Robbin’ the Hood by Sublime

Robbin' the Hood, Sublime's second studio album, came out on Skunk Records on March 1, 1994, and it's the Long Beach trio at their most scattershot and experimental. Bradley Nowell on vocals and guitar, Eric Wilson on bass and Bud Gaugh on drums throw ska punk and whatever else was lying around into a lo-fi stew, sampling and borrowing from plenty of other artists along the way. The production values are rough, and that's half the charm.

"Saw Red" is the standout, a tense, catchy blast of ska punk that shows how good the band could be when the pieces locked in. It was the last studio album they put out while Nowell was alive. He died in 1996, two months before the self-titled album finally brought them major success.

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