Lost Prophets

what about magazines like Rolling Stone and the like, before their album came out, there were a heap of interveiws with Thom York talking up the album, not to mention the "Radiohead" magazine that came out before the cd and tour

Me = Big Lost Prophets fan! 😱

"what about magazines like Rolling Stone and the like, before their album came out, there were a heap of interveiws with Thom York talking up the album"

What about them? If you cannot find a quote from a member of Radiohead saying "Go buy our album" or any other such blatant self-promotion, not interviews, then you can have a claim that holds water. To claim Radiohead are sell outs is insanity. In one webcast someone said "Nobody wants to hear a rich musician whining" and he said "Don't buy our records, don't come to our shows." Actually telling a member of the public to have nothing to do with the band. Metallica probably had an elite group of fans. By Master Of Puppets they had a wealth and were well on their way to being a world conquering Metal band. In this case, OK Computer is the Master Of Puppets. Over the years people become aware that Radiohead are a band well known for having a very intelligent fan base. So they may try to get into it.

Selling out is doing stuff you don't want to do for cash and compromising your style to suit the mainstream and general public. Radiohead have never and will never do such a thing. It was their 6th album and it had a lot of anticipatory (if you will) hype around it. Tool's new album will probably get alot more coverage than the previous because it's highly anticipated. You need to re-evaluate your term of selling out.

-AC

All artists gotta advertise... other wise no money, and no funds to keep playing music.

Remember if your on a major label, tons of money is spent on touring and recording. Records companies have gotta earn that money back, if they don't, they'll drop the band!

the only big band in the last decade that hasn't "sold out" by having ANY ads or even being on a major label is Fugazi. Other than that, all the other bands have had ads in Rolling Stone, etc.

did i once say that Radiohead sold out? no i didn't. i used radiohead as an example because you were using refering alot. and i dont read articles with Lost Prophets saying "buy our albums." basically, Lost Prophets havn't gone out and done something that they didn't agree with/didn't want to do to make money, they just released singles off their album. their new album is simply the next stage up from the style that had on the first, so by YOUR definition, they havn't sold out.

"All artists gotta advertise... other wise no money, and no funds to keep playing music.

Remember if your on a major label, tons of money is spent on touring and recording. Records companies have gotta earn that money back, if they don't, they'll drop the band!"

Don't assume there isn't any bands with integrity just because you don't know of them. I know enough of music to know that it's possibly to be successful and even rich without selling out.

"Lost Prophets havn't gone out and done something that they didn't agree with/didn't want to do to make money, they just released singles off their album. their new album is simply the next stage up from the style that had on the first, so by YOUR definition, they havn't sold out."

I believe they've gone from being a very British band to a much more American sound. If they stayed making music like Shinobi Vs Dragoninja they wouldn't be where they are now and I'd be willing to bet they know it too. So if they changed their sound to get more fans and be more accessible just so they can be amongst the masses, yes it's selling out. Coz if they wanted to do that they would have done it from the start.

-AC

the nu metal sound still is popular, linkin park, limp bizkit and others proved this, Lost Prophets also had a sound that is a lot like that

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri

"Lost Prophets havn't gone out and done something that they didn't agree with/didn't want to do to make money, they just released singles off their album. their new album is simply the next stage up from the style that had on the first, so by YOUR definition, they havn't sold out."

I believe they've gone from being a very British band to a much more American sound. If they stayed making music like Shinobi Vs Dragoninja they wouldn't be where they are now and I'd be willing to bet they know it too. So if they changed their sound to get more fans and be more accessible just so they can be amongst the masses, yes it's selling out. Coz if they wanted to do that they would have done it from the start.

-AC

You're right.

Anyway, lostprophets are gold diggers!!

They released their first album....TWICE!! After they became known, they released Fake sound of progress again, remixing some of the songs...🙄 please!

Now they think they are all american band...sados, the lot of them.

they didn't just remix it, they remastered it, because the origonal was recorded very cheaply and they now had the chance to get it recorded in a proper studio. who wouldn't want to get their own material cleaned up and recorded properly? i dont think thats tantamount to "selling out" now is it

their first album's first recording was basically just a demo, so of course they would remaster it and rerelease it.

Originally posted by tabby999
they didn't just remix it, they remastered it, because the origonal was recorded very cheaply and they now had the chance to get it recorded in a proper studio. who wouldn't want to get their own material cleaned up and recorded properly? i dont think thats tantamount to "selling out" now is it

They should have made it properly the first time arround 😱 I dont see Glassjaw re-releasing Siberian Kiss, do you? 😱

Please, Ian clearly says on the album ''thanks'' section:

''All the people who bought this record first time arround ''

When you release demos, you state they are demos...what they released was a ''record'' as Ian said!

Please...they are shitty attitude sell outs!

ok, their record company didn't give them enough money to make a good version of TFSOP. So when they DID get the money, they made sure that it was remastered.

What you are saying is that they should have kept the inferior product instead of giving their fans something of better quality?

If they knew they were gonna get a bigger deal they should have released the first album as a demo.

-AC

obviouisly they didn't know they were going to get a bigger deal, AC. It was probably after they sold enough of their demo that their record company realized that "hey, people like this band" so gave them the money to get it remastered and such.

see, someone else gets it and isn't gonna brandish the "sell out" stick needlessly

Not a bad band, love the song "New Noise"

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
I believe they've gone from being a very British band to a much more American sound. If they stayed making music like Shinobi Vs Dragoninja they wouldn't be where they are now and I'd be willing to bet they know it too. So if they changed their sound to get more fans and be more accessible just so they can be amongst the masses, yes it's selling out. Coz if they wanted to do that they would have done it from the start.

-AC

All bands have the right to change their style. In a band myself, it's very easy to get bored playing/writing the same style. Besides Lostprophets wrote the songs from Fake Sound of Progress when they were 17-19. Its amazing how much your musical style can change. It doesn't mean your changing your style to make more money.

And it's not a bands choice if their record company decides to re-release an album!

look at the difference between "bleach" and "Nevermind" for Nirvana. or between "Acrobatic Tenement" and "Relationship of Command" for At the Drive In. Or even your favorite Radiohead! They all change styles between records.

stick that in your pipe and smoke it!