Last Train Home

Infobox Single
Name = Last Train Home


Artist = Lostprophets
from Album = Start Something
Released = January 26 2004 (U.K)
Format = Enhanced CD
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative metal
Length = 4:35
Label = Columbia. Visible Noise
Writer =
Producer = Eric Valentine
Chart position =
Misc =
Last single = "Burn Burn"
(2003)
This single = "Last Train Home"
(2004)
Next single = "Wake Up (Make a Move)"
(2004) "Last Train Home" is the second single from "Start Something", the second album by the Welsh Alternative metal band Lostprophets. This single is the band's highest charting to date (along with "Rooftops") and one of their most successful songs. The band refused to release the accompanying music video to MTV's Total Request Live, however, realising it could seriously damage their credibility among serious American rock fans, and thus make it harder for the band to establish a long-lasting career and loyal international fan base. The song was featured in the soundtrack for the original NFL Street soundtrack.

Release and reception

"Last Train Home" was released in the spring of 2004 and became the most successful song from "Start Something" on the rock charts and arguably the band's most recognizable and popular song. The song peaked at number one on the "Billboard" Modern Rock Tracks chart and number ten on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. "Last Train Home" is the second single to ever chart in the US, the first one is Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja.

Part of the music video was shot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia. In the video Ian Watkins wears the Pittsburgh Strikers T-Shirt (An amateur soccer club in Western Pennsylvannia).

Johnny Loftus of Allmusic said " "Last Train Home" was an absolute masterpiece of pop single mixing board surgery, flawlessly, brazenly binding the properties of three of California's most marketable acts into one monster of a alternative rock anthem, sung by a bunch of immaculately T-shirted dudes from Pontypridd. Beginning with an instrumental run through its unstoppable chorus, the song drifted into faraway echoes of piano as vocalist Ian Watkins emoted vaguely meaningful lyrics like "Love was once apart/But now it's disappeared"." [ [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:3ifrxn8dldse AllMusicGuide review] ]

Kirk Miller of Rolling Stone said "Last Train Home" is one of the catchiest hard-rock songs to hit the radio in the past three years. Singer Ian Watkins has Mike Patton's croon/scream down cold, and his group deftly applies FNM's anything-goes approach: equal parts thrash riffs, symphonic keyboards and moody jazz intervals." [ [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/5095454/review/5946199?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview Rolling Stone review] ]

Track listing

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Track
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Time
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1
"Last Train Home"
4:04
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2
"The Politics Of Emotion"
3:22
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3
"Cry Me A River" (Cover)
4:55
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4
"Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" (Acoustic)
3:04
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5
"Last Train Home" (Demo)
4:40

Chart positions

References

External links

* [http://www.lostprophets.com www.lostprophets.com]