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Skank For Brains
Skank may refer to: Music * Skank (band), a Brazilian rock/pop/reggae/ska band ** ''Skank'' (album), the band's self-titled debut album * Skank (guitar), a guitar technique used in reggae, ska, and rocksteady * Skank beat, a drum beat common in punk and heavy metal music Other art, entertainment, and media * Skank (dance), a form of dance related to ska, grime and hardcore punk * ''Skank'' (magazine), a British satirical magazine published 1994-97 See also * * "The Rockafeller Skank", a song by Fatboy Slim * Ska Ska (; ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walki ..., a music genre that originated in Jamaica * Slut (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skank (band)
Skank is a Brazilian band from Belo Horizonte. Having begun in 1991, they sold approximately 5,200,000 copies of their albums as of 2004. Initially intending to mix dancehall with traditional Brazilian styles, later the band changed its sonority to music closer to Britpop and local movement Clube da Esquina. Biography In 1983, Samuel Rosa (guitars, vocals) and Henrique Portugal (keyboards) started to play in a reggae band called "Pouso Alto", along with Dinho Mourão (drums) and his brother Alexandre (bass). In 1991, Pouso Alto arranged for a performance in São Paulo, but due to the Mourão brothers not being in Belo Horizonte, bassist Lelo Zaneti and drummer Haroldo Ferretti were called for the gig. The band premiered on June 5, 1991, and due to the performance competing with the Campeonato Paulista final match, the audience was 37 people. After the show, the group changed its name to Skank, inspired by Bob Marley's song "Easy skanking", and began to perform regularly at "Mister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skank (album)
''Skank'' is the self-titled debut album by Brazilian rock band Skank. Released independently in 1992 with 3,000 copies, the album sold 1,200 in 45 days and drew the attention of Sony BMG, who re-released the album on its new Chaos label. The album sold approximately 250,000 copies. ''Skank'' had the hits "Tanto" (a Portuguese-language version of Bob Dylan's "I Want You"), "O Homem Que Sabia Demais", and "In(dig)nação". Track listing #"Gentil Loucura" (Affonso Jr., Chico Amaral) #"In (dig) nação" (Samuel Rosa, Chico Amaral) #"Salto no Asfalto" (Samuel Rosa, Fernando Furtado) #"Macaco Prego" (Samuel Rosa, Chico Amaral) #"Tanto ( I Want You)" (Bob Dylan, Portuguese version by Chico Amaral) #"O Homem Q Sabia Demais" (Samuel Rosa, Tavinho Paes, Fernando Furtado) #" Let Me Try Again" (Caravelli, M. Jourdan, Paul Anka, Sammy Cahn) #"Baixada News" (Samuel Rosa, Chico Amaral) #"Réu & Rei" (Samuel Rosa, Chico Amaral) #"Cadê o Pênalti? (Jorge Ben Jor Jorge Duílio Lima Menez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skank (guitar)
The ska stroke up or ska upstroke, skank or bang, is a guitar strumming technique that is used mostly in the performance of ska, rocksteady, and reggae music.(2013). ''Smithsonian Music: The Definitive Visual History'', p.349. . It is derived from a form of rhythm and blues arrangement called the shuffle, a popular style in Jamaican blues parties of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. As evidenced by musicologist Bruno Blum in the ''Jamaica-USA - Roots of Ska - Rhythm and Blues Shuffle 1942-1962'' scholar anthology,''Jamaica-USA - Roots of Ska - Rhythm and Blues Shuffle 1942-1962'' https://www.fremeaux.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.livrets&content_id=7466&product_id=1471&category_id=128, scroll for English booklet text. the shuffle's offbeat/upbeat stroke ("chuck", "skank") was originally played on the piano in U.S. groups like Louis Jordan & His Tympani Five ("It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame," 1942; "G.I. Jive," 1944; "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie," 1946; "Boogie Woogie Blue Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blast Beat
A blast beat is a type of drum beat that originated in hardcore punk and grindcore, and is often associated with certain styles of extreme metal, namely black metal and death metal,Adam MacGregor, ''PCP Torpedo'' by Agoraphobic Nosebleed review, ''Dusted'', 11 June 2006 Access date: 2 October 2008. "There is one uniformly present attribute in all examples of 'grindcore', that being the so-called 'blast-beat.'" and occasionally in metalcore. In Adam MacGregor's definition, "the blast-beat generally comprises a repeated, sixteenth-note figure played at a very fast tempo, and divided uniformly among the bass drum, snare, and ride, crash, or hi-hat cymbal." Blast beats have been described by ''PopMatters'' contributor Whitney Strub as, "maniacal percussive explosions, less about rhythm per se than sheer sonic violence". Napalm Death is said to have coined the term,Strub, Whitney"Behind the Key Club: An Interview with Mark 'Barney' Greenway of Napalm Death" ''PopMatters'', 11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skank (dance)
Skanking is a form of dancing practiced in the ska, ska punk, hardcore punk, reggae, drum and bass and other music scenes. The dance style originated in the 1950s or 1960s at Jamaican Dance Hall (Caribbean), dance halls, where ska music was played. Ska music has a prominent backbeat played by the electric guitar on beats two and four of a 4/4 bar of music. When ska became popular amongst United Kingdom, British mod (subculture), mods and skinheads of the 1960s, these UK youth adopted these types of dances and altered them. The dancing style was revived during the 1970s and 1980s 2 Tone (music genre), 2 Tone era, and has been adopted by some in the hardcore punk subculture. __TOC__ Types Originally, skanking consisted of a "running man" motion of the legs to the beat while alternating bent-elbow fist-punches, left and right. Over time, variations emerged. The punk version, commonly known as two-stepping, features a sharp ''striking out'' look with the arms, and is sometimes used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skank (magazine)
''Skank'' was a British satirical magazine published between 1994 and 1997 by Acreforce Ltd, an offshoot of X Press. It was aimed primarily at younger British Blacks. History ''Skank'' was launched in April 1994. It was co-written and edited by Bobby Joseph, and drawn by Daniel Francis, Joseph Samuels and Michael Robinson. It was published by Acreforce Ltd, a publishing label set up by publisher and BBC journalist Dotun Adebayo as an offshoot of X Press. ''Skank'' ended its run in March 1997, as a result of being sued by the runner Linford Christie over the cartoon "Lunch-box Christie". Joseph went on to found a new magazine, '' Black Eye'', which he regarded as the successor to ''Skank''. Content ''Skank'' was one of numerous comics similar to '' Viz''. It has been dubbed the "Ragga ''Viz''" or the "Black" ''Viz''. Paul Gravett has described it as "the first adult comic by and about British blacks". ''Skank'' examined the Black British experience in the 1990s. It pushed the bou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rockafeller Skank
"The Rockafeller Skank", usually called "Funk Soul Brother" by fans, is a song by English big beat musician and DJ Fatboy Slim. It was released as the lead single from his second studio album, ''You've Come a Long Way, Baby'' (1998), on 8 June 1998. The single peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart in June 1998 and topped the Icelandic Singles Chart for a week the same month and was the second Fatboy Slim single (after "Praise You") to chart on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, peaking at number 78. In 2022, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked "The Rockafeller Skank" number 199 their list of ''200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time''. Critical reception Larry Flick from ''Billboard'' wrote, "Using self-consciously old-school DJ techniques (scratching and repetition of a spoken phrase, dramatic tempo changes), Fatboy Slim has created an organically simple masterpiece. With the accessibility of Beck, the danceability of ska, and the sunny quality of the Beach Boys, the track has a sparse, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
