He proudly sings about robbing and looting stores to improve his home furnishings.
This song is about Bradley Nowell’s involvement in the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992. Because when you’re young and drunk and stupid, “40oz to Freedom” is your ticket to drunken freedom, which almost feels like the real thing sometimes. If you want to be young and drunk and stupid then you probably also want to listen to Sublime, and perhaps the best Sublime song for you is “40oz to Freedom”. As far as irreverent stoner songs go, it doesn’t get much better than “Smoke Two Joints” by Sublime.
That sun has become known to represent stonerdom, and “Smoke Two Joints” and the rest of Sublime’s music by tangent has become central to that, even if the song is a cover. To Freedom, the first song you probably think of is “Smoke Two Joints”. To Freedom, 1992)Īnytime you see the Sublime sunshine logo from 40oz. This song really rips in the ska department and is one of the most motion-inspiring Sublime songs on this list. It’s got the classic Sublime lyric: “I’m drunk by noon but that’s okay / I’ll be president someday”. This list consists of Sublime’s greatest hits, which includes a bass-driven song called “Greatest Hits”. “Greatest-Hits” ( Robbin’ The Hood, 1994) Their album Right Back is solid material.Īnyway, here are the 10 best Sublime songs. With the unfortunate reality of Bradley Nowell’s young death, we were left with just 3 official Sublime albums, and then a handful of posthumous records churned up by the label and the surviving members of the band.īefore I get into my list of the best Sublime songs, I want to plug Long Beach Dub All-Stars, a band formed by surviving members of Sublime Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh.
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Maybe the folks over at Pitchfork who say they want the Sublime genre to die out have simply forgotten how to have fun. Sublime were great because they were innovative in their own unique way, and they’re the type of dudes that you would want at your party, as long as you took the proper precautions of locking up your valuables beforehand. The genre would look entirely different in much the same way that hip-hop would look different had Biggie Smalls survived.Ī few of the bands who spawned in the Sublime genre were actually good, like Slightly Stoopid, 311, and Pepper, but there are only so many ways you can cut white boy reggae rock before it gets stale, and what resulted was an oversaturation of the genre, a bubble of sorts that is now past its prime but still not quite done. Or else they would have ended up on the level of Red Hot Chili Peppers or Foo Fighters and filled arenas playing “What I Got” at age 50. He may have died a few years later, but we would have gotten at least one or two more albums of killer California surf rock and ska and punk and hip-hop before he kicked the bucket. Obviously Bradley’s death spurred popularity for the band, but I would argue that they would have made even more memorable music had Bradley survived. This inevitably spawned an endless onslaught of bands that sound like some blend of what Sublime did. In all honest and fair terms, Bradleys death caused a surge of popularity for Sublime, and since Sublime is actually a fantastic album that would have done well either way, the record blew up. I will confidently say that I had a Sublime poster on my dorm room wall in college, and I do still enjoy their music, however juvenile some of it may sound today.īradley Nowell’s death came of heroin overdose in May of 1996 just two months before the release of their self-titled album the one that has all of their most popular songs. Regardless, Sublime, along with their trusty pal Lou Dog, hold a special place in our nostalgic hearts, and while some may turn their noses up at the college stoners who love Sublime, we embrace that demographic here at Extra Chill, because I’ve been there myself, and those memories will forever be dear to me. Sublime’s reggae-infused rock sound has always, and will always go hand-in-hand with warm weather and cold beer, and of course the music will always be enhanced by the effects of marijuana, which is a frequent topic in the late Bradley Nowell’s songwriting. Sublime were one of the most influential bands of the 90s, and although some of their lyrics have not stood the test of time (“Date Rape” and “Wrong Way”, to name a couple), the vast majority of their old hits remain tried and true summertime and stoner anthems.
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