Haunted Cities punk rock /hip hop band Transplants . It was released on June 21, 2005 via LaSalle Records /Atlantic Records , and sold close to 34,000 copies in its first week and came in at #28 on the US Billboard 200[ 1] UK Albums Chart ,[ 2] Top 200 Albums France .[ 3]
Production Audio production of the record was handled by Tim Armstrong and Dave Carlock . Rancid 's Matt Freeman , The Slackers ' Vic Ruggiero , Cypress Hill 's B-Real and Sen Dog , Dilated Peoples ' Rakaa , and Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. made their appearances on the album as additional musicians and vocalists. Houston -based rapper Paul Wall made screwed and chopped version of the album, released months later the same year.
Background The album spawned three singles: "Gangsters and Thugs ", "What I Can't Describe" and "Crash and Burn". Its lead single, "Gangsters and Thugs", peaked at #25 on the US Alternative Songs [ 4] UK Singles Chart .[ 5] Haunted Cities , and "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7", which was dropped as non-album promotional single and was added later as the thirteenth track on its Best Buy edition.
Critical reception Haunted Cities was met with "mixed or averages" reviews from critics. At Metacritic , which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 55 based on 11 reviews.[ 6] AllMusic , Johnny Loftus noted how the album "suffers lyrically", while going on to say, "the whole package ends up having this strangely alluring glimmer. It's like discovering California Babylon after being lost in suburbia."[ 7] E! Online explained: "Haunted Cities has more of a street-smarts vibe and is actually more listenable. Despite some song titles that foreshadow darker themes, this musical locale is more inviting than intimidating."[ 8]
Track listing Title Writer(s) 1. "Not Today" (featuring Sen Dog ) 2:41 2. "Apocalypse Now" T. Armstrong R. Aston T. Barker 3:16 3. "Gangsters and Thugs " T. Armstrong R. Aston T. Barker 3:54 4. "What I Can't Describe" (featuring Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. ) T. Armstrong R. Aston P. Devoux T. Barker 4:02 5. "Doomsday" T. Armstrong R. Aston T. Barker 3:49 6. "Killafornia" (featuring B-Real ) 3:47 7. "American Guns" T. Armstrong R. Aston T. Barker 2:38 8. "Madness" 3:09 9. "Hit the Fence" T. Armstrong R. Aston T. Barker 2:12 10. "Pay Any Price" T. Armstrong R. Aston T. Barker 1:57 11. "I Want It All" T. Armstrong R. Aston T. Barker 3:56 12. "Crash and Burn" (featuring Rakaa Iriscience ) 4:45 Total length: 40:06
Japanese edition bonus trackTitle 13. "Red Dawn" 3:52
BestBuy bonus trackTitle 13. "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7" 3:58
Personnel
Tim Armstrong - vocals , bass , guitar , keyboards , synthesizer , executive producer , producer , engineering Rob "Skinhead Rob" Aston - vocalsTravis Barker - drums , loops , percussion Sen Dog - vocals (track 1)Paul Devoux - vocals (track 4)
Vincent Devoux - vocals (track 4)
Ted Devoux - vocals (track 4)
Loius Freese - vocals (track 6)Rakaa Taylor - vocals (track 12)Richard Stites - backing vocals (track 3)
Dave Carlock - backing vocals (tracks: 4, 8, 12), bass (tracks: 5, 12), guitar (tracks: 5–6, 8), keyboards & synthesizer (tracks: 2–8, 12), theremin (tracks: 1, 6, 8), organ (tracks: 8, 10), producer, engineeringKim Jade Fry - bass (tracks: 2–3)
Matt Freeman - bass (tracks: 5, 11)Gemi Taylor - guitar (track 4)
Nic C - drum programming (track 7)
Carlos Paugar - drum programming (track 12)
Vic Ruggiero - Farfisa organ & Wurlitzer organ (track 6)Jennifer Tefft - flute (track 12)
Dave Holden - saxophone (track 5)
Obi Fernandez - trombone (track 5)
Rich Graiko - trumpet (track 5)
Scott Abels - percussion (tracks: 4, 6, 10, 12)
Brett Reed - percussion (track 10)DJ Odie - scratches (tracks: 3, 11–12)
DJ Pone - scratches (tracks: 4–5, 10)
Billy "Jam" Kiernan - sound fx effects (track 5)
John Silas Cranfield - assistant engineering
Nick Ferrero - assistant engineering
Chris Rakestraw - assistant engineering
Alicia Simmons - assistant engineering
Ian Suddarth - assistant engineering
John Morrical - additional engineer, assistant engineering
Fredrik Sarhagen - additional engineering
Brian "Big Bass" Gardner - mastering Neal Harrington Pogue - mixing Mark Machado - artwork (logo & cover)
Estevan Oriol - photography
Charts References
↑ 1.0 1.1 "Transplants Haunted Cities Chart History" . Billboard 200 ↑ 2.0 2.1 "haunted-cities | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company" . Official Charts Company ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hung, Steffen. "lescharts.com - Transplants - Haunted Cities" . Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Transplants Gangsters & Thugs Chart History" . Alternative Songs ↑ 5.0 5.1 "gangsters-and-thugs | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company" . Official Charts Company ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Critic Reviews for Haunted Cities - Metacritic" . Metacritic . Retrieved October 26, 2017 .↑ 7.0 7.1 Loftus, Johnny. "Haunted Cities - Transplants" . AllMusic . Retrieved October 26, 2017 . ↑ 8.0 8.1 "E! Online Review" . E! Online the original on January 15, 2006. Retrieved April 2, 2021 .↑ Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG: transplants" . Robert Christgau . Retrieved October 26, 2017 . ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 284.
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