Track Listing

1. Everday Combat��
2. Town Called Hypocrisy��
3. New Transmission��
4. Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)��
5. Can't Stop, Gotta Date With Hate��
6. Can't Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won't Save You This Time)��
7. Everybody's Screaming!!!��
8. Broken Hearts, Torn Up letters And The Story Of A Lonely Girl��
9. 4:Am Forever��
10. For All These Times Kid, For All These Times��
11. Heaven For The Weather, Hell For The Company��
12. Always All Ways (Apologies, Glances And Messed Up Chances)��

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #749 in Music
• Released on: 2006-06-26
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
In an age where phrases like "selling out" and "dumbing down" are bandied so freely, it takes a brave band to make a wilfully commercial record. On Liberation Transmission, however, Lostprophets tackle the inevitable cries head on. Those '80s influences that have always simmered under the surface - Duran Duran, The Clash, Depeche Mode - sound more explicit than ever, infused into a sumptuous, glossy rock dynamic seemingly tailor-made for the world's stadiums. Luckily, the songs are good enough to justify their platinum-plated production: triumphant outsider anthem 'Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)' will inevitably become a lighters-out encore favourite, while 'Everyday Combat' and 'New Transmission' confirm the 'Prophets haven't lost their hard edge, rumbling with shrieked battle cries and jagged, addictive guitar riffs. Perhaps the record's most impressive achievement is the massive vocal presence, frontman Ian Watkins merely the conductor to impressive layered harmonies or war-chant choruses - see the mighty 'Can’t Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won’t Save You This Time)', an entertaining assault on fashion-victim mentality that might be the catchiest track here. Says a lot about Liberation Transmission, though, that it's up against some strong competition, on what's undoubtedly the band's strongest album to date. --Louis Pattison

CD Description
Third album from Welsh nu-metal survivors. Their sophomore release, 2004's 'Start Something', saw them signed to Columbia in the USA and they became one of the few British bands to "break" America in recent times. On this album they seek to consolidate their position, working with super-producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue) and leaning even more heavily on their 80s pop influences, creating a streamlined sound simultaneously heavier and more melodic than ever.Includes the single 'Rooftops'.

Customer Reviews

Musical Genius? Well I think so....
I am one of these people who listens to a new album all the way through before forming an opinion on it. Depending on how much I like the album in question, it will remain in my CD player until something else comes along that grabs my interest. This album was in my CD player for around five months!

The album has been criticised greatly for being too different from previous releases, but I have come to expect that from lostprophets. Their previous release 'Start Something' was vastly different from their debut, and therefore, I cannot see why most people seem so shocked by the direction this record has taken.

'Liberation Transmission' itself is a wonderful piece of musical genius. The opening track sweeps you off your feet and you don't find yourself touching the ground again until the record has finished playing. Each of the 12 tracks are a marvel in their own right; thus proving, once again, that the Welsh rockers in question don't know the meaning of the term 'album fillers'. The only complaint I have is that, at around 49 minutes in length, the 'Liberation Transmission' experience is over far too quickly.

HERES TO THE 3RD LET THERE BE A 4TH
Some people just don't like it when other's 'discover' thier favourite bands, foerever whinging on about 'liking them first', 'going mainstream' and 'selling out'. It's sad really, when you consider that if you really like a band that, technically, you should want them to succeed. The Lostprophets are no exception to the rule, peddling riffage that transcended skate parks to metal clubs whilst finding a niche in the cool kids cd collections. The Lostprophets were a, gasp, nu-metal (ish) band it was ok to like.

Debut album 'fakesoundofprogress' was recorded for about 2 quid before the Newport lads were signed, it was swiflty polished up, re-recorded, re-released and re-marketed before the gel on their asymetric hairstyles had set.

Start Something saw the band adopt a more accessible style that garnered them, shock horror, critical and commercial success, sold bucket loads and then the wheels fell off. Music buyers got sick of emo's over-earnest whining, nu-metal became more and more of a parody and the Lostprophets suddenly were no longer 'hip'. Whatever the hell that means anymore.

Liberation Transmission is essentially Start Something Mach 2, its vibrant, bold and loud. It has more hooks than an olympic curtain hanging contest and crucially its 'balls out' fun. Singles 'Rooftops' and 'Can't Catch Tommorrow' are so insanely feelgood catchy that they should be listened to whilst wearing a bio-hazard suit. The razor sharp melodies are still present and correct, Watkin's vocals are as strident as they ever were, and yes, even if the newer, more streamlined version of the Lostprophets never quite reach the ferocity of 'Kobraki' they are a damn fine band with damn fine tunes.

So, instead of moping around, crying into your milk and cookies about when you saw your 'favourite group' in a pub with 8 other regulars, strap a dirty great smile on your face and be pleased that, even if someone else has the same t-shirt as you, the Lostprophets are still about and are still (and this is surely the most important thing) pretty bloody good.

Liberation Transmission - Sell Out or Wise Move??
Owning both previous Lostprophets CD's and not particularly liking Rooftops, I listened to Liberation today and I'm not sure that I really like it.
I can understand why the album is number 1 in the album charts, most of the tracks are catchy, but not my sort of thing at all.
" Town Called Hypocrisy" reminds me of Bloc Party.
No doubt Lostprophets will get the chart recognition they crave but at what expense? quite a few bands have followed the same road by releasing mainstream albums to cater to the current chart (Funeral for a Friend, INME)and have not done so well.
Fairplay to them, if this is the direction Lostprophets want to go in I hope it works out for them.
Maybe Liberation will grow on me in time, who knows?