LostProphets
 

Fake Sound of Progress is great (prior to when they butchered it with the "remastering"). Start Something is eh, apparently they're working on a new one. Anyone else like them? Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja is my favorite song.

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First album was tolerable. Second album was a horrific mess.

i was wondering when someone was gonna make a lostprophets thread. i have their start something album as well. at first i thought it was just blah but after i listened to it a few more times i started to like it.

ive liked most of their stuff. its fun to listen to and they put on a great show. they kinda have a similar sound to hoobastank almost, but they are far better.

I think they are horrid.


I feel like David Frost. I'm gonna go take a shower now.

yeah I had a listen, and they were ok/good-ish, but I didn't hear anything that really grabbed my attention. I'm not even sure what it is, the music just seems kind of calculated and predictable. Ok band, nothing too special for me though.

Hmm. I dont think it needs to be said again that they used to be far better.. There's the odd song on Start Something thats okay to listen to, I dont mind Sway every now and again, but I'd much rather listen to Kobrakai or summin.

They're not awful, but they could have turned out better. And more unique..

I dislike this band :/

Their "Fake Sound of Progress" album was decent enough, some good tunes. But with the new(er) album they have lost their hard sound and adopted an emo melodic sound, which I dont like...and plus Ian Watkins is an arrogant t*sser, which makes me dislike them more

LostProphets
 

Righto... so this is certainly not the best place for this thread, but i wasnt going to be earbashed about my choice of genre for it so here it is, voila! smack bang in general music. Anyways. Feel free to earbash me anyway if its something you feel compelled to do, i wont take offence, i swear :P

Anyway. So i wanted to talk about Lost Prophets. I love them. I don't know why. Given i have not a musical note in me, i can't even tell you whether its their beats or rhythms or awesome riffs or etc etc i cant even tell you the difference between all these, im a dumbass alright. Anyway, point being i fXcking love them... Anyone else joining me here??

Righto. So now someone tell me, what the hell is it with bands and their apparent need to go "softer" and "less screaming" or whatever it is you want to call it that they seem to do after the first album or two... Bands like silverchair, softening after freakshow... why do they do it?!!?! Is it so people that don't like heavier stuff with screaming or grind style drumming will listen to them because it freaking pisses me off royally. Why do they stop showcasing their really powerful talent because they want to be mainstream chart topping fXckers that get more recognition for their work than everyone else.

So to bring those two points together... OMG at Liberation Transmission... Okay so LP aren't really that heavy anyway, they're kinda stuck on a rock/emo trying to be heavy screamo/hardcore kinda thing or something i dont know. But man... talk about disappointment... i mean i love Fake sound.. and Start Something.... but Liberation Transmission (the new album, its been out about two weeks) is like.. so much like NICKLEBACK. OMG. I couldn't belive it. The new album to me, seems so inconsistent. There are only a couple of songs that come close to measuring up to the energy and power that i think comes out of the other albums. And some of them, are deadset nicklebackish.

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I think you've answered your own question there.

I don't like LostProphets, i can understand why people do but they're not reaching out to me with anything special or different.

Rooftops is okay.

i think for me to gte into it its the kind of album im going to have to listen to every somg seperately to like it... if i play the whole thing it just all runs togetehr and it kind of bores me

Aye, thats probaly why I don't care for anything but rooftops.
They're kind of repetitive like that.

"Last Train Home" is ok in an anthemy, sing-along sort of way...everything else I've heard is just sorta meh.

i love the old lost prophets, i mean shinobi, kobrakai and fake sound are awesome and i was even into the start something album even though that was abit softer, i went to see them ages ago when start something first came out and it was a really good show but with the new album its just really pissed me off about them now, and its just not there music which has annoyed me about them its also their image now, which if anyone has seen an image of them from their early days compared to now, you'll just laff at them just looking scene and to be honest they just look like nubins.

Fake Sound of Progress - Good, still sounds kinda fresh. My most listened to album during college (alongside Incubus's Morning View). I still quite like it.

Start Something - Technically better, more polished production. A couple of gems but loads of skippable songs. Pretty much mainstream stuff although not too much on any particular bandwagon. Doesn't stand up to many repeated listens.

Liberation Transmission - I'm not even going near this one. The Rooftops has put me off as its just blatant emo bandwagon, pop stuff that just annoys me. Even the video is generic and pretty terrible.

My music taste has changed, but even if it hadn't I reckon I'd still hold the same opinion of them. The term sell-outs springs to mind although I don't like labelling bands with it.

Awful...Dullest band around...I hate Ian Watkins with a passion...He contridicts himself all the time. For example in one Kerrang interview he said

"People think were arrogant, but were not"

THEN

"I think that were one of the best bands in Britain"

Hmmm. Plus they have got bad dress sense and hair...

meh.
i don't like them much, i used to.
they had one massive hit with last train home, then went out of the light for a bit, now came back with rooftops and everyone loves them again, they're stilly poppy rock, just appeal to everyone now.
i read an interview and i think they said they wanted to appeal to alternative kids? when 10 year old preppy girls are buying their albums.
i spose what they do is 'in' now or something, like everyone loves AFI now.

I don't love AFI. Lostprophets is okay... "Rooftops" is the only song that I find worth listening to off of Liberation Transmission though.

I'm not saying EVERYONE loves AFI. I'm just saying a lot more people like them now that it's become 'cool' to like music like that, and it's in the charts.
Think about the charts a few years ago, it was all s club 7, blue, busted etc, things are CHANGING, there's a lot more 'pop-rock' or 'pop-punk' and 'indie' coming into the popular music scene now anyway.

i guess, bands go mainstreamier [yeah thats a word] so that at least they get noticed more, then everyone can be all "yeah their first albums better" etc, i dunno.
i got no idea really.
but, on a side note, i hatehatehate rooftops.
i didnt mind start something, was catchy, & not in an overly irritating way.
but fakesoundofprogress was fun :)
& reminds me of old times. so thats cool.
wow, i serve no purpose on these forums... eh.

It's like the band... bandwagon. They realize something is a hit before it's well-known, then everyone flocks to it, making it popular, and then before you know it, the genre's dead and/or full of mediocre bands.

Hate that.

In any case... Lostprophets... yeah... don't have much else to say.

I dont know, its just frustrates the hell out of me because its seems like they dumb themselves down for more recognition... i mean fair enough if thats what you wanna get out of your career, if the world recogntion is what gets you off, fine. but to me, music should be about the passion, and showcasing what you do have. fake sounds was fun and energetic and full of some kinda power thats kinda dwindled since and lib trans is just terribly disappointing to look at and go.. why... whyd you do it?? The offspring had a hand at it, metallica with anythign from relaod onwards was a bit like that, the newest disturbed album (cant remember the name right now) was a bit mainstreamy. I dont know. Maybe they genuinely just want to change direction. Maybe they're all just ****tards. Yeah. i like that possibility

I have their latest cd....I like it. Not a die hard fan though.

Lostprophets are supposed to have a new album this year and there's been rumours that they'll be making a bit of a return to their old sound. I hope there's some truth in that.

Like thousands of others, I bought The Fake Sound Of Progress as soon as it came out and I liked what I heard. I thought Lostprophets had a lot of potential and I genuinely believed they'd be a band I'd like forever. Then they released Start Something and I realised I was wrong. Liberation Transmission was even worse. They had something quite interesting going on on that first album and they completely lost it.

i dont know much about them but they sound good from the album i ahve

A friend of mine has said that he really likes the new album, and he knows his stuff, but from what I have heard of their past stuff, i'm not impressed. A bit teen orientated for me I think.

Yeah, I'd say that 14/15 year olds are probably their target audience at the moment. I think the first album went down well with university students more than anyone (but that's just based on the conversations I've had over the internet).

"start something" was pretty good
their new album (cant remember the name right now) kinda sucks, only a few good songs

What?









They're still around?



omgwtflol....
I remember liking them a little back in elementary school. People just get more into particular, possibly lesser known, sub genre's as they get older and that's why they're more popular among the younger crowd.

I pretty much love them, I prefer Start Something to the other two.
Apparently, their new album is going to be darker and heavier...I'll be the judge of that.
Yeah, they rule for me. One of my favourite bands.
Though I do have to agree, they are on the verge of mainstream and that always puts me off for some reason.

This stuff sounds like a mix of Hoobastank and Halifax, so boring + boring is more than likely going to yield....... crap.

I don't know about your definition of mainstream (obviously) but I'd say that by most definitions they are and have been for years.

Why does it put you off that they verge on mainstream? I'm willing to bet that half the music you listen to is mainstream.


Mainstream isn't a genre, it's a status. A band becomes mainstream when they get signed to a major label and they write radio friendly songs. I wouldn't say LostProphets "verge" on mainstream...I would say they are and always have been mainstream.

I'd say my definition of mainstream is when everyone knows them, they're played constantly in the charts and are highly publicised.
Obviously in this genre they are, but overall I'd say they weren't.

I realise mainstream is a status, I have a different idea to it's definition than most people here do then.
I meant verge as in their songs are getting more well known and recognised.
I always assumed bands like My Chemical Romance and Greenday were mainstream, I always liked them beforehand.

I see that you live in the UK... Lostprophets have been backed by our major radio stations from the second album at the latest and they've been all over the front covers of our biggest-selling music magazines. They're absolutely huge.

Ok.