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Mar. 14th, 2008 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaOn Fridays this year, we ask...
What's in the Box?
The Box in question is the glovebox of my car, home to my extremely motley tape collection. By the time I owned a car with a tape player tapes were on the way out and most of my music was in CD format. However, charity shops were practically giving tapes away, which meant that I bought rapaciously and eclectically. A half-remembered 80s band who once released a single I'd liked a little ? A band I'd vaguely heard of ? An unknown group with good cover art ? Bring them on.
Of course, the net result is that I've ended up with a tape collection which any music-lover would be slightly ashamed of. There was a relatively narrow window (late 70s to later 80s) when tapes were big news, and my horde represents that. However, in amongst the terrible pop I've found some gems and I reckon its time to come clean about my guilty musical secrets.
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?
The Box in question is the glovebox of my car, home to my extremely motley tape collection. By the time I owned a car with a tape player tapes were on the way out and most of my music was in CD format. However, charity shops were practically giving tapes away, which meant that I bought rapaciously and eclectically. A half-remembered 80s band who once released a single I'd liked a little ? A band I'd vaguely heard of ? An unknown group with good cover art ? Bring them on.
Of course, the net result is that I've ended up with a tape collection which any music-lover would be slightly ashamed of. There was a relatively narrow window (late 70s to later 80s) when tapes were big news, and my horde represents that. However, in amongst the terrible pop I've found some gems and I reckon its time to come clean about my guilty musical secrets.
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]
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I'll probably go and poke around their other stuff now. I'd only ever heard Don't Speak and Hey Baby, neither of which I found particularly to my taste.