Remembering Bradley Nowell: 24 Years Later

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Covered songsEdit

• "Pawn Shop" is a cover of "War Deh Round A John Shop" by The Wailing Souls with modified lyrics.
• "What I Got" is based on Half Pint's "Loving" and features a similar melody to The Beatles's "Lady Madonna".[10][11][12]
• Sublime also covers The Wailers' 1965 song "Jailhouse", written by Bunny Wailer, combining it with a partial cover of Tenor Saw's "Roll Call" in "Jailhouse".[13]
• "The Ballad of Johnny Butt" is largely a cover of a Secret Hate song from their Vegetables Dancing + Live & More album.[14]
• "Doin' Time" is a loose cover of the jazz standard "Summertime" by George Gershwin.[3]
• "Get Ready" is largely based on Frankie Paul's 1987 single of the same name.

Borrowed elementsEdit
Some of the album's original compositions also have borrowed elements:

• While "April 29, 1992" is an original song, it features samples from "La Di Da Di" by Doug E. Fresh featuring MC Ricky D (a.k.a. Slick Rick), "Original Gangster of Hip-Hop" by Just-Ice, and "Shook One (Part 1)" by Mobb Deep.[15]
• The heavy bass line of "Garden Grove" is based on Courtney Melody's 1988 7' single "A Ninja Mi Ninja",[16] and a synth loop in the third verse is lifted from The Ohio Players' "Funky Worm."
• Much of the rhythm and melody of "Wrong Way" was borrowed from The Specials "It's Up To You" off their 1979 self-titled album.[17]
• Part of the melody from "Seed" was taken from The Bel-Airs 1961 single "Mr. Moto" as well as "Lori Meyers" by NOFX.[18]
• The guitar solo and chords in "Santeria" were a reuse of the ones in their song "Lincoln Highway Dub" featured on the previous album, Robbin' the Hood.[19]
• "Burritos" is a reworked version of one of Sublime's earliest recordings called "Fighting Blindly", albeit with vastly different lyrics.
• The bass line of "Caress Me Down" features the famous Sleng Teng riddim from Wayne Smith's 1985 song "Under Me Sleng Teng" and lyrics and melody are primarily from the 1980s 12-inch single "Caress Me Down" by Clement Irie.[20
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  that’s just the self titled album you can look up the others on Wikipedia they all have a bunch.

WTF is this? Covers are covers.... word for word the same song and melody. Songs being based on other songs is like 80% of popular music.

 

[louiscyphere]

first time I ever heard this, Sublime rarely gets mentioned at all among those 90s group, you re over 36 right?

Maybe I’m just speaking too much from personal experience but I knew tons of people that consider them one of the greatest bands of all time. I don’t follow popular music much anymore and haven’t for a long time. I really have no idea how they would be “ranked” today or if anyone under 30 has any idea who they are. You’re probably right if you’re saying they don’t.