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About Life Won't Wait
Product Description This album is Rancid's follow-up to their acclaimed 1995 album, And Out Come the Wolves. Heavy with Jamaican sounds, reminicent of classic ska and reggae of the Skatalites and Bob Marley, it holds firmly to the roots of classic punk. A must have. Track list inlcudes: "Blood Clot," "Hooligans," "Cocktails," "Who Would've Thought," "Wrongful Suspician," "Coppers," "Turntable," "Backslide" and more! Amazon.com Life Won't Wait bursts with a thrilling ambition. On Rancid's past albums, these Clash-via-Cali punks came on with an invigorating twin guitar attack that sounded like it wanted to take over the world--to set it free!--and their fourth release continues in this radical vein, insisting that "all people must rise and decide your fate." But there's newfound ambition in the music, too, as the band's raging attack is supplemented now by new sounds (rocksteady and rockabilly, even doo-wop and soul), new musical textures (the exhilarating "Crane Fist" features a piano battling a B3 organ), and new sources of inspiration, as the boys shout out for Salvadoran immigrants and brag like rappers in anthem after anthem of urgent, beautiful poetry. --David Cantwell Review Rancids familiarity isnt a sound, its an ache. The catch in singer Tim Armstrongs voice can remind you of friendship, but not the everyday, lunch-having, hang-out kind of low-key camaraderie. Maybe punks are attracted to reggae because the best reggae leads a double life, superimposing social rage onto the sound of pleasure. Similarly, Rancids sentiments are at odds with the music. A song like "Backslide," for example, has the cool guitars and come-together choruses of radio rock even though the words are "Nobody knows me/Im all alone." Because this band is so resolutely just that--a band--any mention of loneliness by [Tim] Armstrong is overtaken by the moshing of mates around him. -- SpinWithout surrendering its punk virility and rebel stance, Rancid displays a new maturity on this fourth album, a 22-track blast of Clash-like rock spiked with ska, reggae and a dollop of blues. -- USA Today[Rancid] may ape ... [t]he Clash, but like that seminal band, Rancid know how to leaven rage with buoyant tunefulness. -- Entertainment Weekly
