Liberation Transmission
Liberation Transmission is the third studio album by Welsh 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. By August 2006, the album had sold over 75,000 copies in the US. The album has gone Platinum 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".
Reception
Initial critical response to Liberation Transmission was positive. At Metacritic 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 mixed reviews was Entertainment Weekly who gave it a B− and 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."
Liberation Transmission
Yeah!
So can you feel your heartbeat racing?
Can you feel the tension rise?
Can you see the road you're walking?
Are these times too hard to recognize?
Part of where you're going,
Is knowing where you're coming from.
The hardest part of moving forward
Are these times when we all stand alone.
No! No! But you'll never believe.
No! No!
For all these times, that we walked away
For all these times, that I've heard you say
Give me something to believe in,
Give me someone to believe in.
For all these times, and it starts today.
A generation always waiting,
A revolution passed this time.
Another reason to take stock
Of all these things that you have left behind.
Feelings that will never leave you
Never make you change your mind,
You gotta make it out past this one
Always the wrong place at the wrong time.
No! No! But you'll never believe.
No! No!
Lipgloss Lies, doin the time.
Never gonna miss what I left behind.
If I get the chance I'll do it again.
I wouldn't change it! Change it!
Change It! Change It!
Lipgloss Lies, doin the time.
Never gonna miss what I left behind.
If I get the chance I'll do it again.
I wouldn't change it! Change it!
Change It! Change It!
No! No! But you'll never believe.
No! No!
For all these times, that we walked away
For all these times, that I've heard you say
Give me something to believe in,
Give me someone to believe in.
Give me something to believe in,
Give me someone to believe in.
Lipgloss Lies, doin the time.
Never gonna miss what I left behind.
If I get the chance I'll do it again.
I wouldn't change it! Change it!
Change It! Change It!
Lipgloss Lies, doin the time.
Never gonna miss what I left behind.
If I get the chance I'll do it again.
I wouldn't change it! Change it!
Change It! Change It!