No Doubt: Ska Defaced
Stephen Dalton, NME, 15 February 1997
• What's with America, eh? First they make Bush megastars, then they take our beloved ska, add saccharine to it and sell it back to us as No Doubt, a band that are too cute'n'cosy, too suburban, hell, just too nice to be cool. STEPHEN DALTON thinks it doesn't matter.
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