Irriverente, caotico, stronzo, rancido.
Giocato sulla velocità della sezione ritmica, tanto cara all'hardocore, in qust'album il quartetto americano capitanato da Armstrong, con alle spalle episodi musicalmente più contenuti nello standard punk rock, vuole sputare il vero sangue punk che gli scorre nelle vene, inteso ed espresso come essenza inscindibile dalla vita, lontano da ogni categoria e moda.
Così 40 minuti di sporco e indegno istinto scorrono tra la voce sempre più roca di Tim Armstrong, che paga gli abusi di marijuana, e gli irraggiungibili pall muted di Frederiksen. A condire questo sugo rancido di sonorità si insinuano poi i virtuosismi del basso di Freeman che non si limitano mai allo standard verse/chorus ma che seguono invece il flusso di note che scorre in ogni musicista a discapito di precise regole metriche.
Difficile cogliere il senso singolo di ogni canzone, è il punk a rifiutarlo.
Affascinante, inconcludente, rancido.
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Don Giovanni (00:35)
You're making enemies
Like Don Giovanni
You're making enemies
Like Don Giovanni
Don killed Anya's father in a brutal swordfight
The old man regrouped and came back from the dead
You're making enemies
Like Don Giovanni
You're making enemies
Like Don Giovanni
Well the old man came back from the dead and dragged
Don Giovanni to hell
So don't fuck with me..kid!
02 Disgruntled (01:00)
If the police come and tromp the state
And there's a strait crisis and maley
And gradually arodes world technology
Let go, let go, let go, disgruntled
And gradually arodes world technology
Let go, let go, let go, disgruntled
Reflect something of course you descend
Fighting conflict, running fugitive
And gradually arodes world technology
Let go, let go, let go, disgruntled
And gradually arodes world technology
Let go, let go, let go, disgruntled
If the police come and tromp the state
And there's a strait crisis and maley
03 It's Quite Alright (01:29)
I can tell you how it'll go down
But only you can tell me how it'll end
All systems can stop right here
And all we are is pretend
So many things can be a mystery
And all we are seekin' is freedom
We realize Mr. Reality
I'm gonna be there to greet him
It's alright
It's quite alright with me
When ignorance manifests like that
It's hard to stop
Underdeveloped: don't lose your balance
And then take a divine drop
And if you find my name in regards to danger
I urge you all to take heed
Causation, the end of the world
Will set me free
And that's alright
It's quite alright with me
Yeah, with me
05 I Am Forever (01:03)
I am forever is what he said
Lost in a dream he never had
Doors burst open, doors slam shut
The key to change is time
He said my dear mother, I let you down
No one wants to be a burden on a loved one
Doors burst open, doors slam shut
The key to change is time
Riding the freight train
All the while you're building the fuckin' tracks
06 Poison (01:17)
Like Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales
When three men find a pot of gold
And end up killing one another in the name of greed
Some people are poison
Under my skin like opium
I'll stare in their eye to annoy them
Well, they're poison
Yeah, they're poison
Admissions of liabilities
I'm livin' in my own private cold war
In a room full of spies
And I can't find the door
Some people are poison
Under my skin like opium
I'll stare in their eye to annoy them
Well, they're poison
Yeah, they're poison
The violent aspects of the tattered man
Let me respond to that if I can
Illuminated manuscripts written by hand
Accusations have been made from the very beginning
Some people are poison
Under my skin like opium
I'll stare in their eye to annoy them
Well, they're poison
Yeah, they're poison
Yeah, their fuckin'... POISON
07 Loki (00:47)
Set out to mislead, sets out to murder
False appearance is everything to him
Is he good today or is he evil
In a violent craze, spewing words of madness
It can go either way, you never know
Conditioned to deceive and that's how he likes it
With all the guns going off, who can say no to the guy
Watch out, who's fuckin' next
'Cause Loki's playin' tricks again
Loki's playin' tricks again
x3
08 Blackhawk Down (01:41)
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down below
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down below
There's a blackhawk down in Mogadishu,
American government issue
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down below
Conflict in Somalia,
Never came to an end
Strife in Sudan,
Ongoing contention
Battle in Sierra Leone
Hostilities in The Congo,
Who drew up the coup
Explosions at zero,
EXPOLOSIONS AT ZERO!
Blackhawk down
Blackhawk down
Blackhawk down below
Blackhawk down
Blackhawk down
Blackhawk down below
There's a blackhawk down in Mogadishu
American government issue
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down below
Conflict in Somalia,
Never came to an end
Strife in Sudan,
Ongoing contention
Battle in Sierra Leone
Hostilities in The Congo,
Who drew up the coup
Explosions at zero,
EXPOLOSIONS AT ZERO!
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down below
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down below
There's a blackhawk down in Mogadishu
American government issue
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down below
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down below
Blackhawk,
Blackhawk,
BLACKHAWK DOWN!
09 Rwanda (01:20)
Rwanda, oh you're moon shines bright
Rwanda, overplanned genocide
Rwanda, oh won't you be strong
Yeah, like a lion
Tune in the transistor and listen to the news
'Cause once a week it hits your heart broken and blue
It's the voice over Africa, so stop peregrination
Listen very closely to a half a million dead souls
It's complicated when facts come slow
Massdestruction, massconfusion
What's the difference to the orphan, orphan of the dead
When no more machine gun's striking and there's silence instead
10 Corruption (01:27)
No God, no truce
A fire from the sky rains brimstone from above
A whole world implosion got too close to the sun
A vein from a power struggle explode into a bloody mess
Rupturing the nation's core blushing from the stress
The atheists get in line awaiting the coming destruction
Religious dogma corrupted and corrupter
With a man made of sin leads a full scale invasion
Drains the life from the skin's abrasion
No restoring order in a full scale attack
There's no fucking vision, there's no voice it's all black
Then you break down with a villainous call
Puss bleeding profusely from the city walls
11 Antennas (01:11)
You're selling sexism, you're selling racism
You're selling anything you get your fucking hands on
An understanding you gotta plan in
A presentation to advertisers who demand it
When you plan that
Your antenna's are pointed in the right direction
You make a deal in any situation
So with no evacuation
Let California fall into the fucking ocean
Oh they talk to ya, oh you're the town man
High profile Hollywood scumbag
It's a done deal signed and sealed
Deal makers making it all happen
When you plan that
Your antenna's are pointed in the right direction
You make a deal in any situation
So with no evacuation
Let California fall into the fucking ocean
Let California fall into the fucking ocean
Let California fall into the fucking ocean
Let California fall into the fucking ocean
12 Rattlesnake (01:42)
For weeks your falling, that's my darling
Hear them calling drawing you back
Sawing you in two, using me, using you
What can you do?
Watch out Mack, here's a rat
Falling off the track, fade out black
Black in feedback, hit the flashback
Don't you know we hate that?
Your a rattlesnake
And your full of shit
Your a rattlesnake
Your a rattlesnake
Fuck that shit, I don't wanna hear it
You can't bare it when we blare it
I hate your band, you understand?
You got no passion, it's all fashion
Well you come you can, come come true
Calm down, flames red or blue
You don't know, you got no clue
I see through
Your a rattlesnake
And your full of shit
I fuckin hate you
Your a rattlesnake
You talk that shit about our crew, we hate you
You said you know us, we don't know you
You Jump on the next bandwagon
What's the next fan in, I heard you braggin
But you ain't shit, you get frustrated
We never hesitated to call you a Charlatan
Cause we hate you
Your a rattlesnake
And your full of shit
I fuckin hate you
Your a rattlesnake
Your a rattlesnake
And your full of shit
and I hate you
Your a rattlesnake
13 Not to Regret (02:16)
Some people say I'm fuckin crazy
But it don't phase me
It's just amazing
Someone shout out Hallelujah
Roulette spinner blackjack winner
She was a minuscule miniskirt hiked up
And if you like that you walk a tight rope
Blood of Jesus gonna cleans ya
So lets begin to put down a wage
Everybody tells me to look within but I'll look within the city of sin
I'm gonna tell you one thing, It's not to regret
I the city of sin, in the city of sin
It's a modern day Sodom and Gomorra
Bus station, no hesitation
For some poor bastard it's a ruin
It's like a coffin, a desert Kremlin
If your lucky then you'll fuckin hit it
You take an avoid with the money then you split it
It don't matter if you win there, just to be there rather than elsewhere
Everybody tells me to look within but I'll look within the city of sin
I'm gonna tell you one thing, It's not to regret
In the city of sin, in the city of sin
Some people say I'm fuckin crazy
But it don't phase me
It's just amazing
Someone shout out Hallelujah
Roulette spinner blackjack winner
Everybody tells me to look within but I'll look within the city of sin
I'm gonna tell you one thing, It's not to regret
In the city of sin, in the city of sin
15 Axiom (01:40)
On the cusp of an explosion
I answer with evil that's the way that I play it
Street Turks multiple confusions
I gnash spit
I grind my teeth
Got a gun and a knife
Staring back at you
No security force or vigilante's
overweight ego can dethrone me
Ostracized if not otherwise
Left to my own device you'll surly see
Got a gun and a knife
Staring back at you
Got a gun and a knife
Staring back at you
16 Black Derby Jacket (02:35)
Books on emerson books on thoreau
But all I read was maps of the road
And I was three thousand miles away from you
All the while I was twenty-two
What do you do to know who you are?
The best way for me to drop out on tour
You went to Upstate NxY (New York) to go to school
To secure the roll with your parents
I got a new perspective on you
All the good and bad that we went through
I know you better than you know you
'Cause I got a new perspective on you
I never needed much, I never liked to loom
But a gesture can get me from across the room
The first night we talked until while the sun caught up
Transparent people melting all around us
You left in a plane, I left in a van
Played nightclub house-parties and auditoriums
Saw Germany England Italy with my band
I know you better than your new friends
I got a new perspective on you
All the good and bad that we went through
I know you better than you know you
'Cause I got a new perspective on you
Ford Econdlane September '93
Driving 10 hours until my eyes are blurry
3 packs of Winstons and a bag of seeds
Tapes of "x" and a thermos of coffee
6 weeks on and 10 days off
Then I go back on the road for another show
This is all that I've ever done
Girl I got nothing to fall back on
"But I got a new perspective on you All the good and bad that we went through
I know you better than you know you 'Cause I got a new perspective on you"
18 Dead Bodies (01:49)
Dead bodies everywhere
Piles of blood, entrails and hair
I'm bleeding from the inside
From the armageddon outside
Disfigured and oblique
From the appetite that I seek
I'm a hungry cannibal
I'm a rabid animal
My remains are being scattered
I've been bludgeoned, I'm in pain
Stomach pains are coming
And they strike with demon speed
Reaccuring rotting dreams
From this place the demons speak
My skin exfoliates
My patience terminates
Unfold to unholy urges
Unearthed with urgency
The holocaust was nothing
Compared to my lividity
In this oblong box that's eating you
There's nothing you can do
19 Rigged on a Fix (01:15)
Charles Van Doren never seemed to want it
A 64,000 dollar question
It was rigged on a fix end of innocence
The original T.V. scandal
It's true, Your through....Fuck you!
A unique one, triggered implosion, outraged disgrace condemnation
Nine- hundred channels, one billion scandals
I've been hypnotized by all of you
It's true, Your through....Fuck you!
I've been hypnotized by all of you
I've been hypnotized by all of you
20 Young Al Capone (01:52)
In the army of Babylon I'm a young Al Capone
My self an outlaw in the eyes of the Lord
Good man lose and the bad man win
The blind and the sick i attenuate them
Barrels of concrete and melted steel
Black smoke rises like a ghost in the field
Hardened lungs deep breathing the air
That stings the life from within me
Succobus catches on and it won't let me go
The leprosy sets in and you got no glue
The 3rd world working on the factory floor
It's so dark in there you can't see the sun no more
Cold and burnt are frostbitten hands
That leaves you like a flower that's been pulled from the sands
Rabid dogs chewing at my feet
Trying to protect their side of the street
Army of Babylon, young Al Capone yeah
Army of Babylon, young Al Capone yeah
Young Al Capone yeah (young Al Capone yeah)
Young Al Capone yeah (young Al Capone yeah)
In the darkness among lonely spirits
Hopeless atmosphere, steel gates spear it
So simplistic, so realistic, so sadistic
Yea you lose it all yea
Army of Babylon, young Al Capone yeah
Army of Babylon, young Al Capone yeah
Young Al Capone yeah (young Al Capone yeah)
Young Al Capone yeah (young Al Capone yeah)
Ok Tim take this one home...!
21 Reconciliation (01:20)
Spread out like a million locusts covering the sun
Protagonists and infidels gonna speak out on the run
Deep rooted back and fourth
Failed from both sides
Triggered a sudden Excitement into the battle night
Reconciliation in what they already knew
Humanities lost when the power's vested in a few
Shadow of island cloud the symbol of change
Nelson spent 19 years on robin island estranged
I hear a voice in Cape Town, on Bohemian long St.
Listen closely, yeah listen closely
Reconciliation in what they already knew
Humanities lost when the power's vested in a few
22 GGF (03:36)
This is not Churchill Downs
This is not Hollywood Park
When the field's wide open
I'll pick the horse who's got the biggest heart
Let em run
Let em ride
Let em roll down the track
Let em win, place and show
Let em one dollar exact
Six furlongs
Four phillys
Three mares
Three years and up
Who measures up
Well I wish you luck
Who measures up
Well I wish you luck
This is not Churchill Downs
This is not Hollywood Park
When the field is wide open
I'll pick the horse who's got the biggest heart
Well they rush the windows and
Play odds on fave
But the starter in 2nd deuces down
A bit of give and take
Race is a puzzler when they open
From the outside it's a hit and run and
They look back and
You can't count on that and
That's a fact and
The old men from el cerrito
Who talk about their picks and
They talk about all the wins of
The great jock Leftgit Pincay
This is not Churchill Downs
This is not Hollywood Park
When the field is wide open
I'll pick the horse who's got the biggest heart
Everytime I come back to the East Bay
I run into Big L.
Oh, my old friend Big L,
No, he's not doing so well.
See, me and Big L grew up
Across the freeway from the track.
Yes, we spent many, many, many, many
Days over at the track.
I see Big L rollin' up the street
On his little sister's, pink, ten-speed.
He said "Tim, Tim, don't you remember me?"
"Way back, from 1973?"
And everytime I see him
He has to remind me,
Like I would ever, forget Big L.
But then,
Then he's gone,
Like a flash
But then he's gone,
Like a flash.
Yeah, Like a flash,
Yeah.
Ok,
This is Rancid signin off for now,
Until next time,
We'll see you guys later...
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Altre recensioni
Di JMT
"Tim Armstrong usa la chitarra come se fosse un fucile, lasciandosi andare in un caloroso assolo."
"Un esordio incredibile, consigliato a chi ama il punk puro e non le solite canzoncine pulite."
Di anarcho92
Brett Reed pesta la batteria come un demone, soprattutto in "Dead Bodies".
Matt Freeman, che come cantante non è un granche, ma come bassista è veramente un fenomeno.
