Okay, I love the lostprophets, I've done a really bad job of hiding it too :P Also, I've known them since waaaay before they became mainstream, so don't start. And this is my favourite album by them. (though I'm a huuuge fan of thefakesoundofprogress and Liberation Transmission, too).
^Album art. Made of awesome. And the colour black. A lot of that.So. Start Something. Without a doubt, this is the most agressive 'prophets album. From the opening track "We Still Kill the Old Way" through to the magnificent finale "Sway", its one helluva ride. Right. I've ranted long enough. On with the actual review, methinks. Heh, methinks. What a word.
Track numero uno. "We Still Kill the Old Way". Catchy, loud, and obnoxious. Then "To Hell We Ride" is track two. Another amazing piece of musicality. But all this is just filler. Fantastically, epically, awesomely incredible (yeh, adverbs run wild and free here) filler, which any other band would be happy with as the main event, as it were, of their album. But not the lostprophets. They go one better.
Track three. "Last Train Home". It is, without doubt, a masterpiece. Everything rock should be, and all too rarely is. Easily one of my favourite songs of all time. Somewhat a less impressive achievement when you realise my music collection consists largely of Japanese metal :P
"Make A Move" is the next amazing song on here. The video's pretty cool too (random comment #1). By this point, you wonder if this album could possibly get better. And it does. Wow, that sentence seems really redundant :S Um, anyway, after Make A Move is "Burn, Burn". It should be our national anthem. Hey, it would make various sporting events more interesting :)
"I Don't Know" is great. An incredible solo and some of the strongest vocal work on the whole album can be found in this marvellous track. Yes, I did just say marvellous. "Hello Again" is a tidy little song with a neat instrumental at the end. The weakest track on here, but hey, it's still good. Track 8, "Goodbye Tonight" is very very good. It's like (dodgy analogy alert!) "I Don't Know"'s more chilled out cousin.
Then in comes the track after which the album is named. Start Something. Intro is cool. Vocals, both sung and screamed, are also good, and just what the album needed after a two-track lapse into slightly calmer music. After that is the equally brilliant "A Million Miles", which is another great song. Track 11 is a little bit amazing. "Last Summer". If I could drive, I would say it was the ultimate driving song. But I can't. Damn. Anyway, an inspirational work, which shows how far the lostprophets have come in terms of emotional maturity.
Track 12, I'm told, the Americans didn't get. They probably don't deserve it anyway (not that I have anything against our cheese-eating cross-Atlantic friends). The heaviest song on here by a mile, and the best-titled too: "We are Godzilla You Are Japan". Highly recommended.
Finally, the album ends with a soothing instrumental, namely "Sway". Running for 10 and a half minutes, you have to be pretty hardcore to listen to it all. Especially seeing as the last two minutes are one sustained note. I like this song :)
I have no problems in awarding this album full marks; you really didn't need five hundred words to tell you what was staring you in the face from the start: GET THIS ALBUM.
A*
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