"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.
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LAST TRAIN HOME TICKETS
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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, Pennsylvannia. In the video Ian Watkins wears the Pittsburgh Strikers T-shirt (An amateur football club in Western Pennsylvannia).
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.'"
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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."
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Track listing
;CD1
# "Last Train Home" – 4:04
# "
Cry Me a River" – 4:55
;CD2
# "Last Train Home" – 4:04
# "Last Train Home" music video
# The making of the video
;CD3
# "Last Train Home" – 4:04
# "Last Train Home" (demo) – 4:40
# "The Politics of Emotion" – 3:22
;Vinyl
# "Last Train Home" (A-side)– 4:04
# "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" (acoustic) (B-Side) – 3:04
;EP version
# "Last Train Home" – 4:04
# "The Politics of Emotion" – 3:22
# "
Cry Me a River" – 4:55
# "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" (acoustic) – 3:04
# "Last Train Home" (demo) – 4:40
Personnel
- Ian Watkins – lead vocals
- Jamie Oliver – synth, turntables, samples, backing vocals
- Lee Gaze – lead guitar
- Mike Lewis – rhythm guitar
- Stuart Richardson – bass
- Mike Chiplin – drums, percussion
Chart positions
Chart (2004)
| Peak position
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German Singles Chart
| 48
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UK Singles Chart
| 8
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US Billboard
Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks
| 10
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US Billboard
Alternative Songs
| 1
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US Billboard
Hot 100
| 75
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References
- AllMusicGuide review
- Rolling Stone review