Vinyl Me Please Essentials

[Nee Lewman]

So you’d just be shot in the head?

You are surprised by this?

 

[spilledleche]

Sublime is a fantastic nostalgia pick for people of a certain age. I haven't listened to it in years, outside of hearing the 3-5 big songs from it on XM Lithium in the car, but it's well known, has a narrative around it, and I'm sure VMP will move a bunch of copies to people who'll get it, listen a couple times, and put it back on their shelf

 

[mitchwagz]

I just told the wife that April is Sublime and… I guess I’m getting Sublime.

Edit: had to double check and make sure this wasn’t the album with Date Rape on it. It is not, thank fuck for that.

It does have Caress Me Down though! Still a yucky song.

 

[mitchwagz]

The opening track, “Garden Grove” is better than some of the singles IMO.

Probably the best song on the album. Plus it has a great LKJ sample. Introduced me to his music actually after looking up what the sample was ages ago. Sublime did cover/sample/shout out some great music so they do have that going for them!

 

[grendel627]

It does have Caress Me Down though! Still a yucky song.

I have no interest in Sublime. Happy to ignore them just as I did in the '90s. But with all this conversation, I got curious and googled the lyrics to that song. Wow. I really wish I hadn't.

 

[spilledleche]

I have no interest in Sublime. Happy to ignore them just as I did in the '90s. But with all this conversation, I got curious and googled the lyrics to that song. Wow. I really wish I hadn't.

definitely the song you skipped over when your mom came in the room and definitely not something that's aged well in any way

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I have no interest in Sublime. Happy to ignore them just as I did in the '90s. But with all this conversation, I got curious and googled the lyrics to that song. Wow. I really wish I hadn't.

As someone who can still rap all the lyrics to Snoop Doggs “Ain’t No Fun” and “Lodi Dodi” I can say people seem to be fairly prudish about some of Sublime’s more juvenile songs/lyrics. These songs were designed to be goofy and outlandish that’s why teenage boys liked them they were dirty jokes with melody.

 

[Viking Dan]

As someone who can still rap all the lyrics to Snoop Doggs “Ain’t No Fun” and “Lodi Dodi” I can say people seem to be fairly prudish about some of Sublime’s more juvenile songs/lyrics. These songs were designed to be goofy and outlandish that’s why teenage boys liked them they were dirty jokes with melody.

The owner of They Might Be Giants Flood, for unironic reasons, co-signs this thought.

Also, if you own any RHCP, people in glass houses.....

 

[Nee Lewman]

As someone who can still rap all the lyrics to Snoop Doggs “Ain’t No Fun” and “Lodi Dodi” I can say people seem to be fairly prudish about some of Sublime’s more juvenile songs/lyrics. These songs were designed to be goofy and outlandish that’s why teenage boys liked them they were dirty jokes with melody.

You’re a dirty joke! Jury is out on melody.

 

[Gavaxeman]

I tried longboarding for the first time ever in my early 30s and severely broke my ankle (still have pins and rods in there).

Yep skateboarding , ice skating , roller blading - all should be banned after the age of 12

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

You’re a dirty joke! Jury is out on melody.

I’ve been called much worse.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

I have no interest in Sublime. Happy to ignore them just as I did in the '90s. But with all this conversation, I got curious and googled the lyrics to that song. Wow. I really wish I hadn't.

Jort rock (rock performed by shirtless dudes wearing jean shorts) had a very short shelf-life, only slightly longer than nu-metal

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Yep skateboarding , ice skating , roller blading - all should be banned after the age of 12

My 54yo knees are agreeing with you. They would stand and salute you but hurt too much

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Jort rock (rock performed by shirtless dudes wearing jean shorts) had a very short shelf-life, only slightly longer than nu-metal

Agree but also Sublime kinda transcends that definition. My local “Alternative” radio station still regularly plays deep cuts from this album and they still sell Sublime t-shirts at the mall.

 

[Gavaxeman]

My 54yo knees are agreeing with you. They would stand and salute you but hurt too much

And we should ban backwards baseball caps on anyone over 12 too
And those bloody Peaky Blinder caps…
And silly beards …..

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

And we should ban backwards baseball caps on anyone over 12 too
And those bloody Peaky Blinder caps…
And silly beards …..

Literally me as a 41 year-old man right damn now…

…I’m gonna haveta disagree.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Literally me as a 41 year-old man right damn now…
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…I’m gonna disagree.

Don't think that counts as a silly beard. Hoping @Gavaxeman was meaning beards that look silly

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Don't think that counts as a silly beard. Hoping @Gavaxeman was meaning beards that look silly

No comment on backwards ballcap though? I thought I was pulling it off.

 

[Hemotep]

Sublime is a fantastic nostalgia pick for people of a certain age. I haven't listened to it in years, outside of hearing the 3-5 big songs from it on XM Lithium in the car, but it's well known, has a narrative around it, and I'm sure VMP will move a bunch of copies to people who'll get it, listen a couple times, and put it back on their shelf

Isn't that what most all of us do with all of our albums because we own way too many to do much else with them?

 

[jamieanderson1968]

No comment on backwards ballcap though? I thought I was pulling it off.

As a bald man, I advocate the use any hat to keep your head warm