they really do look like every rock club/bar owner ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-7XPCNrD5Y
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
drops of jupiter i don't mind! i always forget who does these kinda interchangeable songs i hear on the radio. i like that one better than any black crowes song i've ever heard. and i've heard at least 3 black crowes songs.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
c'mn, the Black Crowes shit from high above onto Train, as do the Spin Doctors.
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
well i definitely like at least 2 spin doctors songs more than the train song or any black crowes song.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
what kind of terrible concert festival does that happen at? (xpost)
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
"Hard to Handle" > Spin Doctors >>>>>>> "Drops of Jupiter"
― crüt, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
i just think the drops of jupiter vocals always reminded me of black crowes dude. but i actually do like the train song more than any black crowes song that i've heard. i also like georgia satellites keep your hands to yourself more than the two spin doctors songs i like and the train song and any black crowes song. but that's neither here nor there.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
hard to handle is a good song but it was better before the crowes got their crowe feet on it!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
forget otis even. patti makes crowemeat pie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alRotSYnbXY
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
never needed "hard to handle" but that leaves at least 4-5 Crowes tracks that are legit grebt if u dig Sticky Fingers
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i just never listened to the crowes much. this is cool too by the way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWtMVDyPR2I
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
All Time Low have never really gotten any rock radio play, though
really? woulda sworn this is one of those bands i see on the Modern Rock Top 20 chart that I've never actually heard. Maybe I've just seen them on the albums chart enough to assume.
Butch Walker put his fingerprints on some decent stuff about a decade ago, but I've never understood his esteem with other ex-idolator folk.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
ok listening to this song...it's pretty bad, but not any worse than "If It's Love" tbh
Butch Walker's last couple solo albums are great and he was all over the last Fall Out Boy and Pink albums i loved, did prob the best later Weezer single, etc. so that stuff outshines whatever crap he's been involved with.
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
i liked "if it's love" too \o/
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
the whole wordy staccato verses/big melodic chorus thing is really grating to me as a pop/rock formula
oh my god i just looked up Train on Spotify and the deluxe edition of their last album has a cover of "Umbrella"
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
nb: also love third eye blind
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
threeeb is better than train, though, obv
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah agreed - i was just saying why the whole wordy staccato verses/big melodic chorus thing might not bother me
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i guess that's where you were coming from with that -- "semi charmed life" still has fairly melodic verses, though -- "if it's love" is like a bad standup act where the closest thing to a punchine is "remember winger?"
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
Now that this song is here, I know exactly when to set the time machine for so that I can get to their van before they do, slash the tires, and keep them from reaching their major label showcase and getting signed to Aware records or whatever.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
how can a band so terrible be simultaneously so entertaining
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
happens all the time, doesn't it?
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know about "all the time"; for me anyway, terrible bands/artists rarely give me any enjoyment (although when they do, it's a fuckton of enjoyment; see: ICP, Spice Girls).
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 13:59 (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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
My sister and brother-in-law think Train are great. I am not convinced
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 June 2014 13:22 (ten years ago) link
lol i like "Meet Virginia"
― some dude, Sunday, 8 June 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
Train encompass a genre I like to call "Piano Bar rock"
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 8 June 2014 17:49 (ten 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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
its like why saddam and not pat monahan?
― sexualing healing (crüt), Sunday, 28 May 2017 02:22 (seven years ago) link
Watching you’s the only drug I need. :-)
― the ghost of markers, Sunday, 28 May 2017 02:49 (seven 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 (five 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 (five 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