter is my favorite second wave band! I'm glad you like them too. I think it's because I found a best of the Selecter CD at the bottom of a discount bin at some music store and got it for $5 or so. I listened to that CD a lot. I had never really appreciated older ska until then.

[optimusjimbo]

its really a tough call, but i had to go bad manners because its just so much fun!