Sublime - Everything Under The Sun (DVDA)

HinweiseARTIST.....: Sublime
TITLE......: Everything Under The Sun
LABEL......: Geffen
URL........: www.allmusic.com

RIP DATE...: Nov-14-2006
STORE DATE.: Nov-14-2006
GENRE......: Punk
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 84,8 MB

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 low 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.