Reel big Fish.

[Steven Denney Shafer II]

I love them, but you know what annoys me? It really makes me more sorry for them than anything else. But it's the ska posers.

Reel Big fish has gotten this horrible disease where everyone likes them and the people who like them consider themselves ska kids even though they don't listen to anything else.

Has anyone else noticed this?

I go to shows and theres always a group of preteens "skaning" (although it looks more like running when they do it) with a T-shirt and sports coat, maybe a trilby hat, and a reel big fish shirt. And I ask them what their favorite band is and they say "Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake and Streetlight Manifesto." I ask them if there's anything else and they'll say something like "I like a lot, too many to say."

This really angers me because they're practically making a mocery of the scene.

Anyone else notice this?

[Skibz McCullock]

AUGGIE / Skank-Out said:

And on another note: I rather skank around with a bunch of Hawaiian shirt-pork pie hat wearin-checkered covered kids than the dumb shirtless beach drunks and punk moshing to every fuckin song they hear folk.

I guess things are different in San Diego, because every time I've seen RBF here in OC, I only ever encounter the latter group. I guess it's more of a hometown/trendyOC sort of thing...Huntington Beach isn't exactly chock full of intellectual stimulation.

[Benjamin McDowell]

I feel ya I really do, but think of these douches as babies to the scene, eventually they'll either move on, or widen their horizons, I'll be the first to admit Reel Big Fish got me into ska music, from their I kinda worked backwards, and dug backwards into ska from there. I love Big D, and English Beat, but my favorite two bands are definitely Reel Big Fish and Streetlight.

So I guess, I'm what you hate.