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...And Out Come the Wolves is the third studio album by American punk rock band Rancid. It was released on August 22, 1995, through Epitaph Records. Rancid's popularity and catchy songs made them the subject of a major label bidding war (hence the title, ...And Out Come the Wolves taken from a poem in Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries) that ended with the band staying on Epitaph. With a sound heavily influenced by ska, which called to mind Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman's past in Operation Ivy, Rancid became one of the few bands of the mid-to-late 1990s punk rock boom to retain much of its original fan base. In terms of record sales and certifications, ...And Out Come the Wolves is a popular album in the United States. It produced three singles: "Roots Radicals", "Time Bomb" and "Ruby Soho", that earned Rancid its heaviest airplay on MTV and radio stations to date. All the singles charted on Modern Rock Tracks. ...And Out Come the Wolves was certified gold by the RIAA on January 22, 1996. It was certified platinum on September 23, 2004. Along with Bad Religion's Stranger than Fiction, Green Day's Dookie and The Offspring's Smash, ...And Out Come the Wolves helped revive mainstream interest in punk rock in the mid-1990s, signaled the initial rise of mainstream punk rock, and proved to be successful for the band. To coincide with its 20th anniversary, Rancid performed the album live in its entirety on their 2015–2016 Honor Is All We Know world tour.
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...And Out Come the Wolves is the third album by punk rock band Rancid. It contains raw 1990s punk rock and ska and it delivers. I consider this the best Rancid album and it also contains fan favorites "Time Bomb", "Roots Radicals" and "Ruby Soho".
Punk AF
I was not expecting to enjoy this so much! I dragged my feet and during the first minute of listening wasn’t happy about it, but that changed fast and I fell for the rocking punk sound of this group. Great songs… great listen!
A cracking example of mid-90s ska-punk. Like with Rage Against The Machine though, you listen to Time Bomb and think to yourself "thirty plus years since this record came out, and we've still done fuck all about it." which rather makes me sad.
Clearly heavily influenced by The Clash, which is a big positive in my book. Looking back 30 years on, I think this is one of the best punk rock albums of the ’90s. Some great standout songs, but ultimately it’s still not as good as its ’70s influences. If anything, it’s put me in the mood to listen to London Calling again.
I enjoyed this punk rock / ska rock, even if it sounded very similar and was slightly too long. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.
La bassline de Time Bomb me tord les doigts à chaque fois que j’essaye de l’apprendre, mais elle est trop groovy! - Btw Cyril, je t’ai déjà répondu, par contre faut trouver l’album!
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Time bomb, Junkie man, Ruby soho, She’s automatic, Avenues and alleyways
Some boys from the west coast listened to the Specials and then god smiled
Decent punk
Some pretty cool ska punk. Like most albums in this genre, it's not the most deep or groundbreaking stuff ever or anything, but it's fun. Strong 3/5.
Pretty good
Along with Sublime, Rancid was one of the bands that literally every one of my friends liked back in the 90’s, but I could never get into. I’ve heard this record so many times and today when I was listening, my initial reaction was that maybe I had judged it too harshly in the past…those first two or three songs weren’t so bad. Then, “Timebomb”. I forgot I how much I disliked that one. Was all down hill from there for me. I don’t think I it’s a bad record, but my opinion of it has probably been tainted by my friends playing it to death when I was a teenager. I realize that’s not fair, but just kind of how it is, sorry.
I've a real dislike of American bands coming 20 years late to the party. So this is supposed to be 'punk' and 'ska' but sounds like Bad Manners to me.
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