Sublime-Sublime
Combine punk rock and ska and you get Sublime. A great band that never got a lot mainstream acceptance and success until the very end of their career. Two months before the release of this album the lead singer, Brad Nowell, was found dead of a heroin overdose. Extremely tragic-and this album shows that they could have been much bigger if only he could have controlled the demons. Very sad.
This is not a positive, peppy album even though the sound of it is oddly optimistic. The content of the songs is actually quite dark. From underage promiscuity to drug use to taking revenge on those involved in a failed romance-this album is like Johnny Cash singing ska-punk. For such a dark album it's ironic to me that one of my favorite memories is singing Santeria at a bar in Downtown Disney, the happiest place on earth.
Santeria is one of many great songs. "Wrong Way", "What I Got", "Caress me Down" and many others make this album an absolute must have. It has the same southern California sound as Social Distortion. A punk-ska-ish style that hasn't been replicated since.
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