Rancid (2000 album)

Rancid (also known as Rancid 5 or Rancid 2000 to avoid confusion with their debut album) is the eponymously titled fifth studio album by the American punk rock band Rancid, released on August 1, 2000. It is the second eponymous album and the first to be released through frontman Tim Armstrong's label, Hellcat Records. It also features the return of producer Brett Gurewitz, who has produced every subsequent album by the band since then.

Rancid
Studio album by Rancid
Released	August 1, 2000 (2000-08-01)
Recorded	2000
Studio	Westbeach Recorders, Hollywood, California
Genre	Hardcore punk,[1] Punk rock[2]
Length	38:15
Label	Hellcat, Epitaph
Producer	Brett Gurewitz
Rancid chronology
Life Won't Wait (1998) Rancid (2000) BYO Split Series, Vol. 3 (2002)

Composition

It is Rancid's most hardcore offering to date, which was released as a follow-up to the more ska and reggae oriented Life Won't Wait. It spans 22 tracks in under 40 minutes, owing to over 3/4 of the songs clocking at under 2 minutes. The Japanese version includes one bonus track, "Sick Sick World". Songs on the album make reference to famous gangster Al Capone, as well as Norse God Loki, John Brown, Ulysses S. Grant, Nelson Mandela, Charles Van Doren, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Don Giovanni. Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion) reunited with Rancid and became their producer for this album. It was 6 years since he co-produced the band's second album Let's Go (1994), although he engineered the band's third album, ...And Out Come the Wolves (1995). Rancid and Gurewitz would continue their collaboration for their next four albums, Indestructible, Let the Dominoes Fall, Honor Is All We Know and Trouble Maker.

On the record released to the public, there was a mastering error on the track "Poison" on the first run of CDs pressed, but was fixed in subsequent pressings and is not present on the vinyl copies of the record.

Release

Rancid was released on August 1, 2000. Between June and August 2001, the group performed on the Warped Tour.[3]

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	78/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Entertainment Weekly	A–[6]
NME	[7]
Ox-Fanzine	Favorable[8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
Select	[10]
Spin	8/10[11]

The album received mostly positive reviews, though it failed to meet the success of Rancid's three previous albums. Rick Anderson of AllMusic noted "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 has come roaring out with the harshest and most consistent album of their career. It wouldn't be entirely accurate to say that they've left their influences behind; rather, they've integrated them more completely and created a sound that is completely satisfying without having to prove anything about its own originality. That sound ends up being something like a cross between the Clash circa 1978 and the hardcore punk of the early-'80s Los Angeles scene. "Rwanda" is a stutter-step anthem of sympathy for a devastated country; "Corruption" has an atonal power-chord progression and headlong tempo that Minor Threat would have killed for; and "Blackhawk Down" is built on a ridiculously catchy descending bassline and a distinctly Oi!-flavored singalong chorus. No ska, no reggae, no dub, just 22 tracks in 38 minutes with barely a pause between songs and high tempos all the way. If you're looking for artistic subtlety, go back to the catalog; if all you need is a half-hour of undiluted adrenaline, you've come to the right place."[12] Select gave the album a rating of three out of five, referring to the album as "infectious as they are insufferable".[10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tim Armstrong, except where noted.

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Don Giovanni"	Armstrong	0:35
2.	"Disgruntled"	Armstrong	1:00
3.	"It's Quite Alright"	Armstrong	1:29
4.	"Let Me Go"	Armstrong	3:13
5.	"I Am Forever"	Frederiksen	1:04
6.	"Poison"	Armstrong	1:17
7.	"Loki"	Frederiksen	0:47
8.	"Blackhawk Down"	Armstrong	1:41
9.	"Rwanda"	Armstrong	1:20
10.	"Corruption" (written by Armstrong, Lars Frederiksen, Matt Freeman)	Frederiksen, Freeman, Armstrong	1:27
11.	"Antennas"	Armstrong	1:10
12.	"Rattlesnake"	Armstrong	1:42
13.	"Not to Regret"	Armstrong	2:16
14.	"Radio Havana"	Armstrong	3:42
15.	"Axiom" (written by Armstrong, Frederiksen, Freeman)	Frederiksen	1:40
16.	"Black Derby Jacket"	Freeman	2:35
17.	"Meteor of War"	Armstrong	1:21
18.	"Dead Bodies" (written by Armstrong, Frederiksen)	Frederiksen	1:49
19.	"Rigged on a Fix"	Freeman	1:16
20.	"Young Al Capone" (written by Armstrong, Frederiksen)	Frederiksen	1:52
21.	"Reconciliation"	Freeman	1:20
22.	"GGF (Golden Gate Fields)"	Armstrong	3:39

Japanese bonus track

No.	Title	Length
23.	"Sick Sick World"	1:18
Total length:		38:24

Personnel

• Tim Armstrong - lead and backing vocals, guitar
• Lars Frederiksen - guitar, lead and backing vocals
• Matt Freeman - bass guitar, backing and lead vocals
• Brett Reed - drums

References

1. https://www.brooklynvegan.com/rancid-albums-ranked-worst-to-best/
2. https://www.allmusic.com/album/rancid-2000-mw0001965667
3. Vanhorn, Teri (March 13, 2001). "Warped Tour Adds Rollins Band, Lists Dates, Cities". MTV. Viacom. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
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6. Brunner, Rob (2000-09-01). "Music Review: 'Rancid'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
7. "Rancid". NME. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
8. Salmutter, Elmar (September–November 2000). "Reviews: Rancid / Rancid CD". Ox-Fanzine (in German). Retrieved May 27, 2019.
9. Diehl, Matt (2000-09-14). "Rancid: Rancid Review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2007-02-11. Retrieved 2017-11-08.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
10. Hurworth, Sally (October 2000). "Album reviews". Select. EMAP Metro: 114. ISSN 0959-8367.
11. LLC, SPIN Media (2000-11-01). SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. p. 209.
12. "Rancid (2000)". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-02-02.