I just find they’re overplayed, overrated, and kind of cringey.
Ska is one of my go to genres, a favorite, but I wish Sublime would go away. Every time I hear them I can’t get their songs out of my head for much longer than I would like. Every time.
I also used to hear them way too much in a place outside the US, which outside of shitty pop music was one of those “American” bands or whatever they thought, so bars played them. A lot.
First of all, the lead singer died after their first album, so there’s that influencing people’s opinions.
Second of all, this flavor of ska (“third wave” ska) was still pretty new and revolutionary at the time.
Finally, they sound “old” and “boring” today because SO MANY bands copied them after. This happens with all highly influential bands. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were new and revolutionary for their time, but they’ve been copied so much, they seem old and boring now. Same thing.
