Sublime- SublimeLabel: Geffen Skunk Reissued 2016, originally released 1996 Double vinyl LP pressing of this newly remastered 1996 album. Sublime is the eponymous third and final studio album by the ska punk band. The album was produced by Paul Leary and David Kahne. Sublime formed in 1988 in Long Beach, California by vocalist guitarist Bradley Nowell, bassist Eric Wilson, and drummer Bud Gaugh. By the time it came to record this major label debut, Nowell had been

From the first notes of "Equally Damaged"

and cool touches of the electric piano

but the song structures became much more complex

Sweet Jane

circa Automatic for the People

Peace Of Mind

MacKaye's "Instrument" and Picciotto's "Last Chance for a Slow Dance

Suma "smells like a moldy cabin and looks like a haunted house

It is the most intriguing take on hallucinatory rap since the heady heights of COLD VEIN or MADVILLAINY

Pop employed a variety of production techniques that were relatively new to U2

Prelude: Song Of The Gulls 4:14

forming in 1990 and breaking up in 1997