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Quick question about ska/ska punk

ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
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?

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  • DeebaserDeebaser on my way to work in a suit and a tie Ahhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    The dude from Streetlight basically wrote keasbey nights and used to be in Catch 22.

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  • RetoxRetox Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    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.

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  • RhapsodyRhapsody Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    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

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Makes sense. Is there any significance to it within those bands? Is it a reference to something?

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  • DeebaserDeebaser on my way to work in a suit and a tie Ahhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    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.

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  • Ziac45Ziac45 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    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.

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  • finalflight89finalflight89 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    At live shows, Streetlight often plays a combination of Point/Counterpoint and Keasbey Nights blended together into one.

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  • Neb54Neb54 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    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

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    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?

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  • RhapsodyRhapsody Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    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.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Thanks for all of the information. I like the Catch 22 song better, for the record :)

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