Talking with a friend a couple years ago, I stumbled on this song. [editor's note: It's important to know that Spencer survived a brief electric bass career, during which he pestered his friends and family for ideas about songs to learn. After a while, a competition emerged. This little tune surfaced as a winner.] It's really rocking in the most basic sense of the word. It really just wants to make you rock out, if there ever was a song that exemplified it so well just going nuts. The song is "Journey To The End Of East Bay" by Rancid.
The song starts out with one of the funkiest bass lines I've heard in a long time and then break out with a strong guitar and then some really punk vocals. Besides just being a rockin' song, the lyrics are pretty stellar.
"But there was always an urgent need to belong
All these bands and all these people
All these friends and we were equals but
What are you gonna do when everybody goes on without you?" front man Tim Armstrong cries out.
All in all great lyrics, rocking tune, and, for some reason, a total feel good song. GO 90's PUNK!
Journey to the End of East Bay (Live) - Rancid (note: the bad-ass mohawk)
— S
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