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Everything Under The Sun

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Check out the two easter eggs on the boxset's DVD, live versions of "Pool Shark" and "DJ".

To access "DJ," on the Main Menu keep the highlight on the option for 'Roll It' and press the arrow keys on your DVD remote in this order: Right, Down, Left, Up, Right, Down, Left, Up. This will automatically play the clip.

To access "Pool Shark," on the second menu page for 'The Cuts' put the highlight on "Main Menu" and press the arrow keys on your DVD remote in this order: Right, Left, Right, Left, Up, Up, Down, Down. This will change the highlight to the color green and then press the Enter/OK button on your remote to access it.

And if you haven't taken the time to notice, each menu is a full-length song, bonus tracks in their own right.

This box set is a good buy for die-hard fans, but I would guess most of them have already acquired most of these rarities one way or another. As one of those fans, I was surprised that certain songs were not included, such as "Kingstep Dub", "Romantic Girl", "Saw Red/Bandelero", and the original mix of "Get Out!". Also, I was disappointed with the lack of liner notes. With all the cover songs, resung lyrics, reworked versions, and recycling of classic reggae riddims, I was hoping for notes on how Bradley Nowell came to use this material -- I think it would have benefitted fans who don't have an appreciation of Sublime's overwhelmingly Jamaican influences. Plus, these influences need to be given credit: Don Carlos (beginning part of "Lou Makes Friends" taken from his "Lazer Beam"), Half Pint ("Great Stone", parts of "At It Again" from his "Dancehall Vibes"), Yellowman (parts of "Roots of Creation" from his "Mi Believe/Summer Holiday"), Roots Radics/Barrington Levy ("Soundcheck Jam" riddim is from their "Send a Moses"), iNi Kamoze ("Doin' Time" line from his "Jump for Jah")... among others. The DVD of live material and video collages is worth a look, although I admit I skipped through a lot of it. Even though I'm a big fan of Sublime, I can't deny that their live performances lacked professionalism. It was obvious that they didn't rehearse enough for their shows, and even Sublime collaborator Marshall Goodman commented (in the documentary "Stories, Tales, Lies, & Exaggerations") on how Bradley was frequently so intoxicated that he couldn't perform well and often stopped playing his guitar mid-song. Perhaps I'm expecting too much from a band that originally played shows for beer. Anyway, highlights of this box set for me were "Ball & Chain", "Perfect World", "Get Out!" (acoustic), "Foolish Fool", and definitely the awesome acoustic versions of "Wrong Way" and "New Realization". Worth buying for these few gems, but I think casual listeners may find some of the other material to be sloppy.

I agree with the previous reviews..the album is ONLY for the truest and hardcore of Sublime fans. Non-fans or casual fans will immediately be turned off by the live sound quality and will not be able to look beyond it to understand Sublime's genius talent of superbly talented improvisational performances and songwriting. My only complaint is that the title of the album is a lie. Die hard Sublime fans know all the unreleased songs, and a few of their best were not included in this box set. Case in point, romantic girl, bandolero, pass me the lazerbeam, world of inflation, MTM, total hate (with Gwen Stefani) and kingstep. Personally, it doesn't bother me that those songs were not included because I already have them and have been listening to them on a regular basis for years. But I believe those songs would have been the clinching factor for any new or curious fans to truly grasp to uniqueness and originality that flew through the band mates of this Long Beach trio. But all in all, good effort, near perfection...let Bradley Nowell's spirit carry on to the next millenium.

"Lord have his grilled cheese,"

Brad Nowell

R.I.P

First and foremost, I have to stress that this anthology is for hardcore Sublime fans only. I doubt that anyone with only a mild interest in the band would enjoy this very much.

That said, being a hardcore Sublime fan, this is the most amazing thing to hit the record stores in a long time. This is like the Beatles Anthology for Sublime. It is packed with unreleased, live, rare and demo stuff. It also includes an actual unreleased studio track (likely mixed after Nowell's death) called "Foolish Fool". Even if you a lot of these songs via bootleg, they have all been remastered and the sound quality is drastically improved.

If you are a Sublime fanatic, you need this. Best $50 I ever spent.

This is an amazing box set, and well worth the price tag. It's great to hear all of the songs I enjoyed on bootlegs totally remastered, it's like they're brand new again. Only disappointment was the censoring of the song "89 Vision". The original bootleg had a lot more lyrics that they took out of this one for some reason. Other than that, I don't have any complaints. And would reccomend this to any Sublime fan out there (just make sure to download the REAL version of 89 Vision)

I can tell you for sure because I have all of them, and people who claim this aren't listening b/c these are a lot, of if not mostly, different versions or completely unheard. It's kind of cool (some may think) to be like "yeah I already have these songs", you'll hear a lot of that. But believe me, I have all the bootlegs and this box set right here is a gold mine. So ENJOY because hell has officially frozen over :D

was by a guy who reviews Michael Bolton and Chicago albums. Apparently he was disappointed in some of them. Therefore I wouldn't base whether I get this boxset or not on his 1 star review here. I guess I could give him a break beacuse he does like Greenday... oh wait... Greenday sucks too.

As for this boxset, I actually haven't heard it yet but am interested and wanted to see if it was any good when I came across this guy's post. Had to say soemthing. Michael Bolton...seriously????

I know I know, a lot of people wanted some other b-sides on this bad boy. But, the dvd was pretty cool, and for those of us who never got to catch any sublime shows its fun. enjoy, packed with good versions of a lot of different stuff.

this CD box set blow me away...I knew that Sublime was talented but I had no idea how many recordings had been done...it makes you feel like you were right there in the same room with them!

I believe that regardless what rareities are not available on this album, it is truly epic. I agree with a fellow poster that this is equal to a beatles anthology for sublime fans. I can't stress how much I appreciate the remastered work and the effort that it took to get this into a beautiful box set. I once again own , not one , but 3 new sublime discs to listen to all day and night. The only thing I disagree with on most of the posts is that I feel the music might be oriented for hardcore fans, but one could very much become hardcore if they appreciate the "main stream" tunes.