This must be my favourate rancid album, its has everything you could want from a punk album. The album has 4 genres to its that change throughout the album. The most obvious of these is the Punk scene which is featured in most of the songs, ska which is in my favourate songs and totaly livens them up. It has a Mainstream rock Feature which is used in a few slow songs, and reggee, which is used in two songs. Credit to the best punk band in the world, the bass is totally amazing, and being a bass player i am influeneced and use similer stuff in my band and the vocals are good.
Track review-
Intro- a complete burst of "The Pouges" like punk, with mouth organs! 5/5
Bloodclot- a good song, but i prefer the more punky stuff, this has a kinda poppy feel to it. :( 3/5
Hoover Street- Man, this song rocks. It has a rocky intro and the verse is just the bass and eventually the guitar kicks in with a muted kinda riff, and then a Xylophone! The Chorus has again a rocky feel to it and the backing vocals are used well. 5/5
Black lung- This song rocks it has probably the best bass line to it on the album and fits in well to the lyrics. The verse gets rocky again and fades into the verse with a wired guitar lick which sounds ace. 5/5
Life Won't Wait- This track is just Reggee rock kinda with a chorus that drags on. This for me is a let down. 2/5
New Dress- Lars Frederiksen sings in this track and Bass line again is good, The chorus is a bit wierd, with Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman joining in, still a good track. 5/5
Warsaw- This song is ace. The bass line is probaly the main thumb up for this song, as it fetures mor than anything on the song. The tune is very catchy, in a good way. 5/5
Hooligans- This is a more slower song which kicks in with the semi-electic and backing vocals again used well. 5/5
Crane Fist- Wierd, this song is mixture of istruments like the piano and keyboard. Im not a massive fan of this track.
Leicester Square- The chorus saves this song for me, the intro sounds a bit queer, but on the whole not a bad song. 3.5/5
Backslide- Man what a song! This is my favourate song by rancid the bass line is amazing and the lyrics actually make sense. The trumpet again adds a Ska feeling which makes it the best song on the album. 5/5
Who Would've Thought- This song starts off slow, but when it gets going it really does rock. The lyrics and the way he sings them score for me. 5/5
Cash, Culture and Violence- This song is cool, the lyrics again used to a good extreame, the bass is lively and sounds a bit like blacklung. 5/5
Cocktails- This is very "pouges" influeneced again. its has a mouth organ (ace!!!)the bass is good and the lyrics rock. 5/5
The Wolf- Lars Frederikson and Tim Armstrong Rotaote to sing this but the chorus againis amazing with them both singin. ace man. 5/5
1998- This song rocks. Literatly. It has a more rocky sound to it and the guitar is distorted and sounds ace. 5/5
Lady Liberty- The bass line scores for me here, because the guitar isnt really amazing. 3.5/5
Wrongful Supsicion- This song is quite cool. The verse is quite slow with just bass. The pre Chorus drags on but not for to long. The chorus has a ska feeling to it and makes it sound better. 4/5
Turntable- The guitar here rocks. The intro and verse has a distorted guitar init, the doubling up on vocals sounds good. 4/5
Something in the World Today- The song has a kinda distored guitar on it, an the bass is just simple but fits in. 4.5/5
Corason de Oro- This song is another favourate, the tempo is slow but the backing vocals fit in again which make it a awesome song. 5/5
Coppers- The last track has a kinda regge feel to it, with light vocals, and the backing vocals in the chours is ace. Pretty good finshing song, the guitar, bass and drums are all pretty simple, but again it fits.
A totally awesome album please buy it. RANCID ROCK!!!!
