Quick question about ska/ska punk

Zombiemambo

Just browsing around iTunes and listening to music, I noticed a very striking similarity between two songs: Catch 22's Keasbey Nights and Streetlight Manifesto's Point/Counterpoint. Both have lyrics about wielding a gun, wearing a bulletproof vest and dying soon. Is this a coincidence, or is there some significance to this?

Deebaser

The dude from Streetlight basically wrote keasbey nights and used to be in Catch 22.

Retox

Streetlight Manifesto is composed primarily of former Catch 22 members, they even re-released Catch 22's most popular album: Keasby Nights. Though the Catch 22 version is totally better.

Rhapsody

Tomas Kalnoky was the frontman I believe for Catch 22, had differences with the other bandmates, and started Streetlight Manifesto. SM actually re-recorded the Keasbey Nights album later on.

EDIT: Damn Deebaser, Retox, beat me to it. :P

Zombiemambo

Makes sense. Is there any significance to it within those bands? Is it a reference to something?

Deebaser

Zombiemambo wrote: »

Makes sense. Is there any significance to it within those bands? Is it a reference to something?

Im not sure, but if I were to field a guess based on the fact that SM went on to re-record and release Catch-22's 'good album', I'd say that it was his way of teabagging his old band before he came up with the ingenious 'fuck it, I'll just re-record MY album' plan.

Of course, Im just speculating and talking out of my ass here.

Ziac45

Zombiemambo wrote: »

Makes sense. Is there any significance to it within those bands? Is it a reference to something?

I think he re recorded it since he was the main song writer on Keasbey Nights.

dobi

At live shows, Streetlight often plays a combination of Point/Counterpoint and Keasbey Nights blended together into one.

Neb54

Deebaser wrote: »

Zombiemambo wrote: »

Makes sense. Is there any significance to it within those bands? Is it a reference to something?

Im not sure, but if I were to field a guess based on the fact that SM went on to re-record and release Catch-22's 'good album', I'd say that it was his way of teabagging his old band before he came up with the ingenious 'fuck it, I'll just re-record MY album' plan.

Of course, Im just speculating and talking out of my ass here.

He re-recorded Keasbey to prevent Catch-22 from re-releasing it without changing the terrible sound quality of the album.

Anyway, half of the songs on Keasbey Nights and Everything Went Numb are about bank robberies/crime of some kind so it seems to be a common theme

Aldo

He also sings "If you hate me so much then stop playing my songs" on record somewhere. They're horribly whiny for ska musicians, no?

Rhapsody

Aldo wrote: »

He also sings "If you hate me so much then stop playing my songs" on record somewhere. They're horribly whiny for ska musicians, no?

That's from "A Moment of Silence" off of Everything Went Numb. Wiki's got the basic story of the rivalry between the bands.

Zombiemambo

Thanks for all of the information. I like the Catch 22 song better, for the record