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You probably don't have the creative or mental capacity to understand 311.
Actually I do, or I should say that you don't need either of those two things to understand them. I saw them, way back in the day, in a very small club in Jersey, on the (I believe) Grassroots Tour. They were supported by The Cadillac Tramps. They were good then. Because it was something new... new back then, not new now.
They're completely unoriginal and highly formulaic. Tall guy sings, short guy raps, tall guy sings, short guy raps, P-Nut does some slap bass, rinse repeat. C'mon you can't even begin to put The Beatles in the same f'ing list as 311.
I'd venture a bet that you can take any one of 311's songs, strip it's lyrics and put in the lyrics from another of it's songs and it would work perfectly, much like the equally uncreative and uninspiring works of Nickelback, of which this was done. Look it up on the net sometime, it was most amusing.
The rest of your list was "OK". I'd debate the worth of Sublime, but quite a few people seem to like them for some reason. The only new "ska" that has come out in past few years that was worth a damn was Stubborn Allstars.
And about Grohl... he would have made it eventually without Nirvana. Krist Novoselic he is not. He's a hack on guitar, which I can readily admit, but he's a helluva drummer (and a drum *****). The unfortuate part that you wont like is he has more talent than all of 311 combined. By himself. Which is how he did the first Foo Fighter's album. By himself. 311 is lucky if they light their own joints themselves nowadays.