The band did come back together for “Push and Shove” in 2012. Each single included a music video that received heavy play on MTV and the band became winners and performers at the MTV Video Music Awards.įollowing that successful run, No Doubt released “Return of Saturn” in 2000 and went on to win a pair of Grammy Awards with 2001’s “Rock Steady.” Stefani embarked on a successful solo career that included a Las Vegas residency and Dumont, Kanal and Young each had their own projects, including forming a supergroup with AFI vocalist Davey Havok dubbed Dreamcar. The next year, the single “Don’t Speak” was nominated for best pop performance by a duo or group and up for song of the year. In 1997, “Tragic Kingdom” was nominated for best rock album and the band was nominated for best new artist at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York City. When we got it, it was wild just to see that thing slowly climb the charts.” “We’d be in some faraway place, somewhere in the middle of the night jet-lagged, and I just remember the fax machine with like that thermal paper. “We were on tour during that time, and this was pre-email and all of that, but I remember going down to the lobby of the hotels we were staying at and getting the faxes from management that had the charts,” Kanal said. The album also spawned numerous singles including “Just A Girl,” “Spiderwebs,” “Don’t Speak,” “Excuse Me Mr.” and “Sunday Morning.” The record put Orange County and No Doubt on the map as one of the area’s most commercially successful musical acts. 1 on the Billboard 200, where it spent nine non-consecutive weeks at the top. Though it came out in 1995, it wasn’t until December 1996 that “Tragic Kingdom” finally peaked at No. We were writing it for ourselves and to prove something only to ourselves and to make songs that we loved.”
We were writing the album in such a naive, but good, way. “It’s the honest truth that we didn’t expect it to break through and become a success at all. “We were really compelled to make that record it was so important to us,” Dumont said during an interview from his Long Beach home last week. They’d also received less than enthusiastic sales of their eponymous debut back in 1992 and a self-released follow-up, “The Beacon Street Collection” earlier in 1995. The label had gone through some changes and they’d been shuffled in and out of nearly a dozen Los Angeles area recording studios during the album-making process. The Anaheim-based band - comprised of vocalist Gwen Stefani, guitarist Tom Dumont, drummer Adrian Young, bassist Tony Kanal, trombonist Gabrial McNair and trumpeter Stephen Bradley - feared that the record would never see the light of day.
10, 1995, No Doubt’s third album, “Tragic Kingdom,” was released.
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