Doin’ Time

~ Recording by Sublime

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.17Doin’ Time4:12SublimeSublimeSublimeAlbum
  • US1996-07-30
Gasoline AlleyGASD-11413
1.17Doin’ Time4:12SublimeSublime (Columbia House club pressing)SublimeAlbum
  • US1996-07-30
Gasoline Alley*GASD-11413
1.1Doin’ Time4:14SublimeDoin’ TimeSublimeSingle
MCA Records (1967–2003; name as in imprint during 1972–1990)MCD 49060
1.17Doin’ Time4:13SublimeSublime (BMG club edition, UML pressing,explicit)SublimeAlbum
BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions), Gasoline AlleyD 115599, GASD-11413
1.17Doin’ Time4:12SublimeSublimeSublimeAlbum
MCA Records (1967–2003; name as in imprint during 1972–1990)MCD 11413
1.4Doin’ Time (album version)4:12SublimeDoin’ TimeSublimeSingle
Gasoline Alley, MCA Records (1967–2003; name as in imprint during 1972–1990)GASDM-55390
1.17Doin’ Time4:13SublimeSublime (BMG club edition, Cinram Richmond pressing, C80327)SublimeAlbum
BMG Direct (BMG’s direct marketing company/club editions), Gasoline Alley, MCA Records (1967–2003; name as in imprint during 1972–1990)D115599, GASD-11413
1.17Doin’ Time4:12SublimeSublime (special 2 CD set)SublimeAlbum
MCA Records (1967–2003; name as in imprint during 1972–1990)MCD 11797
1.17Doin’ Time4:13SublimeSublime (BMG club edition, Richmond pressing)SublimeAlbum
BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions), Gasoline AlleyD115599, GASD 11413
1.9Doin’ Time4:11SublimeGreatest HitsSublimeAlbum + Compilation
  • US1999-09-09
MCA Records (1967–2003; name as in imprint during 1972–1990)088 112 125-2
1.9Doin’ Time4:09SublimeGreatest HitsSublimeAlbum + Compilation
Gasoline Alley, MCA Records (1967–2003; name as in imprint during 1972–1990), BMG Direct (BMG’s direct marketing company/club editions), BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions), Skunk Records (Long Beach, CA)088 112 125-2, D 132113
1.9Doin’ Time4:09SublimeGreatest HitsSublimeAlbum + Compilation
MCA Records (1967–2003; name as in imprint during 1972–1990)112 125-2
1.9Doin’ Time4:13Sublime20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of SublimeSublimeAlbum + Compilation
  • US2002-10-29
MCA Records (1967–2003; name as in imprint during 1972–1990)088 112 921-2
1.9Doin’ Time4:13Sublime20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of SublimeSublimeAlbum + Compilation
  • CA2002-11-12
MCA Records (1967–2003; name as in imprint during 1972–1990)00881129212
1.17Doin’ Time4:12SublimeSublimeSublimeAlbum
Gasoline AlleyGASSD-11413
2.21Doin’ Time4:12SublimeGoldSublimeAlbum + Compilation
  • US2005-11-15
Gasoline AlleyB0005667-02
2.21Doin’ Time4:12SublimeGoldSublimeAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2006-09-22
Gasoline Alley0602498869666
1.5Doin’ Time4:11SublimeThe Best of SublimeSublimeAlbum + Compilation
  • US2008-04-29
Universal Music Canada
1.1Doin’ Time4:12SublimePlaylist Your WaySublimeAlbum + Compilation
Geffen RecordsB0011481-02
1.9Doin’ Time4:09SublimeGreatest Hits (clean)SublimeAlbum + Compilation
  • CA2010-08-03
  • US2010-08-03
Gasoline Alley
1.9Doin’ Time4:11SublimeGreatest HitsSublimeAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2010-08-03
Gasoline Alley
1.2Doin’ Time4:12SublimeSublime (10th anniversary edition / deluxe edition)SublimeAlbum
  • -2016-06-02
Gasoline Alley
1.17Doin’ Time4:14SublimeSublimeSublimeAlbum
  • XW2016-06-24
Gasoline Alley
1.17Doin’ Time4:14SublimeSublimeSublimeAlbum
  • -2016
Gasoline Alley
1.2Doin’ Time4:12SublimeSublime (10th anniversary edition / deluxe edition)SublimeAlbum
  • -2018-05-04
Gasoline Alley
1.9Doin’ Time (Uptown dub)4:11SublimeGreatest HitsSublimeAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2018-07-19
Gasoline Alley
1.44Doin’ Time (original version)4:14SublimeRockin’ Summer Sound WavesVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
FP
2.8Doin' Time4:14SublimeSublime (VMP Essentials)SublimeAlbum
Gasoline Alley, Geffen Records, Skunk Records (Long Beach, CA)E1243
2.9Doin' Time4:14SublimeSublimeSublimeAlbum
  • US2024-01-19
1.10Doin’ Time?:??SublimeSunshine SetlistVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2025-05-16
UMe (imprint of Universal Music Enterprises)
1.9Doin’ Time4:09SublimeGreatest HitsSublimeAlbum + Compilation
Promotion
1.3Doin' Time (album mix)4:12SublimeWhat I GotSublimeSingle
Skunk Records (Long Beach, CA), Gasoline Alley[none]
1.14Doin’ Time4:14SublimePromo Only: Modern Rock Radio, October 1997Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Promo Only
1.12Doin' Time4:13SublimeZoo Magazine CD Sampler 15Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Zoo MagazineCD 15
Bootleg
1.3Doin’ Time4:13SublimeDave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 (gamerip)Various ArtistsAlbum + Soundtrack
  • XW2001-08-27
2.10Doin’ Time (album version)4:13SublimeAOX: The Regeneration Mixtapes Box SetVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
[no label] (Special purpose label – white labels, self-published releases and other “no label” releases)[none]
1.3Doin’ Time (album version)4:11SublimeDoin' TimeSublimeAlbum + Remix

Relationships

drum machine programming:Marshall Goodman
programming:Marshall Goodman
engineer:Eddie Ashworth
producer and mixer:David Kahne
bass [Green Dan MacDonald Custom-Made]:Eric Wilson (Sublime) (from 1996-02 until 1996-05)
electric guitar [Brown Dan MacDonald Custom-Made] and lead vocals:Bradley Nowell (from 1996-02 until 1996-05)
sampler and turntable:Marshall Goodman
background vocals:Michael "Miguel" Happoldt
recorded at:Total Access Recording in Redondo Beach, California, United States (from 1996-02 until 1996-05)
mixed at:Scream Studios in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, United States (from 1996-02 until 1996-05)
has remixes:Doin' Time (Zeds Dead Summer Grime remix)
samples:(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party) by Beastie Boys
Summertime (mono) by Herbie Mann
recording of:Doin’ Time

Doin’ Time

writer:Adam Keefe Horovitz
Adam Nathaniel Yauch
Bradley James Nowell
George Gershwin (composer)
Ira Gershwin
Dorothy Heyward (playwright)
DuBose Heyward
Marshall Raymond Goodman
Rick Rubin (US record producer, former co‐president of Columbia Records)
is based on and quotes lyrics from:Summertime (American songbook standard from 1935 opera Porgy and Bess)