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Sublime's eponymous major-label debut arrived a few months after the band's leader, Brad Nowell, died tragically of a heroin overdose. As a show of sympathy, the album tended to be slightly overrated in some critical quarters, who claimed that Nowell was an exceptionally gifted lyricist and musical hybridist, but Sublime doesn't quite support those claims. Even so, the trio does have a surprising grace in its unabashedly traditionalist fusion of Californian hardcore punk, light hip-hop, and reggae. Switching between bracing hardcore and slow, sexy reggae numbers, Sublime display supple, muscular versatility and, on occasion, a gift for ingratiatingly catchy hooks, as on the hit single "What I Got." What they don't have is the vision -- either lyrical or musical -- to maintain interest throughout the course of the entire album. Sublime sags when the band delves too deeply into their dub aspirations or when their lyrics slide into smirking humor. The low moments don't arrive that often -- by and large, the album is quite engaging -- but they happen frequently enough to make the record a demonstration of the band's blossoming ability, but not the fulfillment of their full potential. Of course, Nowell's death gives the record a certain pathos, but that doesn't make the album any stronger.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Miguel, Unknown, Other - Paul Leary, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Sullivan, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Linton Kwesi Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Field Marshall, Unknown, Other
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Kahne, Producer, Mixer, Organ, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Miguel, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Eddie Ashworth, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Lindon Roberts, ComposerLyricist - Field Marshall, Unknown, Other
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Paul Leary, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Sullivan, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Blondell, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Paul Leary, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Sullivan, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Kahne, Producer, Mixer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Lawrence Parker, ComposerLyricist - Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Miguel, Unknown, Other - Dave Aron, Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Marshall Goodman, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Ashworth, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Happoldt, ComposerLyricist - Field Marshall, Unknown, Programming, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Foreman, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Paul Leary, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Sullivan, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Paul Leary, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Sullivan, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Paul Leary, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Sullivan, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Field Marshall, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Paul Leary, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Sullivan, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Winston Matthews, ComposerLyricist - Lloyd Mcdonald, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Ashworth, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Miguel & Brad, Producer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mike Davis, ComposerLyricist - Paul Leary, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Sullivan, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Kevin Roach, ComposerLyricist - Rick Selga, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Paul Leary, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Sullivan, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Field Marshall, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Paul Leary, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Sullivan, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lawrence Parker, ComposerLyricist - Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Paul Leary, Producer, Mixer, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Sullivan, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Field Marshall, Percussion, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Kahne, Producer, Mixer, Organ, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Ashworth, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Field Marshall, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Miguel, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Leary, Producer, Mixer, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Stuart Sullivan, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Lindon Roberts, ComposerLyricist - Field Marshall, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Kahne, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Rick Rubin, ComposerLyricist - Bradley Nowell, ComposerLyricist - Adam Nathaniel Yauch, ComposerLyricist - George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Dubose Heyward, ComposerLyricist - Marshall Goodman, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Ashworth, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Adam Keefe Horovitz, ComposerLyricist - Eric Wilson, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sublime, MainArtist - Floyd Gaugh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Nowell, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Field Marshall, Programming, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Sublime's eponymous major-label debut arrived a few months after the band's leader, Brad Nowell, died tragically of a heroin overdose. As a show of sympathy, the album tended to be slightly overrated in some critical quarters, who claimed that Nowell was an exceptionally gifted lyricist and musical hybridist, but Sublime doesn't quite support those claims. Even so, the trio does have a surprising grace in its unabashedly traditionalist fusion of Californian hardcore punk, light hip-hop, and reggae. Switching between bracing hardcore and slow, sexy reggae numbers, Sublime display supple, muscular versatility and, on occasion, a gift for ingratiatingly catchy hooks, as on the hit single "What I Got." What they don't have is the vision -- either lyrical or musical -- to maintain interest throughout the course of the entire album. Sublime sags when the band delves too deeply into their dub aspirations or when their lyrics slide into smirking humor. The low moments don't arrive that often -- by and large, the album is quite engaging -- but they happen frequently enough to make the record a demonstration of the band's blossoming ability, but not the fulfillment of their full potential. Of course, Nowell's death gives the record a certain pathos, but that doesn't make the album any stronger.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:31
- Main artists: Sublime
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Gasoline Alley
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2016 Gasoline Alley, J.V. ℗ 2016 Gasoline Alley, J.V.
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