Liberation Transmission is the third studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Lostprophets. The album was released in June 2006 and became the first Lostprophets album to enter the UK album chart at number one (2 July for 1 week). The album peaked at number thirty three on the Billboard 200 album chart with 27,000 copies sold.[1] The album has gone Gold in the UK and was the 94th best selling album of 2006, with sales over 210,000 units.
This is the first Lostprophets album recorded without original drummer Mike Chiplin. Josh Freese drummed at the request of Bob Rock, but the band's first choice was Travis Barker. Ilan Rubin, also played drums for the songs "Everybody's Screaming!!!" and "For All These Times Son, for All These Times".
The incorrect Latin on the front of the album cover, nobis pro lemma vobis, is widely believed to mean "for us, for them, for you"—a lyric from Lostprophets' single "Burn Burn". However, this is both grammatically and linguistically incorrect. Assuming the correct grammar, nobis pro lemmate vobis, the phrase would translate as "for us, for the title / theme, for you". A correct translation could possibly be pro nobis eis vobis.
[edit] Reception
Initial critical response to Liberation Transmission was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 73, based on 7 reviews. There were many positive reviews. NME said "Lostprophets are big and brash and brilliant. And this is rock'n'roll radio." Drowned in sound said "While Liberation Transmission may be a lyrical vacuum, it is also a musical masterclass in how to create 12 tracks of killer with almost no filler.". One of the worst reviews was Entertainment Weekly who said "Around the world, 15-year-olds will fall for this band. Then they will turn 16 and move on", while Observer Music Monthly followed saying "Lyrically absurd, musically turbo-fueled." [2]
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All songs written and composed by Lostprophets.
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[edit] Charts
- Album
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- Lostprophets
- Additional musicians
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- Production
- Bob Rock – production, engineered
- Eric Helmkamp – engineered
- Randy Staub – mixing
- Zach Blackstone – assisted
- George Marino – mastered
- Q Prime Inc. – management
- Doug Mark – legal
- Martin Greene Ravden - business management
- Flood – business management
- Bumstead – business management
- McCready – business management
- McCarthy – business management
- Mike Dewdeney – booking
- Adrian Verne - security
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Studio albums
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- Here Comes the Party
- Para Todas las Putas Celosas
- The Fake Sound of Progress (EP)
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