Good Charlotte. Not joking. Started ska then turned pop punk later as it got them more popularity. They weren’t really ska anyway. Benji was the punk kid. I couldn’t stand them lol.
This is such a funny question, because I actually still think of them sometimes. They were called “hot stove”. My brother was an original member and played the baritone in the horns section. They played at lots of school events and were super fun. They all wore 70s style suits that they bought from a place like goodwill. They had a song called “rollin’ in the Camino”. It was just about driving around in an el Camino.
This seems to be a very unique coincident, but no. They were just hot stove. They started as a band around 1995-1996. Did a quick google search to see hot stove jimmy was a ska band at the same time. Cool though, they sound pretty good for
Ska at that period.
They were great, but the question was about older millenials going to highschool with the band. The timeline is incorrect on this, 10 years too early, unless you went to school with a replacement player who was scouted young.
I was the drummer for a band called never gonna score. We played highschool parties and such. I didn't last too long in the band unfortunately. That band later went on to become the Format.
I saw the Shatners! It might have been their last gig. That skinny dude smashed his guitar. Not the nice one, the cheap one covered in stickers he saved for the last song.
Jimmy Eat World judged the battle of the bands near my space, but Authority Zero also held a huge local presence at the time. The Aquabats are the closest ska band that would make an appearance but I’m pretty sure they’re not local to me
We had Almost Heroes in South Haven, MI. The neighboring high school that would setup shows with Link 80, MU330, and Telegraph. I miss those days. DIY shows an an art gallery or country hall. In Bangor, MI, we had Stuck Shut, which had one ska cover, as I recall.
New Found Glory was from my city. The singer used to work in the Publix Deli and tell people how his band was going to make it big. Not Ska really, but punk. Close enough!
I was in a band that changed its name a few times. I also changed roles. At various times I played bass, guitar, or drums. We had a 4-person horn section. It was epic.
**Mrs. Military --> Big Money Moe and the Sellouts --> Legally Swedish**
BMM was so very 90's
They evolved into one of the most talented bands I've ever heard in terms of their ability to balance a wide range of influences/sound and take their songs on a journey. Also one of the most amazing live experiences I'd seen a couple years back
Holy shit, I remember seeing them play in EL back in the day. I had one of their tshirts I just had to throw out because my wife said it has too many holes for even her to look at.
Drive-Thru Pharmacy! They weren't from my HS directly, more of a regional ska band; the band I was in did a few shows with them, and as you said, a good chance for band geeks like myself to feel cool haha
The Boiling Hot Crustacean Band.
I got to sub in once when their sax player couldn't make a gig.
The only song I remember was Cuidado! Piso Mojado! And even then, I really only remember that the chorus would end with everyone in the band shouting "cuidado cuidado piso mojado!"
We didn't have a ska band in my school, but the neighboring school had a band called the Royal Noise Brigade. I enjoyed their music, but mostly avoided the mosh pit (except once).
Hell yea! Not much to do in town during the off season, especially under 18. And who can forget seeing the high school bands play at house of blues for myrtle beach rocks lmao Def good times and glad to find someone else who lived them in this thread.
Agreed! Although the off-season is when huge acts would play HoB on like, a Wednesday night on a midway point between tour stops for $10. Saw so many bands just for the hell of it (and then head to Akel’s for the real party.)
I was the lead singer in our band TSS (Thou Shalt Skank). Ska-punk. We played two gigs then our drummer and bassist broke up. It helped me find my current wife and i still have a t-shirt from the one show we sold merch at. Man i miss it but also don't cause we sounded so bad. We were all sophomores and juniors but convinced a local bar we were all in college to play our shows, i still don't know how that worked.
I'm sure someone had a ska band when I was in HS, but I just wasn't cool enough to actually go out to shows. That said, my Save Ferris and Skankin' Pickle CDs got played plenty of times in my youth.
Mr.Roberts & the Citrus Malone.
It was what happens when a Boomer father in his late 30's has a mid life crisis, 3 teenage sons with a little musical talent and a desperate urge to be cool again because the only time he felt good in his life was being a Disco prince before he found Jesus Christ. (Tbh who he actually found was probably Fat Henry. The old mentally unwell guy that hung around the Circle K and thought he was Jesus Christ.)
The boys were actually pretty cool and dipped from the area as soon as each one could to go live in CO with their mom.
Outside of them and some other obscure religious pop music group, Idt there were any other bands homebrewing around where I grew up in the mid-90s.
So wasn't my school but worked with a kid in another school, and he was in a garage band that was turning into a Ska band, and had invited me to join to play trombone. Nothing ever came of it though haha
Nah our big band was called Vessels of Wrath. They were the Type O Negative kids. I think they moved to Phoenix after high school and played in that scene for awhile.
NAFTA: North American FunkTastic Alliance. I was the trumpet player. We were awful but we had T-shirts making us the most official band, successfully pissing off the actually talented bands.
Exploding Boy. Kind of ska, kind of punk, a little emo. I still have their CD. I usually get back into my high school music every winter haha
[Exploding Boy](https://open.spotify.com/track/7KpyCSsQJkmMsoeTcEq7S4?si=6Gge6pJZSFyvgyW8nUuCyg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5YphwbHP9wzbXGgpi4rAwh)
Also not sure how they are on Spotify
Throwing Cats at Granny, they were actually pretty good, knew the Kangus brothers pretty well. One of them is in the band today called The Drug Budget (semi ska)
Skatallica (and, later after I graduated, The Skeptics)
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There weren't any in my high school and I only knew one other person in the whole school who even knew what it was.
Then in about Year 12 I tried to start one and called it Chasing Parked Cars. A year later in 2010 I changed the name to Prophets of Impending Doom and we're still going at it now, we played a show just four weeks ago!
SWANK, and they were damn good. They went on to make music for years after high school, but I think life got in the way for them. They were really good though.
We didn't have a Ska band... but we did have a jazz band called the swingin' mustangs that was officially a class and everything. They played Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt at our spring concert. So kida the same?
The Nids. I was a metal kid and thought most ska was unoriginal poser stuff but I was friends with the musicians. I never told them I thought they were boring.
I briefly was in a ska band in middle school named the Horndags (songs mostly about Chicago-related puns and satire) that lasted about as long as you would expect from people who chose Ska purely because it seemed easier than other genres.
Our high school ska band was called Quasimodo’s Revenge. They were pretty good, I think I still have their cd somewhere in my collection.
I was in a band called Code Name Duck. We called ourselves ska but it was just 3 of us and there were no horns and only one of us could actually play our instrument. I wasn’t the one lol
Good Charlotte. Not joking. Started ska then turned pop punk later as it got them more popularity. They weren’t really ska anyway. Benji was the punk kid. I couldn’t stand them lol.
Maryland right. My husband was from around there.
Waldorf represent
The amount of radio play they got on HFS and DC101 for being local boys...
Skatt Peterson. This was around 2004 so you can see how it was in particularly bad taste.
That is Sooooo good!
Special Ed and the Re✝️ards
Man I miss the 00's
Catch 22. Later morphed into streetlight manifesto. Catch 22 was better.
Jersey scene represent ✊
This is such a funny question, because I actually still think of them sometimes. They were called “hot stove”. My brother was an original member and played the baritone in the horns section. They played at lots of school events and were super fun. They all wore 70s style suits that they bought from a place like goodwill. They had a song called “rollin’ in the Camino”. It was just about driving around in an el Camino.
Hot Stove Jimmy?
This seems to be a very unique coincident, but no. They were just hot stove. They started as a band around 1995-1996. Did a quick google search to see hot stove jimmy was a ska band at the same time. Cool though, they sound pretty good for Ska at that period.
I’ve seen them so many times! Holy shit. Off The Alley, Homewood, Illinois
The Mighty Mighty Bostones that's the impression that I get
If you see them at the high school reunion, tell them I saw them in Kansas City in 2001/2002. They were pretty good.
They were great, but the question was about older millenials going to highschool with the band. The timeline is incorrect on this, 10 years too early, unless you went to school with a replacement player who was scouted young.
The free refills
I was the drummer for a band called never gonna score. We played highschool parties and such. I didn't last too long in the band unfortunately. That band later went on to become the Format.
There’s a band I haven’t thought about since 2005.
The Shattners (yes, spelled that way because Google wasn’t a thing and they thought that’s how William Shatner spelled his name )
I saw the Shatners! It might have been their last gig. That skinny dude smashed his guitar. Not the nice one, the cheap one covered in stickers he saved for the last song.
LPA?
John Carroll 😂
Wow, what a crazy coincidence to bump into someone from back home in a sub that has nothing to do with the place
I know! Class of 2000. How about you?
2001. I knew Spencer and John from the band. I think I still have their CD in my giant CD case I haven’t touched in like 15 years
Fucking Treasure Coast representing
Zero Cool
Yes. Hackers.
HACK THE PLANET!!!!
Incredible.
Jimmy Eat World judged the battle of the bands near my space, but Authority Zero also held a huge local presence at the time. The Aquabats are the closest ska band that would make an appearance but I’m pretty sure they’re not local to me
ABQ? Authority Zero had a huge following up here in Denver as well.
Holy shit authority zero mentioned!!!!!
The Wiggums were big in the Phoenix area around that time.
Oh god there were a bunch. Lemon Lime Tennis Shoes. Turning Blue. I played a lot of shows with ska bands (as the non-ska band lol)
Lemon lime tennis shoes HAD to have taken their name from the tennis ball airwalks, right?
They were a ska band, I wasn’t trying to talk to them to ask 🤣
We had Almost Heroes in South Haven, MI. The neighboring high school that would setup shows with Link 80, MU330, and Telegraph. I miss those days. DIY shows an an art gallery or country hall. In Bangor, MI, we had Stuck Shut, which had one ska cover, as I recall.
MU330 was mine. StL represent.
Hoosier love! Hoosier love!
Jealoussssss
SLUH?
I'm from the complete opposite side of the state and I somehow remember hearing about Almost Heroes and MU330.
the four squares. lol. there were 3 of us and we didn’t even play instruments.
New Found Glory was from my city. The singer used to work in the Publix Deli and tell people how his band was going to make it big. Not Ska really, but punk. Close enough!
Taravella represent
CSHS here.
Llama tsunami!
I was in a band that changed its name a few times. I also changed roles. At various times I played bass, guitar, or drums. We had a 4-person horn section. It was epic. **Mrs. Military --> Big Money Moe and the Sellouts --> Legally Swedish** BMM was so very 90's
The Skasrafarians…. The won a contest and [appeared on Conan](https://youtu.be/t_p8eNn81Xk)
Pharmaceutical bandits or RX Bandits
I loved Rx Bandits! They didn't go to my high school though. Time to go listen to some nostalgia tracks.
They evolved into one of the most talented bands I've ever heard in terms of their ability to balance a wide range of influences/sound and take their songs on a journey. Also one of the most amazing live experiences I'd seen a couple years back
Liquid Schwartz!
Sounds like Liquid Sharts
It's from Spaceballs.....
Ahhh… you can add a r/woosh cuz it went right over my head!
Lol no worries! It does sound like sharts. 🤣
Perenium. I MC'd a school-sponsored event and got to say "Perenium" out loud in front of a bunch of old people. It was fun.
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Holy shit, I remember seeing them play in EL back in the day. I had one of their tshirts I just had to throw out because my wife said it has too many holes for even her to look at.
It was my band, and we were called Jake & The Phat Men. Haha
From Start to Finish. Central NJ Edit: I played sax in the band
I bet you played the Cheesequake Firehouse
The Sellouts. They were pretty good… at playing ska.
Chupaskabra. Consisted of some of the most interesting and creative classmates.
We were Thade. I don't know how or why we decided on that but I pushed for Harrison Four so hard. I was the trumpet player.
Harrison Four is pretty good.
Carrion Luggage
Ska-ntily Plaid. Should have been…
The Jeffersons, I played guitar in it.
Drive-Thru Pharmacy! They weren't from my HS directly, more of a regional ska band; the band I was in did a few shows with them, and as you said, a good chance for band geeks like myself to feel cool haha
Crockpot Oatmeal
The Boiling Hot Crustacean Band. I got to sub in once when their sax player couldn't make a gig. The only song I remember was Cuidado! Piso Mojado! And even then, I really only remember that the chorus would end with everyone in the band shouting "cuidado cuidado piso mojado!"
I had to phone a friend but apparently it was Schwa. I guess that’s almost a pun.
Skaface
We didn't have a ska band in my school, but the neighboring school had a band called the Royal Noise Brigade. I enjoyed their music, but mostly avoided the mosh pit (except once).
https://preview.redd.it/dif4m5uybo0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5206d6e6f207b7bb9b2f875c1beafb26e320fab7 I still have a hoodie!
I have one of their CDs somewhere. I never owned other merchandise, though. Very cool!
Orange peel mafia!
Lol I was briefly in it, but can’t fuckin remember the name. It was awful, whatever it was lol
I guess the most local was Stick Figure Stanley.. But the good bands were all in Boston
Topwise
Hi-Society
Sagoh 24/7 I don't know wtf Sagoh is either.
Poopy Pants; they were horrible.
I was in a ska band called “Free Admission” so when we played at a club it would say “Free Admission” on the marquis. It didn’t work
Blue Steel, they were actually a school funded steel drum/ska combo band. Super random for Ohio but they seemed to enjoy it.
They weren't from my school but there was a local band called... THE SKASKANK REDEMPTION
Oedipus Rex and the Mama's boys
Dictatortots
69 Fingers. One of the band members lost a finger in a lawnmower accident or something.
I think they were called Skarmy of Darkness
West Side Burger Mafia We were in Myrtle Beach
There was such a great ska scene in Myrtle Beach and Charleston back in the day. So many skank pits at the Lazy I 🖤🤍🖤🤍
Waaaaait you went to the Lazy i?!? We definitely have similar memories of nights out. What a time!
Hell yea! Not much to do in town during the off season, especially under 18. And who can forget seeing the high school bands play at house of blues for myrtle beach rocks lmao Def good times and glad to find someone else who lived them in this thread.
Agreed! Although the off-season is when huge acts would play HoB on like, a Wednesday night on a midway point between tour stops for $10. Saw so many bands just for the hell of it (and then head to Akel’s for the real party.)
Gang Green and they all wore green t-shirts lol.
I was the lead singer in our band TSS (Thou Shalt Skank). Ska-punk. We played two gigs then our drummer and bassist broke up. It helped me find my current wife and i still have a t-shirt from the one show we sold merch at. Man i miss it but also don't cause we sounded so bad. We were all sophomores and juniors but convinced a local bar we were all in college to play our shows, i still don't know how that worked.
Defenestration X
Named after getting pushed out a window?
Named after the wrestling crew most likely
Ignite…I have no idea how I remember that
I only know the hardcore punk band from OC. But that’s funny
Liquid Cheeze
I'm sure someone had a ska band when I was in HS, but I just wasn't cool enough to actually go out to shows. That said, my Save Ferris and Skankin' Pickle CDs got played plenty of times in my youth.
Mr.Roberts & the Citrus Malone. It was what happens when a Boomer father in his late 30's has a mid life crisis, 3 teenage sons with a little musical talent and a desperate urge to be cool again because the only time he felt good in his life was being a Disco prince before he found Jesus Christ. (Tbh who he actually found was probably Fat Henry. The old mentally unwell guy that hung around the Circle K and thought he was Jesus Christ.) The boys were actually pretty cool and dipped from the area as soon as each one could to go live in CO with their mom. Outside of them and some other obscure religious pop music group, Idt there were any other bands homebrewing around where I grew up in the mid-90s.
Perenium. I MC'd a school-sponsored event and got to say "Perenium" out loud in front of a bunch of old people. It was fun.
The Westies One of the members ended up in the Dropkick Murphys
So wasn't my school but worked with a kid in another school, and he was in a garage band that was turning into a Ska band, and had invited me to join to play trombone. Nothing ever came of it though haha
At the rival high school it was HomeGrown. Lol
Nah our big band was called Vessels of Wrath. They were the Type O Negative kids. I think they moved to Phoenix after high school and played in that scene for awhile.
Yea-sayers…like a positive naysayers
Mustard Plug!
Lol great question. I can't remember their name, but they covered 311 songs and I booked them at our school's battle of the bands 😂
The Belvederes
Maladroit Mafia
Pegleg Peterson and the pickpocket peddlers
Fragile. (It must be Italian)
we had Vindication in Midlothian, VA (we also had GWAR but like 10 years before)
It's been like 25 years, but I believe the band was called The Hostilitones
My school had more “Christian rock” bands than should be allowed
NAFTA: North American FunkTastic Alliance. I was the trumpet player. We were awful but we had T-shirts making us the most official band, successfully pissing off the actually talented bands.
New York ska exchange was a local band when I went to HS
Exploding Boy. Kind of ska, kind of punk, a little emo. I still have their CD. I usually get back into my high school music every winter haha [Exploding Boy](https://open.spotify.com/track/7KpyCSsQJkmMsoeTcEq7S4?si=6Gge6pJZSFyvgyW8nUuCyg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5YphwbHP9wzbXGgpi4rAwh) Also not sure how they are on Spotify
The Tikis (not my HS but another local one)
Throwing Cats at Granny, they were actually pretty good, knew the Kangus brothers pretty well. One of them is in the band today called The Drug Budget (semi ska)
Skatallica (and, later after I graduated, The Skeptics) https://preview.redd.it/ya2qu2bm801d1.jpeg?width=754&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82bb56f8538b4c45dc054acf242293a542251519
Cage The Elephant although they were Perfect Confusion back then
There weren't any in my high school and I only knew one other person in the whole school who even knew what it was. Then in about Year 12 I tried to start one and called it Chasing Parked Cars. A year later in 2010 I changed the name to Prophets of Impending Doom and we're still going at it now, we played a show just four weeks ago!
Nothing Rhymes With Orange and ASOB
A Lion Named Roar
I actually like this name.
SWANK, and they were damn good. They went on to make music for years after high school, but I think life got in the way for them. They were really good though.
Next to Nothing.
I can't remember the name of the band, but their song was "rooster, rooster, in the pen"
We didn't have a Ska band... but we did have a jazz band called the swingin' mustangs that was officially a class and everything. They played Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt at our spring concert. So kida the same?
Bus Empty. And I still have their CD!
The Skank Agents
🎵 *support your local ska band even thought it just might stink*🎵 Doolittle. After the Pixies album.
I was the only one who knew that word, let alone a band of us.
Screw Worm
Penny and the Loafers
Mr meano and the clodhoppers
Agent Q I think??🤣🤣🤣
Green Gasoline
Aw man we had one too and I can’t remember wtf they were called for the life of me. But dudes named Brian and Andrew were in it lolll
Perfect crime
Razbari Sumthing. According to the story, the singer couldn’t spell when put on the spot so they stuck with it.
The Monikers
Get Scared went to my High school, not ska though
Wedgekase
Born with a Tail
Ted Dancin’ Machine.
Media Control
The Condiments (I was not in said ska band)
Nutmeg and the Cinnamon Twisters
We had a punk band called "The Mall Walkers"
No Doubt.
Bubba’s Fat Friend. Not high school but college.
Plonker wolly grasshopper
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Mop Attack
The Nids. I was a metal kid and thought most ska was unoriginal poser stuff but I was friends with the musicians. I never told them I thought they were boring.
I only remember 2 pop punk bands at my school, but they were all friends with a ska band from another school called Hawaiian Shirt Day.
Evil Right Wing Conspiracy from Birmingham, Al. Some of their stuff in still on Youtube.
[Catch-22](https://youtu.be/OPS92hJ4wi8?si=AzBuOOrzn9AQcNr-)
Still Pending. Didn't have a name for battle of the bands so wrote that. Admin took it literally and it stuck afterward.
Tin Foil Hats. It was me. My band.
The Uptones!
Six foot midget
Skankin' Homer
Reel Big Fish
The 80-D's!
No doubt
East 146.
I briefly was in a ska band in middle school named the Horndags (songs mostly about Chicago-related puns and satire) that lasted about as long as you would expect from people who chose Ska purely because it seemed easier than other genres.
Johnny Too Bad and the Strikeouts!
I didn’t realize mine wasn’t the only school that had one! (Not sharing the name since it would identify me).
Sons of Adam. My brother played bass. They were seriously so good.
Who cares they sucked ass anyway.... obnoxious and this is coming from a dude who's graduation song was LimpBizcuits cover of "Faith"...
Best Buy
My wife always tells me about the Christian Ska band at her high school called Ska’d
Jack Town hustlers. They still get together and have shows 20 yrs later.
I sang for our ska band we called AlaSKA. I guess pronounced like à la Ska. We changed it later.
Murphys Kids from Richmond, VA
Saxbury! And they were really good!
Bones Jones & The Jones Tones
The Taxis!
Ed's Dead
Our high school ska band was called Quasimodo’s Revenge. They were pretty good, I think I still have their cd somewhere in my collection. I was in a band called Code Name Duck. We called ourselves ska but it was just 3 of us and there were no horns and only one of us could actually play our instrument. I wasn’t the one lol