Did you buy a Sublime album in the '90s?

Like all my alt-leaning friends totally fucked with this band for a hot minute in 1995-1997, and now they are 100% OFF LIMITS. WTF happened?

never liked this band, never bought any of their albums, but i find them hard to hate

tempted to lead a revival of this band, partly because i can still sing the self-titled album from start to finish from memory

nice guys, had fun drinking with them at a totally failed show attended by 14 people before date rape became a hit. lead singer was a terrible fuck-up, but a genuinely nice guy that would prob be really annoyed by the way he/they have been marketed to the frat boy set posthumously.

xpost: oh yeah i also still really like the first album

"i gotta give them credit for being the only mainstream alt-rock band to ever claim The Minutemen as an influence who actually sound like The Minutemen. that's about all i'll give them credit for, though."

Huh? I never heard much minutemen or sublime but whuh? present songs as evidence for comparison please.

it's more audible on the guitar/bass/drums stuff on the albums than the more hip hop/ska influenced radio hits but it's super audible at times.

I owned every legit Sublime release in the 1990s plus several cd-rs of bootleg material, including a full tape of Raleigh Theodore Sakers rants (as excerpted on Robbin' The Hood).

before date rape became a hit.

is this the name of a song or

At present I still own 40 oz. to Freedom and Robbin' The Hood. I find about 30% of this to still be listenable.

goole:

1) loooool
2) it's linked here: Least despicable Sublime single

I'm not sure if I have ever heard any song by Sublime, but I certainly have never heard an album.

i bought 40 oz to freedom in the late 90s, when i was 13 or 14. I have since sold it.

Probably got mine for free. Still have it. Haven't played it in a while, though.

Sublime were never at all popular in Britain tho.

OK, no British people vote in this plz.

you guys start a poll about Carter USM or something

the only mainstream alt-rock band to ever claim The Minutemen as an influence who actually sound like The Minutemen

Do Primus claim the Minutemen as an influence? (Not saying they necessarily sound like them, but I can imagine them sounding at least as much like them sometimes as Sublime do sometimes.)

I was the biggest Primus stan from 1993-1999 and I've never heard them mention it.

geographically speaking, i'd imagine that any punk band from Long Beach at that time would be at least aware, if not really into, the minutemen.

as for sublime actually sounding like the minutemen, ummmm ...

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It would actually make sense though with the whole repping your nowheresville California town and its inhabitants in lyrics all day (Minutemen, San Pedro; Primus, El Sobrante)

LOL, RG

Frizzle Fry [Caroline, 1990]
Don Knotts Jr. joins the Minutemen ("Mr. Knowitall," "Spegetti Western") *

I have guitar world from 96(?) that has a joint interview w/Claypool & Watt. IIRC, they spend a lot of time praising each other.

the sloppy 40 oz to freedom could me minutemeny if you replace sun ra with lee perry and television with descendents

i'm not good w/ song titles but there are some where Nowell is totally doing some D. Boon-style blurting and abrupt soloing and the rhythm section does little tempo changes.

do they sound more like minutemen than red hot chili peppers?

point isn't that Sublime sounded totally like the Minutemen 24/7, just that they showed the influence more overtly than, say, anyone else who was talking them up in the mid-90s or appearing on Ball Hog Or Tugboat?

xpost - yes they do

don't think i bought any. my brother did and i would steal his all the time tho. tbh i think their singles are all pretty awful (save 'doin time') but esp. on the first album it's some pretty decent ska. i never listen to them but i don't hate hate 'em. i pretty much have no interest in hearing the s/t ever again tho

i gotta give them credit for being the only mainstream alt-rock band to ever claim The Minutemen as an influence who actually sound like The Minutemen.

That's really funny. I enjoy a ton of '80s SST and indie/punk stuff but actually have never liked/enjoyed the Minutemen. Why? Back in college, I played Double Nickels and for some reason it reminded me of Sublime et al.

Maybe I wasn't far off base, if I'm not the only one to notice...

they were the biggest band in the world in the South Bay circa 1996. it was terrible. actually come to think of it, they might still be the biggest band in the South Bay to this day.

― tylerw, Monday, May 4, 2009 12:23 PM (40 minutes ago)

Dude, The Carpenters!

I've never heard of Sublime, must be an American thing.

it kinda hurts my heart to see the minutement dragged into this.

ug minuteMEN

Good fucking lord no.

every good band influences bad bands, it's not dragging anyone's name through the mud to point it out

never liked this band, never bought any of their albums, but i find them hard to hate

^^^^

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the Minutemen are the Faith No More to Sublime's Papa Roach

no

def seems like a case of them being superpopular and revered amongst a certain set causing certain other people to overreact to them in a negative way.

It's just a case of their big hits being super annoying (and unfortunately briefly omnipresent.) Also hating dudes wearing cargo shorts.

Fuck no, dude. And I own all kinds of humiliating crap.

they were the biggest band in the world in the South Bay circa 1996. it was terrible. actually come to think of it, they might still be the biggest band in the South Bay to this day.

― tylerw, Monday, 4 May 2009 19:23 (59 minutes ago) Permalink

I walked by some bar at hermosa beach yesterday and I could hear some sublime cover band inside

there's a sublime cover band in providence

their message is universal

what is their name: Santiera?

I probably know all of the lyrics to the sublime songs that got radio play

sry

i live on the east coast and "badfish: a tribute to sublime" plays a biggish venue around here seemingly multiple times a year

it seems to me that a more accurate predecessor for Sublime is Fishbone, not Minutemen.

badfish are from pvd

we are so proud

Badfish does the same down here on the Gulf Coast too.

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Yes, I did. I still have it. I think.

I did a music video for "Needle and the Damage Done" to a montage of drug use and overdose scenes from various movies. It started with pot and beer scenes from Dazed and Confused and then escalated uncomfortably. I tagged on the long shot of Jim Morrison's grave from the end of The Doors at the end.

i feel like i have a pulitzer-worthy thinkpiece in me about what the hell we were all thinking re. 90s ska

guilt for not listening to gay disco in the early nineties

my first days in college were spent listening to a hellcat records comp
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/GiveEmTheBoot.jpg

I listened to that and I may have also listened to Give em the boot II

i still think the band hepcat is pretty good

http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/146/fb9e1c704d974080adb796a33137c2f1/l.jpg

i bought so many sublime albums in the 90s. year after year, boire, 41, don't get weird on me babe, the first tindersticks, cure for pain, the blue moods of spain, dirty, just to name a few. there was a band with that name? did i miss something?

Of course I did.

I still sing "dooooooown here at the pawwn SHOP" every time I see one. I still say "GI-Joe Kung-Fu" grip too.

no Sublime, but I did own a 311 album.

I still sing "dooooooown here at the pawwn SHOP" every time I see one. I still say "GI-Joe Kung-Fu" grip too.

― Bulge Pimp (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, April 28, 2012 5:53 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SHOP YOP YOP YOP YOP YOP

To Tobie Dog, to Louie Dog, to Matt dog
To James Brown, the BSM, Miles Davis
The Canda all-night rocker (?)
The south side paaaar-ty and Catrine, what's up dude?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux-feE6lfKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpPV8MVGbpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T6N5UBeFpk

Still partial to this opening salvo. I was so disappointed to pick up the CD version and find that "Get Out" had been completely removed.

I bet I could make a decent Sublime playlist, and I'm kinda jonesing for one with this thread being bumped, but I didn't save any of their CDs.

I had some 311 too xp, must say that 311 has aged MUCH worse than Sublime. Cant even go nostalgia trippin' off that shit any more.

totally agreed, though even at the time I kind of knew that 311 sucked.

lol @ the Minutemen break in that cut song

I saw DMC wearing a Sublime shirt once

never bought an album but always liked "What I Got" (the version in the video, not the acoustic strummin' singalong version, fuck that one)

I dug the sublime & gwen stefani collabs

Wow, haven't heard "Ruca" in forever and I still remember lot of the words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKox6__hziY&feature=related

there was great stuff on Robbin the Hood that wasn't the schizophrenic guy rambling or the half-assed dub versions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f7HHS35YLs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTUWD6Eq5TM&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0UkdHzUOHI

Yeah "S.T.P." introduced me to Smokey Robinson.

Heh, me too.

Lol I just remembered whenever the local Sublime cover band played STP all the kids would yell "I'm even learning how to COOK SPEED" RHPS style.

that was what he sang live, iirc.

RHPS?

rocky horror?

sure. i got the third album from the free magazine record club (3rd or 4th time joining) because i don't know why but probably "what i got". didn't like it much and sold it w/in a couple weeks.

Yeah rocky horror. Tho growing up in Gwinnett County no doubt some of those kids had actually learned to cooked meth.

somebody in my facebook feed just unironically posted a youtube to April 29 1992

sorry, i just find it moving.

Yes and I have since sold that shit. But I still like What I Got

i still think the band hepcat is pretty good

― los blue jeans, Saturday, April 28, 2012 4:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

haha yeah they were pretty good

you know, one musician I didnt end up seeking out from sublime references was KRS One. What were his teachings on hambugers, steak, elijah muhammed, and the welfare state?

Although I despise them Sublime is one of the bands I think most about. They were unavoidable growing up in the late 90s in Southern California and informed so much of my high school/formative life experiences. I never owned their records but they were ubiquitous at the time.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKHrmJQVpv8

http://gc.guitarcenter.com/sessions/images-tv/sublime/sublime-top.jpg

Fuck no, dude!!

never owned any of their albums, but still have a few downloads like "Santeria" and "What I Got" on my mobile players.

Lol I just remembered whenever the local Sublime cover band played STP all the kids would yell "I'm even learning how to COOK SPEED" RHPS style.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, April 28, 2012 7:55 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that was what he sang live, iirc.

― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Saturday, April 28, 2012 7:57 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

RHPS?

― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, April 28, 2012 10:28 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Whiney all trying to puzzle out "Red Hot...Pilli Sheppers?"