Despite its release 30 years ago, beloved ska band Sublime's 1996 album, also named Sublime, is back on the charts. During the week of May 23, 2026, Sublime is sitting at the 27th spot on Billboard's Top Rock & Alternative Albums. 11 months after its release, the record climbed up to the number 13 spot on the Billboard 200 in July 1997.
The album was recorded by the band's founding members, Bud Gaugh, Eric Wilson, and Bradley Nowell, who died on May 25, 1996, at the age of 28. In a 2021 Rolling Stone interview, in celebration of the album's 25th anniversary, Gaugh, the band's drummer, shared insight into how the record came to be.
According to Gaugh, he, Wilson, and Nowell weren't all that prepared when they traveled to Austin, Texas, to record the band's third album.
"Flying out here to Austin to do this recording, I'm on the plane with Eric. And before, what we would do is we would have everything all rehearsed, ready to go, and into the studio, we would start recording. Bam, bam, bam. In and out," recalled the drummer, now 58. "And flying here out to Texas, we got maybe two or three songs worked out. 'What the hell are we going to do?' You know? Eric was like, 'I don't know. We'll just figure it out when we get there.' And that's basically what we did. We got set up. And we went down to the studio. And we started banging out tracks."
Gaugh also shared that he and his bandmates knew they had made something special after completing the record.
"That album was on fire. There was so many good tracks. You could tell just from the rough cuts. Couldn't wait to blast it in our cars. That was the sound we were trying to achieve from the very beginning," said Gaugh in the 2021 interview with Rolling Stone.
Sublime also featured hits like "What I Got," "The Wrong Way," "Santeria," and "Doin' Time."
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