Salvation (Rancid song) explained
Salvation |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Rancid |
Album: | Let's Go |
Released: | 1995 (as a single) |
Recorded: | October 1993March 1994 at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California |
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Length: | 2:54 |
Label: | Epitaph |
Producer: | Brett Gurewitz |
Prev Title: | "Nihilism" |
Prev Year: | 1994 |
Next Title: | "Roots Radicals" |
Next Year: | 1995 |
"Salvation" is a song by the American punk rock band Rancid. It was released as the second single from its second studio album, Let's Go.
Along with "Time Bomb" and "Ruby Soho", "Salvation" is considered to be one of Rancid's breakthrough songs, as it received airplay from modern rock radio stations; it was also the band's first single to reach any Billboard singles charts. Spin listed the song as one of the best alternative rock songs of 1994.[2]
In popular culture
- A cover version by Harmonix is featured in the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II.
- Comedy punk band The Radioactive Chicken Heads recorded a cover of this song as "Just for the Taste of It", satirically re-working the lyrics into an advertisement for Diet Coke. The song appeared on their 2000 album Keep On Cluckin and later their 2009 rarities album Poultry Uprising.
- It is featured in the pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, though it was not used in the actual first episode.
Notes and References
- News: Williams. Rob. Range rockers refuse to let rain ruin the day. The Free Press. June 28, 2009. April 18, 2022.
- Web site: The 100 Best Alternative Rock Songs Of 1994 . August 18, 2014 . SPIN . March 19, 2022 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210817201009/https://www.spin.com/2014/08/100-best-alternative-rock-songs-1994-alt/. August 17, 2021.
- Rancid Chart History: Alternative Songs . Billboard . February 18, 2022.