Sublime, Sublime
SublimeSUBLIME.
Sublime's self-titled third album became the band's commercial breakthrough after Bradley Nowell's death, turning a collection of reggae, punk, hip-hop and dub influences into a posthumous phenomenon.
Album artwork shown for commentary and historical reference. Cover image source: Cover Art Archive or the linked archival source.
SEVEN THINGS
WORTH KNOWING.
Recording stories, personnel, physical details and numbers worth keeping with the record.
Sublime was released in 1996 and the standard album contains 17 tracks.
Paul Leary produced and mixed much of the record.
Many sessions took place at Pedernales Studio in Spicewood, Texas and were mixed at Arlyn Studios in Austin.
The core lineup was Bradley Nowell, Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh.
The album includes "What I Got," "Santeria," "Wrong Way" and "Doin' Time."
Several tracks use samples or reinterpret earlier reggae, punk and hip-hop material as part of Sublime's hybrid sound.
Bradley Nowell died before the album was released, so the record's enormous success happened without the band being able to tour behind it.
WHY THIS
ALBUM MATTERS.
Sublime matters because its genre mixing feels less like deliberate crossover strategy than the natural sound of a band absorbing everything around it, from Jamaican music to punk to hip-hop.
THE
NUMBERS.
TRACKS
The standard album contains seventeen songs.
CORE MEMBERS
Nowell, Wilson and Gaugh formed Sublime's central trio.
RELEASE
The album appeared after Bradley Nowell's death.
THE
PHYSICAL OBJECT.
The cover turns Nowell's back tattoo into the album's central image, making the band's own visual history part of the packaging.
RESEARCH SOURCES
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DIGGING.
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