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Rancid [2000]

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 14 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 37 votes
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Album Info
Label: Hellcat/Epitaph
Release Date: 01 August 2000
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Ska, punk, Alternative
Summary
Also By This Artist: Indestructible Let The Dominoes Fall
What The Critics Said
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...
Entertainment Weekly
This collection of urgent, gravel voiced anthems is one of the most vital things the punk world has coughed up in years.
Read Full Review >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]
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]
Checkout.com
Fast, furious and full of wicked good fun...
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.
Read Full Review >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).
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Select
If punk must survive, it could sound worse than this. (Oct 2000, p.114)
New Musical Express (NME)
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.
Read Full Review >Sonicnet
In an age of "been there, done that" cynicism, Rancid come across like true believers...
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 37 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Bobby K gave it an8:
A very solid punk-pop release from Rancid. It moves away from their older releases, which tend to be more along the lines of third wave ska. This album strips nearly all of the ska influences and takes power pop melodies and blends it with the short-fast rules of American hardcore punk acts like Minor Threat. Overall, while it is different from their older stuff, there's no denying that this is definitely the most aggressive, as well as most political, release of their career. Highly recommended.
Addler S gave it a10:
Based simply on pure listening enjoyment, Rancid is the best punk band ever and this is their hardest shit.
jim w gave it a10:
fucken rocks
Vikish M gave it a10:
Rancid is the best punk band. I am mad about them. So I gave them 10. I would like to see them in my city
Jan N gave it a10:
Nářez jako svině jedno z jejich nejlepších alb!!!!!!!!!!
amanda b gave it a10:
fuck ya
william r gave it a10:
fucking good!!!
