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Sublime is the eponymous third and final studio album past American ska punk band Sublime. Produced past Paul Leary and David Kahne, the album was released on July 30, 1996, in the U.s. by MCA Records. Sublime formed in 1988 in Long Beach, California by vocalist/guitarist Bradley Nowell, bassist Eric Wilson, and drummer Bud Gaugh. The trio toured heavily from their inception while developing their audio. Their first studio release—40 Oz. to Liberty (1992)—featured the single "Date Rape", which attracted heavy airplay in Southern California. MCA signed the band and distributed their 2d independent album, Robbin' the Hood, in 1994.
Past the time it came to record their major label debut, Nowell had been struggling with a heroin addiction. Sublime was recorded over a period of three months in Austin, Texas, in sessions characterized past heavy drug use and raucous partying. The album'due south musical style contains elements of punk stone, reggae, and ska, as well as dancehall, hip hop, and dub music, with tempos ranging wildly. Nowell's lyrical subject matter relates to relationships, prostitution, riots, and addiction. Nowell had been ejected from the recording near its completion, and was establish dead of a heroin overdose in May 1996, two months prior to its release, leading to the band'south dissolution.
Bolstered by numerous hit singles, among them "What I Got", "Santeria", and "Incorrect Way", the record proved enormously successful, despite the band being defunct and thus not promoting the album through touring. It sold over 5 million copies in the United States by the end of the decade, and it continues to exist a pop catalog album. The album was released during the third wave ska peak, and etched Sublime into a permanent place amongst the stars of 1990s alternative rock. Disquisitional reviews were positive, praising Nowell'south songwriting ability and the anthology's musical variety. Sublime has since been listed as one of the most well-regarded albums of the 1990s by Spin and Rolling Stone.
Background [edit]
Sublime formed in Long Beach, California in 1988 past singer/guitarist Nowell, bassist Eric Wilson, and drummer Bud Gaugh. The group originated as a garage punk band, and they eventually began to infuse elements of reggae and ska over the grade of their existence.[1] The grouping formed playing backyard parties, playing for 250 and alluring crowds of 300–400 people.[2] The band toured heavily over the ensuing years, leading to a major following among the beach-oriented surfing/skateboarding subcultures.[ane] By 1990, the band had get a mainstay forth the Southern California coast scene, and Nowell dropped out of California Country University Long Beach one semester shy of graduating.[three] The trio recorded their debut album, 40 Oz. to Liberty, in 1992, selling the independent release at live performances. Local radio station KROQ began spinning the single "Appointment Rape" two years following its release, and Sublime rose to fame.[1] By this indicate, the band had dropped "Engagement Rape" from their setlists, but the ensuing success of the single led twoscore Oz. to place on Soundscan'southward alternative chart for 70 straight weeks.[2]
MCA signed the group shortly thereafter, releasing their second album Robbin' the Hood in 1994. The record was yet carried by various independent distributors, which placed it in independent tape shops, surf/skate shops, and "head shops", in a marketing endeavor designed to appeal to the band'southward fan base.[4] The ring also adopted the Cyberspace as a viable promotional tool, distributing their albums through early online music retailers.[4] Despite this, Nowell had developed an addiction to heroin; at live performances, he would often exist unable to make it through sets.[ii] On several occasions, he would steal the band'southward equipment for a night'south performance to pawn for drug money, knowing band manager Michael "Miguel" Happoldt would observe a way to re-acquire the equipment.[2] He used clonidine patches in an attempt to quit,[2] adamant to exercise and then both before signing to MCA and earlier the birth of his son the following twelvemonth.[three]
Robbin' the Hood performed well on college radio, and Sublime continued to abound in popularity, largely "on the back of the California punk explosion engendered past Green Day and the Offspring."[ane] Nowell'south addiction worsened over the course of 1995–96; on May 25, 1996, Nowell died at age 28 in a San Francisco hotel room of a heroin overdose. Co-ordinate to one report, Gaugh had raided Nowell's stash and shot up while he was away; he awoke hours later beside the deceased Nowell in bed. Gaugh later told a reporter that "I thought, 'That was probably supposed to be me.'"[two]
Recording and production [edit]
Sublime was largely recorded at Willie Nelson's Pedernales Studio in Austin, Texas betwixt February and May 1996.[3] Although he had previously attempted to stay make clean, Nowell returned to using heroin, "more vigorously than ever."[iii] Co-ordinate to Leary, on some days, the band would arrive at 9am "with margaritas in one paw and instruments in the other," ready to record; on others, "they nearly burned the place downwards."[3]
Nowell was then addled with the drug that he was sent home by Leary before the recording procedure was consummate.[v] "There were times where someone had to go into the bathroom to see if Brad was still alive," he remarked.[iii] According to Nowell'due south father, it took his son three days to recover, commenting, "It was the worst I'd ever seen him."[3]
The album was originally intended to open with a cover of Bob Marley's "Trenchtown Rock", followed past "Doin' Time" - a loose embrace of "Summer" by George Gershwin.[3] However, Sublime were initially unable to get the rights for "Summertime", and so Nowell discarded "Doin' Fourth dimension" equally well equally "Trenchtown Stone" entirely and re-sequenced the album.
However, the band managed to gain the rights to the song before the album was released, and "Doin' Time" was added to the end of the tracklist at the 11th hour. In social club to release the song using the Gershwin sample, the ring had to concord to use the line "summertime" instead of "doin' time". However, the song was already recorded with the "doin' time" lyric, and lead singer Bradley Nowell had recently died of a heroin overdose. The lyric was re-recorded by Sublime'south friend/producer Michael Happoldt singing "summertime". Information technology is this version of the song that appears on the album.[6] The album's original sequence, forth with the original mix of "Doin' Fourth dimension", was restored for the album's 10th Anniversary reissue.[7]
Music and composition [edit]
Sublime features elements of punk stone, dub, hardcore punk, hip hop, reggae, blues, folk, ska and surf music.[8] [9]
The album has been classified past critics as ska punk[10] and alternative stone.[ten]
Covered songs [edit]
- "Pawn Shop" is a cover of "War Deh Round A John Shop" past the Wailing Souls with modified lyrics.
- "What I Got" is based on Half Pint's "Loving" and features a similar tune to the Beatles'south "Lady Madonna".[11] [12] [13]
- Sublime as well covers the Wailers' 1965 song "Jailhouse", written by Bunny Wailer, combining it with a fractional encompass of Tenor Saw's "Ringlet Call" in "Jailhouse".[14]
- "The Carol of Johnny Butt" is largely a embrace of a Undercover Hate song from their Vegetables Dancing + Alive & More than anthology.[15]
- "Doin' Time" is a loose comprehend of the jazz standard "Summertime" by George Gershwin.[three]
- "Get Ready" is largely based on Frankie Paul's 1987 single of the same proper noun.
Samples [edit]
Some of the album's original compositions besides accept samples:
- While "April 29, 1992" is an original song, information technology features samples from "La Di Da Di" past Doug E. Fresh featuring MC Ricky D (a.k.a. Slick Rick), "Original Gangster of Hip-Hop" past But-Water ice, and "Shook 1 (Part 1)" by Mobb Deep.[16]
- The heavy bass line of "Garden Grove" is based on Courtney Melody's 1988 7' single "A Ninja Mi Ninja",[17] and a synth loop in the third verse is lifted from the Ohio Players' "Funky Worm."
- Much of the rhythm and melody of "Wrong Fashion" was borrowed from the Specials "Information technology'southward Up To Y'all" off their 1979 self-titled anthology.[18]
- Part of the melody from "Seed" was taken from the Bel-Airs 1961 single "Mr. Moto" as well as "Lori Meyers" by NOFX.[19]
- The guitar solo and chords in "Santeria" were a reuse of the ones in their song "Lincoln Highway Dub" featured on the previous album, Robbin' the Hood.[20]
- "Burritos" is a reworked version of ane of Sublime'due south earliest recordings chosen "Fighting Blindly", albeit with vastly dissimilar lyrics.
- The bass line of "Caress Me Downwardly" features the famous Sleng Teng riddim from Wayne Smith's 1985 song "Nether Me Sleng Teng" and lyrics and melody are primarily from the 1980s 12-inch unmarried "Caress Me Downward" by Clement Irie.[21]
Release [edit]
Sublime was released in the Us on July thirty, 1996, with releases in Europe following that October and in Australia and Japan in December.[4] MCA drafted the ring's former promotional team at Gasoline Alley (renaming the team Sublime Marketing) to promote Sublime through methods that played to the band's fan base. This marketing included posters and advance copies at contained shops, and advertisements in board-sport and culling magazines.[iv] Promoting the album proved to exist challenging due to Nowell's death, with no band to provide touring back up or broadcast appearances.[4]
The anthology soon began to expand upon the band's surf/skate fan base of operations, appealing to consumers non associated with that customs.[4] At to the lowest degree one retailer attributed this to Nowell'southward expiry, remarking to Billboard that "death sells," comparison a like situation in which Roy Orbison's discography rose in sales following his passing.[4] Eric Weissbard, in a Spin cavalcade, compared Nowell's posthumous success to that of Jonathan Larson, the composer of the Broadway musical Rent, who died the twenty-four hour period before the musical's scheduled premiere earlier in the twelvemonth.[22] Billboard deemed the band's posthumous success "a tale of tragic irony."[4]
Abbey Konowitch, vice president of MCA Records, remarked to trades on the album'south timing:
It'due south then unfortunate that Brad isn't here to see the way his music is existence appreciated and accepted by the public. This is a very significant album in a pregnant time in music, and we're fortunate to have this music, though we're very unfortunate to non have one of the artists around that created it.[iv]
Eric Wilson, the band's bassist, was "more pragmatic about the issue":
We just want the anthology to do well so that Brad's kid can go to a practiced schoolhouse, so that we can continue [to make a] living.[4]
Commercial functioning [edit]
By October 1996, the disc had moved 145,000 units; its success led to renewed interest in the band's dorsum itemize, which experienced marked growth.[4] By April 1997, the album cracked the top 20 of the Billboard 200,[iii] and it eventually peaked at position xiii.[23] Sixteen months following the album's release, it even so sold 40,000 albums per week.[3] It somewhen spent 179 weeks on the chart.[23]
Reception [edit]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [24] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [25] |
| Amusement Weekly | B[nine] |
| Los Angeles Times | [eight] |
| Rolling Stone | [26] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [27] |
| USA Today | [28] |
| The Village Vocalism | A−[29] |
David Fricke of Rolling Stone complimented the ring's "bright, wired bounciness and the beat-game shuffle of funk beats, snappy Jamaican rhythms and mosh-pit, shout-it-out choruses in Nowell's writing," deeming it "the stuff of a band with smashing promise and the confidence to make good on information technology. If but that were still possible."[26] RJ Smith of Spin praised Nowell's songwriting craft, writing, "It might seem a daring experiment if information technology hadn't and so effortlessly sprung from a Long Beach surf scene that featured acoustic jams on the beach that naturally flowed from Wailers to Descendents classics [...] Sublime succeeds not just on vibe but on songcraft."[2] Nisid Hajari of Entertainment Weekly called the album a "respectable testament" to Nowell's memory, ultimately noting that the tape "coheres more than on an intellectual rather than emotional level, its sound also diffuse to exist dramatic."[9] Robert Christgau of The Village Phonation gave the record an A−, commenting, "Junkies who retain enough soul to create music at all are generally driven to put their brilliance and stupidity in your face. Nowell is birthday more loving, unassuming, skilful-humored, and downwards-to-earth — or so he pretends, which when yous're skilful is all it takes."[29]
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic reports that Nowell's death immune the anthology to exist "slightly overrated in some critical quarters".[24] His critical review deems the anthology engaging and a demonstration of their potential, but also at times meandering: "The low moments don't go far that often — by and large, the album is quite engaging — but they happen oft enough to make the record a sit-in of the band's blossoming ability, only non the fulfillment of their full potential."[24]
Accolades [edit]
Spin included the anthology on its list of the best albums of the decade, opining that it "redeemed" modern rock radio in the mail service-grunge era. It deems Sublime "a tragic contradiction: a confident, clearheaded work past an artist coming into his own and at the aforementioned time losing command."[5]
| Year | Publication | Rank | Country | List |
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| 1997 | Spin | eight | Usa | The twenty Best Albums of '96[30] |
| 1999 | 48 | The ninety Greatest Albums of the '90s[five] | ||
| Rolling Stone | * | The Essential Recordings of the ninety's[31] | ||
| 2011 | 25 | 100 All-time Albums of the Nineties[32] |
Rails listing [edit]
All songs written by Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson, and Bud Gaugh, except where noted.[33]
| No. | Title | Writer(south) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Garden Grove" |
| Paul Leary | 4:22 |
| ii. | "What I Got" |
| David Kahne | 2:51 |
| 3. | "Wrong Mode" | Paul Leary | two:16 | |
| 4. | "Same in the Cease" | Paul Leary | 2:36 | |
| 5. | "Apr 29, 1992 (Miami)" |
| David Kahne | 3:53 |
| 6. | "Santeria" | Paul Leary | 3:03 | |
| seven. | "Seed" | Paul Leary | 2:10 | |
| 8. | "Jailhouse" | Paul Leary | 4:53 | |
| nine. | "Pawn Shop" |
| Paul Leary | 6:06 |
| 10. | "Paddle Out" |
| one:fifteen | |
| 11. | "The Ballad of Johnny Butt" |
| Paul Leary | two:11 |
| 12. | "Burritos" | Paul Leary | iii:55 | |
| 13. | "Under My Voodoo" | Paul Leary | iii:25 | |
| 14. | "Go Ready" |
| Paul Leary | 4:l |
| 15. | "Cuddle Me Down" | David Kahne | 3:31 | |
| sixteen. | "What I Got" (Reprise) |
| Paul Leary | three:01 |
| 17. | "Doin' Time" |
| David Kahne | four:14 |
| Full length: | 58:31 | |||
| No. | Championship | Length |
|---|---|---|
| i. | "Trenchtown Rock" (Bob Marley) | ane:41 |
| two. | "Doin' Time" (original mix) | four:12 |
| iii. | "Wrong Way" | two:16 |
| 4. | "Paddle Out" | 1:15 |
| 5. | "What I Got" | 2:51 |
| half dozen. | "Pawn Shop" | 6:06 |
| seven. | "April 29th, 1992 (Miami)" | 3:53 |
| 8. | "Santeria" | 3:03 |
| 9. | "Seed" | two:10 |
| 10. | "Jailhouse" | 4:53 |
| 11. | "Caress Me Down" | 3:31 |
| 12. | "The Ballad of Johnny Butt" | two:11 |
| 13. | "Nether My Voodoo" | 3:25 |
| 14. | "Burritos" | 3:55 |
| 15. | "Same in the Cease" | 2:36 |
| 16. | "Get Ready" | 4:51 |
| 17. | "What I Got (Reprise)" | three:01 |
| xviii. | "Garden Grove" | four:21 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| ane. | "I Dear My Dog" | 4:nineteen |
| 2. | "Superstar Punani" | three:16 |
| 3. | "April 29th, 1992 (Miami)" (alternate version) | iii:46 |
| 4. | "Saw Red" (acoustic version) | two:38 |
| 5. | "Little District" (acoustic version) | 1:56 |
| 6. | "Zimbabwe" (audio-visual version) | 2:42 |
| seven. | "What I Got" (alternate version) | ii:39 |
| 8. | "Doin' Time" (uptown dub) | iii:47 |
| nine. | "Doin' Time" (Eerie Splendor remix) | 5:fifteen |
| 10. | "Doin' Time" (remix by Wyclef Jean) | three:52 |
| eleven. | "Doin' Time" (remixed by Marshall Arts featuring The Pharcyde) | 4:xi |
| 12. | "Doin' Time" (Marshall Arts instrumental version) | 4:11 |
| xiii. | "April 29th, 1992 (Miami)" (instrumental version) | 3:55 |
| 14. | "Caress Me Downward" (instrumental version) | 3:32 |
| 15. | "What I Got" (instrumental version) | 2:53 |
Personnel [edit]
Sublime
- Bradley Nowell – pb vocals, guitar, organ, synthesizer
- Eric Wilson – bass, backing vocals, synthesizer
- Bud Gaugh – drums, percussion
Additional personnel [edit]
- DJ Smash – turntables, percussion
- Marshall Goodman – turntables, percussion, drums, pulsate programming
- Michael "Miguel" Happoldt – guitar, space echo
- David Kahne – organ, piano
- Paul Leary – guitar
- Todd Forman – saxophone
- Jon Blondell – trombone
Production [edit]
- Producers: Paul Leary, David Kahne
- Engineers: Stuart Sullivan, Eddie Ashworth
- Mastering: Brian Gardner
- Artwork: Opie Ortiz
- Photos: Josh Coffman, John Dunne, Zach Fischel
Charts and certifications [edit]
Weekly charts [edit]
Year-stop charts [edit]
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References [edit]
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