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Sublime
Everything Under the Sun
Release Date: 2006 11 14
Label: Geffen
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The late-summer 2006 release of the double-disc deluxe edition of Sublime seemed to be the final word on the seminal SoCal ska-punk band, at least to the casual observer. It offered a remastered, resequenced version of the album, restoring it to the version that the band intended to release prior to the tragic death of Bradley Nowell, buttressed with alternate takes, instrumentals, and remixes -- and when it was added to their catalog, which already had collections of demos and rarities, plus live albums, it seemed like everything had been documented. Not so. There were a bunch of Sublime rarities, mostly live cuts, that hadn't been officially released, so the band's cult -- which was still considerable, a decade after Nowell's demise -- circulated an online petition asking for the release of a rarities box. And lo and behold, the triple-CD/one-DVD box Everything Under the Sun appeared that November. The hardcore asked for it, so it's no surprise that the box is designed with the hardcore in mind: songs appear numerous times, sound quality wavers, and some of this stuff, like a 14-minute interview with Westwood One, takes dedication to sit through. Although there are a few demos, a couple of unreleased cuts (a cover of Dee Dee Warwick's "Foolish Fool," plus a version of "Doin' Time" with Snoop Dogg) and several acoustic versions, this primarily consists of live recordings, including many radio sessions, culled from throughout the band's career. There a few mild revelations -- on the earliest recordings, their debt to '80s ska revival bands like the English Beat is clearer than ever, for instance -- but the primary purpose of this a clearing-house for rarities that have been circulating on bootleg networks (or, in the case of the DVD, music videos and live clips). And on that level, Everything Under the Sun not only does its job quite well, but it also does make a case that as a live outfit Sublime had a muscular musicality and surprisingly fluidity that never quite translated in the studio as well as it did on the stage. Heard in passing, some of this stuff -- particularly the music on the first disc, where they're stripped down but hardly skeletal -- could convince some doubters, but there's too much music here to digest for anybody but those hardcore fans, who will certainly be pleased by Everything Under the Sun. It is, after all, just what they asked for. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Roots of Creation	Nowell	4:25
2	Ebin (O.G.)	Nowell	4:12
3	Ball and Chain	Nowell	3:41
4	Date Rape Stylee	Nowell	4:07
5	Perfect World	Nowell	2:27
6	Johnny Too Bad Freestyle	Wilson, Crooks, Nowell, Bailey, Beckford, Gaugh	4:57
7	Smoke Two Joints	Kay	4:18
8	I'm Not a Loser	Navetta	1:21
9	91 Freestyle	Nowell, Wilson, Gaugh	3:34
10	KXLU Interview		:56
11	DJ's	Nowell	4:22
12	Shame in dem Game	Hudson, Byers	6:26
13	Get Out! [Acoustic]	Nowell	1:27
14	Angelo	Nowell	1:28
15	Mic Control	Nowell	1:29
16	Farther I Go	Lukin, Peters, McLaughlin, Turner	1:40
17	One Cup of Coffee/Judge Not	Marley	2:07
18	Lou Makes Friends	Nowell	2:32
19	Greatest Hits	Nowell	3:34
20	Voodoo, Pt. 2	Gaugh, Wilson, Nowell	2:42
21	Youth Are Getting Restless	Jennifer, Hudson, Miller	1:34
22	Scarlet Begonias	Hunter, Garcia	4:06
23	Right Back	Nowell	2:54
24	New Thrash	Nowell	1:08
25	Jailhouse	Marley, Wailer	3:07
26	Pawn Dub	McDonald, Nowell, Gaugh, Matthews, Wilson	2:50
27	STP	Nowell	3:07
28	Badfish	Nowell	2:55
29	House of Suffering	Miller, Hudson, Jennifer	2:09
30	We're Only Gonna Die	Graffin	3:20
31	Great Stone	Fergeson	4:05
32	WBCN Interview 1		1:15
33	Saw Red	Nowell, Levy	1:40
34	WBCN Interview 2/Minor Threat	Baker, Nelson, Preslar, McKaye	2:48
35	Legalize It [Dave Aron Mix]	Tosh	4:19
36	5446	Hibbert	2:21
37	All You Need [Ashworth Mix]	Nowell	2:47
38	Forman Freestyle	Wilson, Forman, Nowell, Gaugh	4:16
39	Prophet	Doughty, McDonald	1:58
40	Miami	Nowell, Happoldt	1:53
41	Marley Medley	Marley	2:16
42	Paddle Out [Ruff Mix]	Gaugh, Nowell, Wilson	1:17
43	Caress Me Dub	Wilson, Nowell, Gaugh	3:30
44	Foolish Fool	Townsend	3:47
45	Westwood One Interview	Nowell	14:07
46	89 Vision	Gaugh, Nowell, Wilson	2:22
47	Sweet Little Rosie	Major Worries	4:08
48	Garden Grove [Take 2]	Wilson, Nowell, Gaugh	2:20
49	Just Another Day	Falling Idols	1:10
50	Prince of Sin	Falling Idols	1:40
51	I Love My Dog Dub	Wilson, Nowell, Miller, Gaugh, Jennifer, Hudson	4:10
52	At It Again	Gaugh, Wilson, Nowell	4:23
53	Wrong Way [Acoustic]	Gaugh, Wilson, Nowell	2:18
54	New Realization [Acoustic]	Nowell, Gaugh, Wilson	2:42
55	Boss D.J. [Take]	Nowell	2:39
56	Real Situation	Marley	1:42
57	Date Rape	Nowell	3:42
58	Soundcheck Jam		2:10
59	Doin' Time [Snoop Time Remix]	Goodman, Hayward, Gershwin, Broadus, Nowell	4:38
60	Doin' Time [Tricked out Life Sentence Remix]	Hayward, Goodman, Gershwin, Nowell	5:50
61	Don't Push [DVD]	Nowell
62	Garden Groove [DVD]	Wilson, Gaugh, Johnson, Nowell
63	Right Back [DVD]	Nowell
64	New Thrash [DVD]	Nowell
65	Same in the End [DVD]	Gaugh, Wilson, Nowell
66	Caress Me Down [DVD]	Gaugh, Nowell, Wilson
67	Real Situation [DVD]	Marley
68	Atlanta Interview [DVD]
69	Seed [DVD]	Gaugh, Nowell, Wilson
70	Saw Red [DVD]	Levy, Nowell
71	Miami [DVD]	Nowell, Happoldt
72	Hong Kong Phooey [DVD]	Curtin, Barbera, Hanna
73	All You Need [DVD]	Nowell
74	Mary [DVD]	Nowell
75	Badfish [DVD]	Nowell
76	Date Rape [DVD]	Nowell
77	STP [DVD]	Nowell
78	Ebin [DVD]	Nowell
79	Leaving Babylon [DVD]	Hudson, Jennifer, Miller
80	Don't Push [DVD]	Nowell

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