[.ca] Transplants

From 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

WHAT A GREAT CD:
Instead of being a punk-core hit, like the style of Rancid, leadman of Rancid, T. Armstrong with Rob Aston and Travis from blink-182 present a whole new butt kicking smash sound. I love this album. From its heavy beginning to its great end, this highly original cd will not cease to amaze you. Rap, punk, metal, hardcore, this album has it all. If you like original sound and you love good music, then i highly reccomend this album.

POSERS!:
so i had to redo this entire review, because i just recently learned the definition of PUNK. This band roots off of the poser punk, long time sold out rancid. Now, im not knocking the good ol' days of rancid, like lets go and out come the wolves, those are classics, but indestructible is the sorriest excuse for punk ive ever heard! Anyway, this band sold out on its first album, not very punk rock of you ask me. Check out dead kennedys, or the adicts, now thats some kick ass punk that has been around for more than 20 years and has yet to sell out!

ONE HECK OF A CD!!!!!!!!!:
I love this CD!It is one of my favourite CD's. You don't even have to like Rancid or Blink-182 to like the Transplants (Although I love those bands), because they sound NOTHING like those bands. Buy this CD now. I have hand it for more than 4 months and listen to it every day. My favorite tracks are "Diamonds And Guns", "California Babylon", and "Romper Stomper". Like I said before, buy this CD immediatly.

Hmmmm:
Basicly, the songs are brilliant, original, catchy, performed and put together by talented musicians and well produced (nothing wrong with that - nothing wrong with trying to make your music sound as good as possible). The problem is.....they've sold out!!!! And when i say sold out, i dont mean because they are a popular band or because their songs are 'over produced', but basicly because they've sold the rights to 'Diamonds and Guns' to just about every advert and television programme possible, not to mention the fact that Tim Armstrong's recently hepled out Pink amongst a bunch of other solely commercial orientated artists. I don't think there's anything wrong with being a well known mainstream band - why not get as many people to hear your music and what you have to say as possible? Some people don't seem to understand why people have a problem with mainstream bands in the first place. It's not simply because they are mainstream. It's the fact that most mainstream bands sell out and start to focus MORE on the money aspect and get big egos. There's nothing wrong with a mainstream band that still care about the music, and just want as many people to hear it as possible, but unfortunately i think the Transplants have started to care a little bit too much about how much dough they're getting.

GREAT ALBUM:
tranplants, a side project of travis barker and t. armstrong combines essences of punk, hardcore, dance beat, and rap/hiphop. many say that it includes some metal, but that is plain bull, it's hardcore not metal, and that's easy to see by anyone who has ever heard the two. Anyway, all the songs are GREAT, except for D.R.E.A.M. which i think is just okay (after you listen to it a couple of times it gets pretty lame). As for the rest, i could listen to them over and over again for a couple of months (which i already have done).

• 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