And Out Come the Wolves, which introduced a heavy Ska influence to the band's sound after two albums of (admittedly more bass heavy and poppy than usual) Hardcore Punk. The band does this pretty often, actually. To a lesser extent, "Daly City Train" and "Old Friend" count, too- they're upbeat Ska songs about heartaches, after all.Lyrical Dissonance: "Red Hot Moon" definitely counts.Branden Steineckert replaced him soon after, and has stayed ever since. The Armstrong-Freeman-Frederiksen-Reed line-up lasted from 1993 to 2006, when Reed left. Long-Runner Line-up: 2 in fact both qualify as a Type 2.Lead Bassist: Matt Freeman is Types A, C, and D, as his aggressive, technical style forms a big part of their sound he's probably closer to the Face of the Band than Armstrong is with bassists.Heterosexual Life-Partners: Considering the fact that Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman have been inseperable for pretty much their entire careers (even before the Operation Ivy days) they definitely qualify as this.Hardcore Punk: Their first two albums and 2000's second Self-Titled Album occasionally shows up elsewhere, too.It's more akin to 80s Hardcore than the first two they did were. After two albums experimenting with ska, reggae and other influences, this album was a stark, straight-ahead Hardcore Punk album. Genre Throwback: The 2000 self-titled album.Genre Roulette: Most notably on Life Won't Wait - its predominantly based within Ska Punk, but finds time to explore many other genres.Break-Up Song: "Fall Back Down" starts like this, then the song goes into being about friendship in the second verse (specifically, friends that help you work through the end of a relationship).Although really they got the title from a poem that appeared in Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries, then had Carroll himself recite excerpts of said poem as Spoken Word in Music. And Out Come the Wolves has its title dropped in "Junkie Man". A green one in which the NOFX songs are before Rancid's portion and an orange one in which this is reversed. Two versions were released with differently colored album covers. Rancid (2000) - Not to be confused with the 1993 album.Īnother notable release of theirs is a split album with NOFX in which both bands cover six songs of the other.Brett Reed – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1991–2006).Branden Steineckert – drums, percussion (2006–present).Lars Frederiksen – rhythm guitar, lead and backing vocals (1993–present). Matt Freeman – bass, backing and lead vocals (1991–present).Tim Armstrong – lead guitar, lead and backing vocals (1991–present).From 1998 to 2003, he was married to Brody Dalle, lead singer of The Distillers. He's the owner of Hellcat Records, a label which mostly hosts sub-genres of punk such as Oi!, Ska, rockabilly, is a member of the supergroup Transplants and has collaborated with various other acts such as P!nk, Gwen Stefani, Travis Barker and Cypress Hill. Outside of Rancid, Tim Armstrong has a massive footprint on the music scene. Their ska-influenced sound (a holdover from Freeman and Armstrong's previous band) also played a huge part in the Third Wave Ska movement in the later half of the decade. Reed left in 2006 and was replaced by Branden Steineckert.Īlong with Green Day and The Offspring, the band are widely credited with the punk revival of the 1990s. They were joined by rhythm guitarist Lars Frederiksen and drummer Brett Reed. Rancid is a punk rock band from Berkeley, formed in the early 90s by bassist Matt Freeman and guitarist/singer Tim Armstrong, formerly of the ska band Operation Ivy.
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