Lostprophets
Biography
Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins and guitarist Mike Lewis grew up together in the Cardiff satellite town of Pontypridd. They began blending musical genres as members of the band Public Disturbance. Watkins was a drummer at the time, but he moved to vocals when the pair first started experimenting as Lozt Prophetz. Watkins and Lewis flirted with ska and hip-hop at first, then came to an aggressive style of rock that mixed together their longtime love of metal and pop. They also changed the spelling to Lostprophets and added Lee Gaze (guitar), Stuart Richardson (bass), and Mike Chiplin (drums) to the lineup.
After Lostprophets' demo was featured in Kerrang! magazine, U.K. independent label Visible Noise offered them an album deal in 2000. That year's The Fake Sound of Progress was recorded over the course of a week for roughly $4,000. Hitting the road to promote the album, the band played support slots with Linea 77, Taproot, Pitchshifter, Linkin Park, and the Deftones, and a huge show at the 2001 Reading Festival helped the fan base grow. Keyboardist Jamie Oliver joined the band to expand its sound, and Sony signed the band in the U.S., releasing a different version of The Fake Sound of Progress in 2001, one that had been remixed and "retooled" by famed producer Michael Barbiero.
Selected Discography
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Actually, girls are 'straight gay' and guys are 'straight lesbians'. All gay means is you like males, gay is just slang for homosexual nowadays.
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i actually found out about lostprophets thru pandora radio...lol anyway...fav e band for a VERY long time since
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Ian Watkins is so freaking hotttt!!!! How did I not realize how smexy he is until just a few weeks ago. I must have been blind or something.
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A nice band with a sort of AFI/30 seconds to Mars vibe, but with a bitter punk bile to stain the sweet pop enough to make it dangerous. You can hear the anger behind the sweet vocals that we associate with generica pop. It's nice to see a band like this. Nice pop punk.
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Rooftops is my favorite song right now. I've been playing on a continuious loop for the past 2 days on my iPod and I'm still not sick of it.
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Fake sound of progress... awesome... and it's been all downhill from there.
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As a metalhead, I'll probably look out of place here, but I grew up with Disturbed and Lostprophets (and other such things). These guys are freakin' SWEET.
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i wonder if i can find some of their older stuff as lozt prophetz. i like ska.
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these guys kick a**, ive listened to them since start something and have loved there shiz since
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These guys absoutely kicked a** on "The Fake Sound of Progress" but their follow ups are just s**t. "Rooftops" and "the last train home" are auditory diarrhea.... . i would rather get bamboo shoots hammered under my finger nails than listen to that emo drivvle..... s o sad....they used to be good....
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i would have to say that rooftops is the best work they have ever done i mean it made it on "World Tour" for god sake and to get your song on a guitar hero is like nearly impossible you have no clue how exclusive it is you have to be the best to get on and anyway the band overall are excellent they have stay true to they're style and they got big and stayed big and that is a big accomplishme n t cause most band hit big and then die or change they're style and rooftops is one of the exceptions so l
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has anybody heard rooftops by these guys cause it is one of the best songs i have ever heard. i dont think they have it here but idk.
well if you havent heard it go to youtube or something and type it in cause its a great song:> |
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yeah, the best part about this band is deifinitely they're evolutiuon from album to album. each album can pretty much be classified under a different genre than the other. But I agree, they need to go back to they're heavier roots and release an album a bit closer to Fake Sound of progress, except they should use vocals like they had in Start Something. Now that would be an incredible album. Maybe throw in a bit more on they keyboard, too, just to experiment with it a bit.
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i like the fact their sound has been steadily evolving and every album thus far has been solid but i hope they dont stray too far into the pop world and forget what made them big which is the great sounds off the fake sound of progress album. Great band!
Also, does anyone remember a band called apex theory? they came out around the same time and never really "made it" check em out |
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