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Transplants by Transplants
Transplants is an album by Transplants, released in 2002. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 34 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Diamonds and Guns”, on 26 lists with a best position of #8.
Transplants, the 2002 debut from the Transplants, came out on Hellcat Records in October and sounds exactly like what it is: a punk lifer messing around with homemade beats in Pro Tools and refusing to stop. Tim Armstrong of Rancid had cooked up the tracks and asked his roadie Rob Aston to write words for them, and the thing kept growing until Blink-182's Travis Barker was drafted onto the drum stool.
Armstrong co-produced with Dave Carlock, and the guest list reads like a punk-rock house party: Matt Freeman and Lars Frederiksen from Rancid, Vic Ruggiero of the Slackers, Brody Dalle of the Distillers and AFI's Davey Havok all turn up. "Diamonds and Guns" struts with street-corner swagger, "DJ DJ" swaggers right behind it, and both singles landed in the film Bulletproof Monk. It went to the top of the Independent Albums chart, not bad for a record that started as a guy playing his roadie some beats.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Transplants on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diamonds and Guns | 26 | #8 | – | 2002–2008 | |
| 2 | DJ DJ | 7 | #41 | – | 2003–2005 | |
| 3 | Down in Oakland | 1 | #26 | – | 2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.