Lostprophets - Liberation Transmission (CD 2006)

This is the third and best to date of the Lost Prophet's albums. Having lost the hard thrash metal feel that fake sound of progress album tried to bring, but not quite sounding right, and then with the more pop like start something album Lost Prophets have finally found the sound that defines them to a generation in Liberation Transmission. With a like number one for any of the tracks that are going to be released as singles, the only thing I can point out about this band is track number 5 (Can't stop, gotta date with hate) sounds too much like jimmy eat world, but hey I look past that little bad point as the rest of the album is awsum, if you don't already have it, go and get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, when they released this, lostprophets said on their podcasts: "we have make every song like it would be a single."

They were not wrong, each song is great.

Although there has been a slight bit of comercialisation, they have make a cracker of an album!

Songs to listen to:
A town called Hypocrisy
Rooftops
Can't Catch Tomorrow
Everyday Combat

I read some reviews about this album and the critics slated it. I don't agree, yes it is more commercial than the other releases but the catchy chorus' just keep you coming back for more.

The singles Can't catch tomorrow and Rootops both caught the ears of many new listeners me being one of them and i've bought back catalogue as it got me interested in the band and that can only be a good thing surely.

Don't listen to the critics buy this album it's fab.

Firstly, if your looking for something like Lostprohets' first album, The Fake Sound Of Progress, then don't get this album. It's less 'hardcore' and the only tracks worth the price tag are Rooftops and Everybody's Screaming!!!

BRILLIANT ALBUM , BRILLIANT PRODUCER, BRILLIANT BAND . AFTER THE LAST BRILLIANT ALBUM I'VE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS ONE ESPECIALLY AS IT 'S PRODUCED BY THE LEGEND HIMSELF, BOB. WELL IT'S WORTH THE WAIT , THEY GET BETTER & BETTER.

very good product - amazing band thank you so much - was also at a very cheep price and quick delivery :)

Excellent service provided. Payments via Paypal and then very quick delivery with very reasonable delivery charge.

Excellent selection of songs which you could listen to over and over again. Would highly recommend this album.
No dislikes.

I love this CD! It is very inventive in lyrics and guitar peices all the way through, and it is well worth buying if you like any of the below:

My Chemical Romance
The Blackout
Linkin Park
The Used
Funeral For A Friend

Enjoy if you do buy it!

You might have heard it. The first single from ‘Liberation Transmission’ is called ‘Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)’. It’s all over the radio, for one thing, and it’s hanging around the music video channels like a stubborn yeast infection. It looks like it could well be the feelgood hit of the summer. It features a chorus so infectious it should really be approached wearing a radioactive suit and a condom over each finger. “Standing on the roof tops,” sings frontman Ian Watkins, “everybody scream your heart out”. This is just 10 words and probably no more than four chords, but it’s a chorus that will stay with you like hepatitis. At first, you might not know what it is, but it’s there. Waiting for the bus, you’ll be humming it; feeding the cat, you’ll be humming it; in the shower in the morning wiping yesterday from your eyes, you’ll be humming it...

When it comes to genre-hopping, it’s usually the beautiful people that get the recognition: the Bobby Gillespies, the Damon Albarns, the creative brains behind Gnarls Barkley. It might seem odd to include in this list a working-class Welsh quintet whose appeal (and derision) has sprung largely from the pages of the metal press. But ‘Liberation Transmission’ blends styles like flavours in a milkshake. You will not notice the joins.

There’s pop here, there’s metal, there’s popular punk, there’s bits you can dance to, there’s moments that might make it on to Radio 2, and there are songs that will cause a riot of moshpit-mayhem at any rock club in any town in the land. Take your pick. Out of a riff that borders on being a physical assault will spring a refrain so catchy it makes Kaiser Chiefs sound like Kraftwerk. I’m not sure what the collective noun for great choruses is, but on these 12 songs let’s say it’s a contagion.

These are the simple mechanics: this CD has at least seven potential smash hit songs on it. Bankers – the kind of tunes that lead to albums selling a billion copies. Songs such as ‘Everyday Combat’ (where you too will be “dancing in the de-militarized zone”), ‘The New Transmission’ or ‘Can’t Stop, Gotta Date With Hate’ are as impossible to ignore as the World Cup. To go with this are the ‘album tracks’, of which every one is a stormer. Lostprophets claim that they approached each number on this album as if it were the one song that would represent them. Of course, groups tend to say this kind of thing quite a lot. Here, though, you can believe it.

By doing this, the band have crafted space for themselves, and created a sound that is pretty much their own. They don’t belong to any scene, and as you join them now they are truly rising into their own. This album should put them in the same league as Fall Out Boy, Foo Fighters and The Killers while being entirely different from them. I mean, they’re as cute, musically, as Green Day. They can handle themselves in whatever company you care to dump them.

And what company might that be? Following an album (2004’s ‘Start Something’) that shifted a cool million and a half copies, it could be that the ’Prophets are about to find fame in a manner that’s virtually fluorescent.

i brought cd to replace my old one, so very happy and can continue to enjoy their songs again. have been able to replace a few of my totally scratched cds this way

A good album, which isn't quite up to the previous release. Rooftops is a great track though. Worth a listen.

a totally amazing album from a brilliant band! need i say more? i love this album and hope you will as well

Did not dissapoint .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

This is a fab cd. i've enjoyed listenting to it. There is nothing I dislike about it. It has been one of the best buys i've had. As I am into heavy rock ie Back Sabbath and Iron maiden I was actually suprised by how much I liked it. It was recommended by a friend and I thought I would give them a try. I was expecting them to be a bit grungy ( a word I like to use when describing some of the modern day rock bands and their voices) but I really enjoyed them.

After listening to "A town called Hypocrisy" And "Can't catch tomorrow" I then purchased the Album. After playing the CD 4 or 5 times I like every track now and would reccomend it to all rock lovers.

This Album was awesome

100% Brilliant

Its Worth Getting and all the songs are brilliant

thankyou

Lostprophets are not exactly one of my favourite bands but some of the tracks on this album are excellent. The album starts on the very catchy Everyday Combat and carries on with loads of different sounding tracks all the way through the album. Personally, my favourite track is Roftops (A Liberation Transmission) because I love singin along to the chorus and it is a tune most people should like.

I decided to buy this album as it seemed in good condition and was amazingly priced for such a new item.
It arrived in great condition and most importantly, it worked.

BRILLIANT ALBUM
GREAT SONGS
FAVES ARE ROOFTOPS AND A TOWN CALLED HYPOCRISY
BUY IT YOU WONT BE DISAPPOINTED

Liberation Transmission is brilliant but I think that nothing can come close to Start Something. That album is incredible- not even Liberation Transmission can meet it.

Firstly, I'd been eagerly awaiting this album since I saw Lostprophets perform live almost two years ago, back in the day that Last Train Home was one of the most played songs on the radio. Perhaps because of this I set my expectations a bit high. The album was waiting for me on the saturday before it was officially due to be released (thanks www.play.com) , and with great anticipation I put it on to play.

My enthusiasm vanished half way through the first song. After the first two songs I really didn't want to be bothered to listen to the entire album, strangely enough. But nevertheless I did. And at the end of it I just thought 'THAT's what they've spent 2 years producing?' I was severely dissapointed. Still am, come to think of it. It's taken approximately 10 listens of this album for it to begin growing on me. Start Something, it aint. What made Lostprophets unique and worth listening to seems to have evaporated, and this is hard to say by a former devout fan. Fake Sound of Progress was good, Start Something was excellent, Liberation Transmission...well..not that impressive at all. All the songs are linked by the same general theme, which works well, but all traces of metal have dissapeared. There are no more heavy songs, no more screams from Ian Watkins (or not what I'd call screams, opinions may differ) .

The lack of a metal influence has made this album sound so much like the generic pop-rock bands that are evident today, for example, and this is only opinion, Fall Out Boy. Also noticeable, although this is probably irrelevant, are the long song names. That also has become a trademark almost of these new bands, and Lostprophets have followed suit. Nothing much distinguishes them from the multitude anymore, they dress almost the same, they sound almost the same, a lot of fans will remember Lostprophets by Start Something, and rightly so, hopefully their next album will go back to their roots more, but I doubt it.

This album will appeal to a vast majority of people regardless, but at the same time it's going to dissapoint a lot of previous fans, which Lostprophets obviously realise by the note in the cover booklet : 'We have the utmost respect and love for you and that will never change. (Unless you stop liking us...) '

A good album, but can be appreciated a lot more if you don't associate it with Lostprophets. Pretend the band isn't Lostprophets, and the album's quite decent. Although that really shouldn't be needed...