Im 76 and have been on a music journey since i was 30 my sister once said to me what a trendy grandmother i am.🤣 I love music like Gwen Seteffani that other people my age have never heard of but i am a singer songwriter👍💖😊😂
As an official Patron you should add it to the poll for full album react to tragic kingdom It’s a banger front to back. I’m not even a big no doubt guy but that album is killer
Tragic Kingdom is such a strong album front to back and it’s hard to describe just how strong of a spell Gwen Stefani had on this skate punk at that time. I managed to see No Doubt at a club in Pomona after the album came out but just before they went supernova - great show!
As a teenager, this was the first bass line I ever searched out a tab for, because I wanted to learn EXACTLY how it was originally played. Tony's work on this song is unbelievable. Easily one of my favorite bass player's of the 90's.
it's kinda crazy , because some tracks on this record still give me goosebumps like it did in high school. Sunday morning is another really good tune on the album.
@@BronzedTube Yeah, No Doubt are one of those 90s bands that was really easy to dismiss as bubblegum pop-rock back in the day, but even the most jaded hipsters from then have since come around to how stellar their songwriting and arrangements were (not to mention how skilled of musicians they actually are). There's so much cool stuff going on in a song like "Spiderwebs" - from Tony's tasteful but clever basslines, to the way it careens wildly from genre to genre while maintaining a cohesive sound, to the snarly harmonic guitar riffs, and of course Gwen's iconic vocals.
6:18 Your instinct is correct. This was their major label debut. Their self-titled and Beacon Street albums were more punk and more ska (although Tragic Kingdom mostly is too, it just has that Green Day Dookie effect of being so overplayed it can feel like Wal Mart background music). After this they kept shift further away from ska and punk until Gwen went solo as a pop artist.
And then the rest of the band got the singer from AFI and put out an 80's pop nostalgia record! I'm never sure of which track to recommend to a bassist, though ruclips.net/video/muIxW9yjnMQ/видео.htmlsi=4RBWu8dxrdyqMLAN ruclips.net/video/el5LIRMZINk/видео.htmlsi=llPCT6eUH9sLaFJm
So the SKA influence was hinted at in this song, it really belonged to Eric Stefani (Gwen's brother who was an original member). He left the band before "Tragic Kingdom".
Just A Girl was their breakout single and my favorite of their songs. The bass is kinda buried on that track, but it’s an awesome bassline and the song has a clear pop punk (with ska elements) vibe. More like Goldfinger. And the Goldfinger video you covered, which came out a year later, was directly inspired by the Just A Girl video as well. Looking at the Wiki: It was only the second mainstream radio song to chart on Billboard from a ska band in the 90s at #23, following Might Mighty Bosstones Someday I Suppose a couple years earlier at #19.
"Oi! to the world" is the best way to learn the A major scale, such a fun bass line. Just loved their ska-punk phase, after that they've lost me. Cheers! ❤
I was a teenager when this came out and it was shortly after I just started learning bass. This album was my go to. Ended up learning most of it. The title track especially stands out as super fun and would love you to check that one out.
My brother went to the States as a foreign student and brought back a couple of CDs when he returned home. One of them was Tragic Kingdom. The first track on this album was Spiderwebs. I remember getting goosebumps and instantly fell in love with this band even though I didn't understand English. A couple of years later when I picked up the bass, this was one of the first songs that I played.
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I can understand writing No Doubt off if you came in on “Don’t Speak”, it’s a bit of an outlier - slower, more pop than the other songs that made waves.
Yep - guilty as charged! Sadly, I think I've done that with a lot of bands, so hoping to revisit them on the channel. It's a fun re-exploration and an "undoing" for me!
I love watching you going through my entire musical upbringing in punk rock and adjacent genres! And I’m a guitar player 😄 I’d recommend checking out “Sunday Morning” or “Different People” if you’re looking for other No Doubt songs where Tony shines. I just went back and listened to a lot of “Tragic Kingdom” and you made me realize how big a part the bass is of their sound. Keep it up!
Songwriting-wise, how they used the pre-chorus to disguise the actual chorus (or post-chorus), which is even more hooky. I love that. Great song and playing/singing!
I really enjoy you breaking down these songs. The songs you do videos are frequently ones that I already love but when they arent I always check it out sometimes get introduced to good stuff I haven't really spent time with yet. Also, check out the earlier no doubt. I think tragic kingdom is their best album but they had a whole thing going on that was great for a while.
I always love covering no doubt tunes in bands, Tony kanal is a fantastic ska/reggae bassist. Sunday morning, bathwater and underneath it all have some excellent grooves too
No Doubt came out of the ska/punk scene, but they were also really into the poppier new wave ska of groups like the English Beat or Madness, which brought a more pop feel in.
Man I haven’t listened to this full album since I was a teen in the 90s but want to go back and revisit it now. I remember liking all of it. You mentioned Don’t Speak multiple times as thinking that was their sound, and it was a big hit at the time and seems to be the song with staying power that many remember, but it’s the one song that stands out as different from the rest of the album to me. If you just want to look at cool bass songs I’d suggest Different People and Tragic Kingdom. But the bass is superb throughout. Always serving the song but letting its presence be known. Edit: they had a couple songs I enjoyed after this album, but generally they lost me with their subsequent releases.
No Doubt's earlier albums were hardcore Ska. Tragic Kingdom is a great album but certainly was heavily managed by the music label and got them introduced to the mainstream. Spiderwebs is such a great song.
Been listening to some music that takes me back to when I was a young man. I thought they would be cool to see your review. Cake - the distance and simple plan - addicted to you.
"New" is my fav of theirs to jam along to. See if you can catch their set at Coachella a few weeks back. Worth a watch, they've definitely still got "it."
Not a huge No Doubt fan but I remember when the video for this song came out and they were everywhere - the musicianship in this band and on this particular record is really fantastic - such creative parts that serve the song so well you don't even notice how tricky they can be until you try to play them.
Tony Kanal, Peter Hook and Tetsuo Sakurai are the reason i had to have a Yamaha BB. All very different players that inspired me to pick up the instrument. No doubt was fantastic in my opinion.
Oh man, I haven't heard the name Tetsuo Sakurai in awhile. I spent a good amount of time with him at a bass camp and didn't know much about him. I just remember him being one of the kindest people I've ever met!
OMG Tony is a beast! So is Adrian their drummer and Tom the guitarist. You've got to watch them play live. For songs check out "Hella Good", "Excuse Me", "Just a Girl", "Ex -Girlfriend", "Sunday Morning" there's lots more of their ska Punk. It's sad that their brass players got screwed on the recording contract as not being part of the band. They've been in the band as long as the main four have!
I stumbled upon No Doubt maybe 1994 at a tiny club in Berkeley. I went to see another band. Could have been Skankin Pickle, Let’s Go Bowling, or The Mudsharks. I was surprised to see so many people into this band I hadn’t heard of. Gwen’s hair was long and naturally brown. I remember Just A Girl got a big reaction and there was a part where there was a break where she said, “Fuck you. I’m Just A Girl”, then it kicked back into the chorus. I thought there was a Just A Girl 7” and I considered buying it, but I’ve checked online and I don’t think such a thing actually exists.
“Oi to the World” is a great ska Christmas song by No Doubt, so you might want to check that out in December! There are a ton of great punk Christmas songs and covers like “Santa Baby” by Me First, “Making Christmas” by Rise Against (Nightmare Before Christmas), “Father Christmas” by The Kinks, “Merry Christmas” by The Ramones, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” by Bad Religion (they have a full Christmas cover album!), “Xmas Has Been X’ed” by NOFX, and “The Season’s Upon Us” by Dropkick Murphys, for starters ✨🎶
You should look into this band " the offs" early Ska punk group from san francisco I believe. Great band, really underatted, or unknown. The horn groove from "you fascinate me" keeps rolling through me head right now.
This was the first album I ever owned with no bad songs. I would listen to it start to finish almost daily. It helped that little 10 year old me was desperately in love with Gwen. The funky bass on this album with its incredibly diverse range of moods was a big part of why I ever picked up a bass in the first place. I would love to see your analysis of any of the other songs on Tragic Kingdom, especially 'Excuse Me Mr.' or 'Different People'
Playing this song for a School of Rock adult band show. Been playing a little over 2 years now, this is the most challenging song I've had to take on for a show.
This album was a transition in the band from Eric Stefani being the main songwriter to Gwen and Tony. Previous albums were more virtuosic and progressive ska punk. Eric’s day job was in animation, so after tensions with this album’s producer Matthew Wilder he left the band to become a layout artist on The Simpsons. Their previous album The Beacon Street Collection is very tasty.
been thinking about this for a few reactions now, and i think its time for your intro to Talk Talk and their bassist Paul Webb, aka Rustin Man. Tony Kanals playing is often reminiscent of Paul Webb, among other 80s pop bassists. one of No Doubts biggest walmart hits was a cover of an early Talk Talk hit Its My Life. that song has a great pop bassline. TT made smart early 80s radio synth pop with a jazz edge and punk spirit, and then pivoted to pioneering what came to be known as post-rock in the late 80s/90s. theirs is a rabbit hole to enrich the soul. it might just explode the way you )feel( music. but you must start at the beginning and work your way to the solo and collab work of Mark Hollis and Rustin Man
This is great. I was just sharing this song with my kids, driving down the road. I had to explain to them the process of screening phone calls. Before caller ID. This album is great. It reminds me of the B-52'S in a way. If you get past the school dance radio hits we all heard a billion times. They really rock in an unexpected way.
Haven’t really listened to them with a bass ear since I started playing, but one track caught my attention . Check out “It’s My Life” , sounds fun to learn
Kanal is gangster! It’s kinda funny, because I learned this whole album on my mother’s 1966 Vox Apollo sporting tape wounds from her 1970’s touring days. (She’s 75 and still plays that old thing) “Different People” and “Tragic Kingdom” are both great bass songs as well.🤘🏻
For more Tony Kanal, I can definitely recommend DREAMCAR, a supergroup that formed in ~2017 consisting of all the instrumentalists from No Doubt (Tony, Adrian, and Tom) and the vocalist from AFI (Davey Havok). They've got one record (and recently a short EP!) which is all a fun departure from both cross-sections of other bands the members are a part of. I'd suggest maybe "On the Charts" for a bass-forward song, or "Kill for Candy" as their most well-known/popular track.
You should check out a British ska/new wave band called The Beat from early 80s. Serious bassage going on in loads of songs like too nice to talk to, noise in this world, twist and crawl, psychedelics rockers and the most interesting one - Dream home in NZ. Just so melodic, punchy, interesting and heavy. Bass player was barely 20 when they made them too. Known as the 'English Beat' in the US. Very big influence on No Doubt too.
Tragic Kingdom is one of the most iconic bands of the 90's. And some of Gwen's best vocals (and vocal layering). Gwen was my biggest idol when I was a teenager, and I wish they had continued down the alternative path. Some of the early pop stuff is ok, but I was really disappointed when they did a complete 180 after this album and went super pop and commercial. Even their albums before Tragic Kingdom are great.
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This whole album is so good. Sunday Morning is one of my faves off of it.
Im 76 and have been on a music journey since i was 30 my sister once said to me what a trendy grandmother i am.🤣 I love music like Gwen Seteffani that other people my age have never heard of but i am a singer songwriter👍💖😊😂
@@rhondarandall4500that's awesome 😎
I'm with ya Matt, Sunday Morn beens my fave since high school...
Learning Spiderwebs on bass was a huge "plateau breaker" for me as a primarily punk and metal musician. Such a fun etude.
Same here. Kanal gave me a different side.
Tony Kanal is a badass. Check out "Different People" from this same album. Really, most of their songs he's doing something cool on.
Definitely one of my favorites from that album.
Yesssss
Great shout, the bass on Different People is killer
Different people is Tony at his best imo.
That and “Tragic Kingdom”, both great bass songs!🤘🏻
As an official Patron you should add it to the poll for full album react to tragic kingdom It’s a banger front to back. I’m not even a big no doubt guy but that album is killer
Good call!
Tragic Kingdom is one of those albums that's always on my phone. Fantastic from cover to cover.
Tragic Kingdom is such a strong album front to back and it’s hard to describe just how strong of a spell Gwen Stefani had on this skate punk at that time. I managed to see No Doubt at a club in Pomona after the album came out but just before they went supernova - great show!
Super cool to hear!
Ahhhh the glass house
The girls had Brandon Boyd - the boys had Gwen Stefani😆
Yeah this would be a great full album reaction to do!
Early No Doubt was fucking fire. I still listen to them on the reg.
I SCREEEEEN MY PHONE CALLS
As a teenager, this was the first bass line I ever searched out a tab for, because I wanted to learn EXACTLY how it was originally played.
Tony's work on this song is unbelievable. Easily one of my favorite bass player's of the 90's.
Tragic Kingdom is such a fun record.
it's kinda crazy , because some tracks on this record still give me goosebumps like it did in high school. Sunday morning is another really good tune on the album.
@@BronzedTube Yeah, No Doubt are one of those 90s bands that was really easy to dismiss as bubblegum pop-rock back in the day, but even the most jaded hipsters from then have since come around to how stellar their songwriting and arrangements were (not to mention how skilled of musicians they actually are). There's so much cool stuff going on in a song like "Spiderwebs" - from Tony's tasteful but clever basslines, to the way it careens wildly from genre to genre while maintaining a cohesive sound, to the snarly harmonic guitar riffs, and of course Gwen's iconic vocals.
Super underrated album
Sunday morning off that album is SICK, as well as End It On This
I've loved this band for so long without ever realizing why. They are driven by the rhythm section. I'm glad you checked them out.
I'm glad I did, too!!
@@LowEndUniversityyou have a really positive/wholesome personality that i appreciate.
Always enjoyed “Sunday Morning” from the album… no hate from me on this era No Doubt.
I self-taught bass listening, and playing, to a lot of no doubt, Tony Kanal is an insane composer, his repertoire of great basslines is mesmerizing.
Yasssss love this album. My personal favorite is Sunday Morning, just a nice warm bass line to open the song 🤘🏽
6:18 Your instinct is correct. This was their major label debut. Their self-titled and Beacon Street albums were more punk and more ska (although Tragic Kingdom mostly is too, it just has that Green Day Dookie effect of being so overplayed it can feel like Wal Mart background music). After this they kept shift further away from ska and punk until Gwen went solo as a pop artist.
Absolutely! I loved the Beacon Street collection.
And then the rest of the band got the singer from AFI and put out an 80's pop nostalgia record!
I'm never sure of which track to recommend to a bassist, though
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Aw, thank you for that! 🙏🏼🥹
So the SKA influence was hinted at in this song, it really belonged to Eric Stefani (Gwen's brother who was an original member). He left the band before "Tragic Kingdom".
Great bass line and it's nice actually hear the bass in the mix
Their first album is amazing. Great melodies and amazing bass lines.!
Just A Girl was their breakout single and my favorite of their songs. The bass is kinda buried on that track, but it’s an awesome bassline and the song has a clear pop punk (with ska elements) vibe. More like Goldfinger. And the Goldfinger video you covered, which came out a year later, was directly inspired by the Just A Girl video as well. Looking at the Wiki: It was only the second mainstream radio song to chart on Billboard from a ska band in the 90s at #23, following Might Mighty Bosstones Someday I Suppose a couple years earlier at #19.
Nice! I haven't heard of the Bosstones until the requests on here, but they're in the queue for very soon. Looking forward!
"Oi! to the world" is the best way to learn the A major scale, such a fun bass line. Just loved their ska-punk phase, after that they've lost me. Cheers! ❤
A Vandals song!
Any performance from their "live from the tragic kingdom" performance would be awesome to react to! that show is gold.
I legitimately love no doubt’s first couple albums 😂 no shame, they’re a good band
Definitely a band I feel bad for sleeping on!
I was a teenager when this came out and it was shortly after I just started learning bass. This album was my go to. Ended up learning most of it. The title track especially stands out as super fun and would love you to check that one out.
My brother went to the States as a foreign student and brought back a couple of CDs when he returned home. One of them was Tragic Kingdom. The first track on this album was Spiderwebs. I remember getting goosebumps and instantly fell in love with this band even though I didn't understand English. A couple of years later when I picked up the bass, this was one of the first songs that I played.
Tragic Kingdom is one of my all time fav albums to this day, so many good tracks.
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Neisha 13 yrs. old - lead guitar
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Really love the rhythmic drive and timing on this song. Tony and Adrian are just attacking the song. And Tony puts a lot of extra funkiness on it.
I can understand writing No Doubt off if you came in on “Don’t Speak”, it’s a bit of an outlier - slower, more pop than the other songs that made waves.
Yep - guilty as charged! Sadly, I think I've done that with a lot of bands, so hoping to revisit them on the channel. It's a fun re-exploration and an "undoing" for me!
@@LowEndUniversity the song that made them famous was “Just a Girl” - a lot more energy, and more representative of their sound.
Listen Oi! to the World - No Doubt version, the bass is the best in this song version.
Reliving my middle school/high school days! Love this channel.
And I love YOU!
My old bass player loved loved loved Different People on this same record. Check it out!
This was one of the ones I requested so thanks very much for doing it, love your punk and ska videos!🤘🏻
No problem!! Appreciate you!
This song/album makes me happy. Reminds me of a great time in my life. Love the video and hearing your take on it.
I love watching you going through my entire musical upbringing in punk rock and adjacent genres! And I’m a guitar player 😄 I’d recommend checking out “Sunday Morning” or “Different People” if you’re looking for other No Doubt songs where Tony shines. I just went back and listened to a lot of “Tragic Kingdom” and you made me realize how big a part the bass is of their sound. Keep it up!
Thank you friend!!
This is such a fun song to play! I love it
Do "Different people" next time!
This one is super fun to play on bass. What a great pick!
Glad you like it!
Tony is such an underrated player.
Move On!!
What a solid song, and another great video ma dood!
Songwriting-wise, how they used the pre-chorus to disguise the actual chorus (or post-chorus), which is even more hooky. I love that. Great song and playing/singing!
No Doubt's Christmas song, 'Oi to the World,' has really great bass.
Did you know that's a cover?
@@antimatter2380 No. Who did the original?
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vandals. both bands were close friends. both versions are great
@@Morbid0007 the vandals! Another great and wildly influential punk band!
You gotta do "Let's Get Back" off their self titled debut.
Crazy. I was listening to No Doubt literally 2 days ago and thought their songs would be good content for your channel. Awesome!
Nice!!
I’ve loved Spiderwebs since it first came out, and this is still a bass line I love to (try to) play!
I really enjoy you breaking down these songs. The songs you do videos are frequently ones that I already love but when they arent I always check it out sometimes get introduced to good stuff I haven't really spent time with yet. Also, check out the earlier no doubt. I think tragic kingdom is their best album but they had a whole thing going on that was great for a while.
Learned this song on the bass YEARS ago and play it often because it's FREAKING AMAZINGGGG
I always love covering no doubt tunes in bands, Tony kanal is a fantastic ska/reggae bassist. Sunday morning, bathwater and underneath it all have some excellent grooves too
No Doubt came out of the ska/punk scene, but they were also really into the poppier new wave ska of groups like the English Beat or Madness, which brought a more pop feel in.
No doubt is such a good band! One of my favs
Man I haven’t listened to this full album since I was a teen in the 90s but want to go back and revisit it now. I remember liking all of it.
You mentioned Don’t Speak multiple times as thinking that was their sound, and it was a big hit at the time and seems to be the song with staying power that many remember, but it’s the one song that stands out as different from the rest of the album to me.
If you just want to look at cool bass songs I’d suggest Different People and Tragic Kingdom. But the bass is superb throughout. Always serving the song but letting its presence be known.
Edit: they had a couple songs I enjoyed after this album, but generally they lost me with their subsequent releases.
No Doubt's earlier albums were hardcore Ska. Tragic Kingdom is a great album but certainly was heavily managed by the music label and got them introduced to the mainstream. Spiderwebs is such a great song.
Been listening to some music that takes me back to when I was a young man. I thought they would be cool to see your review. Cake - the distance and simple plan - addicted to you.
The entire album is amazing. One of the best bass albums of all time
"New" is my fav of theirs to jam along to. See if you can catch their set at Coachella a few weeks back. Worth a watch, they've definitely still got "it."
Not a huge No Doubt fan but I remember when the video for this song came out and they were everywhere - the musicianship in this band and on this particular record is really fantastic - such creative parts that serve the song so well you don't even notice how tricky they can be until you try to play them.
Tragic Kingdom really is a wild ride if all you’ve heard is Don’t Speak. Looking back, that record is full of hits.
Bangers galore
Tony Kanal, Peter Hook and Tetsuo Sakurai are the reason i had to have a Yamaha BB. All very different players that inspired me to pick up the instrument. No doubt was fantastic in my opinion.
Oh man, I haven't heard the name Tetsuo Sakurai in awhile. I spent a good amount of time with him at a bass camp and didn't know much about him. I just remember him being one of the kindest people I've ever met!
OMG Tony is a beast! So is Adrian their drummer and Tom the guitarist. You've got to watch them play live. For songs check out "Hella Good", "Excuse Me", "Just a Girl", "Ex -Girlfriend", "Sunday Morning" there's lots more of their ska Punk. It's sad that their brass players got screwed on the recording contract as not being part of the band. They've been in the band as long as the main four have!
I was living in OC when this album dropoed. I still have the CD I bought back then. Monster record.
Snakes from The Beacon.. is one of my favorites.
Do Buck-O-Nine “Round Kid”!
Terrific audible, walking bassline with great horns with a singer who really croons. You’ll love it!
Oh Yeah! This song is great
I stumbled upon No Doubt maybe 1994 at a tiny club in Berkeley. I went to see another band. Could have been Skankin Pickle, Let’s Go Bowling, or The Mudsharks. I was surprised to see so many people into this band I hadn’t heard of. Gwen’s hair was long and naturally brown. I remember Just A Girl got a big reaction and there was a part where there was a break where she said, “Fuck you. I’m Just A Girl”, then it kicked back into the chorus. I thought there was a Just A Girl 7” and I considered buying it, but I’ve checked online and I don’t think such a thing actually exists.
“Oi to the World” is a great ska Christmas song by No Doubt, so you might want to check that out in December! There are a ton of great punk Christmas songs and covers like “Santa Baby” by Me First, “Making Christmas” by Rise Against (Nightmare Before Christmas), “Father Christmas” by The Kinks, “Merry Christmas” by The Ramones, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” by Bad Religion (they have a full Christmas cover album!), “Xmas Has Been X’ed” by NOFX, and “The Season’s Upon Us” by Dropkick Murphys, for starters ✨🎶
Bass channel I get it, but Gwen's backing vocals are insane! Listen to how many different vocal tracks are stacked back there!
I agree! I commented on them a bit near the end, but always focusing on the music and the bass line of course!
You should look into this band " the offs" early Ska punk group from san francisco I believe. Great band, really underatted, or unknown. The horn groove from "you fascinate me" keeps rolling through me head right now.
It would be cool to see you cover (or talk about ) your view of DD Verni of Overkill , and his "crank" tone.
KEMURI and the song "on the street", gorgeous bassline!!!
Everybody was focusing on Don't Speak, but there is so good songs on this album ! And I was not even listening to the bass. My bad.
You 100% have to check our their earlier work.
Tragic Kingdom was the first CD I ever bought. Hell yeah!
This was the first album I ever owned with no bad songs. I would listen to it start to finish almost daily. It helped that little 10 year old me was desperately in love with Gwen. The funky bass on this album with its incredibly diverse range of moods was a big part of why I ever picked up a bass in the first place. I would love to see your analysis of any of the other songs on Tragic Kingdom, especially 'Excuse Me Mr.' or 'Different People'
Love this! I'll circle back again soon.
Playing this song for a School of Rock adult band show. Been playing a little over 2 years now, this is the most challenging song I've had to take on for a show.
This was a challenging song for me to learn for my last band....but so fun!
This album was a transition in the band from Eric Stefani being the main songwriter to Gwen and Tony. Previous albums were more virtuosic and progressive ska punk. Eric’s day job was in animation, so after tensions with this album’s producer Matthew Wilder he left the band to become a layout artist on The Simpsons. Their previous album The Beacon Street Collection is very tasty.
been thinking about this for a few reactions now, and i think its time for your intro to Talk Talk and their bassist Paul Webb, aka Rustin Man. Tony Kanals playing is often reminiscent of Paul Webb, among other 80s pop bassists. one of No Doubts biggest walmart hits was a cover of an early Talk Talk hit Its My Life. that song has a great pop bassline. TT made smart early 80s radio synth pop with a jazz edge and punk spirit, and then pivoted to pioneering what came to be known as post-rock in the late 80s/90s. theirs is a rabbit hole to enrich the soul. it might just explode the way you )feel( music. but you must start at the beginning and work your way to the solo and collab work of Mark Hollis and Rustin Man
Thanks for the suggestion!
This is great. I was just sharing this song with my kids, driving down the road. I had to explain to them the process of screening phone calls. Before caller ID. This album is great. It reminds me of the B-52'S in a way. If you get past the school dance radio hits we all heard a billion times. They really rock in an unexpected way.
Love it!
Haven’t really listened to them with a bass ear since I started playing, but one track caught my attention . Check out “It’s My Life” , sounds fun to learn
15:37 "there are so many bands in existence" I have to say I agree
such a great song!
No Doubt from my town. Anaheim!
their song Different people changed my musicianship
"Oi! To the world" is also pretty cool 🙂
A Wilhelm Scream - Jaws 3 People 0... I'll keep requesting it because I love the channel ;) hahah
Great bassist especially on the first album
different people is a fun song to play
Their first album is one to check out back when Gwen’s brother was the keyboard player in the band
Ah man! My bass teacher in high school used this album a lot for our lessons. Those pre-chorus pentatonic scales 🖐️
Sweet!! Sounds like a killer teacher!
A great Ska bass player, Norwood Fisher.
Party At Ground Zero by Fishbone.
Normally I only comment based on bass. However I’d be remiss without mentioning how amazing Gwen’s vocals are. Specifically on the first three albums!
that reminds me, 'libel' by tilt has a good bassline too 👍
Crazy when you know this was written about Liam Gallagher from Oasis essentially stalking Gwen.
Yea, they became more radio friendly. I’d highly highly recommend “Trapped in a Box” from an earlier album. The bass on that track is amazing.
Kanal is gangster!
It’s kinda funny, because I learned this whole album on my mother’s 1966 Vox Apollo sporting tape wounds from her 1970’s touring days. (She’s 75 and still plays that old thing)
“Different People” and “Tragic Kingdom” are both great bass songs as well.🤘🏻
For more Tony Kanal, I can definitely recommend DREAMCAR, a supergroup that formed in ~2017 consisting of all the instrumentalists from No Doubt (Tony, Adrian, and Tom) and the vocalist from AFI (Davey Havok). They've got one record (and recently a short EP!) which is all a fun departure from both cross-sections of other bands the members are a part of. I'd suggest maybe "On the Charts" for a bass-forward song, or "Kill for Candy" as their most well-known/popular track.
Omg! The horns were from Sublime!! They knew each other. Such a great tune!
If you want them in their purest ska punk form definitely check out Total Hate 95!! It even has Bradley Nowell featured on it!
Tragic Kingdom was the first album (cassette) I ever bought with my "own money" as a kid.
Thanks for making me feel old. Lol My 1st was Kiss Destroyer.
Really good album, gives me strong Jr. high memories. "Excuse Me Mister" my favorite.
You should check out a British ska/new wave band called The Beat from early 80s. Serious bassage going on in loads of songs like too nice to talk to, noise in this world, twist and crawl, psychedelics rockers and the most interesting one - Dream home in NZ.
Just so melodic, punchy, interesting and heavy. Bass player was barely 20 when they made them too. Known as the 'English Beat' in the US. Very big influence on No Doubt too.
Tragic Kingdom is one of the most iconic bands of the 90's. And some of Gwen's best vocals (and vocal layering). Gwen was my biggest idol when I was a teenager, and I wish they had continued down the alternative path. Some of the early pop stuff is ok, but I was really disappointed when they did a complete 180 after this album and went super pop and commercial. Even their albums before Tragic Kingdom are great.