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What is your favorite No Doubt album?  

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  1. 1. Best No Doubt album?

    • No Doubt
      0
    • The Beacon Street Collection
      0
    • Tragic Kingdom
      20
    • Return of Saturn
      11
    • Rock Steady
      12
    • Push and Shove
      17


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PopBitch

Yeah, 11 tracks is totally fine with me. Polished perfection over material for the sake of it, plz.

I 100 percent agree with you.

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FIRST REVIEW OF PUSH AND SHOVE BY NME:

‘Settle Down’ The lead single. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you really should. It’s classic No Doubt: catchy, clearly the work of kids raised on 1980s ska and new wave, and packed with quotable Gwen-isms: “Do you copy? Do you copy?â€

‘Looking Hot’ … whereas this is a surprise. It’s basically No Doubt Do Club Pop – imagine something produced by RedOne (Gaga, Enrique, J.Lo), but drained of the Euro cheese. Well, most of it anyway. Just as you’re getting used to the idea, they slip in a tempo-slowing eight that sounds a bit like reggae. And then Gwen delivers the baffling line: “Go ahead and stare at my ragamuffin.†We think she means her…

‘One More Summer’ ‘One More Summer’ is a great song title, especially from No Doubt, a band born and raised on California sunshine. Thankfully, they deliver the goods – this is sleek, synthy and anthemic, like The Killers if they unclenched their buttocks a bit.

‘Push And Shove’ What do you think a No Doubt tune produced by Major Lazer sounds like? Erm, not like this. ‘Push And Shove’ lurches from jerky dancehall verses to choruses that recall No Doubt’s biggest album, ‘Tragic Kingdom’, but with added wompage. There are also guest raps and Gwen channelling her inner Nicki with the line “We be on another level like we doin’ yogaâ€. It sounds horrible, but it’s actually bonkers and brilliant.

‘Easy’ This one’s more straightforward. All bubbling synths and New Order guitars, ‘Easy’ is a wistful cousin to the ‘The Real Thing’, an underrated moment from Gwen’s first solo album. The lyrics are interesting too. Rough translation: stop getting your knickers in a twist, Gwen, and go make up with him.

‘Heaven’ On which Gwen goes all gooey over her “designer love-maker†– presumably Gavin Rossdale knows some tricks that the rest of don’t. Once you get over the bedroom envy, this is pretty sweet though – like something from a John Hughes movie, but with a dash of dubstep.

‘Dreaming The Same Dream’ The album’s final track. Lyrically, this is a classic Gwen dysfunctional relationship song:“Just like the wind takes the leaf from the tree, you always know how to dismantle me,â€goes the opening line. Musically, it’s a synthy midtempo ballad with echoes of Stevie Nicks’s solo career. That is, until the outro, when it all goes a bit ‘(Don’t You) Forget About Me’…

Obviously there are still four tracks to come, but on this evidence, ‘Push And Shove’ is just what you’d want from a No Doubt album in 2012. It’s a catchy, colourful mix of modern pop and 1980s retro that’s never scared to show off its ragamuffin.

Kind of a bad review, but NME is known for those so whateva.

It get me excited though!! LESS THAN A MONTH!!! :excited2:

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FossMonsta

No Doubt and Gwen were my obsessions when I was little :D

Coincidentally their new album comes out on my birthday! yaaaaaaay!

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Kermit the frog

It's less than a month now and we've only heard 1 song + a short snippet of title track? :wtf:

WHERE IS THE MUSIC klsfjioafjodsignasjgnagnaklsdm

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Just got Tragic Kingdom, going to listen to it and then off to bed, I'll share my review tomorrow!

:legend: You won't be disappointed. That whole album has no flaws.

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Arturo

So I'm trying to get into them.

The only songs I have rn by them are Just a Girl and Tragic Kingdom.

(I'll buy SD this Friday when I get itunes money :nails:)

Any others?

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So I'm trying to get into them.

The only songs I have rn by them are Just a Girl and Tragic Kingdom.

(I'll buy SD this Friday when I get itunes money :nails:)

Any others?

Listen to their albums. Especially Tragic Kingdom and Return of Saturn :legend:

Want links?

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Arturo

Listen to their albums. Especially Tragic Kingdom and Return of Saturn :legend:

Want links?

Yes please, so I can listen to them when I have the chance :)

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So I'm trying to get into them.

The only songs I have rn by them are Just a Girl and Tragic Kingdom.

(I'll buy SD this Friday when I get itunes money :nails:)

Any others?

My favorite albums are Tragic Kingdom and Rock Steady.

Only the first half of Return of Saturn is good

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Kermit the frog

I can't decide whether their best song is New or Bathwater :huh:

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