During the bass solo in Maxwell Murder , do you think Tim says “awww Max” or “Awww Matt”. I mean I know the song is called Maxwell Murder , but he says it during Matt’s (bass player) solo, and I can never decided if he’s saying “Max” or “Matt” with his TA accent. So, Let’s settle this.

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I got to hang with Vic Ruggiero recently and asked him to sign my Rancid album, Indestructible. He played keyboards and organ on a couple albums including this one. Vic was especially proud of signing on the back of Lars’ head. He said just in case I do happen to meet anyone in Rancid they can see who got to sign first 🤣

Vic is one of my idols and this made my year!

Do you think Tim hardly plays the guitar due to damage from playing with it slung so low? He was playing through full songs back in op Ivy, but he’s been skipping verses of guitar in rancid since the 90s.

I’ve seen recent video of him playing full songs on acoustic, but he’s sitting down and that forces a decent hold your guitar.

Thoughts?

Two things for the nerds out there.

1. Is the new repress of the Glow in the Dark from Pirates Press on Discogs? I see the splatter press from 1234 Go Records. I’m a dork. Gotta catalog the collection.
2. Is it weird that Branden is on the back? Did he record any of these songs? Thought it was all Brett. No shade to Branden.

How’s the quality? I saw that some shirts are Gillian which I don’t have a problem with that but does it shrink after some washes?

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I’ve been diving through their discography for the last week and really enjoying it. I’m not all the way through yet but here’s my impressions so far:

Rancid (self titled): great raw hardcore punk album, very fun listen. Will be relistening.

And Out Come the Wolves: Catchy as hell, poppy in a good way and still raw enough. The intro riffs feel oddly cozy and I like the ska influence.

Life Won’t Wait: like AOCTW but with way more experimentation. Really enjoying the genre-bending and songwriting.

Rancid 5: all-time classic hardcore punk album. Just fast, raw, and crazy.

Indestructible: Absolute masterpiece. It has a little bit of everything that came before it plus even more experimentation with rapping, guitar solos, etc, and still feels like a Rancid album. Killer songwriting.

Trouble Maker: feels like a proper sequel to Rancid 5. Excellent listen plus a little more experimentation to keep it fresh, with occasional ska and slower songs, but mostly hardcore punk.

Tomorrow Never Comes: the only weak one so far. Feels too polished and very samey and the songs sometimes feel Offspringish, but Matt’s bass solos are excellent.

B-Sides and C-Sides: I know it’s not an original songs album but it’s fucking EXCELLENT. Fast and loud and raw but also with a lot of genre-bending. One of my favorite listens of all time.

Still have yet to listen to Dominoes, Honor, and Let’s Go, but those are next. Overall, I love how Rancid plays with almost every subgenre of punk, from pop punk to d-beat to Oi! to ska to psychobilly. It’s making me want to dive into other bands from my teen years that I listened to only one or two albums from. And a VERY strong discography over so many decades is not an easy thing to pull off.

UPDATE: I’ve made it the rest of the way through!

Let’s Go: I can see what they were trying to recreate with Tomorrow Never Comes. It’s fast and fun with a little more polish and catchiness than the self titled. All in all an excellent album.

Dominoes: another good experimental turn. Civilian Ways is extremely unexpected and a total tearjerker. As far as follow ups to Indestructible, this is about as good as it gets.

Honor: reminds me of a cross between Dominoes and Wolves with a bit more ska. Very catchy, excellent writing.

All in all, their discography is absolutely killer. I’m almost done with Devil’s Brigade now and I’ve loved every second of it. It’s a shame they only did one album under that name. Time to work my way through the rest of the Rancid Expanded Universe (Operation Ivy, The Transplants, Lars and the Bastards, Charger, Tim Timebomb, and another band that got mentioned below with Lars). The amount of music that they put out both as Rancid, pre-Rancid with Operation Ivy, and in side projects is absolutely insane, like Wu-Tang level insane. I’m gonna have some good listening for quite awhile.

I discovered yesterday that Tenderloin is a disadvantaged area of San Francisco. I thought the song was a euphemism for a prostitute’s body part for sale. Dang, I’ve been thinking something else for a few decades…

Edit: I’m a Buffalo Bills fan, I was watching a clip about Ray Davis. https://youtu.be/rcm8hUFeB-s?si=WmtURS7XTCL8VZcW

The problem is this doesn’t pick up my hours listening to vinyl. 🤷🏻‍♀️

1996. I was a senior in HS and bought several tickets, dragged a few friends with me and we were all pleasantly surprised to find out the Offspring replaced Rocket From the Crypt as openers. Found this in my keepsake box 😍

Rancid was my top artist on my Spotify list this year.