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Haunted Cities by Transplants
Haunted Cities is an album by Transplants, released in 2005. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 11 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Gangsters and Thugs”, on 10 lists with a best position of #46.
Haunted Cities, the Transplants' second album, came out on LaSalle and Atlantic on June 21, 2005, after the punk-rap supergroup had already broken up once. Tim Armstrong of Rancid, his friend and one-time roadie Rob Aston and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker scattered to their day jobs in 2003, then reconvened in 2004 to make this one, with DJ Odie and DJ Pone playing a big part in how it sounds.
That tilts the scales toward hip-hop: Barker's drums hit like breakbeats, Aston barks like he's daring you to cross the street, and Armstrong's slurred street-corner croon keeps one foot in the old punk haunts. It opened at number 28 on the Billboard 200, and the band then went quiet again until 2010.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Haunted Cities on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gangsters and Thugs | 10 | #46 | – | 2005 | |
| 2 | What I Can't Describe | 1 | #336 | – | 2005 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.