The Rebel Black Dot Song o' the Day: SKAugust

No Doubt, "Total Hate 95" from The Beacon Street Collection (Rude Boy Mike Papa Whiskey)

Skammentary: No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom (1995) was, alongside Green Day's Dookie (1994), the soundtrack of my high school years, before I really cared about music. (The Summer of Ska was the summer I graduated from high school; I've always been a late bloomer.) Only later would I learn that No Doubt had been a part of the Orange County ska scene before they .