Last Train Home (Lostprophets song)

"Last Train Home"
Song

"Last Train Home" is the second single from Start Something, the second album by the Welsh alternative rock band Lostprophets. This single is the band's highest charting to date, along with "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" and one of their most successful songs.

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 single to ever chart in the U.S., the first one is "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja."

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

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.'"

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."

Track listing

CD1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Last Train Home" (radio edit)	4:04
2.	"Cry Me a River" (BBC Radio One session)	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)	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
• Lee Gaze – lead guitar
• Mike Lewis – rhythm guitar
• Stuart Richardson – bass
• Jamie Oliver – synth, turntables, samples, backing vocals
• Mike Chiplin – drums, percussion

Chart positions

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

External links

• www.lostprophets.com