Lostprophets Start Something (CD) Album (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Start SomethingCondition: NewFormat: CDEdition: AlbumNo Of Discs: 1Run Time: 76.50Record Label: Visible NoiseRelease Date: 02/02/2004Conductor: David CampbellProducer: Eric ValentineGenre: MetalStyle: HeavyEAN: 5017687613220Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 1 x CD Album, Enhanced UK 2004 1We Still Kill The Old Way4:202To Hell We Ride3:403Last Train Home4:354Make A Move3:565Burn Burn3:366I Don't Know3:577Hello Again4:568Goodbye Tonight3:549Start Something3:2610A Million Miles4:3211Last Summer4:0712We Are Godzilla, You Are Japan4:0513Sway....10:23 AMAZON Start Something is an appropriate slogan for the Lostprophets, as that's exactly what the Welsh six-piece are doing on their second album. Rather than continuing down the nu-metal path suggested on their first album, thefakesoundofprogress, the Lostprophets have widened their scope and created a second album that's less an evolution and more a change of direction. The Lostprophets haven't so much lost touch with their rock roots as spread them further, tapping into emo and hardcore as well as more familiar hip-hop tinged metal of recent tourmates Linkin Park (especially on "We Still Kill the Old Way" and "Make a Move"). In the style of Rage Against the Machine, first single "Burn, Burn" is a catchy teen-angst anthem with an unforgettable riff; standout second single "Last Train Home" out-emos the Lostprophets' American peers (including Good Charlotte, who provide guest vocals). Best of all, the willingness to experiment that the Lostprophets demonstrated on their debut remains on Start Something: "I Don't Know" and "Goodbye Tonight" even suggest recent American hardcore and emo pioneers such as At the Drive In. Even singer Ian Watkins' voice has improved, so that he now sounds even more like Faith No More's Mike Patten--and that's no bad thing. Granted, few people over the age of 25 will have much time for the music or sentiments of Start Something, but it's doubtful that the Lostprophets or the millions of rock fans that this album should convert will be too concerned about that. --Ted Kord REVIEW Listen in between the multi-tracked American rock radio production and what do you hear on Lostprophets' second album Start Something? Well, some bloated Yank nu-rawk chancers for a start: the awful Good Charlotte and Hoobastank are on 'backups' during these 13 tracks. The pervading sound is that of five South Walian men clinking glasses and exchanging hearty backslaps because they've made an album that's not only them, but is commercially viable in extremis too. Start Something's leadoff track is called "We Still Kill the Old Way", the opening lyrics to which are "So here we go again/Another time but it feels the same/Got sick of waiting here". Embracing the vast new commercial expanses that (they hope) awaits them in the next few months, while reaching back to a legion of faintly suspicious 'old' fans, this is tactically worded to the point of genius. This is ludicrously bankable music, after all. A painstaking chemical compound of technical hardcore guitar and emo-ish vocal pleading. Lostprophets songs are, in the main, a lot better than they have any right to be. It may be their collective hardcore or thrash metal backgrounds. They use these genres as touchstones, if not actually playing them ("Make A Move", with a clean-crunch Metallica guitar break and spazzy ending, illustrates this smartly). Lostprophets place a lot in being cool people, and not playing uncool music. As such, minus the odd studio extravagance, "Burn Burn's" hyper pop-punk is a close cousin of Jimmy Eat World. They are, unquestionably, a changed band though: "I Don't Know" is a lightweight demi-ballad that wanders off into a camp electro ending, which duly bleeds into the next track. The 'Prophets debut effort Thefakesoundofprogress wouldn't have countenanced this sort of extraneous frippery. Day jobs out the window and some sort of freedom achieved, there is an underlying sense of mindless escapism. Which is fine, but when on "Last Summer" Ian Watkins sings, "We sit around in our home town/Listening to the waves as they all crash down," you have to call time. Given the location of Pontypridd, this is frankly a meteorological phenomenon. Resistance is pretty much futile; Start Something is a record as happy to smother you in candyfloss as hydrochloric acid, songs to elbow your fellow man to in the sweaty pit or to soundtrack a Hollywood hunk of crashing emotion. It may not be a masterpiece by any rigorous critical yardstick, but it's the Lostprophets' triumph. Review courtesy of BBC Wales Music --Jack Smith Find more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window See moreArtist: LostprophetsCountry/Region of Manufacture: ItalyMPN: 017687613220Release Year: 2004Tracks: 1: We Still Kill The Old Way2: To Hell We Ride3: Last Train Home4: Make a Move5: Burn Burn6: I Don't Know7: Hello Again8: Goodbye Tonight9: Start Something10: A Million Miles11: Last Summer12: We Are Godzilla, You Are Japan13: Sway Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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