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The MCA version resurrected interest in their back catalogue and album #2 Robbin’ the Hood brought in new fans intrigued by Sublime’s version of Joe Higgs’ “Steppin’ Razor”, done in Peter Tosh style with a sneaky sample of Steely Dan’s “Do It Again” kick-starting their slow, hypnotic treatment. The album features six disparate covers, numerous samples and a pleasantly ramshackle bunch of originals of which “Date Rape” and “Badfish” are the standouts. Their 1992 debut 40oz to Freedom pulled in aural favours from past masters including Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix and the British 2-Tone groups while a raucous edge purloined from the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy added flesh to the bone. With their stoner mentality and love for reggae, ska and dub – laced with a generous side order of hip-hop, natch – they modelled themselves on the great 1970s JA bands, also Cypress Hill and the SoCal ska scene.Ī self-financed cassette of demos broke them on the local grassroots movement, hepped up on zany humour and an independent spirit. Eminently musical and varied their clever assimilation of samples and a magpie’s liberty with other people’s baubles, they were an ideal early Internet generation outfit.īradley Nowell, Floyd “Bud” Gaugh and Eric Wilson started out as a kind of collective with input from friends Michael Happoldt and Marshall “Ras MG” Goodman and probably never dreamed they’d end up selling over 17 million albums in the US alone. Idiosyncratic for sure, Sublime were probably misjudged to begin with, despite their tendency to court controversy. There are various other comps in the store, also the 3xCD/1DVD box-set Everything Under the Sun, comprised in large part of rare tracks from bootleg discs including several of their Bob Marley and the Wailers covers, also a maverick version of the Grateful Dead’s 1974 classic “Scarlet Begonias” done after the manner of The Clash!
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The Sublime Acoustic: Bradley Nowell & Friends has been likened to Nirvana’s Unplugged sets. Posthumous releases like Second-hand Smoke, a compilation with extra elements, did tremendous business. The follow-up Robbin’ the Hood has achieved Gold status. All three albums from that initial period are available via MCA and in hindsight have been very favourably reconsidered with the Sublime album itself marked out as a significant milestone in 1990s rock by both Spin and Rolling Stone magazines.Ī measure of Sublime’s appeal lies in the fact that their reissued debut on Skunk Records has gone double Platinum. Long Beach favourites from back in the day, Sublime were a ska-punk and alternative rock trio based around the considerable charisma of frontman Bradley Nowell who died tragically young in 1996 aged just 28 on the eve of the release of the band’s major label and eponymous debut, a third wave mash-up that won critical acclaim and brought focus to their previous work.