Ska songs by non ska bands and such...

[Steven Denney Shafer II]

I love em! They make me so happy! I decided to make a brief list. Please feel free to add more...

PS some of these are more reggae than ska but I'm putting them up anyway...

PPS I understand some of these will just be coincidences and not meant to be ska.

The Beatles - Obla Di Obla Da
Paul McCartney & The Wings - Live and Let Die (a small part)
Led Zeppelin - Dyer Maker
The Gorrillz had a remix album that was all dub/reggae/ska (still to this day featured on iTunes)
Akon - Mama Africa
Billy Joel Still Rock & Roll to me (Has a skaish riff in parts, even references to Dance Craze)
Disney - Little Mermaid - Under the sea
Jack Johnson has released a few ska tunes.
Lemon Demon - Ultimate Showdown, Don't be like the Sun
Ricky martin - livin la Vida Loca
Matthew Wilder - Break my Stride
Vanity Fair - Hitching a Ride
Men at Work - I come from a land down under
Neil Diamond did a reggae version of his song Red Red Wine for a live recording
Oingo Boingo has released lotsa ska tunes including Violent love and Who do you want to be today
Panic! at the Diso's "The Only Difference between yadda yadda yadda..." has been argued for having a ska influence
Paris Hilton (ugh) - Stars are Blind
The Police have released a few ska tracks
Red Hot Chili peppers - On Mercury
The Offspring have released a few ska tracks
Disney - The theme to the Haunted mansion
Tally Hall - The Bidding
System of a Down - Legend of Zelda
Weird Al Yankovic - Horoscope for Today
The Eagles - Hotel Calfornia
The Piranhas - Tom hark
Todd Rundgren - Bang on the drum all day (verses)
The Strokes - Last Nite (arguable, I don't think so)
Tripod - Stuntman
Corky and the Juice pigs - The Pandas Must Die (really obvious)
And of course the theme to Americas Funniest Home Videos

Please post any others.

[Hugh Draper]

Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Lullaby For Francis
Kilburn & The High-Roads - You're More Than Fair

[Skibz McCullock]

I don't know where you're getting a lot of these...'Grim Grinning Ghosts'? The Panic! song? 'Dyer Maker'? 'Livin La Vida Loca'? Vanity Fair? Some of those songs could be misconstrued as ska in some parts, I guess, but not everything with that syncopated beat could be described as "ska"...otherwise, that would make Ace of Base a ska band, and nobody wants that.

Anyways, here's my list:

Shonen Knife - 'Cookie Day'
Puffy AmiYumi - 'K2G', 'Tokyo I'm On My Way', 'Mole', plus some new songs that aren't in the US yet.
The Ventures - 'Ginza Ska'
Camper Von Beethoven - 'Border Ska', and probably others. I don't remember if 'Take The Skinheads Bowling' was Ska, but lots of Ska bands have covered it.
Elvis Costello - 'Watching the Detectives', plus some others (after all, the man DID produce The Specials' debut album!)
The Police - 'Canary in a Coal Mine'
XTC - 'Statue of Liberty', probably more
Mr. Bungle - just about each of their 10 minute songs had touches of Ska in them.
Blondie - 'The Tide Is High'
Amazulu - 'Moonlight Romance' (although technically they were a "ska" band)
The Clash - 'White Man In Hammersmith Palais', 'Wrong 'Em Boyo'
Oingo Boingo - 'Little Guns', 'It Only Makes Me Laugh' (both versions), 'Run Away (The Escape Song)', 'Who Do You Want to Be?', 'Fill The Void', 'Nasty Habits'(?), 'Ain't This the Life', 'Violent Love', probably others...
Gorillaz - 'Lil' Dub Chefin' (M1A1 Remix)' (feat. Terry Hall!)
The Hooters - ???? (I know there was some Ska song they did)

And I wouldn't be surprised if Jimmy Buffett had some ska beats up his sleeve.

[Steven Denney Shafer II]

I think Dyer Maker is because it not only has the upbeat overtone but it has the well known "ska percussion" (tschka tschk tsck) and Livin La Vida loca Definitely has a third wave style guitar softly throughout the entire song.

But a lot of them are more than likely coincidences, and I am aware.

And I totally forgot Blondie, thanks.

[chad]

the clash-junco partner, bank robber

probably off topic but when joe strummer (the clash) was with the mescaleros(sp?) in the few years before he passed on had often played rudie a message to you at their shows.

[chad]

i just remembered that time again has a song called streetwalker. it is the last song on their album called the stories are true.

[Andrew Lyons]

Julian Lennon - "Much Too Late For Goodbyes"

I'm tempted to say "Fluorescent Adolecent" bt The Arctic Monkeys, but it's a bit of a stretch.

[Steven Denney Shafer II]

Here's two more:

Tally Hall - Haiku
The Hoosiers - A sadness runs through him

[Aidan]

Nofx-Bob, All Outta Angst
Anti Flag-The Protest Song

[Skibz McCullock]

I accidentally (and yes, I actually mean 'accidentally') tuned into a Hannah Montana song on one of those satellite television radio channels. Much to my surprise, one of her hits, "We Got the Party", I think it was called, had those oh-so-familiar offbeats during the chorus.

Although it frightens me to see Miley Cyrus so close to our music, the fact that traces of third-wave still linger on in mainstream music is pretty neat.

[Aidan]

That...

makes me wanna cut off my penis. And feed it to a morbidly obese rhinoceros.

[Skibz McCullock]

Why would you give it away as food? Mail it to Miley Cyrus!

[Aidan]

Genius.
I'll have to do that.
=p