I & I Survived (Dub)

When I first heard this album, I got frozen beacuse of the baseline. If you've ever heard some Mad Professor work, you may identify the classic bass he puts on every tune; so, those guys made a similar composition. It's just created to listen it up smokin' boo and hanging around with it. Try it!

Retreat

Cutty Ranks must be one of the betters toasters ever. I've saw a video in which he'd jammed with Wayne Smith 'Sleng Teng' baseline and just rocked (look for it on youtube). I love his music and voice. This album has amazings baselines and arranges. You can notice the whole baseline is made with synthesized bass (could be Casio MT 40, am I wrong?) and has so much riddim. Very dancehall stylee. Gotta listen it.

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Prison Oval Rock

I first met this album thanx to Sublime's live cover of Prison Oval Rock. I get shocked and love it. This creation has soul and amazing musicline. Great disc you've should pay for it, but whatever, there are the link if you wanna download it.

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REWIND SELECTOR

Let's see... Rewind Selector means the big effort of a community (fans), to bring together -in one album- almost the entire discography of Sublime. What could be the interesting? Well, first of all, it's a independent creation. Then, it's not a simple compilation of a rock band. Why? 'Cause all this work defines a paradigm on music styles: what Sublime did in early '90s. In fact, Rewind Selector was started in the 1990s with 14 tracks, and has now grown to 102.

The purpose of all of this is to reveal the influences, the boosts, the roots, the sources and all that lil' thing that could brought on the table something valuable for Sublime, mainly to Brad, who was the band's mastermind. If you've some knowledge, you may know Sublime made a lot of covers from artists such as Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bad Religion, UB40, Bad Brains, The Toyes... and so go on. That was only a list of covered artists, but the majority of Sublime's discography was based on blending samples, riffs, chorus or anything that could be used to assemble a song -even if it's a simple speach-. As a matter of fact, check the album cover and you'll find some of the artits albums influence.

E.g.: the famous single 'What I Got' (in all of it versions) has included various things on it, such as the chrous of Half Pint song 'Loving', a Lauren Hill's lyric part of Fugees remix song 'Nappy Heads' and dub Prince Jammy song, 'Round6'. Well, there are too many more featurings on it. Here we goes:
- On "Get Out!", at the bridge, you can hear how Bradley played a guitar part of a Led Zeppelin song "The Lemon Song". Also, the drum is based on Minutemen song "It's Expected I'm Gone".
- Horance Andy helps Brad to create the socall Dub Medley tune with his "Elementary" song ("Ain't got no style and ain't got no fashion elementary").
- The well-known lyric of "Saw Red" sang by Brad & Gwen, cames from a love reggae song made by genius Barrington Levy.
- Remember the catchy 'Zungguzungguguzungguzeng'? Ok, Yellowman had contributed to create one of my fav Sublime songs ever "Greatest Hits".
- "Steady B Loop Dub" is nothing more but an overdub of '80 song "Bring The Beat Back" by Philly rapper Steady B.
- The song April 29, 1992 took a sampler and scratched it for "Shook Ones Pt. II" song from Mobb Deep.
- The baseline of many jams Sublime played live onstage (included the setbox song Garden Grove on Take 2), cames from Courtney Melody mid-'80-dancehall-song called "A Ninja Mi Ninja".
- From Robbin' the Hood Dubs, the organ rhythm of "Cisco Kid" was based on "When The Music's Over" by the famous The Doors, and "Free Loop Dub" from "Loaded by "Primal Scream".
- You can hear a part of the '89 Vision lyrics from "Hip Hop Rules" by Boogie Down Productions, the early hip hop KRS-1 band.
- One of the better Brad's scatting ever and responsable for the subtitle of this blog, "Gimmie my Share", which apperas officially on the posthumous Secondhand Smoke album, on song "April 29, 1992 Leary version", cames from the real "Give Me My Share" by roots reggae singer Jah Rubel.
- "Get Ready" was born from "Are You Ready?" song by the jamaican Frankie Paul.
- The song "Caress me Down" was made by Wayne Smith's hit "(Under my) Sleng Teng" baseline and Clement Irie chorus with same-name song.
- The "Can you stand the rain" sample used on Miami Dub is really a speech done by KRS-1.
- Linton Kwesi Johnson contributed with his 'madness' on Garden Grove scratching.
- The Kingstep Dub was originally by Pato Banton (and I could be wrong, but UB40 too).
- "I love my Dog" is a cover of "I love I Jah" by Bad Brains.

And, off course, it can't be missed 3 of better Sublime songs ever: the improvisation acapella duet that Brad and Miguel done of "Winner Takes It All" by Half Pint and 2 Bob Marley covers: the 1st, "Guava Jelly / This Train" (a.k.a. "Marley Medley") and my fav song ever... so much damn hart "Hammer".

Finally, to quote one of its creators, Matt Maguir": "The type of question I hate to hear is “What bands sound like Sublime? Ever hear Pepper, O.A.R….?” That is the wrong perspective and only leads to following derivatives of music, simplifying music to pop-Sublime – any band with a crooning voice and a taste of surf-guitar. It’s far more important to ask “What bands did Sublime sound like?” – which will move you up in your musical knowledge and broaden your chance for discovery. Rewind Selector attempts to rewire the biggest fans of Sublime into bigger fans of music, teaching them where Sublime got its roots, and hopefully finding several more favorite bands for each person who takes the time to listen."

Due Rewind Selector is a noncommercial compilation, here are the links. Feel free to download its parts (4 parts)

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Dub Side Of The Moon

Because of my age, I didn't grow up with classic rock bands as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and others. Becuase of my laziness, I didn't have heard yet some classic piece of rocks albums. But, because of life things (and Internet), I have found this modern pice of dub album: Dub Side Of The Moon, of NYC's reggae formation Easy Star All-Stars, to flatter in contrast of the 1973 Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon". For some reason, this 13-tracks-album hits me. It has really good arranges and creates a volatile psychedelic atmospheric. If you've ever the lucky to hear the original one and can make a comparision, good for you. For now, I telling you go a buy this modern piece of music album, but don't hurry up so much, there's a downloadable version on digital format.

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Stand by your Van

There's a quote that often comes up in Sublime trubites and on the countless Web pages dedicates to the band which describes Sublime as a "below average garage punk band that every kid wants to play his party". Though many authors are quick to point out that Sublime's genres-jumping style of ska, hip hop, punk, reggae and dub reached far beyond that, live Sublime - even at the height of their career - always retained that three-guys-playing-for-beer attitude. Whether in front of 50 or 5,000 people, Sublime was either at a party, brought one along or caused one to start.

Just three guys and a Dalmatian jumping onstage and looking for a good time. Often playing without a set list and letting the show go in any direction it chose, the Sublime experience had the ease of an open-invitation Long Beach backyard party.

Undedicated to one specific genre or clique, Sublime were a direct representation of the Southern California beach community where color, race, musical style didn't matter. One of the few bands that could remain so individualistic yet appeal to so many different kinds of people, Sublime, shows would have dreadlocked Rasta lovers grooving, beach bunnies shimmying and SoCal tattooed punks moshing - all to the same song.

Anyone, though, who tells you Sublime were always good live is lying. But that's what made them so memorable. There were those nights when extended members of the Sublime family would jump on stage for their go at the mic. But even then the guys were able to string grooves together, peppering ska riffs with snippets of songs in the works of giving way to punk ferocity, ending the set with a series of Bad Brains covers.

Having played together since childhood, the guys could improvise with ease. When they hit that groove, it didn't matter so much what Brad - a scat master of lyrical improvisation - was saying, but what everyone was feeling. Those were the moments of bliss. When Brad would forget the lyrics, but the crowd would fill in the gaps. When the set became an incomprehensible jam that wondered down all of Sublime's musical avenues, snagging parts of songs throughout. When you were allowed to do your thing - wharever that may be. When nothing else mattered except that party around you. That's when you realized there will never be another band that felr as good as, as free or as welcoming as Sublime.

JR GRIFFIN

True Love

Ok. There are very good greatest hits for every good artist. You can blend all the best singles as much as you can, but it will be just another album with greatest songs. Or you can make arranges and featuring you best repertory and performance it with people such as Eric Clapton, Bunny Wailer, Manu Chao or even No Doubt. Just imagine that.

Well, Frederick Hibbert a.k.a. 'Toots', the mastermind of Toots And The Maytals thought this could be a good idea and made it. This compilatory album got everything. From the classic '54-56 was my Number' to the happy 'Reggae got Soul' (I recommend listen to the 311 cover of Reggae got Soul song). A very crossover album, which let behind the roots for a while to mix the old music with fresh rhythms. E.g. you can hear a featured song with pop-punk-ska band No Doubt and other songs with Keith Richards (courtesy of the Rolling Stones). Personally, this ain't one of my favourite albums, but I believe in blending music in order to create a better one. And this album does it. So, what are you waiting for? Go and get this relic from the store, or simply click below and download for free, but isn't a legal matter.

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