This is where it all starts. Without any reminiscing about their former band Operation Ivy, Matt Freeman (bass) and Tim Armstrong (guitar/vocals) blast through their debut...
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Whatever Rancid lack in innovation, they make up with sheer energy. The group rushes through Let's Go with an invigorating recklessness, sounding like a less-serious,...
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Released in Rancid's heyday, the Roots Radicals single came out between the group's seminal Let's Go and the nearly as engaging follow-up, ...And Out Come the Wolves. The...
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Punk hit after ska hit after punk-ska hit, this LP, derivative as nay-sayers may claim, is nonetheless irresistible. Contains "Ruby Soho" (which Strummer or Jones would have...
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In the wake of the Offspring's success, Rancid became a hot band, earning a dedicated cult and sparking a major-label bidding war. After flirting with a handful of major...
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Rancid's follow-up to the unimaginably successful And Out Come The Wolves is a fairly predictable sequel to its predecessor, only this time the creative result's more...
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Rancid never win any points for originality, but originality isn't their goal. Rancid want to be, to quote an old Clash slogan, "the only band that matters." Where the Clash...
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Rancid (2000) 12/19/2000, Yahoo! Music, Jim Derogatis
Yeah, yeah, yeah: They've got funny hair, they rip off the Clash, and they operate in a weird netherworld that ain't really indie-punk but sure ain't full-bore major-label...
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After several fine, if rather derivative, albums of ska-inflected punk rock, and after years of being criticized for relying unduly on gestures lifted from the Clash, Rancid...
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Rancid's sixth album, Indestructible, starts off with a melodic blast of punk intentions, "Indestructible," and doesn't back down until the last chords of "Otherside," a...
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Forget Roots Radicals, Let's Go and Out Come the Wolves. As a matter of fact, forget everything that Rancid ever put out and take in consideration this EP. This has none of...
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Rancid's sixth album, Indestructible, starts off with a melodic blast of punk intentions, "Indestructible," and doesn't back down until the last chords of "Otherside," a...
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