![]() ![]() A longer instrumental version of the recording appears on the compilation Second-hand Smoke as "Thanx Dub", with a length of 6:28. The original cassette version contained a longer version of the track "Thanx" the cassette version was 5:56, while the length was 4:23 on all other releases of the album. The album was originally released by Skunk Records on compact disc and cassette. "New Song" starts the same as the 1990 song 'The Nigga Ya Love To Hate' by Ice Cube, with the line "I heard payback's a motherfuckin". In "New Thrash," the words "There ain't no life nowhere" can be heard in the background, a reference to the Jimi Hendrix Experience song "I Don't Live Today" where the same words can be heard. The song "D.J.s" closes with lyrics from the Dandy Livingstone song " Rudy, A Message to You" which was popularized by The Specials, another band often credited as a Sublime influence. The song "D.J.s" contains a lyric from Bob Marley's "Ride Natty Ride" with "Dred gotta a job to do". The song "Don't Push" contains lyrics from the Beastie Boys song " Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun". " Rivers of Babylon" (by The Melodians)." 54-46 That's My Number" (by Toots & the Maytals)." We're Only Gonna Die" (by Bad Religion).References are also made to Boomtown Rats, Beastie Boys, Tenor Saw, Pink Floyd, The Specials, The Ziggens, Minutemen, Jimi Hendrix, Just-Ice, Fishbone, Public Enemy, and Flavor Flav, among others. The line "Stolen from an Africa land" in "Don't Push", for example, alludes to Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier". In addition to explicit mentions of artists like KRS-One and Half Pint, Nowell makes copious allusions to others through his lyrics. Sublime themselves credit a number of local reggae and rap bands from California for inspiration in their Thanx Dub. We managed to get $30,000 worth of studio time for free." Influences Nowell recalled "You weren't supposed to be in there after 9 p.m., but we'd go in at 9:30 and stay until 5 in the morning. to Freedom in secrecy at the studios in California State University, Dominguez Hills. Using the same tactics implemented for the recording of Jah Won't Pay the Bills, the band recorded 40oz. The tape helped the band gain a grassroots following throughout Southern California. The recording session resulted in the popular cassette tape called Jah Won't Pay the Bills, which was released in 1991. The band enthusiastically agreed and broke into the school at night, where they recorded from midnight to seven in the morning. In 1990, music student Michael "Miguel" Happoldt approached the band, offering to let the band record in the studio at the school where Happoldt was studying. They tried, but it just sounded like such garbage. Nowell recalled the experience: "I was trying to get them to do ( UB40's version of) 'Cherry Oh Baby', and it didn't work. At first, Wilson did not share Nowell's interest in reggae music. to Freedom is one of the highest-selling independently released albums of all time.Īt the age of sixteen, Bradley Nowell began playing guitar and started his first band, Hogan's Heroes, with Michael Yates and Eric Wilson, who would later become Sublime's bassist. Along with The Offspring's 1994 album Smash, 40oz. As of 2011, the album has certified sales of two million copies in the US and is Sublime's second best-selling studio album there (the self-titled album leads with six million). Sublime would not achieve any mainstream success until the release of their eponymous album in 1996. to Freedom received mixed reviews from critics upon release, but has since earned an improved public perception. to Freedom 's sound blended various forms of Jamaican music, including ska ( "Date Rape"), rocksteady (" 54-46 That's My Number"), roots reggae (" Smoke Two Joints"), and dub ("Let's Go Get Stoned", "D.J.s") along with hardcore punk ("New Thrash", "Hope") and hip hop (as in "Live at E's").Ĥ0oz. to Freedom is the debut studio album by American ska punk band Sublime, originally released on June 1, 1992, on Skunk Records.
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