Train: C or D?

"Life is good but love is better/Even Bieber ain't forever"

I'd love this in a John Prine song

TRAIN sounds like the name of some shitty upper crust gym for the yuppified hipster set

I am dying over these lyrics.

And yet, in their litany of historic events and achievements, the dude lists his OWN BAND.

http://popdust.com/2012/04/10/train-thisll-be-my-year-fact-checking/

Even just looking at those assholes:

http://cdn.popdust.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/train-new-song.jpg

They look like dads who would get into fights at little league games.

Oddly, Train came up in conversation a few days ago when someone asked me what the worst show out of hundreds and I've ever seen was. They were honestly the first thing that came to mind.

Like, they weren't the most horrible band ever. They just were. Like, they existed. They were there. And they did not sweat a drop.

i saw them as an opening act once in the 90s and they played "Ramble On" like they'd been a pro cover band for decades. i refuse to believe that craggy-faced Pat Monahan was under 30 at the time, as his official age contends.

That photo suggests an alternate version of Office Space where the three guys get "rock star" makeovers and start a band.

what the fucking fuck re: this terribad song

"Drive By" was already doing tons to make me ever regret not declaring these dudes the worst band in the world but this "This Could Be My Year" horseshit merits death

hahaha omg this song.

i feel sort of warmly toward this band now; i blame some dude.

boris yeltsin chills

http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/inthemix/borisyeltsin.jpg

How apt:

https://twitter.com/shittrainsings

"Life is good but love is better/Even Bieber ain't forever"

sung to the tune of "Sometimes a Fantasy"

Listening to the track - went to check if either the SR-71 guy or the Bowling For Soup guy had a hand in this. Looks like the blame can be shared by producer Butch Walker and a team known as S*A*M* and Sluggo who cut their team on the Gym Class Heroes and other Modern Rock radio faves like the All Time Low.

I hate the chorus a LOT more than the verses

i was just getting over the two-ply lyric in "drive by"

i was thinking the chorus sounded like third wave emo

thank you for decoding that

"Drive-By" and most of the album is apparently courtesy of a Norwegian duo named "Espionage" who also hooked them up with "Hey Soul Sister"

wth i have been transported to the alternate universe where Train exists and is a thing

Hey, YOU live in the Bay Area, therefore I blame you for not seeing to their demise.

i feel sort of warmly toward this band now; i blame some dude.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 4:57 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

Listening to the track - went to check if either the SR-71 guy or the Bowling For Soup guy had a hand in this. Looks like the blame can be shared by producer Butch Walker and a team known as S*A*M* and Sluggo who cut their team on the Gym Class Heroes and other Modern Rock radio faves like the All Time Low.

― da croupier, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 7:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i haven't heard the Train song yet but i stan for Butch Walker so it's a shame he's involved in something that's apparently this bad. All Time Low have never really gotten any rock radio play, though, they're a haircut emo band (from the Baltimore suburb i lived in in college!) that would've been on TRL if TRL still existed by the time they got semi-big.

haven't heard this new song yet but i have a message 4 the train haters

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hey soul brother

Hey, YOU live in the Bay Area, therefore I blame you for not seeing to their demise.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, April 10, 2012

in the world i come from they mostly play, like, Macy's openings so this is all very new and confusing

I can't wait to find out that the lead singer has knocked up Stevie Nicks and forced her to have an abortion.

i like the part in the song where they leave san fran in a thousand dollar van. to go where? LA? seems kinda expensive, actually.

they had their first radio hits and started touring nationally around that time

Come now, Rogermexico, he's an artist whose heart lies in Cafe du Nord, not the Shoreline. He has TEH PASSION.

i've managed to avoid this band pretty good i think.

xpost "I'm just that guy. I'll always be that guy."

admire the candor tbh

they really do look like every rock club/bar owner ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-7XPCNrD5Y

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.

c'mn, the Black Crowes shit from high above onto Train, as do the Spin Doctors.

well i definitely like at least 2 spin doctors songs more than the train song or any black crowes song.

what kind of terrible concert festival does that happen at? (xpost)

"Hard to Handle" > Spin Doctors >>>>>>> "Drops of Jupiter"

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.

hard to handle is a good song but it was better before the crowes got their crowe feet on it!

forget otis even. patti makes crowemeat pie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alRotSYnbXY

never needed "hard to handle" but that leaves at least 4-5 Crowes tracks that are legit grebt if u dig Sticky Fingers

yeah i just never listened to the crowes much. this is cool too by the way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWtMVDyPR2I

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.

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.

i liked "if it's love" too \o/