to Freedom and before they wrote and recorded Robbin' the Hood, when heroin quickly became a central part of Sublime's image. Nowell did not want the drug around the band, and Gaugh was ousted from the band while he was in and out of rehab until Sublime released 40oz. īud Gaugh developed a heroin addiction around the time the song was first recorded in 1989, eventually falling into homelessness. It is suggested that the term "Badfish" is slang for a heroin user who gets someone else hooked on the drug, or a heroin addict, and the song is described as being an anti-drug song to the scene that Sublime frequented early on, or as being written about Nowell's drug addiction. Until 1992, Nowell feared heroin, and refused to try it.
The song's sound was heavily influenced by Nowell's love of reggae music. The introduction, "a field recording of a bar", was reportedly inspired by The Specials' 1979 song "Nite Klub", and was recorded at Shannon’s Bayshore Saloon in LBC, and "Todd", who is told he can "turn the radio back on", was the bartender. įor LBC locals in the historically blue-collar industrial port city, where Nowell grew up, the metaphors of the experience resonated as a hard-times poetry, contrary to Sublime's typical straight-forward lyrics, allowing them to tout future lyrics like they were "Well Qualified to Represent the LBC" on their 1996 self-titled album. Sublime recorded the remainder of their 1991 demo, Jah Won't Pay the Bills, with Happoldt at CSUDH and released it on Skunk Records, Happoldt's record label.
SUBLIME BADFISH LYRICS PROFESSIONAL
Happoldt, who went on to become a producer, guitarist, and vocalist for Sublime, asked Nowell if he wanted to record tracks in a professional studio, and the band recorded the track, which earned Happoldt a C. The first version of "Badfish " was recorded as a student project for Michael "Miguel" Happoldt who was a recording student at the time and in a band called The Ziggens, at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) in Carson, California in 1989. Mixolydian modes are common in ska and reggae music. "Badfish" is in the key of A mixolydian, which is a mode of D Ionian of major scale. Problems playing this file? See media help. The sample contains the "field recording in a bar", along with a sampling of the melodic and lyrical shift from their typical work. MTV and radio stations refused to play the song prior to Nowell's tragic overdose in 1996, but "Badfish" later became one of the band's most popular songs, and is one of the few beloved by Sublime's critics.Ī tribute band, Badfish, is named after the song. The track serves as an after-the-fact reminder of Nowell's struggle with heroin, and was reportedly informed by the slang term "Badfish" and his struggle to resist trying the drug. The song resonated with the band's hometown of Long Beach, California (LBC), with familiar lyrics about the struggle of being in the working class, and utilizing local landmarks in the audio and video recordings. An extended play (EP) was released in 1995 named after the track. First released on the band's 1991 demo tape, Jah Won't Pay the Bills, "Badfish" appeared again on most of the band's compilation albums. The song was written by Bradley Nowell and originally recorded in 1989, reportedly influenced by The Ziggens song "All the fun that we missed" and Nowell's love of reggae. The single was released in 1993, and again in 1997. " Badfish" is a song by the ska-punk group Sublime from their 1992 debut album, 40oz.
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