I’m pretty sure Tragic Kingdom was the first CD I ever purchased. No Doubt and Reel Big Fish were super popular ska bands back then. Great reaction, I love when you start playing the riffs on the piano. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The first two were actually No Doubt (1992) and The Beacon Street Collection (1995). Trapped In A Box was their debut single from the No Doubt album. Check out the video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DccmKKnizFY.html
This isn't their most ska tune but another favourite of mine. Other 90s Ska you can wrap your ears around would be Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish and Slapstick.
Jesus not even close. Their first album was way more ska than this was for sure. And it’s all the better for it lol. Don’t get me wrong, their self titled is a great album, but I really gotta be in some kind of mood for it.
All 90s kids loved No Doubt. As a bass player Geezer Butler, Tony and krist from nirvana were my top 3 influences growing up. Tony def has a great style and made the songs pop.
There’s something to be said for putting a band together when you’re in your teens as No Doubt did… And I believe that’s part of the reason they’re so incredibly tight in their records…and equally as amazing in concert. Phenomenal. They’re reuniting (headlining) at Coachella 2024!!
Hello from New England...I saw No Doubt in 1995 in Tucson Arizona and they killed it..They were on a triple bill with Korn and the British band Bush..Which Gwyne later went in to marry the singer of Bush...Great pick..Peace from the Northeast..
No Doubt has been broken up for a while now, unfortunately. Tragic Kingdom was one of the first albums I ever owned as a teenager. Linkin Park and Sublime were also in the top 5. If you like this one, I highly recommend Spiderwebs by No Doubt as well. Fun and catchy song!
If you want some full on ska from No Doubt, check out some tracks from their first album like Move On, Trapped in a Box, and Brand New Day. Massively underrated!
Their first couple of albums came out when I was in high-school and you better damn believe Gwen's midriff was just as big an attractor as her voice was
Funny you mention her “tummy” in this video. I was in high school for tragic kingdom release. And I literally started dressing like her for that exact reason. Because I thought how awesome she looked. 😂 oh what memories…hopefully there are no pics of me from that trend moment in my life
Another 90s girl with a similar unique sound was Monique Powell from the band Save Ferris, loved them both in the 90s. Also, a very honorable mention to Kim Shattuck of The Muffs, probably the best female rock voice of the 90s imo, rip :(
If you get a chance to review another No Doubt song, do Ex Girlfriend from their Return of Saturn 🪐 album. Very different sound compared to their ska sound. Also, no they’re not together. Her band mates stayed together and try to do projects together cause they’re really close. They did an album together with lead singer Davey Havok of AFI and it was incredibly retro and 80s sound. Called DREAMCAR. Check their single Kill For Candy. 👍🏼
as a general rule , i dont like Ska at all, but i LOVE No Doubt ...even when i was growing up and this was current, i was into it and i was a metal/grunge kid. This didnt really fit into anything else me and my friends listened to, but we all loved this album. Used to blast this in the car on weekends all the time. Good stuff.
Ska is Derivative of Reggae, Punk and New Wave. Mostly, originally Reggae though. Originally Commercially implemented by The Police and Culture Club among others
Listen to “Summer Boy” by Lady Gaga. It’s weirdly Stefani-ish. At first I thought it was some Gwen solo B-side I’d never heard before then realized that couldn’t be bc I was listening to a CD in my old ass Mazda that still had a CD player 😂
ND's reunion tour has already been and gone, sadly, but Gwen still performs a fair few of their hits at her solo shows! If you were to do another ND, "Sunday Morning" is the 90s hit that got away... reeks nostalgia, it's just pure summery, lyrically-longing, harmonic, bass-led goodness. Way more ska instrumentally than Just A Girl, though nowhere near peak ND-ska-ness, but god this song slaps so you can't really go wrong! Tragic Kingdom is a 14 track no skips album of songwriting and instrumental mastery, there'd be no Hayley Williams without Gwen Stefani!
the singer for "Nova Twins" can sound a lot like Gwen, but i think she doesn't do it very often cause bitin' some ones style is not a great way to make it big.
You mentioned that she sounds like a cartoon character. It's Betty Boop, to me. She doesn't normally sound so cartoony, she's exaggerating to fit the song. About a woman being treated like a little girl as if she can't take care of or protect herself. She doesn't have the same rights as the men who are overprotecting her. "I'm Just A Girl" is a sarcastic reference to how men treat her.
yo, nice channel, made suggestions before, i'd like to do so again! for your consideration...: Archspire (Drone Corpse Aviator, perhaps, really anything off the recent album.) also, another band/album i'd ask you to consider reviewing a song or two off of: Whitechapel their newest album i think, could provide for an interesting vid or two on the channel, and is an album i generally enjoy. Deathcore+clean singing, not something you see often.
@@erichmika2316 neither, it's just a running joke I do about Tinder dates, I've never had a Tinder date, honestly no one has ever shown interest in me on any dating site.
Matthew Wilder (the dude who wrote Break My Stride) produced this record and has gone on record saying that he made it a point to downplay the ska influence on that record, to try and set the band apart from the ska scene that was bubbling up in LA at the time. Its odd that you hear ska in this. I've been playing ska music of all stripes for 25 years and I wouldn't peg it as ska at all. Banger of a tune,.but not really a ska song IMO.
