No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

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Album: No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Spiderwebs	More Info...	0:04
2)	Excuse Me Mr	More Info...	0:03
3)	Just a Girl	More Info...	0:03
4)	Happy Now?	More Info...	0:03
5)	Different People	More Info...	0:04
6)	Hey You	More Info...	0:03
7)	The Climb	More Info...	0:06
8)	Sixteen	More Info...	0:03
9)	Sunday Morning	More Info...	0:04
10)	Don't Speak	More Info...	0:04
11)	You Can Do It	More Info...	0:04
12)	World Go 'Round	More Info...	0:04
13)	End It On This	More Info...	0:03
14)	Tragic Kingdom	More Info...	0:05

Album: No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Spiderwebs	More Info...	0:04
2)	Excuse Me Mr	More Info...	0:03
3)	Just a Girl	More Info...	0:03
4)	Happy Now?	More Info...	0:03
5)	Different People	More Info...	0:04
6)	Hey You	More Info...	0:03
7)	The Climb	More Info...	0:06
8)	Sixteen	More Info...	0:03
9)	Sunday Morning	More Info...	0:04
10)	Don't Speak	More Info...	0:04
11)	You Can Do It	More Info...	0:04
12)	World Go 'Round	More Info...	0:04
13)	End It On This	More Info...	0:03
14)	Tragic Kingdom	More Info...	0:05

Performer Notes

No Doubt: Gwen Stefani (vocals); Tom Dumont (guitar); Eric Stefani (piano, keyboards); Tony Kanal (bass); Adrian Young (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Aloke DasGupta (sitar); Melissa Hasin (cello); Gerard Boisse, Bill Bergman (saxophone); Greg Smith (baritone saxophone); Phil Jordan, Les Lovitt (trumpet); Nick Lane (trombone); Gabe McNair (trombone, percussion); Matthew Wilder (keyboards); Stephen Perkins (steel drums).
Engineers include: Matt Hyde, Phil Kaffel, George Landress.
No Doubt was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. TRAGIC KINGDOM was nominated for a 1997 Grammy for Best Rock Album. "Don't Speak" was nominated for 1998 Grammys for Song Of The Year and Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.
No Doubt's members cite a strange variety of musical influences: Kiss, Prince and Madness, to name a few. And it's easy to imagine that their hometown itself, Anaheim, California (home to Disneyland), may have played a part in forming the band's schizophrenic, high-energy sound, which took TRAGIC KINGDOM, the band's second album, on a slow, steady ride up the pop charts. It finally hit No. 1 in December 1996, 14 months after it was released.
This is ska-punk-new wave-dance music, with instrumentation ranging from hardcore guitar to mellow, reggae-style horns. Singer Gwen Stefani's voice is by turns peppy, almost adolescent ("Spiderwebs") and emotionally wailing; she can sound a lot like Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano ("Just A Girl"). When Stefani sings, "I'm just a girl, little ol' me/Don't let me out of your sight," she does so without a hint of girlishness; her voice is all attitude, with a warbling edge of melodrama. For the most part, these are happy songs, though No Doubt do get philosophical on "Different People": "Once in a while I sit back/And think about the planet/Most of the time I trip on it/To kick back and think of how massive it all is/And how many others are on it."

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (12/26/96, p.195) - "...a platinum-blond peach of a female singer, Gwen Stefani, who breaks up the asexual baggy-shorts-and-balloon pants monotony of alt-nation guy rock....No Doubt have a spry, white-suburban take on ska and Blondie-esque pop..."

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