REEL BIG FISH

Reel Big Fish is a ska punk band from Hunington Beach, California. The band is best known for their hit "Sell Out" from 1997. Thier album Turn the Radio Off gained the band alot of recognition in the mid-to-late 90's.

Reel Big Fish's song "Suckers" is a very pessimistic ska song. It is about a bad experience with relationships and for that reason is about how love never works: "It never works but we keep tryin' like fools learning and breaking the rules. At first your excited then you're less than delighted. By the end you wish they would drop dead it can't last, it's gone so fast". Clearly this song is very negative. However, like most ska songs, the lyrics of "Suckers" are very simple. They do not hold a lot of poetic qualities other than some alliteration and some imagery: "Lust turns to disgust. A heart of gold into rust, a soft touch to a slap in the face". These examples of imagery are also paradoxical to eachother in that they are contradicting. This part of the song is just about the only part that is significantly poetic. However, it is hard to describe what poetic devices are being used. This goes for most ska songs problably because it is a very simple, laid back music.

Reel Big Fish has many other songs but their lyrics are all very simple and insignificant.