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 Review by: dktr See others by this writer Only registered users can post comments 
 
Published on October 30th 2007
Was there a point in the early years of this century when Tim Armstrong cracked and everything went a bit wrong? Surely the first place to look would be the Transplants first album -- a band whose only positive feature is that you don’t have to buy it, not that it stopped many a curious Rancid/Hellcat fan (me included) from the mistaken purchase of such guff.
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this sucks ass stupid motherfuckers i can tell by the pic. fuck you! This band REALLY needs to stop playing music. "It seems to encompass everything Armstrong and Rancid have come to represent -- limp, posing, immature, embarrassing caricatures that have nothing to offer except disappointment to those they used to offer excitement and joy to. " hey people stop raggin on tim armstrong, what's that? yes he is the one who made it, not you. and this cd definitely worth a listen why does every band on Hellcat sound like or try to sound like Rancid? Is that a signing criteria? someones anti-armstrong. Taken from the news post (http://www.punknews.org/article/26222): you must be new here... I'm not complaining about any review, mainly because there's no real "review" to complain about. My point is that this shit should not have been posted. Especially with the whole cutting back to one day of reviews per week to cut out senseless rants like this one. for all those complaining about the review This was a terrible review based on the fact that there is more complaining about Tim Armstrong than there is of the album itself. I mean...what the hell does Armstrong have to do with the band being so bad?! And who cares that "Give 'Em The Boot Vol. V" had 18 tracks compared to the other ones with only 3 more. Hellcat is still a good label with bands like Westbound Train, the Aggrolites, Time Again, Left Alone, the Slackers, and Nekromatix. "This is probably the best pop punk album I've heard all year." I can't believe none of you like this album! This is just a fun, catchy, pop punk album. It's not trying to be anything special. terrible review. it barely talks about the album at all. what a bad review Shitty, shitty, shitty, shitty. On the topic of Tim, I ran into him recently, and the guy looks seriously ill—like cancer patient status. So I'm not gonna' hold it against him for signing an awful band. listened to this once and though it wasn't great, certainly better than the reviewer made it out to be. This band put on one of the worst live shows I've ever seen. I can't understand why they were opening for the phenomenauts. No one in the crowd cared for them and they hit every shitty stereotype for this kind of shitty band. I'm just annoyed that this rubbish was posted at all. A good review of some other album could have easily taken this one's place. If you're going to write a review, write a review. Don't be a belligerent child. yes the review was more about Tim Armstrong than the CD...but if it was only about the cd, it would be a 3 sentence review. This is far from a good album, but I actually think it's better than the Mayday Parade record reviewed right below it. So half the review isn't even about the album, and the half that does mention the album, only mentions it to back up his other rant. Great, thanks. how bout the idea that the dude has been makinf music for around 20 years. Most people don't maintain the same quality level over that long course of time....esepecially in such a limited genre, where everything has to sound "punk rock"....when he tried to expand during Life Won't wait everyone gave him shit, but that's probably up in the top 1 o2 alobums he's ever put out I give Tim Armstrongs personal life a 4/10. I thought the pacing was poor and the plot lost some focus near the end. Eh, the first Transplants album was like a 7/10, and Haunted Cities wasn't THAT bad. Maybe a 5/10. Half kind of sucked donkey-balls, but the other half was kind of enjoyable. thats true, D.R.E.A.M did suck bad...thats kinda what the second album is like.....all the way through..... thats true, D.R.E.A.M did suck bad...thats kinda what the second album is like.....all the way through..... I actually really like the first Transplants album, except for "D.R.E.A.M." I never heard the second one, though. Shitty band, but did you need to include the rant about Tim Armstrong? You kinda just made yourself look like a prick, really. Next time, stick to making the album look bad, not the man who signed the band. Not to be over critical, but I thought the idea of posting only one set of reviews a week was to avoid publishing half-assed rants like this one? I'm sure this album probably sucks, but could the next review actually be about the album? It may be an out of focus review but, I totally agree. Somewhere along the line, Armstrong fucking lost it completely. ....i'll admit....i liked the first transplants album...though the second was way too ghetto for me....orange on the other hand... always have and seemingly always will suck.... Orange you glad you don't have to buy this either? Yuk yuk yuk! Thanks for the over view on Hellcat records history (totally unrelated to the review of Orange). The Aggrolites are currently the best thing Hellcat has going but Hellcat is still a very good label minus a few bands they currently have signed (and a few previous ones no longer signed). Their track record is pretty good, Hepcat, DKM, Slackers, Rancid, etc... That was quite the Tim Armstrong review. I thought this would be a review for some reason, and not some guy complaining about the state of rancid and hellcat... "a band whose only positive feature is that you don’t have to buy it" Hellcat is pretty bad but it still has The Unseen, Tiger Army, and Time Again which are all respectable bands. Sooooo bad. |
