Sublime is the third and final studio album by Sublime American ska punk band. Produced by Paul Leary and David Kahne, the album was released on July 30, 1996 in the United States by MCA Records. Sublime was formed in 1988 in Long Beach, California by vocalist/guitarist Bradley Nowell, bassist Eric Wilson, and drummer Bud Gaugh. The trio made a massive tour of their beginnings while developing their voices. Their first studio release - 40 Oz. to Freedom (1992) - featuring the single "Date Rape", which drew its show in Southern California. MCA signed the band and distributed their second independent album, Robbin 'the Hood , in 1994.
By the time it comes to recording their major label debut, Nowell has struggled with heroin addiction. Sublime was recorded for three months in Austin, Texas, in a session marked by heavy drug use and violent parties. The album's musical style contains elements of punk rock, reggae, and ska, as well as dancehall, hip hop, and dub music, with wild starting tempos. Nowell's lyrical material deals with relationships, prostitution, unrest, and addiction. Nowell has been removed from the recording near completion, and was found dead of heroin overdose in May 1996, two months before release, causing the band to be disbanded.
Supported by a number of hit singles, including "What I Got", "Santeria", and "Wrong Way", the record proved to be very successful, although the band died and thus did not promote the album through the tour. It sold over five million copies in the United States by the end of the decade, and continues to be a popular catalog album. The album ushered in a third wave ska, and Sublime engraved into a permanent place among alternative rock stars of the 1990s. The critical reviews are positive, praising Nowell's songwriting skills and music album variety. Sublime has since been listed as one of the most respected albums of the 1990s by Spin and Rolling Stone .
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Sublime was formed in Long Beach, California in 1988 by lead vocalist/guitarist Nowell, bassist Eric Wilson, and drummer Bud Gaugh. This group came from a band of punk garage, and they finally started to instill elements of reggae and ska during their existence. The group formed a backyard party, played for $ 250 and drew a crowd of 300-400 people. The band toured heavily over the following years, leading to a major following among the beach-oriented surf/skateboarding subcultures. In 1990, the band had become a mainstay along the southern coast of California, and Nowell dropped out of California State University Long Beach a semester before graduating. The trio recorded their debut album, 40 Oz. to Freedom, in 1992, selling independent releases on live performances. The local radio station KROQ began playing the single "Date Rape" two years after it was released, and Sublime rose to prominence. At this point, the band had dropped the "Date Rape" from their list, but the subsequent success of the single led 40 Oz. to be placed on the Soundscan alternative graph for 70 consecutive weeks.
The MCA signed the group soon after, releasing their second album Robbin 'the Hood in 1994. The record was still brought by independent distributors, who placed it in independent record stores, surf shops/skates, and "store head," in a marketing effort designed to appeal to the band's fan base. The band also adopted the Internet as a viable promotional tool, distributing their albums through early online music retailers. Nevertheless, Nowell has developed a heroin addiction; in live performances, he often can not get past the set. On several occasions, he will steal band equipment for a night show to pawn drug money, knowing band manager Michael "Miguel" Happoldt will find a way to regain the equipment. He used the clonidine patch in an attempt to quit, determined to do so before signing to the MCA and before the birth of his son the following year. Nowell was not the only rock star with heroin habits in the mid-1990s; In 1996, Jonathan Melvoin of Smashing Pumpkins died after an overdose, Art Alexakis of Everclear admitted his addiction, as did Phil Anselmo of Pantera, and heroin was found at Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's scene. "Greater availability, higher quality, lower prices - I do not know why there is so much heroin," producer Leary told Spin .
Robbin 'the Hood performed well on campus radio, and Sublime continued to grow in popularity, largely "behind California's punk explosion caused by Green Day and The Offspring." Nowell's addiction deteriorated during the 1995- 96; on May 25, 1996, Nowell died at the age of 28 years in a San Francisco hotel room due to a heroin overdose. According to a report, Gaugh had invaded Nowell's deposits and was picked up when he left; he woke up a few hours later beside Nowell who had died in bed. Gaugh then told a reporter that "I thought, 'It might be me.'"
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Recording and production
Sublime was mostly recorded at Willie Nelson's Pedernales Studio in Austin, Texas between February and May 1996. Despite earlier attempts to keep it clean, Nowell again used heroin, "stronger than ever." According to Leary, the band will arrive at 9 am "with a margarita in one hand and instruments in the other hand," ready to record; on the other, "they almost burned the place."
Nowell was so filled with drugs that he was sent home by Leary before the recording process finished. "There are times when someone has to go to the bathroom to see if Brad is alive," he said. According to Nowell's father, his son took three days to recover, commenting, "That's the worst I've ever seen him."
The album was originally intended to open with the cover of Bob Marley's "Trenchtown Rock", followed by "Doin 'Time" - a loose cover "Summertime" by George Gershwin. However, Sublime initially could not get the "Summer" rights, so Nowell completely discards "Doin 'Time" and "Trenchtown Rock" and resets the album.
However, the band managed to get 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. To release a song using a Gershwin sample, the band must agree to use the "summer" line instead of "doin time" ". However, the song has been recorded with "doin 'time" lyric, and vocalist Bradley Nowell recently died of a heroin overdose. The lyrics were re-recorded by Sublime friend/producer Michael Happoldt who sang "summer". This is the version of the song that appears on Sublime's self-titled album. The album's original sequence, together with the original mix of "Doin 'Time", was restored for the 10th anniversary of the re-album.
Music and composition
Sublime features elements of punk rock, dub, hardcore punk, hip hop, reggae, blues, folk, ska and surf music.
Include
- "Pawnshop" is the cover of "War Deh Round A John Shop" by The Wailing Souls with the modified lyrics.
- "What I Got" is based on "Loving" Half Pint and featuring the same melody as The Beatles "Lady Madonna".
- Sublime also includes The Wailer's 1965 song "Jailhouse" written by Bunny Wailer, combining it with partial cover of Tenor Saw "Roll Call" in "Jailhouse".
- "The Ballad of Johnny Butt" is largely a cover of the Hate Secret song from Dancing Live & amp; More albums.
- In addition, "Doin 'Time" is a loose cover of the "Summertime" Jazz standard by George Gershwin.
- "Be prepared" is largely based on the name of Frankie Paul 1987 with the same name.
Original composition
Some of the album's original compositions also have borrowed elements:
- While "April 29, 1992" is the original song featuring samples of "La Di Da Di" by Doug E. Fresh featuring MC Ricky D (aka Slick Rick), "Original Hip-Hop Gangster" by Just- Ice, and "Shook One (Part 1)" by Mobb Deep.
- The heavy bass line "" Garden Grove "is based on Courtney Melody 1988 7 'single" A Ninja Mi Ninja ", and the synth loop in the third paragraph is lifted from The Ohio Players'" Funky Worm. "
- Most of the rhythms and melodies of "Wrong Way" were borrowed from The Specials "It's Up To You" from their self-titled 1979 album.
- The part of the melody of "Seed" is taken from The Bel-Airs 1961 single "Mr. Moto" as well as "Lori Meyers" by NOFX.
- Solo guitars and chords in "Santeria" are the reuse of songs in their song "Lincoln Highway Dub" featured on their previous album, Robbin 'the Hood.
- "Burritos" is a reworked version of one of Sublime's early recording titled "Fighting Blindly," albeit with very different lyrics.
- The bass line "Caress Me Down" features the famous Sleng Teng riddim song from 1985's Wayne Smith song "Under Me Sleng Teng" and lyrics and melodies especially from the 1980s 12 "single" Caress Me Down "by Clement Irie.
Release
Sublime was released in the United States on July 30, 1996, with releases in Europe after October and in Australia and Japan in December. MCA composed a team of former band promotions at Gasoline Alley (renaming Sublime Marketing team) to promote Sublime via the methods played for the band's fan base. This marketing includes posters and face copies in independent stores, and advertisements on board-sports and alternative magazines. Promoting the album proved challenging because of Nowell's death, with no band to provide tour support or broadcast appearances.
The album soon began expanding its surf/skate band fan base, appealing to consumers unrelated to the community. At least one retailer attributes this to the death of Nowell, commenting to Billboards that "death sells," comparing the same situation in which discrete Roy Orbison's discography rose in sales after his death. Eric Weissbard, in the Spin column, compares the success of Nowum with Albert Larson, the Broadway music composer Rent , who died the day before the scheduled musical. in year. Billboard considers the band's success a posthumous "a tragic irony story."
Abbey Konowitch, vice president of MCA Records, commented to trade at the time of the album:
It is unfortunate that Brad is not here to see how his music is appreciated and accepted by the public. This is a very significant album in significant time in music, and we are lucky to have this music, although we are very unfortunate not having any of the artists around who created it.
Eric Wilson, the band's bassist, "is more pragmatic about the issue":
We just want this album to run well so that Brad's son can go to a good school, and so we can continue [to make] life.
Commercial performance
In October 1996, the disk had moved 145,000 units; his success led to renewed interest in the band's back catalog, which experienced marked growth. In April 1997, the album broke the top 20 of Billboard 200 and eventually peaked at position 13. Sixteen months after the album's release, it still sold 40,000 albums per week. Finally spent 122 weeks on the charts.
Reception
David Fricke of Rolling Stone praised the "bright jumps, wires and shell games of funk fun, brave Jamaican rhythms and mosh-pits, creepy choruses in Nowell's work," the "stuff from the band with great promise and confidence to make it good, if only it was possible. " RJ Smith from Spin praised Nowell's songwriting, writing, "It may seem a bold experiment if it is not so easy to pop out of the Long Beach surf scene featuring acoustic shapes on the beach naturally flowing from Wailers to Descendents classics [...] Sublime succeeded not only in vibe but in songcraft. "Nisid Hajari from Entertainment Weekly called this album" honorable testament "to the memory of Nowell, finally noting that the record "is more attached to the intellectual rather than the emotional level, the sound is too dramatic to spread." Robert Christgau from The Village Voice notes A-, comments, "Junkies who retain enough souls to create music are generally encouraged to put their brilliance and stupidity on your face Nowell is more loving, unattractive, humorous, and humble - or so he pretends, which when you are good is all that is needed. "
Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic reports that Nowell's death allows the album "a bit of an overload in some critical quarters." The critical reviews think the album is interesting and show their potential, but also sometimes meandering: "Low moments do not arrive that often - in general, the album is quite interesting - but they happen quite often to make a record of the band's blooming demonstration abilities , but not the fulfillment of their full potential. "
Accolades
Spin including the album on the best album list of this decade, argues that it was "redeemed" modern rock radio in the post-grunge era. It is considered Sublime "a tragic contradiction: a work that is confident, clear by an artist who comes into himself and at the same time loses control."
Track list
Semua lagu yang ditulis oleh Sublime, kecuali jika dicatat.
- "Garden Grove" (Nowell, Linton Kwesi Johnson) - 4:22
- "What I Got" - 2:51
- "Salah" - 2:16
- "Sama di Akhir" - 2:36
- "29 April 1992 (Miami)" (Nowell, Marshall Goodman, Michael Happoldt) - 3:53
- "Santeria" - 3:03
- "Seed" - 2:10
- "Jailhouse" (Bunny Wailer, Bradley Nowell) - 4:53
- "Toko Gadai" - 6:06
- "Paddle Out" - 1:15
- "Balada Johnny Butt" (Rahasia Benci) - 2:11
- "Burritos" - 3:55
- "Under My Voodoo" - 3:25
- "Bersiaplah" (Nowell, Lawrence Parker) - 4:50
- "Caress Me Down" - 3:31
- "What I Got (Reprise)" - 3:01
- "Doin 'Time" (Nowell, Marshall Goodman, George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 4:14
Personil
Sublime
- Bradley Nowell - vocals, guitar, organ, synthesizer
- Eric Wilson - bass, synthesizer
- Bud Gaugh - drum, perkusi
Personil tambahan
- DJ Smash - Turntable, Percussion
- Marshall Goodman - Turntable, Percussion, Drum, Drum Programming
- Michael "Miguel" Happoldt - gitar, ruang gema
- David Kahne - organ, piano
- Paul Leary - guitar
- Todd Forman - saxophone
- Jon Blondell - trombone
- Lou Dog - Band Dalmatian
Produced
- Producer: Paul Leary, David Kahne
- Insinyur: Stuart Sullivan, Eddie Ashworth
- Menguasai: Brian Gardner
- Karya Seni: Opie Ortiz
- Photo: Josh Coffman, John Dunne, Zach Fischel
Grafik dan sertifikasi
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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