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Lostprophets formed in Pontypridd, Wales, in 1997 and emerged from the same South Wales rock scene that produced a wave of heavy and alternative bands around the turn of the millennium. The group’s early lineup centered on vocalist Ian Watkins, guitarists Lee Gaze and Mike Lewis, bassist Stuart Richardson, and drummer Mike Chiplin, with Jamie Oliver later becoming an important part of the band’s sound through keyboards, samples, turntables, and backing vocals. Their music drew from alternative metal, post-hardcore, hard rock, punk, electronic music, and hip-hop without staying fixed in any one of those styles.
The band signed with Visible Noise and released The Fake Sound of Progress in 2000. The album was later reworked and reissued internationally after Lostprophets signed with Columbia, helping songs such as “Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja” and the title track reach a much wider audience. Start Something followed in 2004 and became a major step forward commercially, driven by songs including “Last Train Home,” “Burn Burn,” “Last Summer,” and “Wake Up (Make a Move).”
Lostprophets continued their rise with 2006’s Liberation Transmission, produced by Bob Rock and featuring “Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast),” “A Town Called Hypocrisy,” “Can’t Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won’t Save You This Time),” and “4:AM Forever.” Mike Chiplin left before the album was recorded, with Josh Freese playing drums in the studio and Ilan Rubin later becoming the band’s touring and recording drummer. The group returned with The Betrayed in 2010 and completed its studio catalog with Weapons in 2012, by which time Luke Johnson had taken over on drums.
Lostprophets ended in 2013 following the criminal case against Watkins, who was convicted of serious sexual offenses against children. The other members later moved forward musically, with Gaze, Lewis, Richardson, Oliver, and Johnson forming No Devotion with singer Geoff Rickly. Lostprophets left behind five studio albums along with a much larger collection of EP tracks, B-sides, covers, demos, remixes, bonus recordings, and standalone releases that extend well beyond the best-known album material.
Complete List Of Lostprophets Songs From A to Z
0-C
- “4:AM Forever” – Liberation Transmission (2006)
- “…And She Told Me to Leave” – The Fake Sound of Progress (2000)
- “A Better Nothing” – The Betrayed (2010)
- “A Little Reminder That I’ll Never Forget” – Weapons (2012)
- “A Million Miles” – Start Something (2004)
- “A Song for Where I’m From” – Weapons (2012)
- “A Taste of Things to Come” – The Fake Sound of Progress EP (2000)
- “A Thousand Apologies” – The Fake Sound of Progress (2000)
- “A Town Called Hypocrisy” – Liberation Transmission (2006)
- “A View to a Kill” – The Fake Sound of Progress single (2002)
- “AC Ricochet” – It’s Not the End of the World, But I Can See It from Here single (2009)
- “Always All Ways (Apologies, Glances and Messed Up Chances)” – Liberation Transmission (2006)
- “Another Shot” – Weapons (2012)
- “Another Shot (Demo)” – Weapons deluxe edition (2012)
- “Awkward” – The Fake Sound of Progress (2000)
- “Better Off Dead” – Better Off Dead single (2012); later included on Weapons (2012)
- “Boys Don’t Cry” – Last Summer EP (2004)
- “Bring ‘Em Down” – Bring ‘Em Down single (2012); later included on Weapons (2012)
- “Bring ‘Em Down (Acoustic Version)” – Weapons US deluxe edition (2012)
- “Bring ‘Em Down (Russell Bloc Party Remix)” – Weapons deluxe edition (2012)
- “Broken Hearts, Torn Up Letters and the Story of a Lonely Girl” – Liberation Transmission (2006)
- “Burn Burn” – Burn Burn EP (2003); later included on Start Something (2004)
- “Burn X2 (No Truth Remix – Robot Jox)” – Goodbye Tonight single (2004)
- “Can’t Catch Tomorrow (Acoustic Demo)” – Can’t Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won’t Save You This Time) single (2006)
- “Can’t Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won’t Save You This Time)” – Liberation Transmission (2006)
- “Can’t Get Enough” – Weapons (2012)
- “Can’t Stop, Gotta Date with Hate” – Liberation Transmission (2006)
- “Cry Me a River” – Last Train Home EP (2004)
D-H
- “Darkest Blue” – The Betrayed (2010)
- “Davidian” – Higher Voltage!: Another Brief History of Rock (2007)
- “Dead to Me (Demo)” – Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast) EP (2006)
- “Directions” – Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja single (2001)
- “Dirty Little Heart” – The Betrayed (2010)
- “Distances” – A Town Called Hypocrisy EP (2006)
- “Dstryr/Dstryr” – The Betrayed (2010)
- “Everybody’s Screaming!!!” – Liberation Transmission (2006)
- “Every Song” – 4:AM Forever single (2007)
- “Everyday Combat” – Liberation Transmission (2006)
- “Fight (Everybody’s Screaming!!! Demo)” – Can’t Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won’t Save You This Time) single (2006)
- “Five Is a Four Letter Word” – The Fake Sound of Progress (2000)
- “For All These Times Son, for All These Times” – Liberation Transmission (2006)
- “For He’s a Jolly Good Felon” – The Betrayed (2010)
- “For He’s a Jolly Good Felon (L’Amour la Morgue Rinse and ReFix Edition)” – For He’s a Jolly Good Felon single (2010)
- “For Sure” – The Fake Sound of Progress (2000)
- “Going Underground” – 4:AM Forever digital single (2007)
- “Goodbye Tonight” – Start Something (2004)
- “Happy New Year, Have a Good 1985 (Demo)” – The Fake Sound of Progress single (2002)
- “Heart on Loan” – Weapons (2012)
- “Heaven for the Weather, Hell for the Company” – Liberation Transmission (2006)
- “Hello Again” – Start Something (2004)
- “Holding On (Demo)” – Wake Up (Make a Move) single (2004)
I-M
- “I Don’t Know” – Start Something (2004)
- “If It Wasn’t for Hate, We’d Be Dead by Now” – The Betrayed (2010)
- “If You Don’t Stand for Something, You’ll Fall for Anything (Garage Sessions)” – Weapons deluxe edition (2012)
- “In the Air Tonight” – Last Summer EP (2004)
- “It’s Not the End of the World, But I Can See It from Here” – It’s Not the End of the World, But I Can See It from Here single (2009); later included on The Betrayed (2010)
- “Jesus Walks” – Weapons (2012)
- “Kobrakai” – The Fake Sound of Progress (2000)
- “Last Summer” – Start Something (2004)
- “Last Train Home” – Last Train Home single (2004); later included on Start Something (2004)
- “Last Train Home (Demo)” – Last Train Home single (2004)
- “Lately (Demo)” – Lately (Demo) single (2001)
- “Like a Fire” – Burn Burn EP (2003); later included on the Japanese edition of Start Something (2004)
- “Love (Demo)” – A Town Called Hypocrisy EP (2006)
- “LTH (Xanex Broken Heart Mix)” – Goodbye Tonight single (2004)
- “Lucky You” – Burn Burn EP (2003)
- “Miles Away from Nowhere” – Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja single (2001)
- “MOAC Supreme” – The Fake Sound of Progress EP (2000)
N-R
- “Need You Tonight” – The Fake Sound of Progress single (2002)
- “Never Know (Demo)” – 4:AM Forever single (2007)
- “Next Stop, Atro City” – The Betrayed (2010)
- “No Way Out (Demo)” – Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast) EP (2006)
- “Not What You Think I Am (Demo)” – Not What You Think I Am (Demo) single (2008)
- “Ode to Summer” – The Fake Sound of Progress (2000)
- “Ordinary Life (Demo)” – Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast) EP (2006)
- “Our Broken Hearts (Scene from Top Gun 2)” – Burn Burn EP (2003)
- “Outro” – Start Something (2004)
- “Push Out the Jive, Bring in the Love (Demo)” – Burn Burn EP (2003)
- “Reptilia” – Last Summer EP (2004)
- “Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)” – Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast) EP (2006); later included on Liberation Transmission (2006)
- “Rooftops (Demo)” – Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast) digital EP (2006)
S-T
- “Save Yourself (Garage Sessions)” – Save Yourself (Garage Sessions) single (2008); later included on the deluxe edition of Weapons (2012)
- “Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja” – The Fake Sound of Progress (2000)
- “Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja (Acoustic)” – Last Train Home EP (2004)
- “Shoulder to the Wheel” – The Fake Sound of Progress single (2002)
- “Somedays” – Weapons (2012)
- “Start Something” – Start Something (2004)
- “Still Falling (Demo)” – A Town Called Hypocrisy single (2006)
- “Still Laughing” – The Fake Sound of Progress (2000)
- “Stop Quote” – The Fake Sound of Progress EP (2000)
- “Streets of Nowhere” – The Betrayed (2010)
- “Sunshine” – Where We Belong single (2010)
- “Sway” – Start Something (2004)
- “Sweet Dreams My LA Ex” – Last Summer EP (2004)
- “The Dead (Garage Sessions)” – Weapons deluxe edition (2012)
- “The Fake Sound of Progress” – The Fake Sound of Progress (2000)
- “The Handsome Life of Swing” – The Fake Sound of Progress (2000)
- “The Lesson Pt. 1” – Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja single (2001)
- “The Light That Shines Twice as Bright” – The Betrayed (2010)
- “The New Transmission” – Liberation Transmission (2006)
- “The Politics of Emotion (Demo)” – Last Train Home single (2004)
- “To Hell We Ride” – Start Something (2004)
U-Z
- “Undefeated” – Weapons Japanese deluxe edition (2012)
- “Wait (Always All Ways Demo)” – Can’t Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won’t Save You This Time) single (2006)
- “Wake Up (Make a Move)” – Start Something (2004)
- “Wake Up and Move (Nebuchednezzar Mix)” – Goodbye Tonight single (2004)
- “We Are Godzilla You Are Japan” – Start Something (2004)
- “We Bring an Arsenal” – Weapons (2012)
- “We Bring an Arsenal (Acoustic Version)” – Weapons US deluxe edition (2012)
- “We Still Kill the Old Way” – Start Something (2004)
- “Weapon” – Weapons US edition (2012)
- “What You Do (Demo)” – A Town Called Hypocrisy EP (2006)
- “Where We Belong” – Where We Belong single (2010); later included on The Betrayed (2010)
- “Young Pretenders” – Weapons Japanese deluxe edition (2012)
LOSTPROPHETS STUDIO ALBUMS
The Fake Sound of Progress (2000)
Start Something (2004)
Liberation Transmission (2006)
The Betrayed (2010)
Weapons (2012)
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