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 is the band's joint highest charting in the UK to date, tied with "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)". It remains their most successful in the USA. "Last Train Home" was released to radio on December 2, 2003.^[4]

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 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 pop 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]

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

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

Track listing

CD1
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Last Train Home" (radio edit)	4:04
2.	"Cry Me a River" (BBC Radio One session) (Justin Timberlake cover)	5:00

CD2
No.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
1.	"Last Train Home" (radio edit)	4:04
2.	"Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" (acoustic)	3:04

Personnel

Ian Watkins – lead vocals
Jamie Oliver – synth, turntables, samples, vocals
Lee Gaze – lead guitar
Mike Lewis – rhythm guitar
Stuart Richardson – bass guitar
Mike Chiplin – drums, percussion
Benji Madden - Writer

Additional group vocals

On "Last Train Home"

Billy Martin & Benji Madden, both of Good Charlotte

Chart positions

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart	68
German Singles Chart	48
UK Singles Chart	8
US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	10
US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks	1
US Billboard Hot 100	75

References

1 2 3 AllMusicGuide review
1 2 "Album Reviews, Ratings, and Best New Albums". Rolling Stone.
↑ "Top Ten Nu-Metal Bands – Staff Top 10". stylusmagazine.com. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
↑ "FMQB Airplay Archive: Modern Rock". Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report, Incorporated. Retrieved October 30, 2016.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Preceded by "The Reason" by Hoobastank	Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single April 24, 2004	Succeeded by "Lovesong" by 311

Lostprophets

Ian Watkins
Jamie Oliver
Lee Gaze
Mike Lewis
Stuart Richardson
Luke Johnson
DJ Stepzak
Mike Chiplin
Ilan Rubin

Studio albums
and singles

The Fake Sound of Progress	"Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" "The Fake Sound of Progress"

Start Something	"Burn Burn" "Last Train Home" "Make a Move" "Last Summer" "Goodbye Tonight"

Liberation Transmission	"Rooftops" "A Town Called Hypocrisy" "Can't Catch Tomorrow" "4:AM Forever"

The Betrayed	"It's Not the End of the World" "Where We Belong" "For He's a Jolly Good Felon"

Weapons	"Bring 'Em Down" "We Bring an Arsenal" "Jesus Walks"

Extended plays

Here Comes the Party
Para Todas las Putas Celosas
The Fake Sound of Progress (EP)

Other songs

Articles	Discography List of songs Awards Cardiff music scene The Betrayed Tour

Bands	Nine Inch Nails Public Disturbance The New Regime The Blackout Angels & Airwaves No Devotion

People	Dan Sprigg Eric Valentine Bob Rock Justin Hopfer Ken Andrews Josh Freese

Kerrang! Award for Best Single

"Tequilla" by Terrorvision (1999)
"Wait and Bleed" by Slipknot (2000)
"Bodies" by Drowning Pool (2001)
"Blurry" by Puddle of Mudd (2002)
"Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" by Good Charlotte (2003)
"Last Train Home" by Lostprophets (2004)
"Best of You" by Foo Fighters (2005)
"Tears Don't Fall" by Bullet for My Valentine (2006)
"The Kill" by Thirty Seconds to Mars (2007)
"From Yesterday" by Thirty Seconds to Mars (2008)
"Omen" by The Prodigy (2009)
"Liquid Confidence" by You Me at Six (2010)
"Hurricane" by Thirty Seconds to Mars (2011)
"Rebel Love Song" by Black Veil Brides (2012)
"The Phoenix" by Fall Out Boy (2013)
"Fresh Start Fever" by You Me at Six (2014)
"Anaesthetist" by Enter Shikari (2015)

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