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Rancid - Life Won't Wait Audio CD

A fair review of the Rancid "Life Won't Wait" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Rancid reviews here, or go back to the Rancid tabs.

Rancid Band: Rancid
Title: Life Won't Wait
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Release Date: 1998-06-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Intro 2: Bloodclot 3: Hoover Street 4: Black Lung 5: Life Won't Wait 6: New Dress 7: Warsaw 8: Hooligans 9: Crane Fist 10: Leicester Square 11: Backslide 12: Who Would've Thought 13: Cash, Culture and Violence 14: Cocktails 15: Wolf 16: 1998 17: Lady Liberty 18: Wrongful Suspicion 19: Turntable 20: Something in the World Today 21: Corazon de Oro 22: Coppers

Best Rancid album by far
I enjoy songs where Tim's singing, but i dont necessarily enjoy Tim's singing. First let me begin by saying, more Lars is a good thing. However, Tim's voice isn't irritating here and Lars' voice was perfectly casted for this album.
You could consider this their least punk album, or one of their most punkish (IMO Rancid 2000 most hardcore)depending on how you see it. I consider to be one of their more hardcore albums. It has a grittiness and a fire that wasn't seen on their previous works, and this album was determined to make a statement. The best part of it is how they mix it up here, they dont jus let the album roll down one road until the end.

Long list of Standouts: Bloodclot, Hoover Street, Life Won't Wait, New Dress, Hooligans, Crane Fist, Leicester Square, The Wolf, Lady Liberty, Something In The World Today, Who Would've Thought, Turntables.


The one
Buju Banton gives it a special taste. That's the best punk rock album i've heard. . . LISTEN TO RANCID!.


Rancid's last "great album
Rancid hasn't released anything since this album that I can stand. . but this album is them at their best and their most varied. Whereas "Let's Go" is a straight forward punk record and "Out Come the Wolves" is more ska influenced, "Life Won't Wait" is varied. There's punk, ska, big band almost horns on a couple songs. . . there's a real gritty Chicago-style harmonica present. . . most every song here is great. This album is the high water mark. .


sellout schmellout
I would like to start by bringing up a point. . (well other than my opinion of this album which is a whole nother point in itself) anyway. . . a lot of people write this album off because of the departure of the sound from ". . and out come the wolves". but for some STRANGE reason you rarely hear anyone complain about the vast sound differences from "lets go" to ". . and outcome the wolves". "Lets go" was fast straight up punk rock 21 (or is 22 or 23? i can't remember) tracks. . in less than 45 minutes. ". . and out come the wolves" was a VERY different album. more mid tempo songs. . . with a few ska numbers (no waynot ska from the guys who were in op ivy) and at times sounds a lot like the Clash. don't get me wrong i LOVE both these records. Now onto "life won't wait" I absolultely love this record. When i firt picked this up on vinyl back in 1997 I was not really sure what i was hearing. But the more I listened to it, the more it grew on me. Over the years it has become my fav rancid album. It was a good range of a few musical styles straight up fast punk "warsaw" some mid tempo and slower punk songs "something in the world today" "1998" , "hoover st. " some up beat ska "hooligans" a rockbailly influenced number "lady liberty" and some great reggae infleunced stuff "coppa de corzo", "awkward position" overall just fantastic. . . if you're looking for an album that is a lil more than just fast punk rock singing bout drinking, anarchy, and other fairly generic topics (which has it's place) this may not be the album for you. . but if you're looking for something a lil different (who am i kidding? 90% of people reading probably already have or even own this record).


Rancid's Best Album!
It's almost like Rancid going back to the good ol' Operation Ivy days. I think Life Won't wait is Rancid's best effort to date. Not that this CD sounds like an Op. Ivy CD(cause it doesn't), but I get this strange but comfortable feeling whenever I listen to Op. Ivy's music, and I get that same feeling on a few points of this album.
Despite what people say, this isn't a punk CD. Sure, there's a few punk tunes thrown in with this album. But overall, this is a ska/reggae album. Sure, there are songs that I don't like as much as others, but this is a really great CD. This albums features Rancid's very best songs, such as Bloodclot, Black Lung, Life Won't Wait, Hooligans, Crane Fist(it could either be the easiest song for you to get into, or the hardest (: ), Who Would've Thought, The Wolf, the amazing closer Coppers, and Something In the World Today, which is probably my favorite Rancid song.
Overall, if you're an Op. Ivy fan(like me), you might like this album. If you're a ska/reggae fan(like me), then you'll love this album!.


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