I never did get tired of Santeria
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Like 40 ounces, this is another landmark album that can be played and enjoyed from start to finish, packed with classics. Pretty much every song. To say there are only occasional hooks is absurd. They're everywhere. Every line almost. To say Nowell wasn't as gifted a lyricist as generally thought, is utter bull***. Dead or alive, and I'm not riding Bradley's d***, dude was f***ing brilliant. 40 ounces is a five star lo-fi classic. Sublime is a five star classic, period.
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Woo I'm crazy here
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Album Rating: 4.0
This is my deserted island 🏝jam right here
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Album Rating: 4.0
Colllllld ass honkey jams
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Album Rating: 3.0
The run of tracks from What I Got to Santeria would make for a killer EP! Can give or take the rest of the album, it's pretty inconsistent.
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Album Rating: 4.5
summertime, when livin's easy
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Album Rating: 4.5
Great review bro, but wrong way is a tuneeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Album Rating: 4.0
lol talking to a user that hasn't been active in 12 years
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Album Rating: 4.5
leave him alone, when your new it is hard to tell
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Album Rating: 4.0
I thought it was cute sorry :3
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Album Rating: 4.5
lol damn...
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Album Rating: 4.5
good shit.
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Album Rating: 5.0
As a show of sympathy, the album tended to be slightly overrated in some critical quarters, who claimed that Nowell was an exceptionally gifted lyricist and musical hybridist, but Sublime doesn't quite support those claims... Sublime sags when the band delves too deeply into their dub aspirations or when their lyrics slide into smirking humor. The low moments don't arrive that often -- by and large, the album is quite engaging -- but they happen frequently enough to make the record a demonstration of the band's blossoming ability, but not the fulfillment of their full potential. Of course, Nowell's death gives the record a certain pathos, but that doesn't make the album any stronger.
The quotes above are from allmusic and it is a trend I've been seeing the last several years of disparaging Sublime, and specifically claiming the record was initially critically acclaimed not on its own merits but as some kind of sympathy ploy for Bradley Nowell.
It's upsetting to see because to me this album remains fresh and a reggae/ska/dub/punk standout to this day. Bradley was undeniably a huge talent with his singing, guitar work and especially songwriting. He melded and jumped genres effortlessly, often within one song. His writing is very clever, witness his songs that didn't have choruses (Garden Grove is a personal favorite) but are still unbelievably catchy - a feat that is very difficult to pull off. Then on top of all of his talents, Bradley put soul into everything he did, his love for music oozes out of his voice and guitar. It's a shame he died so young and it's an equal shame that his work is now undermined this way.
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Album Rating: 5.0
"Sublime is a five star classic, period."
"Album Rating: 4.0"
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Album Rating: 4.0
IT GETS SO REAL SOMETIMES
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Bradley Nowell: I can play the guitar like a motherfuckin riot
Also Bradley Nowell: *dink dink dink diiink dinka dink*
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Album Rating: 4.5
Brads son sounds just like him, im pretty curious to see what comes of this. They’re talking about recording some lost Brad material too.
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