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Life Won't Wait (Album) by Rancid

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Rancid Is An American Punk Rock Band Formed In Berkeley California In 1991. Founded By Tim Armstrong And Matt Freeman Former Members Of The Band Operation Ivy Rancid Is Often Credited As Being Among The Wave Of Bands That Revived Mainstream Interest In Punk Rock In The United States During The Mid-1990s. Over Their 32-Year Career Rancid Retained Much Of Its Original Fan-Base Most Of Which Was Connected To Its Underground Musical Roots. Rancid Has Had Two Lineup Changes Since Its Inception With Tim Armstrong And Matt Freeman Being Continuous Members. Their Current Lineup Consists Of Armstrong On Guitar And Vocals Freeman On Bass And Vocals Lars Frederiksen On Guitar And Vocals And Branden Steineckert On Drums. The Band Was Formed By Armstrong Freeman And Former Drummer Brett Reed Who Left The Band In 2006 And Was Replaced By Steineckert. This Lineup Recorded Their First Album With Frederiksen Joining The Band On Their Subsequent Tour. To Date Rancid Has Released Ten Studio Albums One Split Album One Compilation Two Extended Plays And A Series Of Live Online-Only Albums And Has Been Featured On A Number Of Compilation Albums. The Band Has Sold Over Four Million Records Worldwide Making It One Of The Most Successful Punk Rock Groups Of All Time. The Band Rose To Fame In 1994 With Its Second Studio Album Let's Go Featuring The Single "Salvation". In The Following Year Rancid Released Its Highly Successful Album ...And Out Come The Wolves Which Produced Its Best-Known Songs "Roots Radicals" "Ruby Soho" And "Time Bomb" And Was Certified Gold And Platinum By The RIAA Selling Over One Million Copies In The United States Alone. Its Next Six Albums – Life Won't Wait 1998 Rancid 2000 Indestructible 2003 Let The Dominoes Fall 2009 ...Honor Is All We Know 2014 And Trouble Maker 2017 – Were Also Critically Acclaimed Though Not As Commercially Successful As ...And Out Come The Wolves. The Band Released Their Tenth Album Tomorrow Never Comes In June 2023. Studio Albums
Rancid 1993 Let's Go 1994 ...And Out Come The Wolves 1995 Life Won't Wait 1998 Rancid Also Known As "Rancid 2000" Or "Rancid 5" 2000 Indestructible 2003 Let The Dominoes Fall 2009 ...Honor Is All We Know 2014 Trouble Maker 2017 Tomorrow Never Comes 2023

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Life Won't Wait Is The Fourth Album By The American Punk Rock Band Rancid. It Was Released On June 30 1998 On Epitaph Records And Is The Follow-Up To The Successful ...And Out Come The Wolves. The Album Branches Out From Rancid's Punk And Ska Roots To Explore Roots Reggae And Rockabilly And Dabbles In Elements Of Dub Hip-Hop Funk And Other Forms Of Music As The Clash Did With Sandinista!. The Album's Personnel Includes Some Of Rancid's Influences And Contemporaries Such As Members Of The Specials And The Slackers. Lyrically The Album Discusses Riots Revolution Politics And Historical Events As Well As Making References To The Illuminati And Bakunin. Around Early 1997 Still Riding High Off Of The Success Of ...And Out Come The Wolves Rancid Decided To Immediately Enter The Studio Following The ...And Out Come The Wolves Tour To Record The Next Album. The Recording Of Life Won't Wait Took Place Not Just In The U.S. From San Francisco To Los Angeles New York City New Orleans But Also In Jamaica. Two Of The Songs Were Recorded In Kingston "Hoover Street" And The Title Track "Life Won't Wait". With The Cooperation Of Numerous Jamaican Reggae Artists Such As Buju Banton Is Very Distinctive On This Album Not Just In The Vocals But Also In Instrumental Parts Which All Makes Life Won't Wait Very Different From Most Of The Other Rancid Releases. Life Won't Wait Was Also The First Rancid Album Not Produced Or Engineered By Brett Gurewitz Since Their 1993 Self-Titled Debut. Life Won't Wait Was Released On June 30 1998 And Was The Final Rancid Album Distributed Via The Main Label Of Epitaph Records. After Its Release The Band Moved To Frontman Tim Armstrong's Vanity Label And Subsidiary Of Epitaph Hellcat Records Who Released Their Next Album 2000's Rancid. Although Not As Successful As ...And Out Come The Wolves The Album Peaked At Number 35 On The Billboard 200 Album Chart Making It One Of Rancid's Highest Ranking Albums So Far. Stephen Thomas Erlewine Of Allmusic Described The Album As Having A Ska Influence. He Praised The Music As A "powerful Slice Of Old-School Punk — As Powerful As Any Of Their Records" And Claims "it Actually Sounds A Lot Like" ...And Out Come The Wolves. The Album Received A Rating Of Four Out Of Five Stars. Track Listing
All Tracks Written By Armstrong Unless Otherwise Noted. 1."Intro" – 0 48
2."Bloodclot" Armstrong/Lars Frederiksen – 2 45
3."Hoover Street" – 4 10
4."Black Lung" Armstrong – 1 53
5."Life Won't Wait" Armstrong/Frederiksen/Vic Ruggiero/Buju Banton – 3 48
6."New Dress" Armstrong/Frederiksen – 2 51
7."Warsaw" – 1 31
8."Hooligans" Armstrong/Frederiksen/Ruggiero – 2 33
9."Crane Fist" Armstrong/Frederiksen – 3 48
10."Leicester Square" Armstrong/Frederiksen – 2 35
11."Backslide" – 2 54
12."Who Would've Thought" – 2 57
13."Cash Culture And Violence" – 3 10
14."Cocktails" – 3 21
15."The Wolf" – 2 39
16."1998" Armstrong/Howie Pyro – 2 46
17."Lady Liberty" Armstrong/Frederiksen – 2 20
18."Wrongful Suspicion" Armstrong/Ruggiero – 3 32
19."Turntable" – 2 17
20."Something In The World Today" Armstrong/Frederiksen – 2 34
21."Corazon De Oro" – 3 59
22."Coppers" Armstrong/Frederiksen/Dr. Israel – 5 02 Track 2 Is Featured On The Playstation 1 Game ESPN X-Games Pro Boarder As Well As The Movie Idle Hands.

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