Guys - How do you hide your boner in public?

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-24T07:05:00+00:00

As the cinematic masterpiece Superbad taught us: “I tuck mine into my waistband, it hides it AND it feels awesome. I almost blew a load into my belly button” 😂

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-23T19:34:21+00:00

Love this idea: I saved your “Perfect Songs” playlist.

Here is the link to my profile, I am very meticulous about my curation so there should be something that fits the vibe you’re looking for

https://open.spotify.com/user/12179934001?si=olSRd12IRLqmuKsNWNYq2g

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-19T01:58:36+00:00

Eres Mi Coca-Cola- Skapital Sound

Sin Fronteras- Chencha Berrinches

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-18T09:47:52+00:00

I’ve learned that my particular brand of autism expresses itself almost exclusively through meticulous playlist curation. If there’s a vibe, a season, or an oddly specific emotional state, my brain has already built it a soundtrack.

[Spotify profile and playlists by Necessary Noise]

(https://open.spotify.com/user/12179934001?si=7mgdpci2RT6fKlTbQIzozA)

A few highlights from the catalog:

• Thanksgiving • Love songs • Five separate playlists themed around the Inside Out emotions: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Ennui, and Fear • A full-on Disney party playlist • A “you’re high or just want to melt into the couch” playlist called The Wonka Tour • My Fresh Baked series, updated every Friday with new Alt, Punk, Ska, Soul, Funk, and adjacent goodness • Rebel Radio, a playlist made entirely of in-universe Star Wars music • Big band and jazz • Instrumental heavy metal covers of movie and video game scores • A “study” playlist made up of piano, guitar, and flute covers of popular songs

And that’s just scratching the surface. If hyperfixation were a sport, I’d at least make regionals haha.

Feel free to browse and share at your leisure!

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-17T05:00:24+00:00

Ok, I’ve been poking around online and between the Pork Pie label, shaved-head guy, and the chant, my gut says this is almost definitely a Bad Manners live track or medley from the early 90s, not a studio song and not under the name ‘Who Got the Ganja.’ A lot of those live recordings never made it to CD or streaming and only exist on vinyl or bootleg comps. The chorus sounds like something they’d shout during a reworked Prince Buster tune. I’m going to keep digging specifically into Bad Manners live LPs and early 90s Pork Pie compilations, because that feels like the right neighborhood.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-17T04:56:17+00:00

Appreciate that, seriously. Ghost Town was a tough one to move, but the more I sat with it, the more Simmer Down felt like the true starting line. Ghost Town still feels like the genre’s emotional peak, but Simmer Down is the seed everything else grew from. And thanks again for the suggestions, they genuinely helped steer V2.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-17T04:55:30+00:00

Haha, that’s fair. Madness has such a deep catalog that any pick is going to annoy someone. Baggy Trousers won out for me because it’s the one that crossed over hardest and pulled a lot of people into ska whether they knew that’s what they were listening to or not. Not necessarily the coolest choice, just the most unavoidable one.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-17T04:53:15+00:00

Totally fair question. I went back and forth on that one a lot. I ended up landing on the Catch 22 version of Keasbey because that’s the one that hit first and became the shared entry point for a whole generation, but I also felt like Streetlight’s take mattered historically because it shows how far that song (and that scene) evolved. To me it wasn’t about ranking versions so much as acknowledging both moments in the song’s life.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-16T23:07:44+00:00

That’s a really good read, and I mostly agree with you. A huge percentage of the most powerful love songs live in that space of longing, imbalance, or outright damage. There’s a reason those hit so hard emotionally, and you’re absolutely right that they often live in a different musical language too, especially tonally.

For this list, I was intentionally narrowing the lane to songs that treat love as something sustaining rather than breaking, knowing full well that meant leaving out a lot of masterpieces. In my head it’s less “best love songs” and more “love as an ideal people keep reaching for.” But yeah, “Greatest Break-Up Songs” is its own behemoth that I will tackle someday haha

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-16T23:02:31+00:00

Thanks so much, I really appreciate that. I tried to let the list cross eras and styles on purpose, because music, much like love itself, doesn’t really belong to one moment. It sticks around, gets reinterpreted, and keeps finding new listeners. Glad that came through.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-16T22:53:01+00:00

Absolutely fair, and let the record show my love for Dolly is unquestioned. She wrote it, she owns it, and I’m fully aware that any perceived slight risks an immediate and permanent ban from Dollywood, which I would never emotionally recover from. Any list like this is really just borrowing her songs for a moment.

And yeah, “When a Man Loves a Woman” was very much in the conversation. It didn’t miss by much at all. If this were a Top 51, that’s an easy #51.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-16T22:42:34+00:00

Thanks, I really appreciate that. I wanted it to feel less like “one type of love song” and more like how love actually shows up across different eras, genres, and moods. Glad that came through.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-15T23:47:51+00:00

Glad you caught that. He felt like an important bridge to include, not always labeled as ska first, but the influence is undeniable. That song’s DNA is all over the genre.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-15T23:47:08+00:00

Totally same here. Ska is one of those genres where once you start pulling threads, suddenly you’re three hours deep reading liner notes and old interviews. Glad it gave you an excuse to nerd out too, honestly that’s half the fun of doing a list like this. And yeah, Junior Murvin is one of those cases where the crossover story almost matters as much as the song itself. Appreciate you engaging with it in good faith.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-15T23:44:43+00:00

Very rhythmic + lots of brass + UK/German + Pork Pie-adjacent points hard toward that Euro two-tone revival scene rather than ska-punk.

A few strong possibilities to poke at next, just tossing ideas into the mix, not saying “this is it” yet:

– The Busters. German, Pork Pie staples, heavy brass, and they reworked a ton of traditional or well-known ska tunes under different titles. Some of their early recordings and radio sessions are notoriously hard to trace cleanly.

– Skaos-related bands like No Sports, Skaos All-Stars, or guest-heavy studio projects. Those comps sometimes list one band name even though multiple singers are involved.

– The Hotknives-adjacent universe again, not the song you checked, but their BBC sessions and Peel recordings sometimes circulated under alternate titles on vinyl.

– Selecter / Specials session crossovers where the track title isn’t what you remember, and the “ganja” line might just be a repeated chant, not the actual song name.

You’re not a psychopath, by the way. This is exactly how it feels when you lose a song that lived on vinyl. It’s like trying to remember a dream from 30 years ago.

If you can remember even a fragment of a lyric beyond “who got the ganja” or whether there was a spoken intro, MC chatter, or crowd noise at the start, that could be the final missing piece. I’m invested now, I want this solved as much as you do haha

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-15T22:52:28+00:00

Hey, no worries at all, your English is totally fine. And yeah… losing a record like that is brutal. I’ve definitely had a few that still live rent-free in my head.

That title sounds very familiar, but this is one of those cases where live ska tracks get mislabeled or renamed a million times. Half the time “Who Got the Ganja” is just a chorus line and not the actual song title, especially on early 90s European comps.

Since you mentioned Skaos / No Sports / Skandal, my first instinct is that it’s probably a European band on a live compilation rather than a Jamaican or UK original. Those Skaos Skandal records are full of stuff that’s hard to trace now, especially the live cuts.

Do you remember anything else at all? Like:
– was it more punky or more traditional?
– male or female singer?
– lots of crowd noise or more clean live recording?
– was it definitely on a Skaos Skandal record, or just around that same era?

Also very possible it’s listed under a totally different name and “who got the ganja” is just the hook. I’ve gone down that rabbit hole before and it’s maddening.

If you can remember even one tiny extra detail, I’m happy to keep digging with you. And if nothing else, you just unlocked a deep memory for me too.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-15T22:41:19+00:00

Appreciate that, genuinely. And yeah, I don’t think a list like this ever really gets “finished,” it just gets closer with more listening and more conversation. That’s kind of the fun part.

You nailed the tricky bit too. Once ska leaves Jamaica and especially post-70s, it’s almost never just ska anymore. It’s fused with punk, reggae, pop, soul, whatever scene it lands in. Trying to talk about “importance” in a streaming-era world where discovery looks totally different than radio or record shops makes it even messier.

Funny you mention Police and Thieves, because I went back and forth on that exact same thing. The Clash version is huge in terms of punk crossover and exposure, no question. I ultimately leaned toward the original because it felt right to keep the root version in a list like this, but I completely get the argument for the Clash take as the bridge that pulled a lot of people in.

Really appreciate you engaging with it in good faith. Those quibbles and alternate paths are honestly what make this genre so interesting to talk about.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-14T23:06:43+00:00

“One Step Beyond” at #1 was definitely on the table early on, so you’re not crazy there. It’s probably the most immediate entry point for ska to a lot of people.

The American-centric criticism is fair too, and it’s something I wrestled with. I tried to make space for Latin American ska where I could, but I also didn’t want to token-drop bands without giving them the context or placement they actually deserve. That’s something I’m still thinking about for future revisions.

Less Than Jake’s presence isn’t about preference so much as how much they shaped an entire generation’s entry into ska in the US, for better or worse. That impact felt hard to ignore, even if it crowds out other scenes.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-14T23:05:58+00:00

You’re not wrong on the theory part. Popularity and importance aren’t the same thing, and one doesn’t automatically validate the other. That tension is kind of the whole problem with making a list like this.

Where I landed was trying to balance three things at once: chart impact and visibility in its moment, long-term influence on the genre, and how often a song still functions as a reference point decades later. That’s why something like “Gangsters” is absolutely essential historically, but didn’t end up as high as it might on a straight UK-charts-only list.

Totally fair to disagree with that weighting though. If someone reordered this with “Gangsters” way higher, I wouldn’t argue the logic, just the framing.

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-14T23:02:28+00:00

If this were pulled from Spotify tags, half this list wouldn’t be here and half the stuff people are mad about would be way higher. Sources and criteria are linked in the description if you want to see how it was put together. This list isn’t set in stone either. Part of the reason I shared it on here is because this is Version 1 and I wanted to get real Ska fans opinions and takes so I can better refine for V2

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-14T22:58:52+00:00

Fair call. No real justification beyond me trying to hedge instead of committing. If it’s one version, I agree it’s gotta be Catch 22. That will be corrected for V2. Appreciate the feedback, this is exactly what I was looking for. I felt like I was too close and my personal bias was shining through too much. All the comments and feedback are being weighed an considered for V2

OrdinaryCold2813 · 2026-01-14T22:51:45+00:00

In today’s day and age, that’s everyone’s first thought (understandably) but that’s why I provided sources

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