The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Kinder Words

What this video is

Released in 1994 on Mercury Records as a single from Question the Answers, 'Kinder Words' arrived at a pivotal transitional moment for The Mighty Mighty Bosstones — bridging their underground Boston hardcore-ska roots with growing national alternative rock visibility. The mid-1990s saw third-wave ska exploding from college radio into mainstream MTV rotation, with the Bosstones serving as one of the genre's leading…

Why it matters

A key early document of third-wave ska-punk's mid-90s mainstream emergence, 'Kinder Words' represents the Bosstones' hybrid sound — horn-driven ska rhythms fused with hardcore punk aggression — captured on video before the genre achieved full commercial saturation. Directed by Mark Kohr, whose…

The director

Mark Kohr is an American music video director and cinematographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied fine art photography and business at San Francisco State University, worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) as a lighting camera…