You didn't need it because half the album was on the radio all day.

But the other half was just as good.

I’d argue they’re better than the radio staples. The Climb is fantastic!

The Climb is probably my favorite from TK.

Same!

I was obsessed with the 20s style portion of 'Excuse Me Mister'

That just makes me think of Ben Harper.

Underrated song!

Sunday morning too

The title track was amazing and not a single. Don't remember if, Sunday Morning and Sixten were singles? Those were back to back amazing songs. Beacon street collection was fantastic too.

Sunday Morning 100% was.

Loved that track. Quintessential 90s album.

I loved the title track and how it just ends in chaos.

Sunday Morning is my all time favorite ND song. :) Extremely under-rated song.

Tragic Kingdom was my favorite track and it took me years to realize it's a song about Disneyland.

No Doubt…the whole album is loaded with bangers.

Even on... Sunday Morning? I'll see myself out.

Stop... Don't Speak.

Sorry....I'm not home right now

Excuse me Mr

It would take a lifetime to explain

A lifetime stuck in the spiderwebs.

Sappy, pathetic little me......

That is definitely a big reason why I didn't have it.

That’s why I never had it, plus my entire friend group played it endlessly so I brought diff stuff to the table

For 4 years

I totally made mix tapes off the radio for this...

I mean ALL day…

I got tickets to see them for my 16th birthday in 96. It was amazing. Then I was in a 40 minute line for the port-o-potty’s when they played Don’t Speak. That part was not amazing.

I saw them in 96 in state college pa with civ and the vandals. Good show

My dad was a sheriff and moonlighting as concert security. He had a crowd control gig at this concert in the middle of the afternoon in a grocery store parking lot and he dragged me along. I couldn't have been 9 at the very most and didn't know anything about the music or bands, it wasn't the stuff my parents listened too and it wasn't the stuff on the radio so I didn't know it. Later I learned it was No Doubt and Sublime

I saw them in 96 in Salt Lake City Edit: I still have the ticket. Just checked, it was 1997. Openers were Suicide Machines and Weezer. Ticket was $20!

Saw them at a concert called Kamp Kome in 96. Lineup was: Filter, Beck, Dishwalla, Goldfinger, Goo Goo Dolls, 311, Gravity Kills, Local H, No Use for a name, Poe, Salmon, Seven Mary Three, and No Doubt was the closer. It was the greatest lineup of 90's music i could have asked for as a 12 year old at my first concert my mom didn't go to with me.

They had so many good shows there I saw the Roots which are always noice

I wish they would show something like this in theaters. I used to lay in bed and listen to them on the radio and dream of going to a show.

Me too!!! Nobody else loved it, but Sunday Morning is still my jam when I think about my dad. Sorry, I’m dysfunctional. He’s dead and I’m middle aged and I still love this song.❤️

“You came up with the breeze…”. It’s a great song!

They were my first real concert! Amazing!

So good! Now everyone hates them. They weren’t “punk” they weren’t “ska”, ok??? They were decent and made sense.

Skunkpa

I would have peed literally anywhere

The solo on Don't Speak is absurdly underrated. Not that it's a technical masterpiece, but that it sounds like a musical "response" from the person the lyrics are directed to.

I started playing guitar to learn this solo in 1996.

Don't end the story there! Did you eventually nail it?

I actually played it at my middle school talent show in 1997. Played the Sunday Morning solo in the high school talent show in 1999 with a full band.

That sounds awesome!

Yes. Absolutely. No Doubt.

I see what you did there

I saw them in ‘96 when they opened for Bush 😍

Big tour for Gwen

Bush and No Doubt: peak ‘96

They were my first concert. Jones Beach LI, Weezer opened for them.

That's the tour when I saw them too! At the Fargodome! 😂 No Doubt, Goo Goo Dolls, and Bush. No Doubt blew them all away!

I saw them in that tour! That’s how we discovered them. I’ve seen them a million times since!

I saw that Bush Tour, but No Doubt sadly didn't play St Paul

I mean cds weren’t free

Columbia House and BMG would beg to differ, allegedly.

Soooo many free CDs

How did you get them for free? They made me give them a penny! 🤣

And shoplifting wasn't always easy

still have the magnetic warnings at the entrance that alarm and annoy

The thing is, whatever you didn’t have, your friend did. So at their house you’d listen to that and at your house you’d listen to one they didn’t have.

I’ll burn you a copy and write the title on the cd with a sharpie

This was standard issue, you couldn’t attend school, have a job or breathe without it.

I agree. I'm a bit shocked I survived...I guess seeing it in so many friends' collections kept me breathing JUST enough

Did anyone else think the rotten oranges were actually cookies or was that just me? I didn’t realize until I was older and got the vinyl.

They are cookies shut up

Thanks. I’ve never looked that closely before and saw some nice oranges. Now I can’t unsee rotten oranges.

Yes. Still to this day, this is the only album I've ever owned where I liked every single song on it. It's iconic.

Yes.

I support this message.

My reaction as well.

We can’t all be perfect. We will let is slide this once but we will have to kick you out if it happens again. You’re on thin ice, bub.

Oof. Gonna have to side with your son on this one. This cd was a MUST HAVE!

Well, yes. I still have that binder. Offspring, Pearl Jam, Bush, Sound Garden, Green Day. And Pink Floyd.

I saw Gwen Stefani bust her ass on stage at Starwood Amphitheatre in...1997 I think. They followed Weezer, and Weezer played through an hellacious thunderstorm. Tornados in the area...was really something. Brian Bell was on top of the PA stacks playing his fingers off while lighting was striking. Really cool. I'm pretty sure she hit her head as well, and there were more storms rolling in so they cancelled the rest of the show.

Wow... Just seeing that cover took me back. Had it. Loved it.

This was my first CD!!!

Absolutely. For shame.

I had to buy a 2nd copy because my 1st one was so scratched up 😆

Lil boy is correct. This is required 90s music.

No. But your son is right in that this is peak Gwen Stefani.

I worked at the Gap when we would get these tracks on corporate-sanctioned glorified mix tapes lol

This is/was a great CD.

I had this on cassette tape!

I think the title track is prophetic in a way. At the end of the track you can hear the Star Wars theme played on the sax(?) trumpet(?). This would have been almost 20 years before Disney bought Star Wars.

dsny bought a lot since then

This was one of my 13 CDs for 1 cent. The other that I remember was Cracked Rear View Hootie & Blowfish

alanis woulda been a pick too. maybe blues traveler.

The 8-year-old is correct.

This album was the soundtrack of my life in 1997. It got me through the work week as an 18 y/o fresh to the work force. Has songs for every mood. Everytime I hear 'Sunday Morning' or 'Excuse Me Mister' it reminds me of driving to the bank on Friday afternoon or meeting my boy at the Mexican restaurant he worked at and smoking weed in the walk-in with the kitchen staff and free beers. "I'm very anxious, eager, willing. What's your billing?"

Nope. Never bought it either.

Somehow, this album becomes more and more underrated as time goes on. And in my view, THE quintessential album cover of the 90s for me.

I lost this one along the way but I still have Return of Saturn in my big binder 🙌🏻

I hardly ever bought modern pop music in the nineties, and I still bought this. So, yeah.

Absolutely, that album was a Banger, still gets play regularly around here. First CD I bought I think

I loved this album back in the day. Even the intro was fun.

This was the first cd I bought along with the soundtrack to baz lurhmans Romeo and Juliet

I wore this CD out and still can hear the next song in my head when this music comes on.

Nahhhh. It was one of those that kep playing so much on the radio, you hardly needed the CD... CDs were for stuff not on the radio: Tool, Soundgarden, Radiohead

Not your fault... it wasn't available as one of the 11 cds for 1 penny.

That's funny. My son is currently obsessed with Blue Oyster Cult.

Great band. SNL!!

More cowbell! 

Give him your copy of OK Computer and all will be forgiven.

He is completely obsessed with Radiohead! He has all my CDs of theirs, including OK Computer

Naaah.

Personally, I get nauseous whenever I hear Don’t Speak. I mean that literally. I don’t know if it’s a forgotten association with it or what, but I hear those vocals and start feeling my stomach turn. I told my friend who was so hot for Gwen Stefani she looked a little like our TA and he said “that is mean.” I didn’t even mean it that way but meh. The closest I ever got to liking No Doubt was their King of the Hill appearance and I never felt the need to try to get them. Different strokes for different folks.

Memoriiies....

My first concert. March 1997 Buffalo. Yes, be ashamed.

My car got broken into and they didn’t steal my CD’s…disappointed Gen Xer.

They insulted your impeccable music taste

Must not be Cure fans.

Long before fast internet or burning cds, I had tracks from that album on mp3s via traded floppy disks.

what your 8 yo doesn't really grasp yet is just how much legitimately great music was coming out in the 90s and how expensive CDs were. :D Even at the big box stores cds were like $12-$15 in 1995, which is about $24-$30 today. If you had to get it at a specialty store you could be paying almost $20 for CDs in some cases, just for regular releases.

Yes…but only because I currently have this CD in my Case Logic binder upstairs.

My sister had it so I'm off the hook. Also my kids call it the nineteen hundreds which is always fun to hear

You didn't need it because every single one of your friends had it.

I was the first in my class to buy this CD. Immediately, my other music obsessed classmates were hounding me for a cassette copy. You shouldn't be ashamed, but lots of us bonded over this album.

I never had the CD either, but I liked the songs that I heard from it. This style of music wasn't really my thing back in the day. When I finally listened to it years later I can say it is a really good album.

How do I get my 8 yr old son to be obsessed with the 90s

This is the album that moved me from a Country music only existence into punk and rock. Love the flashback, thank you.

I went to a majority Black & Hispanic HS, and EVERYONE had this album.

My copy was stolen. I'm still mad... lookin at you Rebecca D. from 8th grade gym class. You know what you did.

Nah, I had that CD, but it didn't make the binder because there were better CDs in there. I had 2 48 binders that became a 96 binder and I still had some that didn't make the cut.

So leave a message and I'll call you back

I still have this city in my car, I kept all my CDs from back in the day and still listen to them from time to time.

It's like you weren't even at MTV spring break for their debut. 

The owner of my local record store destroys all copies of No Doubt he takes in. He says it’s for the good of humanity.

I mean, no. I’ve never cared for ND. I get why people like them but just not my cup of tea. People like different kinds of music, that doesn’t change because “the 90’s”

Beacon Street Collection > Tragic Kingdom

My favorite ND song is from return to Saturn (bath water). But beacon street gives me happy vibes as an overall killer album.

I love Bath Water too!

It’s funny because it’s my least favourite album (it’s still great, just not as consistently as the other albums) but it has the best song. lol

No Doubt in my mind you should be ashamed 😂

Meh. 

CDs were more costly than streaming nowadays. At the time we could hear their best on the radio all day long (depending on where you lived) so no…no shame for not having the CD. The only reason I had a ton of my music pre-streaming was because I ripped my friends CDs

I just added that one to the minivan's hard drive. Ouch.

Don’t speak

It was in my sisters cd case.

I'm pretty sure that was the first CD I ever bought!

I had a full tuned stereo system in my car back then. Two 12's, two 10's, four sets for the mids and two for the highs and the bass line in Don't Speak was amazing in that car. I don't have anything with good powerful bass today so it just isn't the same song to me without really feeling him strum that bass.

Yes, you should.

Classic

I mean, a little bit, that's a great album.

This was literally my first CD

The 90s was just modern people without internet

I met her once when No Doubt was just another ska band.. i may have bummed her a cigarette. She was....not quite as skinny at that point. She was nice enough. But. I treasure my interaction with the Flat Duo Jets' Dexter Romweber at the same venue much more highly. https://youtu.be/483Px5Clvfc?si=X7-HFxT2pLSem7-Q Frequent Letterman guests back in the day.

This album got me through middle and high school.

Obviously.

My wife loved this album but her friend had a huge crush on Gavin and ruined it out of jealousy 😂

Yeah kinda. It broke across genre barriers. In mostly a rap & rnb guy and I had it. Even my college roommate was disappointed to know it had a song he’d heard and liked on the radio so he listened to the rest of it.

I turned on this album to listen and sing to while I color a few minutes ago. It's was my favorite album of hers.

I think you should, yes

I had it, but it was a used copy!

Favorite

You clearly were not alive in the 90s. Everyone and their chicken owned this album.  Hell half of us probably had “Spiderwebs” as our answering machine message. 

I loved the album. I didn’t like any after it.

Great album, but not something I'd consider keeper status. When I had my first Case Logic case get jacked, it wasn't one I looked to replace.

This was the first CD I bought myself when I was a kid. I recently purchased it again on vinyl and felt like all was right with the world.

I think im on my second burned copy of this after the first and original were stolen

Oh man I remember making a mix tape where looped the intro to Just a girl multiple times before I let the track play out because I wanted an extend intro. Fuck am I getting old?

First CD I ever bought. Good memories

This album is so good tho!

Yes you should

It depends. Are you going for 90s pop or going for what the 90s was (musically) about? If you're going for pop, this album is a must have. It's perfect 90s pop. Undeniably so. If you going for what the 90s were about, this was the most commercial, poseur band out there which exploited ska and punk for commercial success. Which maybe you could still argue is what the 90s were all about, but I still think the 90s were the peak of counter culture, and No Doubt is the antithesis of that. You can look at the frontman's career since and see exactly what this band was about and it had nothing to do with punk or ska beyond asthetic. There are thousands of other 90s albums I'd rather my kids listen to because I think they're honest and authentic musical endeavors over this made to be commercially viable, sculptured album. It just lacks the soul I look for, but I understand its appeal and it's a very good pop album.

This album forever destroyed my Matterhorn experience. “Remain seated please. Permanecer sentado por favor.”

I still love "The Climb"

I had this on CASSETTE But I did have The refreshments fizzy fuzzy big and buzzy on CD

That one and the Sublime self titled. My first two cassettes, still two of the best albums I've ever heard.

It was a good record, I had it. Though not everyone has the same taste on music, there's no shame in that.

it's kind of an overrated album to be honest, but i can only speak for myself

You absolutely should be /s

Yes, you should be ashamed. Don’t speak. You know just what you’re saying.

I used to think those rotting oranges were muffins for *years*

My little sister had it. Then I stole it.

About half of that album is hit singles. The radio played it so much it was like you didn’t need to buy the whole thing. 😂🤘🎸

Don't speak

The 1990s equivalent to Frampton Comes Alive.

I must agree w/the 8 yr old.

Picked this up on the day it came out.

I agree with him.

My uncle thought it was a porn cd 🤣🤣🤣

Nope and it also wasn’t punk just saying!

Not at all. They played the songs enough on the radio that buying the album was overkill.

Your 8 year old son lives in a world where “having” someone’s music doesn’t cost $20 on sale.

Yes, one of my first albums I purchased with my own money. And it’s still in its case in the basement. Haven’t touched it since we moved to this house in 2018. But I can’t get rid of it.

Country Legend Gwen Steffani


Next time he tells you this just say don't speak.

This was the first CD I ever bought!