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CapnBozo

Into Action - Tim Armstrong

Posted almost 5 years ago

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Into Action

Rancid's singer and best songwriter's solo effort is filled with ska and bouncy tunes along this line. College radio is playing this often. So, obviously ska/punk is STILL not dead.

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dermahrk says Like it! At first I thought it was going to me a ska version of "Wipeout" (hit surf instrumental from early 60s - dating myself!)

Permalink posted 07/25/2007
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atman says seeing the band Rancid mentioned and then seeing this video was weird as fuck.

Permalink posted 07/25/2007
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CapnBozo says It's a hell of a lot mellower than what they were doing. That's for sure. He's going back to the true ska sound. I know they always liked that stuff. I have all of Rancid's records though. And there were hints of this scattered throughout.

Permalink posted 07/25/2007
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atman says you know, some people don't wanna give props to Rancid for their being a "punk" band. the straight up ska stuff you talk about being scattered in their music might be why.

Permalink posted 07/25/2007
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CapnBozo says They are punk. the people who say they aren't don't get that punk and reggae were always intertwined in the beginning...in England. Look at The Clash...or even the Police. The British punk kids totally embraced reggae and it's many variations.

Permalink posted 07/26/2007
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T Dom says Aggrolites keyboard player is playing with them for the video and they always have classic reggae beats. Tim's new album "A Poet's Life" is a lot mellower and I love it!. Rancid albums have had a lot of ska and reggae influence because they always have a bunch of guest musicians from Hellcat. Hellcat Records has a lot of up-and-coming ska bands (Westbound Train, Aggrolites and the Slackers) that keep to a more true sound of ska. Victor Ruggiero of the slackers wrote "Hooligans", "Wrongful Suspicion" and "Red Hot Moon" with Armstrong and they are some of their most well known songs. Rancid is what I like to call a "cultured" punk band, they've picked up a lot of their sound from their friends instead of dragging out the same sounding music for 10 years. It happens way too often with punk bands.

Permalink posted 08/01/2007