no doubt, "settle down" + new album, push and shove

They actually shot this video in 1999. No Doubt is a long term project.

Also, they're sitting on 40-50 other videos that will turn up periodically well into the 2040s.

I like "Wind It Up" too but it's an insane choice for a lead single

there is like ONE angle you see Gwen from at a few points in the video that makes me think oh she's starting to look a little "old" but by that i mean over 30 and not over 40 like she ridiculously actually is (xpost)

i'll rep for l.a.m.b as a 90% stellar pop album, albeit one that can be blamed for a lot of the worst things about pop subsequently. stefani's second album was strange, there really seemed to be so little effort put into it - it was like a bunch of random shitty cast-offs she found while tidying the studio one day, plus one unexpectedly great ballad ("early winter"). "wind it up" is an embarrassment.

i only like a handful of no doubt songs but i LOVE those ("hella good" and "don't speak" and er um i think that's it). i'm not feeling this on first listen really, it might grow on me.

ok the dub outro might be the only thing I like about this right now.

it's def the best part

I'm amazed by how much I like this!

It's interesting to compare it to what Garbage (probably their closest contemporaries in terms of pop-not-pop bands still clinging on) are doing with their comeback.

diplo has done a track for them featuring busy signal it seems

call me crazy but i could kinda go for basically a major lazer album with gwen on

I like "Wind It Up" too but it's an insane choice for a lead single

― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:09 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of par for her solo career no? it was her first top 10 single since rich girl a year before and hollaback girl right before that. at that point 'insanity' was basically her entire thing.

er rich girl came before hollaback, but still

call me crazy but i could kinda go for basically a major lazer album with gwen on

― r|t|c, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

YES

this song is amazing

oh thank god, i thought i was alone there for a bit

chorus is massive

definitely not alone

+1 great song

Don't like this band, but I like this song. I have no problem with the group being back.

Suddenly had a flashback to seeing Tony Kanal's supergroup stint with Perry Farrell and Nuno Bettencourt! Lol at wiki's sendoff: "Perry Farrell now remains the only permanent member."

Three for one sale on the hair bleach for the No Doubt crew eh?
This song is better than I expected it would be. Pretty fun!
I really liked "Wind It Up" – Lonely Goatherd sample! But the rest of that album was too boring to go on. I'd really loved LMAB too

I mean LAMB

Three for one sale on the hair bleach for the No Doubt crew eh?

― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:44 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i totally hadnt realised gunther from friends was in this band til now

lol

song packs more of a punch every time

No Doubt is just one of those bands where i have a hard time distinguishing whether the vibe is 'Californian' or 'lobotomized'

in that case i think you may have them confused with the post 1992 Red Hot Chili Peppers

^^^^^^^^

No Doubt is a case of a band having enthusiasm and the right influences but produces second-rate product. Like, these guys' music sounds like they don't think much.

their party-rock skank is recorded by and for party-rock skanks. I don't know -- I've always wanted to like them.

can we take a quick turn off the main road and talk about "Cool" by Gwen Stefani

or is that not allowed

Probably the best No Doubt related song ever.

I like "Cool."

:) :)

i like rock steady a bunch but i tried to listen to return of saturn the other day, full of hope & love for "bathwater", and lol

for some reason i own the beacon street collection though

I like the one where she wanted a simple kind of life before going multiplatinum again with their party rock album.

last time i listened to tragic kingdom i realized it's half ridiculous filler

it's okay though b/c that album has "sunday morning," the best song ever

so good that song

i would listen to the breeders' glorious on saturday, and sunday morning on sunday for a perfect weekend of waking up

Cool is so good.

kills me tbh

coo cooool

I just watched the video for sunday morning. It is a really good song.

I love how his neck hair looks coming out of that T-shirt collar.

Wait wrong thread.

girrrrrrrrrl

tbh I was talking about jjjusten's dog

I thought the same of No Doubt's drummer.

i really like this new song http://www.soulculture.co.uk/music-blog/newmusic/no-doubt-f-busy-signal-push-and-shove-prod-major-lazer-new-music/#axzz252aVKAoe

hmm

that's something that in my youth i would tell myself to keep listening to until it transpires but now i p much already know never will

def not boring though

i love this song

We be on another level like we doin' yoga

it's times like this that i marvel that people seem to just be kind of ok with gwen stefani as a vocalist and aren't constantly horrified by most of what she does

her voice fulfills a certain niche

well it did 5 or 15 years ago. pop now is full of post-gwen olive oyls, many of whom are less actively annoying.

it's times like this that i marvel that people seem to just be kind of ok with gwen stefani as a vocalist and aren't constantly horrified by most of what she does

― some dude, Thursday, August 30, 2012 2:27 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is how i feel about avril, who iirc some dude is a fan of

i like a few avril songs. probably about as many as gwen/no doubt songs. they're both pretty terrible in general, but in specific contexts work well.

and i mean to avril's credit she's never done a raggamuffin accent

lol how is raggamuffin even a word

ummmmm this song

that chorus!

no wait i love "settle down"

http://www.avclub.com/articles/no-doubt-yanks-looking-hot-video-after-it-upsets-s,88317/

noooooooo now gwen's perfect track record is ruined

i don't think i should listen to "Cool" in public bc i basically just start crying

yeah that is a very beautiful, poignant song

I know right

I'd put that one up against the entire no doubt catalogue

yeah

gwen's got a kickass cover of Vogue atm

still bumpin both these songs btw

push and shove chorus is insane

in. sane.

it feels like calling this album a "flop" isn't even right, it's as if almost nobody ever even knew it existed, and half the people that knew forgot about it within 6 months

yup exactly, whereas i still play it on my ipod on the way to boston to visit my best friend

well, just those 2 songs. trying to listen to some other now with mixed reactions...