No Doubt - Rock Steady
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Artist: No DoubtEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2001-12-11
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- Rock Steady (Intro)
- Hella Good
- Hey Baby
- Making Out
- Underneath It All
- Detective
- Don't Let Me Down
- Start the Fire
- Running
- In My Head
- Platinum Blonde Life
- Waiting Room
- Rock Steady
Music reviews of Rock Steady
Music Review: Just received my third No Doubt album (in the mail).
Rating: 3 Stars
September 19th, 2009
...Tragic Kindgom being my first about seven years after its release, and Return Of Saturn in June 2006.
1. InTro * A snippet of the last track, Rock Steady. (3)
2. HeLLa gOOd * Lots of attitude and very dance-able. I didn't like this when it was out but I like it a lot now. Probably my favorite track on the album. Closer to a 4.25. (4)
3. Hey BabY * The first single off the album. Catchy, and was my favorite with Running back in 2001. Features Bounty Killer. (3.5)
4. MaKing OUt * Surprisingly, this song is funner than "Hey Baby" to me. I never heard it until this year, shortly before I got the album. (4)
5. UnDerNeaTh IT alL * A nice, relaxing track with a slight Jamaican vibe to it. The third and final single off the album in the US. Love the bridge. (4)
6. DetectiVE * Kinda fun, but more on the filler-ish side. Some say it has a dark vibe to it but I don't really hear it. It's just kinda quiet. (3)
7. DoN'T lEt me DoWn * A solid track. (4)
8. StarT thE FirE * Filler, filler, filler. (2.5)
9. RuNNing * The only ballad on the album but doesn't feel like one of their strongest ones. It's a good song but a bit repetitive. (4)
10. In MY HeAd * Would have been better without the crazy chorus...the lyrics are alright and the vibe during the bridge is good. But that chorus where she almost shrieks is annoying. But I get what she tried to do. It's just kinda grates on the nerves if you know what I mean (for those who have heard it). (3)
11. PlaTinuM bLoNdE liFe * Feels like No Doubt. Guitars are full (for once) and it just makes you happy that they didn't completely go off course. Closer to a 3.75. (4)
12. WAitinG rOom * Different for a No Doubt album. But so are most of these tracks. It's alright I suppose. (3.5)
13. RoCk StEadY * One of the better tracks on the album. It has some blips and bloops in it but it feels so chill. A great outro to the disc. I love the ending "Hee Oo"'s. So chill...Longest track on the album. Closer to a 4.25. (4)
The big problem with this record in comparison to the last two is that it seems a bit amateurish. Gwen Stefani and the clan go for a bit of a more shallow audience, and some of the dedicated fans probably got used to it, but others I have noticed didn't quite gel with it (although to be fair, some have still found solid tracks here). All in all, it is a disappointment for your average No Doubt fan but it was something to tide us over until next year when they (hopefully) come harder with their 6th studio album.
Raw score: 3.307692308
Final score: 3 stars.
end note: Maybe there are a few too many blips and bleeps on this disc, but overall, I don't think it's that bad. However, for a modern No Doubt CD I must admit I am a little disappointed (but not terribly so). Some tracks are filler but there are some good tracks also.
Description of Rock Steady
Album released with 2 slightly different CD covers. One cover will have a black background and the other will have a white background. Orders will be filled at random.As much as No Doubt have protested that they are a singular unit and not "Gwen and her guys," Gwen Stefani's much-touted duets with rapper Eve and techno mogul Moby did nothing to juice the boys' spotlight, which had been steadily dimming since the release of 2000's Return of Saturn. But all that banter is silenced with Rock Steady, on which the music is definitely the star, unfettered by Gwen's cutesy-clouded feminism or dumped-by-the-boyfriend woes. Having mostly departed from their ska home base, No Doubt's well-navigated exploration of hip-hop beats, reggae, and the reunion of '80s keyboards and guitars finds the group picking up the pop-rock baton that Garbage dropped with an unsettling thud. Rock Steady's delegate of stalwart producers perfectly decorate the disc with their respective expertise; Ric Ocasek (new wave), Prince (R&B), Nellee Hooper (trip-hop), Sly & Robbie (dub), and William Orbit (trance) offer some staying power to music that's always been on the edge of disposable. Despite their disparate styles, the songs complement each other like stars and stripes. This is No Doubt's best album to date, and as they continue to expand their influences, the party only gets bigger. --Beth Massa
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