Audio CD review:
Sublime - Second Hand Smoke

Sublime - Second Hand Smoke

Band: Sublime Title: Second Hand Smoke Rating: Release Date: 25 November, 1997 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Doin' Time (Uptown Dub) 2: Get Out! (Remix) 3: Romeo 4: New Realization 5: Don't Push 6: Slow Ride 7: Chick On My Tip 8: Had A Dat 9: Trenchtown Rock 10: Badfish 11: Drunk Drivin' 12: Saw Red 13: Garbage Grove 14: April 29th 1992 (Leary) 15: Superstar Punani 16: Legal Dub 17: What's Really Goin' Wrong 18: Doin' Time (Eerie Splendor Remix) 19: Thanx Dub

Editoral Review In Sublime's case, there was also some cruel irony to contend with: the California nuevo-punk outfit's promising self-titled major-label debut and commercial breakout was released barely a month after frontman Brad Nowell's death from a heroin overdose--and their de facto demise. Most posthumous albums are shrouded in a sense of morbid nostalgia and grim curiosity. But such was the Long Beach band's longtime following that raiding the vaults, however sparse, was inevitable. Released 18 months after Nowell's death, Second Hand Smoke more than lived up to its title, cobbling together a collection of outtakes from their debut and padding them out with (sometimes multiple) remixes of old tracks like "Doin' Time," "April 29," and the Gwen Stefani duet, "Saw Red. " There's a standout cover of Bob Marley's "Trenchtown Rock," but a lot of the rest feels like the incomplete discards and second (or third) choices they obviously were. --Jerry McCulley .. You can see a complete list of all Sublime discography, or go back to the Sublime tabs