What d'you think about Rancid and other Hardcore-Bands?

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Well, i listened to lots of HC-Punk-Acts like Black Flag or the Dead Kennedys? What do you think about these bands? Do you like their records or not?

― Death Metal Bü, Saturday, 8 January 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Not really. To be honest I've pretty much gone off music. Golf's good though. I have got into the odd round of golf now and then.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Saturday, 8 January 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that the punk-szene is a bit boring since Refused released their "Shape of Punk to Come" album. The last great punk-record, I think.

― Böllers, Saturday, 8 January 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Rancid ain't exactly hardcore, bunky.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Saturday, 8 January 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

@Jazzbo:

No, they're hardcore-punk, ha ha.
Well, I think that Rancid ARE a typical HC-punk band. D'you think that they're metal or something?

― Böllers, Saturday, 8 January 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM bollers

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 8 January 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Hardcore Punk???
Minor Threat, Negative Approach, SOA...
I always thought that Rancid were retropunk.

― peepee (peepee), Saturday, 8 January 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

...but then again, punks not dead!

― peepee (peepee), Saturday, 8 January 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

it's just sleeping

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Saturday, 8 January 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Who the fuck are these shitty bands? Are they Yanks? SHAM 69 is teh real punk rock?!?!

― James Pursey (noodle vague), Saturday, 8 January 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

What is with the retarded hyphenations on this thread?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 8 January 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

that wrangler brutes album was fucking great. and definitely a nod to early hardcore and thrash.

i wish you hadn't asked about hardcore PUNK. i mean, was it ever really called that?

― rob mackey (mackey), Saturday, 8 January 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

What is with the retarded hyphenations on this thread?

Erm, it's a thread about Rancid.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 8 January 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a thread-about Rancid.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 8 January 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

op ivy was much better than rancid. hell, the best rancid song is about op ivy.

aside: jesse michaels new band, common rider, is crap.

― rob mackey (mackey), Saturday, 8 January 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

No, the best Rancid track is "Hyena",

― Böllers, Saturday, 8 January 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

no, the best rancid track is "journey to the end of east bay"

― rob mackey (mackey), Saturday, 8 January 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

calling rancid 'hardcore punk' sounds like something my 12 year old sister would do because she saw that one guy had a mohawk. btw the clash rulez!

― irrigation can save your people, Sunday, 9 January 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Racid are a retro band, pure and simpe. But, as others have suggested, their music -- despite their spikey appearance -- is far more hooky/poppy/accessible than classic hardcore ala the Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, Bad Brains et al. I think Rancid are capable of that sorta stuff, but I think their need to sell records prevents them. They may look like vintage G.B.H., but their sound is a lot more welcoming.

In any event, while I've never been a huge fan of theirs, they've managed the odd great track/single. Still, I wouldn't put them anywhere near the same league as vintage hardcore bands. But, then again, the world was a different place when the DK's, Black Flag, DOA et al. were makin' the `rounds.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Their 2000 s/t album is pretty close to the whole vintage GBH/Discharge/Exploited kinda thing, just catchier and a lot more nicely recorded (better than the Casualties or the Unseen, anyway).

Rancid are kinda to old-school punk what Stray Cats were to Rockabilly.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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