Line #20 Music/Rancid


1	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rancid300_3289.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:300:From Left: Lars, Matt, Tim, Branden]]
3	->''If you wanna make the move then you better come in\
4	It's the ability to reason that wears so thin\
5	Living and dying and the stories that are true\
6	The secret to a good life is knowing when you're through.''
7	-->"Time Bomb"
8
9	Rancid is a {{punk rock}} band from [[UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Berkeley]], formed in the early 90s by bassist Matt Freeman and guitarist/singer Tim Armstrong, formerly of the ska band Operation Ivy. They were joined by rhythm guitarist Lars Frederiksen and drummer Brett Reed. Reed left in 2006 and was replaced by Branden Steineckert.
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11	Along with Music/GreenDay and Music/TheOffspring, the band are widely credited with the punk revival of the 1990s. 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.
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13	Outside of Rancid, Tim Armstrong [[HeAlsoDid has a massive footprint on the music scene]]. 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 Music/{{Pink}}, Music/GwenStefani, Music/TravisBarker and Music/CypressHill. From 1998 to 2003, he was married to Brody Dalle, lead singer of The Distillers.
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15	!!Current members:
16	* Tim Armstrong – lead guitar, lead and backing vocals (1991–present)
17	* Matt Freeman – bass, backing and lead vocals (1991–present)
18	* Lars Frederiksen – rhythm guitar, lead and backing vocals (1993–present)
19	* Branden Steineckert – drums, percussion (2006–present)
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21	!!Former members:
22	* Brett Reed – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1991–2006)
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24	!!Discography:
25	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Rancid]]'' (1993)
26	* ''Let's Go'' (1994)
27	* ''...And Out Come the Wolves'' (1995)
28	* ''Life Won't Wait'' (1998)
29	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Rancid]]'' (2000) - Not to be confused with the 1993 album.
30	* ''Indestructible'' (2003)
31	* ''Let the Dominoes Fall'' (2009)
32	* ''...Honor Is All We Know'' (2014)
33	* ''Trouble Maker'' (2017)
34	* ''Tomorrow Never Comes'' (2023)
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36	Another notable release of theirs is a split album with NOFX in which both bands cover six songs of the other. Two versions were released with differently colored album covers. A green one in which the NOFX songs are before Rancid's portion and an orange one in which this is reversed.
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38	!''...And Out Come the Tropes'':
39	* AlbumTitleDrop: ''...And Out Come the Wolves'' has its title dropped in "Junkie Man". 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 SpokenWordInMusic.
40	* BreakupSong: "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).
41	* GenreRoulette: Most notably on ''Life Won't Wait'' - its predominantly based within SkaPunk, but finds time to explore many other genres.
42	* GenreThrowback: The 2000 self-titled album. After two albums experimenting with ska, reggae and other influences, this album was a stark, straight-ahead HardcorePunk album. It's more akin to 80s Hardcore than the first two they did were.
43	* HardcorePunk: Their first two albums and 2000's second SelfTitledAlbum; occasionally shows up elsewhere, too.
44	* HeterosexualLifePartners: 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.
45	* LeadBassist: Matt Freeman is Types A, C, and D, as his aggressive, technical style forms a big part of their sound.
46	* LongRunnerLineUp: 2 in fact; both qualify as a Type 2. The Armstrong-Freeman-Frederiksen-Reed line-up lasted from 1993 to 2006, when Reed left. Branden Steineckert replaced him soon after, and has stayed ever since.
47	* LyricalDissonance: "Red Hot Moon" definitely counts.
48	** To a lesser extent, "Daly City Train" and "Old Friend" count, too- they're upbeat {{Ska}} songs about heartaches, after all. The band does this pretty often, actually.
49	* NewSoundAlbum: Several. The most notable are:
50	** ''...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) HardcorePunk.
51	** ''Life Won't Wait'' continues the SkaPunk approach of their previous album,while also experimenting with {{Reggae}}, {{Rockabilly}}, {{Blues}} and Latin music within that framework.
52	** The second SelfTitledAlbum, which returned them to HardcorePunk territory after the GenreRoulette of ''Life Won't Wait''.
53	** ''Indestructible'', which splits the difference between the SkaPunk, GenreRoulette and HardcorePunk approaches. They more-or-less did this on their next two albums as well.
54	* PrecisionFStrike: "Journey to the End of the East Bay"
55	* SelfTitledAlbum: Two, actually: their debut in '93 and another in 2000 that was a "return to their roots" album of sorts.
56	* ShoutOut: The cover of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rancid_-_...And_Out_Come_the_Wolves_cover.jpg ...And Out Come the Wolves]]'' is a clear homage to that of Music/MinorThreat's [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minor_Threat_-_First_Two_7%22s_on_a_12%22.jpg EP]]: both depict a figure sitting on a stoop with their head down and arms crossed.
57	** "Roots Radicals" mentions first wave {{Ska}} performer Desmond Dekker.
58	** "The War's End" mentions Music/BillyBragg.
59	* SkaPunk: On some (but not all) of their albums. It's generally the sound they're best known for; half the band did come from Operation Ivy, after all.
60	* ThemeNaming: Rancid has a surprisingly large amount of songs named after places in the world: "Detroit", "Olympia W.A.", "Ruby Soho", "Daly City Train", "Journey to the End of the East Bay", "Hoover Street", "Warsaw", "Leicester Square", "Rwanda", "Radio Havana", "Arrested in Shanghai", "Memphis", "Tropical London", "Ivory Coast", "Brixton", "East Bay Night", "New Orleans", [[DownLADrain "L.A. River"]]
61	* TrueCompanions: "Fall Back Down" is about this.
62	-->"If I fall back down\
63	You're gonna help me back up again!\
64	If I fall back down\
65	You're gonna be my friend!"

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