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B Sides and C Sides

Rancid - B Sides and C Sides Audio CD

A fair review of the Rancid "B Sides and C Sides" 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.

Band: Rancid
Title: B Sides and C Sides
Rating:

Release Date: 2008-01-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Ben Zanotto 2: Stop 3: Devil's Dance 4: Dead and Gone 5: Stranded 6: Killing Zone 7: 100 Years 8: Things to Come 9: Blast 'Em 10: Endrina 11: White Knuckle Ride 12: Sick Sick World 13: Tattoo 14: That's Entertainment 15: Clockwork Orange 16: Brothels 17: Just a Feeling 18: Brixton 19: Empros Lap Dog 20: I Wanna Riot 21: Kill the Lights

Pay any price for this one Rancid fans!

Here's how I rank the songs:

1. Like 2 new Rancid cd's for the price of 1!!! It has a bunch of gems on it, some only released on compilations or as "b" sides, some never released in the USA before. Ben Zanotto (3. 5 stars) Very Standard Rancid tune, circa "Rancid 2000".
2. Stop (3. 5 stars) Ska tune w/ horns circa "Out Come the Wolves". Vocals are distorted which may annoy.
3. Devil's Dance (2. 5 stars) A punkabilly cut, not my cup o' tea.
4. Dead and Gone (3. 5 stars) 2 minute punk tune, circa "Rancid 2000". Matt sings!
5. Stranded (4 stars) A 2 minute scorcher! Cross b/t "Rancid 2000" and "Indestructible"
6. Killing Zone (4 stars) Lars song catchy tune w/ great chorus. Circa "Life wont wait"
7. 100 Years (3. 5 stars) 2 minute scorcher w/ no vocals. Bass solo. Very different tune for them.
8. Things to Come (4. 5 stars) Slow ska influenced track. Sounds like a lost track off Tims solo ska album. Horns featured.
9. Blast 'Em (3. 5 stars) Slower solid punk track that reminds me of their early work.
10. Endrina (3 stars) 1 minute Lars sung track, circa "Rancid 2000"
11. White Knuckle Ride (5 stars) 1:25 of some of the best Bass Matt has ever played.
12. Sick Sick World (3. 5 stars) 1:17 scorcher. Circa "Rancid 2000". Great bass again.
13. "Tattoo" (4 stars) 2 minute fast Lars sung track. Great bass line. Good chorus.
14. "That's Entertainment" (3. 5 stars) 1:30 Lars sung track. Very "Wolves" "Life" sounding.
15. "Clockwork Orange" (4 stars). Probably the most Rancid song i've ever heard! Great bass line.
16. "Brothels" (4 stars) Slower punk track w/ good guitar hook. Catchy song! Circa "Life"
17. "Just a Feeling" (3. 54 stars) 2 minute sing-along circa the first 2 albums, great bass!
18. "Brixton" (5 stars) One of my fav Rancid songs ever. Op Ivy sounding ska track. Great Oi-like sing along tune. The best find on the album!
19. "Empros Lap Dog" (3 stars) 2 minute guitar driven track. Circa "Life"
20. "I Wanna Riot" (4. 5 stars) 3 minute paired down version of the song from the "Beavis and Butthead" soundtrack. I loved the old version and this new one too. Another great find! Ska classic.
21. "Kill the Lights" (4. 5) Bass driven 1:20 fast punk track Classic Rancid circa "Rancid 2000".
(the following tracks are only on the Japanese version of this cd, get it!!!!)
22. "I'm not the only one" (3. 5 stars). Good guitar riff. Catchy chorus, circa first 2 albums.
23. "Battering Ram" (3. 5 stars) another very distinct track. Matt and Tim sing. Great chorus!
24. "The Sentence" (3 stars) 3 minute standard Rancid track. Circa first 2 albums.
25 "Media Controller" (4. 5 stars) Matt Freeman Oi song w/ great chorus.
26. "Idle Hands" (3. 5 stars) 2 minute, Matt sings chorus. Circa "Rancid 2000".
Hope that helps. If you like anything Rancid has done on their last 4 albums you will not be disappointed with this one! Despite how I rate the individual songs, the cd is def 5 stars! Oi!.

Good but still waiting for the new album
Any Rancid fan will love it!. Lots of great tracks - many of which I hadn't heard before.

Yes, Yes, Yes

As someone else already noted. It's all there and it ain't light. . . it does span the band's career which gives it a pretty rounded play. I too want a new album but this f***** WILL hold you over until that s*** happens!!!
The album also has 5 bonus tracks that add a nice right cross to finish it off.

This album DOES put out. It won't disappoint.

It's a cool CD, but it may not be in the CD player all that long
My honest opinion: after promising the Rancid fans a new record like. . two years ago when they started touring again with the Explosion and we all realized that no, Matt Freeman is not going to die of lung cancer just yet, they needed to give something, SOMETHING, to the fans while they keep pushing back the release date of the still mysteriously unknown seventh studio album. So I guess the plan of action was this; compile all the songs that weren't on the first six CDs and put them on one CD that would stall for time a little for the fans that haven't picked up any of the compilations that these songs were featured on.

Well played, Rancid, well played. What's cool about this CD is that the songs come from different periods in time and Rancid's career. Since their sound has changed over the years so much, it's cool to be listening to one song and thinking, "Oh, it sounds like they wrote this some time around the 'Life Won't Wait' time period, and then the next song might me more hard hitting and take you back to their 2000 self titled. Ultimately the music can be traced back as far as 1994's 'Let's Go' and that's not a bad thing at all.

So basically, since this is a record of b-sides and there's nothing new, nothing about the sound has really changed. Matt Freeman is still the star of a lot of the tracks, moreso than he was on "Indestructable" which is kind of nice, he was definitely underutilized there. The guitars are nothing special but they never really are, and I continue my stance on their vocals; Tim's voice is amazing, Lars's is okay, and Matt actually sings on this CD too. I love when he gets to since because his voice is just so awesome and different, it's what made Rancid's debut CD so good. The standout tracks are "Dead and Gone" "Killing Zone" "Blast 'Em" and "White Knuckle Ride" which features bass to rival "Maxwell Murder" and "Axiom" and probably surpasses both. For any fan of Rancid this is a must have CD, even if Devil Dancing is really annoying and goes on forever.

But seriously Rancid, no more stalling. We want the seventh album and we don't want to wait another two flippin' years.

B Sides + C Sides = A+ Album
But, it is also nothing short of spectacular - and I'm happy to have my favorite, dust-crusted vinyl singles on CD at last. Hmmmm, could this be - a scrape the barrel of the archives cash-in album from the very band that brought punk rock back from the dead and championed integrity in the music industry? Yes. It ranks right up there with . . . Wolves and Life Wont Wait and is a hair ahead of Indestructible among the best Rancid albums and side projects. Sure the rabid fan base can't wait for the next proper album, but this collection is more than enough to keep the pit jumping until then.

You can see a complete list of all Rancid discography, or go back to the Rancid tabs. There is also a good guide on how to read guitar tabs here.