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.

  • paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    My boyfriend is really into punk, including Sublime. Before we started dating I would have put Sublime in C tier for music. They’re fine enough- I most likely won’t complain or anything if a song of theirs comes on, but not good enough to go out of my way to listen to.

    At my bf’s suggestion I listened to their first album last month. It was… Challenging. Aside from one exception, every single song sounded the same. Like, basically they had 1 idea for how they wanted to sound and milked it. I don’t tend to care about lyrics a whole lot, but I appreciate most of the political messaging. I thinj my bf expected me to like the weed references but… Eh.

    The one exception was “Date Rape”, which I had definitely heard before. Musically, it differentiates itself by leaning more into swing and just sounding goofier overall. The lyrics… I felt differently about them when I waa younger. The idea of a terrible man preying upon women being sent to jail to be preyed upon himself has a certain appeal of karmic justice to it. But now that i’m older i’m just kind of disgusted by how predatory american criminal justice system is. “Don’t drop the soap” humor makes light of a very serious issue, and “the for-profit prison system is the answer” doesn’t have the appeal that it used to. It perpetuates the cycles of violence within our society in order to be more emotionally satisfying. The modern Norwegian prison system is IMO a much better model for creating a society with less violence in it.

    Maybe some day I’ll go and listen to their other few albums, but… Eh.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      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.