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Sublime is a fantastic nostalgia pick for people of a certain age. I haven't listened to it in years, outside of hearing the 3-5 big songs from it on XM Lithium in the car, but it's well known, has a narrative around it, and I'm sure VMP will move a bunch of copies to people who'll get it, listen a couple times, and put it back on their shelf
 
The opening track, “Garden Grove” is better than some of the singles IMO.
Probably the best song on the album. Plus it has a great LKJ sample. Introduced me to his music actually after looking up what the sample was ages ago. Sublime did cover/sample/shout out some great music so they do have that going for them!
 
I have no interest in Sublime. Happy to ignore them just as I did in the '90s. But with all this conversation, I got curious and googled the lyrics to that song. Wow. I really wish I hadn't.
definitely the song you skipped over when your mom came in the room and definitely not something that's aged well in any way
 
I have no interest in Sublime. Happy to ignore them just as I did in the '90s. But with all this conversation, I got curious and googled the lyrics to that song. Wow. I really wish I hadn't.
As someone who can still rap all the lyrics to Snoop Doggs “Ain’t No Fun” and “Lodi Dodi” I can say people seem to be fairly prudish about some of Sublime’s more juvenile songs/lyrics. These songs were designed to be goofy and outlandish that’s why teenage boys liked them they were dirty jokes with melody.
 
As someone who can still rap all the lyrics to Snoop Doggs “Ain’t No Fun” and “Lodi Dodi” I can say people seem to be fairly prudish about some of Sublime’s more juvenile songs/lyrics. These songs were designed to be goofy and outlandish that’s why teenage boys liked them they were dirty jokes with melody.

The owner of They Might Be Giants Flood, for unironic reasons, co-signs this thought.

Also, if you own any RHCP, people in glass houses.....
 
As someone who can still rap all the lyrics to Snoop Doggs “Ain’t No Fun” and “Lodi Dodi” I can say people seem to be fairly prudish about some of Sublime’s more juvenile songs/lyrics. These songs were designed to be goofy and outlandish that’s why teenage boys liked them they were dirty jokes with melody.
You’re a dirty joke! Jury is out on melody.
 
I have no interest in Sublime. Happy to ignore them just as I did in the '90s. But with all this conversation, I got curious and googled the lyrics to that song. Wow. I really wish I hadn't.
Jort rock (rock performed by shirtless dudes wearing jean shorts) had a very short shelf-life, only slightly longer than nu-metal
 
Jort rock (rock performed by shirtless dudes wearing jean shorts) had a very short shelf-life, only slightly longer than nu-metal
Agree but also Sublime kinda transcends that definition. My local “Alternative” radio station still regularly plays deep cuts from this album and they still sell Sublime t-shirts at the mall.
 
Sublime is a fantastic nostalgia pick for people of a certain age. I haven't listened to it in years, outside of hearing the 3-5 big songs from it on XM Lithium in the car, but it's well known, has a narrative around it, and I'm sure VMP will move a bunch of copies to people who'll get it, listen a couple times, and put it back on their shelf
Isn't that what most all of us do with all of our albums because we own way too many to do much else with them?
 
every one of you judgy mcjudgersons currently occupying this thread need to get a GOTDAMN glass of water and go the fuck outside for a minute

maybe I DO have Santaria, maybe I DO like my 40's with an ounce of freedom, maybe I DO like jorts, maybe I DO think vaguely native/tribal back tattoos on white guys from California are great, maybe I DO like listening to music made by the kinda of dudes who used to punch me at school because their dad probably punched them at home, maybe I like all that

I mean I don't but maybe I DO
 
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