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.
