Radio Radio Radio

EP by Rancid

Released

August 26, 1993

Recorded

May-June 1993 at Westbeach Recorders in Hollywood

Genre

Punk rock

Length

7:50

Rancid chronology

Rancid
(1993)

Radio Radio Radio
(EP)
(1993)

Let's Go
(1994)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Radio Radio Radio is an EP by the American punk rock band Rancid. The EP was released on August 26, 1993 through Fat Wreck Chords with the catalog number FAT 509. It was also their only release on Fat Wreck Chords.

It is first Rancid release with four members, with the inclusion of Lars Fredriksen on guitar and vocals. Previously a three-piece, Rancid was in need of a second guitar player to refine their sound. They had briefly performed live with Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day as their second guitar player, but Billie Joe decided to stay with Green Day rather than become a full member of Rancid. "Radio" was written in the short time that Billie Joe was in the band, and he therefore was a co-writer of the song. After Billie Joe decided to leave, Frederiksen filled the spot. Frederiksen had previously been a member of the British punk rock band the UK Subs.

"Radio" and "Dope Sick Girl" were both re-recorded for the band's second album, Let's Go, which was released the next year. The versions on the EP, "Radio" in particular, are arranged differently than the versions on Let's Go.

Fat Wreck Chords reissued the EP on January 15, 2009, on white vinyl.^[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, except where noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Radio" (written by Tim Armstrong, Billie Joe Armstrong, Freeman)	2:06
2.	"Dope Sick Girl"	1:59
Total length:		4:05

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Just a Feeling"	1:56
2.	"Someone's Gonna Die" (written and originally performed by Blitz)	1:49
Total length:		3:45

Notes

"Just a Feeling" is misspelled on the record sleeve as "Just a Felling".
The run-on grooves on sides A and B have "That's Alot [sic] of Radios" and "There's Two E's in Feeling" (a reference to the misspelling noted above) etched onto them, respectively.

Personnel

Tim Armstrong - lead vocals, guitar
Matt Freeman - bass, backing vocals
Lars Frederiksen - guitar, backing vocals
Brett Reed - drums, backing vocals

Additional musicians

Billie Joe Armstrong - guitar and backing vocals on "Radio"

Production

Donnell Cameron - producer
Joe Pecterillo - engineer
Jessie Fischer - photography

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ "Rancid :: Radio, Radio, Radio - Records: Fat Wreck Chords". Fatwreck.com. Retrieved 2012-03-06.

Rancid

Tim Armstrong Lars Frederiksen Matt Freeman Branden Steineckert Brett Reed

Studio albums	Rancid (1993) Let's Go ...And Out Come the Wolves Life Won't Wait Rancid (2000) Indestructible Let the Dominoes Fall Honor Is All We Know

EPs	Rancid Radio Radio Radio

Other albums	BYO Split Series Volume III B Sides and C Sides

Singles	"Salvation" "Roots Radicals" "Time Bomb" "Ruby Soho" "Bloodclot" "Brad Logan" "Fall Back Down" "Last One to Die"

Related articles	Discography Tours Operation Ivy Transplants Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards Tim Timebomb The Used U.K. Subs Devils Brigade Social Distortion Downfall Shaken 69 The Silencers Basic Radio Auntie Christ Lookout! Records Epitaph Records Hellcat Records Give 'Em the Boot

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