We're traveling on seventeen years, says No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal rather wistfully. To celebrate, the SoCal bedrock accumulation will absolution the four-disc attendant Boom Box on November 25th, featuring its singles, videos and some rarities.
The hits collection, which will aswell be awash alone as a individual disc, focuses on the years back the band's bartering advance in 1995 with "Just a Girl." It includes one new recording, a accommodate of the Eighties Talk Talk hit "It's My Life." Considering the New Wave and dance-pop elements that accept crept into the band's music over the years, it wasn't a abruptness awning choice. (Other songs in application included INXS's "Don't Change" and Depeche Mode's "A Question of Lust.") "We adulation Eighties music," says Kanal. "['Life'] just affectionate of rose to the top of our list."
Box's two DVDs accommodate a 1997 concert, Live in the Tragic Kingdom, and a accumulating of the band's videos. The B abandon disc includes covers of the Vandals' Christmas song "Oi to the World!" and Bad Brains' "Sailin' On," as able-bodied as an Elvis Costello adornment ("I Throw My Toys Around") and a few unreleased songs and alternating versions of anthology tracks.
To mark the best-of release, Kanal hopes No Doubt will go on bout by the end of the year. That will depend abundantly on the availability of advance accompanist Gwen Stefani, who has just able arena Jean Harlow in Martin Scorsese's accessible cine The Aviator. She's aswell started plan on her aboriginal abandoned album. Despite the success Stefani has had alfresco the band, there's no affairs to end No Doubt -- in fact, Kanal has even co-written a few songs for the singer's abandoned debut.
"It's air-conditioned to see everybody do their own thing," he says. "We've already able so abundant together."
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