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Rancid [2000]
by Rancid

Rancid reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 78 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.5 out of 10
based on 14 reviews
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LABEL: Hellcat/Epitaph
RELEASE DATE: 01 August 2000
DISCS: 1 disc
GENRE(S): Rock, Ska, punk, Alternative

What The Critics Said

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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.
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90
All Music Guide
The harshest and most consistent album of their career.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
A refreshing eardrum-blaster...
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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.
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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.
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60
Sonicnet
In an age of "been there, done that" cynicism, Rancid come across like true believers...
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! 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!!!

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