“People would say, ‘What kind of music do you like?’ Well, good music! I like punk, jazz, hip-hop and funk. “We couldn’t get a decent gig in Hollywood, because you couldn’t put us in a box,” he said. Once they pooled their influences and began sampling songs on their own records, Gaugh said it was difficult to book shows because promoters couldn’t categorize the band. When the pair met Nowell several years later, Wilson said he was the one that introduced them to reggae, roots, ska, Two-Tone and hip-hop music. Two months before the album was released, 28-year-old vocalist-guitarist Bradley Nowell died of a drug overdose while on tour in San Francisco, leaving behind the band, his wife Troy Dendekker and their 11-month old son, Jakob. I don’t know if at the time they knew how timeless these songs were going to be.”įor the band and those close to it, Sublime’s breakthrough success also came at a time of great tragedy. It sounds like we should be going to the beach. That band, that album cover, these songs … they are stronger than ever and they still, 25 years later, feel so fresh. “What did we know? We were a bunch of young idiots, but it was obvious that this band was going to be something great. “I vividly remember sitting with my co-workers at the radio station in Tuscon, Arizona when we first heard ‘What I Got,’ and we were like, ‘Wow, this is going to be huge,’” former KROQ DJ Ted Stryker said during a recent phone interview. It went on to sell over millions of copies worldwide, spawning several singles including “What I Got,” “Santeria,” “Wrong Way” and “Doin’ Time.” The album was popular on both radio and MTV, thanks to an eclectic sound that intertwined elements of punk, ska, reggae, funk and hip-hop, as well as samples from artists like Bob Marley, George Gershwin, The Specials and The Who.
On July 30, 1996, Sublime released its self-titled mainstream debut on MCA Records.Īlthough the Long Beach band had already put out two independent albums prior to this one, “Sublime” was different.
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