These are some recollections of a bygone era that in many ways, still lives on today. Of course, we're talking about ska music. In this instance, we are recollecting the 2 Tone ska movement.) It is a highly energetic music genre created in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s by fusing elements of ska, punk rock, rocksteady, reggae, and New Wave.

The movement was called 2 Tone because most of the bands were signed to 2 Tone Records at some point. Other labels associated with the 2 Tone sound were Stiff Records and Go Feet Records. Within the history of ska, 2 Tone is classified as its second wave, the product of an early 1980s nostalgia for vintage music. It is the precursor of the third wave ska scene of the 1990s. Thanks for visiting. Do ska!

"Ska Dance Craze"

"2 Tone"