Last Summer is the fourth single from Start Something, the second album by the Welsh rock band lostprophets. The previous singles, Burn Burn, Last Train Home and Wake up (Make a move) had all been highly sucsessful on both sides of the Atlantic so this single was under pressure to be as good. It reached 13th in the UK Singles Chart and also charted in the United States. The music video for the single shows lead singer (Ian Watkins) driving around a small town on the last day of the summer school term. As he reaches his destination, the beach, he then goes back to the beginning and drives past the school again but in a different decade - the 70's, 80's, and the present (00's).
Track listing
CD 1
Last Summer
Sweet Dreams My LA Ex (cover)
CD 2
Last Summer
Reptilia (cover)
In The Air Tonight (cover)
Video : The Making Of Last Summer
Vinyl
Last Summer
Boys Don’t Cry (cover)
Also:
from the album: Start Something
Released: August 23, 2004 (U.K)
Format: CD
Genre: Rock
Length: 4:07
Label: Columbia Records / Visible Noise
Producer(s): Eric Valentine
Chart positions
13 (U.K)
Track listing
CD 1
Last Summer
Sweet Dreams My LA Ex (cover)
CD 2
Last Summer
Reptilia (cover)
In The Air Tonight (cover)
Video : The Making Of Last Summer
Vinyl
Last Summer
Boys Don’t Cry (cover)
Also:
from the album: Start Something
Released: August 23, 2004 (U.K)
Format: CD
Genre: Rock
Length: 4:07
Label: Columbia Records / Visible Noise
Producer(s): Eric Valentine
Chart positions
13 (U.K)
by Scarer August 11, 2006
Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja is the debut single from lostprophets, taken from the album thefakesoundofprogress. The song's name is derived from the video games Shinobi and Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja.
Track Listing:
C.D. 1
Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja
Directions
The Lesson Part 1
C.D. 2
Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja
Still Laughing (live)
Miles Away From Nowhere
Vinyl
Shinobi vs. Dragonninja
Miles Away From Nowhere
also:
from the album: thefakesoundofprogress
Released: 26th November 2001 (U.K)
Format: CD
Genre: Alternative metal
Length: 2:47
Label: Visible Noise
Chart positions
41 - (U.K)
Track Listing:
C.D. 1
Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja
Directions
The Lesson Part 1
C.D. 2
Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja
Still Laughing (live)
Miles Away From Nowhere
Vinyl
Shinobi vs. Dragonninja
Miles Away From Nowhere
also:
from the album: thefakesoundofprogress
Released: 26th November 2001 (U.K)
Format: CD
Genre: Alternative metal
Length: 2:47
Label: Visible Noise
Chart positions
41 - (U.K)
by Scarer August 11, 2006
The album was produced by Eric Valentine. He has also produced albums by Queens of the Stone Age and Good Charlotte.
MTV reports that the band chose the name for two reasons. Firstly, the band wanted to "motivate people to motivate people". "We spent the last three years touring and meeting loads of people who were like, 'I'd love to do this and that,' but they never had the drive to get up off their asses and do it," explained singer Ian Watkins. "Start something. Start anything."
The second is that the band recorded the album in a studio over ten months with a much bigger budget. lostprophets first album thefakesoundofprogress was recorded in a week and was originally intended as a demo.
As at the end of February 2004, Start Something has reached a peak of 33 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the US, and #4 in the UK. It has made the heavy metal charts in Australia as well as the album charts. Five singles were taken from this album: "Last Train Home", "Burn Burn", "Wake Up (Make a Move)", "Last Summer" and "Goodbye Tonight". The first four made the top 20 in the UK, with the first even making the top 10. "Burn Burn" has also made the Australian top 50 singles charts. "I Don't Know" was also released for radio airplay in the USA.
Track listing:
1. "We Still Kill the Old Way" – 4:20
2. "To Hell We Ride" – 3:40
3. "Last Train Home" – 4:35
4. "Make a Move" – 3:56
5. "Burn Burn" – 3:36
6. "I Don't Know" – 3:57
7. "Hello Again" – 4:56
8. "Goodbye Tonight" – 3:54
9. "Start Something" – 3:26
10."A Million Miles" – 4:32
11."Last Summer" – 4:07
12. "Sway...." – 10:25
On the UK release, track 12 is "We Are Godzilla, You Are Japan" – 4:05, followed by track 13, "Sway....", and on the Japanese release, the tracks "Lucky You" – 5:30 and "Like A Fire" – 5:47, were included as tracks 14 and 15 respectively. "Lucky You" was also included in the "Spiderman 2" movie soundtrack.
MTV reports that the band chose the name for two reasons. Firstly, the band wanted to "motivate people to motivate people". "We spent the last three years touring and meeting loads of people who were like, 'I'd love to do this and that,' but they never had the drive to get up off their asses and do it," explained singer Ian Watkins. "Start something. Start anything."
The second is that the band recorded the album in a studio over ten months with a much bigger budget. lostprophets first album thefakesoundofprogress was recorded in a week and was originally intended as a demo.
As at the end of February 2004, Start Something has reached a peak of 33 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the US, and #4 in the UK. It has made the heavy metal charts in Australia as well as the album charts. Five singles were taken from this album: "Last Train Home", "Burn Burn", "Wake Up (Make a Move)", "Last Summer" and "Goodbye Tonight". The first four made the top 20 in the UK, with the first even making the top 10. "Burn Burn" has also made the Australian top 50 singles charts. "I Don't Know" was also released for radio airplay in the USA.
Track listing:
1. "We Still Kill the Old Way" – 4:20
2. "To Hell We Ride" – 3:40
3. "Last Train Home" – 4:35
4. "Make a Move" – 3:56
5. "Burn Burn" – 3:36
6. "I Don't Know" – 3:57
7. "Hello Again" – 4:56
8. "Goodbye Tonight" – 3:54
9. "Start Something" – 3:26
10."A Million Miles" – 4:32
11."Last Summer" – 4:07
12. "Sway...." – 10:25
On the UK release, track 12 is "We Are Godzilla, You Are Japan" – 4:05, followed by track 13, "Sway....", and on the Japanese release, the tracks "Lucky You" – 5:30 and "Like A Fire" – 5:47, were included as tracks 14 and 15 respectively. "Lucky You" was also included in the "Spiderman 2" movie soundtrack.
by Scarer August 11, 2006
Liberation Transmission is the third studio album by lostprophets. The album was released on June 26 and June 27, 2006 in the United Kingdom and the United States respectively and entered the UK album chart at number one (July 2 for 1 week).
The first single, Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast), was released on June 19th 2006, and reached number 8 in the UK Top 40. The second single will almost certainly be A Town Called Hypocrisy, as bassist Stuart Richardson claimed in a recent BBC interview.
The album was leaked via BitTorrent for illegal download on June 12 2006, two weeks prior to its official release.
Track listing
"Everyday Combat" - 5:11
"A Town Called Hypocrisy" - 3:39
"The New Transmission" - 3:32
"Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" - 4:11
"Can't Stop, Gotta Date with Hate" - 3:42
"Can't Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won't Save You This Time)" - 3:36
"Everybody's Screaming!!!" - 3:52
"Broken Hearts, Torn Up Letters and the Story Of a Lonely Girl" - 4:04
"4:am Forever" - 4:27
"For All These Times Son, For All These Times" - 3:54
"Heaven for the Weather, Hell for the Company" - 4:13
"Always All Ways (Apologies, Glances and Messed Up Chances)" - 4:25
Trivia:
This is the first lostprophets album to include the lyrics to album's songs in the album's packaging. thefakesoundofprogress did not include the lyrics, whilst Start Something specifically states that the lyrics could be found on the band's official website, although they no longer can be.
It is also the first lostprophets album recorded without original drummer Mike Chiplin. Josh Freese drummed at the request of Bob Rock, but the band's first choice was Travis Barker.
Both of the other lostprophets albums featured interludes between some songs; no songs on Liberation Transmission are linked together, or feature interludes.
The first line in the chorus of "Can't Stop, Gotta Date with Hate" was taken from a line in the film The Goonies.
The Latin phrase on the album cover, "nobis pro lemma vobis", translates roughly as "for us, for them, for you". This lyric comes from the song Burn Burn, which can be found on the band's previous album Start Something.
The first single, Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast), was released on June 19th 2006, and reached number 8 in the UK Top 40. The second single will almost certainly be A Town Called Hypocrisy, as bassist Stuart Richardson claimed in a recent BBC interview.
The album was leaked via BitTorrent for illegal download on June 12 2006, two weeks prior to its official release.
Track listing
"Everyday Combat" - 5:11
"A Town Called Hypocrisy" - 3:39
"The New Transmission" - 3:32
"Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" - 4:11
"Can't Stop, Gotta Date with Hate" - 3:42
"Can't Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won't Save You This Time)" - 3:36
"Everybody's Screaming!!!" - 3:52
"Broken Hearts, Torn Up Letters and the Story Of a Lonely Girl" - 4:04
"4:am Forever" - 4:27
"For All These Times Son, For All These Times" - 3:54
"Heaven for the Weather, Hell for the Company" - 4:13
"Always All Ways (Apologies, Glances and Messed Up Chances)" - 4:25
Trivia:
This is the first lostprophets album to include the lyrics to album's songs in the album's packaging. thefakesoundofprogress did not include the lyrics, whilst Start Something specifically states that the lyrics could be found on the band's official website, although they no longer can be.
It is also the first lostprophets album recorded without original drummer Mike Chiplin. Josh Freese drummed at the request of Bob Rock, but the band's first choice was Travis Barker.
Both of the other lostprophets albums featured interludes between some songs; no songs on Liberation Transmission are linked together, or feature interludes.
The first line in the chorus of "Can't Stop, Gotta Date with Hate" was taken from a line in the film The Goonies.
The Latin phrase on the album cover, "nobis pro lemma vobis", translates roughly as "for us, for them, for you". This lyric comes from the song Burn Burn, which can be found on the band's previous album Start Something.
by Scarer August 11, 2006