I just find they’re overplayed, overrated, and kind of cringey.
Ska is one of my go to genres, a favorite, but I wish Sublime would go away. Every time I hear them I can’t get their songs out of my head for much longer than I would like. Every time.
I also used to hear them way too much in a place outside the US, which outside of shitty pop music was one of those “American” bands or whatever they thought, so bars played them. A lot.
Their Gold Album is a great compilation, but Robin the Hood was probably my favorite. If you want to see the best they had to offer it’s those two discs on Gold.
Date rape is easily their worst song, I skip it when it comes on. I also hate scarlet begonias, but that’s just me.
Let’s Go Get Stoned may be my favorite song. It’s great musically, when the song breaks down in the third act. DJ’s is a jam with a moonbah type beat that kinda differs from the punky ska sound. Their best punky ska sound is probably from the likes of Seeing Red featuring Gwen Stefani, who I cannot stand, but she absolutely belongs on the track, she sounds great.
And then Pool Shark, the two versions of it. When you listen to the lyrics it’s pretty blunt about Brad’s struggles with heroin, weird to have it be so in your face.
And they’ve got the classics in what I got, and Santeria, and Garden Grove, all great tunes.
So yeah, I’m a fan. I don’t listen to them like I used to, although I’ll toss them on on the beach, I consider them to be beach music nowadays, them and 311.
Boss dj is one of my all-time favorite songs… Robbin the hood was absolutely the best sublime album