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The Beacon Street Collection (Album) by No Doubt

Artist Biography For No Doubt

Formed In 1986 In Anaheim California United States As A Ska Punk Band Inspired By Madness The Lineup Of No Doubt Initially Comprised John Spence As Lead Vocal Gwen Stefani On Back-Up Vocals And Her Brother Eric Stefani On Keyboards. While Playing The Party-Band Circuit Around Anaheim The Trio Picked Up Bassist Tony Kanal. Hardened By The Suicide Of Spence In December 1987 No Doubt Nevertheless Continued Gwen Became The Lone Vocalist And The Group Added Guitarist Tom Dumont And Drummer Adrian Young. During Their Early Years On The Party Scene They Played With Sublime And Brad Nowell Sang On No Doubt's Total Hate 95. Gwen Stefani Returned The Favour On Saw Red.
No Doubt's Live Act Began To Attract Regional Interest And Interscope Records Signed Them In 1991. The Band's Debut A Year Later An Odd Fusion Of '80s And Ska Sank Without A Trace In The Wake Of The Grunge Movement. As A Result Interscope Refused To Support No Doubt's Tour Or Further Recordings. The Band Responded By Recording On Their Own During 1993-94 The Result Was The Self-Released The Beacon Street Collection Much Rawer And More Punk-Inspired Than The Debut. Eric Stefani Left Just After Its Release Later Working As An Animator For The Simpsons. By Late 1994 Interscope Allowed Recordings To Resume And Tragic Kingdom Was Released In October 1995. The Album's Third Single Don't Speak Which Although Originally Written By Eric Was Later Altered By Gwen To Document Her Breakup With Bassist Tony Kanal. Tragic Kingdom Went Platinum And Has Sold Over 15 Million Copies To Date. As Tragic Kingdom Obtained Success The Band Toured Furiously Until Late '97. After A Long Break The Band Had Prepared A More Mellow And Powerfully Dramatic Album Entitled Return Of Saturn. It Emphasized Gwen's Encounters With Men Her Biological Clock And Miscellaneous Topics. Although The Album Had A Completely Different Approach To It The Band Was Making Rock Music With Less Of A Punk/ska Flare. The Album Debuted At #2 On The Billboard Charts In Early April Of 2000 And Then Declined To A Flop. The Public Never Did Justice To The Album And It Serves As A Favorite For Many Die-Hard Fans. While Touring In Jamaica For Return Of Saturn The Band Wanted To Try Adding Reggae To Their Music And Making More Of A Dance Rock Record. 20 Months After Return Of Saturn Debuted The Band Was Quick To Jump On The Creation Of Rock Steady Released In December Of '01. The Singles Underneath It All And Hey Baby Became International Dance Club Symbols As Top 10 Hits On The Billboard Hot 100. This Album Proved That No Doubt Had Not Lost Their Potential With The Public And That They Could Appeal To Various Groups Of People. In 2004 No Doubt Announced They Would Be Going On Hiatus After The Release Of The Singles Compilation The Singles 1992–2003 Which Contained One New Song A Cover Of Experimental Rock Band Talk Talk's "It's My Life". Tony Kanal Did Several Projects With Gwen And Other Artists. Adrian Young Married And Had A Child Tom Dumont Formed A New Band Invincible Overlord Often Plays With Matt Costa's Band. Gwen Embarked On A Sucessful Solo Career Which Consisted Of Two Albums - "Love. Angel. Music. Baby." And "The Sweet Escape". The First Of These Albums Contains The Single "Hollaback Girl" A Song Which Was Inescapable For Most Of 2005 And Hit #1 On The Billboard Hot 100 And Won Her A Billboard Award For First Track To Reach 1 Million Legal Downloads Ever. The Self Titled Track Off "The Sweet Escape" Went On To Become Her Most Notorious Calling Card. With The Hiatus Officially Over In Late 2008 No Doubt Announced Tour Plans For 2009 Kicking It Off In Atlantic City. The Tour Concluded With Four Dates In Irvine CA. In May 2009 The Band Was Featured As A Fictional 80's Band "Snowed Out" On CW Network's "Gossip Girl" The Band Performed Their Cover Of Adam And The Ants 'Stand And Deliver.' The Group Entered The Studio In May 2010 To Start Recording On Their Sixth Studio Album Push And Shove Which Will Be Release On September 25 2012 And Its First Single Will Be "Settle Down". Their First Music Video For The New Album Will Also Be For "Settle Down" And It Will Be Directed By Sophie Muller Who Previously Has Done Numerous Music Videos For No Doubt . The Whole Album Has Been Recorded With Producer Mark "Spike" Stent Who Worked On Their Previous Album Rock Steady But They Have Also Collaborated With Major Lazer Now Diplo's Solo Project . No Doubt Previously Revealed They Are Taking Influence From Ska 80s New Wave And Jamaican Reggae Music For The New Record.

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The Beacon Street Collection Is The Second Studio Album By American Rock Band No Doubt Released In March 1995. It Was Released Independently By The Band Under Their Own Record Label Beacon Street Records. It Was Produced By No Doubt Themselves And Recorded In A Homemade Recording Studio In The Garage Of Their House On Beacon Street In Anaheim California From Which The Album Takes Its Name. The Album Was Released During A Time In Which The Band Were Receiving Little Attention From Their Record Label Interscope And Were Not Getting A Chance To Record A Second Album. Interscope Were Disillusioned With The Band After The Commercial Failure Of Their First Album No Doubt. No Doubt Had Written Large Numbers Of Songs And Knew That They Would Not Make It Onto Any Interscope Album So They Built Their Own Studio And Recorded The Album There. Two Singles Were Released From It "Squeal" And "Doghouse" On 7-Inch Vinyl. The Album Sold Over 100 000 Copies In 1995 Over Three Times As Many As Their First Album Sold. This Success Ensured That Interscope Financed The Band's Third Album Tragic Kingdom Which Was A Massive Success Selling 16 Million Copies Worldwide And Attracting Extensive Interest In The Band. The Beacon Street Collection Was Re-Released In 1997 As Part Of The Band's Back Catalogue. Background No Doubt Released Their Self-Titled Debut Album In 1992 A Year After Being Signed To Interscope. The Group's Blend Of Upbeat Brass-Dominated Songs And Funk-Style Bass Riffs Came At A Time When Most Of The USA Was In The Thrall Of Grunge Music A Genre Whose Angst-Ridden Lyrics And Dirty Sound Could Not Have Contrasted More With The Atmosphere Of Most Of The Songs On No Doubt's Pop-Orientated Album. Not Surprisingly The Band Lost Out To The Now-Ubiquitous Grunge Music And The Album Was A Commercial Failure With Only 30 000 Copies Sold. In The Words Of The Program Director Of KROQ A Californian Radio Station On Which It Was One Of The Band's Driving Ambitions To Be Played "It Would Take An Act Of God For This Band To Get On The Radio." The Band Started To Work On Its Second Album In 1993 But Interscope Having Lost Faith In The Band Rejected Most Of Its Material And So It Was Paired With Producer Matthew Wilder. Eric Did Not Like To Relinquish Creative Control To Someone Outside The Band And Eventually Stopped Recording Or Rehearsing. He Left No Doubt In 1994 To Pursue An Animation Career On The Cartoon TV Series The Simpsons. Kanal Then Ended His Seven-Year Relationship With Gwen Saying That He Needed "space". Music A Large Number Of Songs On The Beacon Street Collection Were Written By Eric Stefani Who Left The Group Before Their Third Album Was Recorded. This Gave The Album A Similar Sound To Their First Album No Doubt In Which Eric Stefani Had Collaborated In The Writing Of All The Songs. Because The Lyrics In Tragic Kingdom Were Written Mainly By Gwen Stefani About Her Experiences In Life The Style Of Music Changed From What No Doubt Had Previously Produced. Tom Dumont Explained The Change In Sound In An Interview For Backstage Online "Well There Is A Reason That The Sound Of Our Music Has Changed And It's Not Because We've Sold Out Easy For Me To Say. Eric Our Keyboard Player Used To Write Most Of Our Songs. He Was The Main Creative Force In The Band For Many Years. And At A Certain Point After That First Album Came Out He Had This Personal Thing Like He Didn't Like Touring He Didn't Like All That Stuff. He Just Liked To Sit Down And Write Songs. That's Him. He's The Artistic Side The Total Mr. Creative. Well What Happened Is When Eric Decided To Leave The Band It Left The Song Writing To Us Me Gwen Tony The Rest Of Us And It's A Really Natural Thing For Our Song Writing Style To Be Different Than Eric's. Just We're Different People. I Mean We've Learned A Lot From Him And He Taught Us A Lot Of Things About Song Writing But We Write Simpler Music. We Have A Simpler Style. We're Not Quite Genius Like Him I Think. This Album Was Our First Attempt. It Was Gwen's First Time Really Writing All The Lyrics Herself So To Me It Went The Opposie From Selling Out We Have Done Something That Is Even More Personal. In The Past Eric Was Writing Songs About His Life And Having Gwen Sing Them. Now We Have Gwen Singing And Writing About Her Own Experiences." Production No Doubt Became Frustrated At The Lack Of Progress They Were Making With Interscope Who Were Proving Unreliable In Their Support Of The Band. Instead They Build Their Own Studio In Their Garage On Beacon Street In Anaheim California And From There Released Two Seven-Inch Singles "Squeal" And "Doghouse" On Their Own Record Label "Beacon Street Records". The Band Realized That The Songs They Had Written Would Never Make It Onto Their Next Album From Interscope So They Recorded The Beacon Street Collection In Their Studio In One Long Weekend. Their Independence Shocked Their Company Representative Tony Ferguson Who Had Assumed They Were Recording A Third Single. Singles In 1994 Before Recording Of The Album Had Even Begun No Doubt Released Two Seven-Inch Singles For Their Fans. The First Was "Squeal" A Song Written By Eric Stefani Detailing A Criminal's Reaction To Her Partner's Betrayal To The Police. They Had Agreed To Be "in This Together" But After He "squeals" She Resolves To "kill The Narc Who Wrote It And Said It ". The Single's B-Side Was "My Room Is Still Clean" Written By Tony Kanal And Recorded Live At The Icehouse In Fullerton California On February 13 1993. The Second Single Was "Doghouse" Written By Eric Stefani. It Is About A Man Who Is Bullied And Dominated By His Girlfriend And Is Unwilling To Force The Situation To Change. The Song Uses The Metaphor Of A Dog And Its Master To Illustrate The Nature Of The Relationship Saying That She Had Got Him "by The Reins" And He Has Been "conditioned" By Her. The Single's B-Side Was "You Can't Teach An Ol' Dog New Tricks" Written By Eric Stefani. Reception Significance On Its Original Release In March 1995 The Beacon Street Collection Was Only Available In Local Record Stores In Orange County California And At No Doubt's Shows. Its Rawer Sound Proved Popular With The Band's Fans And The Band's First Batch Of One Thousand Copies Sold Out Within Only A Few Month After Its Release. Interscope Realised The Band's Potential And Allowed Them To Record Their Third Album Tragic Kingdom In Various Los Angeles Studios "wherever They Could Get A Deal On A Studio". During A Recording Session The Band Was Introduced To Paul Palmer Who Was Interesting In Mixing The New Album. He Owned His Own Record Label Trauma Records Which Was Associated With Interscope. Interscope Willingly Sublicensed The Project To Trauma Records In 1995 And Tragic Kingdom Got The Personal Focus That Comes From A Small Company. By The End Of The Year 100 000 Copies Of The Beacon Street Collection Had Been Sold Over Three Times As Many As Their First Album No Doubt. These Sales Were Mostly Due To The Release Of Tragic Kingdom Which Was Released Seven Months After The Beacon Street Collection In October 1995. Tragic Kingdom Was A Massive Commercial Success Reaching Sales Of Over 10 Million In The USA And 16 Million Worldwide Peaking At Number One On Several Charts And Being Certified "diamond" In The US And Canada And "platinum" In The UK And Australia. This Success Created An Extensive Interest In The Band's Back Catalog So In October 1997 The Beacon Street Collection Was Re-Released On Interscope. In An Interview With Axcess Magazine In April 1996 Gwen Stefani Described The Release Of The Beacon Street Collection As "one Of The Best Things Ever Did Because Were Able To Take Some Songs That Would Have Probably Gotten Lost And Document Them". Critical Allmusic Called The Album "finer Than The Debut" And Described It As Containing More Of A "raw Sound Inspired By Punk" Than The Style Of No Doubt's First Album Which Was Heavily "synth And New Wave". Entertainment Weekly In 1997 Called It "more Focused Than Tragic Kingdom" With "reggae Frat-House Grooves And Perky Horns" And Complimented "Gwen's Feisty Kewpie-Doll Wail" And The "swaying Ballads" Attributing It To "the Band's Willing Spirit". Rock On The Net Retrospectively Called The Album "a Raw Expression Of Their Sound" And Describing It As "80s Punk With 90s Grunge.

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