Spin (5/01, pp.110,112) - Ranked #35 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records".Spin (12/95, p.62) - Ranked #10 on Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of '95.' Entertainment Weekly (12/29/95-1/5/96, p.132) - Ranked #6 on EW's Top 10 Albums Of 1995 - "...Rancid recalls a time when punk was less about safety pins than it was about bristling, blow-the-roof-off anthems..." Q (10/95, p.125) - 3 Stars - Good - "...they look most likely to cement their country's nascent punk revolution..." Alternative Press (3/02, p.96) - Included in AP's "Essential Punk Influences '02 Style" - "...The sound of 4 street-bred musicians with punk in their jeans - and its post-Clash mix of ska and scruff was catchy as hell..." Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #16 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. NME (Magazine) (8/26/95, p.47) - 7 (out of 10) - "...the allure of sulphate riffage coupled with traces of dub and a sensation that all is not quite well with the world is quite considerable....a thousand chugging riffs unearthed since 1978, and most of them are fairly excellent [or] quite awesomely ridiculous..." |