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Rancid [2000]
by Rancid
| LABEL: |
Hellcat/Epitaph |
| RELEASE DATE: |
01 August 2000 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Rock, Ska, punk, Alternative |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
91
Entertainment Weekly
This collection of urgent, gravel voiced anthems is one of the most vital things the punk world has coughed up in years.

90
All Music Guide
The harshest and most consistent album of their career.

90
Revolver
Sometimes it sounds like someone grafted the Who's Live at Leeds and the first Minor Threat EP together. Yes, it's that good. [#2, p.103]
80
Spin
Rancid is a roots record, scouring off any glossy residue left from the Alternative '90's by returning to pure punk... [Nov. 2000, p.209]
80
Checkout.com
Fast, furious and full of wicked good fun...
80
Launch.com
The vitality of these ditties is such that you'll be swept up in the excitement without much time or inclination for deep lyrical dissections, or fretting about Rancid's originality.

80
Village Voice
Their new record rules, but in the party-punk, young-dumb-full-of-aplomb manner of their eponymous debut and the following year's Let's Go--not in the guitar-often-on-the-offbeat, more mannered manner of . . . And Out Come the Wolves (1995) and Life Won't Wait (1998).

80
HOB.com
This self-titled effort is the kind of wall-to-wall spitting, snarling aggression that they haven't fully unleashed on the world since Let's Go.

73
Wall of Sound
But as the songs blow by like so much sonic shrapnel, Rancid runs the risk of trying to say too much too quickly and losing its voice amid the ranting, raging blur.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
A refreshing eardrum-blaster...

70
Rolling Stone
With Rancid, the band's mix of American thrash minimalism and Brit punk's sound and fury have transcended revivalist mimicry once and for all. The result is a brutally exuberant rock album.

60
Select
If punk must survive, it could sound worse than this. (Oct 2000, p.114)
60
New Musical Express
Thankfully lacking the comedy ska bletherings of their last two albums, this is certainly fast and furious and, where once they seduced the charts with songwriting, now they want to bludgeon with hardcore muscle.

60
Sonicnet
In an age of "been there, done that" cynicism, Rancid come across like true believers...


The average user rating for this album is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 37 User Votes
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