{"id":989,"date":"2004-03-03T22:35:31","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T22:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-989.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","slug":"lostprophets-start-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/03\/03\/lostprophets-start-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Lostprophets &#8211; <i>Start Something<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fun, energetic, light metal album but not a terribly memorable or original one.  The songs are easy to rock out to while I&#8217;m listening to them, but as soon as I turn off the music, the hooks and melodies drift away like smoke in a breeze.  There are a couple of outstanding tracks (the single &#8220;Last Train Home&#8221;, and the radio-friendly top-down driving anthem &#8220;Last Summer&#8221;) but the rest is an over-produced mish-mash of modern rock and metal influences.  Throughout the album, I find myself constantly thinking, &#8220;oh, that sounds exactly like A&#8230;no, it&#8217;s Good Charlotte&#8230;no, it&#8217;s Mansun&#8230;no, it&#8217;s&#8230;.&#8221;  You get the picture.  That&#8217;s not to say that the fusion of influences is <em>bad<\/em>&#8211;I do like it a lot&#8211;just that it&#8217;s about as edgy and in-your-face as, say, Starbucks.  It&#8217;s an album that will bring Lostprophets a lot of popularity, but it won&#8217;t earn them a place in rock history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fun, energetic, light metal album but not a terribly memorable or original one. The songs are easy to rock out to while I&#8217;m listening to them, but as soon as I turn off the music, the hooks and melodies drift away like smoke in a breeze. There are a couple of outstanding tracks (the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music_35_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}