Two months before the album was released, 28-year-old vocalist-guitarist Bradley Nowell died of a drug overdose while on tour in San Francisco, leaving behind the band, his wife Troy Dendekker and their 11-month old son, Jakob. I don’t know if at the time they knew how timeless these songs were going to be.”įor the band and those close to it, Sublime’s breakthrough success also came at a time of great tragedy. It sounds like we should be going to the beach. That band, that album cover, these songs … they are stronger than ever and they still, 25 years later, feel so fresh. “What did we know? We were a bunch of young idiots, but it was obvious that this band was going to be something great. “I vividly remember sitting with my co-workers at the radio station in Tuscon, Arizona when we first heard ‘What I Got,’ and we were like, ‘Wow, this is going to be huge,’” former KROQ DJ Ted Stryker said during a recent phone interview. It went on to sell over millions of copies worldwide, spawning several singles including “What I Got,” “Santeria,” “Wrong Way” and “Doin’ Time.” The album was popular on both radio and MTV, thanks to an eclectic sound that intertwined elements of punk, ska, reggae, funk and hip-hop, as well as samples from artists like Bob Marley, George Gershwin, The Specials and The Who. On July 30, 1996, Sublime released its self-titled mainstream debut on MCA Records.Īlthough the Long Beach band had already put out two independent albums prior to this one, “Sublime” was different.
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