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IDK if I would call the Ramones pop-punk, and definitely not exclusively. The first album was by and large hard. They did a lot more doo-*** and Motown type stuff than the more traditional pop lines you heard from the Descendants. But neither ever really enjoyed popularity either. And at the...

I always saw Goldfinger as a perfect example of a ska band. If you would lean them to metal, Less Than Jake was a heavier band and very much ska. While staying somewhat true to the genre, I'd call a band like Zebrahead closer to ska-metal. Although I do recall a band or two I think referred...

Oh **** TOTALLY forgot about The Urge. Don't really remember them.

Pop-punk only fully emerged as a "genre" in the late 90's, but you had Green Day to usher it in and the Descendants who basically started the whole thing before that (although you could argue many Ramones songs were pop-punk, and laid a foundation). Bands like Blink 182, Good Charlotte, etc are...

This was a really good album and in pretty constant rotation on the car CD deck. They were good live too.

Eh, I'd say the self-titled album had radio-friendly songs, but it was still a beautiful amalgam of proper ska, punk and dub. It was also simply much more refined as an album than 40oz or Robbin' the Hood. They really could have done some impressive things had Brad not died.

Because I wouldn't call it ska.

Descendents were already doing that and were the progenitors of pop-punk (being huge influences on Green Day). The interesting thing here is the use of the word "melody" whereas Descendents were almost as sloppy as you get. They were a bit of a paradox unto themselves, as songs such as "I...

Bad Religion is definitely punk but marginally skate punk. Now Pennywise, that's skate punk.

Predecessors of ska, not ska. I'm also slightly confused of your use of "Far" here as a proper noun because they're one of my favorite hardcore bands, but have nothing to do with ska, so assuming that's just a mistake. The closest ancestor you'll find to ska came from The Clash and The Cure...

Commonality of style and era, for the most part. I could talk about evolution of music for days, punk in particular.

Pop punk was the worst thing to happen to the genre. Please don't defile the word punk with those **** bands.

All ska bands are punk bands. Not all punk bands are ska bands.

I would disagree regarding "multiple waves of ska," unless you want to call The Clash ska (and hey, they were influential on the genre). That late 90's movement was basically it as far as making any mark on the main stream. No Doubt, Sublime and the Bosstones (or, rather Knock On Wood...

They were probably mostly ska (which grew out of reggae to a degree), but did all sorts of other stuff, including pretty heavy punk. Not like a Less Than Jake or most other ska bands where every song is basically the same. Yeah, heroin. Crazy to think that people like Reznor, Kiedis and Ray...

Ska was interesting as a genre because it basically reached its apex and then was over immediately. Much like its hardcore punk progenitors, there was little room for growth musically and therefore was short-lived. Nobody really emerged from it with a sustainable career (as in, receiving...

Sublime was not a ska band like Beastie Boys (probably Sublime's biggest influence) were not a rap group. You really can't define either.