let's go

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let's go
Studio album by Rancid

Publication
(s)

1994

Label (s) Epitaph Records

Format (s)

LP , CD

Genre (s)

Punk rock

Title (number)

23

running time

44m12s

production

Brett Gurewitz

chronology
Rancid ( 1993 ) let's go ... And Out Come the Wolves ( 1995 )

Let's Go is an album by the punk band Rancid from 1994.

Track list

  1. Nihilism - 2:02
  2. Radio - 2:51
  3. Side Kick - 2:01
  4. Salvation - 2:54
  5. Tenderloin - 1:32
  6. Let's Go - 1:26
  7. As One - 1:34
  8. Burn - 2:11
  9. The Ballad Of Jimmy & Johnny - 1:39
  10. Gunshot - 1:50
  11. I Am The One - 1:57
  12. Gave It Away - 1:13
  13. Ghetto Box - 1:11
  14. Harry Bridges - 2:21
  15. Black & Blue - 1:59
  16. St. Mary - 2:09
  17. Dope Sick Girl - 2:15
  18. International Cover-Up - 1:44
  19. Solidarity - 1:31
  20. Midnight - 1:55
  21. Motorcycle Ride - 1:20
  22. Name - 2:12
  23. 7 Years Down - 2:35

annotation

The singer and frontman of Green Day , Billie Joe Armstrong , was the text of the song Radio involved.

reception

It was voted one of the top ten best albums of 1994 by the readers of the US music magazine Guitar World in November 2011 . Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic described the album as "sheer energy". He praised the music as "a less serious and party-friendly version of The Clash " ( "less-serious, party-ready version of The Clash"). The album received a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, with the song Salvation being a first success for Rancid.

Sales success

After the album was released on June 14, 1994, the album reached number 97 on April 8, 1995 in the American album charts . Around 5 years later, the album had sold over 500,000 times, so that it was awarded the gold record in the USA .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guitar World album of the year readers survey. Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 1, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guitarworld.com
  2. ↑ Let's Go . Allmusic.com . Retrieved January 17, 2008.
  3. ↑ Information on the Billboard.com album. http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200#/album/rancid/let-s-go/155363 (accessed December 1, 2011)
  4. ^ RIAA database of gold and platinum records. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?search=Rancid (accessed December 1, 2011)