Transplants | 
| Artist: Transplants
Label: Hellcat Records
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  135 reviews
Sales Rank: 38996
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.3
MPN: 80448
UPC: 045778044825
EAN: 0045778044825
ASIN: B00006JTGU
Release Date: October 22, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Romper Stomper | | • | Tall Cans in the Air | | • | D.J. D.J. | | • | Diamonds and Guns | | • | Quick Death | | • | Sad But True | | • | Weigh on My Mind | | • | One Seventeen | | • | California Babylon | | • | We Trusted You | | • | D.R.E.A.M. | | • | Down in Oakland |
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Amazon.com
From January 2000 to June 2002, Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong laboriously pored over loops and samples, collecting synth squeals and snatches of howling guitar and, naturally, writing songs. Aided by raging rapper Rob Aston, he's put it all together to form this often intriguing and strangely beguiling side project. The opening's not promising. With the death-riff of "Romper Stomper" followed by the urban R&B and chanted party-rock chorus of "Tall Cans in the Air," Armstrong flails badly. But then his Clash obsession kicks in once more. This London-Kingston-California hybrid is thoroughly weird but oddly touching. It rings out in "Weigh on My Mind" and "Diamonds and Guns," with its Sex Pistols-inspired marching intro, rollicking piano, and Stones-like woo-woos, while the closing "Down in Oakland" is an enthusiastic take on the Clash's later spaghetti-western reggae. These, and Armstrong's sonic experiments, provide interest, with adrenaline pumping from searing punk-metal bursts. Though Aston's outbursts are often confrontational in the most predictable and tedious sense, Transplants is something new. --Dominic Wills
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 Transplants- -bringing hybrid work to punk. March 3, 2003
Dave Losso (Chicago,IL,USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Many people dog this album because there's rap in it. Well I have to tell you all to stop being so damn close-minded and give this album a chance. You are truly missing out. The CD opens with the over-driven "Romper Stomper". This track builds up alot of momentum. Other tracks include the venomous "Quick Death" featuring AFI's Davey Havok. Havok and SR do a tag team singing duet over a music track reminiscent of a guitar driven locomotive complete with steam whistle; "Weigh On My Mind" is a very good song that shows the emotional side of these supposed "tough-guys" of music. Brody Armstrong sings in the background of the chorus and her voice is soft for a change. She should sing like that more often. With other good tracks like "Tall Cans In The Air", "One Seventeen", and "Diamonds and Guns", this CD is a real treat. Breaking down the close-minded boundaries, this CD offers to rap, punk, metal, reggae, and club fans. With good guest artists and a good lineup (Rancid's Tim Armstrong, Blink182/Boxcar Racer's Travis Barker, and rapper Rob SR Anton), this CD does live up to the hype. It's a definitely new addition to the Hellcat family and I can't wait to see these guys at Warped Tour 2003. Maybe, if you all open your minds a little, you'll enjoy them too.
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Excellent Album May 7, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This album is one of the greatest albums I have ever heard. Tim Armstrong, Rob Aston, Travis Barker, and special guests including Davey Havok from AFI and Brody Armstrong from Distillers, do a superb job of mixing rock, rap, punk, reggae, and metal all into one. Travis Barker from Blink 182 actually does a good job of drumming. And just because they have a Blink 182 member doesn't mean anything. None of the songs sound like Blink 182. As for the different style for everybody. For rappers, good tracks to listen to
would be Tall Cans In the Air and D.R.E.A.M.. For punks good songs would be Sad but True and One Seventeen. For rock you have D.J.D.J. and Weigh On My Mind. For reggae fans you might want to listen to California Babylon or Down In Oakland. As for metal, the best songs would be Romper Stomper and Quick Death. All those great genres can be found in one song on the songs Diamonds and Guns and We Trusted You. To anyone I reccomend to buy this CD.
A change of pace for me, and a good one at that. November 3, 2002
shaun (Scottsdale, AZ)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Tim Armstrong working with blink 182's drummer to make a hybrid of punk, hip-hop, and reggae? How can this work? Well it does, and it works very well.
To add to his arsenal of unique sound he invites friends such as davey havok of AFI and brody armstrong of the distillers to add there touch to this album. As the other reviewers have said though, don't expect the usual Rancid or hellcat records type material because this is in a category of its own. Armstrong explores reggae vocals in tracks such as 'tall cans in the air", and Rob Aston adds his screaming to the mix, which is the only real flaw in the record. Aston's yelling vocals can be a little overdone sometimes, and some of the lyrics made me laugh a bit with all the typical lyrics of a rap song. But then theres other songs that have well written lyrics about loss, redemption, and just that feeling of a sharpened knife placed in your back, which is something we all can relate to. But perhaps the biggest draw of this release is its diversity between songs. You have party songs, darker more in your face songs, reggae dance hall type stuff, and even a track that is a more hardcore rap song then anything else.
So who would i recommend this cd too? well anyone really. it combines so many different styles of music that i'm sure u could find something that appeals to you. So basically when you get a hold of 14 bucks, i would get this cd. I was pleasantly suprised with it, and i'm sure you will be as well.
 punk+funk=a good combination! September 29, 2003
Eve Nevarre (Portland, OR United States)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
When I first heard the single "Diamonds and Guns" I had to rush out and buy this cd. That song is just so catchy and cool and strangely enough, danceable which is an unusual quality for a punk song. With these qualities thought it is still definitely punk and this amalgam is what instantly attracted me. God help me, I already loved Rancid and especially Tim Armstrong so of course I couldn't wait to own this album. Did the rest of it live up to the first single? It did a pretty good job I think. The first four tracks all kind of have the "Diamonds and Guns" vibe going. "Tall Cans in the Air" is awesome and I found myself singing along with it the very first time I heard it. It is irresistable. My favorite track on the album...."We Trusted You." Oh my God I love this song. It is so hateful and punk in spirit, but not in sound. The lyrics state, "We line 'em all up then we gun 'em all down then we all celebrate when they all hit the ground" in such a melodic matter-of-fact manner. I f'in love it! The rest of the cd is forgettable, but for the five good tracks, it is well worth the purchase. The punk attitude and lyrics mixed with the funky sound is a brilliant combination and I look forward to any further releases by the Transplants.
 Fire the Skinhead June 30, 2005
Pwen
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just don't understand it. How can this album, and on a greater level, this band featuring the fantastic drumming of Travis Barker and the great voice and guitar work of Tim Armstrong not be that great? The songwriting on the album is overall very good, but, with the exception of a few songs, this "Skinhead Rob" guy just murders the song, repeatedly stabbing away at while it slowly dies. The best example of this comes in the song "We Trusted You". Here's a song that is so reminiscent of The Clash that if I didn't know better I would swear it actually was performed by them. Unfortunately, on the second verse Rob comes in with his horrendous "I have to yell all of my lyrics because I probably don't have any 'talent' otherwise" vocals. (Here's a hint Rob, in the "hip-hop", or actually the more proper term, "rap" genre, a talented artist can change their vocal styling from brash, in your face lyricism to mellow, chilled lyricism quite freely. You should try it.) This is a problem that plagues a lot of the album, which is unfortunate, because I really wanted to like this band a lot more than I do.
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