Start Something is the second studio album by the Welsh rock band Lostprophets, released on 2 February 2004 through Visible Noise in the United Kingdom and South Korea.

The band claimed they had settled on the title to introduce their abilities on a more grand musical level as compared to their actual debut The Fake Sound of Progress, as they considered it to be more of a reworked demo.

[8] Billy Martin and Benji Madden of Good Charlotte record additional vocals on "Last Train Home".

Other recording outtakes such as "The Politics of Emotion", "Holding On", "Our Broken Hearts", and "Push Out the Jive, Bring in the Love" were scrapped from the final track listing, though they appear on several singles.

[11] The figure at the front of the artwork wears blue jeans, a black hoodie and a baseball cap and was jokingly thought to resemble Justin Timberlake in several humorous interviews with the band.

[16] The picture was shot on the 1st Street Bridge in Boyle Heights, directly east of Los Angeles,[13] where the album was recorded and mixed.

During a January 2010 interview, Watkins further reflected back on Lostprophets' prior artwork claiming "I remember doing the Start Something record and compiling the inlay which is a collage of two years of our lives.

[20] Kerrang noted in a live review from Manchester that "We Still Kill the Old Way" and "To Hell We Ride" were "well received" but that "the surfeit of new material leads to a comparatively muted response".

[21][22] At the end of July though it was announced that the band had cancelled their appearance at Reading and Leeds, whilst still promising to play the three warm-up shows, citing that they wanted the recording of Start Something to take precedence.

Ian Watkins later announced "Unfortunately these shows are at the final stages of making the record and we felt it was more important not to short change anyone.

"[23] The band did however support Linkin Park at Wembley Arena in London on 22 November 2003 performing eight songs, including five from the upcoming album.

[citation needed] The song "To Hell We Ride" made an appearance in the video game Need for Speed: Underground, released in November 2003, as a bonus feature of the game, users could unlock a custom 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R given a custom livery with the band's logo and artwork from the upcoming album as an easter egg.

The album also managed to chart in Finland, Austria, Ireland, France, and the mainland Eurochart upon release; the latter peaking at #15.

Despite this; the album was positively received in the United States, being compared to American acts such as Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, and Incubus.

[29] "Last Train Home" had grown substantial attention in America in December 2003 through radio airplay regular MTV rotation.

[32] In mid-February 2004, Start Something peaked at #33 on the Billboard 200 becoming the band's highest charting album in the United States to date.

Much of the band's Visible Noise catalogue was not renewed for licensing to be streamed in markets such as North America, Australia, or South Korea after 2012.

[39] He noted a more melodic singing style on the album when compared to The Fake Sound of Progress, commenting that "the Mike Patton scream Prophets vocalist Ian Watkins perfected on 2001's Fake Sound of Progress has — like it did for Brandon Boyd and Doug Robb — mellowed into a blandly earnest yawp capable of keeping things thick enough for the dudes but still rife with those heartfelt intakes of breath that the ladies love.

[46] Justin Kownacki from Splendid said "this is one of those finely-polished discs that should have no trouble finding a huge audience" and was more over positive to the album.

"[citation needed] NME said "This is something genuinely fresh... here friends, is the real sound of progress (reference to the band's previous effort, The Fake Sound of Progress)" and Observer Music Monthly credited Start Something on being "A hybrid of big rock choruses, powerful rhythms and a neat pop edge to their rock artillery.

"[citation needed] Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B and said that Lostprophets "mostly live up to that high standard by juxtaposing gnarly metal riffs with quirky electronic interludes.

[52] Rock Sound magazine ranked the album eighth on their Critics' Poll 2004, the highest placing for a British band.

[57] The band took part in the second European leg of Metallica's Madly in Anger with the World Tour alongside Slipknot and Godsmack.

Aled Phillips of Kids in Glass Houses said "it was a turning point for a lot of bands" but also that "everyone's jeans got tighter and started wearing Nike Dunks - it was a cultural shift.