Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt Reviews

Tragic kingdom is my favourite no doubt album. It is very different from the later songs and i was surprised when i first heard it. They play very well as a band and have some of my favourite songs on this CD. With "don't speak" being the first song i heard, it has always been a highlight of the album and "Just a girl" is also ...  Read the complete review

This was the album that first got me me into this group. I remember hearing 'Just A Girl' the first time it was released and really liking the vibe it was giving off. This is one of their earlier albums, fusing pop and ska and rock to great effect. Who are they: US group, fronted by leggy blonde Gwen Stefani. They were at ...  Read the complete review

This album is a modern classic. However many times I play it, it never gets tired. Why? Firstly, Gwen Stefani's voice. One of the most distinctive and powerful voices of any female singer. Full of character, she makes every song on this album come alive. Featuring two huge hits for the band, Don't Speak and Just a Girl, the other 12 songs are just ...  Read the complete review

'No Doubt' came to the attention of the UK public with 'Tragic Kingdom', on the release of the single 'Don't Speak', which was a fairly massive hit, topping the charts for several weeks in the mid-nineties. They enjoyed a brief spell of popularity thanks to their style of punk rock without too much noise. They could have become huge here then, but ...  Read the complete review

No Doubt-Tragic Kingdom Sugar and spice, and all things nice. Add a lashing of anger with such trivialities, such as being a girl, or being sixteen, and you have No Doubt. In many ways this is a rather ...  Read the complete review

Remember when Don’t Speak made number one in 1995? It really doesn’t seem that long ago. Nobody seemed to hear of No Doubt before or after but that’s because they are an underground band. This is one of many of their albums, their latest being ‘Return to Saturn’. So What All The Music About? ...  Read the complete review

This is the first No Doubt Album that I added to my collection. After the massive number one hit Don't Speak, I knew that I had to get this album. I first had the single and then bought the album and although it’s been out for years, I'm still listening to it! That’s how great the album is, you'll ever get bored ...  Read the complete review

There are two good tests of an album in my book. Firstly, can you listen to it all the way through without finding one track you really cannot stand? Secondly, can you put it on years after you bought it and enjoy it again as if you had just bought it? Well for me the No Doubt album "Tragic Kingdom" passes those tests with ...  Read the complete review