No Doubt
 

Does anyone else really love this band?

I was never really able to enjoy anything from their last release, Rock Steady, but Return of Saturn is without a doubt one of my favorite pop albums, bar none.

I've been having a bit of trouble appreciating Stefani's solo work, but I ended up seeing her live, for free, with a friend for her birthday about a week back, and I really enjoyed the show. Very light, fun and entertaining.

I love the way Stefani's speaking voice is nearly identical to that of my 6 year old cousin's (he's a boy). She was adorable on stage by the way. It's hard not to love her.

I'd take her over Regina Spektor, Amy Winehouse, Lilly Allen, blah blah blah, anyday.

Opinions, comments?

I like solo better than No Doubt, not a fan of anything 90's ska sounding. I hated her first song solo but Holler Back Girl, Wind It Up and The Sweet Escape are pretty rad songs.

100% serious here, no irony.

I don't like her solo, but Tragic Kingdom and Return of Saturn are the only good albums they released in my opinion.

No Doubt were great!!!! i loved Tragic Kingdom and Return of Saturn. Hopefully their reunion will be great because i hated Rock Steady.

Yeah Rock Steady is lame, I think this is where Gwen got her new solo album stuff.

gwen sucks.

some of her solo shit is actually amazing though. my mom bought a car last year and they had left all their cd's in it so we got like 50 cd's for free.. all the no doubt shit (eh), a ween cd (eh.h....), one of the misfits cd's from the coffin box (yay!), and all the radiohead cd's... lots of good shit, some shit that wasn't so good..

but the first gwen stefani solo album was in there. i listened to it a few times. enjoye d it.

tragic kingdom is one of my favorite albums of the 90's for sure.

Gwen stefani and her stupid quirky japanese dancers can piss off. I have no time for her at all.

You shouldn't group Regina Spektor in with Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse. She actually has talent.

i have tragic kingdom. not from my "era" at all, but i love that album.

Please excuse me, but Gwen Stefani et al can eat shit. Thank you.

I'd like to like her music if i knew more about it. I suppose one or two songs that i like don't mean that i like her as a whole or dislike her music as such. The point where her public persona tells me that i should like her and her music doesn't tell me what i might like or what i might not like about her records. I don't know if i like her records or if i don't like them. I like a few songs, does that mean that i like Gwen Stefani as a whole?

Return to Saturn was critically acclaimed, I remember that. I had a few friends that would play it a lot when it came out. The same sort of jackoffs that would also put on stuff like Everclear or 311. I think I also prefer her solo stuff. I have no No Doubt. No releases, no Gwen solo, and no boots.

Her solo stuff is good. Regardless of the musical merit, it is just fun to listen to. My sister has both of her CDs.

At Relay for Life, the DJ (who really sucked) started playing Holla Back Girl up until she said 'shit' for the first time, which was in the first 3 seconds. It was pretty funny because everyone got excited for those 3 seconds.

Growing up in Orange County in the 90's left me resenting/ignoring basically all of the ska shit that was coming out at the time. No Doubt, Aquabats, Reel Big Fish. No thanks. I know it ain't fair but it just isn't my style. As for her solo work, nothing has made me interested enough to look into her.

i think you got it mixed up. the last thing the world needs is another fucking fiona amos.

at least amy can actually sing.

as for no doubt...they were decent with 'tragic kingdom,' and had a few okay singles every now and then, but gwen steffani just needs to stop. another last thing the world needs is a glorified japanophile who can't sing.

I saw her on SNL (last year?) and she is great live. Like Britney Spears/Ashley Simpson, only TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT.

Of course everyone knows about the A. Simpson SNL lip-synching debacle. In recent Britney news, she did some show where her lip-synch track started skipping. Serves the idiot right.

Regina can sing, just in a weird way, but its all good. Amy looks like a crackwhore, and probably is. Londoners..

She certainly does (look like a crack ho or the like). I just don't get it. She's untalented and fugly. Then again, most of the new music people buy is cack.

I think she's only taller than Joan Jett by virtue of the beehive.

Jett is almost fifty and still rocks. Amy's music just lays there and is annoying. I'm pretty certain Joan would snap
Amy in two in a catfight. Okay, I'm silly.

My sister is dating a brother of one of the members of the Aquabats.

no doubt was the first band I ever bought a record for other then Nirvana. sixth grade. tragic kingdom was unbelievably popular, and I think that for the time they deserved it.

ohh, i hardly like gwen solo, most of the songs are hyper annoying. this one time i went to a club with my lady friend and a bunch of her/our friends after seeing judas priest was the only time i enjoyed hollaback girl.

and no, sorry, but amy winehouse can shut the hell up, she's annoying and prefabricated, crap crap crap; at least lilly allen's songs are well written. ghostface has a lot of explaining to do.

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Well, at least it's nice to see that everyone agrees on their hatred for Amy Winehouse :)

And I'm sorry Danny, but the first time I saw Regina Spektor's 'Fidelity' video, I thought... Tori Amos?

And I've never even liked Tori Amos...so it wasn't a good thing.

You don't have to apologize. We all have our own opinions. At the end of the day, as long as I like something I don't really mind if it gets badly recieved anywhere else.

It's a shame, though.

yeah. regina spektor may hold a note, but she doesn't have a voice of her own. 'fidelity' sounds like a feist song gone bad. and sure, amy may look like a crackwhore, but she can sing the pants off most anyone these days.

I like wind it up coz it sounds like a m.i.a. song. Ha ha. I don't like that much no doubt or gwen stefani, but some of the singles I heard trough the years are surely nice pop songs well written and produced. Amy winehouse can sing, her albums have a couple good songs but the whole mood and "feel" are a bit too prefabricated. Regina Spektor isn't too bad, but I don't feel much "deepness" in what she sings. I think her records came out before feist's debut, by the way. Now, what's the name of Ash's (ex?) guitarist? I heard she did a nice solo album. And what about joss stone? Gah!
Lily Allen's album is a great pop album with amazing arrangments.
My two cents. Sorry for my lak of knowledge on the main subject of the thread.

In my opinion Regina Spektor was good until the new record which is flat and commercial.

To stick to the topic I've always hated No Doubt.

Gwen Stefani is actually one of my pet hates. You could tell from the beginning that she'd be one of those success-at-all-costs types, She's not even demonic in an interesting way. The lady Macbeth of the food court.