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Rancid (2000 album)

Rancid
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Studio album by Rancid
Released August 1, 2000 (2000-08-01)
Recorded 2000
Studio
Genre Punk rock, hardcore punk, street punk, melodic hardcore, skate punk
Length 38:15
Label Hellcat
Producer Brett Gurewitz
Rancid chronology
Life Won't Wait
(1998)
Rancid
(2000)
BYO Split Series, Vol. 3
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars
Robert Christgau (3-star Honorable Mention)
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars
Select 3/5 medals

Rancid (also known as Rancid 5 or Rancid 2000) is the eponymously titled fifth studio album by the American punk rock band Rancid. It is the second eponymous album and was released on August 1, 2000, through frontman Tim Armstrong's label, Hellcat Records. It was the band's first album released through Hellcat. 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, resulting in 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 three albums, Indestructible, Let the Dominoes Fall and Honor Is All We Know.


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