Sublime - 40oz. To Freedom

Getting to an album requested by follower Janis, my headphones are once again brought to Sublime, and the 40oz record. You may recall I did their self titled work a month ago now, which was the final entry in their discography. This was the first entry, and I think it's somewhat clear they were still working to find their style here. Sublime isn't really my favorite band ever to begin with, but to me this record is substantially worse than the self titled one. The only reason I say that, it doesn't really have that guitar anthem like 'Pawn Shop' it doesn't have that incredible sing along track like 'What I Got' and it doesn't have that super awesome one like 'Santeria'. Don't get me wrong, I still think this is a good record, it's just not my favorite. Most of the songs are kind of silly and don't contain any substance. And for that reason, it's a pretty good jam record. If you're cleaning your house and want to put some background music on really loud, this would be good for that. As far as me sitting down and listen while working, there are a million other albums I'd put on first. It seems like this one has picked up popularity over time, as it was considered a flop initially, but has now sold over 2 Million copies in the US alone. It's a blend of a lot of styles, has some reggae, rock, alt rock, punk etc all mixed together. It's a little different, but kind of neat. If you've never picked this one up before - it's certainly worth checking out. I'd get to it after the Self Titled if I were you, but hey - it's your life. Happy Thursday B Siders!

TRACK LISTING:
1. Waiting For My Ruca
2. 40oz. To Freedom
3. Smoke Two Joints
4. We're Only Gonna Die For Our Arrogance
5. Don't Push
6. 5446 That's My Number / Ball And Chain
7. Badfish
8. Lets Go Get Stoned
9. New Thrash
10. Scarlet Begonias
11. Live at E's
12. D.J.S
13. Chica Me Tipo
14. Right Back
15. What Happened
16. New Song
17. Ebin
18. Date Rape
19. Hope
20. Krs-One
21. Rivers of Babylon
22. Thanks

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Top 3 Tracks:
1. KRS-One
2. Scarlet Begonias
3. Date Rape

FINAL RATING:
3.75 out of 5 stars

Sublime - Self Titled

Chalk up yet another album in which I initially picked it up just due to one song. When 'What I Got' dropped - this seemed like a must have. Typically, it seems whenever I buy something just based on one track, I almost always get the quickest feeling of buyers remorse possible. But once in a very long while, it works the other way. Book this record as one of those instances. After well over a decade of listening to this, What I Got isn't going to make my Top 3 list. There are just too many other good tracks on here that I listen to way more often. Obviously Sublime isn't making more tuneage, but I feel this is the standard for any record by them. And again, another '90s band that had a totally different sound than anything I had heard before. The guitar work, the lyrics, some use of horns in different songs - really catchy yet solid pieces of music history. If you haven't heard this one start to finish, do yourself a favor and slap yourself across the face, and then treat yourself to some gold.

TRACK LISTING:
1. Garden Grove
2. What I Got (Remix)
3. Wrong Way
4. Same in the End
5. April 29, 1992 (Miami)
6. Santeria
7. Seed
8. Jailhouse
9. Pawn Shop
10. Paddle Out
11. Ballad Of Johnny Butt, The
12. Burritos
13. Under My Voodoo
14. Get Ready
15. Caress Me Down
16. What I Got
17. Doin' Time

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Top 3 Tracks:
1. Pawn Shop
2. Santeria
3. Doin' Time

FINAL RATING:
4.25 out of 5 stars