| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/mca | | UPC: 00008811147426 | | Release Date: 7/30/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 60349759 | | Item#: MTCC9D | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 2647 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 1992 Gasoline Alley Records Inc.
(C) 1992 Gasoline Alley Records Inc.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Sublime: Brad Nowell (vocals, guitar, percussion, samples, bass, congas); Eric Wilson (bass, organ, percussion, vocals, congas); Bud (drums, samples). | | Additional personnel includes: Adam (vocals, congas); Miguel (samples, guitar, vocals, piano, organ, sound effects). | | Recorded at Mambo, Long Beach, California. Originally released on Skunk (001). | | The sound is a blistering blend of ska, reggae, and '80s West Coast thrash a la Black Flag, with a healthy dose of spoken-word and rub-a-dub dancehall thrown in for good measure. This magnificent debut was required listening on the Southern California skateboard circuit. Fans of any of the aforementioned musical styles are likely to get a kick out of hearing singer Brad Nowell rollick through songs like "Smoke Two Joints." The attack is a pure assault of youthful energy, almost over-the-top, but controlled, always reigned in by the rhythm, which rules. Samples abound, as Sublime pays tribute to its musical idols in true '90s fashion: by including chunks of their songs. Even the Grateful Dead gets a nod. |
| | Artist Overview | | Long Beach County skate-rockers Sublime played an infectious mix of ska, punk, hip-hop, and acoustic music that earned them both a devoted underground following and mainstream success during their run in the mid-1990s. Sublime were proud purveyors of the good times, and in 1996 the good times would prove to be the band's demise when lead singer and founding member Bradley Nowell died of a heroin overdose. The band's two remaining members continued on as the Long Beach Dub Allstars. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 07/23/1996 | | Original Release Date : 1992 | | Catalog ID : 11474 | | Label : Gasoline Alley/MCA | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00008811147426 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Kerrang (Magazine)
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- "[T]he initial collision of Sublime's charismatic style and their influences resulted in their unsurpassed debut album." |
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