Life Won't Wait is the fourth album by the American punk rock band Rancid. … Read Full Bio ↴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.
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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Rancid Lyrics
1998 White Stones, Queens 1974 Fathers talking shit Motherfucker…
Backslide Los Angeles take your dreams away Run you underground ground…
Black Lung Sign a petition under working condition Union is in bed with…
Bloodclot Hey ho, hey ho, hey ho, hey ho, hey ho…
Cocktails Broke, dough, dope, the line is choked Smoked the last…
Coppers Yeah we're on/rhymes ??? imagine that All punk rock must mov…
Corazon de Oro It's over before it starts Oh don't you know So…
Crane Fist Within the same school the idea was We'd combine both styles…
Hooligans (Rancid?... Jah love...) Yeah! Here's the new face of rock…
Hoover Street She's a Salvador immigrant, head through a thin wall A…
Intro The phenomena you are about to witness Could well revolution…
Lady Liberty Lady Liberty, come down and bleed to me I want nothing…
Leicester Square I got some hard times Two punks up on the subway It's…
Life Won't Wait Jesus and his ? wage a final war Religious self-prestigious …
New Dress Oh no no, no yea! A gleaming success with the different…
Something In The World Today Yeaaaaaaaah !!! There's something in the street tonight Do…
The Wolf I didn't trust him, 'cause he smiled at me first Just…
Turntable Yeah!!! He's gonna go go get it Gonna run run set…
Warsaw (That is the vision of the anarchist...it is also a…
Who Would've Thought Who would've thought that the dreams come true? And who woul…
Wrongful Suspicion All right this one goes out to all our friends…