Song · Rancid
“Salvation” by Rancid
From the album Let’s Go (1994)
“Salvation” by Rancid appears on 13 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1994 and 2008. It was first released in 1994 on the album Let’s Go. Its best result is #54 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1994. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #188 alternative song of 1995 and #3,411 alternative song of all time.
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"Salvation" was the second single from Let's Go, the 1994 album that Rancid cut for Epitaph, and it's pure street-level punk rock with the hooks sharpened to a point. Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman wrote it, and it tears along on a snotty, sing-along chorus and a rhythm section that never lets up.
Modern rock stations picked it up, which made it the first Rancid single to land on any Billboard singles chart, and it sits alongside "Time Bomb" and "Ruby Soho" as one of the songs that pulled the band out of the underground. Spin counted it among the best alternative rock songs of 1994. It later turned up as a cover in the Xbox 360 edition of Guitar Hero II, and it was slated for the pilot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, though it didn't make the episode that aired.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 54 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1994 | 106 |
| 1994 | 100 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994 | 101 |
| 1995 | 65 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1995 | 107 |
| 1995 | 84 | Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT | WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 1995 | 104 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 218 | Live 105 | Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995) | 300 |
| 1999 | 712 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 353 | WFNX | WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 899 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 2002 | 1622 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2004 | 174 | Q101 | Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004) | 300 |
| 2004 | 303 | 107.7 The End | The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) | 500 |
| 2007 | 274 | KROQ | KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) | 500 |
| 2008 | 493 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008) | 500 |
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