Liberation Transmission
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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 (July 2 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.
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.[2]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Lostprophets
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Everyday Combat" | 5:11 |
| 2. | "A Town Called Hypocrisy" | 3:40 |
| 3. | "The New Transmission" | 3:33 |
| 4. | "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" | 4:11 |
| 5. | "Can't Stop, Gotta Date with Hate" | 3:42 |
| 6. | "Can't Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won't Save You This Time)" | 3:36 |
| 7. | "Everybody's Screaming!!!" | 3:52 |
| 8. | "Broken Hearts, Torn Up Letters and the Story of a Lonely Girl" | 4:04 |
| 9. | "4:AM Forever" | 4:27 |
| 10. | "For All These Times Son, For All These Times" | 3:54 |
| 11. | "Heaven for the Weather, Hell for the Company" | 4:13 |
| 12. | "Always All Ways (Apologies, Glances and Messed Up Chances)" | 4:25 |
| Total length: | 48:51 | |
Personnel
- Lostprophets
- Ian Watkins – lead vocals
- Jamie Oliver – synth, turntables, samples, vocals
- Lee Gaze – lead guitar
- Mike Lewis – rhythm guitar
- Stuart Richardson – bass
- Other contributors
- Josh Freese – drums, percussion (tracks: 1–6, 8, 9, 11, 12)
- Ilan Rubin – drums, percussion (tracks: 7, 10)
- Sean Smith (credited as Sean Blackout) – Additional screaming on "Everyday Combat"
- 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 & Flood – business management
- Bumstead – business management
- McCready – business management
- McCarthy – business management
- Mike Dewdeney – booking
- Adrian Verne - security
Release history
| Country | Date |
|---|---|
| South Korea | 26 June 2006 |
| United Kingdom | |
| Canada | 27 June 2006 |
| United States |
Charts
Album
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| French Albums Charts[3] | 94 |
| Dutch Albums Charts[3] | 87 |
| Austrian Albums Charts[3] | 44 |
| Swiss Albums Top 100[3] | 34 |
| U.S. Billboard 200[4] | 33 |
| U.S. Billboard Comprehensive Albums[5] | 33 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Album Charts[3] | 14 |
| European Top 100 Albums[6] | 13 |
| U.S. Top Rock Albums[7] | 9 |
| UK Album Charts[8] | 1 |
Footnotes
- ^ "India.Arie Scores First Billboard #1; Dashboard Rack Up Second #2". blabbermouth.net. 2006-07-05. Retrieved 2006-07-05.
- ^ http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/lostprophets/liberationtransmission
- ^ a b c d e charts.org.nz page on Liberation Transmission in various European charts, Cited 26 March 2008
- ^ billboard.com page on Lostprophets in the billboard 200, Cited 26 March 2008
- ^ billboard.com page on Lostprophets in the Billboard Comprehensive Albums, Cited 26 March 2008
- ^ billboard.com page on Lostprophets in the European Top 100 Albums, Cited 26 March 2008
- ^ billboard.com page on Lostprophets in the Top Rock Albums, Cited 26 March 2008
- ^ UK Album Chart