Rancid

Rancid is the debut full length album by the American punk band Rancid, released in 1993. This was their first release distributed via Epitaph Records and was also the only album not to feature Lars Frederiksen on guitar.

This release was also the second of three self-titled releases, the others being the band’s 1992 EP and their 2000 album.

A video was made for “Hyena”.
“Union Blood”, the album’s fifteenth track, is a hidden track and not mentioned on the back cover.
“Get Out of My Way”, the album’s last song, is a cover, originally performed by The Uptones.

The album insert thanks Lars, who joined prior to the album’s release. As such, out of respect to what they had done before him and so not as to take any credit for it, he does not appear in the liner notes for this album.
The album thanks Billie Joe Armstrong and his band Green Day. Billie Joe would later co-write the song “Radio”, which appears on the second Rancid album Let’s Go.
The album also thanks The Offspring and NOFX, who were both labelmates with Rancid and would tour and achieve success together.
Bad Religion members Brett Gurewitz and Jay Bentley make a guest appearance on the album. Brett is the owner of the album’s label Epitaph and would produce and engineer their later albums, with the exception of Life Won’t Wait.
The album thanks Robb Flynn and his band Machine Head as Rob Machinehead. Rancid was also thanked in the booklet of Machine Head’s 1994 debut Burn My Eyes.

All songs written by Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman unless otherwise noted.

1.”Adina” – 1:40
2.”Hyena” – 2:55