Rock Steady
by No Doubt
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Rock Steady is ranked 3rd best out of 8 albums by No Doubt on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by No Doubt is Tragic Kingdom which is ranked number 1016 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,717.
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Rock Steady track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/23/2026 20:25 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,276 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/12/2026 15:31 | Jakor | 5,437 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/27/2026 17:20 |  CA Dreamin | 743 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/07/2025 12:50 |  Igtonumama | 10,786 | 63/100 |
| ! | 07/23/2025 23:09 | davidbalo | 356 | 76/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.6/100, a mean average of 68.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.
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An Early-2000’s Pop Classic.
HoldenM 05/26/2023 20:34 | #297243
Fun!
VictorVale 05/15/2019 22:29 | #236287
Divertido, esperto e nostálgico. Um belo álbum pop!
This is my favorite No Doubt album, really the pinnacle of all of their talents (especially songwriting). Running is fantastic
poppmusic 06/28/2016 02:44 | #170035 | TOP COMMENT
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Gwen Stefani has rock star talent, but this music just falls flat. It's really, really obvious when Ray Ocasek and Prince come to produce, because the band just completely surrenders every musical direction to them- which is just lame.
RoundTheBend 06/06/2016 00:22 | #167981 | TOP COMMENT
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I saw them tour this record and they just played the hits off of it, and it actually was quite a fun show, but yeah... this album is total fluff.
I will say I respected the change of their sound and pushing themselves in a different direction (which was kind of cool at the time, but looking back No Doubt is totally a pop band).
Rock Steady trades in rock for summer electric light pop. No Doubt goes all in on what is popular alienating their original fans of Ska and upbeat rock.
It worked in an odd way. The singles were very popular but they found themselves in no man's land around new fans who couldn't get into their earlier music and loyal fans who weren't digging the new direction.
The band would breakup after this and Stefani--the only real show and talent here anyway--goes big solo.
As a big fan of Tragic Kingdom and a little fan of Return to Saturn---I jumped off the bandwagon at Rock Steady. It didn't rock steady at all.
Barely a band at this point, Rock Steady is the launching pad for Stefani to set trends in fashion and popular music for a couple years.
swhaze 07/03/2014 23:13 | #115937
Gwen Stefani's style is unique and helps make this a great album.
eclab 01/23/2013 08:11 | #62597 | TOP COMMENT
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The first half is quite a bit better than the second. "Hella Good" and "Underneath it All" are the highlights.
junodog4 09/12/2012 20:36 | #50467 | TOP COMMENT
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Way more fun when these guys were playing uptempo pop rockers. The ballads fall flat.
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