Personally I prefer the term 'improvements'...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:45 (twenty years ago) link
Tom Erlewine gave the last Train thingamabob a glowing review on AMG. (I think it was him.) What the hell was he thinking?! :D
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
Goddamn the Puerto Rican rough boys are after my ass! I'll never be able to visit San Juan now and talk about T. Rex. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean M (Sean M), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
Wow. That's, uh... quite a review. (By Thom Jurek, actually.)
Let it be known, I don't like 'em THAT much!
"My Private Nation is not an album about angst, but about transcending it and the paralyzing cynicism that goes with it. The question is, when was the last time listeners got a rock & roll album that could do that without cowering in fear of having its optimism shattered? Not in a long time. But that's because My Private Nation isn't about optimism; it's about the flickering glimmer in the darkness, in the heart, in the culture, in the world, and how it should — and can — be seized, right now."
― Sam J. (samjeff), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Sam J. (samjeff), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
Haha! Very nahz...;D
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 03:16 (nineteen years ago) link
DUD
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 04:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
"My heart is bound to beat right out my untrimmed chest"
Wha???
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
gross
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 27 March 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
the new single is one of the worst things i've ever heard
― ksh, Saturday, 27 March 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8U1cX75vUc
what
― markers, Friday, 30 July 2010 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link
"Hey Soul Sister" is the worst single of the decade.
― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 July 2010 11:34 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― ballerrr (The Reverend), Friday, 30 July 2010 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i always knew ilx was a bit out of touch but after that "i gotta feelin" thread and now this. you guys gotta carve out fifteen minutes of assigned forkcast listening turn on radio or something because this song has been inescapable for months
or maybe i'm the only one here who hears 8 hours of the local soft-rock radio station at work like every day of my life
― gold bullion logic (samosa gibreel), Friday, 30 July 2010 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
this is my ~6 month old baby cousin's favourite song, she sways & claps every time it comes on in the car. it's super adorable obv and is kind of an otm metaphor for the song's appeal
― gold bullion logic (samosa gibreel), Friday, 30 July 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
the thread was revived by "markers," who is the same person as "ksh," who posted about disliking the song in March. i don't know why he revived the thread with that particular vid of the song, but i'm just saying.
― The chickbad from the ludicrous 'ludacris' song (some dude), Friday, 30 July 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
ah
― gold bullion logic (samosa gibreel), Friday, 30 July 2010 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
You're not going to find many people on ILM who listen to the radio as much as the people who've posted since the thread revival.
― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 July 2010 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Also...
― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 July 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
igi, i was being a crank. i usually don't like it when people yack about who lives under a rock, just kind of funny that two enormous ubiquitous singles got revives/threads in the past day
― gold bullion logic (samosa gibreel), Friday, 30 July 2010 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
The Train formula:1. Put all your effort (ie: not much) into one blandy-sounding unmemorable Counting Crows rip.2. Put no effort into the rest of your songs, for they do not matter.3. Release record, have one big hit, sustain career for another couple years.
this is still true after all these years.
god his voice is so fucking bad in that video, i am shocked.
(secretly though i will kind of rep for "drops of jupiter" because i love the corny use of strings.)
― teledyldonix, Friday, 30 July 2010 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I listen to the radio almost every day, so yeah, I've heard this song a million times. I don't even hate this song. I just revived this thread because that video is a fuckin egregious performance
― markers, Friday, 30 July 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
some dude's Jukebox review is OTM, btw
― markers, Friday, 30 July 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
guess you missed them on America's Got Talent last week...it was a 'baldie & soul-patch' doppelganger showdown between ukelele-dude and Howie Mandel
― Chewawa Allstar (herb albert), Friday, 30 July 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait- which one's "some dude" (x-post)?
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 31 July 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
sh1pley
― ballerrr (The Reverend), Saturday, 31 July 2010 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
pssh "hey soul sister" is a dope song, ship's otm about how it's embarassing to like them but they have classic singles, fuiud
― terry squad (k3vin k.), Monday, 2 August 2010 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
ive never attempted to listen to an album of theirs. i assume i'd hate it and like to assume they save all their best songs for singles, where they dilute their embarassing bro-rock/AC shit with huge hooks and fun-ness
― terry squad (k3vin k.), Monday, 2 August 2010 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean watching this youtube now - part of me wants to strangle this singer with his mic cord but he's just so harmless and goofy in an earnest way that i find it hard to hate him
― terry squad (k3vin k.), Monday, 2 August 2010 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
my friends and i were talking about train in the car earlier today, weirdly
― terry squad (k3vin k.), Monday, 2 August 2010 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
thought you guys should know about thishttp://www.9news.com/rss/article/204476/151/Id-drink-to-that-Music-group-Train-launches-wine-line
The Grammy-winning group Train has been making waves with its wine club, and now, the trio is taking the next step with its own wine.
Starting next week, fans will be able to buy Drops of Jupiter Petite Sirah wine from Train's online wine club and other outlets. The name is a nod to one of Train's earlier hits, and is produced by the group's wine company, Save Me, San Francisco Wine Co., which takes its title from a Train album.
But Train guitarist Jimmy Stafford said the wine venture isn't an attempt to make a profit on the Train name - it's more about creating something special for fans.
"We're not really trying to get into the wine business or anything. It's really kind of helping to spread the name out there, and something for our fans," he said in a phone interview Tuesday.
Train, which won a Grammy Award this year for "Hey, Soul Sister," has had an online wine club for a while. The group promotes a wine of the month, has a blog and even an app. Stafford said creating a wine was the next logical step.
"Really, it goes in hand with our wine club, and I guess what we set out to do was kind of like Jimmy Buffett. Jimmy Buffet got known for margaritas because of a song he wrote. ... It almost created this community vibe," he said. "We're trying to create just this little vibe, where people come to our shows, bring a picnic basket and bottle of wine."
Stafford said a third of the profits will go to the charity Family House in San Francisco, which provides temporary housing to the families of sick children.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
D
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
kinda like these guys, though. like if you met their bassist at a bar or something, he'd be super friendly and ask you if you wanted to share a $350 bottle of cabernet sauvignon with him.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
The duddest of the duds! They've already shit on one of my two great loves with their music, and now they have to do it to wine as well?!
― Clarke B., Thursday, 23 June 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
I guess what we set out to do was kind of like Jimmy Buffett. Jimmy Buffet got known for margaritas because of a song he wrote
I keep forgetting that there are people who think like this without irony.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
I'm afraid of Americans.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/track/5GCgC77m6EaAqu7ZlukMu2
okay everyone has to listen this now btw
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
I REFUSE
― crüt, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
6 people like this. Be the first of your friends.
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
this band has two songs in the UK top 40!! wth
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 6 May 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
They know talent when they hear it over there.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 May 2012 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
Train Won't Play At Boy Scouts Jamboree Unless BSA Lifts Ban On Gay Scouts, Band Says
Train has taken a very public stand against the Boy Scouts of America's longstanding ban on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community by boycotting an upcoming performance.
In November, Scouting Magazine announced that the Grammy-winning band would be headlining the closing stadium show at the 2013 National Scout Jamboree in July along with "Call Me Maybe" sensation Carly Rae Jepsen.
But a campaign to get both performers to denounce the Boy Scouts' anti-gay policies picked up steam on March 1, when GLAAD announced it had signed on to support gay Eagle Scout Derek Nance's Change.org petition.
A few hours after GLAAD signed the petition, Train posted a statement on their website saying the band will not perform at the Jamboree if the Boy Scouts do not change its policies before the summer.
When we booked this show for the Boy Scouts of America we were not aware of any policy barring openly gay people from participation within the organization. Train strongly opposes any kind of policy that questions the equality of any American citizen. We have always seen the BSA as a great and noble organization. We look forward to participating in the Jamboree this summer, as long as they make the right decision before then.
Huffington Post
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 08:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2014/04/train_priced_out_of_san_franci.php
Exciting news for us Oaklanders!
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
every once in a blue moon, I remember the existence of their minor radio hit "Meet Virginia", featuring the imperishable quatrain Well she wants to live her life / And she thinks about her life / Pulls her hair back as she screams: / "I don't really wanna live this life"
I'll be an old, old man before I can forgive that one
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 8 June 2014 11:54 (nine years ago) link
said song also features an egregious & unnecessary rhyme of 'president' with 'president', which is enough to make their more recent clunkers like 'tenderloin'/'tender coin' seem positively Keatsian
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 8 June 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
My sister and brother-in-law think Train are great. I am not convinced
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 June 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
lol i like "Meet Virginia"
― some dude, Sunday, 8 June 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Train encompass a genre I like to call "Piano Bar rock"
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 8 June 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
http://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/post/133929057114/dear-students-from-the-collected-works-of-making
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2015 04:58 (eight years ago) link
Just heard what I assume is their new single (the one that bites "Heart and Soul" or something). Satan's taking too long to collect on the "Hey Soul Sister" comeback.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 May 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
...I missed mentioning, I heard it TWICE in two different businesses in the space of 30 minutes.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 May 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
its like why saddam and not pat monahan?
― sexualing healing (crüt), Sunday, 28 May 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link
Watching you’s the only drug I need. :-)
― the ghost of markers, Sunday, 28 May 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
Worst ever.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 November 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link
I was in a car listening to the radio last night and had the misfortune of hearing Train's 'Play that song'. Never has a song made me want to claw may ears of more. It reminded me of that 30 Rock doing 'America's Kids Got Singing' but it wasn't a joke. How the hell do they have 11 Albums, or a career for that matter.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 September 2019 09:07 (four years ago) link
Partway through Alfred's piece, realised I hadn't heard Meet Virginia before. It's clearly awful and sounds to me an older cousin of One Direction's equally dreadful "what makes you beautiful". However not all is lost as I misheard one of the lines as "we sit at home and live on President" - we have no money for real food or heating but we do have some Brie and a blanket. perfect and sadly relatable romantic image.
― thomasintrouble, Monday, 9 September 2019 11:08 (four years ago) link
Their new single is called "Mai Tais".
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 November 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
I believe that is Tagalog for "My Humps."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 17 November 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
kill this band
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 03:53 (four years ago) link
Just heard what I assume is their new single (the one that bites "Heart and Soul" or something). Satan's taking too long to collect on the "Hey Soul Sister" comeback.― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, May 27, 2017 8:59 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink...I missed mentioning, I heard it TWICE in two different businesses in the space of 30 minutes.― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, May 27, 2017 9:05 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, May 27, 2017 8:59 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, May 27, 2017 9:05 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Also missed that the song had already been out for awhile--it underperformed upon initial release, and then was re-serviced to radio & muzak in hopes becoming a Summer Hit tying into their tour.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 04:46 (four years ago) link
Drummer Drew Shoals left the band in January 2019 to return to practicing law
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 04:51 (four years ago) link
"drops of jupiter" is a classic! haven't heard any other good songs by them tho and some are truly heinous
― dyl, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 05:27 (four years ago) link
^ note my enjoyment of "jupiter" probably depended in part on the fact that i was unable to understand some of its worst lyrics (soy latte etc)
― dyl, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 05:28 (four years ago) link
She checks out Mozart while she does tae-boReminds me that there's room to grow
makes you think
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 05:49 (four years ago) link
Gawd i can't stand them. About five awful songs that are on the radio all the time i'd find out, one every few years or so, are by this band
― Lee626, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 05:50 (four years ago) link
These guys are the only thing that makes me second guess if Led Zeppelin was good.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
She checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo
lmao i've definitely looked up the lyrics to this song before but i didn't realize this was the lyric. yikes!
― dyl, Thursday, 26 March 2020 07:22 (four years ago) link
― 26. imaginary bodyguard (Pillbox), Thursday, 26 March 2020 07:28 (four years ago) link
― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 July 2010 12:34 (eleven years ago)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JeAfVoA_iE
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 14 August 2021 11:07 (two years ago) link