You've tried that angle at a few points in these comments. How does "April 26, 1992" try to "whitewash the LA Riots". Also, please specify the Rodney King riots- there have been a few of them.

I don't see how that makes it a "lie". I think the narrator in the song (obviously Nowell) is obviously in deep denial. How cognizant Nowell was about that fact when he wrote the song is unknowable, but it's plain to anybody who knows what the song is actually about. I hear it as one of the more tragic tunes I've ever…

Guy Fieri reminds me way more of the Rockabilly scene of that same era than anything to do with Sublime.

…What record store?

It infuriated you? That's a shame. "April 26, 1992" was not one of their songs with a fictional narrator, though- it was something that Nowell actually did. One of their albums is titled after it ("Robbin the Hood", 1994.) The Rodney King riots of 1992 spilled over heavily into Long Beach, particularly the poorer east…

Know what? "What I Got" is a song about a dropout on the margins of society who is cheerfully enumerating the things he has- what has not been lost or destroyed by his addiction.

Christ almighty, have you ever heard of a song in which the main character or point of view might NOT be that of the singer or songwriter? Do you think that Johnny Cash ACTUALLY killed a man in Reno just to watch him die? Are you consumed with righteous fury while reading Lolita, and have you started a petition to…

I am SCREAMING at this article. It's funny, but it's more about his own
childhood insecurities than anything else. Sublime is "jock-rock"?
Making fun of the fact that Brad Nowell OD'd on heroin? This guy is an
asshole. I'm sorry he got picked on in Hawaii by some dude with a 40 Oz
tattoo- lots of assholes DID listen…