Tragic Kingdom (1995) ( )

Product Summary Label: Uni/interscope UPC: 00606949258023 Release Date: 4/2/1996 Buy.com Sku: 60349669 Item#: MCWMH4 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Spiderwebs ~ No Doubt 2. Excuse Me Mr. ~ No Doubt 3. Just A Girl ~ No Doubt 4. Happy Now? ~ No Doubt 5. Different People ~ No Doubt 6. Hey You ~ No Doubt 7. Climb, The ~ No Doubt 8. Sixteen ~ No Doubt 9. Sunday Morning ~ No Doubt 10. Don't Speak ~ No Doubt 11. You Can Do It ~ No Doubt 12. World Go 'Round ~ No Doubt 13. End It On This ~ No Doubt 14. Tragic Kingdom ~ No Doubt (P) 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc. (C) 1995 Interscope Records   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info No Doubt: Gwen Stefani (vocals); Tom Dumont (guitar); Eric Stefani (piano, keyboards); Tony Kanal (bass); Adrian Young (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Aloke DasGupta (sitar); Melissa Hasin (cello); Gerard Boisse, Bill Bergman (saxophone); Greg Smith (baritone saxophone); Phil Jordan, Les Lovitt (trumpet); Nick Lane (trombone); Gabe McNair (trombone, percussion); Matthew Wilder (keyboards); Stephen Perkins (steel drums). Engineers include: Matt Hyde, Phil Kaffel, George Landress. No Doubt was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. TRAGIC KINGDOM was nominated for a 1997 Grammy for Best Rock Album. "Don't Speak" was nominated for 1998 Grammys for Song Of The Year and Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. Personnel: Gwen Stefani (vocals); Tom Dumont (guitar); Aloke Dasgupta (sitar); Melissa "Missy" Hasin (cello); Bill Bergman (saxophone); Greg Smith (baritone saxophone); Les Lovitt (trumpet); Gabrial McNair (trombone, percussion); Nick Lane (trombone); Eric Stefani (piano, keyboards); Matthew Wilder (keyboards); Adrian Young (drums, percussion); Stephen Perkins (steel drum). Audio Mixer: Paul Palmer. Recording information: Nrg; Record Plant, Hollywood, CA; Santa Monica Sound, Santa Monica, CA; Total Access Studios, Redondo Beach, CA. Director: Albhy Galuten. Photographers: Dan Arsenault; Shelly Robertson. Unknown Contributor Role: Stephen Perkins. No Doubt's members cite a strange variety of musical influences: Kiss, Prince and Madness, to name a few. And it's easy to imagine that their hometown itself, Anaheim, California (home to Disneyland), may have played a part in forming the band's schizophrenic, high-energy sound, which took TRAGIC KINGDOM, the band's second album, on a slow, steady ride up the pop charts. It finally hit No. 1 in December 1996, 14 months after it was released. This is ska-punk-new wave-dance music, with instrumentation ranging from hardcore guitar to mellow, reggae-style horns. Singer Gwen Stefani's voice is by turns peppy, almost adolescent ("Spiderwebs") and emotionally wailing; she can sound a lot like Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano ("Just A Girl"). When Stefani sings, "I'm just a girl, little ol' me/Don't let me out of your sight," she does so without a hint of girlishness; her voice is all attitude, with a warbling edge of melodrama. For the most part, these are happy songs, though No Doubt do get philosophical on "Different People": "Once in a while I sit back/And think about the planet/Most of the time I trip on it/To kick back and think of how massive it all is/And how many others are on it." Producer: Matthew Wilder Musical Guests Bill Bergman Matthew Wilder Stephen Perkins   Artist Overview Part Cyndi Lauper and part Madness, No Doubt came out of nowhere in 1995 and exploded on the alt-rock scene with their special brand of mainstream ska-rock. While the focal point of the group was unmistakably the sexy and hyperactive singer Gwen Stefani, the rest of the band had no problem keeping pace and laying down a party-hearty vibe. The band released a string of hit albums the included the 2003 Grammy-nominated ROCK STEADY, before Stefani went on to huge success as a solo artist and fashion designer. Though she never officially broke up No Doubt, Stefani would establish her brand as pop star well beyond the successes of her group. Artist Influences Adam Ant | Bad Manners | Blondie | Cyndi Lauper | David Bowie | Devo | Dexys Midnight Runners | Electric Light Orchestra | Fishbone | Joe Jackson | Lene Lovich | Madness | Madonna | Operation Ivy | Prince | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Squeeze | Talking Heads | The Cars | The English Beat | The Go-Go's | The Police | The Skatalites | The Specials | Violent Femmes Artist Contemporaries Bif Naked | blink-182 | Buck-O-Nine | Dance Hall Crashers | Garbage | Geggy Tah | Goldfinger | Home Grown (Rock) | Insyderz | Less Than Jake | Madonna | Mandy Moore | Mustard Plug | P!nk | Planet Smashers | Reel Big Fish | Saint Etienne | Save Ferris | Shifty | Skankin' Pickle | Smash Mouth | Sublime (Rock) | Sugar Ray (Rock) | Supergrass | The Mighty Mighty Bosstones | The Suicide Machines | Voodoo Glow Skulls | Weezer   Compilation Appearances Beavis & Butthead Do America Zoolander Vol. 15-Now That's What I Call Music Pop Culture:top Hits Vol 2 Rockabye Baby Lullaby Renditions Of C   Associated Artists and Works Artists, Various A Tribute To No Doubt ~ Artists, Various Surfin' To No Doubt ~ Jetpack Surfin' to No Doubt ~ Jetpack (Surf) Surfin' To No Doubt ~ Jetpack UK (Formerly Jetpack) A Tribute To No Doubt ~ Various Artists Various Artists Surfin' To No Doubt ~ Various Artists The String Quartet Tribute to No Doubt: The Single ~ Various Artists Vitamin String Quartet   Technical Info Release Date : 10/10/1995 Original Release Date : 1995 Catalog ID : 92580 Label : Trauma/Interscope Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 59m : 24s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00606949258023   Professional Reviews Rolling Stone (12/26/96, p.195) - "...a platinum-blond peach of a female singer, Gwen Stefani, who breaks up the asexual baggy-shorts-and-balloon pants monotony of alt-nation guy rock....No Doubt have a spry, white-suburban take on ska and Blondie-esque pop..."    Product Image