Train: C or D?

Also...

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

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.)

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

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

some dude's Jukebox review is OTM, btw

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

Wait- which one's "some dude" (x-post)?

sh1pley

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

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

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

my friends and i were talking about train in the car earlier today, weirdly

thought you guys should know about this
http://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.

D

lol

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.

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?!

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.

I'm afraid of Americans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VoFbH8jTzE&feature=related

This is a thread for remixes of Train's 2010 hit single "Hey, Soul Sister"

not sure who is trolling who in this interview
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/trains-pat-monahan-talks-new-album-acting-gigs-20111117

it's been a while so i'll just reiterate that train's last few singles have been dope

i will ride for "hey sould sister" and "save me san francisco" but "marry me" was bad and "if it's love" was as awful as most people think every train song is

Monahan chats about the new Train disc and reveals his ambition to write, direct and star in his own movie, as well as his band's hope to bring San Francisco culture on the road with them by offering "the best burrito you've ever had" at their gigs the best soy latte you've ever had...and me"

The rat bastards are back!

http://www.nme.com/news/train/63148

According to Steven Thomas Erlewine:

""What The World's Been Waiting For: Train has written a "We Didn't Start the Fire" for the new millennium..."Facebook joins the internet/Oldsmobile joined the cassette" rivals "JFK blown away/What else do I have to say"...Footnote: pretty sure this a concept album."

Song in question is "This'll Be My Year"

Further shit samples!

"Because i'll be hanging out with you/not Jimi Hendrix, Jesus or the dude/who played the sheriff in Blazing Saddles/You, not Chris Farley, Mr. Rogers"

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

That "Because" lyric being from "You Can Finally Meet My Mom"

Steven adding this:

I do believe is about his GF finally meeting his mom in heaven and choosing to hang with his mother instead of Gilda Radner, Buddha, or the "dude who had pop rocks and soda at the same time"

I don't know if I would rather this be true or a joke. Can't believe anyone knows who the fuck these guys are.

While we're at it:

http://analyzingthebesttrainlyrics.blogspot.com/

Back to this new travesty:

"Can't swim so I took a boat/To an island so remote/That only Johnny Depp has ever been to it before"

this song is SO AMAZING

the new album is called US Magazine isn't it.

California 37 -- a perfect example of making no goddamn sense at all.

it's a tribute to samantha 7

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61U-NaU2LML._SL500_AA300_.jpg

lol i own the Samantha 7 album

"Microsoft buys into Mac/My dad has a second heart attack".

i had a near-miss of almost interviewing Train a couple years back, was actually kind of disappointed that i didn't get to talk to this guy about his lyrics

i saw a thing on vh1 once about "drops of jupiter" where he declared with some pride that the label wanted him to take all the goofy shit about tai bo and soy lattes out of the lyrics but he stood his ground

you go, girl

he should go out with madonna, she likes soy lattes with double shottays

How do I shottay latte

I recently discovered one of their albums has a cover of Sugar's "If I Can't Change Your Mind"

i refuse to mock a band for using too many concrete details, though. we've got too many erring in the other direction.

otm

"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.

D

"Hey Soul Sister" is the worst single of the decade.

― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 July 2010 12:34 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JeAfVoA_iE