Last Train Home (Lostprophets song)

"Last Train Home" is the second single from Start Something, the second album by the Welsh rock band Lostprophets. This single was the band's joint highest charting in the UK, tied with "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)". It remains their most successful in the United States, as it reached number one on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart. "Last Train Home" was released to radio on 2 December 2003.[4]

"Last Train Home"
Single by Lostprophets
from the album Start Something
Released26 January 2004
Genre
Length
  • 4:35 (album version)
  • 4:04 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Eric Valentine
Lostprophets singles chronology
"Burn Burn"
(2003)		 "Last Train Home"
(2004)		 "Wake Up (Make a Move)"
(2004)

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 recognisable and popular song. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart and number ten on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. "Last Train Home" is the second Lostprophets single to ever chart in the U.S., the first one being "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja". The song won the Kerrang! Award for Best Single.

Johnny Loftus of AllMusic said, "'Last Train Home' was an absolute masterpiece of a single mixing board surgery, flawlessly, brazenly binding the properties of three of California's most marketable acts into one monster of an 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.'"[1]

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."[2]

"Last Train Home" was also the song which introduced Geoff Rickly to Lostprophets.

Music video

The music video was directed by Brian Scott Weber and was shot in various Downtown Los Angeles locations in November 2003. Singer Ian Watkins wears a Pittsburgh Strikers T-shirt (an amateur football club in Western Pennsylvania) during the video.

Track listing
CD1
No.TitleLength
1."Last Train Home" (radio edit)4:04
2."Cry Me a River" (BBC Radio One session) (Justin Timberlake cover)5:00
CD2
No.TitleLength
1."Last Train Home" (radio edit)4:04
2."Last Train Home" (demo)4:40
3."The Politics of Emotion" (demo)3:22
EP Version
No.TitleLength
1."Last Train Home" (radio edit)4:04
2."The Politics of Emotion" (demo)3:22
3."Cry Me a River" (BBC Radio One session) (Justin Timberlake cover)5:00
4."Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" (acoustic)3:04
5."Last Train Home" (demo)4:10
Vinyl
No.TitleLength
1."Last Train Home" (radio edit)4:04
2."Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" (acoustic)3:04

Personnel
Additional group vocals on "Last Train Home"

Charts
Chart (2003–04) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[5] 68
Germany (Official German Charts)[6] 48
UK Singles (OCC)[7] 8
UK Indie (OCC)[8] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[9] 75
US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[10] 1
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[11] 10

References
  1. AllMusicGuide review
  2. "Album Reviews, Ratings, and Best New Albums". Rolling Stone.
  3. "Top Ten Nu-Metal Bands – Staff Top 10". stylusmagazine.com. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  4. "FMQB Airplay Archive: Modern Rock". Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report, Incorporated. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  5. "Australian-charts.com – Lostprophets – Last Train Home". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  6. "Offiziellecharts.de – Lostprophets – Last Train Home". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  7. "Lostprophets: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  8. "Official Independent Singles Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  9. "Lostprophets Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  10. "Lostprophets Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  11. "Lostprophets Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
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