I know just what you're thinking
Mar. 14th, 2008 04:12 pmOn Fridays this year, we ask...
( What's in the Box? )
In The Box this week we have:
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
I have a nasty feeling that there a probably a thousand No Doubt fans out there ready to call me a sell-out: I don't own any albums before Tragic Kingdom, and I don't own anything after it either. I just own the album which had all the big hits on it.
When choosing which track to post, I went to consult Wikipedia to see which had been released at singles. The answer was pretty much all of them; I managed to hunt out one that hadn't been, but it was quite tricky.
So... No Doubt. Mostly famous as a vehicle for Gwen Stefani, I was vaguely surprised to find them described as a ska band. Actually, it's not unreasonable. Just custom and usage has led me to expect ska bands to be vaguely shouty and exclusively male. It's probably not helped that their most famous track, Don't Speak really isn't very ska at all.
No Doubt - Happy Now
[Poll #1154166]
( What's in the Box? )
In The Box this week we have:
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
I have a nasty feeling that there a probably a thousand No Doubt fans out there ready to call me a sell-out: I don't own any albums before Tragic Kingdom, and I don't own anything after it either. I just own the album which had all the big hits on it.
When choosing which track to post, I went to consult Wikipedia to see which had been released at singles. The answer was pretty much all of them; I managed to hunt out one that hadn't been, but it was quite tricky.
So... No Doubt. Mostly famous as a vehicle for Gwen Stefani, I was vaguely surprised to find them described as a ska band. Actually, it's not unreasonable. Just custom and usage has led me to expect ska bands to be vaguely shouty and exclusively male. It's probably not helped that their most famous track, Don't Speak really isn't very ska at all.
No Doubt - Happy Now
[Poll #1154166]