Train: C or D?

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/

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"

nb: also love third eye blind

threeeb is better than train, though, obv

yeah agreed - i was just saying why the whole wordy staccato verses/big melodic chorus thing might not bother me

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?"

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.

oh my god i just looked up Train on Spotify and the deluxe edition of their last album has a cover of "Umbrella"

how can a band so terrible be simultaneously so entertaining

happens all the time, doesn't it?

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).

http://open.spotify.com/track/5GCgC77m6EaAqu7ZlukMu2

okay everyone has to listen this now btw

I REFUSE

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this band has two songs in the UK top 40!! wth

They know talent when they hear it over there.

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

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2014/04/train_priced_out_of_san_franci.php

Exciting news for us Oaklanders!

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

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

My sister and brother-in-law think Train are great. I am not convinced

lol i like "Meet Virginia"

Train encompass a genre I like to call "Piano Bar rock"

http://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/post/133929057114/dear-students-from-the-collected-works-of-making

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.

...I missed mentioning, I heard it TWICE in two different businesses in the space of 30 minutes.

its like why saddam and not pat monahan?

Watching you’s the only drug I need. :-)

Worst ever.

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.

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.

Their new single is called "Mai Tais".

I believe that is Tagalog for "My Humps."

kill this band

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

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.