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The Return of Saturn World Tour  was the fourth concert tour by No Doubt. The tour was in support of thier fourth album of the same name. The tour visited ampitheaters and arenas and three stadiums in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Every show of the tour was filmed and a few were shown on local television stations however, no official release has ever been made available to the public. 

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1. Ex- Girlfriend 

3. Tragic Kingdom

4. Hey You!

5. Magics in the Makeup

6. Sunday Morning 

7. Different People

8. Spiderwebs 

9. Happy Now?

10. Six Feet Under

11. Too Late

12. Mary Me

13. Dark Blue

14. Starting Problem 

15. Excuse Me Mr. 

16. Squeal 

17. Doghouse 

18. Trapped in a Box 

19. Total Hate 

20. Snakes 

21. Simple Kind of Life 

22. Bathwater

23. Don't Speak 

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Before astrology became the default hobby for anxiety-ridden youth, Gwen Stefani used as it as a conduit for channeling her emotional and existential crises. A celestial coming-of-age of sorts, a “Saturn return” refers to the time when the planet completes its 29-year orbit, returning to the same position as it was at the time of your birth. As Stefani and No Doubt were entering a new phase of their lives, Return Of Saturn saw the band reconciling with their past in order to chart a bolder future.

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The new It Girl of rock

Following the wild success of Tragic Kingdom and touring non-stop for two years, the band felt creatively spent. The diamond-selling Tragic Kingdom had turned a spunky surf-core punk band from Orange Country into MTV royalty, with Gwen as the new It Girl of rock. If No Doubt could revive poppy new wave during the height of grunge , imagine what they could do during the peak of teeny-bopper pop?

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Five years is an eternity in pop music, even before the deluge of new releases facilitated by the streaming era . No Doubt initially jumped back into the studio after touring wrapped, looking to recapture the magic of Tragic Kingdom with producer Matthew Wilder, but the chemistry just wasn’t there.

Returning to their new wave roots

The group would spend the next two years writing, recording, rewriting, and starting over. “A lot of the stuff we were doing sounded like a caricature of ourselves,” Stefani told The Los Angeles Time s in 1999.

After a series of false starts with Wilder and other producers, the band opted for a one-off session with former Talking Head guitarist Jerry Harrison and ended up cutting the track “New” on the fly. With its chilly keyboards and Devo-inspired guitar riffs, “New” set the tone for Return Of Saturn , seeing No Doubt return to their new wave roots before 2-Tone took the wheel.

The band finally settled on producer Glen Ballard to oversee the new album – a surprising choice, with Ballard’s credits leaning heavily on R&B and Adult Contemporary fare like Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Sheena Easton, and Wilson Phillips. But Ballard knew how to polish raw, confessional rock into gold, as he had with Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill .

An incubation period

Released on April 11, 2000, the two-year incubation period for Return Of Saturn paid off, as No Doubt returned with a tightly crafted concept album that refuses to be pigeonholed. As the album veers from punk to new wave, reggae to jangly 90s pop, it handles each shift with ease; Stefani forges ahead on every song, as the tight band of brothers supplies the heat behind her.

Ballard may have smoothed out some of their edges, but the group’s spunk remains. Stefani plays the vengeful ex-lover in album opener “Ex-Girlfriend,” spitting vitriol the one moment and licking her wounds the next: “And you know it makes me sick to be on that list/But I should have thought of that before we kissed.”

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With its tricky verses and wild shifts, the song was an unlikely single, but its singalong chorus and buzzing guitars offered one of the few shots of adrenaline on the new album.

Internal conflict

Return Of Saturn also allowed Stefani to represent all her selves: the ska-worshipping pop-punk (“Bathwater”) the Italian-American traditionalist (“Simple Kind Of Life”) and the insecure pop star (“Magic’s In The Makeup”). Stefani also eschews her usual vocal theatrics on the album (“Bathwater” being the intentional exception), giving earnest performances that matched the vulnerability of the material.

For all the onstage push-ups and shocking pink hair, Stefani has never shied away from the kind of nagging insecurity that plagues her. But self-awareness was in short supply in mainstream pop in 2000. Return Of Saturn may have been the result of Stefani reading too much Sylvia Plath and hurtling towards 30, but who among us has come out on the other side with a Billboard -topping album to show for it?

On the album’s centerpiece, “Simple Kind Of Life,” Stefani wrestles with the conflicting desires of starting a family and being an independent artist. “Now all those simple things are simply too complicated for my life,” she sings over the swelling ballad. Her personal admissions are painfully intimate as she confesses that “sometimes I wish for a mistake.”

But this kind of navel-gazing lyricism by a late 20-something woman was not celebrated by all. Some critics wrote Return Of Saturn off as the work of someone reversing years of feminism, not recognizing that simply addressing these themes in pop music could be an act of transgression on its own.

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All killer, no filler

Stefani’s vocal versatility is matched by the band’s tight instrumental performances: bassist Tony Kanal and drummer Adrian Young provide the horsepower while guitarist Tom Dumont (the band’s real ace in the hole) sharpens his guitar on every track. Their synchronicity is never more apparent than on the clamoring “Six Feet Under” or the attacking “New.”

While Tragic Kingdom was top-heavy with hits, Return To Saturn is all killer, no filler. Even the unassuming midtempo ballads have surprises. A slow burn in the beginning, “Too Late” builds to a dramatic crescendo complete with horns and chugging guitars.

Debuting at No.2 on the Billboard 200, Return Of Saturn may have found No Doubt growing up, but their radical honesty and melodic popcraft convinced us that one more spin around the sun wouldn’t be so bad.

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O ff the road since ’97, Gwen Stefani and pals will weave their spider web of ska-tinged rock on an eleven-date tour in support of their new Return of Saturn . “We want to reconnect with our audience in more-intimate venues,” says bassist Tony Kanal, “where we can feel the energy and smell the sweat.” No less fragrant is life on the bus. “It’s a lot of sharing,” admits Kanal, “especially bodily gases and odors.”

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Pop-rockers No Doubt have announced 10 dates for a summer U.S. tour in support of their new album, Return of Saturn.

The Southern California quartet, who will complete a three-week club tour this weekend, will play amphitheaters on an extensive outing slated to kick off June 5 in Dallas. Rockers Lit and hip-hoppers Black Eyed Peas will be supporting acts. More dates are expected to be announced soon.

Return of Saturn, due Tuesday, offers a fresh mix of new-wave pop that reveals the band's growth since its 1995 breakthrough, Tragic Kingdom. That album has sold 15 million copies worldwide, thanks to such hits as "Just a Girl" and "Don't Speak."

While keeping with the band's signature sound, Return explores new textures, ranging from the hip-hop punk of the first single, "Ex-Girlfriend" ( RealAudio excerpt ), to the ragtime pop of "Bathwater" ( RealAudio excerpt ).

After spending two years in the studio recording the album, No Doubt are enjoying their return to the road, guitarist Tom Dumont said recently. "We've been away [from performing] for so long, it's just really cool to see people get into it," he said.

About half of No Doubt's club tour setlist is new material, but Dumont and drummer Adrian Young said they're looking forward to playing the new songs once fans have had some time with the album.

"When we play the new stuff now, [the crowd is] definitely more sedate at that point in the set," Dumont said. "But hopefully they're just listening and not bumming out. It's not easy to hear a song for the first time and try to adjust to it on the spot."

No Doubt will make several television, radio and Internet appearances in the coming weeks, starting with an online chat Monday (April 10) at twec.com at 10 p.m. EDT as well as an appearance on USA Network's "Farmclub.com" TV show that same night.

Tuesday. the foursome will give an acoustic performance at a fan conference at the Artist Direct Network (www.artistdirect.com).

They'll also perform at an in-store appearance Thursday at the Costa Mesa, Calif., Virgin Megastore.

The group's relaunched Web site (www.nodoubt.com) features an exclusive download of a B-side track, "Under Construction," as well as footage from the band's short tour last year.

No Doubt tour dates:

June 5; Dallas, Texas; Starplex Amphitheater

June 9; Atlanta, Ga.; Tabernacle

June 11; Charlotte, N.C.; Blockbuster Pavilion

June 12; Virginia Beach, Va.; GTE Virginia Beach Amphitheater

June 15; Baltimore Md.; Merriweather Post Pavilion

July 15; Denver, Colo.; Red Rocks

July 25; Sacramento, Calif.; Sacramento Valley Amphitheater

July 26; San Jose, Calif.; SJSU Events Center

July 28; Berkeley, Calif.; Greek Theater

Aug. 5; Irvine, Calif.; Irvine Meadows Amphitheater

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Inspired by Kacey Musgraves’s latest single, hear tracks by No Doubt, Stevie Wonder, R.E.M. and more.

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By Lindsay Zoladz

Dear listeners,

“My Saturn has returned,” the 35-year-old singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves announces at the beginning of her stirring new single “Deeper Well,” the title track from her upcoming fifth album. “When I turned 27, everything started to change.”

I know what she means. While I’m not much of an astrology person, I am something of an expert on the Saturn Return, the time when the ringed planet approaches the spot it was located when a person was born. It’s generally thought to be a moment of tumultuous upheaval and, eventually, of great personal transformation. Since Saturn’s orbit around the sun takes about 29-and-a-half years and stays in a particular sign for two-and-a -half years, the first return begins around one’s 27th birthday.

It was music that first taught me about this concept: specifically No Doubt ’s searching 2000 album “Return of Saturn,” which I listened to obsessively when it first came out. Gwen Stefani had written much of the material while she was going through her own Saturn Return, uncharacteristically depressed and questioning her place in the world. At 13, this sounded quite profound and adult to me.

When I began mine years later, I researched the concept extensively and wrote an essay trying to understand why the idea has been so resonant for so many people. Is the Saturn Return just a fancy astrological name for the existential anxiety of turning 30? I’ll leave that for you to answer. But I tend to think that any framework that provokes self-reflection and a consideration of ourselves as part of a larger whole can’t be all bad. Plus, over the years, it’s inspired some pretty great music.

Today’s playlist is a short compilation of songs either directly or indirectly inspired by this astrological event. It includes the aforementioned Musgraves and No Doubt, but also R.E.M. , Hayley Williams and Stevie Wonder . It does contain a few notable omissions from this very specific musical canon, but I personally — forgive me — am not a fan of Katy Perry ’s saturnine ballad “By the Grace of God,” and I also felt that an eight-and-a-half-minute Tool song would disrupt the flow of this particular playlist, even if it does feature Maynard James Keenan growling, “Saturn comes back around again to show you everything.” You are of course welcome to listen to those songs on your own time.

I did, however, want to highlight a lesser discussed aspect of the Saturn Return: It does indeed keep coming back around, so you can expect a second one in your late 50s and, if you’re lucky, a third in your mid-80s — which means we’re in for a doozy of a Kacey Musgraves album in approximately 2074.

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1. kacey musgraves: “deeper well”.

This pensive, acoustic guitar-driven track — perhaps a nod to a 1995 Emmylou Harris song — finds Kacey Musgraves taking an audit of her late-20s life and making some beneficial changes, like cutting ties with toxic people and cutting back on gravity bong hits. (Hey, her Instagram handle isn’t @spaceykacey for nothing.) Musgraves’s pearly voice is at once incisive and compassionate, its tone echoing the celestial-sounding keyboard effects that rain down in the song’s final moments. ▶ Listen on Spotify , Apple Music or YouTube

2. No Doubt: “Artificial Sweetener”

“The return of Saturn,” Gwen Stefani sings on this angsty new-wave-y rocker, which perfectly encapsulates a cosmic identity crisis. “Assessing my life, second-guessing.”

▶ Listen on Spotify , Apple Music or YouTube

3. R.E.M.: “Saturn Return”

A year after No Doubt’s “Return of Saturn,” R.E.M. released its 12th studio album, “Reveal,” which features this bleary-eyed piano ballad that name-checks the same astrological phenomenon. Rather than a personal exploration, though, this song is a character study of a late-shift convenience store employee, who climbs to the building’s roof and has an awakening while staring at the night sky.

4. Stevie Wonder: “Saturn”

This song — in which Wonder imagines fleeing Earth for a utopian existence on the sixth rock from the sun — is more about a playful interpretation of life on the planet than its placement in the sky: “Going back to Saturn where the people smile/Don’t need cars ’cause we’ve learned to fly.” But given that Wonder has long been attuned to all forms of spiritualism, and that he released “Songs in the Key of Life” when he was 26, he might have been thinking about what was just around the bend.

5. Vashti Bunyan: “Here Before”

The English folk singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan released her first album, the great cult classic “Just Another Diamond Day,” in 1970. It took her 35 years to release her second, the lovely “Lookaftering” — when she was 60 years old. A few years prior, when Bunyan was in her late 50s, a younger generation of musicians had rediscovered her music and given her the confidence to start writing and recording again. Sounds like a second Saturn Return to me. (And so does this déjà vu-inducing track from “Lookaftering.”)

6. Hayley Williams: “Watch Me While I Bloom”

The Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams has repeatedly discussed the concept of the Saturn Return in interviews, calling the band’s 2017 album “After Laughter” a marker of “a significant turning point in my life.” The album on which she really seemed to be processing the lessons of her Saturn Return, though, was her 2020 solo release “Petals for Armor.” This bright, twisty track celebrates the hard-won growth on the other side of that transformation.

7. No Doubt: “New”

I had to go out with one more track from “Return of Saturn,” and this is probably my favorite song on the album. Produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads (!), this tune heralds the luminescent beginning of something else — a sentiment Musgraves echoes on “Deeper Well” when she sings, “It’s natural when things lose their shine so other things can glow.”

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“7 Stellar Songs for a Saturn Return” track list Track 1: Kacey Musgraves, “Deeper Well” Track 2: No Doubt, “Artificial Sweetener” Track 3: R.E.M., “Saturn Return” Track 4: Stevie Wonder, “Saturn” Track 5: Vashti Bunyan, “Here Before” Track 6: Hayley Williams, “Watch Me While I Bloom” Track 7: No Doubt, “New”

Bonus Tracks

Thank you to everyone who suggested a classic “crush song” that you thought I missed in Tuesday’s newsletter ! A few of my favorites, as recommended by readers: 10cc ’s “I’m Not in Love,” Grace Jones ’s “Crush,” Too Much Joy ’s “Crush Story,” and of course — how I did I forget this one?! — R.E.M .’s “Crush With Eyeliner.” Keep crushin’ it, Amplifier readers!

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A Complete History of Saturn Return in Music: Kacey Musgraves and More

W hether you believe in astrology or not, you can't swing a pair of headphones this year without hearing a pop star talk about their Saturn return.

Ariana Grande and Kacey Musgraves both recently dropped albums referencing the astrological occurrence, which is loosely defined as the moment the planet Saturn returns to the same place in the sky that it was in when a person was born. But what happens during a Saturn return, and why are all of these people singing about it?

The first return of Saturn typically occurs between the ages of 27 and 31. According to conventional astrological wisdom, it represents the moment when a person finally reaches full adult maturity, complete with real challenges and serious responsibilities.

Saturn "returns" approximately every 29.5 years, meaning that a person will likely experience the phenomenon three times. Western astrologers believe that the Saturn return represents major change: a person experiencing it is in the midst of crossing over to the next stage of their life. The first one happens when you're a young adult, the second happens in middle age and the third occurs near the end of life. (A potential fourth Saturn return would only occur if you lived to be about 114.)

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Musicians have tended to focus on the first Saturn return, perhaps because so many of them start their careers so young. By the time they hit 27, they've already seen it all.

Keep reading for a complete history of Saturn return in music:

Stevie Wonder (1976)

Wonder's "Saturn" from his classic album Songs in the Key of Life isn't explicitly about a Saturn return, but the lyrics paint a picture of a place where life is slower and people are less impulsive. "Packing my bags, going away / To a place where the air is clean / On Saturn / There's no sense to sit and watch the people die," Wonder sings. "We don't fight our wars the way you do / We put back all the things we use / On Saturn / There's no sense to keep on doing such crimes."

And while Wonder didn't use the phrase "Saturn return" on this song, he was likely starting his first one at the time of its writing: Songs in the Key of Life dropped when he was 26.

No Doubt (2000)

For millennials of a certain age, the phrase "Saturn return" calls to mind one thing only: No Doubt's fourth studio album, Return of Saturn . After becoming superstars thanks to 1995's Tragic Kingdom , the band reconvened for a darker exploration of young adulthood, spurred in part by frontwoman Gwen Stefani 's own Saturn return. On "Simple Kind of Life," she sings about her conflicted thoughts on becoming a mother and a wife, while "Six Feet Under" is a deceptively peppy consideration of how birthdays are also a reminder of death. "Artificial Sweetener" actually references astrology directly, with Stefani crooning, "The return of Saturn / Assessing my life / Second guessing."

R.E.M. (2001)

"Saturn Return" appeared on R.E.M.'s 12th studio album, Reveal . The song is sung from the perspective of a woman who has an epiphany about changing her life while working at a convenience store. "Easy to poke yourself square in the eye / Harder to like yourself, harder to try," sings frontman Michael Stipe , who experienced his own Saturn return about a decade earlier.

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Katy Perry (2013)

Perry sang about her Saturn return on the Prism track "By the Grace of God," which begins with the lyrics, "Was 27, surviving my return to Saturn / A long vacation didn't sound so bad / Was full of secrets, locked up tight like Iron Mountain / Running on empty, so out of gas."

The song also includes references to Perry's divorce from Russell Brand , whom she wed in 2010. Brand announced their divorce in December 2011, when Perry was - no surprises here - 27.

Adele (2021)

Adele obliquely referenced her Saturn return while promoting her fourth album, 30 , which was largely inspired by her divorce from ex-husband Simon Konecki . During a concert at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles that aired in November 2021, Adele wore earrings in the shape of the planet Saturn.

She also discussed her Saturn return in a cover story with Vogue at the time, saying, "It's where I lost the plot. … When that comes, it can rock your life. It shakes you up a bit: Who am I? What do I want to do? What makes me truly happy? All those things."

Angie McMahon (2023)

The Australian singer-songwriter released a track called "Saturn Returning" after a three-year break from music and inadvertently kicked off a months-long onslaught of Saturn references. "I'm gonna let Saturn returning distort me / Just wanna be wide awake when I'm 40," she sings.

"Your Saturn return is like a teacher, and this song is a conversation with myself through a time of significant endings and beginnings, where compassion and hope have been the best antidote to my own mental health struggles," McMahon told Rolling Stone in June 2023. "The biggest lesson I've had in this chapter of my life is the value of a gentle and loving relationship with myself, no matter what."

MS MR (2023)

The duo released their last single as a band - appropriately titled "Saturn Return" - in September 2023. "You're my Saturn return / We orbit and burn / With one foot out of the grave," read the lyrics in the second verse.

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Rêve (2023)

Canadian singer-songwriter Rêve released her debut album, Saturn Return , in October 2023. The closing track, also titled "Saturn Return," reflects on the bittersweetness of getting older, with lines like, "We look kindly on the past / Why were we so hellbent on growin' up fast?"

Ariana Grande (2024)

Grande's seventh album, Eternal Sunshine , includes a "Saturn Return Interlude" narrated by YouTube astrologer Diana Garland . "When we're all born, Saturn is somewhere - and the Saturn cycle takes around about 29 years. That's when we're going to wake up and smell the coffee," Garland explains on the track. "If we've just been sort of relying on our cleverness or relying - you know, just kind of floating along, Saturn comes along and hits you over the head and says, ‘Wake up! It's time for you to get real about life and sort out who you really are.'"

Grande, who turned 30 while recording Eternal Sunshine , underwent plenty of change during her Saturn return, including her divorce from Dalton Gomez and her subsequent new romance with Ethan Slater .

Kacey Musgraves (2024)

Musgraves was 35 when she released her sixth album, Deeper Well , but the album's title track references the prior decade of her life. " My Saturn has returned ," she sings. "When I turned 27 / Everything started to change." Musgraves turned 27 in 2015, the same year that she released her breakthrough album, Pageant Material . The following year, she met Ruston Kelly , whom she wed in 2017. In 2018, she released Golden Hour , which won several Grammys and made her a superstar. She and Kelly filed for divorce in 2020, at which she was on the cusp of turning 32 - and thus at the tail end of her Saturn return.

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    It took two turbulent years to create Return of Saturn. No Doubt had just wrapped up a two-and-a-half-year tour, Eric Stefani left the band, and Gwen was experiencing a bout of writer's block. They went through three producers before landing with Glen Ballard, who had produced Alanis Morissette's 1995 multi-platinum album, Jagged Little Pill.

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    If you liked Tragic Kingdom, you should love Return of Saturn. And if you didn't, you should still love it. Despite a clutch of well-crafted songs, the results are hit and miss. Occasionally her pushing-30 doubts about the single life are touching, like when she imagines Gavin Rossdale would make a good dad.

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    1999 West Coast Club Tour (8) Push and Shove (9) Return of Saturn Tour (75) Rock Steady (102) Summer Tour 2009 (58) The Singles Tour 2004 (21) Tragic Kingdom (314) Vans Warped Tour 2000 (2) Warped Tour 1995 (11)

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